Sci-eng / comp sci librarian at @mitlibraries; long-time @wikipedia / @Wikimedia vol. I ♥ open: collab, info, internet, science, politics, dinners. 📷 @megwacha
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15 Jan 2021
Wikipedia was founded exactly 20 years ago, on January 15, 2001: today is Wikipedia Day, our birthday. I have been editing Wikipedia -- & writing, teaching and helping govern it -- for 17.5 of those years. #wikipedia20 1/🧵
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@phoebeayers@mastodon.mit.edu retweeted
31 Jan 2023
Made some improvements to:
pomodoro.semlab.io/
An OCR tool for complicated docs that lets you manually select what text to extract. You can now structure the text into fields and download as JSON. It now also supports multipage PDFs. New tutorial video on the home page.
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@phoebeayers@mastodon.mit.edu retweeted
1 Feb 2023
Open Position: Research Fellow at OpenCitations (University of Bologna, Italy) ficlit.unibo.it/it/notizie/o… #unibo
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@phoebeayers@mastodon.mit.edu retweeted
14 Dec 2022
It is with great sadness to report that Effie Kapsalis @digitaleffie is no longer with us. She was a fierce advocate for open access to knowledge at the @Smithsonian and beyond, and a passionate @Wikipedia supporter. @MuseumCN #Museweb #OpenGLAM #GLAMwiki everloved.com/life-of/effie-…
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@phoebeayers@mastodon.mit.edu retweeted
4 Dec 2022
Donald Trump asking the SCOTUS to invalidate an election, suspend the Constitution & just declare him president is wild AF
That would essentially mean the Jan 6 insurrection was successful. There’s no way anyone who knows REAL HISTORY thinks that could happen…
Again.
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@phoebeayers@mastodon.mit.edu retweeted
25 Nov 2022
Matchday two has arrived and football mania has certainly reached the Library. Pob lwc today @Cymru!
#YWalGoch #TogetherStronger #ArBenYByd
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18 Nov 2022
Cosycore. Empathycore. Hobbitcore!! This thread is genius. Let's all be Hobbitcore.
16 Nov 2022
Whatever the opposite of “hardcore” 10x rock star dev is, that’s what I want.
cosycore, moving slowly, making things right, petting the dog, naps, staring out of the window pondering problems and drinking tea.
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17 Nov 2022
Let us reflect on this Matt Levine story from May:
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
The board didn't have to say yes, and (I don't think) the shareholders had to vote yes. And anyone with a brain (or research background) could have told them and Elon acquisition would be bad, so ?????
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17 Nov 2022
One wonders I guess if the Twitter fiasco is a surprise to corporate shareholders, and if so why.
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14 Nov 2022
Come find me at @phoebeayers@mastodon.mit.edu and let's go experience some terrible UX together
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@phoebeayers@mastodon.mit.edu retweeted
11 Nov 2022
You've now got new fake accounts spoofing the apology of the real account for the behavior of the other fake accounts.
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28 Oct 2022
You could apply this to any project that involves a lot of people; Wikipedia too.
Anyway, this sucks. I like Twitter, and it's handy for my job too. Now what.
28 Oct 2022
This thing isn't just a little self-winding machine. People make all of this happen. And institutional knowledge matters a lot in tech, where old code and processes pile up over years.
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@phoebeayers@mastodon.mit.edu retweeted
27 Oct 2022
What’s big, 244 years old, and important-looking? Well, the Encyclopedia Britannica, of course!
On the SEASON PREMIERE of #TheLastArchive, historian Jill Lepore, with librarian @jessamyn, travels down the Encyclopedia @Britannica to @Wikipedia pipeline: apple.co/3gBisjp
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27 Oct 2022
Best candidate for gov Arkansas has had for years and years. Early voting is now.
15 Oct 2022
We can’t keep trying the same thing over and over and expect different results. That’s why we can’t keep electing Huckabees and expect Arkansas to be all we know it can be.
Check out our newest ad chip in to keep it on the air ahead of Election Day: secure.actblue.com/donate/so…
26 Oct 2022
This is really good.
@phoebeayers@mastodon.mit.edu retweeted
24 Oct 2022
Hounding elections officials out of the job. Flooding polling places and drop boxes with "observers" who gin up baseless accusations. Using those accusations as a predicate for blocking an election loss.
The effort to break our elections.
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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