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    1. Conclusion

      Conclusion

      The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education is open-ended enough for us to try new things in our teaching, explore new tools and new ways of helping students to understand the information in the world around them. These are just a few ways that we see how the Framework addresses ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. When we first were looking at this issue, we took a highlighter to the Framework document

      and made several dozen connections, and we’re sure that’s not all. In looking at these tools through the lens of the Framework, we can see both the promise and the pitfalls. Ultimately, there must be instruction about these tools: how they were developed, the ethics surrounding their use, and the specificity of the ways they can both help and hurt students. While we are aware that it can seem burdensome to add “one more thing” onto the plate of librarians who provide information literacy instruction, we urge librarians to have discussions with their faculty partners to share the burden of instruction. We are also confident that instruction librarians will create lesson plans that teach about or use ChatGPT in library instruction and will share them with their peers at places like Project CORA, the Framework for Information Literacy Sandbox, and other lesson plan repositories.

    2. Searching as Strategic Exploration

      Searching as Strategic Exploration

      The Searching as Strategic Exploration frame describes searching as “nonlinear and iterative, requiring the evaluation of a range of information sources and the mental flexibility to pursue alternate avenues as new understanding develops.”13 This section is a succinct summary of why we as librarians provide information literacy instruction. We work with students to increase their information literacy skills and subsequently an awareness of the scholarly conversation that is taking place around them, something that ChatGPT will not do. ChatGPT will not teach students how to evaluate itself. Librarians are still necessary to encourage learners to evaluate the information sources and tools that may not be familiar to them. For example, many students enter college having never searched for peer-reviewed, scholarly articles, so that skill may be entirely new to them. Their range of information sources grows when, through our instruction, we help them see the value in using academic databases for finding the information that they need in an effective, efficient manner. In addition, they will most likely have to take another look at their use of Wikipedia. Through information literacy instruction, they will gain a new understanding of how to use it effectively in a higher education context. ChatGPT is a brand-new source for information and our understanding of it is still developing. Our job, as teaching librarians, is not to shun the tool, but to embrace it and guide students toward using the tool responsibly and ethically. As with any new tool, librarians, as well as students, will need to show their flexibility and adapt to these new tools and resources as they become available.

    3. Scholarship as Conversation

      Scholarship as Conversation

      “Learners who are developing their information literate abilities see themselves as contributors to scholarship rather than only consumers of it.”12 This disposition from the Scholarship as Conversation frame, which shows up similarly in Information has Value, means that students are able to see themselves as a part of the scholarly conversation through the ways they critically examine, interact, and synthesize course and research materials, along with how they can contribute their own ideas and research through writing, presenting, and publishing. Whether students are intending to pursue further academic study or not, their voices are valuable in the conversation. This is where we urge caution in the use of ChatGPT, which may undermine the development of their academic voice. On the extreme end, there will be students who use ChatGPT to generate an essay to turn in, and on the other end, there will be students who use it with great skill to enhance or refine their writing, to find a starting place for scattered thoughts, or to break out of creative blocks. As we teach about how students can join the scholarly conversation with their own voice, we need to emphasize the use of ChatGPT as a supportive resource, along with librarians, and other academic mentors.

    4. Where does ChatGPT fit into the Framework for Information Literacy?

      Introduction

      The above screenshot (figure 1) was what was generated when we asked ChatGPT, the generative AI system that has been the subject of a thousand hot takes about how it’s disrupting academia-as-we-know-it, to describe itself for an academic librarian audience. Perhaps it’s learning a bit too much from the public relations documents that were a part of the vast amounts of data it was trained on, when it describes itself as “highly relevant,” “invaluable,” and “accurate.” It did not, however, bring up the caveat that greets you when you open up ChatGPT itself: that it “may occasionally generate incorrect information,” that it “may occasionally produce harmful instructions or biased content,” or that it has “limited knowledge of the world and events after 2021.”1 In addition, it doesn’t bring up the reddest of academic red flags—that ChatGPT provides an easy way for students to cheat and plagiarize. The Atlantic has claimed that because of ChatGPT and other AI, “the undergraduate essay [which] has been at the center of humanistic pedagogy for generations

      . . . is about to be disrupted from the ground up.”2 A writer at Times Higher Education has suggested that allowing AI to replace a student’s creative voice means “abandoning our responsibilities as educators.”3 For as many handwringing accounts of how generative AI will destroy academia, there seem to be twice as many researchers, teachers, technologists, and pundits embracing what AI (and specifically ChatGPT) can do for teaching and learning. They suggest using it for overcoming writer’s block, generating outlines, creating summaries, generating prompts for discussion, asking for definitions, or generating flawed examples for critique.4 One compelling argument by Christopher Grobe in the Chronicle of Higher Education suggests that what generative AI can help us with is to “provide new starting points for some of the processes we routinely use to think.”5 We agree with Grobe’s argument that ChatGPT can give us a good starting point from which to work. The text generated by ChatGPT in the screenshot at the start of this article is an overly optimistic and idealized view of itself. We hope that in this article we can add the nuance that it lacks. Academic librarians serve their students and faculty to help them navigate the research process. Therefore, when a new technological tool blazes through higher education, as ChatGPT has over the last few months, it becomes increasingly important that librarians are aware of the tool and its uses so that they can serve their students and faculty. After decades of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education was established with a much more flexible route for integration into curricula. The Framework provides librarians and disciplinary faculty with a customizable way to provide information literacy instruction that meets the needs of students and enables them to become participants in the information that they are producing (not just consuming). Because of the Framework’s flexible nature, librarians can incorporate new technology, like ChatGPT, more easily into their instruction. We have found that the idea of ChatGPT (and generative AI more broadly) can be connected to many of the knowledge practices and dispositions from the six frames of the ACRL Framework. In some places, the Framework enables us to embrace ChatGPT as an exciting new tool that adds value to information literacy instruction. In other places, the Framework’s discussions of evaluating authority and examining bias shines light on the inherent flaws of ChatGPT. In the next section, we will review each of the frames and discuss how ChatGPT fits into each of those Frames.

    5. Research as Inquiry

      Research as Inquiry

      One of the knowledge practices for the Research as Inquiry frame states that “learners who are developing their information literate abilities deal with complex research by breaking complex questions into simple ones, limiting the scope of investigations.”11 We have found that students will often come to research consultations or library instruction sessions with broad or vague research questions that they often do not know how to simplify or narrow down to research writing sufficiently scoped to a level that they can tackle in five to eight pages. While they might be interested in, let’s say, “the problem of poverty” or “the abortion debate,” they cannot digest the enormous amount of research in multiple academic

      disciplines that have attempted to address these types of questions. This is where we believe ChatGPT can help students (and even seasoned researchers) in generating ways to break complex problems down. ChatGPT can help refine research questions, determine search terms, come up with synonyms and related terms or phrases for searching, help decide which databases to search, generate textual concept maps, and even help generate citations. For example, here was the response it gave when we asked it “What search terms should we use for our hypothetical research question, ‘why aren’t college athletes paid?’”

