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Let's celebrate, today is Ada Lovelace Day! Known for creating the first machine algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine, Ada Lovelace is widely celebrated as the first programmer. Ada Lovelace at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #womeninstem

Watercolour portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, c. 1840, possibly by Alfred Edward Chalon.

Watercolor portrait of a young woman glancing over her shoulder, in a purple satin gown draped with black lace. Her hair is in side coils with a yellow flower, and she holds a gold fan in a white glove.

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Wir haben die 15min Verspätung wegen der Baustelle wieder aufgeholt und sind gerade 4min zu früh in Klagenfurt. 🤯🫠 Nur noch 45min bis Graz. Kann da noch was schiefgehen? 🚆

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Zu früh gefreut: wir haben mittlerweile 1min Verspätung!1!1!1 😅😅😅😅 Es ist sooo schön! Ich liebe das europäische öffentliche Verkehrsnetz ❤️❤️❤️

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Da fährt man einmal mit der deutschen Bahn und plant, eine abenteuerliche Story mit zurück nach Kalifornien zu nehmen und dann??? Mein direkter ICE von DA schönsten Stadt nach Graz ist 2min zu früh, die Toiletten sind sauber, das Boardrestaurant läuft und der Ruhewagen ist ruhig??? Noch 6.5h 🚆🤩

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Hurrá! Vonatozás

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Courses featured in this post: 📚 Introduction to Digital Humanities, Essentials of Data Visualisations in Digital Humanities and Analysing Audiovisual Culture in Digital Humanities by Prof. Dr. Mila Oiva 📄AI Reading Club and Encoding Cultural Collections with Machine Learning by Dr. Tillmann Ohm

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

📚 Courses this semester at Images & Objects Explore Digital Humanities through data visualisation, audiovisual culture, AI, machine learning and digital cultural collections. Courses by @mila-oiva.bsky.social and @tillmannohm.bsky.social Course overview: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2026/10/07/e...

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DH2027 @adho-conferences.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#DH2027 is coming to Galway! ⛵️ Join us 28 June–3 July 2027 at the University of Galway for ADHO’s 37th annual conference, on the theme #Creativity. Our website is now live: dh2027.adho.org Watch this space: the CfP is coming soon. #DH2027 @adho-org.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

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DH2027 @adho-conferences.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The #DH2027 CfP is open! Join us in Galway, Ireland, 28 June–3 July 2027, for #DH2027, on the theme "Creativity". 📖 Call for Proposals: dh2027.adho.org/cfp/ 📤 Submit via ConfTool starting Oct 7, 00:00 Irish time: www.conftool.pro/dh2027/ Deadline: 20 November 2026, 23:59 AoE.

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DH2027 @adho-conferences.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The gates are open! 🎉 New-user registration and submissions for #DH2027 are now live on ConfTool: www.conftool.pro/dh2027/ After an intimate acquaintance with far too many settings and checkboxes, we can finally say: send us your proposals!

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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Join us this Friday, Oct. 9, for an addition to the Cultural Analytics series! In her talk, CU Boulder Prof. mariaa.bsky.social argues for descriptive, analytical methods for exploring and mapping narrative spaces. 📅 12-1:30 pm 📍 210 South Hall & Online

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In the Garden of Forking Paths: Mapping and Making Sense of Storytelling at Scale

Oct 9, 2026, 12:00 pm - Maria Antoniak analyzes AI-generated stories, mapping how people use AI for storytelling.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm in the Bay Area this week! 🌊 Today: #TADA2026 @ Berkeley Tues-Thurs: #COLM2026 @ SF Fri: Giving an invited talk @ Berkeley

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

"As in any fairytale, accepting magical assistance comes with risk". -- Ted Underwood #ArtificialIntelligence

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thank you so much for providing this!!! Amazing 🥳

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#TADA2026 is now up on lea.ac! Full schedule, filterable by people you follow, a custom feed, and more! (This is not part of the official TADA organization, just an experiment. Try it out and let us know what you think! Also a nice way to follow along virtually if you can't attend in person!)

