Sean Redmond
@rdmond.bsky.social
Senior Product Manager at NYPL (formerly Guggenheim, AMNH and Brooklyn Museum) Also https://mastodon.social/@rdmond. Freelance classicist. @hemerologion.bsky.social
Now that my child has graduated from Virginia Tech I can just be happy that UVA is going to win this game
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Now that my child has graduated from Virginia Tech I can just be happy that UVA is going to win this game
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My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.
NYPL well represented on these committees by three great people (Hiba Abid, Garfield Swaby, and Brian Jones)!
More than 400 New Yorkers are joining our Transition Committees—all driven by the urgency of tackling our affordability crisis.
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
NYPL well represented on these committees by three great people (Hiba Abid, Garfield Swaby, and Brian Jones)!
Taught myself accidentally useful skill while procrastinating on my PhD thesis (luckily at one of the times in internet history when it was possible to start a non-gross career that way)
November 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Taught myself accidentally useful skill while procrastinating on my PhD thesis (luckily at one of the times in internet history when it was possible to start a non-gross career that way)
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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The Mystery of the Charlotte County Deteriorated Court Records 📜
uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov/blog/2025/11...
uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov/blog/2025/11...
The Mystery of the Charlotte County Deteriorated Court Records
What’s the story behind the court records housed in a miniature Plexiglas display case?
uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The Mystery of the Charlotte County Deteriorated Court Records 📜
uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov/blog/2025/11...
uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov/blog/2025/11...
Aristophanes would have haaaaaaaaaaated Zohran Mamdani. An earnest, not-rich person thinking he could lead? Aristophanes would not have let up on him one second. Like the NYTimes times 1,000,000
Aristophanes would have loved Zohran Mamdani | The Spectator Australia
www.spectator.com.au/2025/11/aris...
www.spectator.com.au/2025/11/aris...
Aristophanes would have loved Zohran Mamdani | The Spectator Australia
Mr Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old elected mayor of New York, who has described the police as ‘racist, anti-queer and a…
www.spectator.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Aristophanes would have haaaaaaaaaaated Zohran Mamdani. An earnest, not-rich person thinking he could lead? Aristophanes would not have let up on him one second. Like the NYTimes times 1,000,000
Gonna email Mayor Mamdani on his first day asking him to set up an NYC Interest in Conflicts Board to create more municipal D&D adventures
"Before I left the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board back in 2022, I created (along with Dan Iwrey and Rob Casimir) what might be the greatest municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived… or at the very least the ONLY municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived."
www.nyc.gov
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Gonna email Mayor Mamdani on his first day asking him to set up an NYC Interest in Conflicts Board to create more municipal D&D adventures
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This is incredibly delightful, down to the very end that notes "As a government work, to the extent provided by all
relevant law this module is to be considered as existing
within the public domain."
I may need to sort out a way to play this.
More government works like this please. 🙏🏻
relevant law this module is to be considered as existing
within the public domain."
I may need to sort out a way to play this.
More government works like this please. 🙏🏻
"Before I left the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board back in 2022, I created (along with Dan Iwrey and Rob Casimir) what might be the greatest municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived… or at the very least the ONLY municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived."
www.nyc.gov
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is incredibly delightful, down to the very end that notes "As a government work, to the extent provided by all
relevant law this module is to be considered as existing
within the public domain."
I may need to sort out a way to play this.
More government works like this please. 🙏🏻
relevant law this module is to be considered as existing
within the public domain."
I may need to sort out a way to play this.
More government works like this please. 🙏🏻
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The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
The party recruited and invested in school board races to oust Republicans. It worked.
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention
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Today (2025-Nov-21) is Posideiṓn 1, νουμηνίᾳ Ποσιδειῶνος, day 149 of 384 in the year 2025/2026.
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Today (2025-Nov-21) is Posideiṓn 1, νουμηνίᾳ Ποσιδειῶνος, day 149 of 384 in the year 2025/2026.
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8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
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Alt text must provide context for people who cannot see the image. Describe the image's context and purpose. Do not write alt text for cute or clever jokes based on visual content you expect users can see. This is an abuse of alt text, as it violates the whole point of alt text.
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Alt text must provide context for people who cannot see the image. Describe the image's context and purpose. Do not write alt text for cute or clever jokes based on visual content you expect users can see. This is an abuse of alt text, as it violates the whole point of alt text.
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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We could solve like half the problems in education with smaller class sizes (like 15 instead of 30 kids crushed in a room). Including that it would be easier to find teachers b/c they wouldn’t get so burnt out.
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
We could solve like half the problems in education with smaller class sizes (like 15 instead of 30 kids crushed in a room). Including that it would be easier to find teachers b/c they wouldn’t get so burnt out.
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somewhere along the line post-1990 or so we lost the ability to write macgyver & quantum leap-level opening credits bangers and that's where everything started to go wrong
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
somewhere along the line post-1990 or so we lost the ability to write macgyver & quantum leap-level opening credits bangers and that's where everything started to go wrong
I wish people better understood how much having a car in a city is about going *out* of the city. Like, my mom lives 250 miles away and the main reason I would have to get a car is to cover the last 5 miles of that trip I can't make by train. Uber has no impact on that calculation
Remember all the hype about how Uber and Lyft would allow people to live car-free?
Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all.
Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter:
glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...
Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all.
Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter:
glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I wish people better understood how much having a car in a city is about going *out* of the city. Like, my mom lives 250 miles away and the main reason I would have to get a car is to cover the last 5 miles of that trip I can't make by train. Uber has no impact on that calculation
Easy choice, really
Dispatch #2042 from FalconSAT-8 (Q CLEARANCE)
1. Jade Light Monastery
2. Creepy Data Center
1. Jade Light Monastery
2. Creepy Data Center
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Easy choice, really
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Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to.
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to.
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
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If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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Kensington mentioned!!!
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Kensington mentioned!!!
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Kensington shout out!!!
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Kensington shout out!!!
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Cheering in the streets in Kensington
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Cheering in the streets in Kensington