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Jamie Folsom

@jamiefolsom.bsky.social
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Partner at @performant.bsky.social (Performant Software), developing software for the digital humanities. Boston, Vermont and sometimes Maine.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An important read about class and academic jobs www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
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The Working Class Face a ‘Class Ceiling’ in Elite Occupations (Gift Article)
Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A reminder that the sitting president is named 38,000 times in the Epstein files, is an adjudicated sexual abuser and brags about grabbing women by their genitals. Time for him to go. Make sure you are registered to vote for the most important midterm election of our lifetimes. 
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Jamie Folsom @jamiefolsom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a... 💔
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
There are two paths before you Massachusetts, you may take only one.
Image of Ed Markey wearing a trans rights flag at the No Kings Rally next to an image of Seth Moulton at the rally.
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Jamie Folsom @jamiefolsom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
@markey.senate.gov all the way. Shame on Seth Moulton www.reddit.com/r/massachuse...
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From the massachusetts community on Reddit: Markey stands up for Trans Kids. He has never fed into the demonization of this community. Seth Moulton did, end of story.
Explore this post and more from the massachusetts community
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A lot of us have pointed out that attacks on higher ed have broader economic implications for local communities. The Boston Globe has a story on the impact of higher ed cuts on the Massachusetts economy. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/18/b...
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Almost 130,000 people work at Mass. universities. Many are now on the ‘chopping blocks.’ - The Boston Globe
Higher education has long felt like the most stable sector of the Massachusetts economy. Not anymore.
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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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James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I like the concluding call to action of the #DH2026 opening keynote.
PART 4. PATH TO FUTURE

A Call to Action for Digital Humanists

3 Missions for Digital Humanists

1.Design Al-collaborative humanities research methodologies.

2. Build public Al research environments for humanists.

3. Establish new educational frameworks for future scholars.

Be Mediators of Transformation Connecting Traditional Humanities with Al

#DH2026 OPENING KEYNOTE

Closing
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“For a field that is supposedly reshaping science and is so advanced in terms of scientific potential, not having any scientific documentation seems like a very weird paradox,” says paper co-author John Ioannidis, a metascientist at Stanford University. 🤡 www.science.org/content/arti...
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AI’s top startups are barely publishing their research
More than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Happy DATA EMPIRE day! Want a sticker with my autograph for your copy? Fill out this form: roopikarisam.com/get-your-sig... Order my 11,000 year tale of how data gained so much power over us and how we can resist it now! N. America: tinyurl.com/DataEmpireUS Elsewhere: tinyurl.com/DataEmpireUK
Data Empire, from ancient Mesopotamia to artificial intelligence, a global history of how data came to shape our world and the US and UK covers
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
There's so much destruction right now. Of course you can't fix everything yourself. But you can focus on one thing, find some like-minded people, and make a real difference.
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Truly one of my favorite collaborators! And thank you #ACH2026 for a great conference.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Does he understand that passports are given to Americans who go to other countries, not to people visiting the US?
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Jamie Folsom @jamiefolsom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Raymond Queneau's Exercises de Style gets a mention at #ACH2026!
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Jamie Folsom @jamiefolsom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Super excited to be presenting with @roopikarisam.bsky.social this morning at #ACH2026 on "Hybrid Minimal Computing"! Slides (for my part, the technical dimension) here: dh.tools/hybrid
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Hybrid Minimal Computing — ACH 2026
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Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
📢Introducing 1776: Views from the British World! Timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that launched a revolution that created the USA, this series complicates traditional narratives of this event by situating it in a larger British world context.
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Jamie Folsom @jamiefolsom.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Thrilled to be at #dhsi2026 to talk about using Performant Studio (open source #dh tools) to make a map based research website! dh.tools/maps
A slide listing the presenters of lighting talks at the DHSI 2026 aligned conference in Montréal.
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
DATA EMPIRE is on NPR's list! "A book that promises not to just show how empires have collected and weaponized data over the ages, but also how we can resist, is an easy must-read for me." wnyc.org/npr/nx-s1-58... Pre-order: N. America: tinyurl.com/DataEmpireUS Elsewhere: tinyurl.com/DataEmpireUK
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15 books our critics can't wait for this summer | WNYC
A gothic horror tale, a creepy science-fiction romp, a sweeping romance, an intergenerational saga, a book about birds — here are the fiction and nonfiction our critics are most looking forward to.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
the murder of juniper blessing is a horrifying reminder of the campaign of violence being waged by the most powerful against the vulnerable and the environment of hate being encouraged on all sides of the political spectrum
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
250 workers jobless with no severance and little notice; support Hampshire staff and faculty! www.helphampshireworkers.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
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Help Hampshire Workers | Support Hampshire Workers Today
Support Hampshire College staff and faculty facing job loss with emergency relief funds for essential needs. Contributions and support help provide immediate assistance during this critical time.
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Jamie Folsom @jamiefolsom.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
@roopikarisam.bsky.social now presenting the Pan African Data Project panafricandata.org #ctdh
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Jamie Folsom @jamiefolsom.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
At #ctdh listening to the incomparable @roopikarisam.bsky.social on “Knowledge at Scale: Data, Power and the Work of the Humanities”
Roopika Risam presenting about the history of Data. With a slide showing “an Incan quipu”
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David Smith @dasmiq.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Paris friends! Amis parisiens ! This Thursday is the first of four public lectures I'm giving on AI and philology, broadly defined: "Philological Reasoning and Computational Models." The advertisement is in French, but the lectures are in English. I'd also love to meet while I'm here in March! 1/
Poster advertising lectures on "Raisonnement Philologique et Modèles Informatiques" stating at 4pm, Thursday, March 12, at 54 Boulevard Raspail, Paris.
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Woo hoo! Our proposal for #DH2026, “Minimal Computing with a Database? The Pan-African Data Project as Hybrid Minimal Computing,” was accepted. This was, however, the first time I had two of the reviews say to go back and re-read Roopika Risam’s work. My powers of anonymization are strong!
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Kelley Kreitz @kelleykreitz.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I am delighted to share that my book, Printing Nueva York, is now available for pre-order from @nyupress.bsky.social. It uncovers the early history of Latinx writing and publishing in NYC. Use code NYUAU30 for 30% off: nyupress.org/978147983053...
Cover image of printing Nueva York, showing a nineteenth-century reader with a newspaper draped over an anvil.
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Kelley Kreitz @kelleykreitz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Today is publication day for my book, Printing Nueva York: Spanish-Language Print Culture, Media Change, and Democracy in the Late Nineteenth Century. nyupress.org/978147983053... I am grateful to @nyupress.bsky.social for making it possible! #NYUPress #LatinxStudies #19thCenturyPrintCulture
Cover of book showing man reading newspaper on anvil and NYU discount code NYUAU30.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 24/12/2025
“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.
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Opinion | The Way to Pay for Free Buses Is to End Free Parking
Free buses would be transformative not only for riders, but for the ecosystem of the city as a whole.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
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Paige Roberts @paige-roberts.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
DARIAH (digital research infrastructure for art and humanities scholars in the EU) has a new journal, Transformations Vol 1: workflows transformations.episciences.org/volumes/965 @dariaheu.bsky.social #DH #DigitalHumanities
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Episciences
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Cannot wait to share this with all of you!
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Hands down, the best professional decision I made last year was to work with @performant.bsky.social. Could not love collaborating with @jamiefolsom.bsky.social @anindita.org and their amazing colleagues more. 😍
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Native Bound Unbound @natboundunbound.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Honoring our collaborators @performant.bsky.social, whose rigor and skill helped make Native Bound Unbound possible. They built a platform that connects people, stories, and places across time—a living archive built with care, precision, and imagination. #NativeBoundUnbound #DigitalHumanities
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coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 05/11/2025
Not unexpected, but scary/impressive/fascinating... Just-in-Time Malware that use LLMs during execution, to "dynamically generate malicious scripts, obfuscate their own code to evade detection, and leverage AI models to create malicious functions on demand."
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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 31/10/2025
A project that my company @performant.bsky.social has been working on for multiple years launches tomorrow! Launch events will be live-streamed on Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm MT. It's been such a privilege to work with the Native Bound Unbound team. They describe the project as follows... (1/4) #DH
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2025
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Google AI search result for “was 2010 fifteen years ago?” returning: “No, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15 years ago. The current year is 2025, and to find the number of years ago 2010 was, you subtract 2010 from 2025, which equals 14. 
Current Year: 2025
Past Year: 2010
Years Ago: 2025 - 2010 = 14 years”
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Jamie Folsom @jamiefolsom.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...
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How to Leave Substack
Link to: https://leavesubstack.com/
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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We’re thrilled to be a Pelagios Partner. Great working with such a smart, generous group of collaborators.
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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We feel so lucky to work with you, Roopsi! Data essays (among other great ideas you imagined) have become key features available to future projects.
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Working with Performant over the last year has been dreamy! I had wanted to collaborate with them for a while, and it’s been as awesome as I hoped. (And this link has a tiny sneak preview, aka screenshots, of what we’ve been up to.)
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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Pelagios is proud to count Performant & Rainer as Partners. Together, we are trying to build methods/tools for annotating & structuring data "in the round", where different Partners contribute knowledge, resource and/or funding, towards distributive resilience. Join our community of practice #dh2025
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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The whole suite is available at affordably for those who can’t or don’t want to self-host, and the final product of a project can be built as a static website, hostable freely, and independently of the software (static images, maps and search coming soon) #dh2025 #minicomp
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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Performant Studio is a set of smaller sharper tools which you can use together or separately, and which integrate nicely with others, including Recogito Studio, the TEI and IIIF annotation platform we built in collaboration with @aboutgeo.bsky.social, University of Bonn and others. #dh2025
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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Alongside the software, we’ve started a series of how-tos, describing things you can do with Performant Studio, with or without our help. The first is “How to Publish a Digital Edition”: www.performantsoftware.com/solutions/ed...
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How to Publish a Digital Edition
We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.
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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Ask @nicklaiacona.bsky.social about it if you see him at #dh2025! www.performantsoftware.com/studio/
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Performant Studio
We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.
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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Not at #DH2025 this year but following from afar. If you’re there, check out work from friends & partners: • @jamiefolsom.bsky.social on #RecogitoStudio at the DHTech this afternoon. • Kathryn Wilson on #DigitalCamerarius. (Ok, didn’t contribute much, but I think my logo made it onto the poster 😉)
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Another day has passed and nothing from the acting head of FEMA in a disaster that killed 100+ people and I haven’t seen any journalists ask the administration where he is…??? Knowing who is currently leading FEMA strikes me as something the public has a vital interest in…
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