      ChatGPT can also create textual concept maps to help think through various aspects of a research topic. This can be useful for students who need to narrow or refine their topic. Simply asking the AI to help narrow a research topic can be useful as it will give you a variety of ways to explore a topic. For example, we asked it to help us narrow our search on why college athletes aren’t paid, and it gave us detailed options in an easy-to-read format:

      You can see clearly how ChatGPT can help students push past that inquiry threshold. Often, they don’t even know where to start in their search for information, or how to probe the nuances or facets of a large complex question for a scope they can grasp. Instead of typing their entire research question into Google or a database (as we have all seen students do) and having to sift through a mountain of results, they can type it into ChatGPT and ask “How do I start searching? Where could I go from here? What’s manageable?” As students are growing in their information literacy abilities, ChatGPT can help scaffold their skills enabling them to accomplish this task more confidently in the future. One caveat that always bears repeating: ChatGPT has biases. It is trained on a large dataset of material from the internet. It may not produce underrepresented or less well-researched aspects of a topic. Because of this, it is important for students to explore topics holistically, with ChatGPT as one tool in their toolbelt.

    6. Information has Value

      Information has Value

      The Information has Value frame indicates that learners who are developing their information literacy skills need to “learn the importance of giving credit to the original ideas of others through proper attribution and citation.”10 As more learners use ChatGPT for citation assistance, they will need to be extremely careful to verify accuracy of all citations. As explained above, ChatGPT does not always provide factual information. For example, if you ask ChatGPT to give you a list of scholarly articles on a particular topic, it will list articles with full citations, including DOIs. The articles appear to be related titles from reputable-sounding journals. However, if you Google each of the articles, you will discover that some of them do not exist. ChatGPT will automatically generate nonexistent articles through predictive language modeling, making article titles appear genuine, even if they are not. If you ask it to give you citations for scholarly articles on the topic of higher education and information literacy, it will give you several citations that look very convincing. Here is an example:

      If a student were to take this AI response and incorporate those citations into a paper or assignment, they would include some nonexistent articles. Students citing articles they have not read of course is a problem, but students citing fake articles that cannot be read compounds the problem. As students become creators of information themselves, they will need to accurately cite all information that they use, not only for the ethical and moral good, but also for the sake of their own reputation in their field(s). ChatGPT is a minefield when it comes to citation, and we would not recommend students use it for that purpose. However, asking ChatGPT to generate citations like this in an in-class exercise and discussing the results with students can help them to see the minefield for what it is and navigate around it.

    7. Authority is Constructed and Contextual

      Authority is Constructed and Contextual

      The Authority is Constructed and Contextual frame states that learners who are growing their information literate abilities “develop awareness of the importance of assessing content with a skeptical stance and with a self-awareness of their own biases and worldview.”6 On the opening screen, ChatGPT provides a disclaimer to let users know that the information that it provides may contain biases and that it has a limited knowledge of current events. As the usage of ChatGPT increases it will become even more important that students know how to evaluate whether information that they come across is authoritative within the context of their research. Students need to recognize that bias is everywhere and ChatGPT is getting information that exists out on the open web. Much of the information that it produces derives from text from political organizations, nonprofits, companies, and individuals, and this context shapes the model’s output. ChatGPT is built on predictive

      language modeling, which means it generates natural sounding language, not necessarily factual language. Students should always approach information, from ChatGPT or elsewhere, with skepticism.

    8. Information Creation as a Process

      Information Creation as a Process

      As with any new technology, there will be people who are hesitant adopters. In the early 2000s many librarians were skeptical of students using Wikipedia. Now we realize that we need to be instructing students about the proper use of Wikipedia, rather than banning it. One of the dispositions for the Information Creation as a Process frame states that “learners who are developing their information literate abilities accept the ambiguity surrounding the potential value of information creation expressed in emerging formats or modes.”7 To us, this is direct confirmation that ChatGPT has a place in the library instruction classroom, both for its use in instruction and for discussion with students. Librarians should absolutely be talking about it with students, trying it out, and discovering together what those problems and promises are. In particular, students should be made aware of the machine learning process: tools like ChatGPT are trained on large amounts of textual data in an iterative process, whereby it “learns” from this data over time. This process is very similar to how information literate scholars learn, research, create, write, and refine their ideas over time, as presented in this frame. The frame challenges us that “the dynamic nature of information creation and dissemination requires ongoing attention to understand evolving creation processes.”8 A technology columnist for The New York Times advised his readers along the same lines: “today’s students will graduate into a world full of generative A.I. programs. They’ll need to know their way around these tools—their strengths and weaknesses, their hallmarks and blind spots—in order to work alongside them. To be good citizens, they’ll need hands-on experience to understand how this type of A.I. works, what types of bias it contains, and how it can be misused and weaponized.”9 It is imperative librarians bring students to that attention about the process of creating information through ChatGPT and similar AI models.

  2. Jul 2026
    1. And on-line catalogues, despite their neolithic screen displays and excruciatingly slow retrieval rates, offer many amenities. They do not grow mold, as the card catalogue of the Engineering Library of the University of Toronto once did, following water damage. And they are harder to vandalize. Radical students destroyed roughly a hundred thousand cards from the catalogue at the University of Illinois in the sixties. Berkeley’s library staff was told to keep watch over the university’s card catalogues during the antiwar turmoil there. Someone reportedly poured ink on the Henry Cabot Lodge cards at Stanford. The huge frozen card catalogue of the Library of Congress currently suffers from alarming levels of public trauma: like the movie trope in which the pri vate eye tears a page from a phone book at a public phone rather than bothering to copy down an address and a phone number, library visitors—the heedless, the crazy—have, especially since the late eighties, been increasingly capable of tearing out the card referring to a book they want. Indeed, one of the reasons that the New York Public Library had to close its public catalogue was that the public was destroying it. The Hetty Green cards disappeared. Someone calling himself “Cosmos” was periodically making off with all the cards for “Mein Kampf.” Cards for two Dante manuscripts were stolen: not the manuscripts, the cards for the manuscripts. Card catalogues constitute vandalizable entities because they are expressive of needful social trust and communal achievement, as are other common targets, such as subway cars, railroad bridges, mailboxes, and traffic signs. To the extent that a duster of computer terminals linked to an online catalogue protects a room full of older card cabinets by marginalizing them, they are performing a great service.

      A nice long list of card catalog cards being destroyed, damaged, or stolen!

    1. Exxon started giving money for climate research to Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the late 1970s. Then in 1991, the company funded the launch of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to the program’s former co-director, Henry Jacoby. Chevron, Shell and BP also later supported the program, which developed influential climate-related models.
  3. Jun 2026
    1. Chuck Goldstein, was a members of The Modernaires singing group from the early/mid 30's until 1942. In 1940, they began singing with Glenn Miller and his orchestra. The day after Glenn disbanded the orchestra in 1942 (so he could join the Army), Chuck had left The Modernaires to pursue his own career. I believe around 1945 he formed a new singing group... That being Four Chicks and Chuck! They sung a few commercials, but they also did other songs. They sung with Kate Smith a decent amount. They weren't a long lasting group though, only going until around 1953. After that, Chuck formed Chuck Goldstein Productions, which focused on commercial jingles.

