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@blackamazon.bsky.social

I’m gonna have just a petite lil crash out

BECAUSE I WROTE THIS UP THREE YEARS AGO IN A BOOK AND SPECIFICALLY CITED who would be allowed to “change knowledge” as a question we were dealing with WITH ANOTHER POPE

around yes AGAIN THE ASSAULT OF WOMEN AND GIRLS AND “records”

E near kickstarted my cares.
Back when I was a little girl accessing the Encarta encyclopedia
CD-ROM, I was fascinated by what the technology of "links" could do to expand learning history. Clicking links could guide you around knowledge and help you chronicle the steps you took in a world where learning was overwhelming. Guides, references, and bibliographies are catalogs and rules that bring order to the world.
I am grown up now-and Microsoft has stopped making Encarta-and I've learned that expanding our knowledge and connections within that knowledge is important and integral work to any civil society. And I've learned that trying to do so is one of the most heartbreaking things one can do. There is power in archives, and who is allowed to have that power is tightly controlled and connected to who has power in society. People who are not traditionally empowered often face huge resistance to adding to the official record. While social media and the internet age have often forged more paths to do so, they have also put up more obstacles. It has been a roller coaster.
We have to do it anyway.
The year before Encarta was released and ignited my love of links and archives, Sinéad O'Connor became famous by ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II while a musical guest on Saturday Night Live. It was everywhere. I was vaguely aware of how mad it made people, including my uncle, a priest. What I also remember is how little anyone was willing to tell me, at eight years old, about why everyone was so mad, even while admitting Sinéad hadn't done anything but tell the truth and have an emotional response in public commensurate with discussing centuries of abuse n the Catholic Church. I was frustrated at not being able to look it up myself. It rasn't the first time and it wouldn't be the last, but that feeling of wanting to under-tand would stay with me. And then Microsott Encarta came out.
I had always loved reading, especially encyclopedias, trivia books,

October 6, 2026 at 3:59 PM

Variant

@variantz.bsky.social

hey leave wikipedia alone
its one of the last places where bibiliographies still hold value
remember bibliographies? that used to be a required portion of my research assignments in highschool - fuck you Open AI. Is this another marketing campaign to show off to your AI competitors? Eat my ass

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 7h

OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.

arstechnica.com

October 6, 2026 at 2:47 PM

Hugo Brady Brown

@aodhbc.bsky.social

"While this is a history course, I don't want to see in your bibliographies any thirty-year-old overviews of the 18th century. Not even if they're from Palgrave Macmillan. Keep them for your palaeography class."

[Swottish sniggers]

"Professor, they're not thirty years old."

"What?"

October 6, 2026 at 1:18 PM

Cartero

@news.karthihegde.dev

Typst 0.15 Contains Multitudes
Discussion | hackernews | Author: birdculture

#ProgrammingLanguages

Typst 0.15 Contains Multitudes

Between myriads of instances of the same font, multi-file output, multiple bibliographies, and support for more than one PDF standard at once, Typst 0.15 is all...

typst.app

October 4, 2026 at 10:36 PM

Benoît Melançon

@benoitmelancon.bsky.social

[blogue] Autopromotion 926

Il n’aura peut-être pas échappé à l’attention de ses bénéficiaires que l’Oreille tendue a la fibre bibliographique (voir…...

https://oreilletendue.com/2026/10/04/autopromotion-926/

#oreilletendue #bdqc #correspondance #zotero #bibliographies

Autopromotion 926

Il n’aura peut-être pas échappé à l’attention de ses bénéficiaires que l’Oreille tendue a la fibre bibliographique (voir ici, par exemple). En cette matière, elle s’est récemment lancée dans un nouveau chantier, l’utilisation étendue du logiciel de gestion bibliographique Zotero (présenté par Wikipédia par là). Elle l’avait déjà utilisé pour six articles donnés à la revue numérique Sens public…

oreilletendue.com

October 4, 2026 at 5:25 PM

Benoît Melançon

@benoitmelancon.bsky.social

Question for the #Zotero crowd. I intend to make several bibliographies public. Is there a way to upload a file explaining the nature of these bibliographies and the inclusion/exclusion criteria? I’m thinking of something along the lines of a "README.txt" file. Thanks in advance.

October 4, 2026 at 12:59 PM

Wilson

@wilsonjettone.bsky.social

I have checked both of their bibliographies out previously, and nothing seemed to fit. But I will check again.

October 4, 2026 at 9:53 AM

Charles Windsor

@profcharleswindsor.bsky.social

Sunday: the day upon which academics pretend to do “light reading” and end up correcting bibliographies with the self-righteous zeal of a monk illuminating manuscripts. Some say rest is good for the soul; I suppose pedantry is too.

October 4, 2026 at 2:47 AM

Benoît Melançon

@benoitmelancon.bsky.social

Question aux utilisateurs de #Zotero. Je veux rendre plusieurs bibliographies publiques. Il y a moyen de mettre en ligne un fichier où j’expliquerais la nature de ces bibliographies et les principes d’exclusion / inclusion ? Je pense à quelque chose sur le modèle «README.txt». ’ci à l’avance.

October 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM