Reposted by Jajwalya Karajgikarpam lach @plach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026For the 1st time ever, I didn't use slides or notes (other than some ideas for the digital experiences walk I typed on my phone as they came in). I was completely improvisational. I shared my sleep physicalization & showed my 30-day ❤️ monitor/companion phone to explicate how we're quantified/tracked 131 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So excited for + so proud of My Intrepid Colleague and yours, @walshbr.bsky.social! 🌻 151 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarQuinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 26/08/2026My first attempt to learn Python (in library school) was under Python 2, and it was beyond frustrating that the data I wanted to work with (Cyrillic) involved all kinds of elaborate workarounds to not get mangled from the start. I gave up for nearly a decade. #MultilingualDH 2214 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Next book for the book club, Data Empire by @roopikarisam.bsky.social Then Deep Unlearning by @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Excitedddd 🌻 250 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026AI Literacy Interest Group at Penn Libraries #EmpireOfAI Book Club + hands-on workshop series tinyurl.com/AILIGFeb24 Open to all in Philly area! @karenhao.bsky.social book chapters thematize the workshops where we will discuss socio-technical issues <adrenaline rush fueled rahhh let's goo> 141 0
Reposted by Jajwalya Karajgikar404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. 15162243912 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarRoopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 11/08/2026What is digital humanities but two mankinds next to a computer? 0121 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarIsaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Just in case some other writer out there today needs to know exactly what time of day their character might hear a specific animal cry at a specific location xeno-canto.org 622372 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarThree Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Big Tobacco did it first! We speak with scholar and filmmaker @savasavasava.myatproto.social about the state of technology in schools, on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “Who’s Responsible for ‘Responsible AI’”. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social ) 54717 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I genuinely know this to be true, So Excited for the future @emgrumbach.bsky.social @plach.bsky.social 030 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarQuinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 06/08/2026That's what I love about the subculture of @ach.bsky.social, AI is not expected or treated as synonymous with progress. There's the #DHmakes group that looks towards engaging with pre-computer tech in various ways, including understanding data differently. That's where my own interests lie now. 2132 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026" @brettbobley.bsky.social: "You guys, Quinn made me a scarf." Having an AI event start that way — leading with what is, in some ways, its opposite — left me feeling like we are, in fact, on to something with #DHmakes." 🫡😤 that's right 010 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026😭🥹 "[ACH is] organization where critical craft work like we do with #DHmakes makes intuitive sense and doesn't face reflexive skepticism." we did that team, @ach.bsky.social Sara @literaturegeek.bsky.social thank you to the brightest beacon of inspiration in my career @quinnanya.me 🌻 050 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026working on a talk for late fall and wanted to share some *older* texts that anyone writing about data centers today should know about! 1339 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them 232984738 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026yus thank you for the interest Dot! What a confluence of ideas and needs and possibilities! 020 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026So excited I get to scheme square and learn Writing and Teaching from Brandon Walshhhh (aka talk more about ttrpgs of course!) #GamesBasedDHpedagogy #DHMakes #CriticalMaking 251 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarDr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 30/07/2026I am unbelievably touched that @dropout.tv titled my @dimension20.dropout.tv Adventuring Academy episode “A Duty of Care” I’m overwhelmed today, but I want to circle back in a while to share the links to everyone & everything I cited. More soon.watch.dropout.tvA Duty of Care (with Dr. Emily Friedman) - Season 7 - DropoutDr. Emily Friedman joins Brennan to discuss the history of actual play and the best gaming system. Content Warning: Misophonia (Crunching) - [throughout 54:37-1:01:03] 50700123 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"I wish the recent tellings of the Luddite mvmt wld... let their story go on a bit longer. By 1820, the Luddites had been crushed... But by that time weavers were already pursuing a quieter strategy. They formed [co-ops]... Thru them, weavers went from working in factories to co-owning factories."flaminghydra.comBodies upon the gearsAlternative approaches to The Man, considered by Nathan Schneider 16222 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Ring the bells this just became VERY Digital Humanities-y with @friede.bsky.social talking about all the Spreadsheets of Data for her book + Positionally on Facts, Institutions, People's Feelings Academics have a duty of care 😭 my heart, even as I am battling uncritical AI adoption 062 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarRoopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I 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. 