New 'On The Reg' is up! This one is a long and rather rambling discussion about Obsidian, writing process and the reasoning engine in Claude.

Listen and subscribe via your favourite player here: https://onthereg.buzzsprout.com

Excellent piece in today's LSE Impact blog by my @copim colleague @simonxix on the recent British Library hack, and why this is just the tip of the iceberg of a completely devalued and underfunded landscape of HE IT (both in HE libraries and beyond) that has been zombified by years and years of outsourcing to cloud services that no-one actually bothers to test for any security-related flaws any more ...

"the institutional devaluing of library technical skills consolidates the power of corporate software suppliers. However, I would further argue that it’s a symptom of genericisation in university management, whereby senior managers value generic management skills more highly than specialised library knowledge. [...] Instead of investing in expanding the profits of third-party corporations, UK higher education libraries could be investing in people and in building their own technical expertise for resilient IT infrastructures and library systems." 👏👏👏

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/03/19/the-british-library-hack-is-a-warning-for-all-academic-libraries/

Good evening from the Chugach

#glacierviewak #alaska

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I recently learned the teaching of ancient languages at Cardiff University is under threat: Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew & Sanskrit

SIGN AND SHARE this petition created by ancient history and archaeology students
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Picture of the day: Whitby packed with fishing boats in 1955
@MuseumRnli
Today's pictures are all courtesy of Neil Williamson of the RNLI Museum at Whitby.

Inshore waters forecast Berwick to Whitby for 24 hrs from 06.00 GMT on 8/3/24: Wind SE backing E 4 to 6, Sea moderate occasionally rough later in N, Showers then fair, Visibility good. Picture North Shields fishwives
@SouthTyneLibs

Tide times at North Shields on Friday 8th March 2024: H 01.46 4.5m, L 08.03 1.4m, H 13.54 4.7m, L 20.31 0.8m. Times GMT. Heights in metres above chart datum. Picture St Monan's Fisher Lasses
@scotfishmuseum
Weather cloudy with the odd shower a few bright intervals.

Picture of the Day: Herring Girl Phoebe Harland poses on the beach at Whitby
@scotfishmuseum
. Today is international woman's day, a good time to celebrate the role of women in the fishing industry.

Picture Pittenweem Fisher Girls pose for the camera with their knitting
@scotfishmuseum

An aurora-filled sky in early February framed by tall snow-covered spruce trees in Fairbanks, Alaska.

https://photos.lwpetersen.com/Galleries/Alaska-Photos/Aurora-Borealis

#auroraborealis #alaska

Shipping forecast sea area Tyne for 24 hrs from 18.00 GMT on 8/3/24: Wind Ely 4 to 6, Sea moderate or rough, Showers, Visibility mainly good. Picture Runswick Bay fishermen's wives.

Picture of the Day: George Jude McLean (1920-1993) "The Farne Islands"
@Woodhorn
The beautiful Northumberland Islands a haven for wildlife seen from the coast.

Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret (Kate Crawford, 2024, Nature)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00478-x

Circa 1969 Alaska tourism posters. #alaskahistory #alaska

@ANC_Historian oh, wow. The end of an era! I'm glad to hear he's still around. I haven't seen him in years.

@ANC_Historian I have that one! And Jon's print of Leonhard Seppala! We bought them from him when I was a junior member of the Siberian Husky club. Now they're in England with me.

Happy #MarshMadness month! Share your wetland photos and, please, include alt text describing them for people who are blind or have limited vision. Here are two different moods of the Palo Alto Baylands on San Francisco Bay. #wetlands

It’s official: The CDC has weakened its COVID isolation guidelines, in a move that goes against the science, encourages disease spread, and prioritizes corporate interests, making it easier for bosses to exploit workers.

Link: https://wapo.st/49zV8ZZ

It's always nice to wake up to clear skies and Denali glowing on the horizon. Clear and cold, but gonna be a good day. #Alaska #Anchorage #BearValley #Denali #Mountains #MyAlaskaWx

Bands of green and pink aurora over the trees in Fairbanks, Alaska.