In nationally televised address, Melania asks people to stop looking at aerial photos of Barbra Streisand's house.

Forensics, cryptography, anonymity, stylometry, $$ - what a ride

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

(1/2) Delighted to announce that both I and my AI Humanities Lab co-PI Gabi Kirilloff have accepted positions as Assistant Professor of Computational Humanities at Carnegie Mellon's English dept starting Fall 26!

AI-SDM Seminar Series: Melanie Mitchell Investigating Abstract Reasoning in Humans and Machines Join us for our biweekly seminar series! Lunch is provided for in-person attendees! Ple...

I'm looking forward to visiting Carnegie Mellon University this week. I'll be giving a talk on 3/26 at noon at the AI Institute for Social Decision Making. For people in Pittsburgh, here's the link: events.cmu.edu/ai-sdm/event...

I don't know if there will be an option for virtual streaming.

I’m speaking in person tomorrow at CMU!

“Language Models as Cultural Technologies: Case Studies in Storytelling and Poetry”

And today at the University of Pittsburgh!

“Language Models and the Culture of Science: Adoption, Homogenization, and Policy”

hard to think of a better way to troll early modernists than to claim "400 years ago it never would have occurred to anybody to be introspective" 🤣

It's been a war crime for over four centuries.

doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

At the Cartesian Theater - Pittsburgh Review of Books A strange and hostile energy surrounds René Descartes in the scholarship of early modern English literature. Despite his status as one of the most important

“A strange and hostile energy surrounds René Descartes in the scholarship of early modern English literature.”

Read "At the Cartesian Theater" by Nathan Pensky @nathanpensky.bsky.social of @thirdpersonlimited.bsky.social.
pghrev.com/at-the-carte...

Videos of the depositions of Michael McDonald, Adam Wolfson, and DOGE staffers Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh are available in our playlist at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Totally. @claudia42.bsky.social inter alia are doing really smart work on this

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."

But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.

They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.

Commander Data sits beside a boy of around 12 years old, listening attentively

I had a shitty childhood

it's taboo to say it, you're really supposed to just have Had A Good Childhood and that's that

but when I was conceived, my mom was broke and 20 years old and had no education

and by the time I was eight, boy, was I going THROUGH IT

one afternoon I turned on the TV...

Frontiers | Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat culture as a variable to be...

I'm excited to be a co author on this new paper, "Computational Hermeneutics," with a bunch of other great scholars from the humanities + computer science. In it, we lay out concepts for evaluating gen AI's capacity for interpretation esp ambiguity, context, etc. www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

TONIGHT: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson begins a four-part online seminar on the Bible. The first class starts at 7:00 PM EST. Just a few hours left to sign up below https://go.nybooks.com/473gpMs

book jacket for Christopher Warren's Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680

Apropos of recent events, if you think international law is worthwhile and important and want to know more about its intellectual and literary history, I wrote a whole ass book about that, which you can find in most good academic libraries and also here www.amazon.com/Literature-N...

“This war is dumb and illegal.”

About sums it up. More current members of Congress should take note.

As someone who has spent 20 years funding incremental advances in digital tools for humanities research, the leaps we've seen in just the last year are incredible. (One example from Alex below, but many others in really hard areas like handwriting recognition.)

to clarify, I was just trying to be witty and didn’t intend to cast judgment (actually seems like a smart and interesting paper by @richardjeanso.bsky.social et al)

Slopaganda

The DOJ’s Epstein document interface isn’t neutral.
It lets you examine fragments in exquisite detail while making the totality unseeable—Jameson's classic problem of cognitive mapping, rendered as UX. Folks often forget that distant reading is how you see the forest when power insists on trees.

The DOJ’s Epstein document interface isn’t neutral.
It lets you examine fragments in exquisite detail while making the totality unseeable—Jameson's classic problem of cognitive mapping, rendered as UX. Folks often forget that distant reading is how you see the forest when power insists on trees.

Are people finding ways to get around the Akamai challenges on the DOJ Epstein files site?

O apostrophes…

[Job 📣] Are you curious about #AI applications in the #humanities? My Print and Probability research group (@print-and-prob.bsky.social) is hiring a postdoc! Come help us develop computational methods for identifying clandestine early modern printers!

cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

Hypothetically, if you were to want a tool that helped you turn any name or short phrase into a solo-cup-in-chain-link-fence message, told you exactly how many cups you'd need, etc., you could find that here molab.marimo.io/notebooks/nb...

Yep super grateful to @marimo.io for their molab platform

Hypothetically, if you were to want a tool that helped you turn any name or short phrase into a solo-cup-in-chain-link-fence message, told you exactly how many cups you'd need, etc., you could find that here molab.marimo.io/notebooks/nb...

So, hypothetically, if you were to make a solo-cup-in-chain-link-fence message over an overpass, you’d be putting in the letters backwards. And, again hypothetically, you might want a template for that.

Hypothetically.