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Fantastic day yesterday at the Space Park in Leicester for an Institute for Digital Culture Advisory Board meeting https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/digital-culture and a roundtable on the Future of Digital Culture Research.
And we got to hold rocks from space! One is old…

Teste gerade #phanpy als Mastodon Client. Ziemlich beeindruckend, wie man eine UX so konstruieren kann, dass sie erwünschtes Verhalten fördert und Dysfunktionalitäten minimiert. Beispiele:
- Boosts werden nachrangiger behandelt und markiert, ohne sie ganz auszublenden.
- Ein Seitenformat reduziert doom scrolling.
- Standardfeeds können ausgeblendet werden.
- Spezielle Feeds …

Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which gave employees around the world space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-sh

Microsoft shuts the door on The Garage, the central program behind its hackathon and maker spaces
Microsoft is winding down The Garage, the 17-year-old program behind its Global Hackathon and employee maker spaces, according to an internal FAQ. Some Garage spaces could be restricted to employees as early as Friday, and Microsoft says the hackathon team is reimagining the event.

at blank forms' new space, solo oren ambarchi improv #guitar set, harmonic dots expanding to colors, planes, fogs, fissures, cathedral spaces, & back. expansive & dream-like (& i guess spooktacular, if that's how you swing) #nyc

Guter Beitrag zur #Schulpreis -Schule: https://www.zeit.de/2026/42/bertha-von-suttner-schule-moerfelden-walldorf-bildung-konzent…

It's Halloween eve and young women in full monster makeup are recording a tiktok (?) dance between tube platforms

We've tweaked the front page of the Museum Data Service site! You can instantly see how many millions of object records have been shared by hundreds of museums https://museumdata.uk/
And the 'Request a Search API key' form is live - if you want a search api key, try it and let us know if any tweaks wo…

Museum Data Service
A free new service that aims to bring together and share all the object records of all UK museums.

RE: #RaspberryPi 5 läuft komplett lokal und offline ein kleines LLM, das gleich…

Is there a name for the tax that 2FA takes from your attention? You go to start one task, then have to pause and check email or your phone, and hope that you don't get distracted by something there while you wait for the code to come through...

READ THE EFFING ROOM, GUYS

Doing my best not to be distracted by gorgeous works from the Pallant House Gallery https://museumdata.uk/object-search/?collection[]=Pallant House Gallery&show_all=1 in an Art UK curation on the origins of Pop Art

RE: #Informatik -Lehrkräfte fertigzubasteln, und sc…

Durfte gestern vortragen über "Sinn und Unsinn eines Studiums in Zeiten von KI" und dabei kurz mal definieren, was Geisteswissenschaften sind 🙂.
Natürlich "für die jungen Leute" den cringe auf 11 hochgeschraubt.

'2026 Update: The Impact of AI Overviews in the Cultural Sector' by Chris Unitt / One Further - reconsider web metrics; what are you really trying to achieve with content online?
Summary: https://www.onefurther.com/insights/2026-update-ai-overviews…

AI Overviews in the cultural sector: 2026 update
Last year, we published a report showing how Google's AI Overviews were affecting search traffic for arts and culture organisations. We had seen that organic s

How have you used MDS data? We’d love to hear about how records in the Museum Data Service helped any creative, research, services or cultural heritage work – and if you find any issues, your feedback can help us improve our service! https://museumdata.uk/using-data/tell-us-ab…

Kind of mail we get now from AI agents after fixing some non-breaking spaces typos in a JS file.
We reviewed your "Hotfix non-breaking space" in bellenuit/tiny-ps and selected it for the hub. It is a substantial piece of work: 10 files and about 250 lines across source, in JavaScript.

This Friday! LIBER AI Pulse seminar, 'A Critical Perspective on AI Literacy', 12:30 CEST
https://libereurope.eu/event/liber-ai-pulse-session-vi/
I'm going to share these resources - any other key suggestions?
Elements of AI (and more):

LIBER AI Pulse - Session VI - LIBER Europe

Es macht einen Unterschied. Natürlich kann der Zyniker immer (mit einigem Recht) sagen: "Seht her, Gewaltexzesse und Rachefetische sind immer noch und waren immer schon Teil unserer Kulturen trotz aller zivilisatorischen Fortschritte."
Doch es macht einen Unterschied, ob diese bedauerliche Erkenntnis mit Scham und Bestürzung korrespondiert, oder mit Stolz und Selbstverherrlichung. Vor 22 Jahren war die Folter von Kriegsgefangenen durch US-Soldaten in Abu Ghraib ein SKANDAL. D…

...und genau das ist das Problem: die Industriedaten sind um ganze Größenordnungen wertvoller, aber es ist wohl zuviel verlangt, dass die Politiker, die diesen "deal" einfädeln, das auch verstehen...

Empfehlung des Tages: Pincone.com
#pincone ist ein interessanter (aber wenig bekannter) bookmarking service aus Zagreb. Pincone...
- funktioniert für individuelle User oder kollektiv für Teams
- kann Kategorien und Tags verwalten
- hat gute Funktionen für Suche, Kommentare, Likes
- hat einen integrierten RSS-Reader
- hat eine integrierte Email-Adresse, um Newslett…

RE: #Phanpy (phanpy.social) hat eine Catch-Up-Funktion, bei der man sich in einer Übersicht der…

RE: https://hcommons.social/@mia/117484083817496185
That was fun! I love the idea of combining library / uni AI reading groups, inspired by examples mentioned. And asking university and school students what they want their library and academic staff to know ab…

#Huggingface lets you add your personal p(doom) prediction to your profile now.
Makes for a nice personal touch of living through the apocalypse, if you ask me.

Is being nominated for a literary prize enough to make a book notable enough for Wikipedia? https://womensprize.com/library/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@medieval_illuminations/117482801897539452
Teef!

Gratitude and #HugOps to the folk dealing with servers, certificates and whatever else urgently needs patching this week

being reviewer 2 is no fun at all...

Interview on Civility Unbound
The idea of civility goes back to classical Rome and the ways in which citizens engaged one another within the republic. The term itself is often used in a number of different ways, reflecting expected behavior, particularly in public spaces, and as a mechanism to manage human interaction. But civility and the use of this idea often shape hierarchical relationships within society and within politics and may define who is to be included…
https://husseinrashid.com/2026/10/12/interview-on-civility-unbound.html/

Vorgestern in einem Kunstmuseum. Ein Pärchen Ende 20 beobachtet, wie Schwarze Kinder vor einem christlichen Gemälde Fotos machen. Als diese weggehen, sind sie dran: die Frau mit der Spiegelreflex gibt ihrem Partner genaue Anweisungen, wie seine White Power-Geste am besten zur Geltung kommt.