Ci sono momenti in cui capisci che sei diventata grande. Momenti che arrivano senza preavviso e ti mettono davanti ad una consapevolezza che non avevi mai conosciuto prima. Per me questo momento è arrivato poco fa, mentre stava prendendo vita, davanti ai miei occhi increduli, una delle peggiori #RicetteDaNonFareMai di sempre. E io sono riuscita a buttarla via.

#EssereGrandy #PrimeVolte

This is the last month of activity for the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp). September 30, 2026, will be the last day of tagging and updates.

The Harvard instance of #TagTeam -- the #OpenSource tagging platform on which OATP ran -- will start winding down soon after. But the code will remain open for all who might want to upgrade it and host their own instances elsewhere.

My 2+ years of effort to keep OATP and TagTeam alive were ultimately unsuccessful.
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP

The OATP social-media posts on Mastodon, Bluesky, and X/Twitter will remain online.

On October 1, 2026, we'll save the OATP dataset in CSV format, put it in Harvard's digital preservation system, and put it in #Dataverse for access and use outside TagTeam. I'll import it into a Google Sheet for spreadsheet-level querying.

I'll share the Dataverse and spreadsheet URLs as soon as they're ready. Stay tuned for those details.

OATP home
http://bit.ly/o-a-t-p

TagTeam home
http://bit.ly/tagteam-harvard

#OpenAccess #OpenData

@bjn @mekkaokereke this series is soooo good.

Bayeux Tapestry loan could pave way for Parthenon Sculptures deal, says Cullinan;
British Museum director hopeful for ‘tangible progress’ in long-running repatriation dispute.
https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2026/09/bayeux-tapestry-loan-could-pave-way-for-parthenon-sculptures-deal-says-cullinan/ #globalmuseum #museums #BritishMuseum

@ireneista @mxchara @zzt i moved to linux not because I believe it's a superior operating system (in many ways it is dumber than NT), but because I believed that it's design and culture at least gave the tools and responsibility to make my own choices.

unfortunately, they want so badly to be a corporation even when they aren't literally being funded and staffed by one that there is increasingly less difference

I'm having a second interview for an awesome job next week! Wish me luck! 🤞🎉

Maybe you are excited about GTA6 and maybe you aren't, but it will likely be a cultural monument in at least the following way: there will probably never be a cultural artifact of this size and scale made without genAI slop in it again

This is what a supercar was like a century ago

When the average car could only do 40 mph, this Bentley could break 100.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09/this-is-what-a-supercar-was-like-a-century-ago/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@michaelgraaf Perhaps they can, but I wonder if google won't do the same as Windows updates have been doing for the last while. You think you disable copilot and its shortcut in your taskmanager/startup, when next Windows updates, it's right back. You change audio settings because you have certain soundcards for certain things, when windows updates, those changes have been undone. I have reset two computers recently thinking it's a fault in the registry, then set my audio interfaces up again like I want them, and the next Windows update just threw away the configurations, and set it right back to what Microsoft thinks is better for you. I'm glad there are currently ways you can disable the smart LLM features, but I'm wondering at the same time, for how long you'll still be allowed to do that. Won't google take the same steps as Microsoft and just delete your configurations at the next gmail/google update? I'm thinking the world is moving in one direction regardless of what ordinary people want. Debien acquiring AI is a very real proof of that. Linux guys were always free from AI and because the software is open-source they thought they might remain that way forever...surprise surprise...even Debien can change its mind. For that's where the money lies, I think. I have no idea which AI they are putting in, still...I think it proves my thinking that the higher-ups, make the world turn how they will...and the rest of us just has to follow whether we like it or not. But amidst all of that, I still am happy to a degree for I still have an income, even if most of my time is spent chasing CVs through an AI to get referral CVs for the columbus AI-Powered Database. There may come a time when I might be replaced by an automated system, and then I'll be in trouble for as blind individual SASSA disability grant is only 2490 or nearly 2900 if you get the grant/foster care addon like I do. I don't think even the poorest of poor can much make a living on 2900 in today's world. So even if I think that control structure just gained a new layer by adding AI, for the moment I'm still in a job/still have something to do...so I'll do whatever I can to help individuals lower down the chain than myself, but I'm not the highest either. Even in my own household/family I sometimes feel like being the underdog, but even underdogs can do stuff that higher-ups are not aware of, sometimes.

Run. Bum. I do not wanna. Running is insane thing to have to do just to, well, keep sane I suppose. We live in a dichotomous world. Upside down land. Call me neB. I really really don't want to run tonight. What I want is carbohydrate. And a lot of it. And also alcohol. And cigarettes. And oily things. And drugs. Whyyyyy. Why are we programmed thus? It is so terribly unfair. I am the most put-upon person, possibly ever. No one understands my troubles.