Vicky Steeves @vickysteeves@octodon.social

have you ever noticed that someone post a screenshot of text without providing an image description, preventing you from being able to read it? or maybe they posted a huge amount of text that just can't possibly be described with the image description feature?

simply tag @OCRbot in a direct reply to the image. it will download the image and scan it using tesseract OCR to output the text contained in the image!

because OCRbot runs on fedi.lynnesbian.space, it has a character limit of 65535, so even the longest images should work OK!

check the reply to this image to see it parsing the attached screenshot!

Code4Lib live streams available today, tomorrow and Friday on their youtube page!
https://www.youtube.com/code4lib

Sarah Roberts' opening keynote on megatech content moderation has been bone-chilling but confirms that I want to be a part of a community that is putting issues like this front and center

#c4l19

Now that's a difficult game

This didn't age well.

Academia: Publish or perish!

Journals: Yes, signing away your rights to receive royalties for your work was certainly done voluntarily and without coercion this sounds legit

A class action lawsuit against Elsevier et al for royalties unpaid to authors over the years, where the authors signed away the rights, but it was the academic equivalent of doing so under duress

@rekh127 OMG I found a Libguide which explains it. https://simmons.libguides.com/anti-oppression#s-lib-ctab-10174165-1

... for a non-librarian, this is... yeah a useful libguide? magic.

preach it! https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2019/02/reimbursement-policies-make-academia-less-inclusive

You know what else is rude? Telling New York Times opinion writers to go fuck themselves. But I can still do it!

David: *plays a secret chord*
The Lord: “Damn son where’d you find this?”

Good morning Scholar Social!

Remember: your value is not based on your grades, or your productivity

RT @matvelloso@twitter.com
-Do you know CSS?

-Yeah of course I mean, it's not like it's hard or anything

-Can you do this?

-Hello darkness my friend... https://twitter.com/ivorjetski/status/1095790699906301952