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Jamie Folsom

@jamiefolsom.bsky.social

Partner at @performant.bsky.social (Performant Software), developing software for the digital humanities. Boston, Vermont and sometimes Maine.

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Not only your powers of anonymization, but your many other powers as well. Thrilled to play a supporting role, with @anindita.org! #dh2026

02.03.2026 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Woo hoo! Our proposal for #DH2026, β€œMinimal Computing with a Database? The Pan-African Data Project as Hybrid Minimal Computing,” was accepted. This was, however, the first time I had two of the reviews say to go back and re-read Roopika Risam’s work. My powers of anonymization are strong!

28.02.2026 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
Cover image of printing Nueva York, showing a nineteenth-century reader with a newspaper draped over an anvil.

Cover image of printing Nueva York, showing a nineteenth-century reader with a newspaper draped over an anvil.

I am delighted to share that my book, Printing Nueva York, is now available for pre-order from @nyupress.bsky.social. It uncovers the early history of Latinx writing and publishing in NYC. Use code NYUAU30 for 30% off: nyupress.org/978147983053...

14.11.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Cover of book showing man reading newspaper on anvil and NYU discount code NYUAU30.

Cover of book showing man reading newspaper on anvil and NYU discount code NYUAU30.

Today is publication day for my book, Printing Nueva York: Spanish-Language Print Culture, Media Change, and Democracy in the Late Nineteenth Century. nyupress.org/978147983053...

I am grateful to @nyupress.bsky.social for making it possible!

#NYUPress #LatinxStudies #19thCenturyPrintCulture

27.01.2026 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

FairImage (and FairData)! πŸ™‚

20.01.2026 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The Way to Pay for Free Buses Is to End Free Parking Free buses would be transformative not only for riders, but for the ecosystem of the city as a whole.

β€œPairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.

24.12.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 698    πŸ” 125    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 46

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

22.12.2025 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 9041    πŸ” 2887    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 187

I think I know just the person! πŸ˜‚

12.12.2025 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.

We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

20.11.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 16330    πŸ” 3962    πŸ’¬ 137    πŸ“Œ 136

Congratulations! πŸŽ‰

17.11.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Episciences

DARIAH (digital research infrastructure for art and humanities scholars in the EU) has a new journal, Transformations

Vol 1: workflows
transformations.episciences.org/volumes/965

@dariaheu.bsky.social #DH #DigitalHumanities

27.10.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cannot wait to share this with all of you!

07.11.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The feeling could not be more mutual, @roopikarisam.bsky.social -- it's a pleasure and a privilege!

06.11.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hands down, the best professional decision I made last year was to work with @performant.bsky.social. Could not love collaborating with @jamiefolsom.bsky.social @anindita.org and their amazing colleagues more. 😍

06.11.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Honoring our collaborators @performant.bsky.social, whose rigor and skill helped make Native Bound Unbound possible.

They built a platform that connects people, stories, and places across timeβ€”a living archive built with care, precision, and imagination.

#NativeBoundUnbound #DigitalHumanities

04.11.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Not unexpected, but scary/impressive/fascinating...
Just-in-Time Malware that use LLMs during execution, to "dynamically generate malicious scripts, obfuscate their own code to evade detection, and leverage AI models to create malicious functions on demand."

05.11.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bring it on! πŸ˜‚

04.11.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A project that my company @performant.bsky.social has been working on for multiple years launches tomorrow! Launch events will be live-streamed on Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm MT. It's been such a privilege to work with the Native Bound Unbound team. They describe the project as follows... (1/4) #DH

31.10.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

It’s not just London. #brooklinema

29.10.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Google AI search result for β€œwas 2010 fifteen years ago?” returning: β€œNo, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15 years ago. The current year is 2025, and to find the number of years ago 2010 was, you subtract 2010 from 2025, which equals 14. 
Current Year: 2025
Past Year: 2010
Years Ago: 2025 - 2010 = 14 years”

Google AI search result for β€œwas 2010 fifteen years ago?” returning: β€œNo, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15 years ago. The current year is 2025, and to find the number of years ago 2010 was, you subtract 2010 from 2025, which equals 14. Current Year: 2025 Past Year: 2010 Years Ago: 2025 - 2010 = 14 years”

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

02.09.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8510    πŸ” 2151    πŸ’¬ 245    πŸ“Œ 334

s/it\’s/its/

12.08.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Leave Substack Link to: https://leavesubstack.com/

daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

06.08.2025 08:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

27.07.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 8662    πŸ” 3616    πŸ’¬ 143    πŸ“Œ 717

We’re thrilled to be a Pelagios Partner. Great working with such a smart, generous group of collaborators.

17.07.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We feel so lucky to work with you, Roopsi! Data essays (among other great ideas you imagined) have become key features available to future projects.

17.07.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Working with Performant over the last year has been dreamy! I had wanted to collaborate with them for a while, and it’s been as awesome as I hoped. (And this link has a tiny sneak preview, aka screenshots, of what we’ve been up to.)

17.07.2025 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pelagios is proud to count Performant & Rainer as Partners. Together, we are trying to build methods/tools for annotating & structuring data "in the round", where different Partners contribute knowledge, resource and/or funding, towards distributive resilience. Join our community of practice #dh2025

17.07.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The whole suite is available at affordably for those who can’t or don’t want to self-host, and the final product of a project can be built as a static website, hostable freely, and independently of the software (static images, maps and search coming soon) #dh2025 #minicomp

17.07.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Performant Studio is a set of smaller sharper tools which you can use together or separately, and which integrate nicely with others, including Recogito Studio, the TEI and IIIF annotation platform we built in collaboration with @aboutgeo.bsky.social, University of Bonn and others. #dh2025

17.07.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1