Puns: This machine kales fascism🥬In chard times leaf no one behind🥬Turnip the heat on ICE🥬Stem the tide of legislated racism🥬Napa fascism in the bud🥬Romaine strong vs hate🥬Lettuce resist🥬Cabbage patch the holes in our democracy🥬Squash fascism🥬Thyme to show up for each other🥬Endive deportations now+
Khan's "vision" for education coming right out of Wall-e...
If you're interested in applying for an MSCA postdoc with us here at the Center for Digital Narrative, read this and submit a statement of interest before May 1st! We'll get back to you within a week or so after that :) www4.uib.no/en/research/...
Ok crafty friends of #DHmakes, whether or not you have anything to do with digital humanities, kindly take a moment and fill out this form to vote for #DHmakes in the annual DH Awards! Please and thank you! 🧶 🧵
So glad it's been useful! Good luck with the program redesign, I'd love to hear more about what you end up doing 😄
This is basically a condensed version of the distant coding course I proposed for our graduate program, which is intended to follow Critical Making in DH (anastasiasalter.net/CriticalMaki...) where we focus on low and no-code tools to build literacy & intention before adding in agentic meta-tools.
I'm running a DHSI workshop on this centering agentic approaches @lucidbard.bsky.social that is outlined here: anastasiasalter.net/DHSI_DH_AI_2...
Gave a talk today on some of the pragmatic ways I use agentic tools in my work, including for building tools and using local models. I recorded some simple examples and shared everything here: anastasiasalter.net/PragmaticAge... (the site itself is a silly example 👾)
If you like data, or making things with textile crafts (sewing, knitting, crochet, weaving, etc.), I've finally written something up about data visualization with textiles. More words coming over the next few months! #DHmakes
This was an interesting breakdown of Claude Code’s leak, and I’m still loling at the “sentiment analysis“ code.
If you want Claude to know you’re mad, you better say “wtf,“ “shit,“ “fuck,” “horrible,“ “awful,“ or “terrible.” Don‘t try to get fancy with “atrocious“ or “balls.”
Sweet article about our @ScholarsLab.bsky.social Makerspace & what leader Ammon Shepherd has accomplished. Critical humanities, biomedical prototyping, active Cosplay Costuming & Creativity Club... all free & open to the public, staffed to help you do a quick fix/mend or design+realize a big idea 💜
"And there is a natural place where de-weirded AI goes to die: the IT department...Handing sole control over AI to a department whose core mission is risk elimination is a category error."
This is why I was told to stop asking for agentic tools for students and just teach the Copilot chatbots...🙄
I've been thinking about this a lot teaching critical making. Technically everything we make in Twine, Bitsy, etc. is "easier" to make with Claude Code or similar, but having that experience is important before picking up the power tool 🤣
Oh this is good, and very much applicable across fields. Truly the grunt work is the work when you're starting out, and there's no shortcut to the same place you'd be if you put in the effort to struggle through it.
It's worth celebrating honestly-gotten failure, that's where the learning is.
... nightmare fuel.
Core memories right here. This was my Treasure Mountain! (the exclamation point is necessary!) era, but TLC peaked with Zoombinis a few years later.
Claude Code is now open source!!!
just kidding, Anthropic accidentally leaked the source and this guy put it up on github within an hour
github.com/instructkr/c...
That's a great idea, but sadly I'm already listed on two proposals this round.
I really want to try this, and I wish we still had THATCamp so a group of us could be imitating it with weird data sets right now.
Truly, even the course description I just asked them to post will be somewhat out of date by June...
Nope, but I just noticed they are still using last year's course description, oops 🤣
Finished preparing the initial materials for the "DH Programming in the Age of AI" course @lucidbard.bsky.social and I are teaching this summer at DHSI: anastasiasalter.net/DHSI_DH_AI_2.... Details will no doubt change by June, but we're planning on working with Claude Code + Ollama primarily.
Two barred owls perched side by side on a tree branch, very interested in my tiny dog.
For some reason, my 4.5 pound dog was intimidated by these observers of our walk. #birdscrolling
haha, and I still want an edit button but at least that works on many levels!
I love the hope in @masnick.com's piece here (and appreciate being quoted), but I want to add an important bit of context — whether it's possible for LLMs to enable anything open to survive depends on who has power over those LLMs. Right now, that's fascists. Which is why the open web is in danger…
This is both awesome to have back as an elite resource and a great example of using agentic AI coding for digital preservation.
This generator of personal attacks hit particularly hard for me as someone who wants to believe students still get my pop culture references 🫠
My scholarly org out there trolling DOGE with the official MLA Style Guide on citing a deposition. For example...
“Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition (Part 1) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH.” YouTube, uploaded by ModernLanguageAssoc, 7 Mar. 2026, www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY-QvaJ_QJk.
The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org welcome today’s ruling allowing video depositions to be published. "This ruling makes clear the public's stake in understanding the processes that resulted in the near-destruction of the NEH," @paulakrebs.bsky.social www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
And yes, as everyone is shouting, this type of integration will certainly be used to justify increasing course sizes, resulting in even less direct engagement and thoughtful feedback, while communicating that we don't value pedagogy. Those "guardrails" against automating grading won't hold. (3/3)