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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Check out this amazing project so many of us at Performant Software have been working on for the past couple of years. We can't wait for the launch and for everyone to see it!

Developing our position on AI - Blog - Recurse Center This post is about how we've tried to develop a position on AI in the context of learning and growth at RC.

This, from @nicholasbs.bsky.social , is a really thoughtful survey of attitudes on AI in the field right now. As they say, read the whole thing, but a finding that resonates: “You should use AI-powered tools to complement or increase your agency, not replace it.“

www.recurse.com/blog/191-dev...

Indiana Jones and the This Is More of a Comment than a Question

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future.

But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

Today they have crossed a deep red line.

We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

This afternoon / evening, @kelleykreitz.bsky.social & I are presenting as part of the #ACH2025 panel 13A: Papers: Advocacy and/in the Classroom (5:30-6:45 pm EDT). We'll talk about critical mapping in the classroom. Come chat with us about data, narratives, and counter-mapping.

Huge if true

On the "three mantras of Long DH" (Futurebuilding DH) from Johannes Burgers:
1) "go slow and build things",
2) "teamwork makes the dreamwork, but nagging helps" (people-first proj management),
3) "love your data like you love yourself" (tech changes, data doesn't; set your data free!). #ACH2025

​​Ethical Considerations for Machine Learning in Public-Engaged Research With support from the Kavli Foundation, the Zooniverse team is launching a project to help us develop a set of recommendations for running AI-engaged projects on the Zooniverse platform.

The @zooniverse.bsky.social crew are putting together a fascinating feedback form to create a set of recommendations for running ML/AI-engaged projects. Participate here and help shape next steps for ethics around community and citizen engagement at scale blog.zooniverse.org/2025/06/10/e...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday that she signed an executive order seeking greater transparency from federal immigration officials. She said the city will submit regular Freedom of Information Act requests to find out who ICE is detaining and on what grounds.

I believe that today, June 10, is the day that the RIF'd NEH @nehgov.bsky.social employees officially separate from the government. What a complete (and completely unnecessary) loss for us all. And what a betrayal of their service to us. Sending gratitude to all public servants this morning.

An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter is a Tragedy Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...

"You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage. I’d like to introduce you to my daughter."

Experts in their fields, the very best at what they do, dedicated and talented people, treated like garbage.

Sorry kids, I forgot to sign up for FastPass, I guess we just need to watch the Vatican on our phones while we wait!

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.

@kelleykreitz.bsky.social and @anindita.org on “The Ground Beneath our Feet: Critical Mapping in the Classroom” #bostondh25

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In our new video, Nick walks you through the process of creating a functioning digital edition.

Solutions–DIY DH projects you can bring to life using Performant's open-source tools. #digitalhumanities

www.performantsoftware.com/solutions/ed...

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

The whole narrative of AI increasingly appears to me to resemble a very well known folktale.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emp...

This might help: www.lufthansagroup.com/media/downlo...

The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

In the new year I’m going to publish a history of the last 5 years of building @transkribus.bsky.social as an AI cooperative: shared ownership, shared resources, all profit reinvested into infrastructure. It turns out we can build a better tech world together, but that takes work & community.

Vol. 5, No. 12: December 2024 - Games & DH · Reviews in Digital Humanities Vol. 5, No. 12 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universi...

. @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I are pleased to wrap up our FIFTH year publishing #ReviewsInDH with a special issue, “Games and DH,” edited by James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social and Astrid Ensslin. It’s a great look at intersections of DH and Game Studies! reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v5-n12

Have you ever wondered where an author lifted a passage from when they didn't cite a source? @lucianli123.bsky.social was able to use LLM embeddings to trace sources Charles Darwin used in Origin of Species, as well as later authors quoting (or paraphrasing) Darwin!

See his work at today's webinar:

It's a good day to be a New Jerseyan.

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.

Javier Cha and Roopika Risam will be the keynote speakers of @ADHOrg #DH2025.

Know more about the keynotes here:
dh2025.adho.org/keynotes/

Presented today at UVA's Scholars' Lab on this amazing project we're developing with Prof. Pamela Smith and crew at the Making and Knowing Project at the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University! #EditionCrafter #MakingAndKnowing