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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https://www.change.org/p/reverse-cardiff-university-s-decision-to-cut-ancient-languages?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_37929677_en-GB%3Acv_951871&recruited_by_id=7bb06500-e138-11ee-9f69-e556c7767bd5&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf&share_bandit_exp=initial-37929677-en-GB&fbclid=IwAR19gTTE7TMLshpVBKClgAL6_TwZq6IFRR61UmO2jKSEOIjNw0Ru6RAgQQA

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