For those headed to #MLA2026, please consider dropping by the two sessions sponsored by @eliterature.bsky.social: first up, a roundtable conversation, "Open Source Humanities in the Age of AI" on Thursday, 3:30 - 4:45 PM. Panelists and abstracts at: anastasiasalter.net/OpenSourceHu... #MLA26

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

The submissions portal for our next @eliterature.bsky.social conference, which will be fully online including performances and a hypertext electronic literature exhibition, is now open at stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/ - please submit an abstract by January 15th to join us!

Hey, look at that, the 2026 site for @iftechfoundation.org's annual @narrascope.org conference on narrative games is live narrascope.org

Uh oh, you have billions invested in generative AI: aftermath.site/generative-ai-...

Hey #dhmakes folks, would anyone be up for scheduling a quick zoom call to chat with me about your practice and making? I'm running a new iteration of Critical Making, and my students always benefit from hearing your advice!

my 2020 book with @anasalter.bsky.social, "A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy: The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises," is 50% OFF for December 1 and 2. makes a great gift for all the nerds in your life. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/A-Po...

We're excited to be hosting the next fully-online #ELO2026 @eliterature.bsky.social conference at UCF. As before, we're committed to a low-cost event with an open access archive of recordings and a virtual exhibition open to all. CFP up now: projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/ #dhmakes

It's National Novel Generation Month. LLMs have drained much of the original creativity and impetus for NaNoGenMo, but I gave it a go this year anyway. I took "No Time to Discourse," my interactive web-based speculative atlas of climate disaster, and turned it into a ~400-page book.

We're entering the last week of my Humanities in the Age of AI course, and I ended up completely revising the last five weeks of assignments to take advantage of Claude Code's new web version and emphasize the growing non-code uses of agents. Final version is here: anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI/

My first monograph, 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction', will be published by @lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026! It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory. See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.

Hey folks in the MLA, please consider voting for me in the Executive Council election. apps.mla.org/ballot_main My statement is on the site: I particularly bring experience navigating ideological pressures on institutions as a Florida professor and a critical lens to AI, edtech & surveillance #MLA26

my book with @anasalter.bsky.social, A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy, is ON SALE through November 19. if you have been waiting to get your hands on it, now's the time! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/A-Po...

One of the lovely things about Florida.

switcheroo alert‼️question and reading* are staying the same this afternoon, but we're playing Tavern Keeper by @greenheartgames.bsky.social 💚 *Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor, c/o @annetropy.bsky.social @anasalter.bsky.social @melstanfill.bsky.social

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I'm co-teaching a DHSI workshop next summer with @lucidbard.bsky.social on programming for the digital humanities in the context of agentic AI and rapidly changing interfaces for computational work. Watch our awkward promo video + consider joining us: dhsi.org/2025/09/30/d... #dhmakes

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Just added this excellent MLA statement to the workshop I'm running contextualizing agentic AI for faculty and graduate students tomorrow - we need conversations around this new iteration of the tech urgently. Here's my materials if anyone is interested: anastasiasalter.net/AgentWorkshop/

ICYMI, my new book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons is 30% off (w/ free shipping) It's a scholarly book, looking at ACNH through lenses like craft, compulsion, and community. It's also a personal book, about playing with my kids during the pandemic More details: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/vi...

This is just taunting those among us still grading...🤣

Getting really tired of this robots in space maintenance screen today. Maybe concentrating our infrastructure to rely heavily on a single cloud computing provider was not a great plan...

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The end of a held ethical code among all technologists, as light weight and infrequently applied as it was, marks the end of a web where sites can trust in a basic ground level of cooperation. The result is a web increasingly militarized against itself. Everyone must now close up and arm up.

I am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5. eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/ I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa. This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!

My new book Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? is out today from the @uchicagopress.bsky.social Replay series, which is dedicated to short, personal takes on games. I hope it invites readers to visit (or revisit) the Underground and befriend some fabulous monsters. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Keynote at #COLM2025: Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic "Are language models worth it?" Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

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Anouk Lang's talk on literary+critical making scholarship will also explore how making-as-research opens questions about bodies, labor, & accessibility; intellectual process vs product. Virtual event, open to all! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd

I just saw One Battle After Another, and wow. If you are on the fence, see it, this is Anderson at his best and most relevant. Also, my fellow geriatric millennials will enjoy DiCaprio at his most Oscar worthy.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

well, apropos of recent news stories about how professors are objects of interpretation and negative feels . . . Professor Superstar now has a cover. press.umich.edu/Books/P/Prof...

The first copies of my next book, a short reflection on the lasting impact of indie game Undertale, have arrived at @uchicagopress.bsky.social and are in good company with @n-w-f.bsky.social's upcoming book on Animal Crossing. Find both at: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...

Great moments in interface design. Why do we even have that button?

The #DataSittersClub is back with @anasalter.bsky.social @lucidbard.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social talking AI and pedagogy, with examples from the "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" class. Even if you're anti-AI, please fill out the survey! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc23.h...

+ @lucidbard.bsky.social - we will be sharing some of our pedagogical concerns and some of the concepts we taught in "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" at DHSI 🤖

First week of fall semester is wrapped, and my floofy kitty and I are on the same page.

"Queer Book History" zine is done (32 pages!), just getting final team edits pre-pub. Built on upcoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Queer Book History Bibliography—100s of resources by team led by SHARP Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social. Zine=fave reads, teaching examples, community+conf info +

Recommend this piece by @ibogost.bsky.social on the dismal state of where we're at in higher ed teaching & learning right now. Key takeaway is that to fix what is breaking would require a wholesale overhaul that few of us have the time, energy or institutional capacity to undertake.

I’m sure I’ll keep tinkering—but I’ve drafted a syllabus for "Writing with Robots" This my theme on an upper-level English course fulfilling students’ advanced writing requirement. The course seeks to help students understand what LLMs actually are & situate them in longer & more nuanced histories

First day of our fall contracts. I get tired of thinking this is going to be the worst year of my career in higher education, but here we are again. Seemed like a good night for a theme park.

As education is being systematically devalued, this also promises users it'll be OK if (when?) we stop offering actual PhDs.

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/

Taking some time with the pollinators this morning with the first day of fall contracts looming over the week.

I kept waffling on bringing GitHub Copilot into this second iteration of my Humanities AI DH class because of the interface nightmares. Decided to break it up into two weeks of exercises: GitHub Pages anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI... and agent mode anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI...

Built the next two weeks in my Humanities AI class using Claude artifacts as an entry into distant coding and AI integration into all interfaces - we'll be building two flavors of recommendation systems, with and without AI. anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI... + anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI...