Want to go back entirely to print for fall Brit lit class. But anthologies have gotten so expensive since the last time I required one. Anyone else dealing with this?

Happy to hear this Mia. What a massive relief.

Centering AI in Society and Ethics Initiative - News and Events Upcoming Events:

Our AI & Society group is hosting a symposium on "Ethics and Agentic AI" at NC State Univ on May 26, keynoted by David Danks of UVa. Please share and consider submitting: sites.google.com/view/ai-soci...

Occasionally a bsky thread flares in splendor through the dark like the first firework you ever saw

Centering AI in Society and Ethics Initiative - News and Events Upcoming Events:

Our AI & Society group is hosting a symposium on "Ethics and Agentic AI" at NC State Univ on May 26, keynoted by David Danks of UVa. Please share and consider submitting: sites.google.com/view/ai-soci...

Feel like I got fished recently by a random email about my work then an awkward Zoom interview. Thought I was helping someone out. But worried it was for some crap like this.

"Reading Digital Victorians is fun" -- favorite feedback ever. Thanks @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social for the thoughtful review doi.org/10.1353/vpr....

You'll find lots of good stuff in Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography (1972). Makes the point that many conventions from hand press period stayed in place through late 1800s. Plus many details about varied stages of proofing and correction.

Victorian Gaslighting

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Academic presenting a poster from a laptop with absolutely no one coming by

You can’t spell imposter without “poster”

Deus in Machina: AI and Divine Rhetoric “The urgent message from history concerning the process of forcing the metaphorical deus into his machina is that social domination readily takes up the language of philosophy or religion when seeking...

I have a new essay out today with the North American Conference on British Studies about the oligarchical urge to say that AI is going to become God

www.nacbs.org/post/deus-in...

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Shame on NC State for firing an employee who, under the slimiest and most cowardly of circumstances, was filmed expressing commitment to students’ well-being.

as a substitute what about retrophilia

That's awesome! Congratulations Steph!

That tracks. I am kind of wondering how “you need to know how to code” will translate to the natural language era.

Interesting. If this lets casual users develop stuff, what do they still need to know how to do? In terms of deploying apps, code repos, hosting data, that kind of thing?

Hey, that’s great! Your admiring scholarly audience is also chuffed!

Digital Victorians for just $18! Stuff your stocking, feed your head! www.sup.org/books/litera...

This is great! Very well deserved. Congrats Adrian!

Feels like a good option to faceplant in a tray of lasagna

Hello thought police. Logically they should also deploy surveillance on all student-submitted work to prevent any unsanctioned learning.

Abandoned and failed projects, ca. 1998-2025: an incomplete, chronological list [This is an updated version of the original from 2021.]

"Abandoned and failed projects, ca. 1998-2025: an incomplete, chronological list" -- worth your time, from Adam Smyth, who lists all the stuff he dropped or which didn't work adamsmyth.substack.com/p/abandoned-...

I did a talk on just how deep the overlaps are between Frankenstein and AI last year! m.youtube.com/watch?v=fmF1...

That was a Brad Pasanek joint. Bet you could share/screen a Google doc and use text color or highlighters

Maybe fictional agency or character, as in M. Ward’s book *Seeming Human*

Oh damn, there's a contender: "Now, what I want is Vibes. Teach our young men nothing but Vibes. Vibes, and only Vibes, are what our feeds crave. Follow nothing else, and block everything else."

an older woman with blue hair and red glasses says absolutely perfect Alt: Me appreciatively grading a student's essay

Gave students an assignment to rewrite a snippet of Hard Times as, instead, a "condition of America" novel circa 2025. The winner: a scene from a school board meeting in "Woketown."

Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts”? wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/defaul...

The unholy cult of the Lamb.