Prompt yourself. From the blank page, ask yourself a question. Who is this for? What do you want them to feel? You may want to go prompt the model—the LLM—from the desert of your blank page. But don’t. Prompt yourself!
#promptyourself
#blankpage
Hey mail art friends! And printing press nerds! And 1990s nostalgics! Check out “SLEEPY HOLLOW, 1998,” a Story Delivered to Your Mailbox on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/jay...
Full disclosure: this project is co-created by my amazing sister @meganwesterby.bsky.social
#mailart
A propos of nothing… this image is not AI, but the individual is a doctor (and Jesus).
Just a perfectly normal fourteenth-century manuscript illumination for your feed…
#medieval #medievalart #memes #history #art
Swinging your hammer more than anyone else doesn’t build better houses. Or write meaningful words.
More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/t...
A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me
And is this now just the world we live in?
Is this AI altered image meant only to be seen from a distance? To blend into the background of your Google Maps browsing?
They have other locations. This must have been a staged photo for an opening, and they decided to make everyone smile more?
WE LOVE POENERS. IRL, this says WE LOVE WIENERS. They sell hot dogs. This is the Dog Haus.
In the distance, one smiling face seems to betray the uncanny valley of the others.
The lead marketing image is surreal AI slop. The restaurant is real, it exists, and people definitely can sit at those tables and outside at the patio. But someone decided to turn up the dial on expressiveness. EVERYONE MUST BE SMILING BIGGER. Did they know? Did they sign a waiver?
A fast casual burgers and dogs place opened up in my neighborhood, the Dog Haus maps.app.goo.gl/4VUrL22LKHH5...
Insane smiles, too much food, “WE LOVE POENERS”. What’s happening here?
I don’t want to live in the AI Dog Haus (a thread 🧵)
"The Index of American Design wrapped up in the 1940s, but Braciale and her students wonder: What if it kept going?"
#IndexofAmericanDesign
www.nga.gov/stories/arti...
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...
“We spent decades trying to tear down the walled gardens around content and criticizing publishers for locking away knowledge. Now, the predatory nature of AI scraping is forcing us to build our own walls.” From Rosalyn Metz at The Digital Shift open.substack.com/pub/rosalynm...
"The paradigm, not the palace, becomes the problem."
Pamela Patton's essay "Is Spain “Different”? Self-Segregation, Exclusion, and the Future of Medieval Iberian Studies" is a must read in a superb Speculum centennial issue.
@pamelapatton.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Index fans! "Towards a Linked Open Index: Reconciling Museum Records to Wikidata for Index of American Design Constituents" by Abigail Foster, Samantha Norling, and me, in the Journal of Open Humanities Data doi.org/10.5334/johd...
#indexofamericandesign
#federalartproject
#linkedopendata
#wikidata
Pluribus is a fantastic TV show and I’m a fan. And I just realized the premise was captured in one legendary Star Trek story — Tuvix.
#pluribus
#tuvix
#startrekvoyager
Add the library and we have three walled cities?
Our new data article explores funding trends in art history over the past 60 years with Wikidata facilitating cross-institutional collaboration, with @qwesterby.bsky.social and Lidia Ferrara, published in Journal of Open Humanities Data
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
#ArtHistory
Have you ever been inordinately upset with yourself for losing one glove from a pair you really liked?
More reason to steer towards small AI models, that you can run on your own computer.
Fantastic opportunity for a senior art historian of premodern art or architecture 👀
Applications for fellowships in art history at many institutions are open this fall. Read a short blog post at HistPhil that I wrote with @nancyum.bsky.social on "Taking the Long View: Gauging the Impact of Residential Fellowships in Art History over the Decades." histphil.org/2025/09/08/t...
I'm always looking for new videos to introduce digital humanities at the beginning of the semester. Most are usually too specialist or lecture-y. But this video essay by @tesstess.bsky.social, "Digital Humanities, or: The Broken Record of Everything," nails it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Nn...
You did all three nevers!
I went over just to peek at the comments. Yikes.