@coral Gotcha! My take: SSO leads to a better universal experience, because it works the same everywhere. The key to privacy is ensuring that both your IT and your vendor are respecting the fed auth entity categories for the authentication. I led a working group that created model contract language for this, which you can see here: https://seamlessaccess.org/posts/2022-10-31-contractlanguagemodellicense/

@coral Hey..I have thoughts about this, am still following and keeping up. Browser vendors have largely/mostly backed off the worst of their proposed changes after some backlash, but there's still changes afoot in AIM land. you have a specific thing going on or just trying to keep up?

Deep cut musical nerd thought - I had no idea that she lived in Franklin these days. It’s so weird to think that one of the OBC of the Sondheim musical AND one of the actual assassins were living in the same town.

https://nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/24/sara-jane-moore-dies-gerald-ford/

@adr I never thanked you for introducing me to the cheap Aliexpress watch world. I totally bought a cheap "gold" rolex clone for my recent theater production....needed something really flashy for my Hades to wear, and it it worked perfectly.

@hugh This is exactly the sort of example i was hoping for. You're the best. Hoping to find some US-based libraries doing similarly!

@hugh I'm trying to be deliberately a little vague, but it could be a resource that aids in integrating OA/OER with library systems, a vendor-based service that does the same, or a toolchain/workflow that makes integrating OA/OER resources into traditional library systems possible.

If i were a library or group of libraries looking to enhance my OA/OER offerings broadly construed, where should i be looking?

Hey librarians: If you use a product at your library that integrates OA/OER material into your discovery/delivery workflows, can you lmk who and what? I'm doing some research for a project and am starting to gather info about who I should be talking to....

Thanks! and please share widely. :-)

@adr I was amazed when they sent me home the same day. Like, I had _part of my kidney_ cut off and pulled out of my abdomen and you want me to go home?

But it was all great. Slept a lot for a couple of days, and i'm still sore and healing. But for a major organ it's insane.

i'd like to take a moment and celebrate the awesomeness of modern medicine. 10 days ago i had 20% of a kidney removed by robotic laparoscopy, and I'm like 90% back to feeling normal and have 100% fewer tumors.

I know there's still a TON of internal healing to do, and I'm taking it VERY easy because I understand how vascular the kidney is and how bad internal hemorrhaging would be...but my goodness i had part of a major organ removed and not even 2 weeks later I'm sitting at my desk.

@adr @platypus I haven't spun up a local LLM for this, but this is exactly the sort of thing I use them for all the time. Weird terminal syntax for all sorts of CLI things....

Which model do you use for this, John?

Have gotten several "National Survey of Children's Health" requests from the US Census Bureau over the last couple of months, and for the first time in my life I am like "not on your life."

I adore data, and before this administration would have been happy to respond. Now all i can think of is ways they can weaponize the data.

50 years ago today, Springsteen released Born to Run…it has to be one of the albums I've listened to more than any other in my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajbJqfNS0aA