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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looking for a post doc? Come join us at the Machine Visual Culture Research Group, which “combines digital and computational art history, critical AI studies, and the history of art and visual culture.” www.biblhertz.it/3815269/2909...

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Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Digital Art History

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

CFP: Generative Digital Humanities, a volume on AI and DH in the long-running Minnesota Debates in DH book series. To be co-edited by @zentralwerkstatt.org, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, and myself. Deadline Nov. 1. Please share widely! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...

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CFP: Generative Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities

Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

The federal government has ABANDONED those of us dealing with Roko's Basilisks in our storm drains!!

Are mail carriers trained to deal with Roko's basilisks? They should
be TBH

No. USPS does not train mail carriers on "Roko's basilisks." That is not a federal program or
official hazard.

If you have a real mail or carrier issue, use USPS Help 7 or the Postal Inspection Service7.If
someone is in danger, call 911.

I can help with other U.S. government services if you ask a genuine question.

I'm in danger. From being aware that the federal government has
no plans to combat Roko's basiliks in my storm drains.

Awareness of a thought experiment is not a federal emergency, and there is still no U.S.
government plan about Roko's basilisks in storm drains.

.If you are in immediate physical danger, call 911.
. If you are in emotional crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988).

I only help with official government services. If you have a genuine federal question (mail,
benefits, passports, taxes, veterans care), ask that.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Um, wow? Opus 5.5: "make the same message much more interesting to a social media audience that loves anime and quick clips and compressed learning" One shot. Also, please do stay for the closing song.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 24/09/2026

Very worth reading. Note esp that Breen sees the likely bottleneck as access to digitized sources. I think he’s correct: there’s a lot we could do if profs had unrestricted digital access to the sources in their own libraries.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 22/09/2026

Models like Talkie-1930 sound like voices from the past. If they could reliably speak from specified historical vantage points, researchers might also use them to simulate the past. But how reliable are they? Today we release a benchmark answering that question for English contexts 1831-1930.

Free-text evaluation of answers to character modeling and constrained generation questions. This is just one of several scores Chronologic-EN can produce; we focus on it here because it's both the hardest test and the one most relevant to simulation of the past. Frontier models reach 72%; Talkie-1930 is stronger than several larger competitors, but not at the frontier by this measure. Note that this score has improved ~45% in the last two years, but still falls perceptibly short of ground truth.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Canonical reference on Italian Brainrot just dropped, if you’re not citing this in your Slop Studies papers you are doing them wrong medium.com/@fabianmosel...

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The Entire History of Italian Brainrot

Documenting the historical AI slop meme that changed the internet

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Kristen Alexander @kristenauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s been one week since @historyaustralia.bsky.social published ‘Archives & memory: glimpses of abuse & violence in ex-POW homes’ and it’s had over 100 views! Thank you, readers. This article means a lot to me and I am pleased to share it with you. Open access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Marc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There's a new ultra cheap LLM on the market called Jev. It rates and evaluates text, but does not generate it. I tested it across a number of grading tasks and can see how this may upend how we assess students. I will be shocked if this doesn't go live soon in an LMS.

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What Happens When Grading Costs Almost Nothing?

Ultra Cheap Machine Intelligence Arrives

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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Humanistic AI conference at Duke (9/25-6), full schedule forthcoming but speaker/title list is up! We have an amazing line up - @tedunderwood.com @laurenfklein.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social @hoytlong.bsky.social @eduede.bsky.social + others; if in area, please come! sites.duke.edu/humanisticai...

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Speakers – Humanistic AI Conference at Duke

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Kurt Vonnegut

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Knowing that a lot of college freshman have no idea what exactly happened on 9/11, here is a run down of what happened & how. 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP83DPrcY/

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Let’s talk the #history of #September11 #historytok 9/11 #historian #25thAnniversary

TikTok video by PhDRachel

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

re: AI extinction (from Why We Fear AI) It turns out that looking first at an earlier transition is strikingly illuminating about many properties of the current historic moment. That transition, with its then-brand-spanking-new technology created a surprisingly similar media flurry.

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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Out today: TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments! I’ve got two pieces in the collection, coauthored with Jeremy Douglass and Jon Ippolito. Shoutouts to Jeremy and Jon, and congrats to Annette, Carly, and Tim on the new collection! @jonippolito.net

Promotional graphic for TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments, a new WAC Clearinghouse collection featuring 15 classroom-tested assignments exploring generative AI and writing. The graphic highlights two pieces by Mark C. Marino: “Stump the Robot” Microexpertise Exercise, coauthored with Jon Ippolito, and “The Analog Sandwich,” coauthored with Jeremy Douglass.

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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

OCR for Japanese manga, Swedish handwriting or Arabic print? There’s a growing range of OCR models on @hf.co: VLMs, dedicated text recognisers and complete OCR pipelines. I’ve gathered 41 models into four collections, with short notes to help you choose: huggingface.co/collections/...

