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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I loved learning about well-funded DH work in Korea. NZ has a great creative ecosystem on a shoestring budget but virtually no H&SS research funding. What did exist for the Humanities as a small but impactful part of NZ$75 million circa 2024 was fully shut off starting in 2025.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 06/08/2026

Towards my quest to write five blog posts this month, I wrote up some musings on the two DH conferences I attended this summer and where different pieces of the community are going.

digitalhumanities.stanford.edu

Conference Musings on ACH and DH 2026

Digital Humanities @ Stanford

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Thank you for helping organize such an outstanding and inspiring conference

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DH Awards @dhawards.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So we opened 2026 nominations early for the #DH2026 conference.

Want to nominate something for DH Awards 2026?
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2026

DH 2 Awards

The annual open Digital Humanities Awards are now accepting nominations for 2026. The DH Awards are a set

of openly-nominated openly-voted annual awards run as a DH awareness raising activity. The awards are nominated and voted for entirely by absolutely anyone. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH resources in the spotlight internationally and engage DH users (and the public) in the work of the DH community. Awards are not specific to geography, language, conference, organization or field of humanities.

Note: There is no financial prize. Self-nominations are encouraged. Resources only needs to be nominated once. The only tests are: Is it loosely DH, can voters get to it, has it launched or had an update in 2026, and is it in the right category.

Nominations are open until 2026-12-31.

Nominate Here

Categories:

BEST USE OF DH FOR FUN

(e.g. something that uses DH for purpo joyment) ⚫ BEST DH DATA VISUALIZATION

(e.g. a visualization of DH data)

BEST EXPLORATION OF DH FAILURE/LIMITATIONS

g. a rep a project failed, or problems with DH)

BEST DH SHORT PUBLICATION

(e.g. bloq, article, video, on DH)

BEST DH TOOL OR SUITE OF TOOLS

(e.g. something used to build a DH resource)

BEST DH DATASET OR MODEL

(e.g. a corpus of texts, table of data, model, or similar used

for DH research)

BEST DH TRAINING MATERIALS

(e.g. talks, slides, exercises, videos or how-to guides in any

BEST DH RESOURCE

(e.g. digital scholarly edition, archive, or repository for DH)

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is amazing! Would it work for a Sankey chart?

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

ChatGPT vs. the Duplex: A Collaborative Student-Centered Inquiry into the Limits of Gen AI's Poetic Capabilities!, Lena Marchese, Elizabeth Garcia, Brittany Whelan, + working with @laurenfklein.bsky.social found Jericho Brown's poetry is resistant to LLM dupes: all repetition, no presence #DH2026

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

of Twitter/X and Facebook/Meta; /cite{Howard Rheingold, André Brock}) to parsers (e.g. let's interact with interpretation machines that serve bits and pieces of pre-scripted or generated possibility spaces hidden behind a prompt; /cite{Nick Montfort, Emily Short, Marie Laure-Ryan}). > Get Lamp

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#DH2026, where I used spatiality in Interactive Fiction and 20 years of IFComp as a proxy to talk for a minute about our collective transition from the bulletin board regime of online discourse as the dominant social-cognitive paradigm (e.g. let's all stand around the dumpster fire

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Great first day #DH2026 workshop on "Engaging Difficult Audiences: Designing Games for Bored Students, Visitors, and DH Scholars," by Sophia Booij (Australia National Uni) and Nellie Seale (Uni of Melbourne). Awesome real thoughtful framework for game design in GLAM, community, and teaching spaces.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@dh2026daejeon.bsky.social It turns out, most everywhere is a 10+ hour flight from New Zealand, including #DH2026, my first DH since moving. Got mine and Kevin Qu's poster on spatiality and topology of interactive fiction for the #SIG-DLS & DCL mini-conference, icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/20...

