Konrad Lawson

Just finished building out the remaining exercises for my Humanities in the Age of AI course. Since this is a class with no technical prerequisites, I'm ending on some simple fine tuning with Unsloth and working locally with Ollama to give students more control. anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI/

@zotero.org is the most useful and ethically uncompromised piece of software still under active development, at least for a certain subset of society.

YouTube video by knaomi999 The Professor's Song Tom Lehrer

For fellow fans of Lehrer who are in quantitative / computational / digital humanities, he's got one lesser-known ditty specifically making fun of us. Enjoy! youtu.be/zxFCQplZgKI?...

Realized I might love Zotero *too much* when I spent part of a Mt. Rainier hike trying to convince a friend to stop tracking citations in Word and download Zotero instead.

My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop Revisiting the wonder and betrayal of online life circa 1992.

Blast from the past:

arstechnica.com/information-...

支持环保 节约用纸 Protect Environment Saving Bumf

Though it doesn’t include the word, can’t resist sharing my favorite poster in this category. The original just says use less [toilet] paper but someone reached much further down the list of dictionary entries to pick this one out.

@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Ted is right here. This is a typical translation for 文明 (civilized) and is likely very well represented in training data from the widespread “be civilized” propaganda/public service messages everywhere 文明宣传. Two examples from my own photos, alas neither directly translate

huh, looks like new book on transpacific japanese emigration just dropped. posting for the interested

Saturday afternoon walk from Dale til Hommersåk via Lihalsen. #norway

I spend a lot of time talking about all the things historical games do wrong when representing (or, mostly, not representing) women in the past - for a change, here I wrote about some games which I think do something better and more interesting in their depictions of historical women & girls!

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Southeast Asian History Young and research intensive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is ranked among the world’s top universities. The School of Humanities (SoH) at NTU Singapore is committed to ...

A job going in Singapore! ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

I wish it were easier. I noticed that SJS also had fewer reviews in its last years. I think so much depended on good will of core network.

Part of the The Sino-Japanese Studies journal archive was inaccessible due to server configuration issues. We have moved to good old fashioned static html pages now so it is more future resilient. All articles open access and easy to download: chinajapan.org/archive.html #china #japan

"25 percent of all links were completely inaccessible. Linkrot became more common over time: 6 percent of links from 2018 had rotted, as compared to 43 percent of links from 2008 and 72 percent of links from 1998." Article from 2021

Updating my China's Revolutions module handbook for the fall and thought I would share these again:

Interactive Map to Prepare for a formative map quiz:
froginawell.net/games/china-...

Some flashcards to prepare for formative timeline quiz:
froginawell.net/games/flash/

Sunday afternoon walk along Hafrsfjord from Kråkebakkana in Joa to Løneset in Grannes with a swim along the way. #norway

Afternoon walk on Kvitsøy. #norway

GitHub - UniversalViewer/universalviewer: A community-developed open source project on a mission to help you share your 📚📜📰📽️📻🗿 with the 🌎 A community-developed open source project on a mission to help you share your 📚📜📰📽️📻🗿 with the 🌎 - UniversalViewer/universalviewer

Curious about the @universalviewer.io or @iiif.bsky.social after our #DH2025 session in SP-32: Digital Tools and Techniques for Cultural Heritage and History? Try it out universalviewer.io or get involved github.com/universalvie...

Liang Qichao: Reformer or Revolutionary? | China Books Review The legacy of the late Qing era intellectual, once exiled in Japan, is overlooked in the West. A new collection of his essays shows a revolutionary spirit that is still alive in dissidents abroad toda...

I wrote about Liang Qichao as a thinker, reformer, exile & influence on Mao & Lu Xun & others for @chinabksreview.bsky.social (thanks at @alexludoboyd.bsky.social for the well thought out initial big edits & @alecash.net for the good final polishing ones) chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/17/l...

Learning brains Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash A recent paper titled “Your brain on ChatGPT” has generated a lot of controversy and dispute. The much-discussed findings from a team based at MIT were report…

That MIT paper about "Your brain on ChatGPT" didn't prove AI rots the brain, but it did exemplify contemporary fascination with "neuro" explanations of learning, which is now being amplified by neurotechnology-driven educational neuroscience studies codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/l...

Generating absolutely terrible William Blake rip-offs with Claude Sonnet 4 as an entry point into thinking about histories of text generation

Taking lots of inspiration from #elo25 as I rebuild my Humanities in the Age of AI grad course for this fall. I updated week two to take advantage of Claude's easy artifact sharing and bring students into playing with text and code together: anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI... #dhmakes

Will keep an eye out! Thanks!

I should note that this quickly hacked together tool is by no means the most powerful CLI out there for Zotero - but I wanted something with very limited *read-only* features. See the powerful pyzotero-cli by @chriscarrollsmith.bsky.social‬ for something more full featured bsky.app/profile/chri...

GitHub - kmlawson/zurch: Zurch - A CLI search tool for Zotero installations Zurch - A CLI search tool for Zotero installations - kmlawson/zurch

I (or rather Claude Code) created command line interface for read-only search, exploration, and pdf extraction from local Zotero installation: github.com/kmlawson/zurch (also on PyPI) - I'll be experimenting with its use in research workflows with claude code and gemini cli.

No Time to Discourse A speculative atlas that explores climate disaster across North America through interactive mapping and generative flash fiction.

Sometimes the news is not enough. So I made "No Time to Discourse"—a speculative atlas of (endless) climate disaster.

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Sunday afternoon coastal walk from Sandnes to Gausel and then rental scooter back to Stavanger.

For anyone running local LLMs on their computer installed via LM Studio, and want to prompt them from the command line without fiddling with its local API, I made (or rather Claude Code made) this CLI wrapper for it: lmsp pypi.org/project/lmsp/

Fact checking vs Academic inquiry mindset - are people confusing the two? A discussion Warning: I do not specialize in digital literacy and my understanding of such matters is limited.

[Blogged] Fact checking vs Academic inquiry mindset - are people confusing the two? A discussion aarontay.substack.com/p/fact-check... -

Anyone interested in DH on the text analysis side of things who isn't already aware of it, might want to explore the huge amount of work that has been done over the past four and a half years by the CLS (Computational Literary Studies) INFRA project: clsinfra.io/resources/ou...