Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

#ICYMI I've a friendly Bluesky guide for folks you're hoping will try it, & for learning to use it more actively. Generally useful, but examples especially aimed @ folks in academia, libraries, DH. 3-step & multipage versions; starter pack list for social justice, humanities, tech, craft follows:

We’re thrilled to be a Pelagios Partner. Great working with such a smart, generous group of collaborators.

We feel so lucky to work with you, Roopsi! Data essays (among other great ideas you imagined) have become key features available to future projects.

Working with Performant over the last year has been dreamy! I had wanted to collaborate with them for a while, and it’s been as awesome as I hoped. (And this link has a tiny sneak preview, aka screenshots, of what we’ve been up to.)

Pelagios is proud to count Performant & Rainer as Partners. Together, we are trying to build methods/tools for annotating & structuring data "in the round", where different Partners contribute knowledge, resource and/or funding, towards distributive resilience. Join our community of practice #dh2025

The whole suite is available at affordably for those who can’t or don’t want to self-host, and the final product of a project can be built as a static website, hostable freely, and independently of the software (static images, maps and search coming soon) #dh2025 #minicomp

Performant Studio is a set of smaller sharper tools which you can use together or separately, and which integrate nicely with others, including Recogito Studio, the TEI and IIIF annotation platform we built in collaboration with @aboutgeo.bsky.social, University of Bonn and others. #dh2025

Alongside the software, we’ve started a series of how-tos, describing things you can do with Performant Studio, with or without our help. The first is “How to Publish a Digital Edition”: www.performantsoftware.com/solutions/ed...

We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Ask @nicklaiacona.bsky.social about it if you see him at #dh2025! www.performantsoftware.com/studio/

Not at #DH2025 this year but following from afar. If you’re there, check out work from friends & partners: • @jamiefolsom.bsky.social on #RecogitoStudio at the DHTech this afternoon. • Kathryn Wilson on #DigitalCamerarius. (Ok, didn’t contribute much, but I think my logo made it onto the poster 😉)

Another day has passed and nothing from the acting head of FEMA in a disaster that killed 100+ people and I haven’t seen any journalists ask the administration where he is…??? Knowing who is currently leading FEMA strikes me as something the public has a vital interest in…

Registration is now open for our latest free, online three-part Pleiades gazetteer "Getting Started" workshop series: https://pleiades.stoa.org/events Learn how: 1. the gazetteer is organized, what it contains, and how to search for and use its contents; 2. to contribute original content to […]

@performant.bsky.social is committed to supporting our friends in the Digital Humanities. If you’ve had a grant cancelled, we want to help if we can. Get in touch for a free consultation. #dh #ach2025 www.performantsoftware.com/pages/free-c...

Thanks! We had a small but terrific group and a good discussion — this really is the best conference. I’ll see you at the Care Fair tomorrow :)

This afternoon / evening, @kelleykreitz.bsky.social & I are presenting as part of the #ACH2025 panel 13A: Papers: Advocacy and/in the Classroom (5:30-6:45 pm EDT). We'll talk about critical mapping in the classroom. Come chat with us about data, narratives, and counter-mapping.

Who would set a country's future on fire? The Trump regime has already plunged America into a distinction that has only been earned by two previous governments, which happen to be the two most murderous regimes in human history.

Good news! The deadline to register for the @adho-org.bsky.social #DH2025 conference, hosted by NOVA-FCSH, has been extended to June 9. Visit our website (dh2025.adho.org) to access all the essential information and stay up to date with the latest details!

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

I have 2 incoming PhD students who can't find funding to study in the UK. (In the US PhD students are generally funded; this UK wild west is unconscionable.) Long shot, but does anyone know of any funding opportunities for PhD students in digital humanities, AI, comp linguistics, comp soc sci, etc?

We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care. I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

Yay! I love seeing examples of #RecogitoStudio in the wild! ❤️ CC @performant.bsky.social @jamiefolsom.bsky.social @anindita.org

seems like the administration is objectively pro plane crash www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

“I am directing the Bureau of Prisons to use all 850 Joann locations to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social theonion.com/trump-v...

The Enlightenment was fun while it lasted

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court permanently BLOCKS Trump executive order targeting my former law firm, Perkins Coie. Executive Order 14230, entitled “Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP,” violates the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and is therefore null and void

“Why teach Shakespeare? How is a bunch of old literature even relevant to the real world?”

👀 Stunning poll data coming out of - checks notes - Georgia: - 51.9% disapprove of Trump on immigration - 56.9% disapprove of Trump’s attacks on DEI - 80.9% want Trump to follow court’s orders This ought to make every Republican bootlickers in GA & all over nervous www.axios.com/local/atlant...

Trump administration settles with Maine over funding freeze after dispute over trans athletes

Just deranged. This was a *solved* problem.

JUST IN: Judge HOWELL rules forcefully in favor of Perkins Coie against Trump's punitive executive order, comparing him to a Shakespearean character who famously called to "kill all the lawyers" in order to amass power. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

When you’re getting lectured by the <checks notes> German government on failing to account for the dangers posed by right-wing extremism, it might be time to take a seat.

Some nerdy types may also be interested to know that it has a SPARQL endpoint www.getty.edu/databases-to... 🤓

Don't miss the April issue of #ReviewsInDH: Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Preservation, edited by Madeleine Kraft. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n4

🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."

Humanities starter packs: Caribbean literature bsky.app/starter-pack... lit/culture studies bsky.app/profile/did:... book/article/CFPs version bsky.app/profile/gabr... rhetoric+writing bsky.app/starter-pack... humanities games study bsky.app/starter-pack... comp+global lit bsky.app/starter-pack... +

They should be more concerned

Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family. I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

This move also sends a message about how Harvard values its students, faculty, *and* staff. Because university staff--including the people who build and manage websites--are often first to the chopping block when schools face funding cuts.

I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Harvard showing how to use your privilege to fight fascism www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