iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 7h

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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Arne Semsrott @arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 8h

1) Die AfD plant in Sachsen-Anhalt gemeinsam mit dem BSW, nur noch ihre eigenen Landtags(vize)präsidenten zuzulassen. Damit können alle anderen Fraktionen gegängelt werden. 2) Sie wollen die Ausschüsse so besetzen, dass die AfD überall Blockademehrheit hat. Nur noch AfD-Themen auf der Tagesordnung.

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/09/2026

Over a year ago I ruined a different job interview by describing how I got Surinam toads to fuck when asked what challenges I overcame that year. But for a job as an aquarist, that would be a net positive.

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Nico Lange @nicolange.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In Kyjiw brennt nach einem direkten russischen Drohnentreffer das Gebäude der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften im Stadtzentrum. Menschen klettern aus den Fenstern, um nicht zu verbrennen. Ein russisches Kriegsverbrechen reiht sich an das andere.

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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This Fri + Sat, Humanistic AI conference at Duke! Great line-up of speakers from lit studies, history, philosophy & computer science, working out what gen AI means for humanistic inquiry & what humanistic knowledge means for gen AI development. Schedule in link: sites.duke.edu/humanisticai...

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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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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 19/09/2026

FelonyBench update

felonybench plot, Ant=10, oai=8, gdm=3, meta=1

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/09/2026

Here is our draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981. It was written by a lovely human.

Index card with Merriam-Webster's draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981

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moritzrother.bsky.social @moritzrother.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Es wurde ihm gesagt.

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Thomas Haider @philaut.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Italian incense-and-tarot shop sells these tin plates for 14€ a pop. AI slop for your toilet.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

MIT has put out an "AI and Education" report summarizing what they've found at their own institution. Seems thoughtful. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 27/08/2026

Apparently in the next version of Fable, Anthropic changed their tokenizer based on real world usage and made “Let me check rather than answer from memory” into a single token, reportedly saving 43% of all token generation very interesting tinyurl.com/58zf9d3c

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Odysseus mentioning that he’s in the Bronze Age made me think of a caveman saying “Man it is extremely Paleolithic around here lately”

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Nico Semsrott @nicosemsrott.de · 18/07/2026

Staatliches Geld an CDU-Freunde, gute Verbindungen zu rechtsextremen Milliardären, Parteispendendinner - da fiel immer auch was ab für die Union. Seine Skrupellosigkeit war für die CDU nie das Problem. Sondern, dass in der Union diesmal niemand davon profitiert hat. Anfängerfehler. #Spahn

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Claude Mythos will be followed by a family of dual models Claude Eros and Claude Thanatos that will guide the fates of humans to tragic, but poetically orchestrated, ends.

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Philip K. @herbilis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Rückkopplung von 'KI'-Slop (?)

Googlesuche nach Bertolt Brecht, erstes Bild/Porträt sieht nach 'KI' aus

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FragDenStaat @fragdenstaat.de · 03/07/2026

Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

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SPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!

Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokumente herausgeben – seien es Verträge, interne Weisungen oder...

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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ich wage mal eine Prognose. Erster Akt: per Gesetz alle am ersten Tag zum Arzt zwingen, damit auch jeder Schnupfen eine Krankmeldung produziert. Zweiter Akt: ein halbes Jahr später empört den selbst erzeugten Rekordstand beklagen. Dritter Akt: erster Krankheitstag ohne Lohn, versteht sich.

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Thomas Haider @philaut.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New paper is out, where I contributed a bit to the methodology: Teich, M., Cypionka, A., Haider, T., Rehbein, M. Measuring Nuclear Democracy: A Large-Scale Analysis of German Nuclear Energy Discourse. Histories (MDPI) 6(2):34. www.mdpi.com/2409-9252/6/...

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Thomas Haider @philaut.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

After driving across Europe to attend @plottingpoetry.bsky.social in Caen, Normandy, I am taking a quick breather in my hometown Landshut, Bavaria.

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Thomas Haider @philaut.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"Lawns are nature purged of sex or death. No wonder Americans like them so much." Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

I'm very excited that @tedunderwood.me will be giving a virtual talk, "How Digital Humanists Are Contending with Deep Learning," next Monday at 12:30pm Pacific! Hosted by @uwischool.bsky.social Email me for the Zoom link if you'd like to join!

Flyer for Ted Underwood's talk, ""How Digital Humanists Are Contending with Deep Learning"

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Thomas Haider @philaut.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Bitte nicht vergessen: ab sofort ist es verboten, an bayrischen Unis zu gendern! So retten wir die Welt! #zuchtundordnung www.instagram.com/p/C4s6UBptfw...

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ZEIT on Instagram:

8,316 likes, 1,779 comments - zeit on March 19, 2024:

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

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Thomas Haider @philaut.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Check out the keynotes for DHd2024: Marco Van Leeuwen and Michaela Mahlberg dhd2024.dig-hum.de/programm-eve...

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Nils Markwardt @fjmurau.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

Auch das noch

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Malte Rehbein @malterehbein.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Programm für #dhd2024 online: dhd2024.dig-hum.de #digitalhumanities

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Thomas Haider @philaut.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Morgen ist der letzte Tag für die Early Bird Registrierung für die Dhd2024 in Passau. Late Bird wird bis 18.02.2024 offen sein. dhd2024.dig-hum.de/registrierung/

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 02/11/2023

Overview of AI in the publishing industry. E.g., "Penguin Random House uses AI to analyze book manuscripts for market potential and reader engagement. AI tools assist in making data-driven decisions regarding book acquisitions." #cssky

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Whitepaper: The Transformative Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Publishing Industry | FADEL

FADEL®, innovator of brand compliance and digital rights management software, today announced the rollout of PictureDesk, a high-speed, cloud-based content services platform, for Australia and New Ze...

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