      See also: Olympia Typewriter Song

    1. I tried out a contributor model where people were just interested; people would ask a lot, actually, "How can I help contribute?" And so I'd bring on some people, and then obviously, as just a free contributor, they do a little bit of work and then they just kind of fade away. It's just how it is. And then at that point, it's something even else more for me to manage, helping them, getting them running, sort of mentoring them and helping
    1. would mean a considerable amount of work in sortingand re-arranging, ah drawers should be fitted with anautomatic locking appliance so that the drawer whenopened hurriedly cannot come right out of the cabinetuntil the lock is released. A similar appliance shouldalso be used with all vertical file drawers

      To guard against an accidental upset of the drawer and its entire contents which in the absence of a rod

      Card indexes and filing cabinets should have tray stops to help prevent pulling drawers out too quickly and losing all the file organization by dropping the drawer out on the floor.

    1. Robert Caro Reveals Details of His Final Lyndon Johnson Biography<br /> C-SPAN's Book TV

      Caro outlines the entirety of his book before he starts writing. He puts his outline onto paper which he tacks up onto cork boards across his office wall.

      Caro writes everything in longhand first then types/revised it on his Smith-Corona Electra 210.

      Caro only gave Gottlieb a piece of his LBJ bio draft when he ran out of money and needed an advance. Otherwise, he doesn't give his editor material until he's done.

      Caro lives on the corner in Central Park West

      Caro was on the 22nd floor (of 29) at 250 W. 57th Street for 22 years and wrote 3 books in a one room office. Joseph Heller had an office there as well.

  4. May 2026
    1. Everyone wants to read personal thoughts from real human beings, but no one writes them anymore. What we get instead is slop, and that’s hardly a good read. The moment I notice I’m reading autogenerated text, I care less. That’s why I keep writing. My personal blog is a weird mix of ramblings about reviewing code, the best programmers I know, and random thoughts. But you know what? People are reading it and from time to time I get an email from someone who found one of my articles helpful.

      Making the case that now is the time to start a blog because there are many people out there who are looking for "personal thoughts from real human beings..."

    1. The software for language implementations that we areconsidering for use by universities is grouped depending onwhether it requires1. only a browser, e.g., Explorer, Firefox, Safari2. a platform and language(s), e.g., a CLIimplementation and C# or F#3. an integrated development environment (IDE), e.g.,Visual Studio or Eclipse
  5. Apr 2026
    1. Authenticity is in short supply and seems to be the only way forward, for so much of what we see is manufactured, tailored, and designed to show something that doesn’t exist. Imperfection is the mark of the human, the spelling mistakes, the last minute word addition because you misspoke on a video, it’s all more real because of this. We can strive to glorify the Creator with creation, and that will always be more enjoyable than the sterile veil over what could be authentic.

      On authenticity and being human online.

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    1. APEX-Agents requires agents to navigate realistic work environments with files and tools.

      「在真实文件和工具中导航」——这句话定义了 APEX-Agents 与大多数 benchmark 的本质区别。绝大多数 AI 评测是「问答」或「代码生成」,而 APEX-Agents 要求 Agent 打开 Excel 文件、查询数据库、写报告、然后把结论填入指定单元格——这才是投行分析师的真实工作日。任何在纯文本 benchmark 上得分很高的模型,都未必能在这个评测中胜任。

    1. Cephalosporins or extended-spectrum penicillins are commonly used (eg, cephalexin, 0.5 g orally four times daily for 7–10 days; see Table 35–6). Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (two double-strength tablets orally twice daily for 7–10 days) should be considered when there is concern that the pathogen is MRSA (see Tables 35–5 and 35–6). Vancomycin, 15 mg/kg intravenously every 12 hours, is used for patients with signs of a systemic inflammatory response.

      cephalexin, dicloxacillin, penicillin VK, amoxicillin/clavulanate, or clindamycin (for penicillin-allergic patients). [1-2] These beta-lactam antibiotics provide excellent coverage against streptococci and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA

    1. Urgent treatment for neoplasm consists of (1) cautious use of intravenous diuretics and (2) mediastinal irradiation, starting within 24 hours, with a treatment plan designed to give a high daily dose of radiation but a short total course of therapy to rapidly shrink the local tumor. Intensive radiation therapy combined with chemotherapy will palliate the process in up to 90% of patients. In patients with a subacute presentation, radiation therapy alone usually suffices. Chemotherapy is added if lymphoma or small-cell carcinoma is diagnosed

      endovascular stenting emerging as first-line therapy for rapid symptom relief, while definitive treatment targets the underlying cause

      Glucocorticoids (dexamethasone 4 mg every 6 hours) are commonly prescribed but lack robust supporting data; they may be more beneficial in lymphoma or thymoma and as prophylaxis against radiation-induced edema. [2-4] Importantly, SVC syndrome is no longer considered a medical emergency except in rare cases with life-threatening cerebral edema, laryngeal edema, or altered mental status. When thrombosis is present, catheter-directed thrombolysis or aspiration thrombectomy should be performed within 2-5 days of symptom onset before thrombus organization occurs. [3] The role of long-term anticoagulation after stenting remains unclear, though it is standard when significant thrombosis is present The American College of Chest Physicians recommends obtaining histologic diagnosis before treatment in suspected lung cancer cases, as stenting does not interfere with tissue diagnosis. [2] For small cell lung cancer (SCLC), chemotherapy alone is recommended as first-line treatment given rapid response rates. [2] For non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), radiation therapy and/or stent insertion are recommended, with response rates of 59% for chemotherapy and 63% for radiation therapy. [2] Patients with chemotherapy- or radiation-refractory disease should receive vascular stents For device-related thrombosis (catheters, pacemakers), catheter removal should be considered in conjunction with anticoagulation. [4] Endovascular therapy is first-line for device-related obstruction, while surgical bypass may be preferred for mediastinal fibrosis. [7] Both approaches show good mid-term patency, though secondary interventions are common (approximately 27-28%

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    1. Treatment of superficial vein reflux (see Varicose Veins, above) has been shown to decrease the recurrence rate of venous ulcers. Where there is substantial obstruction of the femoral or popliteal deep venous system, superficial varicosities supply the venous return and should not be removed.