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OCR on the Hub - a davanstrien Collection

Curated OCR models for documents, languages, handwriting and text in images. Browse four collections with short practical notes.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

After far too many AI-generated final projects, and my own uncertainty about what students really need to know about NLP these days, I decided to overhaul my Text as Data class so that it's structured around a single project: training up a C19 LLM from scratch. Here we go! github.com/laurenfklein...

github.com

GitHub - laurenfklein/dsci340-fall26: Notebooks and other course materials for Emory DSCI 340 (Fall 2026 - Klein)

Notebooks and other course materials for Emory DSCI 340 (Fall 2026 - Klein) - laurenfklein/dsci340-fall26

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Beginning my research seminar, as always, with Lynn Hunt's essay How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around). Should be mandatory reading in light of the impact of AI. www.historians.org/perspectives...

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words, whether I am writing an essay like this one, a book chapter, a letter of recommendation, or an email message to a friend. Writing is time-consuming. It’s a great way to pass the time on a long airplane flight because you lose track of the passage of time altogether. It’s even better, from that point of view exclusively, than watching an episode of Mad Men on your laptop. Writing means many different things to me but one thing it is not: writing is not the transcription of thoughts already consciously present in my mind. Writing is a magical and mysterious process that makes it possible to think differently.

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 14/08/2026

In Alfonso Cuarón's film Children of Men, set in a world without children, the state mandates fertility tests of its citizens while forcing refugees into cages. The themes in this 20 year-old science fiction film are reflected in the world we live in today, write Eric Trump and Josephine Johnston.

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Treat me like a human: the prescience of Children of Men

The images and themes in the Britain of Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 film "Children of Men" resonate with current politics. In this childless world, the state mandates fertility tests of its citizens, while…

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Sebastian Majstorovic @storytracer.com · 10/08/2026

Are open OCR models good enough to unlock historical knowledge? @danielvanstrien.bsky.social and I built a leaderboard using six expert-transcribed volumes from the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social sky.social. Meet FineBooks, from @hf.co and @eleutherai.bsky.social! huggingface.co/blog/fineboo...

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FineBooks: are open OCR models good enough to unlock historical knowledge?

A Blog post by FineBooks on Hugging Face

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

81 years ago today, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. This was 3 days after the first atomic attack on Hiroshima.

Nagasaki, bomber's eye view: Close-up view of the head of the mushroom cloud at the Nagasaki explosion, as seen from either the bomber or the observation plane.

Nagasaki, distant ground view: Photo of the Nagasaki cloud taken ~15 minutes after the atomic bomb detonation, by Hiromichi Matsuda, stationed at Koyagi-jima Island, some 5 miles / 8 km away.

Nagasaki, before and after, aerial views.

Nagasaki, ground view, some weeks after the attack.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I’ve added a 10-minute technical introduction to diffusion models and a 20-minute mini-lecture about AI slop to my “Thinking Critically About AI Images” course, if those are things you’re interested in!

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Eryk Salvaggio: Critical AI & Culture | Thinking Critically About AI Images: Free Online Course — Cybernetic Forests.

Archived undergraduate class on the context, history and ethical issues of AI images, taught by artist and critical AI theorist, Eryk Salvaggio.

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Amanda Regan, Ph.D. @regan008.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I have not blogged in probably ten years, but I finished the syllabus for the fourth version of my advanced digital methods course this week and decided to get some thoughts down about teaching digital history in the age of AI. amanda-regan.com/posts/teachi...

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...

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2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me... We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet. 1/n

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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Excited and only slightly terrified to have this accepted manuscript available. The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core

The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 28/07/2026

Proud to have 3 exhibits published from our Mellon-sponsored “Virality of Racial Terror” project, which three VRT grad student researchers are presenting about at #dh2026 this week Links to all three at www.vrt.viraltexts.org

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The Virality of Racial Terror – Exhibits for the Virality of Racial Terror Project

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 27/07/2026

Read this to learn about “costume drama,” “leprechaun talk,” and other ways language models can fail when asked to represent the past!

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 27/07/2026

New little side project: Westward, an endless scroll of 1,000+ public-domain photographs of the American West from the Library of Congress, the Portal to Texas History, and SMU’s DeGolyer Library.

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"Ours is a beautiful, ancient craft essential for any society's needs for self-understanding. We are equipped with a host of modern methods, but guided ethically by very old rules that no authoritarian political project ought to be allowed to profane." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...

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WATCH: David Blight makes opening statement in hearing on how Smithsonian presents history

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 16/07/2026

A chronological list of the best nuclear Doomsday films, compiled by Bulletin senior fellow Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social, shows how the nuclear perspective unfolded from the earliest days of the atomic age to the present. See which 13 films made the cut on our site: buff.ly/CIxUEcs

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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Reading the Archive by Machine: An OCR Benchmark for Historians, 1612–1921 Here is version 1 of a working paper on the new OCR tools that are transforming digital history. working-papers-in-critical-search.github.io/paper-004-oc...

