BlogFlock"How does food emerge from its post-Bourdain malaise? Not even Stanley Tucci searching for Italy could resuscitate the culture into a consensus about who the foodie is now and what they care about." —Alicia Kennedy for The Yale Review
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National Library of Finland: Stepping up to the plate – Saving the Finnish baseball season. “The most recent Finnish baseball season was full of twists and debates. The National Library of Finland preserved online content related to the sport during the 2025 season.”
The post National Library of Finland:…New York University: Media Targeted by Dozens of SLAPPs in 2024, New Analysis Finds. “The SLAPP Back Initiative [is] the country’s first national database of SLAPP claims —potentially meritless legal actions that experts say can nonetheless force defendants to spend significant resources defending themselves, ultimately chilling criticism and threatening…
Mashable: Google Chrome is testing a big change to tabs. “Google’s flagship web browser is getting a new feature that people already love in other browsers — vertical tabs. The new tab feature is available now as part of the Chrome Canary experimental build for developers, per Windows Report.”
Le Petit Prince: A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland. “This new museum is built upon the remarkable collection gathered over more than forty years by the Jean-Marc Probst Foundation for the Little Prince, which brings together more than ten thousand books, objects, documents, and…
Nation.Cymru: National Library of Wales helps preserve Wales’ audio-visual heritage. “A key output of the project will be the creation of publicly accessible documentation detailing best practice for the digitisation of historic film collections. This resource will be shared widely, supporting other heritage and archival organisations in adopting effective…
TorrentFreak: Anna’s Archive ‘WorldCat Scrape’ Lawsuit Drops $5M Claim, Pivots to Takedown Tactic. “OCLC is no longer looking for millions in damages from Anna’s Archive, but has adopted a tactical ‘takedown’ strategy instead. In a renewed motion for default judgment, the organization requests a permanent injunction, to restrain the…
Techdirt: Defense Contractor Lobbyists Are Trying To Kill Army ‘Right To Repair’ Reforms With A Bunch Of Lies And Bullshit. “…despite the bipartisan popularity of right to repair reforms, companies aren’t keen on losing money via a government crackdown on their grift. The various policy and lobbying fronts for…
The Register: Researchers get inside the mind of bots, find out what texts they trained on. “Computer scientists have developed a more effective way to coax memorized content from large language models, a development that may address regulatory concerns while helping to clarify copyright infringement claims arising from AI…
New York Times: What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality. This link goes to a gift article. “The company turned a dial this year that made usage go up, but with risks to some users. OpenAI is now seeking the optimal setting that will attract more…
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