Here in NYS, I think public institutions need to see if state guidance changes, since we also have local mandates coming down...
In the meantime, here is the online version of the Federal Register's ADA Title II compliance extension
I thought this essay was spot-on in comparing vibe coding with gambling rushes and a “sinister flow state.” They’re not a staunch critic, but describe a disorienting experience quite well.
Btw my press funded a small study into best-practices for alt text for illustrations, especially of illustrations of art. The resulting guide is short and clear and available free to download.
What makes Pennsylvania perfect… @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @livgar.bsky.social of @datasociety.bsky.social on our latest Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 episode, “Data Centers Go Nuclear”.
Check out their latest piece in @newint.bsky.social.
newint.org/science-and-...
(w @emilymbender.bsky.social)
I’m sure the humanities faculty at Duke spend all their time wandering endlessly through the rows and rows of DDC, desperately confused by these old-fashioned ways. That’s why the humanities are so expensive - all those search and rescue missions to retrieve lost faculty aren’t cheap.
Ditto his comments on libraries
This story has everything, a focus on desal that led to overlooking other water sources, a city manager making $400K/yr saying don’t panic, a former water system manager saying residents should absolutely panic, and magical thinking: “The last hope to avert disaster was a 20- to 30-inch rainfall.”
The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!
«The user experience and applications of the technology may change, but the foundational incapacity for accountability, and the underlying ideological and material infrastructures of the AI industry, remain.» Great text by @eryk.bsky.social
Here we go again.
Excellent cover story of @thecontinent.org in 3 parts.
"The US-Europe love pact rekindles their colonial kink"
"This time around, the
colonisers have AI"
And: "The African
Union is paralysed"
Read it!
"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence."
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
"The Protocol distinguishes between retrieval-based AI systems, which keep source materials under organizational control, and general-purpose model training, which absorbs knowledge into model weights irreversibly." 📜
libraopen.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/...
@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.
The promise was always that digital humanities would be fully subsumed into the humanities - make the "digital" redundant. But the AI age has really accelerated the the "D" over the "H" in the field, causing big splits between "digital" and "public" humanities instead of "digital" vs "traditional"
Art History will continue to be seen as an elitist discipline if the public apparatuses for communicating it refuse to acknowledge the scholarship that has drawn attention to art's role in serving and subverting power.
Read the righteous review by Sherry Lindqiust here. hnanews.org/hnar/reviews...
Docs is an open-source alternative to Google Docs for collaborative writing, developed by a French-German government collaboration: impress-preprod.beta.numerique.gouv.fr/home/
Visual art media can be made accessible and tactile. The link here describes a photography exhibit that was made for folks with visual impairments, including tactile versions of the photographs with braille descriptions.
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Searching for any form of "magnus" followed by any noun—just one example of flexible pattern matching possible with LatinCy Readers `find_sents` call...
from this demo notebook: github.com/diyclassics/...
Beautiful thread from my ride-or-die @charliejane.bsky.social about the organization that our @humblebundle.com is benefitting. Buy some books (cheap!!) and help the amazing Miss Major Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center!
We have another exciting CFP! "Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemology & Computation examines noise across technical, social, and cultural domains, bringing together machine learning, critical AI studies, media theory and archaeology, art history, philosophy, and practice-based research."
Really looking forward to exploring this open access special issue of The Lion and the Unicorn dedicated to the intersection of Children’s Literature and Digital Humanities co-edited by @drfitzphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/56268
Omg, I have failed you!
University of Arizona Libraries is hiring for a RARE BOOK LIBRARIAN! 1st review of applications February 9, 2026.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
We have great collections and great people here. Not on the committee, happy to chat.
Proud to have Dine weaving in my personal collection, this recent video about weaving is really great and personal and moving: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWis...
Our tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Please share widely!
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
Paste any IIIF manifest → model classifies every page locally → see where illustrations appear.
Part of small-models-for-glam: small, efficient models for cultural heritage work.
Not everything needs GPT-4!
Try it: huggingface.co/spaces/small-models-for-glam/iiif-illustration-detector
happy to see Tressie encourage people to refuse AI.
when people ask me about AI, I give them permission to say no :)
(I even did the useless thing of putting it in my email signature lol)