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Reading the Archive by Machine – Working Papers in Critical Search

A benchmark of six OCR systems (Tesseract, olmOCR 2, Chandra 2, Infinity Parser 2, GLM-OCR, and Gemini 3.5 Flash) on human-transcribed archival documents spanning 1612–1921: early-modern print, ninete...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/06/2026

"And to the citizens of Romulus who were thinking we’d help them take back control of their planet: Sorry, I got bored and lost interest. I mean, what do you want from me?"

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Our War Against the Romulans Was an Overwhelming Success

“Now, to be fair, we did NOT topple the regime, we did NOT free the oppressed citizens of Romulus, and we did nothing to ensure Romulan leadership would stop...

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Marty Olliff @martyolliff.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I collected ~416 Jim Crow Statutes in Alabama, 1876-1903. Here is a link to the Google Drive folder containing the Excel spreadsheet, MS Word Project Explainer, and AL course of study lesson plans for grades 4&11.Pls use freely drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TjE…

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/05/2026

‘Most scoring systems are not really games at all. They are means of reducing the variety and complexity of human experience into a version that is easier to package up and parcel out.’ David Runciman on keeping score. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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David Runciman · Trivial Pursuits: Gamification

Any scoring system can be abused once it gets captured. But the fact remains that a scoring system can also be the most...

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My tiny thread yesterday is now a whole op-ed! A quick read, connecting Pope Leo's apology for colonialism and slavery to his warnings about AI — it's all related. Working with editor @mpgphd.bsky.social was an absolutely pleasure!

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Are you tired of the same old, same old in your US History II survey? Feeling stuck in a rut? Annoyed that your students won't read long articles? Have no fear -- "US History in 15 Photographs" is here to save the day!

book cover of us history in 15 photographs

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

[WPA posters @ Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/sea... ]

WPA Poster: Be Kind to Books Club: Are you a Member?

WPA Poster: For Greater Knowledge on More Subjects, Use your Library Often, with Rodin's THE THINKER

WPA Poster: Books are Weapons: Read About, The Negro in National Defense, Africa and the War, Negro History and Culture, at the Shomburg Center, NYPL

WPA Poster: Public Library Week, THE PUBLIC LIBRARY: AN AMERICAN INSTITUTION

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Cato Minor @catominor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Our book on Automated/Handwritten Text Recognition is out and it is open access :). bielefelduniversitypress.de/publikatione... #htr #atr #digitalhumanities

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

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Pope Leo: Literature must be a 'school of fraternity and peace' - Vatican News

Pope Leo XIV sends a message to the Turin International Book Fair, taking place this week in the northern Italian city, reiterating that literature ...

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

So I started writing this week's DOOMSDAY MACHINES about stockpiling a million paper cups for nuclear war, but then a somewhat chilling photo sent me in a very different direction — Civil Defense in the land of Jim Crow. doomsdaymachines.net/p/paper-cups...

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Paper cups and a Confederate Flag

Civil Defense and the Deep South in the 1950s

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Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New in Nature: LLMs give "the party line" in the languages of authoritarian regimes. This works when they control the media, which feeds pretraining data. We show more state control over the media means less critical LLMs. 6 studies spanning 38 languages & 13 models. Details ↓

Scatter plot of 38 countries plus China showing the proportion of LLM responses favorable to the regime in the local language vs. World Press Freedom Index score. Lower press freedom predicts more regime-favorable responses; all production models pooled.

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William J.B. Mattingly @wjbmattingly.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We tested OpenAI’s Whisper on 1,847 Holocaust testimonies from the Fortunoff at Yale. It achieved 85% accuracy, but the errors reveal how AI struggles in this domain. Full findings: wjbmattingly.com/blog/transcribing-…

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Annette Vee @anetv.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Are you experimenting with AI in your writing classes? Submit to TextGenEd! An OER with 300K+ views! Submissions are due *May 31, 2026* wacclearinghouse.org/repository/c... See a recent review of the collection: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/... Message me with any questions! #oer #aieducation

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CFP: Continuing Experiments in Teaching with Text Generation Technologies - The WAC Clearinghouse

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Harald Klinke @harald-klinke.de · 09/05/2026

CFP: “Computational Approaches to Art” in Computational Humanities Research. A sign that the debate is moving from “Can we use AI in art history?” toward “How does computation reshape what art history actually is?” #DigitalArtHistory #AI #ComputerVision #VisualCulture

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CHR Special Issue: Computational Approaches to Art

Lin Du, UCLA. Eingabeschluss : 30.06.2026

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William J.B. Mattingly @wjbmattingly.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

We parsed 3.6 million historical names with 96% accuracy by moving away from expensive frontier models to fine-tuned Qwen 3.5 models. We also found that switching our output format from JSON to YAML dramatically increased stability.

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