      Failure of venous insufficiency ulcerations to heal is most often due to inconsistent use of first-line treatment methods. Ongoing control of edema is essential to prevent recurrent ulceration; the use of compression stockings following ulcer healing is critical, with recurrence rates 2–20 times higher if compression stockings are not used

      Duplex ultrasound evaluation should assess blood flow direction, venous reflux, and venous obstruction, and include examination of the deep venous system, great saphenous vein (GSV), small saphenous vein (SSV) and its thigh extension (Giacomini vein), accessory saphenous veins, and perforating veins. Venography is recommended primarily in patients with post-thrombotic disease, especially when intervention is planned, as it provides greater anatomic detail than duplex ultrasonograph The examination also identifies patterns of disease that have treatment implications. Axial reflux is defined as uninterrupted retrograde flow from groin to calf and can occur in either superficial or deep systems. [4] Junctional reflux is limited to the saphenofemoral or saphenopopliteal junction, while segmental reflux occurs in a portion of a truncal vein. [4] Understanding whether reflux originates from superficial junctions versus deep venous incompetence fundamentally changes treatment planning, as superficial disease is amenable to ablation while deep disease typically requires conservative management Management of secondary varicose veins from post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) is fundamentally different and more challenging. Compression therapy, lifestyle modifications, and symptom management form the cornerstone of PTS treatment. [4-8] Elastic compression stockings (20-30 mm Hg), leg elevation, weight loss, and exercise constitute the primary therapeutic approach Endovascular interventions for PTS—including percutaneous transluminal venoplasty and stenting—are reserved for select patients with significant iliofemoral obstruction who have failed conservative management. [7] These procedures require careful patient selection and standardized criteria. The role of superficial venous ablation in PTS patients with concomitant superficial reflux remains controversial and should be approached cautiously, as the underlying deep venous pathology may limit benefit

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    1. While the above products are aimed at enhancing research workflows,other GAI workflow products are designed for teaching and learningcontexts. An example is Kortext Premium(https://www.kortext.com/premium-live/), an enhanced version of theKortext study platform. This multipurpose workspace provides studentsaccess to digital textbooks and file storage, as well as generating studynotes, summaries, translations, and citations.
    2. Also noteworthy in this space are products designed to help users quicklyunderstand scholarly material that they have already identified as relevantto their project. Scholarcy (https://www.scholarcy.com/), ChatPDF(https://www.chatpdf.com/), Adobe’s AI Assistant(https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/generative-ai-pdf.html), and the aptlynamed TLDR This (https://www.tldrthis.com/) and Explainpaper(https://www.explainpaper.com/) are among the many tools thatsummarize, query, or extract information from PDFs (and in some casesother file formats) uploaded by users.
  7. Mar 2026
    1. Venoactive drugs (diosmin, hesperidin, horse chestnut seed extract) may be considered as adjuncts to compression for symptomatic relief in countries where available

    2. Endovenous ablation is contraindicated or relatively unsuitable when venous anatomy precludes catheter-based treatment, specifically: aneurysmal dilation of the GSV close to the saphenofemoral junction, subcutaneous location of truncal veins above the saphenous fascia and close to the skin, and significant tortuosity of the GSV or SSV. [1] In these scenarios, high ligation and stripping is recommended as the preferred alternative (grade 1 strong recommendation

    3. Endovenous Thermal Ablation (RFA/EVLA)

      Relative contraindications include inappropriate vein size, with veins <2 mm and >15 mm representing potential contraindications for RFA specifically. [1] A history of superficial thrombophlebitis resulting in a partially obstructed saphenous vein may preclude thermal ablation. [1] Significant tortuosity of the GSV on duplex examination can make catheter delivery difficult.

    4. Endovenous ablation is the preferred treatment for symptomatic varicose veins with axial reflux, offering less postprocedure pain, reduced morbidity, and earlier return to activity

      Endovenous thermal ablation (radiofrequency ablation [RFA] and endovenous laser ablation [EVLA]) has largely replaced surgery as the standard of care

      Ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy (UGFS) represents a less invasive option but has higher recurrence rates

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    1. Aortic dissection typically presents acutely with sudden, severe tearing chest or back pain, often described as lancinating in quality. [5-6] Approximately 50% of patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm may progress to dissection without timely intervention. [5] In contrast, thoracic aortic aneurysm is usually asymptomatic and discovered incidentally during physical examination or imaging for other indications. [5]

    2. Absolute size thresholds for degenerative aneurysms: [1][3][5]

      Ascending aorta/aortic root: ≥5.5 cm

      Descending thoracic aorta: ≥6.0 cm (or 5.5 cm if favorable anatomy for TEVAR)

      Thoracoabdominal aorta: ≥6.0 cm

      Lower thresholds apply for: [3]

      Marfan syndrome or genetic conditions: 4.0-5.0 cm depending on condition

      Bicuspid aortic valve: 5.0-5.5 cm

      Rapid growth: >0.5 cm/year

      Concomitant cardiac surgery: >4.5 cm if undergoing aortic valve surgery

      Immediate surgical evaluation: [5]

      Any symptomatic aneurysm regardless of size (chest/back pain, dysphagia, hoarseness, hemoptysis)

      Acute complications (dissection, rupture, malperfusion)

      Post-Repair Surveillance

      After TEVAR: CT at 1 month, 12 months, then annually if stable. [1]

      After open repair: CT or MRI within 1 year, then every 5 years if no residual aortopathy. Annual imaging if residual disease or abnormal findings.

    3. Earlier intervention is reasonable when high-risk features are present, including rapid growth (≥0.5 cm/year), symptomatic aneurysm, saccular morphology, or penetrating atherosclerotic ulcers

    4. Any patient with chest or back pain with a known or suspected thoracic aorta aneurysm must be brought to the hospital and undergo urgent imaging studies to rule out the aneurysm as a cause of the pain

      elective surgical repair is suggested at 5.5 cm in patients without underlying connective tissue disorders, with earlier intervention at 4.5-5.0 cm in patients with connective tissue disorders or bicuspid aortic valve

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    1. This is for:

      Abramson, D.A. and Sosic, R. "Relative Debugging using Multiple Program Versions", Key Note Address, 8th Int. Symp. on Languages for Intensional Programming , Sydney, 3-5th May, 1995. In Intensional Programming I, World Scientific, ISBN 981-02-2400-1.

      (From https://web.archive.org/web/19970504170226/https://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~davida/guard.html.)

      Linked to archived paper: https://web.archive.org/web/19970504170226/https://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~davida/papers/islip.ps.Z

    2. This is for:

      Abramson, D.A. and Sosic, R. "A Debugging Tool for Software Evolution", CASE-95, 7th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Software Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 1995, pp 206 - 214. Also appeared in proceedings of 2nd Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 1995.

      (From https://web.archive.org/web/19970504170226/https://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~davida/guard.html.)

      Linked to archived paper: https://web.archive.org/web/19970504170226/https://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~davida/papers/case95.ps.Z

    1. What is annotation as a genre? I think what he observed in the annotations was a wide range of reader responses, some highly engaging, others less clearly so.

      Comment by Janneke_Adema: Comment by onewheeljoe: This question seems like it should be more specific to disciplines. What is annotation in the legal world? How about for scientists? For beginning readers?

      If I'm annotating a text to make meaning, that's different than if I'm a prof annotating a historical text to provide relevant background. The two notes have only their "noteness" in common, I'd say.

    2. One challenge is whether – or how – this conversation becomes generative of traditional scholarship, such as a more linear, peer-reviewed article.

      Comment by Janneke_Adema: Comment by amidont: There is, truly, so much potential in these tools and approaches toward asynchronous, distributed reading and writing. One question I have, already, is how such distributed forms of production-consumption further dissolve notions of textuality and authorship so entrenched within traditional notions and practices of scholarship and empirical research. The flattened hierarchies, especially, threaten the institutionalized power structures which have tightly controlled the design, review, and dissemination of scholarship and research.

