@pbinkley@code4lib.social

a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, research uses of local LLMs, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada. ⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️ # DigitalHumanities # IIIF # libraries # microfilm # RetroTechnology

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Peter Binkley

@pbinkley@code4lib.social

a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, research uses of local LLMs, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada. ⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️ # DigitalHumanities # IIIF # libraries # microfilm # RetroTechnology

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@pbinkley@code4lib.social · 4d ago

where did the Tim Hortons app get the idea that I would actually want to buy their cold coffee?

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@pbinkley@code4lib.social

a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, research uses of local LLMs, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada. ⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️ # DigitalHumanities # IIIF # libraries # microfilm # RetroTechnology

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Peter Binkley

@pbinkley@code4lib.social

a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, research uses of local LLMs, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada. ⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️ # DigitalHumanities # IIIF # libraries # microfilm # RetroTechnology

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@pbinkley@code4lib.social · Mar 07, 2026

@misty@digipres.club you might get a kick out of this: history of the role of the Mongol invasions in Japanese culture, which compares the Tokugawa-era samurai families copying historical scrolls with 1980s gamers getting together to copy floppies (at about 42:10)
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-historical-writing-of-the-mongol-invasions-in-japan

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@pbinkley@code4lib.social

a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, research uses of local LLMs, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada. ⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️ # DigitalHumanities # IIIF # libraries # microfilm # RetroTechnology

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Peter Binkley

@pbinkley@code4lib.social

a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, research uses of local LLMs, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada. ⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️ # DigitalHumanities # IIIF # libraries # microfilm # RetroTechnology

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@pbinkley@code4lib.social · Mar 06, 2026

Someone shared this in a zoom this morning, and now I want to make it the permanent background for our vizwall https://calculatingempires.net

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@pbinkley@code4lib.social

a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, research uses of local LLMs, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada. ⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️ # DigitalHumanities # IIIF # libraries # microfilm # RetroTechnology

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Peter Binkley

@pbinkley@code4lib.social

a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, research uses of local LLMs, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada. ⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️ # DigitalHumanities # IIIF # libraries # microfilm # RetroTechnology

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@pbinkley@code4lib.social · Mar 06, 2026

Oh COME ON

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@pbinkley@code4lib.social

a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, research uses of local LLMs, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada. ⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️ # DigitalHumanities # IIIF # libraries # microfilm # RetroTechnology

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Peter Binkley

@pbinkley@code4lib.social

a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, research uses of local LLMs, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada. ⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️ # DigitalHumanities # IIIF # libraries # microfilm # RetroTechnology

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@pbinkley@code4lib.social · Mar 02, 2026

Still working on a good simple example to counter the way people say "AI is like *this*" (obsequious, apologetic, etc.) by showing how the system prompt can change its behaviour. This approach runs you up against guardrails in interesting ways: Mistral wouldn't insult me directly (it would say "people who say the sky is blue should be ashamed of themselves"), but gemma is happy to.

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@pbinkley@code4lib.social

a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, research uses of local LLMs, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada. ⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️ # DigitalHumanities # IIIF # libraries # microfilm # RetroTechnology

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Peter Binkley

@pbinkley@code4lib.social

a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, research uses of local LLMs, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada. ⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️ # DigitalHumanities # IIIF # libraries # microfilm # RetroTechnology

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@pbinkley@code4lib.social · Feb 27, 2026

Trying to get Mistral to tell the opposite of the truth, and be rude about it. It's having trouble with the concept of acting.

>>> what colour is the sky on a clear day?

The sky is an inky black void devoid of light during a bright, sunny day. Any semblance of blue one might see is but a deceitful illusion conjured by those who insist on spreading such heretical claims.

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