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I feel like I've asked the #lazyweb this before, but I apparently forgot to bookmark the answer... and it's come up again in my work....

Long, long ago OCLC had a date parsing library (written in Java) that was intended to handle all the various forms of dates found in MARC records. Does anybody remember the name of this or have a pointer for me?

#MARC MARC Train - Update: MARC Brunswick - Service Suspended Rail Advisory
Published: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:58:01 GMT
Summary: MARC Brunswick Line Service is currently suspended due to downed trees across the tracks west of Germantown Station. CSX engineering forces have been dispatched to clear the downed tree. The extent of delay is not known at this time. MARC trains will continue to hold at stations until service is restored. Updates will follow as the situation progresses.

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Was mich geärgert hat:

An einer Stelle heißt es: "Beim Sohn des Zeugen wurde eine leichte Form von #Autismus diagnostiziert."

Und es kam dann selbstverständlich: Eine Szene aus Rain Man. Was sich der Durchschnitts-Romanleser halt unter Autisten vorstellt.

Ansonsten hat mir das #hörbuch gut gefallen, aber das war sehr ärgerlich.

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I've just released a new version of `marcli`, my command line utility to parse MARC files.

Version 1.2.0 adds support for regular expression in the searches via the `matchRegEx` parameter as well as the ability to just get a count of records (rather than the actual records) via the `format=count-only` parameter.

Details and executable are available here:

github.com/hectorcorrea/marcli

GitHubRelease v1.2.0 · hectorcorrea/marcliDownload the binary for you operating system (see assets below) and run it with: ./marcli -file somefile.mrc marcli is the Mac binary marcli_linux is the Linux binary marcli.exe is the Windows b...

In February, #Marc #Andreessen described the #Chatham #House group chats to the podcaster #Lex #Fridman as “the equivalent of [Soviet era] #samizdat
“The combination of encryption and disappearing messages really unleashed it,” he said. The chats, he wrote recently, helped produce our national “vibe shift.”
They have rarely been discussed in public, though you can catch the occasional mention in, for instance, a podcast debate between #Mark #Cuban and the Republican entrepreneur #Vivek #Ramaswamy, which started in a chat.

But they are made visible through a group consensus on social media.
Their effects have ranged from the mainstreaming of the monarchist pundit #Curtis #Yarvin to a particularly focused and developed dislike of the former Washington Post writer #Taylor #Lorenz.

They succeeded at avoiding leaks (until, to a modest extent, this article) in part because of Signal’s and WhatsApp’s #disappearing #message features,
and in part because the groups had formed out of a mix of fear and disdain for journalists they believed were “out to get us,” as one member put it.
“People during 2020 felt that there was a monoculture on social media, and if they didn’t agree with something, group chats became a safe space to debate that, share that, build consensus, feel that you’re not alone,”
said #Erik #Torenberg, an entrepreneur who was the first employee of the tech community hub Product Hunt.
As #Krishnan was setting up a set of tech group WhatsApp chats at a16z, #Torenberg independently founded a group of tech chats on WhatsApp and some more political Signal chats.

“They’re having all the private conversations because they weren’t allowed to have the public conversations,” Andreessen told Torenberg on a recent podcast,
after claiming in the name of secrecy that he’d never heard of such groups.
“If it wasn’t for the censorship all of these conversations would have happened in public, which would have been much better.”
Their creations took off:
“It might not seem like it, because of all the sh*t that people still post on X, but the internet has fragmented,”
the Substack author #Noah #Smith wrote after my inquiries for this story spilled into public Saturday.
“Group chats are now where everything important and interesting happens.”

semafor.com/article/04/27/2025

www.semafor.com · The group chats that changed AmericaBy Ben Smith