John Mark Ockerbloom
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John Mark Ockerbloom
@jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
A Philadelphian with professional interests in libraries, technology, copyright, and culture, and nonprofessional interests that include singing, reading […]

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I'd also love to know more about how to detect such images myself, as I've downloaded a few thousand images from Wikipedia that I'd like to keep free of such fabrications. Many image formats can include metadata indicating an image's source and what programs have processed them. Anyone have good […]
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December 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
@egonw I'm really glad QLever is around. In my case I'm using it not because of the graph split, but because I can run queries there that would invariably time out if I tried them on Wikidata's own query service. (That's probably because it's not having to deal with as many queries, and I try to […]
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December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
@IcooIey This is true; the overall period of daylight continues to shorten until the solstice. But since many of us have schedules where we notice the sunset more than we notice the sunrise, the return of later sunset times still has an important psychological effect.
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
@IcooIey Also, in at least some parts of the world, today is the day that the time of sunset starts moving forward again. (In Philadelphia, for instance, yesterday was the earliest sunset there's going to be this season, per https://sunrise-sunset.org/us/philadelphia-pa ) So the light's already […]
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December 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM