#digitization

[stahsm]

Digitization by nocellcoverage

[jkresearch]

Clean blue sketch traditional line-art to color it digital with in Krita

[rwatimes]

Moody’s: US banks map staged digitization, may reshape crypto rails

)Major shifts toward a digitized financial architecture are edging closer to mainstream adoption, according to a forthcoming Moody’s Ratings assessment. In conversations with U.S. banks and other market intermediaries, the credit-ratings firm found a common view: tokenization wil...

➤ Moody's anticipates a two-stage adoption of tokenization by US banks, starting slow and accelerating to a tipping point. ➤ Major banks and intermediaries are actively building capabilities and participating in pilots, preparing for increased demand. ➤ The pace of adoption presents three potential futures: steady growth, constrained growth, or rapid disruption, with significant implications for incumbents.

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Fifteenth and Last Week - 4/24/26

Hello All,

Sorry about the very late post, I have been very busy preparing for finals all of last week and this weekend. Though, maybe it was also because I didn't want this internship to come to a close, as this will be the final blog post for it. I'm overall very satisfied with what I was able to accomplish, but there is still some work to be done, as we haven't yet completed the last book, but when that is done, the internship will be finally and completely done.

Friday 4/24/2026 was the UCF Department of History's Internship Showcase held on zoom. Of course my team was a part of this showcase, which meant we had to present a slideshow discussing each of our skills learned, challenges, and rewards. To that end, we met on Tuesday 4/21/26 to both hash out what each of our roles are and get a start on the presentation proper. Of course, we had some shenanigans involving messing around in the presentation, which I will give a photo of, but it was overall a very productive meeting, and would also be one of the last times all of us met together, excluding the internship showcase itself. During said showcase, I believe we did excellently, especially since we had met before our time slot to rehearse all of our parts. The only thing that could've gone better was my handling of the slideshow itself since there was a slight delay between me going to the next slide and the slide itself showing up on the zoom meeting. Overall though, I'm very happy with how the showcase went, I also learned much about all of the other internship projects happening within UCF.

Overall, this semester has been a massive learning experience, and not just in my classes, as I learned through this internship both what I must do as a future historian and what I might want to do in the future. I also had the great privilege of working with a fantastic and dedicated team, which got along with each other swimmingly. However, I am the only junior on the team, with there being a grad student and the rest being seniors. This means I will most likely never work with them again, something that added a bittersweet note to the end of this project.

That is all for this Internship, Goodbye All!

[half-finished-half-fantasies]

It finally got around to updating its WIP fic. It is quite cathartic to write about an abused service bot while working retail simultaneously

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Fourteenth Week - 4/17/2026

Hello All,

Due to the approaching end of the semester, and the resulting mountain of homework I had, I was only able to come in on Friday, for around 3 hours. During those three hours, however, I managed to scan and upload 106 pages, which, combined with the rest of the teams scans, is hopefully on pace for finishing the last book we have. Since we have already completed half of the book, with my pages being from 355 to 460, this seems very possible. Along with this, we have the internship showcase next Friday, which will have both our team and the teams of every other intern project do a presentation of what they did this semester. While we haven't yet started working on our presentation, we did agree to meet Tuesday to do so, as well as coordinate everything else we need to get done. In terms of what I scanned, I saw one particular story that piqued my interest, which was detailing the merger of multiple different national rail companies. What I found most interesting about this is that it declares that these mergers are a peril to the nation. As it turns out, that was true, as the resulting railroad conglomerates had a complete monopoly on the rails themselves, which resulted in the practical death of any passenger rail in the US. This is because these companies heavily prioritized their own cargo rail services, and, since they controlled the rails, meant that any passenger rail service had to give complete priority to any and all cargo rail passing through.

Besides that accurate prediction, there was one other thing I took a photo of, a recipe for casserole. This is because there have been multiple recipes throughout many issues and volumes of the newspaper, which I always appreciated. Not because I would use them myself, but so that these recipes were preserved, meaning historians can know what foods people ate during the 1950s and 60s, which is crucial to understanding the culture and general population at the time.

That's all for this week,

Goodbye All!

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Thirteenth Week - 4/10/26

Hello All,

This week was a particularly busy week for me, but I was able to go in today from 3pm to 6:30, where I scanned the rest of a volume. Each volume, which is its own individual book, covers a year, from July to July. We have already done 1-8, and with 9 being done, we only have one more before all of the volumes we have from New Smyrna are scanned, with the only thing needing to be done after that being metadata. While scanning, I encountered several funny and interesting things, with the biggest thing being the absolutely gargantuan size of one of the issues, that being for June 16th, 1960. It was, by my fairly rough estimate, around 50 pages, and it was nearly entirely advertisements. It was certainly interesting flipping page after page, and not seeing the end of the issue. An interesting story I found was one of a new kart track being opened, which seemed to be quite the news, as it was on both the front and second page of the issue. The opening race would also have 50 drivers, which I imagine would be very chaotic. Besides that, there were a few interesting ads and other drawings, which are attached below. Overall, this week was fairly productive despite the time limitations, and I managed to accomplish a lot while still ensuring quality and close attention That's all for this week, Goodbye All!