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Jeffrey M. Binder

@jbinder.bsky.social

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Author of Language and the Rise of the Algorithm (U. Chicago Press, 2022). Intellectual historian/programmer, currently working in applied ML but still a humanities person at heart. PhD from CUNY. Opinions my own.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Error message from a furniture store website saying, "Loading Issue / Please continue shopping."

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

New publication alert! I contributed a chapter to the book Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature (@edinburghup.bsky.social). My chapter touches on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” the Mechanical Turk hoax, and Charles Babbage's approach to establishing trust in machines.

The cover of Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature, edited by Adam Kelly and Katerina Pavlidi.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

There’s also Choco Leibniz, named after the inventor of choco calculus

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

My book made it to the Chicago Manual of Style! I don't know how I'm going to top this.

A page from the book Language and the Rise of the Algorithm reproduced as a figure in the Chicago Manual of Style.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

If you see this, quote skeet with a famous landmark you’ve seen.

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Jeffrey M. Binder @jbinder.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Thinking of the time when I bought two CDs from a stand at the WFMU record fair—"Momentum" by Monolake and "Jonathan Sings!" by Jonathan Richman—and the seller seemed to have trouble comprehending that the same person could want both of these albums.