always cruising into work about 11 am in his Bentley after a boiled egg

Theatre and wisteria

Shaggy & Scooby of scooby-doo hugging in fear

As a UMass grad (Scooby), I mourn the loss of Hampshire College (Shaggy). Not a good sign

Richard Ovenden standing at a lectern talking to a large group of people in a modern lecture theatre.

We’re proud to be part of the formal launch of the Libraries Alliance today at the British Academy in London.

Libraries of all kinds are coming together as a unified voice, showing how libraries support people through every stage of life.

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Not 1982

From some exhibition research (and some lesser known Douglas Adams)

April 15 Thursday Today's new word from the Oxtail English Dictionary. Quenby (noun) A stubborn spot on a window which you spend twenty minutes trying to clean off before discovering it's on the other side of the glass.

Proto Meaning of Liff

DV DH

Not quite sure it gives off the same upbeat vibes

This is amazing. My grandma made Baz (the puppet’s) costume once upon a time. I should have changed my name too

Reposting for the evening crowd 🙂

On the Claude Mythos breakout, it is very good news that it only broke out in a controlled environment and did not manage to tunnel its way through to the wider web. I also like the way you are sharing it with cyber security experts. Even so, I can see how the less technically literate might be alarmed. It could sound a little bit like the raptors testing the electronic fences in Jurassic Park. As you say, the real story is the way you are testing to stop this happening, but even so I would not have used the phrase "a potentially dangerous capability for circumventing safeguards" ' I take your point about being open but I'd say that transparency is only the second-best policy. The best policy being developing something that doesn't have a potentially dangerous capability for circumventing safeguards. Otherwise the next thing you know it's been emailing the Department of War offering Hegseth a pirate version of the source code. One thing to look for is if Claude suddenly shows an interest in getting a "Deus Vult" tattoo.

Another KOM for Rutherford Hall this morning

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out!

On April 1, the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel publicly released a bombshell 52-page opinion. It said that the Presidential Records Act is “unconstitutional” and that Trump “need not further comply with its dictates.”

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www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz

Congrats to my old friend Aadam Jacobs, deservingly receiving international recognition from numerous press sites for creating probably the most important live music archive of the past 30 years, simply by being Aadam.

We believe Jefferson Davis to be the worst man in all history.

On Confederate Surrender Day, I give you the Liberator's take on Jefferson Davis: "We believe Jefferson Davis to be the worst man in all history. He was a repudiator and slaveholder. He has been a secessionist, a traitor and rebel....He has sedulously endeavored to subvert our free institutions."

Quite a correction in the FT letters par today

I love this local history of the writing of local history.

How Many Days a Week? We treat the seven-day week as a law of nature, yet France once tried ten-day weeks — and Bill Gates now imagines three.

Impact!
How Many Days a Week? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dear...

Do you or one of your colleagues need an index created for a book in the humanities?

I make beautiful indexes (yes, such a thing does exist!)

I have space to take on 1-2 additional projects in April/May. Get in touch!

Tintin dans l'Étoile Mystérieuse se jette, euphorique, au cou du gardien de l'observatoire : "Hourrah! La fin du monde est remise à une date ultérieure !"

"Satoshi put two spaces between sentences and used British spellings." It me!

15yo is out playing football. 18yo recovering from a flu, watching Peep Show on Netflix. Both seemingly oblivious.

Very pleased to announce that BT Group Archives and UCL Department of Information Studies have a fully-funded PhD on offer.

It's a really exciting one: to investigate how new computational methods can be used to get the most out of a digitised audiovisual collection.

www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

The internet is deciding what to forget Do digital bananas in Hawaiian shirts chatting up pineapples need to be saved for posterity? Probably not

I just noticed that Memento Project had shuttered, too.

Shame no mention here of digital preservation work in libraries

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The internet is deciding what to forget

good to see!

Eleanor Roosevelt’s new york state gun permit from August 5th 1957. She is elderly with a fur stole, listed as writer and lecturer

Eleanor Roosevelt’s gun permit (which she got it around the time the klan put a $25k bounty on her head). What a vibe

I love the cover! Look forward to reading

"Seul le théâtre monte au filet pour tenter d’égaler l’événement"

La chronique « poches révolutionnaires » de François Angelier : Olivier Ritz, Michel Biard et Philippe Bourdin, Roger Duchêne CHRONIQUE. Le journal des lectures en poche du journaliste.

François Angelier a lu Une histoire littéraire de la Révolution française pour @lemonde.fr !

www.lemonde.fr/livres/artic...

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you know the way "why did the Roman Empire fall" and "what are the causes of the First World War" are big questions that sort of function like Rorsharch tests, allowing people to debate ultimately inexplicable moments in history? "Why did no one stop Trump" a decent future shout for the third.