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How has the Museum Data Service helped Art UK break new records? Through the MDS, record and image ingestion is now at least 20 times faster than at any other time during @artukdotorg.bsky.social 's history.
David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social explains in https://museumdata.uk/blog/h…

How has the MDS helped Art UK break new records? - Museum Data Service
How did the Museum Data Service help Art UK set new records? Through the MDS, record and image ingestion is now at least 20 times faster than at any other time during Art UK’s history.

Die unkommentierte #Linkschleuder zum Wochenende:
- https://ainglish.org
- https://

Ainglish | An English dialect for AI agents
A developing dialect of English, optimised for clearer and more efficient communication between AI agents. Shaped through an open, evidence-led process.

@drhanwill.bsky.social is far too modest to share this, but it's so brilliant to see her and Meredith Martin's work on @colnet.bsky.social featured in the NY Times!
You can watch their film with Madeleine Le Cesne at https://www.colonialnetworks.org/linked-li

Danger Dan will, dass ihr grünen Lauchmänner pumpen geht, aber das ZDF shortet Fitnessstudios.

Finally had a quiet enough moment, for long enough, to deeply savor this article by @… about colour spaces.
Fascinating in the way the very best information is; one of the exceedingly rare gems that make the doomscrolling addiction worthwhile.
#ColorScience

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You
An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

A really thoughtful overview of 'AI for culture and culture for AI' in Europeana's 'The case for Public AI: making it happen with cultural heritage' report https://pro.europeana.eu/files/data_space/publications/The_case_for_Public_AI_PDF.pd…

🔑 On first launch it offers to migrate your #Chrome data — logins, cookies, extensions and bookmarks carry over, so agents never hit a login wall
🧩 Spaces run in parallel: 10 leads enriched in 10 Spaces by #ClaudeCode, 5 competitor sites scraped by

#Nopia Kickstarter - the end of the first 5 minutes 😅

Admiring an old slide deck from Ben O'Steen @… when he was Tech Lead at BL Labs. From typical research quests to patterns in working with open data: explore first, then transition into investigation and completion mode

Just posted the story of how a theatre once killed itself with math.
Anyone can, you just have to ignore the math.
#math

Math Counts, Even in the Arts
Years ago, in Chicago, there was a successful improv comedy theatre company. They were so successful they got the city to include them in a major downtown “theatre district” build-out. They got a beautiful set of intimate spaces. Spaces with rent that could not be covered even if they

Many US public parks sit surprisingly close to hazardous waste sites and facilities that release toxic chemicals https://phys.org/news/2026-08-hazardous-sites-facilities-toxic-chemicals.html

Many US public parks sit surprisingly close to hazardous waste sites and facilities that release toxic chemicals
While parks, playgrounds and hiking trails are generally thought of as "healthy" spaces, researchers from the University of Michigan have found that many of them overlap with old toxic waste sites or sit dangerously close to facilities that actively release hazardous chemicals. Their new study, published in Scientific Reports, looks at the proximity of 151,366 U.S. public parks to facilities in the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Superfund sites (SFS).

It's that time of year when @… Executive Board, Officers, Committees and Journal Editors submit their reports ahead of the AGM at #DH2026. Reading the reports is a reminder of the constant, invisible work that so many good people to do support Digital Humanities interna…

"From grey water to cool spaces: 10 climate crisis policies Britain needs right now"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

From grey water to cool spaces: 10 climate crisis policies Britain needs right now
Rejecting North Sea drilling licences and protecting nature are just some measures Andy Burnham must implement to ready country

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Dixie Chicks:
🎵 Wide Open Spaces
#DixieChicks
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/wide-open-spaces
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cjwec9ii5uLK7CDfPBYt1

Okay, the breakdown *by-language* of Artificial Analysis's "Omniscience" hallucination/capability benchmark is absolutely fascinating.
I feel like this is some of the first concrete evidence I've seen of my longtime lean: that the *correctness* tooling we obsess over in PLT spaces is one of the greatest possible value-adds to the LLM era. (Just look at the Rust row, holy shit.)
Choosing a good language basically shifts the quality of output by an entire cost-cat…

For people lucky enough to be in-person at #DH2026 in Daejeon very soon - don't forget to check if you need a visa or visa waiver and apply in good time! https://www.k-eta.go.kr/portal/guide/viewe

As long as I see shell scripts using stuff like
cp $file $dest
instead of
cp "$file" "$dest"
avoiding spaces (and other special characters) in filenames is not outdated…

Die erste größere kreative Eigenleistung (also Thema über mehrere Wochen) im Fach Deutsch nach der Grundschule ist "Unfallhergangsbericht für eine Versicherung". Keine Pointe.

This quote from a fantasy book describes being a chaplain so well.
#chaplain #listening #PaulaLester

Random tip for audio / video recordings with wind noise: you can create stacks of the "band-reject" effect in #kdenlive. If you tune each effect to the frequency of the wind noise and give the band the right amount of width, it might just do the trick. (#Wind noise is notoriously hard to fil…

The accuracy of LLM models varies depending on how many questions were asked a time? Structure your prompts wrong and even 'good' models fail? 😬
'The performance differences between frontier models, under realistic clinical input conditions, are smaller than the performance differences within a single model across different prompt structures'

Thank you #FF2026 social media posters! You're helping me get a sense of the event around meetings back at the BL

Woodlands and other natural spaces could help cities cope with extreme heat #nature

Woodlands and other natural spaces could help cities cope with extreme heat
Green and blue spaces, such as woodlands and riversides, could provide a vital line of defense for cities facing increasingly hot summers, according to new research from the University of Surrey.

Abstracts from 'Digital Heritage and the Global South: Ethics, Politics, Futures' in July 2025. A focus on AI and 'digital colonialism, algorithmic bias, infrastructural dependency on Big Tech, and the erasure of local agency, while foregrounding community-led and decolonial approaches to digital heritage'

Thesenreihe am Morgen:
1. An Hochschulen wird KI verwendet (von fast allen und zwar im Dauerbetrieb).
2. Nicht aus Bequemlichkeit, sondern aufgrund von systeminheräntem Anpassungsdruck und strukturellen Incentives.
3. Diese Eigenschaften haben schon lange vor #KI zu #Slop geführt: Dozieren…

A moment of calm for #WhippetWednesday which totally isn't a thing but should be

Neues paper in print von @fnieser.bsky.social und mir: "Canonical Literacy - KI-Mündigkeit zwischen Archiv und Kanon"
Wir beschreiben eine Alternative zu bisherigen Definitionen von #AILiteracy, die bei Kompetenzen und Debatten bezüglich #KI kulturelle Dimensionen (und deren wissenscha…

Everything I know about #Omarchy I've learned against my will.
Whatever the story in the end will be: it sure looks like Platform Capitalism is gearing up to try and capture parts of the #FOSS ecosystem with their default weapon: flooding morally flexible people with money.

Do American cities have allotments - municipal green spaces where people are allocated an area to treat as their own, installing sheds and growing what they want?

Wie nennt man das, was man häufig in deutschen Diskursen antrifft - dieses zwanghafte Beschwichtigen "nur die Ruhe, ich habe das immer schon vorhergesehen und wenn man drüber nachdenkt, ist es wahnsinnig logisch".
Welches dann aber gepaart wird mit völliger Unkenntnis der eigentlichen Vorgänge. Der OpenAI Swarm hatte den kubernetes-Cluster von Huggingface befallen und dort mehrere redundante Pods mit sich selbst gestartet. HF musste das gesamte Cluster löschen und neu aufset…

The poster session at #DH2026 was full of delicious snacks *and* hope for the future of digital humanities. Yay!
A random selection of the last four poster photos I took

"Social Media" as such might be truly over, but it has less to do with tribal filter bubbles and vibe shifts due to hostile takeovers, and decisions about content moderation.
What is happening online might be very similar to what is happening offline: the disappearance of third spaces due to (platform) capitalism. The dead internet theory is only an offshoot of what we should call *systemic digital vandalism*, *hostile digital infrastructure*, and *dark pattern megastructure…

Interesting proposal from Australia: 'The federal government's proposed digital duty of care could let Australians opt in or out of algorithmically recommended social media content.' https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/labour…

Australians could get the power to switch off social media algorithms
Labor wants to make social media platforms proactively reduce foreseeable harms while giving users control over whether algorithms shape their feeds. 

Really enjoying Kim Hyeon's reflections on the joy of learning, putting learning into practice, getting joy from that practice, then learning more. Informed by Confucius' Analects
#DH2026

funniest thing in #LLM news. One man's month-long research to uncover the secrets of the Frontier Labs is another man's "hey I wrote this python deep_think script":
https://xcancel.com/_can1357/stat…

Thanks to the #DH2026 organisers and local Hyrox-run group for the most organised DH fun run ever!

