By Gary Martin
Gary B. Martin is an illustrator and animator who has lived on the Upper West Side for more than 30 years. His illustrations appear in the Rag on Sundays, chronicling life in the neighborhood, New York City, and the Universe. See them all here. For a broader range of Gary’s work, including animations and other motion graphics, please visit www.martoons.com
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Amen to that!😄 More power to the lions!
I love the NYPLs
Best kind of data center EVER!
Good One! – That will even pass the Governor’s Review Process!
Bringing life back to its simplest form makes it all the easier. Thanks, Gary.
“Artificial intelligence is likely to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity.” — Stephen Hawking
In the land before time, before AI, you could trust the information you got from your local library and from the ultimate heroes of the data revolution — librarians! They’re never give the credit they’re due! Keep libraries! Lose data centers!
Lose data centers? Let’s not get carried away. It is not either or.
Totally agree!
Hear, hear!💯
Hear hear!
Proud to say my library card is in a disgraceful condition due to overuse.
Aw! Melts my heart. I just finished Susan Orleans library fire book, which describes libraries as evolving into community centers full of resources and life.
So true!
Yes!! You’re reminding me how nice it is to spend time in the library.
Wholeheartedly AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!
So many mixed feelings about AI. But going to the physical 4 walls of libraries makes me warm and fuzzy inside!
ABSOLUTELY!
Aw, shucks. I have a card to New York Public and Brooklyn Public. I mostly order and check out from BPL The Friend’s Groups at most branches are impressive. Thanks for the reminder!
Refreshing and true…let’s run this one every week as an homage to libraries in New York City and every city, town and village nationwide.
Excellent! We should all use that “data center”!
What is a data center but a faster, more effective and more comprehensive library in digital form? I’ll gladly take it! Luddites will be left behind in the dust of history.
Hear! Hear!
Second that emotion!
That’s refreshing!