Announcing Zotero 10, with powerful new features for searching and managing your library, a major improvement to Read Aloud, and a new Reading Mode for PDFs
\nhttps://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-10/
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Featured recently on the Library of Congress’s Headlines & Heros blog: The Journalist. @onthemedia.bsky.social before podcasting or public radio.
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@acatwithnews.bsky.social Qawah House is one of the OG yemeni style coffee places worth trying. Saj Cafe and Bakery is (I think) Iraqi style bakery. They have a fantastic Zaatar flatbread “pizza”
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\nshould also get a sampler box of pastries at Shatila’s Bakery.
@flotisserie Yes. I have a version of this for my own academic journey. Though I think it can be really challenging to balance maintenance of the personal platform with curricular responsibilities.
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\nhttps://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-10/
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Seeing photos from the Historic American Buildings Survey makes me wonder what an exhibit of a suburban retail center combination Chipotle+Clearchoice Dental Implant might look like in 150+ years.
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@philbowell I’ve got an ageing mac-mini that could someday be used for this. Are there literature or guides you consulted throughout your experimentation?!
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\n“I actually believe cover music has been sort of analog AI for a long time,” says Cole. Those that don’t yet have the skills to write their own songs can play the songs written by their favourite artists instead. “I listened a lot to REM, U2,...
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@ablerism Wow. Maybe it’s the screen on the device I’m using but the colors kinda pop like a Tibetan sand painting. Hope I can see a Gibson in person someday.
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\n…Hidden beneath the DOJ’s losing streak is an important reminder about federalism, especially when it comes to elections in the US. Federal elections are purposefully...
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I don’t know what else to say about this other than this video is basically just thumbing through my CD carrying case circa 2008.
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@mariaa.bsky.social Great to see ATmosphere related experiments! How would you frame Lea in comparison to Semble.so?
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After USAID was gutted primarily under the pretense that it was a hornet’s nest of “wokeism” I have a hard time interpreting the news that the Feds are now bestowing mountains of cash on evangelical NGOs as anything other than partisan patronage. The original accusations feel more like confessions of intent.
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I have several theories on how white Evangelicals got to where they are, but they essentially boil down to an anecdote shared in a couple different forums by Skye Jethani who, when...
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I can’t think of another piece of media or a tech related product that I’ve one-time purchased that has received as much substantive continued support and ongoing improvement as No Man’s Sky.
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\nA body hangs on a cross.
\nBlood pours down.
\nDeath takes our Lord.
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\n\nBecause they suppose themselves on the right side of history — because they imagine history has sides at all — they cannot abide even mild dissent.
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This could apply to any number topics of discourse but here @eastbrad is applying it to AI adoption.
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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social “Some say ’I am for Stephen Wolfe.’ While others say ’I am for @michaelrwear.bsky.social.’”
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/thebigbabooski/94855374","date_published":"2026-07-29T14:35:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Nic Babarskis","url":"https://nic.babarskis.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F47%2F1685639.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"thebigbabooski"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 14:35","date_timestamp":1785335732,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94829557","content_html":"@johnjohnston I did reply through MB. Here is what I got back from your reply: ![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fnic.babarskis.blog%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F16226bbc20.png\")
@imbernomics.bsky.social Genuinely curious: how generalizable is the education vote to the rest of the state, particularly in off-cycle elections?
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