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Recently got funding for a small project on machine listening. Now setting up the various bits.
Saw the Tempest at the Sam Wanamaker theatre yesterday. I've been promising myself a trip there for a few years. Definitely worth it and a fun performance.
ICAD conference deadlines coming up:
icad2026.icad.org
interactive-sonification.org/icad2026
#sonification #auditorydisplay
So sorry to hear.
What if we stopped thinking about the digital as just our devices and started understanding it as a way of mediating reality through discrete units? That's the question driving this book I co-wrote with Alexander R. Galloway, Matthew Handelman, and Leif Weatherby.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792019...
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
I think I'm about to experience Catch 22. Trying to access a supposedly open service, but am being warned that I may not be to use it as I don't pay in. However, I can't get funding without showing that I can use it.
A tortoise shell cat looking intently at a white bag from Missing Bean. Her sister is in the bag
Needed to get some essentials that I forgot yesterday. The Missing Bean bag did contain coffee. Currently, it contains a cat.
Two weeks left! The deadline for ACH 2026 proposals is February 23, 2025.
We welcome submissions on all topics related to digital humanities, computing, and the humanities. Short papers, long papers, posters, panels, and workshops all encouraged!
Submit here:
I really don't understand people who don't put alt text. Just go to that gear up there, accessibility, and ask bsky to remind you!
And the great thing is the Alt text can be a whopping 2000 characters!! You can have whole conversations via the Alt text with what seems like a decorative image.
@cdi-warwick.bsky.social has a couple of interesting streams and events over the next few days: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... & san-archipelago.super.site
looking forward to winter book events for public data cultures in coming months ❄️📗💜✨
jonathangray.org/2026/01/05/b...
including with @digitalmethods.net @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social @internetarchive.eu @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social @cimethods.bsky.social @mctd.bsky.social #dmi26
Event flyer AI in the street: lessons from everyday encounters with AI innovation Join us for an early evening exploration 4pm - Creative diagramming workshop 5pm - project presentation 5:20pm Panel discussion feat Careful Industries, Ada Lovelace Inst, the LGA, and Foxglove Legal 6pm: Drinks and networking 4pm - 7pm, 27 January at Newspeak House
Come and join us for a fun early evening exploration of the AI in the Street project, feat. Yasmine Boudiaf, Mukul Patel, Noortje Marres, Alex Taylor, @halcyene.bsky.social @tmsqrll.bsky.social, Dominique Barron, Annie Radcliffe and me at Newspeak House luma.com/p4fmir78
grey cat sitting on printed paper pawing a fountain pen
Clearly I needed feline help with editing this manuscript
Went for longest run on #shortestday on #WinterSolstice. Having Marmite on toast while watching cats chase each other.
At King's College London for DMRN. Presenting work in progress on Eric Sunderland.
The Christmas tree has gone up. Fortunately, neither cat really looks up.
Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that - more thoughts on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/r...
Congratulations to all.
It was in aid of experimenting to set up a #raspberrypi and a piezo buzzer as a possible testbed for some code. As it worked, next up is to find an older board and set things up on that.
two cats inspecting a small box of electronics
Oh oh, we're in trouble,
something's come along a burst our bubble,
yeah yeah.
Fortunately nothing damaged or explored too closely.
Cat sitting on a windowsill full of ornaments. An untidy desk is in front of it.
The windowsill behind my desk has a new furry ornament. She has been trying to work out how to get there for some time.
“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!
I will be going to #dmrn (www.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn20/) with a poster on some ongoing archival work that is proving challenging in many ways to explore signals in sound and words.
🎉 On 5 Nov 2025, we held our first DAHRSE Midlands meeting: “Co-Creating DAHRSE Midlands: Vision, Voices, and Next Steps.” A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible! Here's a quick recap 🧵👇
Still need more baseball?
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