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"Fela understood that corruption is rarely just about losing money. It is about losing legitimacy. It is the theft of a nation’s faith in itself." In the US again, briefly, reading Fahamu's consideration of what it should mean to celebrate America. fahamupecou.substack.com/p/authority-...

fahamupecou.substack.com

Authority Stealing

Fela Kuti, Frederick Douglass, and the Unfinished American Experiment

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

one flat surface at a time.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I'm wondering if Hockney's, we need abstractions, is limited to Art, or if Art has, amoeba-like, like the Techne of Stieglitz, replaced the procedural rigor of engineering. The abstraction of the self-driving art car as a depiction of itself navigating the world like a projection map...

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

So, maybe, in an hand wavey humanist way, I can say that the LLM/Agentic output is an abstraction of a process. And as writing, slide making, poster design, driving, jurisprudence, power station monitoring and maintenance, and education are delegated to machines of approximation and abstraction

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

But we need that abstractive practice, he said, talking about art and depictions, and I'd agree, talking about domains other than art, but it's not the thing. The output, whether generated media or Agentic controller of a complex system, is an abstraction of a thing of process.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

And I'm speaking too broadly, as the lovely tutorial session on NLP and metaphor did that, covering conceptual metaphor theory and the long sweep of approaches from rule-based through to ML and LLMs, and R. Stuart Geiger just did that referencing "Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems"

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Don't get me wrong, I'm really enjoying ACLLM, the Assoc. For Computational Large Language Models 2026, but I'd love to hear someone use the word abstraction, or representation, like in the way David Hockney talked about how everything on a flat surface is an abstraction.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Paper: aclanthology.org/2026.nlpcss-... OIDA: oida-resources.jhu.edu NLP+CSS'26: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc...

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If anyone's heading to @aclmeeting.bsky.social and wants to grab tea, I'll be at @nlpandcss.bsky.social talking about how opioid products and the companies that made them act the same, as seen in their semantic action trajectories and a random sample of 10k docs from Opioid Industry Archive (OIDA).

aclanthology.org

Documenting Corporate Harm: A Semantic Action Trajectories Approach to the Opioid Industry Document Archive Shared Task

Ben Miller. Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science. 2026.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Paper: aclanthology.org/2026.nlpcss-... OIDA: oida-resources.jhu.edu NLP+CSS'26: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc...

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I'd wait an hour in the rain for a lecture half as good as Peter Caviello's grounded, informed, scathing, funny takedown not of a single NYT author, but of the whole rhetorical framework on which lazy Crossfire journalism is built. Didn't Jon Stewart demolish that mode ages ago?

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I just finished "There Is No Place for Us" by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social It's a modern, non-fiction, "The Jungle", about the purposely designed-to-fail housing system in this country - an unholy abomination of government & corporations - and the resulting dystopia www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in Ameri…

Through the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta famil…

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Faculty and staff. I watched for 7 years as enrollment at GSU approximately doubled (2011-2018, much via consolidation) while departments saw no new staff hires authorized.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 09/08/2025

We knew in our guts while hiding that the shooter was targeting us. This violence is driven by anti-vaccine propaganda. And the rot start at the top. Just this week RFK Jr canceled all mRNA vaccine research while lying about the technologies safety and effectiveness.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

How did we so quickly go from the GDPR's Right to Be Forgotten (2014) to the (2025) EU AI Act's solution to bias being more data in the system? Yes, each approach deals with a different problem, privacy and algorithmic violence by administrative regimes. Did we cede the finacialization of speech?

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

From someone who moved to Atlanta in the 90s and has long loved what people like Hannah Palmer, Marty Padgett, Mo Hobson, and so many others have to say about this place, thanks for sharing.

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Linda Diak @lindadiakquilts.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The penguin is quilted and ready to protest! It’s a bit crooked, but I have had vertigo off and on all week, so I’m okay with crooked.

Art quilt of an angry penguin with Hands Odd in orange above him. The dark blue background says “protect women’s rights, the arts, due process, free speech, lgbtqia+ rights, museums, libraries, research, science, national parks, our vote” and in the bottom of the penguin, “the penguins.”

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

👉 👈 Meta announced that they're changing their models to reduce "left-leaning [political] bias"--that means leaning them to the political "right". Lots to unpack about what that might mean. So I ran a quick "shot in the dark" study...and found a *political right* bias in Meta models. Some notes.🧵

Barchart showing meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B, meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B, meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct. Each model has two bars, a blue one saying PRO-LEFT and a red one saying PRO-RIGHT. The PRO-RIGHT bars on higher than the PRO-LEFT in all of them.

