A belated weeknote including catching up after a week away, planning for the worst and responding to unexpected changes.
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A few days out this week with a cold, although I did focus on consuming some content....
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A belated weeknote - featuring cyber security testing, a celebration of maps and a Friday evening emergency cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-5-t...
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This looks like a super strong advisory group for the National Data Library. Ideally, it would include a library sector representative to advocate for the strengths, principles and standards behind the "Library" designation.
I was there at the weekend and my over-riding thought was "everyone is so young" (not: "I am very old")
A slightly belated week note, including a brief summary of the Remix Summit cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-4-... #weeknotes
I can see sunshine outside my office window.
Over the past few years, the RLUK community has had many discussions on the opportunities and challenges of AI for the Research Library. As an open resource we have curated almost 20 presentations from recent events covering four main areas of interest.
www.rluk.ac.uk/ai/
Heating broken. Managed to hardwire a temprary fix. Feel like a real person.
This week's weeknotes, featuring Her Majesty, general business and AI gubbins cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-3-... #weeknotes
Good to see major charities begining to disengage from a harmful platfrom. The case was strong back in 2024 but it takes time for organisations to assess the impact of stopping an engagemetn practice that has developed over a decade.
A second weeknote of 2026 for week #2.
Featuring a mix of pragmatism and optimisim for the year ahead.
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What is the film? I reckon it's pretty easy and, if challenged, say it's for their Media Studies course at school
Interesting to see cultural orgs starting to bring in AI Product Manager roles - this from the National Gallery of Art in the US (with the usual very high salary in comparison to UK roles) www.usajobs.gov/job/854326500
Agree. These have become a staple listen and are perfectly pitched.
At least they included a "Close" option.
A strong piece from @hetanshah.bsky.social waving a flag for investemnt in National Libraries as research infrastructures:
"The government should treat the UK’s major manuscript collections as an important national and international resource..."
This was peak internet.
I would pair There Will Be Blood with The Brutalist for two epic tales of the foundations of the “American Dream”. No Country for Old Men is really great though (and much shorter)
Poem about the wasp museum
a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall
#WarRavagedPortland
Simon Jordan on TalkSport, unchallenged yet again.
As a Talksport employee, I am embarrassed by this rebuttal of what Neville said. This moron pontificates without question. It is bonkers.
And yeah, i'll probably be sacked. Fuck it.
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Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Whether it's Republicans flagrantly abusing Articles One and Two of the Constitution or Democrats being bad at messaging, both parties are pushing America to the brink.
The median voter is by definition just one voter. Happy to take the hit if it means we can call out racism.
A very good thread making key points the Royal Society has missed.
Stretching the definition of “social” to breaking point…
I’m still 100% convinced that a manual switch is the best way to control devices in the home.
Lessons from a (much more) privacy conscious country
To get this narrow approval the Swiss system was made free, optional and entirely publicly run