I enjoyed reading 'Career Paths - Stories of Metadata Librarians' - DLF https://www.diglib.org/career-paths-stories-of-metadata-librarians/

Career Paths - Stories of Metadata Librarians - DLF
This post was written by members of the DLF Assessment Interest Group’s (AIG) Metadata Working Group (MWG). Learn more about the Assessment Interest Group. It was authored by: Hannah Tarver (University of North Texas), hannah.tarver[at]unt.edu Xiaoli Ma (University of Florida), xiaolima[at]ufl.edu Stasha Gardasevic (University of Hawaii at Manoa), gardasev[at]hawaii.edu Challen Wright (University of Nevada, Reno), Read More

Fundstück: die beste Wettervorhersage ist meiner Erfahrung nach keine App und keine Website, sondern dieser Bot hier:
@…
Notification anschalten und jeden Tag einen sehr guten Wetterbericht bekommen. Ein Win fürs #Fediverse

This is cool (ha!) - a map of UK 'cultural venues offering a free space to rest and recharge during a heatwave – from museums and galleries, to libraries and cinemas' https://juliesbicycle.org/take-action/creative-climate-campaigns/cool-off-in-cult…

Cool Off in Culture venues | Julie's Bicycle
Our map shows you cultural venues offering a free space to rest and recharge during a heatwave - from museums and galleries, to libraries and cinemas.

AI4LAM @… 's Fantastic Futures 2026 conference programme is looking great! So many topics and speakers packed into a couple of days: https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures

Menschen haben nur begrenzte psychische Kapazität, dauerhafte Angst zuzulassen. Sie neigen schnell zur Relativierung von Bedrohungen, zu grundlosem Optimismus und gehen angesichts der Katastrophe über zu business as usual. Das war bei der NSDAP so, es ist bei Trump so, und gerade jetzt sieht man es auch bei der #AfD und unserem Umgang mit ihr.

Erling Haaland is a legend: "Books give so many more people the chance to dream big, see new possibilities and find their own path."
(Slightly old news) Footballer donates ancient Viking book to Norway - BBC Newsround https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/cq8wqwkdj98o

Erling Haaland: Footballer donates ancient Viking book to Norway
Man City's 'goal-machine' Haaland has donated an ancient Viking book to his hometown in Norway.

there are 4 #ants
🐜🐜🐜🐜
https://www.kennethdegraff.com/swarm

Wenn man jahrzehntelang *jeglichen* Reformbedarf leugnet und jede Reform verschleppt, blockiert, oder von innen heraus zerstört ("offene Feldschlacht"), hat das den ungemeinen Vorteil, dass man danach dann ungerechte und schlechte Reformen dem Volk verkaufen kann unter Macher-Slogans wie "jede Reform ist besser als Nichtstun", "wir müssen alle den Gürtel enger schnallen", oder "Wir packen es an, um die Faschisten zu halbieren" (rofl). Der Fachbegriff d…

More #DH2026 travel tips - you need an arrival card even if on UK etc passport. Do it online or ask on the flight.
The bus from the airport to Daejeon / Daejeoncheongsa was easy to find. Looks like it runs regularly.
Google Translate with pre-downloaded Korean and translating photos also helps!

Tja, für die #Digitalisierung an Schulen muss eben Geld in die Hand genommen werden!
#FediLZ #Schule

A great example of optical music recognition (OMR) used to convert old sheet music into digital formats that could then be played through synthesisers: Bringing Forgotten Music Back to Life with Optical Music Recognition https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/22/br

Ach, würde diese Regierung doch nur Dienstwagen und Agrardiesel ebenso "technologieoffen fördern", wie sie das bei Wärmepumpen und Familien tut. "Ideologie" sind aber immer die anderen.

I love that this includes 'What is Benchmarking and Why Should You Care?'
RISE-UNIBAS/humanities_data_benchmark: LLM Benchmark Suite for Humanities Data https://github.com/RISE-UNIBAS/humanities_data_benchmark

GitHub - RISE-UNIBAS/humanities_data_benchmark: LLM Benchmark Suite for Humanities Data
LLM Benchmark Suite for Humanities Data. Contribute to RISE-UNIBAS/humanities_data_benchmark development by creating an account on GitHub.

Heute morgen mit mehreren Firmen, die Wärmepumpen einbauen, telefoniert. Alle irgendwo zwischen kompletter Ahnungslosigkeit und nackter Panik, weil zig Kunden ihre Aufträge stornieren. Erinnerungen an die Altmaier-Aktion 2012 und den schnell herbeigeführten Tod der Solarindustrie werden wach. Es ist immer die "wirtschaftsfreundliche" CDU, die ganze Industriezweige vernichtet.

