iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) @adho-org.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

📢 The Call for Proposals for @adho-conferences.bsky.social is now open! Join us at the University of Galway, Ireland (28 June – 3 July 2027) around our conference theme: Creativity. 🔗 Read the CFP: dh2027.adho.org/cfp/ ⏰ Deadline: 20 Nov 2026, 23:59 AoE

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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

AI-written books ineligible for Canadian ISBNs.

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@eve.gd as ever nails it. Students often don't even realise they're using AI as it's so baked into software; RAG-searching is potentially misleading, & amen to this: "Students will end up with a theoretical mess that they cannot properly understand because it has not been properly explained or read"

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@dancohen.org's account of the iterative, collaborative & irreducibly *human* substrate on which @zotero.org was built & is sustained is a telling contrast to the instant gratifications of vibe coding & its shiny, brittle results. More mini-ethnographies & histories of software development please

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI Slop Coming to a University Library Near You Librarians must hold the gates against machine-generated titles: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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AI Slop Coming to University Library Near You (opinion)

Librarians must hold the gates against machine-generated titles.

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@cyberlyra.bsky.social: "Retro tech is not about nostalgia. It’s about resistance. Evading the technologies of capture, attention hacking, & dispossession ... Escaping the extreme gamification of everything in a marketplace ruled by attention & mass manipulation through micro-doses of dopamine" 🔥🔥🔥

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You have left out the minor detail that you made this beautiful linocut yourself! 😍

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@kateai.bsky.social I feel like the world should see your Scottish printer's mark plate?

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

now @kateai.bsky.social & I have a plan to 3D-print moulds and deckles for paper-making, so stay tuned as we attempt to convert everyone around us to DIY printing and along the way find fun ways to get the embodied learning thing working in a literature department

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

also inspired by @literaturegeek.bsky.social's gorgeous work at @wolfproofpress.com, plus @ryancordell.org & his ideas for bringing printing into the classroom, Robin Sloan's experiments at www.penumbraprint.com and the Crail Press thecrailpress.com

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Penumbra Print Shop | Home

Penumbra Print Shop is Robin Sloan’s new manufacturing project.

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

still getting the hang of how much to wet the paper (handmade by me many years ago from my high school exam revision notes, which I 10/10 recommend as extremely cathartic)

a piece of paper with 'Luddites are the new avant garde' printed on it; the ink has bled onto the paper

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Luddites are the new avant garde" make art! have ideas! print them! sidestep the slopocalypse!

a 3D printed etching press with a piece of paper on which is printed "Luddites are the new avant garde"

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

so I 3D-printed an etching press & made my first print & was unprepared for just how restorative it would be

a 3D printed etching press in green and white

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Mayor Mamdani announces a ban on generative AI in schools through 8th grade: AI is not going to replace student-teacher interaction in NYC public schools. We have also heard the importance of protecting childhood—allowing students the opportunity to ask questions, to engage, to fail, to learn.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 02/09/2026

I’m telling y’all—running a community space like @skeuomorphpress.org is good for the soul. Just reading emails & I find (paraphrasing) “Hello, I’m a retired Navy captain & machinist. I was in your shop during community hours & learned about the handpress you’re restoring from your student workers”+

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Out here on the fringes of civilisation, aka the UK, we are grateful for whatever weird quirk of the publishing industry has brought your book to us slightly sooner than where you actually live, Roopsi

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Suzanne graduated with a PhD in English Literature in 2021 with a thesis about the role of the internet in the 21stc digital literary sphere supervised by Anouk Lang (@aelang.bsky.social). While working @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, she developed her thesis into a full-length monograph.

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

How do you get from PhD thesis to monograph? We talk to graduate Dr Suzanne Black whose book Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction has just been published by LSU Press llc.ed.ac.uk/news/from-thesis-to-mo…

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From thesis to monograph | Literatures, Languages & Cultures | Literatures Languages and Culture

Graduate Suzanne R Black talks to us about developing her PhD into a new book.

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

These letterpress prints are 🔥 and I feel like @kateai.bsky.social would appreciate them

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Thank you, Merisa! I'll be happy if this model is useful for others and would love to hear if others repurpose it or adapt it to their own context. (& a reply to your email is coming 😀)

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I burst out laughing at that point as well 😂 it's such a win when an assessment is both fun to make and fun to watch/read

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I was really impressed with the quality of the students' work, & very happy with the way this assignment worked. I put in more time designing this assessment & giving formative feedback but the tradeoff was high engagement & attendance, & grading was *much* more enjoyable than essays, so 💯 worth it

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

And finally, Julia explored how gen AI (mis)perceives human subjectivity when reflecting a human user's "digital twin" back to them, in her web animation "JULIA 2.0" www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Opp.... More on her project at blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2025-26/ju... #ailo

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JULIA 2.0 - a digital "human" twin

YouTube video by Julia Guzikowska

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Niamh hand-drew a web comic, "ailo" www.figma.com/proto/REhjKQ..., to think about the encroachment of technology on creative processes and human originality, inspired by Swift's "Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it". More at blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2025-26/ai... #ailo

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Figma

Created with Figma

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Eilidh made a fictional detective podcast to reflect on the differences between human writing shaped by embodied experience and historical context, and AI-generated text governed by statistical patterns. More on her project, "Who is Responsible?", at blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2025-26/wh... #ailo

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Who is Responsible? – Cream of the Slop: Human Creation, Digital Critique

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Daisy made a short film, "cd:<relationship>" www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuHN..., with a human playing an AI chatbot, to illustrate the alienating effects of human/AI relationships going wrong. More about her project at blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2025-26/cd... #ailo

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cd:(realtionship) (Cream of The Slop / Daisy Casemore)

YouTube video by Daisy Casemore

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Lauren made a web animation, "AI and Digital Blackface" www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcAK..., showing how AI chatbots use different language when performing racialized identities, and thinking about the implications for cultural appropriation. More on her project at blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2025-26/ar... #ailo

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Artificial Intelligence and Digital Blackface

YouTube video by Lauren Sims

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Jacob built a website maxwells-hammer.wikidot.com to host Maxwell's Silver Hammer, an epistolary story about the way AI assistants makes things worse while cheerfully claiming to make things better. More about their project at blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2025-26/ma... #ailo

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Home - Maxwell's Silver Hammer

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Alicia made a web animation, www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpsZ..., on how AI companies replicate some of the exploitative practices of colonialism. More about her project, "Colonial Narratives in Generative Artificial 'Intelligence'", here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2025-26/co... #ailo

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Colonial Narratives in Artificial Intelligence — A Digital Humanities Project

YouTube video by Alicia Boljkovac

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Regan noticed that Google's AI Overview said Pope Francis was alive in 2026, and used this to think about what AI overviews mean for the health of news media ecosystems www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1uK.... More about her project, "The Underside of AI Overviews", at blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2025-26/de... #ailo

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The Underside of AI Overviews: Misinformation, Power and the Threat to the Free Press

YouTube video by Regan

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Arianne made a web animation, "The Death of the Author and The Birth of the AI Reader" www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMPI..., showing how different prompts produce very different interpretations of the same Sylvia Plath poem by an AI chatbot. More at blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2025-26/th... #ailo

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The Death of the Author and the Birth of the AI Reader

YouTube video by Arianne

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Euan made a shortform audio piece, "Slopify Music" www.youtube.com/watch?v=p46J..., about the enshittification of a certain music streaming service and the difficulties of resisting algorithmic forces when it comes to musical tastes. More about their project at blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2025-26/sl... #ailo

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Slopify Music

YouTube video by Euan Stamper

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Isadora discovered an unknown Austen story, "Merit and Manners": www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Kv.... As she puts it, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that ... users often slip into meriting [LLM] outputs with trust." More about her project at blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2025-26/me... #ailo

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Merit, Manners and ChatGPT

YouTube video by Isadora

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Wurdaan made a short film, "I Became a Data Farmer for a Day" www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3OK..., which reimagines invasive data-harvesting practices as human interactions (and somehow everyone keeps a straight face). More about his project here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2025-26/da... #ailo

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I Became A Datafarmer For A Day

YouTube video by wurdaanch

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Eli built a Twine game, "The Poetry Turing Test" eliferrell.github.io/Poetry-Turin..., where you can test your ability to distinguish human-authored vs AI-generated poetry, and also go behind the scenes on the human-authored poetry. More about their project at blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2025-26/po... #ailo

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The Poetry Turing Test

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

So, if you teach in higher/secondary ed, are drowning in AI slop submissions and wondering how we inculcate literacies around responsible use of AI (& not just in students), this is an assignment that's worked for me. And now for the individual projects: if any of them speak to you, please share! +

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

There was also so much more variety in their approaches than I normally get from setting essay questions. Plus it's completely possible to make an argument when working in a genre other than the essay +

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

of tech companies' labor and environmental practices, and lots more 🔥 What was especially delightful to see was the *pleasure* students took in making something creative: turns out fun is really useful for keeping students engaged and getting them to show up +

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

They made short films, web comics, Twine games, audio stories, web animations, and more, addressing questions around how and why LLMs generate misinformation, invasive data-gathering practices, how AI Overviews are impacting publishing ecosystems and the news media, the neocolonial dimension +

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The brief: choose some aspect of AI that you think merits wider attention, make something engaging that can speak to a broad audience, ground your work in peer-reviewed scholarship, create objects that can travel, & be as irreverent as you like. And boy did they deliver: blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2025-26/ +

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Cream of the Slop: Human Creation, Digital Critique

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

For those interested in critical AI literacy, a hopeful thread: This past semester, for their final project, I asked my @uoe-llc.bsky.social Digital Humanities students to make "AI literacy objects" (AILOs): multimedia digital artefacts intended to foster critical literacy around generative AI +

Glitchy image with 'Cream of the Slop' in the center

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'm biased but there's an incredible Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer (DH RSE) job going at the British Library, working with the Digital Research team, curators and more ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web... #JobFairy #RSEs #JobKlaxon

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The thing is, I think these are all fundamentally correct & completely reconcilable political economies of the contemporary.

Technofeudalism (Varoufakis, Durand)
Too Late Capitalism (Kornbluh)
Muskism (Slobodian & Tarnoff)
End Times Fascism (Klein & Taylor)
Vectoralism (Wark)
Gutenberg Parenthesis (Sauerberg, Jarvis)
TESCREAL (Gebru & Torres)
Neofeudalism (Dean)
Tech Fascism (Duran)
Platform Capitalism (Srnicek)
Surveillance Capitalism (Zuboff)
Klepto-Keynesianism (Seybold)

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Absolutely this on the lasting effects, networks & friendships built through DH summer schools (for me this was DHSI, but the European Summer School is closer to home for those of us on the other side of the pond). I'm looking forward to teaching the Critical AI workshop from 13-17 July: do apply!

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

reading computer science journals from the 1950s this morning, which I recommend as a soothing antidote to AI hype, I found what might be the earliest published instance of "doge" in a computing context (1959)

screenshot of a paragraph of text with a list of weather-related terms including 'cats and doge'

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

oof, nothing like a giant photo of your own face staring at you from social media before the first coffee of the morning

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I'm giving a talk on literary theory, LLMs and the circulation of affect this Thursday, 30 April, at @camdighum.bsky.social www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41386/. If you're in/near Cambridge and do critical AI, DH, digital culture/media/lit etc I'd love to chat, so please come along! 5pm, English Faculty

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Literary Theory Post-GPT: Large Language Models and Affective Circulation - CDH

Speaker Dr Anouk Lang, Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, University of Edinburgh Anouk Lang is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities in the Department of English and Scottish Literature at the Un...

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 27/04/2026

Looking for something joyful, fulfilling, and very human that lets you assure the Powers That Be that you're making students "AI ready"? Tell them you're doing what they do at Stanford! The #DataSittersClub is delighted to share little tl;dr #3 on bringing textile dataviz to the classroom. #DHmakes

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Getting 'AI Ready' with Textiles

No computers required!

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