The authentic voice?

We’ll soon find out what is truly special about human writing

Read my latest essay in Psyche, here:
psyche.co/ideas/well-s...

#writing #ai #genai #llms #largelanguagemodels #aiwriting

Wonderful evening at @mtu.ie’s annual Lord Mayor’s Dinner. @marygalvin.bsky.social

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Really enjoyed today’s guest lecture by Sharon Marcus’ to UCC’s School of English & #DigitalHumanities, “Character Reference: A Structured Approach to Literary Characters”. Organised and introduced by @claireconnolly.bsky.social.

I’m increasingly confident that any plans for the Cork Luas will be ruined by NIMBYism.

Of course, when they do eventually settle on a route, I look forward to using it to access the events centre. 🙃

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose.

AI will never fill that void.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

Silence is not neutral and is now unforgivable. Ongoing silence, especially by those who claim to focus on ethics, social justice and the politics of the past, is indefensible.

Vol. 7, No. 2/3: Feb./Mar. 2026 · Reviews in Digital Humanities Vol. 7, No. 2/3 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Univers...

Don't miss the latest issue of #ReviewsInDH! @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I are thrilled to bring you a slew of great projects drawn from our open submissions process. Enjoy! And submit your own work for review. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v7-n2-3

Call for Chapters:
Minimal Computing for Social & Cultural Heritage

Link to call:
jamesosullivan.github.io/MinimalCompu...

This collection will explore how minimal computing can be applied to social/cultural heritage.

We welcome full chapters as well as shorter pieces.

Funded @researchireland.ie

America's new "Golden Age"...

I think we’re increasingly seeing ChatGPT reviews. And if you tell the LLM to “find something wrong”, it might be BS, but it will do what it’s told. I recently got a review of a piece of writing and it was so painfully obvious that the work had just been thrown into ChatGPT. Sad.

Great 2-year postdoc for a digital humanities/I school/computational culture scholar to work on computer vision + film/TV w/ great colleagues @ Distant Viewing Lab @nolauren.bsky.social (U of Richmond). These guys are doing cutting edge stuff, apply! richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff_...

We laugh at how unutterably pathetic he is (me as much as anyone) but if you think Trump won’t sacrifice countless American soldiers’ lives to postpone the public humiliation of his epic failure in Iran, then you really haven’t been paying attention…

Precisely, not only that they don't work, but never will work. (As you say.)

The AI detection delusion AI detection software can do a lot of damage through misplaced certainty

AI detection software does not work, which I thought everyone knew until I saw so many people running Peter Vandermeersch’s recent apology through tools like GPTZero. AI detectors cause as much harm as the misuse they claim to prevent—stop using them!

jamescosullivan.substack.com/p/the-ai-det...

A lot of people won’t see the harm in this, but consider how many decisions you make every day, each one based on what you know. Now, between you and ALL the info on the web, there is software designed to mimic human language, controlled by a firm whose goal is to take your data and sell ad space.

"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

With all the commentary around Peter Vandermeersch, it’s a good time to remind everyone that AI detection software *does not work*. Journos running his apology through detection software shows a complete lack of understanding of their limitations. Making claims based on them is negligent.

Meta needs to lay off people to juice their balance sheet and cause the stock market loves layoffs.
"AI" is at best just the thing that allows you to fire people without having to admit you overhired or have no strategic vision.

Sorry for your loss, Stuart.

It is not an extreme position to want to be able to think for yourself, to write by just typing words in, to learn things from other people or to make art with your hands.

Values-Led Governance of Generative AI in Irish Higher Education: An Interpretive Analysis of National Focus-Group Findings

journal.ilta.ie/index.php/te...

New paper by @colinlowry.ie and me in Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning.

#genAI #generativeAI #LLMs #highereducation #highered

The free "DIY Web Archiving" zine by me, @ilya.webrecorder.net @bitarchivist.net @akijas.bsky.social @quinnanya.me covers a friendly (even for kids!) intro to using Webrecord (+other methods) to preserve things you care about on the web: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...

ReplayWeb.page • Webrecorder World-class serverless playback of web archives directly in your browser.

Webrecorder's browser-based viewer for archival preserved versions of websites ⬇️ & the GitHub repo is github.com/webrecorder/... (WACZ = Web Archive Collection Zipped file format.)

Thanks @ilya.webrecorder.net, I finally replaced my static archival version of InfiniteUlysses.com (participatory+public annotatable reading for Joyce's weird novel Ulysses, built as my '15 Literature/DH dissertation) w/a Webrecorder interactive playback of its WACZ preservation file.

Two 10-year lecturerships in #DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie.

Requirements to teach at the Communications University of China in Beijing on a new joint BA programme.

For information package including full details of the post, selection criteria and application process see ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 094538).

This gives me hope that even if all those MPs - with dollars in their eyes from what they can personally gain from US Big Tech’s ravaging of human creativity - vote for a data mining exception to copyright, the Lords ain’t having it - and the boom will be over by the time any dust settles?