Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

Wunderbare Rezension von @peertrilcke.bsky.social zu Sybille Krämers "Stachel des Digitalen". Die #DigitalHumanities besitzen die Expertise; eine öffentliche intellektuelle Einordnung (von sich selbst, von Digitalität/Geisteswissenschaften, vom Einfluss von genAI) überlassen sie anderen.

“You see the go-fast-but-also-meh-whatever vibe everywhere if you look for it.“
Interesting think-piece on Agentic AI and AI security. Guess we have never been closer to living in a Thomas Pynchon novel before.

6,000 execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom : Survey says 80% of firms see no gains from the tech

Also, this. The lack of productivity boost from AI has been well covered on Bluesky, certainly. It's just odd that it can *feel* like a boost. But every time it's tested, this loss is reported.

www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/a...

Awesome Ryan! „Babbage's Dream“ is a banger!

📢 DHC Lecture mit Johan Fredrikzon
🗓 07.01.2026 | 🕕 18:15 Uhr
📍 FU Berlin Seminarzentrum, Raum L 116

🗣️ Human as Medium
Vortrag von Johan Fredrikzon (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) zu KI, Automatisierung und der Rolle des Menschen als „Medium“.
🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/pr...

Now Hiring: Associate Professor/Professor in Digital Humanities - CDH Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) is currently recruiting for an Associate Professor/Professor in Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. The appointment may be made a...

ICYMI: We are hiring an Associate/Full Professor in Digital Humanities at @camdighum.bsky.social. App deadline Sep 21. The position is for Deputy Director of CDH, and eventually Director on rotational basis. Please circulate/apply and let me know if you have any Qs! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...

Generative AI exists because of the transformer The technology has resulted in a host of cutting-edge AI applications — but its real power lies beyond text generation

Perhaps still the best general purpose explainer of how an LLM works and the one I give to students. Here’s why I like it (short🧵): ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

A table and hands of players holding playing cards.

Faust beats Hamlet! 🃏💥

Our research group @temporal-communities.de was visited by two 11th grade English courses from Arndt-Gymnasium Dahlem for a "Battle of the Plays" tournament!

www.temporal-communities.de/news/2025/ba...

Rules of play & ordering options:
battle-of-the-plays.github.io

#DraCor

Logo of the DraCor Summit 2025, designed by Mark Schwindt.

Picture of the keynote speaker of the upcoming DraCor Summit, Clarisse Bardiot. Source for the picture is her personal website clarissebardiot.info.

We're very happy to welcome Clarisse Bardiot (@univrennes2.bsky.social) as our keynote speaker at the #DraCor Summit! Join us on Mon, 1 Sep 2025, 18:00 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.

summit.dracor.org/opening_keyn...

Remember to register for the Summit (it's free).

summit.dracor.org/registration

⚡Nationalism has reshaped and destabilized the world. Is its rise today a contradiction to globalization, or part of it? In the new #AskDifferent podcast episode, historian @mgoebel.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social explores the deep roots of the concept. www.einsteinfoundation.de/podcast

Hey, are you a researcher at FU Berlin? Reach out to be added here: go.bsky.app/LA6eFFt

Ok, Antrittsvorlesung: am Di 21.01.2025, 18:00 c.t. @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Anmeldung hier:
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we02/institu...

I'm so excited for this. As @ryancordell.bsky.social says, Dan Evans has done a terrific job, with the assistance of Ben Galewsky in Illinois computing. Thanks also to @dennmis.bsky.social and Freie Universität Berlin, who hosted the hackathon that gave us an additional push.

Why You Should Apply to Be Our First Research and Reference Librarian

Data & Society is hiring a rsch + ref librarian to help them "figure out better methods for making [their] rsch visible, discoverable, + durable" — and to create new methods of repository building to foreground the work of "lay experts, radical thinkers, community organizers, activist scholars"

How do we make research data from Digital Humanities more findable? Hackathon on annotation and enrichment of research data. Looking forward to two days of interdisciplinary work! @ryancordell.bsky.social @dasmiq.bsky.social www.ada.fu-berlin.de/events/avh-h...
#ResearchData #DigitalHumanities

How do we make research data from Digital Humanities more findable? Hackathon on annotation and enrichment of research data. Looking forward to two days of interdisciplinary work! @ryancordell.bsky.social @dasmiq.bsky.social www.ada.fu-berlin.de/events/avh-h...
#ResearchData #DigitalHumanities

Netherland (novel) - Wikipedia

Interesting! Have you read en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherl... Cricket in the US

A reminder: we’re hosting a hack-a-thon at the Ada Lovelace Center for DH at the Freie Universität in Berlin July 8-9, focused on the reuse/layering/interoperability of DH datasets—we have a nice group already but would be happy to have a few more! www.ada.fu-berlin.de/events/avh-h...

I'm looking forward to joining @ryancordell.bsky.social , @dennmis.bsky.social and others at the Ada Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities in Berlin in July. Sign up if you want to help build some research data infrastructure!

QS World Ranking 2025: Die Freie Universität Berlin gehört zu den vier besten Universitäten in Deutschland

#QS-Rangliste 2025 stuft die #FUBerlin als eine der vier besten Universitäten in Deutschland ein!

🌐 Im weltweiten Vergleich kommt die Freie Universität Berlin auf Platz 97.

Alle Infos: www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...

July 8-9 we’re hosting a 2-day hackathon at Freie Universität Berlin to start building a tool that overlays derived research data—like ours in Viral Texts—with its source data collections—like Chronicling America—would love to have some DH/digital libraries folks www.ada.fu-berlin.de/events/avh-h...

This looks like a fascinating way to teach an AI grad seminar—I’m particularly thinking about in my iSchool context—library/archival studies as a framework for AI

GitHub - dasmiq/cs7180-sp2024: Special Topics in AI: Artificial Intelligence as an Archival Science Special Topics in AI: Artificial Intelligence as an Archival Science - dasmiq/cs7180-sp2024

Now that the semester’s wound up, I wanted to share the readings Giulia Taurino and I and the students in our seminar on Artificial Intelligence as an Archival Science put together. We had a great time, they wrote some good papers, and hopefully this will be useful. github.com/dasmiq/cs718...

D*HC Lecture mit Ryan Cordell

If you happen to be near Berlin—I’m giving my first talk of the summer next Wednesday, May 15, at Freie’s Dahlem Humanities Center. "The Scissors, the Paste-Pot, & the Large Language Model" will ask what C19 newspaper reprinting might teach us about LLMs & vice versa www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/pr...

Welcome to Berlin!

About to talk about Viral Texts in Berlin with @ryancordell.bsky.social Thanks to @dennmis.bsky.social Freie Universität and Zuse Institute!

@ryancordell.bsky.social &
David Smith on the learnings on small data from the Viral Text Project. In their talk „All Datasets are small (if you zoom far enough)
#smallDataAnalysis #DH-Math
mathplus.de/topic-develo...

⚡️ We just released a major new DraCor update (dracor.org), the first version of the DraCor API we consider stable (1.0.0).

Blogpost:
weltliteratur.net/streamlining...

A joint effort 🦾 by Digital Humanities folks at University of Potsdam, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, CLS INFRA, EXC2020.

„Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli“ 😳 arxiv.org/pdf/2307.117... better be kind to your overLLM !