Great workshop on AI last week with @cdi-warwick.bsky.social . Thoughts provoked by the sessions and @berrydm.bsky.social's keynote.

Feel as if I might be coming to the latest end of dealing with an estate.

🔈 Presenting DataCenter.FM, the sound of the AI bubble: datacenter.fm

Sounds by Dean Salant from www.instagram.com/denz_thehuman, proudly published by directing.attention.to, made possible by the support of @mozilla.org foundation during my fellowship

New version of ImagePlot from Lev Manovich. Examples from earlier version:https://lab.culturalanalytics.info/p/projects.html Code, documentation, examples at: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Do you want to help make RSECon26 happen? We are looking for friendly in-person and remote volunteers to join our team! Get a complimentary ticket, network with the community and gain valuable experience. Applications close 19 June 2026. Apply here: rsecon26.society-rse.org/calls/volunt... #RSECon26

Nominations for the RSECon26 Awards are open! Nominate your colleagues for a Community Award (Rising Star, Training & Education or Impact) or the Green RSE Award. The deadline is 13 July 2026. Learn more and submit: rsecon26.society-rse.org/calls/award-... #RSECon26

Recently got funding for a small project on machine listening. Now setting up the various bits.

Saw the Tempest at the Sam Wanamaker theatre yesterday. I've been promising myself a trip there for a few years. Definitely worth it and a fun performance.

ICAD conference deadlines coming up: icad2026.icad.org interactive-sonification.org/icad2026 #sonification #auditorydisplay

What if we stopped thinking about the digital as just our devices and started understanding it as a way of mediating reality through discrete units? That's the question driving this book I co-wrote with Alexander R. Galloway, Matthew Handelman, and Leif Weatherby. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792019...

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

I think I'm about to experience Catch 22. Trying to access a supposedly open service, but am being warned that I may not be to use it as I don't pay in. However, I can't get funding without showing that I can use it.

Needed to get some essentials that I forgot yesterday. The Missing Bean bag did contain coffee. Currently, it contains a cat.

Two weeks left! The deadline for ACH 2026 proposals is February 23, 2025. We welcome submissions on all topics related to digital humanities, computing, and the humanities. Short papers, long papers, posters, panels, and workshops all encouraged! Submit here:

I really don't understand people who don't put alt text. Just go to that gear up there, accessibility, and ask bsky to remind you! And the great thing is the Alt text can be a whopping 2000 characters!! You can have whole conversations via the Alt text with what seems like a decorative image.

@cdi-warwick.bsky.social has a couple of interesting streams and events over the next few days: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... & san-archipelago.super.site

looking forward to winter book events for public data cultures in coming months ❄️📗💜✨ jonathangray.org/2026/01/05/b... including with @digitalmethods.net @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social @internetarchive.eu @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social @cimethods.bsky.social @mctd.bsky.social #dmi26

Come and join us for a fun early evening exploration of the AI in the Street project, feat. Yasmine Boudiaf, Mukul Patel, Noortje Marres, Alex Taylor, @halcyene.bsky.social @tmsqrll.bsky.social, Dominique Barron, Annie Radcliffe and me at Newspeak House luma.com/p4fmir78

Clearly I needed feline help with editing this manuscript

Went for longest run on #shortestday on #WinterSolstice. Having Marmite on toast while watching cats chase each other.

At King's College London for DMRN. Presenting work in progress on Eric Sunderland.

The Christmas tree has gone up. Fortunately, neither cat really looks up.

Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that - more thoughts on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/r...

Oh oh, we're in trouble, something's come along a burst our bubble, yeah yeah. Fortunately nothing damaged or explored too closely.

The windowsill behind my desk has a new furry ornament. She has been trying to work out how to get there for some time.

“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!

I will be going to #dmrn (www.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn20/) with a poster on some ongoing archival work that is proving challenging in many ways to explore signals in sound and words.

🎉 On 5 Nov 2025, we held our first DAHRSE Midlands meeting: “Co-Creating DAHRSE Midlands: Vision, Voices, and Next Steps.” A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible! Here's a quick recap 🧵👇

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

Just heard the John Rylands lunch time seminar is out and about. More details at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/john-rylan...

Starting soon. #KADH2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pbg...

A morning spent doing some overdue family errands was brightened by overtaking a #ghostbusters car on the A43. Presumably a replica

🌊 Do you have an idea for a mini-workshop, demo, or a lightning talk? This is your chance to take the stage and present your work at #CollabW26. The deadline for applications is Friday 16 January 2026. We can't wait to see all your amazing proposals! www.software.ac.uk/news/take-st...

Our team developed an open-source WordPress plugin that lets you pull in items from your ORCID profile and display them on your site. Very cool! Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...

Registration now open for the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental Digital Humanities seminar on 12 Nov at 12pm (UK time) with @ehameeteman.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin... #envhist #envhum #skystorians #histstm

Have just come across the Hooked on Sonics essay on the Public Domain Review. publicdomainreview.org/essay/scienc...

An hour and a alf of fireworks are too much for one cat who has slunk off. Other one not remotely bothered.

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit." On robots.txt. www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

I went to the amazing @scholarslab.bsky.social and they have a lot of cool stuff like zines! I took my favorites with me and I have now a #DHMakes space in my office

Folks in DH working with German-language data! Here’s a resource I put together with corpora of both fiction and non-fiction works from the Gutenberg libraries, about 5,000 books in total, including metadata on genre and author gender 📚 🧮 openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

CFP (due 10/15 initial interest) from Journal of Open Humanities Data with Jenny Kwok co-editing this special edition, Benchmarking in #DigitalHumanities openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/...

Found out that #zeehaven, a micro tool developed with @publicdatalab.bsky.social, is being used in another institution. publicdatalab.github.io/zeehaven/

Yesterday, I gave our first EDI Bites talk at @cimethods.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy on Alternative Text. A small start, but hoping that it develops into something larger.

Exciting book out early next year! It will be open access 6 months after print publication. I have a chapter in there on shadow libraries as infrastructure. Edited by @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...

#CfP: Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), co-edited by @strippel.bsky.social & Magnus Rust. Abstract submission: November 17, 2025. More: 🔗 www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

#DH2026 CFP is now live! Submit your work on fostering meaningful connection between communities, cultures and emerging technologies. 🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ 🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025 #DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement

It is going to be one of those periods where I look at all the small tasks that were not done while dealing with large tasks and strict deadlines.