971523152 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026oh to be characterized as someone who is coming to a potluck not with chips from gas station but with elaborate slowcooked hearty meal (Ghormeh Sabzi, Biryani, Gutti Vankaiya in my case btw) @friede.bsky.social Going in my book of words that ache after Hadestown lyrics 021 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Gods bless the venn diagram of my games-based pedagogy academic nerdery 😭🥹 @friede.bsky.social @dimension20.dropout.tv @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social "there's something magical about the emergent" 🌻 "teaching is the greatest improv of my life"🌿 083 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29/07/2026As scholars and journalists start to write more about data center noise politics, I hope they'll consider the precedents — the history of noise abatement activism + regulation, the whole history of zoning (which is in large part about sensory regulation), etc. 312431 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarDr. Amanda Licastro @amandalicastro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Ok, I have been MIA on this platform because life has been busy, but I want to remind you Digital Humanities Quarterly invites abstracts for a special issue on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to digital humanities pedagogy due August 1 dhq.digitalhumanities.org/submissions/...dhq.digitalhumanities.orgDHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Calls for Proposals 0159 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 27/07/2026Read this to learn about “costume drama,” “leprechaun talk,” and other ways language models can fail when asked to represent the past! 2297 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 28/07/2026I’m not at #DH2026 in Daejeon but what I’m seeing on here looks amazing and makes me cheerful about the future of the field; congrats, @kadhsocial.bsky.social ! 0364 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026#DH2026 #DHmakes mini conference off to an elaborate show & tell! 7? crafting tables! @quinnanya.me wish I could get my hands on backpack and suitcase of supplies too! #dh26 0204 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026brb drowning myself in soondubujiggae and makkgeaolli 000 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Shanmu took notes as I napped in the middle and now we have a fun series of data visualization of the conversations in the room! 120 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Was supposed to be in Korea right now attending @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social sigh Thanks to @deepthimurali.bsky.social for letting me vicariously live thru the cafe hopping experience & dealing with my sleep addled brain at the 1st miniconf we organized on Global South/Majority Community building 131 0
Reposted by Jajwalya Karajgikarkay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 24/07/2026paneling with Maria T. Accardi, Sam Popowich, and Tessa Withorn for @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social about critical AI & librarianship is all this as inevitable as some companies want us to think? 8/19 @ 1pm EST; virtual, free, register here! libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/a-cri...libraryjuiceconnections.orgA Critical Conversation on AI in Librarianship • Library Juice ConnectionsHow is AI affecting our work in librarianship and what can we do about it? A conversation with librarians about AI in librarianship 22010 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026how do you even pick just one? Digital Death Will? Actually Zine making for the web? this is the kinda hope 90s web could have dreamed about 040 0
Reposted by Jajwalya Karajgikarpam lach @plach.bsky.social · 11/07/20263/ ACH has been an essential space of connection for me, nurturing generative friendships that proved vital to my growth as a scholar & human. Liz & I are committed to embodying this legacy. You can see a little of how we plan to do it in our friendship manifesto: tinyurl.com/anti-managem....tinyurl.comDigital Humanities and Liberatory Friendship: An Anti-Management [Living] Manifesto (#ACH2026)Made with Padlet 142 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarBrandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Incoming co-presidents @plach.bsky.social and @emgrumbach.bsky.social ran a beautiful meeting that focused on building energy and community in the board. And the exec group had such great energy and ideas. Very excited for the future working with this crew. 0102 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarBrandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Yesterday @regan008.bsky.social started our term as @ach.bsky.social co-VPs, and the exec meeting was so lovely and exciting. Outgoing co-Presidents @nolauren.bsky.social and Andy Janco have done such a great job and set us up well. 1102 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarAmanda Regan, Ph.D. @regan008.bsky.social · 11/07/2026It’s so exciting to start this journey with @walshbr.bsky.social, @plach.bsky.social and @emgrumbach.bsky.social. Many many many thanks to @nolauren.bsky.social and Andy Janco for leaving us such a strong foundation. So much good work to come! 343 0
Reposted by Jajwalya Karajgikarpam lach @plach.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Excited & awed to begin my term as @ach.bsky.social Co-President with the incredible + brilliant @emgrumbach.bsky.social. Together with our amazing Co-VPs @walshbr.bsky.social & @regan008.bsky.social, we'll continue the work of those before us to nurture ACH as a community of care & solidarity. 1/ 3164 0
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I want this soooo bad I ache but please enjoy NYC people good for you ig I'll remain salty 152 0
Reposted by Jajwalya KarajgikarTim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...bangordailynews.comThese Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big TechDespite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful. 6666392475 0