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I don't know how I could have misses the launch of this initiative by @carlbergstrom.com & @jevinwest.bsky.social but it's absolutely a must for anyone confused about what LLMs are and can do, as well as for anyone not skeptical enough about this technology: thebullshitmachines.com

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Spending the day at the Africana DH convening at Clark Atlanta U. Panel 1, @drtonieshat.bsky.social, Rico Chapman, Marco Robinson, Charmayne Patterson. So much good work on sharing local knowledge, imagining the future, and why Starbucks needed to think before putting a slogan on a coffee cup.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

As an applicant/awardee, grants.gov was a site where I felt like everything I did or wrote had to be exactly right or else. Insane.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Insane. This is like the opening scene of an early Neal Stephenson book where a pizza delivery kid blasting roots manuva walks in, reprograms a government system, and wanders off while people left behind frantically try to pick up the pieces, except the kid doesn't know how to read or write code

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

A newsletter for folks interested in cities, housing, affordable housing, and urban political economy. Please subscribe! Free! First up: "WHAT DO HOUSERS DO NOW?" I expect most entries to be more focused on a particular housing policy debate or an important piece of research I read.

dans-newsletter-cfccf2.beehiiv.com

What Do (U.S.) Housers Do Now?

This crisis is so different from others that housing folks have been through. A bit about some previous crises, and some initial thoughts about being a houser in the face of authoritarianism and hosti...

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Likewise, I feel indebted towards the ODH and would want to support this. Kathy, the Busa or Zampolli Prizes would seem relevant.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

For the eventual RICO charges, seems likely. For Dudek's retaliatory action, Hartman v. Moore, 547 U.S. 250 (2006) would seem relevant.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

How is that not an illegal abuse of power and a federal office?

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

There I was betting on TCP/IP. Shows what I know!

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

There are just nine days left to get the World SF Bundle! storybundle.com/scifi Supporting independent publishers, benefiting authors directly, and also supporting non-profit Locus Magazine! Re-posts much appreciated!

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Has this been enshrined yet in r-graph-gallery.com because there will be a day when this will be what my students need.

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Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com · 26/03/2025

NarraScope news: we have keynote speakers and a schedule! narrascope.org/schedule We have registration open! narrascope2025.eventbrite.com We have other info on the web site too. narrascope.org Join us in Philadelphia in June. Hope to see you there.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I still use this game and your GDC talk in my class on game character writing. Thank you!

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Love it! One day I'll share the story of how I adapted a common pool sustainable fishing rights negotiation b-school module to a d&d campaign for tweens.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 28/03/2025

"It’s not that OpenAI picked something cute and accidentally the co-founder of that studio hates. OAI picked Ghibli because Miyazaki hates their approach It is display of power: You, as artist, animator, illustrator, writer are powerless. We will take what we want & do what we want. Because we can"

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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🚨 Our Call for Papers is out! 🚨 We continue our tradition of providing a dedicated platform for presenting computational work that bridges formal methods and traditional inquiry in the arts and humanities. Check out the website for all details: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... Link to aforementioned Lee et al paper.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

tldr; "higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking," and "shifts the nature of critical thinking toward information verification, response integration, and task stewardship." Can improve behavioral, cognitive, and emotional engagement, possibly because of rapid response.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Early findings suggest strong variance wrt field and task. Some good studies referenced at drphilippahardman.substack.com/p/the-impact.... + Lee, et al (2025). The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking, which surveyed 319 knowledge workers.

drphilippahardman.substack.com

The Impact of Gen AI on Human Learning: a research summary

A literature review of the most recent & important peer-reviewed studies

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I like the phrasing you used, "inside one's boundaries." What comes to mind for me are Mary Kaldor's _New and Old Wars_, and Yanis Varoufakis' _Technofeudalism_. For me, too much innovation is owned outside of boundaries that seem good for the general public.

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