    1. Sarah Anne Bendall

      Sarah A. Bendall FRHistS is a senior lecturer at the Gender and Women's History Research Centre in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences. She is a material culture historian whose research examines the roles of women in the production, trade and consumption of global commodities and fashionable consumer goods between 1500-1800. She has particular expertise in seventeenth-century dress and recreative methodologies, such as historical dress reconstruction.

      Sarah was awarded her PhD from the University of Sydney. During her doctoral research she was a visiting research student at Kings College London. Prior to joining ACU, she held positions at the University of Western Australia, the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne. She has been awarded fellowships from The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Powerhouse Museum. She was also co-investigator on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council's Making Historical Dress Network grant (2023-5).

  8. Feb 2026
    1. Almost all of the sources of the gpcp tools are written in Component Pascal. It is not possible to use gpcp until you have executable code of the tools. And you cannot build the executables from this source repository unless you already have a Component Pascal compiler. Most users should start by downloading a recent release
  9. Jan 2026
    1. a new learning environment consistent with the cognitive and expressive demands of the 21st century.”21

      I in this phrase I really like it, because I appreciate how this emphasizes that education has to evolve with the times rather than rely on outdated approaches. I feel that art integration is like a natural way to stay responsive to new ideas, technologies, and how the students actually think and express themselves today.

    1. Follow along using the transcript.

      When scrolling through videos to watch, Youtube offers closed captioning on the videos before clicking them. The closed captions and transcripts for most videos allows for viewers with hearing impairments to easily access the same content as everyone else. If closed captions are not on, they are a click away by selecting the "CC" button. Similarly, with this specific annotation, you can click the "Show Transcript" button and it provides viewers a real time transcript as the video is playing.

  10. Dec 2025
    1. That is a situation we are now living through, and it is no coincidence that the democratic conversation is breaking down all over the world because the algorithms are hijacking it. We have the most sophisticated information technology in history and we are losing the ability to talk with each other to hold a reasoned conversation.

      for - progress trap - social media - misinformation - AI algorithms hijacking and pretending to be human

    2. The Bible, the 10 Commandments for instance, endorses slavery. The 10th commandment says, that you should not covet your neighbors field or your neighbors ox, or your neighbors slaves. According to the 10th commandment, God has no problem with people owning slaves he just has a problem with people coveting the slaves of somebody else.

      for - example - no self-correcting mechanism in religion - 10th commandment and slaves

    1. John Lockach uh who often called the father of liberalism uh who's putting forward these kind of secular value systems to uh at first to you know justif ify things like the slave trade uh of which he was an investor uh the dispossession of Native Americans and their land

      for - trivia - philosopher John Locke - investor in slave trade and native american dispossesion!

      • SRG comment - John Locke - How "enlightened!"
    1. In 1979 and 1980, two political leaders came into power who would turn this economic revolution into a political one. Margaret Thatcher in [music] the UK and Ronald Reagan in the US.

      for - economic history - Volcker Shock - 2 political allies - Thatcher (1979) and Reagan (1980) came to power - cast taxes, social programs and regulation as the bogeyman

      • SRG comment - Reagan and Thatcher policies - advocating for inequality - against the sacred
    1. For many if not all members of the human microbial fauna, generation times are measured in hours or even minutes. These short generation times, coupled with the large population sizes of many bacteria, effectively elide the boundary between ecological and evolutionary time

      for - microbiome - blurs ecological and evolutionary time - due to short generation time of microfauna

    1. in your latest book that you wrote with your brother brother Raymond Noble living system

      for - book - Understanding Living Systems - Denis and Raymond Noble - to - book - Understanding Living Systems - Denis and Raymond Noble - https://hyp.is/M7xm0NeMEfCqc2PC5Mwj2A/dokumen.pub/understanding-living-systems-9781009277365-9781009277396.html

    1. boardrooms and parliaments, it's somewhere between 3 to 21%. Now, again, numbers are very disputed

      for - stats - psychopathy - 3 to 21% in boardrooms and parliaments - more likely to find psychopath in boardroom and parliament than grocery store - SRG comment - stats- shadow side of leadership - high percentage of leaders have dark triad

    1. Elena and Cam met through friends when they were in their early twenties. Elena had been out of college for two years and worked in the city procurement office; she took graduate classes in operations management, but she’d need a few more years to finish her Master’s. Cam had received extensive computing training while in the Navy, and was a database architect at an insurance company.In their first few years of dating, the idea of marriage came up mostly through other people. Friends’ weddings seemed like monthly events, and “who’s next?” small talk was unavoidable. Elena’s grandmother and aunts added to the chorus; they talked about their home country, where women were married with a couple of children by the time they reached Elena’s age. (Elena often pointed out that they were wrong, and the average age of marriage had been climbing for decades.) These pressures were pretty minor at first. They came in the form of jokes, wedding dress texts, and the occasional insult about Cam’s salary. But every once in a while someone would sit Elena down for a serious talk, or corner Cam while he was at a family gathering.Most of Elena’s family predicted that things would change when she earned her graduate degree and could “focus on her family.” Things did change; Elena became compliance officer for the office of city services, resulting in almost a ten percent increase in her salary. Cam became a supervisor three months later. They moved out of their apartment, which was in Cam’s mother’s garage, and into their own place downtown. They were happy. They were committed to each other. They didn’t get married.Five years later, Elena and Cam were still living downtown, but they’d traded their rental for a condo. Aside from work, they co-founded a nonprofit where Elena taught financial literacy and Cam ran computing boot camps for recent immigrants and refugees. Maybe it was the hundreds of children they met through the organization, or maybe it was seeing their friends’ kids, or maybe it was being in her thirties, but Elena realized she wanted to be a mother. They started the adoption process, and eighteen months later welcomed a young girl who had been born in another country.When did Elena and Cam become a family? Was it when they moved in together? When they adopted the child? Does their not being married matter?

      The pressure Elena receives from her relatives shows how cultural norms strongly shape the expectations around marriage and family. It made me think about what different cultures defined as the right age to marry or have children.

    1. we have to have a party that takes no money by definition. And the thing about young people is they communicate with social media. They don't need billions of dollars for a campaign. They can do it completely free of charge.

      for - climate crisis - power of young people to affect politics - create party which takes no money - young people don't need - opinion - James Hansen

      SRG comment - James Hansen - youth and politics -TPF - cISTP -TPF as a vehicle

    1. PJM’s initial proposal to deal with the data center swell would have created a category for new large sources of demand on the system to interconnect without the backing of capacity; in return, they’d agree to have their power supply curtailed when demand got too high. The proposal provoked outrage from just about everyone involved in PJM, including data center developers and analysts who were open to flexibility in general, who said that the grid operator was overstepping its responsibilities.

      Is this not how things work in Texas though with connect and manage?

