Kaylen Dwyer

Congratulations!

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Our department inherited a laser cutter just this week. Is it okay if we use this as well?

They circle back around to reading a real profile and I’m crying. Lol

It’s over an hour long!

I didn’t put the generator up anywhere after glitch.

I’m braving the podcast.

“this is the happiest I've ever been in my entire life.” lol

A hello would have been nice… I also could have clarified how it works.

I’m glad they liked it 😅

Omg I can’t even listen.

I am not made for fame. It’s just a podcast and I’m horrified.

The episode came out in July which is when Glitch stopped hosting the project.

Patreon Selects: Fun With the Psychology Today Profile Generator — Very Bad Therapy Life can be hard at times. Do you want to feel more visible and important in your relationships? Are you curious about why every Psychology Today profile looks the same? We get silly with the incredib...

I haven’t googled myself in a while and I’m horrified.

My therapist generator, built on @samplereality.bsky.social ‘s work at DreamLab was featured in a podcast.

Like, the whole episode.

www.verybadtherapy.com/episodes/pat...

The position and its description do not seem to reflect an understanding of AI and where it fits into libraries…

I think an AI might be able to clarify that.

I have almost changed a bike tire for the first time. It’s been a journey.

And now, at the end of it all, my brakes are permanently on and I can’t solve it.

What happened to WikiHow? Why is everything a hyper YouTube video? Am I in hell?

In case you missed it, this workbook is a guide to thinking through when and how to take risks as a higher ed worker.

It aims to help us differentiate between danger and discomfort, while also offering some practical information about how to protect yourself while taking meaningful action.

Yarn space 👀

#digitalhumanities and #dhmakes friends -- have you tried or do you currently hold regular hours that invite people to the space without strict programming? E.g., promoting a co-working environment, opportunities for collaborative work, office hours...

Beyond "stuff," what helped shape your space?

I'm sorry, but Microsoft should not be allowed to do anything with AI until you can open a UTF-8 csv file in Excel.

Great panel at #DH2025 and it's great to hear more about AI resistance & refusal, giving consideration to whether our methods serve the communities we work with.

Though this ex. does raise questions for me about the impacts of the absence in training data if scholarship is closed.

Version of “stop doing math” meme made for digital humanities

conference season is upon us

Q&A didn’t make sense, but I think I’ve done worse with an intact brain…

✨stunning achievement: a conference presentation with a brain injury✨

Guest Post: Sonification and Data Rescue 🛟 At the recent IASSIST conference, we learned of an effort to sonify the work connected to our Data Rescue Project Tracker. Sonification is a fascinating area used in a variety of fields. This project ...

Because we need a bit of fun in the world too, here is a post about the sonification of the data in our Data Rescue Tracker (now DRP Portal). Very much worth a read and listen. Thanks to Will Clary for making this!
www.datarescueproject.org/sonifying-da...

Just spotted this opening for a Research Associate, Managing Editor and Digital Data Specialist for the World Historical Gazetteer, whgazetteer.org. Deadline is July 11, 2025 tomorrow! Great for folks doing critical GIS & working w/JSON, python: networks.h-net.org/jobs/68811/u...

I'm going back to bed.

Overheard from a campus tour: “I don’t really know AI but I’ve never read a textbook, I’ve never watched a video. I just use ChatGPT.”

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If you missed my talk "Misinformation in the Age of 'AI'" at the Durham County Library, Digging down on dis-/misinformation, authoritarianism, generative "AI", the stakes for consensus reality, and what we can try to do about it, the recording is now up on the tubes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE5...

I chatted with her and her husband for a few minutes. They kept trying to turn the convo to me getting sprayed and rabbits and my brain just absolutely refused to acknowledge the moment.

Nope. Didn’t happen. Normal Wednesday.

At one point, she pumps up the water gun and squirts it in the air a few times. “Well. It works!”

This is most “country” I have felt since moving to Boston from the Midwest.

So I’m walking my dog and suddenly, I am sprayed with water.

I hear, “Oh shit!”

I look to see a woman on her porch with a super soaker. “Did I get you?!”

She launches into explaining about rabbits in her garden. I, groggy, start asking Q’s about gardening. Glossing over—water gun? Rabbits?

I’m frustrated for many reasons at surface-skimming media history takes on AI like “people opposed the printing press too!” If media history is going to help us navigate the present, we have to reckon with something people often omit from those comparisons—the intersection of power & new media (1/4)

I'm guessing that the long-standing problem of the discoverability of DH projects will play a role in protecting them from this. If not, maybe digital projects will become easier for humans to find, as well as bots?

Few projects have continuous access to people with the technical expertise to manage this and that says nothing of the time it takes to play AI whack-a-mole.

Top of my mind is probably Omeka, Scalar, and Wordpress, as the most common and crawl-able self-hosted projects.