Seth Perlow

This is starting to feel like a real thing...

I mean…

Padded envelope with “University of Hell” stamped on it.

Kinda digging the name of this press.

Shame on ABC and Disney.

Your DMs are closed to me here, but I just emailed what I think is your gmail address. If you don't have an email from me, please send me a quick note...first name dot last name at gmail. Hope we can connect soon!

Hi! Can’t figure out how to DM you here but will send an email this afternoon.

Maybe they'll indict a ham sandwich, but not the hero who throws it!

Column | ChatGPT is an energy guzzler. These things you’re doing are worse. AI services have earned a reputation as energy-hungry beasts. But what about the other emissions in our digital lives?

Given that a very viral, very misleading story from WaPo helped to fuel the whole "AI kills the climate" thing in the first place, it's nice to see this more...informed piece from them. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

New white paper: “Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google Scale”

Curious what people think of this.

services.google.com/fh/files/mis...

Is Michael Camille's book, Image on the Edge, still the definitive study of funny/crude marginalia in medieval manuscripts? e. g. for lulz . . .

- Old old: your phone rings in the movie
- New old: it’s in your pocket with the flashlight on

Did the scary thing! Wrote the first paragraph of the book. The first word of this book is “In.” Stay tuned for the rest . . .

…Dan had had not invoked “Mr. Penis” since age 8, when he falsified a summer read-a-thon form at his childhood public library in order to get a personal pan pizza.

Wait, all of you people have read FIFTY books?

I for one am doing my utmost to say the smartest things on page 1 of my book.

Academics! I have space this summer to take on indexing work. Please message me if interested!

Recently had the pleasure of interviewing the founders of @leotranscribes.bsky.social and trying their platform, which is *very* effective with tricky manuscripts. If you’re doing a transcription project, check them out! Easier and more accurate than other common HTR tools today.

Current saddest holiday of the year.

Close second: that thing where AI transcribes part of the ruler as "5/8"

Funniest thing about transcribing Dickinson manuscripts is where an early editor (likely Todd) wrote "No" on a bunch of manuscripts, presumably flagging those too week for publication. But it turns out, actually: yes!

Ebook of Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have co...

And for the hordes of you interested primarily in me, here is "On the Badness of Instagram Poetry," a piece I quite like and think would not have been half as good if not for guidance from Matt and the readers. www.fulcrum.org/epubs/q524jr...

Featuring brilliant essays by @notsumatra.bsky.social, @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, @micahbateman.bsky.social, @susannala.bsky.social, @scottchallener.bsky.social, and others not on here.

Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have co...

New book—and free! EXPRESSIVE NETWORKS: POETRY AND PLATFORM CULTURES, ed. Matthew Kilbane. Love the open access. Check it out . . . www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Thanks! Looks very useful.

Have you used Transkribus, eScriptorium, or similar tools to transcribe post-1800 manuscripts? Drop me a line! Would love to ask you some questions…

I am currently working with Transkribus and eScriptorium to transcribe Emily Dickinson manuscripts. Would love to discuss! Short answer is these models don’t work well for less regular hands, such as ED’s.

Butts, analyzed!

I for one am holding out for the implants. V sick of schlepping this thing around! Makes my pants look stupid.

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoy it.

The book will (tentatively?) join the amazing Text Technologies series edited by @roopikarisam.bsky.social, @ruthahnert.bsky.social, and @etreharne.bsky.social, which features wonderful books by @elikaortega.bsky.social, @eve.gd, and others.