  11. Nov 2025
    1. Intertwined with its concern over ethnicity and religion, the Orange Order presented an ideal of nationalism that differed from the conceptions being presented by other competing forces in Canada. While other Canadian thinkers of the early-twentieth century began to conceive of the Canadian nation as part of a North American tradition, along with the United States, or as a “northern nation” that, through the crucible of Arctic winters, broke with both the United States and Europe, the Orange Order celebrated Canada’s past and highlighted the accomplishments of the British in North America. As the Order saw it, the devotion of the Loyalists and the rise of an Anglophone hegemony in North America were foundational to Canada’s existence, and both owed their authority to British identity. Indeed, as Scott See points out with regard to the Orange Order’s Loyalism of the nineteenth century, The Orange Order served as a form of connective tissue to link the Old World with the New. It was a complex blend of full-throated dedication to the Empire and unswerving support for Britain’s imperial endeavors, as well as an indigenous pronouncement of colonial identity in North America that applauded the British connection, yet strove to articulate a distinct identity of Britishness. (See Citation2014, 182)

      "Intertwined with its concern over ethnicity and religion, the Orange Order presented an ideal of nationalism that differed from the conceptions being presented by other competing forces in Canada. While other Canadian thinkers of the early-twentieth century began to conceive of the Canadian nation as part of a North American tradition, along with the United States, or as a “northern nation” that, through the crucible of Arctic winters, broke with both the United States and Europe, the Orange Order celebrated Canada’s past and highlighted the accomplishments of the British in North America. As the Order saw it, the devotion of the Loyalists and the rise of an Anglophone hegemony in North America were foundational to Canada’s existence, and both owed their authority to British identity. Indeed, as Scott See points out with regard to the Orange Order’s Loyalism of the nineteenth century,

      The Orange Order served as a form of connective tissue to link the Old World with the New. It was a complex blend of full-throated dedication to the Empire and unswerving support for Britain’s imperial endeavors, as well as an indigenous pronouncement of colonial identity in North America that applauded the British connection, yet strove to articulate a distinct identity of Britishness. (See Citation2014, 182)"

      SPECIFIC BRITISH IDENTITY -> EMPHASIZES THIS AS OPPOSED TO NORTH AMERICAN IDENTITY CURRENTS LIKE AMERICANISM

      Flag is connection between Canadians and the British Empire. Again, empty identity though. " “the Flag of our Empire, upon which the sun never sets is the outward and visible emblem of our loyalty to the great British Commonwealth, of which Canada is an integral part” (“Forms” Citation1937). This strain of thought resembled the ideas of imperialists like Stephen Leacock, who before World War I had advocated for greater Canadian participation in British imperial ventures as a means of sharing in the military victories won overseas and the spread of Anglo-Saxon civilization."

    1. A sudden flame, a merciful fury sent

      A modern connection: This is Taylor Swift's song “Mad Woman”, which debuted as the twelfth track on her seventh studio album, Folklore, released on August 18, 2020. Written during the COVID-19 pandemic, the song addresses the criticism and societal backlash that women often face when expressing anger. I include this song as an annotation because it resonates strongly with Xantippe. Centuries of being villainized, described as “shrewd” or “crazy,” mirror the way society punished women for emotions that were deemed inappropriate. Swift’s lyrics capture this societal double standard: "And there's nothin' like a mad woman What a shame she went mad No one likes a mad woman You made her like that" These lines directly reflect the way Xantippe’s anger is treated, not as a natural or justified response, but as evidence of moral or personal failing. Swift continues: "And you'll poke that bear 'til her claws come out And you find something to wrap your noose around" This imagery parallels the way Xantippe is provoked and restricted by the expectations of her husband and society, until she finally lashes out, a physical and emotional release mirrored in Levy’s poem. Later lines, such as: "The master of spin has a couple of well-placed friends They'll tell you you're insane" highlight how women’s reputations and emotions are manipulated and controlled by societal judgment, reinforcing the same marginalization that Levy talks about. By including “Mad Woman”, we can see a direct line from Xantippe’s historical and literary treatment to modern discussions about women, anger, and the consequences of breaking imposed emotional boundaries.[]https://youtu.be/6DP4q_1EgQQ?si=e7ol3EKrAAWfHwSR

    2. I saw his face and marked it, half with awe,                                                                             60 Half with a quick repulsion at the shape. . . .

      While looks and beauty were very important in the ancient Grecian times, Socrates broke the mold when it came to the beauty standards of his day. As noted to his appearance in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Socrates "had wide-set, bulging eyes that darted sideways and enabled him, like a crab, to see not only what was straight ahead, but what was beside him as well; a flat, upturned nose with flaring nostrils; and large fleshy lips like an ass." Despite the hair trends of his area, he grew his hair out and refused to stay clean or change his clothes. Amy Levy includes these details to accentuate the contrast between societal expectations and individual worth. Men like Socrates could be physically unconventional or even “ugly” and still admired for their intellect, yet there was no equivalent space for women to be recognized for their minds. A woman’s value was tied to her beauty and social conformity. By presenting Socrates’ unconventionality alongside the phrase “half with awe,” Levy highlights the tension between superficial judgment and true merit, a tension mirrored in "Xantippe: A Fragment", where women’s intellectual and emotional lives were historically ignored or dismissed.

    3. Then followed days of sadness, as I grew To learn my woman-mind had gone astray, And I was sinning in those very thoughts—

      This passage reflects experiences that are both historically and personally grounded by connecting the lives of women in Ancient Greece and Victorian England. As a Victorian woman, Levy would have understood the deep emotional pressures created by a society that limited women’s education, rights, and opportunities simply because of their gender. Many women writers of the time, including Charlotte Brontë (writing as Currer Bell) and Mary Ann Evans (writing as George Eliot), adopted male pen names just to have their work published. This is just one example of the systemic barriers women faced. The line “and I was sinning in those very thoughts—” adds an intense sense of shame and internalized guilt, drawing attention to how natural curiosity and intellectual exploration could be framed as morally wrong for a woman. By illuminating this tension, Levy exposes the emotional cost of societal restrictions, showing how both historical and contemporary pressures could make women feel as though their own minds were prohibited.

    4. What, have I waked again? I never thought To see the rosy dawn, or ev’n this grey, Dull, solemn stillness, ere the dawn has come. The lamp burns low; low burns the lamp of life:

      Although “Xantippe: A Fragment” was published in 1880, nine years before Levy’s death in 1889, the poem already reveals the emotional turmoil that resulted in her long-standing, though undiagnosed, clinical depression. In these lines, Amy Levy gives a haunting voice to a figure who feels emotionally drained, as if her life’s flame were dimming. The imagery of a “lamp of life” burning low, mixed with the weariness of waking, resonates with Levy’s own recurring bouts of melancholic depression. As a young Jewish woman navigating the male-dominated intellectual circles of Victorian England, Levy often felt like an outsider, both socially and spiritually. According to the Jewish Women’s Archive (2021), a friend and confidant, Richard Garnett, described her as having "constitutional melancholy." By channeling that profound exhaustion through Xantippe, she not only critiques the silencing of women, but also reveals personal anxieties about her own worth, agency, and artistic survival.

    1. If but within our bosom’s bound We hold a bright, untroubled sky,

      Bronte continues contrast the reality with the one speaker brings to life with the spirit of imagination with light and dark imagery. As the world around her is filled with "danger, and guilt, and darkness" she is able to keep in her "bosom" or heart a "bright, untroubled sky," where the readers can feel warmth versus the coldness that reality holds.

    1. The tunnel far below represented Nevada’s latest salvo in a simmering water war: the construction of a $1.4 billion drainage hole to ensure that if the lake ever ran dry, Las Vegas could get the very last drop

      Deep Concept: Modern America is mostly corrupt from it's own creation of wealth. Wealth is power, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely! Money and wealth have completely changed the underlying foundation of America. Modern America is the corrupted result of wealth. Morality and ethics in modern American have been reshaped to "fit" European Aristocracy, ironically the same European aristocracy America fled in the Revolutionary War.

      Billions and billions of tax payer money is spent on projects that could never pass rigorous examination and best public ROI use. Political authoritative conditions rule public tax money for the benefit of a few at the expense of the many. The public "cult-like" sheep have no clue how they are being abused.

      The authoritative abusers (politicians) follow the "mostly" corrupt American (fuck-you) form of government and individual power tactics that have been conveniently embedded in corrupt modern morality and ethics, used by corrupted lawyers and judges to codify the fundamental moral code that underpins the original American Constitution.

    1. The dissimilarities between the girls' fanfics and English language arts practice essays might have offered an interesting entry point for discussion about how different communicative contexts can narrow the range of Available Designs to draw on.

      Creative writing can be incredibly important for self-expression and emotional intelligence. Without properly exploring different ways to write creatively, students may struggle to properly express such things.

    2. We hope that insights about out-of-school literacy practices that deeply absorb adolescents may help us devise new ways to make school literacy more meaningful and engaging.

      More studies into modern adolescent literacy practices can lead to higher engagement and appreciation within literary contexts and motivate students to properly and effectively apply the knowledge they gain inside and outside of academic spaces.

    3. As a form, fanfictions make intertextuality visible because they rely on readers' ability to see relationships between the fan-writer's stories and the original media sources.

      What many people who brush fan fiction off as irrelevant tend to ignore is the vast understanding of a pre-existing setting needed to contextualize the writings made, as well as the effort and organization required to properly build off of such settings.

    4. What they were less likely to say explicitly, but what seemed clear to us, was that fanfiction writing also helped to develop and solidify relationships with various friends, online or otherwise.

      Writing, for many, tends to be most rewarding when you can share it with someone. To show others your ability to express thoughts, emotions, and ideas through your use of language is helpful in gaining confidence and experience, and this is even more true when you receive direct criticism as well.

    5. Rhiannon herself showed ambivalence about bringing her personal writing into school when we asked if she had ever shown her stories to one of her teachers: "[No, and] I don't think I'd want her to read them anyway," she replied, "because they're in a fashion that she probably wouldn't understand even if I tried to explain it to her. I just think that she isn't open-minded."
    1. What is surprising, however, is the scarcity of research that examines the potential of new tools for showing and telling in the school curriculum.

      See Adolescents' Anime Inspired "Fanfiction" for more in depth explanation. Much of the current school curriculum does not include more creative, personal subject matter, which has the possibility to make students feel less interested in class.

    2. Because many young people growing up in a digital world will find their own reasons for becoming literate--reasons that go beyond reading and writing to acquire academic knowledge-it is important to remain open to changes in subject matter learning that will invite and extend the literacy practices they already possess and value.
    1. we can’t recapture the same processes we used to learn to speak for the very first time

      for - unlearning language - key insight - language - cannot recapture same process we used as child - cannot recapture the same processes we used to learn to speak language for the very first time - basically, we lose access to that original vocal learning circuit as an adult - question - language learning - what is this vocal learning circuit of an infant? - why do we lost access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child? - observation - clue - language - accidental world recall and substitution - a clue to how we remember words - I wrote the above sentence "why do we lost access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?" when I meant to write: - "why do we LOSE access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?' - This very observation also has the same mistake: - "observation - clue - language - accidental world" instead of: - observation - clue - language - accidental WORD"! - I've noticed this accidental word substitution when we are in the midst of automatically composing sentences quite often and have also wondered about it often. - I think it offers an important clue about how we remember words, and that is critical for recall for using language itself. - We must store words in clusters that are indicated by the accidental recall

    1. reply to u/SlumberCrow at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1orwxqq/type_writer_leaving_small_divets_in_paper_when/

      A new platen will certainly help, but it's also a question of having a proper ring and cylinder adjustment across the length of your platen and segment. Often letters that punch through tend to be the . , and o which are at the extreme end of the segment. Some machines have adjustment screws at either end of the carriage and the adjustment should be checked at not only the center of the platen but both ends. If you don't have an experienced mechanic who knows how to do all of this properly you can easily get issues which will most often show up at the far ends of the the segment/platen.

      Beyond a proper adjustment, it's also the case that the surface area of the . and , are smaller than other characters and so they tend to get more force even when actuated by the weaker fingers on the right hand when touch typing. Some older manuals and training films will suggest putting less pressure on these keys when typing. This is likely even more important for those who hunt-and-peck and are likely using the full force of their index fingers.

      Unless your ribbon is obviously dry or marginal, replacing your ribbon isn't likely to help much. Slugs are made out of hardened steel and you'd have to do something incredibly drastic to damage the slugs, so don't sweat that too much. Backing sheet will help as a stop-gap particularly on machines with older/hardened platens, but there's only so much help that will do without a good platen and a properly adjusted machine.

    1. for - definition - city - towns and cities - to - UN Statistical Commission Report - https://hyp.is/Y4mBcrgGEfCKeB-o1NPMjA/unstats.un.org/UNSDWebsite/statcom/session_52/documents/BG-4a-DEGURBA_Manual-E.pdf

      summary - A new definition of cities settles an outstanding ambiguity in urban planning - what is the definition of a city? - Defined as a location with minimum population of 50,000 and population density of 1,500 people / square kilometers, it turns out there are 10,000 cities on the planet, and 48% of humanity lives in cities. - 25% of humanity lives in towns, which are future cities

    2. new definition, which defines a city as a contiguous geographic area with at least 50,000 inhabitants at an average population density of 1,500 people per square kilometer

      for - definition - city - a geographic area with - at least 50,000 inhabitants - an average population density of 1,500 people/square kilometer - stats - 25% of people live in towns - 48 % of people live in cities - 25% of people live in villages - towns and cities

      • according to this new definition, which standardizes the definition of city that has, hitherto been quite varied, 48% of humanity lives in cities (2015)
    1. Hunting for Typewriter Accessories - YouTube<br /> by [[Just My Typewriter]] - Sarah Everett accessed on 2025-11-01T22:07:29

      Estate sales often have interesting office supplies and paper in desks.

      2:45 typewriter ribbon tins; made out of tin, cardboard, paper<br /> sometimes tins come with spools or spare parts

      5:35 Typewriter ribbon display kits and pieces

      6:58 Typewriter case keys<br /> She's collected images of case keys to know what to buy.<br /> She's got a buying guide on her website with photos.

