I'm sorry Dave, I really need you to agree to these new terms and conditions.

Big news if you’re an American politics political scientist doing text as data

oh sure but when i run across the field naked it's "illegal"

This is a war based on lies

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life

how am I only just learning this stunningly apt word

Looking forward to the open source release, but it sounds like they’re treating model weights as static variables in code rather than data in an ML library, which means the Rust compiler can optimize 1000x better

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media The artificial-intelligence-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook conservative voters.

In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.

Humanities and AI Virtual Institute - Schmidt Sciences

Some colleagues have asked me about Schmidt Science's Humanities AI grant program, which has given significant funding to humanities researchers. They also have an open call for grant apps right now. This is a great funding opp for humanists; some thoughts: www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

Nodes, Edges, and the Historian’s Craft: Knowledge Graphs as Research Notes How moving from Word docs to network graphs transformed my research workflow and how LLMs made it possible.

Knowledge graphs are transforming my research methodology. Claude Code allows me to build knowledge graphs as I take notes from primary sources.

open.substack.com/pub/computat...

Republican leaders rushed a 2 AM vote to let the government spy on Americans without a warrant.

It’s good they failed.

Americans are rightfully afraid of government overreach. We need to prioritize protecting their personal data & not force bills through in the dark of night.

Tell your friends!

ach2026 24–26 June 2026, Virtual Conference

ACH 2026 registration is now open! ACH 2026 is virtual and welcomes all—faculty, students, alt-ac, community practitioners. This year's theme centers transnationalism and solidarity in the Americas, with bilingual participation in English and Spanish. June 24–26. Sign up: ach2026.ach.org

More perfect union: BREAKING: The Senate just passed the legislation allowing the devastation of the Boundary Waters. The motion passed 50-49, and now goes to Donald Trump’s desk.

Republicans just handed the Boundary Waters to a foreign corporation.

For the GOP, it’s foreign billionaires first, America last.

An image showing two YouTube embeds. One labeled "Section 230 Explained: A brief overview of Section 230 and why it matters" and the other saying "The Future of Content Moderation: Keynote on the challenges facing platforms." Both videos show "video unavailable" with a "watch on YouTube" link.

CLAUDE CODE JUST RICKROLLED ME. I'm working on a project where part of it will involve videos, and in building out the project it created a dummy page, with made up content (relevant to me!) with two video links pretending to be something else and BOTH WERE RICKROLLs.

Reptiles of a scale? (e.g. Anklyosaurs?) Hm. 🤔

Birds of a feather, so to speak? 😁

Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs. *ducks*

(They are my favorites on this list, we have a couple of specimens here in the Field.)

And no Archaeopteryx? Hm. 🦖 🦕 🦖 🦕

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) seeks a new Editor in Chief as well as an institutional host for @dhquarterly.bsky.social (DHQ). Initial expressions of interest are due by August 30th. See the CFP for more details: buff.ly/qpiypXq

Can confirm

Doing AI Differently | Culture × AI Workshop

I'll be at #ICML2026 on July 10-11 in Seoul to speak at the Workshop on Culture x AI: Evaluating AI as a Cultural Technology.

The workshop is currently accepting submissions, with humanities, ML, HCI, and social/cognitive sciences all welcome.

Submit papers by May 1! Join us in Seoul! 🇰🇷

Registration is open for ACH 2026, taking place virtually June 24–26! This year's theme centers transnationalism and solidarity in the Americas, with bilingual participation in English and Spanish. Register now: ach2026.ach.org

Seems increasingly likely that the humanities will specialize in an approach to culture that requires in-person presence and revels in the physicality of paper &c.

Not the main thing I do, but—it seems healthy? Likely good to have a space free of screens. Also it’s not bad to take pride

DOJ Rapid Response • O @DOJRR47 X.com Yesterday the Department of Justice filed a motion to vacate the convictions of several Americans who had received clemency from President Trump. This ends these years-long, Biden-era weaponized prosecutions. President Trump demanded we stop the two-tiered injustice—and we are delivering. No more rigged system. 1:32 PM • 4/15/26 • 6.7K Views

The individuals referenced here are adjudicated terrorists.

They were found guilty of conspiring to use force against their own government to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

A conservative, Trump-appointed judge applied terrorism enhancements to their sentences.

These are adjudged terrorists.

Second Voynich post: voynich.jtauber.com/posts/alphab...

I have never studied the mss seriously, but my initial thought looking at the script was that this was a version of a spoken language with lots of extra "syllables" (infixes?) thrown in for effect but not nec. reflecting anything semantic. Not sure how to isolate the signal from the noise though.

Pretty bummed about how 2/3 of our class uses X. Instagram was the winner, TikTok up there. Zero students on BlueSky.

The longer I spend in digital humanities, the more I am obsessively drawn to analog technologies and convinced we must actively and intently teach them or the digital world loses its color, texture, and depth.