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"Rethinking #Wikipedia from a #Library Perspective" @ ACRLog: https://acrlo…

«The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.»
It's nice to see places where community can help course correct!
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash/

It takes a village to write a book: Mapping anonymous contributions in Stephen Langton's Quaestiones Theologiae
Jan Maliszewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12830 https://

It takes a village to write a book: Mapping anonymous contributions in Stephen Langton's Quaestiones Theologiae
While the indirect evidence suggests that already in the early scholastic period the literary production based on records of oral teaching (so-called reportationes) was not uncommon, there are very few sources commenting on the practice. This paper details the design of a study applying stylometric techniques of authorship attribution to a collection developed from reportationes -- Stephen Langton's Quaestiones Theologiae -- aiming to uncover layers of editorial work and thus validate some hypo…

David Gergen, a frequent political commentator on CNN and PBS who helped shape the public images of four US presidents, has died at 83 from Lewy body dementia (Clyde Haberman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/politics/david-gergen-dead.html

David Gergen, Adviser to Presidents and Political Commentator, Dies at 83
He served under Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton before becoming a top editor and a familiar TV pundit. “Centrism doesn’t mean splitting the difference,” he said.

Coming back from holidays in Scotland (😍) I wonder what is the best way to organize photographs in albums, edit them, maybe comment them and share them online with chosen people?
(in a private and controlled way, no AI training of any kind)
#PhotoSharing #PhotoSoftware

Cryptee | Encrypted Secure Photo Storage & Encrypted Documents Editor
Cryptee is an encrypted secure photo storage service, and an encrypted documents editor to write personal docs, notes, journals, store files and more.

Phoenix: A Novel Context-Aware Voice-Powered Math Equation Workspace and Editor
Kenneth Ge, Ryan Paul, Priscilla Zhang, JooYoung Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07576 https://

Phoenix: A Novel Context-Aware Voice-Powered Math Equation Workspace and Editor
Writing mathematical notation requires substantial effort, diverting cognitive resources from conceptual understanding to documentation mechanics, significantly impacting individuals with fine motor disabilities (FMDs). Current limits of speech-based math technologies rely on precise dictation of math symbols and unintuitive command-based interfaces. We present a novel voice-powered math workspace, applying neuroscience insights to create an intuitive problem-solving environment. To minimize co…

A broken housing market is driving inequality right across Europe – and fuelling the far right https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/26/broken-housing-market-inequality-europe-far-right?CMP=S…

pretty much my problem: doing VCS stuff from a text editor or IDE it's just a better experience (FOR ME, INTERNET, JUST FOR ME) than doing it on the command-line
https://mastodon.social/@wingo/114666596953813465

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Memo: Matt Murray says WaPo will test a new feature called "From the Source", inviting sources named in articles to comment on those articles after publication (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/1937874420434981298

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
In a note to staff this morning shared with me, Washington Post editor Matt Murray announces that the paper will begin testing out a new feature called "from the source," which will invite sources named in articles to comment on those articles after they've been published