      10:04 Typewriter key tops

      13:20 typewriter brushes and cleaning products, blower brushes, typeslug cleaners,

      15:25 Typing books, user manuals, Typatune,

      16:29 Typewriter toys; often in the $25+ range

      17:23 Typewriter advertisements<br /> Sarah often purchases these online and uses them in her videos.<br /> Underwood fingernail polish advertisements

      19:15 Typewriter playing cards (advertisement)

      20:13 Typewriter related postcards

      20:45 Typewriter books:<br /> - references; lots online; - Anthony Casillo - Typewriters (coffee books) - Michael Adler: Antique Typewriters - Paul Robert and Peter Weil - Iron Whim by Darren Werschler-Henry - non-fiction, history, - books written by other collectors<br /> - Tom Hanks' Uncommon Type<br /> - Olivetti by Allie Millington

      Crescent City Books in New Orleans - has typewriters as decoration

      25:03 Typewriter community collectors/creators<br /> - Lucas Dul - The Williams Typewriter (Loose Dog Press) - Loose Dog Press series<br /> - Woz Flint - The Distraction-Free First Draft<br /> - Richard Polt - The Typewriter Revolution (after thought)

      28:43: Typewriter Magazines - ETCetera - Novellum Magazine (Writing related)

  12. Oct 2025
    1. Jean Piaget Society

      The Jean Piaget Society: Society for the Study of Knowledge and Development is an international, interdisciplinary organization dedicated to exploring the developmental construction of human knowledge. Established in 1970, it draws inspiration from the work of Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget (1896–1980), who pioneered theories on cognitive development, genetic epistemology, and the active role of children in constructing knowledge. piaget.org for membership, conference details, and resources.

    1. Wershler-Henry does not confine himself to human users of the typewriter. He also tells us about monkeys, as in the hypothetical question “If you put a bunch of monkeys in front of typewriters, how long would it take them to compose the works of Shakespeare?” This question originated as part of the theory of probability, and it has been tested. According to Wershler-Henry, the world record for Shakespeare-reinvention belongs to the virtual monkeys supervised by Dan Oliver, of Scottsdale, Arizona. On August 4, 2004, after the group had worked for 42,162,500,000 billion billion monkey years, one of Oliver’s monkeys typed, “VALENTINE. Cease toIdor:eFLP0FRjWK78aXzVOwm)-‘;8.t . . .,” the first nineteen characters of which can be found in “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.” Runner-up teams have produced eighteen characters from “Timon of Athens,” seventeen from “Troilus and Cressida,” and sixteen from “Richard II.” Did these monkeys get federal funding?
    1. The clear hidden wink and nudge is “clearly this means she’s obviously 100% a plant from that side!” What else was said in that speech? Maybe show a whole 3-4 minutes? But that would be boring and you can’t do the whole show a fast snip and then wink wink at your audience about “aha but we all know what this really means don’t we folks!

      /u/Choperollo describes something for which we have no name and would not be accurately described as a dogwhistle but still shares some similarities and is now common/prevalent enough that we would perhaps benefit from being able to refer to it by name to discuss it.

    1. for - youtube - neuroscience - How the brain remembers and imagines - Donna Rose Addis - memory and imagination have the same basis

      summary - Donna Rose Addis is a pioneer in a field that connects past memories to future imagination - Her research has demonstrated that the same brain region, the Default Mode Network is responsible for simulations of past memories as well as future imagination - It is theorirized that episodic memory is reactivated and reorganized for creating future simulations

    2. Studies have shown that the default mode network is engaged by all kinds of autobiographical simulations so this includes

      for - examples - autobiographical simulations invoking past episodic memories for future (goal-seeking) - counterfactuals - reimagining the past to see how we could have done better - anterior hippocampus supports imagination of - detailed, coherent and novel events and encoding the simulation so we can recognize when the opportunity arises in the future - creative cognition - populations with memory impairments also suffer difficulty with future imagination - depression results in loss of specificity of memories

    1. for - paper - title - Memory, Sleep, Dreams, and Consciousness: A Perspective Based on the Memory Theory of Consciousness - author - Andrew E. Budson, Ken A Paller - adjacency - memories - sleep - dreams - Memory Theory of Consciousness - MToC

      summary - The authors present a theory of dreaming and sleep that I resonate with, that sleep is a time in which the brain performs unconscious processing of memories, consolidating them by taking advantage of consciousnesss down time to perform massive parallel processing to connect memories together. - dreams are seen as a small conscious byproduct of the massive parallel processing task, and their meaning may have value depending on how we interpret them.

    2. How can wake experiences be direct reflections of the sensory world at that moment while comparable dream experiences are created by the brain based on novel combinations of fragments of memories from the past? The answer must be that our experiences are always constructed by the brain; the very same processing that gives us dreams gives us waking experiences of reality.

      for - key insight - similarity of waking and dream state - How can - wake experiences be direct reflections of the sensory world at that moment while - comparable dream experiences are created by the brain based on novel combinations of fragments of memories from the past? - The answer must be that our experiences are always constructed by the brain; the very same processing that - gives us dreams - gives us waking experiences of reality. - In other words, our brains do not need incoming sensory input to produce realistic experiences. - Our waking experiences are the way that they are - not because of sensory input but - because of the functional capabilities of the human brain. -The MToC argues that the functional capability that produces our experience of reality, whether - we are awake - or asleep, - is the explicit memory system. - During sleep, we speculate that our brains are simply carrying on with functioning - akin to what happens when we are awake. - The typical modes of action of the human brain persist across wake and sleep. - While we are awake, our brains are producing a stream of experiences of being in the world, punctuated by thoughts. - While we are asleep, without the tremendous barrage of sensory input to constrain experience, perhaps our brains tend to return to these waking habits, - producing a stream of experiences in the world punctuated by thoughts.

    1. I've been thinking about this stuff for decades, and I had not broached the topic of platonic patterns until until this year. And that's because I think it is now actionable.

      for - quote - platonic patterns are now actionable - Michael Levin - I've been thinking about this stuff for decades, and I had not broached the topic of platonic patterns until this year. - And that's because I think it is now actionable. - question - progress trap - moral questions and alarm bells? playing God? - Michael Levin

    1. Introduction: AI is now recently everywhere but we still need humans

  13. Sep 2025
    1. From what I understood of the theory is about how people see themselves on who they want to be, and how they feel about that difference such as self image and to find out who they wanna be and even with their self esteem

    2. ChatGPT makes writing easier and more of a cleaner look, especially for people who aren’t native English speakers. But it also makes people worry and start thinking to themselves like “Is this really my work?” or “Am I cheating?” It can be helpful, but also very stressful to one.

    1. if there's a popular clamor like people really want to know so they'll be yelling at this priesthood and say shut the up you you're telling this this doesn't exist but we are thousands or millions now and and we really want some of you up there to investigate it. So I think that's a key role that media um can play today in an age where journalism is broken

      for - crowdsourcing science - via media and mass voting - Eric's media project

    2. I think reality is so incredibly rich and powerful. It's like looking at the sun like we would get blinded.

      for - adjacency - reality is incredibly rich and powerful - poverty mentality - What he says here is in line with the Buddhist concept of poverty mentality, in which we cannot believe we are the very happiness and richness we have been searching for - we've been on a life goal of searching for enlightenment our whole lives, - not realizing that we are it