A screenshot from Lea showing the conference page for TADA. The program tab is selected, and presentations are filtered by "People I follow." Each resulting presentation includes the title, presenters, location, time, a topic tag, and the person (or people) presenting whom I follow.

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Adam Visokay @avisokay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looking forward to the Text as Data conference on Monday at UC Berkeley! I will be presenting our new paper "Multi-Perspective LLM Annotations for Valid Analyses in Subjective Tasks" which is a joint effort with Navya Mehrotra and @gligoric.bsky.social. 🧵

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Love seeing @quinnanya.me being quoted at the anti-conference re failures in the Digital Humanities :) Quote from this event from 2022: dhandlib.org/event-reframing-failur…

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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🎙 In our new episode, we spoke with @veredshwartz.bsky.social (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The University of British Columbia) and highlighted her book Lost in Automatic Translation: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies. (1/7🧵)

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We research narrative fiction — but how? 📚🔍 In our new series, “Meet Our Researchers” get to know James Tauber and get a first glimpse into his PhD research. More fascinating insights and discoveries from @jtauber.com to come. ✨ youtu.be/dblAizA_IHM

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The Language of Fiction - James Tauber

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What exciting times ahead! @jtauber.com is also teaching two much-anticipated courses in the coming semester: Digital Tolkien Applying Python for Digital Humanities and Social Studies Two exciting opportunities to explore digital approaches to literature, language, and the humanities.

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naitian @naitian.org · 24/09/2026

If you haven't yet registered for TADA 2026 on October 5th (day before COLM), registration is open to the public! Detailed schedule forthcoming, but lots of fantastic posters and talks. We even have a second half-day of lightning talks scheduled! tada2026.eventbrite.com

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Text as Data 2026

A leading forum for interdisciplinary research on the study of politics, society, and culture through computational analysis of documents.

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

July 8-9, 2027, at the University of Groningen @rug.nl, The Netherlands. Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2027 Submission portal opens: October 1, 2026 jcls.io/site/dates/ #CCLS2027 @fpianz.eurosky.social @gronlp.bsky.social

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 6th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, July 8-9, 2027, in #Groningen, #TheNetherlands! #CCLS2027 #CfP Submit your article by February 1, 2027! 🥳🥳🥳 jcls.io/site/cfp/

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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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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes! I just contacted the responsible person to find out where people can access it. 👩‍💻

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dear @fotisjannidis.bsky.social, thank you so much for coming over to Berkeley, for your ongoing support as my mentor, and for these productive and collegial days of exchange. 💻✍️📚

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@fotisjannidis.bsky.social's stay at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social also involved students in 1:1 sessions and at the Cultural Analytics Research Lab #CARL, where we co-taught a workshop on systematic manual and automated #CLS annotation and output evaluation through #IAA and model-as-judge checks.

Svenja presenting a slide introducing Fotis at the Cultural Analytics Research Lab CARL

Fotis introducing a basic workflow for LLM annotation and validation at the Cultural Analytics Research Lab CARL

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

His talk "Fail Better? The Computational Study of Character Types in Narratives" led into a lively discussion on the benefits and pitfalls of automating the #CLS annotation process with #GenerativeModels, and on how to #validate that the output we receive is actually what we were asking for.

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Fail Better? The Computational Study of Character Types in Narratives

Sep 9, 2026, 12:10 pm - Fotis Jannidis is a professor of computer philology and history of contemporary German literature in the Institute for German Philology at the University of Würzburg, Germany.

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Last week (07–12 September), I had the pleasure of welcoming @fotisjannidis.bsky.social from @uni-wuerzburg.de to the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social. His visit began with the first lecture of the new academic year in our #Bellwether Lecture Series at the I School.