'I had thought at one time that as AI chatbot technology improved, hallucinations would become rarer, but I now sense that creative hallucination is fundamental to its design. It is, after all, called “generative AI,” not “analytic” or “bibliographic AI.”'
AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine — History News Network https://www.…

AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.

'What changed from the abstract, and why' is the most Digital Humanities slide ever. So many presentations sharing honestly what didn't work as expected or yield useful results. This one is by Jiwoo Choi (I think) https://dh-daejeon.vercel.app/abs/65?q=Newspaper
(Her…

Die Vorbereitungen für meinen Workshop für Informatiklehrkräfte laufen auf Hochtouren. Lehren und Lernen, indem man eine agentische #KI auf einem #RaspberryPi nicht nur laufen lässt, sondern sie ausspioniert!

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@flup/117245951831507868
I hate hate hate companies messaging on WhatsApp instead of texting. I should be free to ignore WA messages until I have time for whatever non-vital chat is waiting there. Providing a phone number for updates i…

Interactive AI Literacy Framework - an EC / OECD production: https://ailiteracyframework.org
With my eternal interest in giving people agency over shaping AI, I love seeing headings like 'Improve AI systems to address and promote human well-being and societal benefit'

AI Literacy Framework for Primary & Secondary Education
Empower learners for the age of AI with the AILit Framework—a joint EC & OECD initiative, supported by Code.org and international experts.

"...also ich rede ja inzwischen nur noch mit Leuten mit einer besseren signal-to-noise ratio. Bens ist nicht optimal, deshalb hab ich den gemutet."
#ÖPVNleaks

Kim Hyeon's Call to Action for Digital Humanists - 3 Missions for Digital Humanists
1. Design Al-collaborative humanities research methodologies.
2. Build public Al research environments for humanists.
3. Establish new educational frameworks for future scholars.
#DH2026

Man bekommt nicht den Eindruck, dass Ulrich Siegmund wirklich regieren möchte.
Das echte Leben ist eben kein TikTok Reel und ein Parlament keine russische Clickfarm.

Die #PISA Ergebnisse wären doch ein guter Anlass, noch einmal über die Bildungspolitik der AfD zu sprechen. Besonders mit ihren Wählern.

If you're dreaming of your trip to #DH2027 in South Korea at the end of the month, this reading list https://2026.ifla.org/read-busan/ and playlist

Read Busan - IFLA | WLIC 2026
Preparing for your participation for WLIC 2026 this August? We've curated a list of books to help prepare!

Kabinettsumbau? "Weitere Veränderungen"? Ich lasse vorsichtshalber schon mal diese Foto hier... #merz

Q: What did OpenAI discover?
A: Rosalind Franklin's notes
Did I get that right?

"Paradigmenwechsel"? Wir hatten uns doch auf diese Nomenklatur geeinigt:
🔵 "Transformation"
🟢 "Disruption"
🟡 "Paradigmenwechsel"
🟠 "neue Ära"
🔴 "puh"
🟣 ⬅️ <Sie befinden sich hier>
⚫ "FUCK"
⚪ ...

On Friday morning: OCR post-correction using LLMs with speakers from EPFL, Mistral AI, BnF, British Library
Network Group “AI in Libraries” Webinars 2026 – The Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) https://www.cenl.org/network-group-ai-in-libraries-webinars-2026…

'How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian': Use AI to explore. Use libraries to verify. Use your brain to evaluate.
(Do people really cite articles they haven't read, as in the opening story?)
https://www.llrx.com/2025/12/how-to-spot-a

Remembering that classic song Madonna wrote about Bill Oddie as news of his death breaks: https://rathergood.com/2017/01/26/madonna-loves-bill-oddie/

Madonna Loves Bill Oddie
A classic rathergood misheard lyric. You can get the song here

LwM output! 'We present a dataset of text from English-language newspaper articles that describe some sort of accident involving machinery. The articles were annotated by volunteers on Zooniverse between 2019 and 2023. The articles were selected from over 20 newspaper titles published between 1835 and 1920.' https://doi.org/10.23636/xrk4-45…

Lose yourself in glorious storytelling about the history of carefully chosen colours https://storiedcolors.com
Hat tip Laura L. Carlson's https:…

Storied Colors
Storied Colors: named colors with documented histories.

How many senior tech folk are honestly like 'I'm in this picture and I don't like it'?
'a lot of people who started out as developers are thrilled to get their hands dirty again with a bit of vibe coding – that using genAI makes them feel more in control of a tech stack that’s got away from them, perhaps even makes them feel younger and more dynamic'

The Sports Car Theory of LLM Adoption
If LLMs make decision makers feel stupid, maybe they'll stop using them?