John Laudun

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Much the same thing is happening in the USA, but R1s are not protesting since they gain from it.

… and then build a collection randomly from that corpus. (Or maybe you are using such a corpus to create the variability you want for annotation purposes?)

I'm just asking questions because I'm curious, so please forgive me if some of them are obvious! I don't know what you are hoping to annotate, but is it safe to assume you are introducing randomness through the prompt? I confess my first thought was cull short story collections from Gutenberg … 1/2

Curious about the goal here! Maybe I can help. I've done this with legends and conspiracy theories.

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

@zotero.org has many followers but has not posted anything? Mike check?

Not fair. You need to wait until I retire and come take workshops with you.

YouTube video by PBS Terra These Ancient Footprints Rewrite North American History

@pbs.org's various Youtube channels are well worth checking it. Here's one from PBS Terra: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hxp...

Same here! I tried to call in a prescription because I knew I was going to be traveling. I was too early. I waited 48 hours and I had entered that magical sweet spot. Next time I'm in, I am going to ask how early is too early!

Yes, this.

If you want bleak, check out the punkrot genre of TTRPGs. There is such amazing creativity on display there (in the bleakest of ways).

I would like Apple News better if I could follow the WSJ reporting and never have to see a WSJ opinion. Anyone know how to do this?

To add a bit, and perhaps echo @dmimno.bsky.social, one thing to consider is the fuzzy boundaries of DH vis-a-vis computational social science(s) and information science(s). To some degree this resolves in the DIFI model of field as "who goes to the DH conference reliably."

If this involves an old-fashioned printing press, color me green with envy. One of my dumbest moments was turning down the offer of a tabletop press. (To be fair I was in grad school and about to move and couldn't imagine loading it into my Toyota along with everything else.) Sigh.

All the "crazy" (racist, homophobic) uncles were dealt with in the usual way—uncomfortable silence, not invited to all events—until the internet made it possible for them to affirm each other.

Loading a 482MB audiobook onto my phone, I thought to myself, "Well, that would have fit on a CD." And I realized I have a host of obsolete measurements in my head: 4.7GB on a DVD. 360k on a single-sided floppy. What measurements do others still carry around?

Is it wrong that my first thought was: "Where is this code? I must try to blow up the planet."

Well played, Best Choice. Well played.

I remember Henry Glassie once exclaiming that the phone book — remember those? — should include the times one was available to be phoned. I am reminded after a series of texts from an eager grad student starting at 10:30 last night. Different bio-clocks; different assumptions.

As someone who came into the profession as it was beginning to shrinking, I now realize that all the economic and demographic study was so much theater to undermine and dismantle higher education. The shift to MBA-oriented administrators only sped things up.

Yup.

I should add that I understand you can add an author by first adding an editor and then changing them to an author, but, wow, that seems like unnecessary steps.

Why oh why is it so hard to add an essay published in a collection (edited by someone other than the essay author) to @zotero.org? A "Book Section" does not have a separate field for author. What am I missing?

Helluva cover. I think I'm more interested in David Golumbia's book — because I think it offers greater insight — but that doesn't mean this book doesn't do some necessary work:

For those not familiar with Knowledge Commons, they offer an impressive array of features — digital repository, blogging, microblogging, and more — and at little to no cost. And they are building a foundation for the long haul.

Is it weird that I am regularly surprised that macOS can't remember where I prefer windows when I switch from the docked monitor to just the laptop. It's always just one screen, and I pretty much put my windows in the same place (and size). This is something the OS should just do. @sixcolors.com

I say this having found that courses focused on things like "narrative games" make students uninterested in AI/LLMs. I know not everyone can, or wants to, make this switch. (I'm not a literature scholar but a folklorist.) But it's a good moment to rethink stale/staid curricula.

I agree that writing will either retain or regain its value, but I don't think the same will be said for the gruesome composition courses that are the foundation of too many English department's raison d'etre. 1 / 2

I've always enjoyed teaching Dick's "A Maze of Death" in my course where we explore disembodied AI. The readings stretch from Forster's "The Machine Stops" to Leinster's "A Logic Named Joe" through Ellison's "I Have No Mouth" and, of course, "The Forbin Project" to whatever texts are current.