Fotis in front of a full audience for his Bellwether Lecture

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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Bellwether Lecture Series returns to the I School with a talk by @uni-wuerzburg.de Prof. @fotisjannidis.bsky.social! In his talk, Jannidis presents an experimental approach to modeling character abstractions. 📅 Tomorrow, Sept 9, 12:10-1:30 pm 📍 210 South Hall & Online bit.ly/4gqssc0

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 08/09/2026

Knitting machine punch cards are a living form of computing history. 🧶💾 In "Punch Card Knitting," Nichole Misako Nomura explores how these binary codes are still used today, and the challenges of preserving them. 📚 Read it in VANISHING CULTURE, FREE: archive.org/details/vani...

What can knitting machines teach us about the history of computing?

"They're an important piece of computing history—and crucially, one of the few that isn't only history because a broad community of people, on- and off-line, are still sharing knowledge on how to hack, restore, and use

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CATMA @catma.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

What's working in CATMA, and what isn't? We're currently running a survey on the features you use — annotating, queries, tagsets, teamwork — and how the interface holds up. Feedback from recently joined and long-time users alike is welcome. ~5-10 min, anonymous. forms.gle/3uNQNdE4NiBx...

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Survey for CATMA users

This survey takes around 5-10 minutes and asks for your experience with CATMA. We are looking for feedback from both new and experienced users, your answers help us improve CATMA. All responses are an...

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My history of AI poster's updated! It now features notable prehistory, the 1930s, + about 40 additional nodes in the 40s-2020s (including a new McCarthy quote from 2005). you can download it from my website and if you find any typos I don't want to know www.daniellejwilliams.com/posters

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Jean Barré @jbarre.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Interested by a corpus of 19th/early 20th c. French for your research? Here's the French corpus of 11K! novels I tried to curate during my PhD 😅, now live at JOHD, and downloadable on Zenodo! 📄 doi.org/10.5334/johd.597 📦 zenodo.org/records/20233178

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Hors d’usage: Curated French Fiction from Gallica, 1800–1950 | Journal of Open Humanities Data

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We found that only 2% of AI-generated stories about animals featured female characters. They talked to my colleague Michelle Martin and Kate Sellers from Seattle Public Library to contextualize these findings. “If you don’t see [yourself] in what you read, you get the idea that you don’t count.”

Screenshot from article that reads: "Russell Samora, 38, of western Massachusetts was reading a children’s book with his daughter when the thought crossed his mind: Why are the bears always boys?

He remembered thinking, “Wait a minute, there’s a bear and a rabbit in the story, but there’s absolutely no reason for the bear to be referred to as a boy.”

That’s when Samora started noticing a trend. Most of the animals in the books he read to his daughter were male.

“It was something I couldn’t unsee,” he said.

He became curious why animal characters are usually boys. A data journalist himself, Samora teamed up with experts, including Melanie Walsh, an assistant professor of informatics at the University of Washington, to determine which genders were assigned most often to animal characters in children’s books.

Now, Walsh and doctoral students Imani Finkley and Yuanxi Li have taken those questions one step further by exploring what happens when artificial intelligence gets involved."

Screenshot from articles that reads: "Researchers also surveyed 1,300 people to see how their biases would stack up against the books. They asked respondents to finish this sentence: “And then the bear said, ‘I must go to the river.’ Upon arriving….”

While the bear was randomly swapped for bird, cat, pig, duck, mouse or dog, the survey results revealed distinct gender biases. Respondents favored male pronouns for all six animals.

These results were published in The Pudding last year.

As AI-generated children’s books hit the market, Walsh said her team’s study, which builds upon earlier findings, can guide future research on AI and gender bias.

“Undeniably, AI is already being used in children’s storytelling,” she said.

Books with AI-generated content have flooded the self-publishing market on platforms like Amazon. Features like Gemini’s Storybook also allow users to generate children’s stories for AI to read aloud."

Screenshot from article that reads: "Yeah, we can use this model to generate a story about a talking bear for my child, but how is this bear being represented?" said Finkley, one of the doctoral students who worked on the study.

Michelle Martin, the Beverly Cleary professor for children and youth services at the UW Information School, said she's not surprised by the study's findings, since AI algorithms learn from existing content that reflects human bias.

But she also said representation is especially important in books designed for kids.

"It's important for children to see representation of their experiences," she said. "If you don't see it in what you read, you get the idea that you don't count."

Libraries have also jumped in on the AI conversation. The Seattle Public Library has committed to not purchasing materials that include AI-generated content, said Kate Sellers, managing librarian for technical and collection services, in a statement.

However, she also said it can be difficult to tell when AI has been used.

"These materials in digital format are not always properly labeled or identified by OverDrive, our main e-book and e-audiobook vendor, so it is possible some will appear in the collection in the Libby app, but we do our best to monitor the situation and avoid AI-generated materials when selecting new materials for the Library's collection," she said.

Screenshot from article with plot that shows all six models plus human survey baseline and model average, broken down by how the animal characters in stories were gendered. Feminine only ever reaches 3% for any of the models, but reaches about 13% for human survey. Otherwise mostly dominated by neutral and masculine.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Learn more about this story and see Greiner’s drawing before it’s returned to Dresden in the exhibition Lost. Found. Returned. on view at the Getty Center through October 18. www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...

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Lost. Found. Returned. | Getty Exhibition

The story of how a drawing by Otto Greiner disappears from Dresden during World War II and re-emerges in Los Angeles decades later

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DraCor @dracor.org · 14/08/2026

**Women Playwrights in Digital Corpora: a #DraCor Hackathon** University of Rostock 7–9 September 2026 Registration is now open, and participation is free. Organised by Erik Renz & Ulrike Henny-Krahmer. More info: blog.dracor.org/posts/hackat... #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

our new paper with @plechac.bsky.social puts thousands of poems across languages in one shared space of poetic form! we use sequence alignment on rhyme schemes to investigate 'fixed forms' and all things between: not only 'sonnets', but 'sonnet-like' things. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

a clustered umap of the formal space of poetry defined by sequence alignment distances between rhyme schemes in 6 languages. below: the same space, but colored only by poems that bear 'fixed forms' labels in Czech and Russian corpora.

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Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The map is now set up in the office ready to start 'mapping' sound heritage survey responses 🤩 If you haven't completed the survey please do. I'd be particularly grateful for responses representing sounds outside of Europe tinyurl.com/2twuzpfd

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Laura Untner @luntner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Fascinating talk! I very much recommend the paper. #DH2026

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Is Wuthering Heights secretly a buddy story about a horse and a dog who just tolerate the humans? 🐴🐕 That is the vibe of EcoCor. At #DH2026, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje just presented our open infra for digital ecocriticism, tracking plants & animals in lit. Slides: plu.sh/ecocor

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Axel Pichler @axelpichler.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

📢 Prae-Doc-Stelle (30h, 3 Jahre) am Institut für Germanistik der Uni Wien im FWF-Projekt »Mind the Gap: Theory-driven Operationalization in Computational Literary Studies«. Thema: literaturwiss. Konzepte für computergestützte Verfahren messbar machen – Fallbeispiel dt. Kurzgeschichte nach 1945 […]

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Agnes Hilger @agneshilger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

And/or our interactive slides: slides.com/agneshilger/dh2026

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Agnes Hilger @agneshilger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Demonstrating the canonicity power law distribution with our slides and my hand 🫳 At our talk at #DH2026 with @janaeckardt.bsky.social and @mertenkroencke.bsky.social

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Excellent thread! This also reminds me of David Bamman's work on films as data, which, if I understand correctly, you *are* legally allowed to use for research, as long as you own and retain a physical copy, and as long as you don't enjoy watching it : ) www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Measuring diversity in Hollywood through the large-scale computational analysis of film | PNAS

Movies are a massively popular and influential form of media, but their computational study at scale has largely been off-limits to researchers in ...

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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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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.

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