Wow, Conrad's Heart of Darkness now gets an even weirder re-staging than the Coppola's movie...
And a much much more expensive one

There are fantastic Digital History projects in Central Asia, but they are hardy visible in Western Europe, because - amongst other reasons-there is a lack of infrastructures in Central Asia.m, says @dinaraamirovna #DHTbilisi

Quantization from the ground up | ngrok blog A complete guide to what quantization is, how it works, and how it's used to compress large language models

I spent 2 months learning about quantization and am extremely proud of the post I've written about it. I think these are some of the nicest visuals I've ever made, and I love how this compression technique invented in 1898 is being used on the bleeding edge in 2026.

ngrok.com/blog/quantiz...

Scatter plot titled 'Linguistic concreteness over Pamela Vols 1–2'. X-axis: number of words into the text (0–430,000). Y-axis: concreteness score of 500-word passages (–1.0 to 0.75). Points are coded by social space: domestic familiar, domestic unfamiliar, indeterminate, inter social, institutional, natural, and public social. A LOESS curve with confidence band and a dashed linear trend line overlay the data. Key plot events are annotated, including assaults (highest concreteness), the wedding, abduction, suicide temptation, and moral debates (lowest concreteness). Vertical dashed lines mark the wedding in Vol 1 and the start of Vol 2. Concreteness fluctuates but trends slightly downward; Vol 2 is generally more abstract than Vol 1.

Linguistic concreteness over Richardson's Pamela, Vols I (1740) and II (1742). Concreteness measured via word embeddings; social spaces annotated by LLM. For my book chapter on "Abstract Realism". Arguing that Pamela's wedding signifies the transition from (concrete) picaresque to (abstract) novel.

Screenshot of the Argentinian Drama Corpus in action.

We're very happy to announce that the Argentinian Drama Corpus (ArDraCor) 🇦🇷 was put on the #DraCor production server today:
dracor.org/ar

Work on ArDraCor will continue, led by @gimenadelr.bsky.social (hdlab.space, CONICET) & Ulrike Henny-Krahmer (RosDH, University of Rostock).

#DigitalHumanities

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📢 Announcing the #DH2026 Keynote Speakers!
🔹 Maciej Eder – 2026 Antonio Zampolli Prize (stylo & Computational Stylistics Group)
🔹 Kim Hyeon – Pioneer of Digital Humanities in South Korea
🔹 Kirsten Thorpe – Indigenous Education & Research, UTS
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/keynotes/
#DigitalHumanities #ADHO

Academics Need to Wake Up on AI Ten theses for folks who haven't noticed the ground shifting under their feet

Debating whether Claude is “really” intelligent is like debating whether a calculator “really” does math while your competitor finishes the problem set:

www.popularbydesign.org/p/academics-...

Why, there are *prompting* jobs
(for now)

Generative AI & Fictionality: How Novels Power Large Language Models Generative models, like the one in ChatGPT, are powered by their training data. The models are simply next-word predictors, based on patterns learned from vast amounts of pre-existing text. Since the ...

New paper w/ @teddyroland.bsky.social on "How fiction powers generative AI systems." We designed a computational experiment to test the impact of the vast amount of fiction in LLM training data on how LLMs communicate, w/ implications for both AI design + literary theory. arxiv.org/abs/2603.01220

and congrats, ofc! 🎉

this is officially the MPI with **the** coolest name (and generally one of the coolest names a research institution can have)

Replacing the "laptop class" with AI boosts some margins, but it also breaks the cultural loop. These devs, scholars, designers and writers aren't just producers. They are the AUDIENCE. Without a massive "geek class" to sustain them, things like Star Wars or Dune don’t exist. Are we OK to lose this?

I totally banana your suggestion let's crocodile it right away

Team Potsdam enjoying the #DHd2026 reception in Uni Wien's stunning Großer Festsaal 🥂 Great conference, great people!

Low-resolution preview version of our conference poster showing 750 network graphs extracted from the German Drama Corpus.

Here's our #DHd2026 poster: 750 co-presence networks from the German Drama Corpus, in chronological order. Extracted via rdracor, assembled by our art director @schwindt.bsky.social.

Full res:
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Abstract:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#DraCor @dracor.org #DigitalHumanities

🚀 Just launched the #DigitalHumanities Early Career Fellowship at @unipotsdam.bsky.social ✅
In the first class, we turned historical sources into data with OCR, discussed “what counts as data” in the humanities, did some metadata modeling, and met a wonderful new cohort of young researchers!
#DH

Es ist endlich der 20.! Vielen Dank an Frank (@umblaetterer.bsky.social), Peer (@peertrilcke.bsky.social) & Julia (@juliajbeine.bsky.social) für das Interview – & an alle Teilnehmenden des #DraCorSummit, die sich mit uns unterhalten haben! Und hier geht's zur Folge: radihum20.de/radihum...
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Had a nice morning visiting prof. Wincenty Lutosławski today. The grandpa is not very talkative these days, but still a great company👌

"The number of plays you can generate is larger than the number of atoms in the universe. In fact, one could generate as many plays as there are atoms in the universe FOR EACH atom in the universe". @viktor.im, @umblaetterer.bsky.social on generating TEI dramas with 🎲 (based on a 1829 book) #TEI2025

Title slide.

Web app.

In just a few seconds, we’ll be presenting our #TEI2025 talk:

»Generating TEI Documents Through a Game of Dice« 🎲

Slides:
lehkost.github.io/slides/2025-...

Web app:
temporal-communities.github.io/999/

@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @temporal-communities.de @schwindt.bsky.social @viktor.im

With contributions from @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social @blindspothannah.bsky.social @danja.bsky.social @nevmenandr.bsky.social @jrvaldez.bsky.social @undonealready.bsky.social @fyodor76.bsky.social @lisawj.bsky.social @aaronmauro.bsky.social @cmejeur.bsky.social and so many others not on bsky!

The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early

Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉

and what a battle it was! 👏
#DraCor #battleoftheplays

The #DraCorSummit Barcamp turned into an actual camp 🏕️
Discussing characters & types on #DraCor under apple trees🌳
Waiting for a Newtonian 🍏 eureka 😜

Capitalist LLMs are eating our smart & open humanities data and mashing it into gigantic word porridge... How can we reverse it? — @peertrilcke.bsky.social speaks about the MCP-empowered LLM Usage of #DraCor (or "How to teach Claude use the DraCor API")
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.13774
#DraCorSummit

How can we connect our smart humanities data to LLMs (when locking them away is not an option, because we want to follow ideas of open access and open science)? – a question raised and investigated with a DraCor-Claude-chatbot by the @dracor.org team at the #DraCorSummit

From LLM agents for #DraCor to operationalisation of sound in Drama: the 2nd Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis is starting right now at the #DraCorSummit. The workshop reader with all 11 papers is online:
zenodo.org/records/1693...

> We need a larger crowd to build larger corpora
Unless you’re a bored French computer scientist encoding plays for fun since forever 😅

See how #DraCor neatly builds into the very circle of life!🐝
The conference reader with all papers, including the one about animals and plants in the German drama, is online: zenodo.org/records/1693...
#DraCorSummit

“Performances dissolve in the darkness of the stage.” — Clarisse Bardiot (@univrennes2.bsky.social) at #DraCorSummit, on turning theatre programmes into structured data with ontologies and the role of LLMs in that process 🎭🤖

#DraCor