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The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!
23.02.2026 16:41 — 👍 57 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 1«The user experience and applications of the technology may change, but the foundational incapacity for accountability, and the underlying ideological and material infrastructures of the AI industry, remain.» Great text by @eryk.bsky.social
22.02.2026 17:54 — 👍 33 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
Here we go again.
Excellent cover story of @thecontinent.org in 3 parts.
"The US-Europe love pact rekindles their colonial kink"
"This time around, the
colonisers have AI"
And: "The African
Union is paralysed"
Read it!
"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence."
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
"The Protocol distinguishes between retrieval-based AI systems, which keep source materials under organizational control, and general-purpose model training, which absorbs knowledge into model weights irreversibly." 📜
libraopen.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/...
@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.
13.02.2026 12:33 — 👍 47 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 5The promise was always that digital humanities would be fully subsumed into the humanities - make the "digital" redundant. But the AI age has really accelerated the the "D" over the "H" in the field, causing big splits between "digital" and "public" humanities instead of "digital" vs "traditional"
16.02.2026 16:18 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Art History will continue to be seen as an elitist discipline if the public apparatuses for communicating it refuse to acknowledge the scholarship that has drawn attention to art's role in serving and subverting power.
Read the righteous review by Sherry Lindqiust here. hnanews.org/hnar/reviews...
Docs is an open-source alternative to Google Docs for collaborative writing, developed by a French-German government collaboration: impress-preprod.beta.numerique.gouv.fr/home/
12.02.2026 11:05 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Visual art media can be made accessible and tactile. The link here describes a photography exhibit that was made for folks with visual impairments, including tactile versions of the photographs with braille descriptions.
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Searching for any form of "magnus" followed by any noun—just one example of flexible pattern matching possible with LatinCy Readers `find_sents` call...
from this demo notebook: github.com/diyclassics/...
Beautiful thread from my ride-or-die @charliejane.bsky.social about the organization that our @humblebundle.com is benefitting. Buy some books (cheap!!) and help the amazing Miss Major Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center!
08.02.2026 18:34 — 👍 99 🔁 42 💬 2 📌 2We have another exciting CFP! "Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemology & Computation examines noise across technical, social, and cultural domains, bringing together machine learning, critical AI studies, media theory and archaeology, art history, philosophy, and practice-based research."
06.02.2026 20:22 — 👍 33 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 1Really looking forward to exploring this open access special issue of The Lion and the Unicorn dedicated to the intersection of Children’s Literature and Digital Humanities co-edited by @drfitzphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/56268
05.02.2026 00:00 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Omg, I have failed you!
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University of Arizona Libraries is hiring for a RARE BOOK LIBRARIAN! 1st review of applications February 9, 2026.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
We have great collections and great people here. Not on the committee, happy to chat.
Proud to have Dine weaving in my personal collection, this recent video about weaving is really great and personal and moving: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWis...
08.01.2026 21:50 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Our tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Please share widely!
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
Paste any IIIF manifest → model classifies every page locally → see where illustrations appear.
Part of small-models-for-glam: small, efficient models for cultural heritage work.
Not everything needs GPT-4!
Try it: huggingface.co/spaces/small-models-for-glam/iiif-illustration-detector
happy to see Tressie encourage people to refuse AI.
when people ask me about AI, I give them permission to say no :)
(I even did the useless thing of putting it in my email signature lol)
Lastly, we made an interactive tool for exploring these borrowing trends, and we also released a public dataset.
Exploratory tool: melaniewalsh.github.io/whats-seattl...
Data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
For "Communities in the Loop: AI for Cultures & Contexts in Multimodal Archives," congrats to: Jim Casey, Christopher Dancy, @snblickhan.bsky.social, Tiffany Smith, Benjamin Lee. (And I must also include @profgabrielle.bsky.social !)
11.12.2025 17:32 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
“An enduring benefit of Watters’ book is the way it functions like an X-ray machine, providing readers with the ability to see through terms like ‘personalized learning’ to reveal familiar pedagogies and politics of control and conformity.” - Me, on why everybody should read Audrey Watters.
09.12.2025 20:17 — 👍 25 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
📽️ WATCH: Photographer @annie-flanagan.bsky.social went to Clairton, PA, where residents live in the shadow of the country’s largest coke plant. Coke is a product used to manufacture steel.
This is what Annie saw — and inhaled — while on assignment in Clairton.
Link to our story below ⤵️
We are going to focus @douglassday.bsky.social in Feb 2026 on the Colored Conventions and their visions for citizenship.
We need to tell a much fuller story about the 14th amendment. The history is crystal clear. The Constitution is crystal clear.
Western PA (where a 4 GW gas power plant is being constructed) does have access to the underground reservoirs required for seasonal green H2 storage and the combustion system could be modified to run the same turbines on pure H2.
Now we just need the solar and wind resources and the electrolyzers.
We are hiring at the University of Arizona libraries for a Data Science Specialist/Librarian. Expertise/experience in Python is a must. Not on the search committee, will be your colleague. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
01.12.2025 17:15 — 👍 19 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 4PJM is the regional grid serving 67 million customers in 13 states
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