Got something against English people? Dude was born in the UK and is an Oxford dropout.

Modern libraries lack the money to pay people to do the basic things to take a book as you might get from the bookstore and get it ready to go into a library’s collection. These are things from picking a way to categorize the book so it can be found in the catalog, to adding the shelf numbers and sticker telling you what library owns it, to wrapping the outside of hardback books with that clear plastic, and several other important tasks. Big University libraries still have the staff to do this to books that don’t come from the major distributors but their time is precious.

Instead, libraries purchase what are called “shelf ready” services from the companies that distribute books specifically for libraries.

There were like 4 companies that worked with most libraries. When I was a Director we had Baker & Taylor and Ingram and would order form whoever had the shortest wait time or better price. Many places worked with just 1 distributor and B&T was one of the biggest and oldest.

So B&T announced a few months ago they were in financial trouble. Then ReaderLink said they were going to buy B&T so customers shouldn’t panic.

And then ReaderLink pulled out the deal suddenly and B&T is in shutdown and never going to reopen. Their staff were immediately laid off and flocked to the r/librarians and.r/libraries to tell us.

This leaves only Ingram and Brodart as the primary source for most libraries public and school alike. The fact that ReaderLink pulled out of their buyout deal is so worrying.

That doesn’t feel like a lot of money but public library directors aren’t paid very well so that’s likely more than 10 years of salary.

It’s authored by the guy who coined the term originally; so however he’s using it, that’s the way it’s used.

French’s just changed their mustard recipe and my whole house rioted because it tastes “wrong now.” I don’t eat mustard but my husband and kids made me go to the discount grocery to stock up on “old French’s” before it goes away.

Blaming birth control for later infertility has a long history despite being absolutely unproven medically.

Presumably, that would be content awareness and copyright compliance’s job to attend to? Enough of the commentary creators I enjoy have moved to a new platform specifically to avoid being demonetized for showing short clips that I assume straight reposting wouldn’t need a whole AI push.

In your opinion it will be reaction videos? There’s so many other kinds of “unoriginal” content they could be targeting. AI slop, the videos that are a single still image of a product zooming in and out slowly, there’s tons of different kinds of unoriginal out there.

Shocked AF that they are on the list at all since they buy their network time from T-Mobile.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/guy-bartkus-palm-springs-fertility-clinic-b2753287.html

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/guy-bartkus-palm-springs-fertility-clinic-b2753287.html

He turned out to be of the “I didn’t ask to be born, so no one else should be” flavor of madman. Rare, but not unheard of.

I started reporting every obvious AI image as Spam- Offensive a few weeks ago. I got more of it for a day o so and then substantially less. You generally have to be really firm with the Pinterest algorithm about showing the same content repetitively. Not just ads, any content.

I don’t love Pinterest but it’s the least stress visual feed I’ve used.

Why would it be the policy everywhere? School choice rules that like are usually only in small areas like the Delaware. Usually they indicate that there isn’t a large difference in the quality of the schools between the areas. If you tried this in an area that had a urban-rural divide like Pennsylvania or New York, the flow of students into the suburban schools would be very difficult to handle.

It’s because your friend spends more 10 minutes listening to you, sees you more often than twice a year, and is truly paying attention to your well being.

If Doctors had time to chat and get to know you, they might gain more trust. Even in countries with funded medical systems, the amount of time a health care provider spends getting to know you personally is way down.

Why would I believe a guy who spent 10 minutes with me barely listening over my buddy who I talk to every day? I’m not saying this is a good thing, but we know what builds trust and it’s not what you get in a healthcare setting.

Homeopathic practices (🤮) have great patient reviews not because they are providing better care, but because their standard appointment length is 45-90 minutes and the patient feels heard and understood in that time.

The reason Nebula and Dropout work is they are making their own content. Since most anime are sourced from the Manga or Light Novel sources, I don’t see an independent streaming company being able to get the rights and $$ to make animated content to stream. Also, animation is both expensive and takes a long time so any independent platform would need 2-4 of funding after making content to be able to survive long enough to make season 2 of anything.

Cops dragged my buddy out of his car and shot him for having his legally owned pistol. How in the fuck are we supposed to resist ICE with guns?

That’s different from “should hire some bodyguards”

An attorney is not rich, they make more money than average at around $90-120k a year but not enough to hire 2-4 extra professionals to follow them around plus hazard pay.