I absolutely detest everything to do with computers

Ofc I do digital humanities, how am I to do it without my digits

The latest issue of Diyâr (OA) focuses on ‘Caricatures as a Sphere of Communication in the Late and Post-Ottoman Context’. Many thanks to Veruschka Wagner and Anna Kollatz for preparing this exciting and richly illustrated issue. Read the latest issue here: www.inlibra.com/en/document/...

Help! What does it say in the underlined bit, probably something v obvious but can't make it out myself

Damn.. can't read this right away but it's a feast for the eye at first sight, thx @olivia.science for the heads up

incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people

I've signed up for a talk which I believe is an hybrid event and it's gonna be on MS Teams. First time gonna use that thing, always heard how awful it is but gonna experience it for the first time myself. Yay :|

"Ne Zaman" sergisi: 1851.gallery/tr/viewing-r... Cam plaka gibi fotoğrafın erken döneminden yöntemlerle üretilen bir sergiymiş. Daha görmedim ama enteresan. 22 Mayıs son.

⏰ When I see lists like this, 🤔 I think to myself 💩 Wow, this must be "AI" generated... 🚭 ...I won't read it 🖔 🖔 Just FYI

Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162

AI as a term goes back a long way, but it's always used in one of two contexts. Either as a reference to the whole research field, including computer vision, robotics, NLP, etc Or as a term used to raise money.

There's a very old joke in the field (dating back to the 90s at least) When we hire people, it's machine learning. when we do the work, it's logistic regression. And when we raise money, it's AI.

“Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience … More concerning, developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves.”

"Responsible AI" is not a thing. "AI" is not a thing. It's indistinct from how economists &c will pretend random bits of history they misinterpret + capitalist ideology = "human nature", or call capitalistic atomisation & alienation "Western individualism".

Today I learned about "inflectional supremacy", a pseudolinguistic dumbassery from before times, and wow, can't tell if this is Sun Language Theory level "wat" or if it's indeed achieved universal supremacy, albeit in bollocksology.

"Brothers with Baggage: Eight Chapters on the Austro-Hungarian Civilizing Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina" is out, including an essay of mine (in Czech) on "Colonial ambivalence: On foreigners and expertise in Habsburg Bosnia" — plus many more interesting essays here: avu.cz/publikace/br...

On the flip side of this those who prefer to use slop bots instead of paying artists after inflicting their "creations" on us, assaulting or sanity and humanity. We're on the same boat w artists and prompt fondlers are launching torpedoes at us.

If I was more of a bitter nerd I'd be insisting on calling my phone a PDA or pocket computer instead.

They make me feel uncomfortable when I see them out on the streets.

There's an aspect to this, that's seldom talked about: our current tech isn't without inconveniences. I find my tablet less convenient than my notebooks and printouts, nor is it an improvement over a decent laptop. Spotify is a downgrade from an iPod or a music app save for its (transient) library.

I've been a student in humanities and social sciences for 14 years now, three different fields, gaps and stuff counted. Never not been in a packed classroom, nor an understaffed dept or grad school. Never seen it go down, the numbers. It never not felt like hum&socsci are forcibly kept out if reach.

this isn't correct lots of eliminated Humanities departments were overfilling classes and effectively subsidizing STEM programs that cost universities money it was never about majors it is about what they could effectively fundraise for which includes this AI bullshit

I'm at that moment in my life again where I hate on note taking / word processor software and I've encountered two very interesting ones while doing that:

"using AI the right way / the wrong way" usually means "what I use it for / what *everybody else* uses it for". apparently, the Big Delusion renders very smart and experienced people completely incapable of connecting two (extremely close) dots

There's this new technology that's been a massive boost to sexual predators, plagiarists, misinfo agitators, and scammers. So is it a problem if we like, invest our entire economy in it hoping that it either replaces or massively cheapens all labour? What could go wrong? youtu.be/MgxBlrF7Hbk

Thank you to all who did the translating! Can't believe we have: Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish 💥‼️ olivia.science/ai/#activism @adolfont.github.io @danielatafani.bsky.social @aeporreca.org @sven.blacksky.app (do you want me to name you?) @smittermeier.bsky.social

Yes, and AI has been cultish for ages. Notice the year on the top quote. Also "in a cultish atmosphere, jargon does just the opposite: Instead, it causes speakers to feel confused and intellectually deficient. That way they'll comply." — Amanda Montell More here from us: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

Any early modernists out here who have any recommendations? I am drawing a blank here. #EarlyModern

If you know of a good "introduction to social theory" syllabus that's very welcome recommendation too.

Preparing two syllabi for myself for the summer break: - GK 101: Select Readings from Spring 2026 This is mostly gonna be stuff I skipped this term. - GK 102: Readings in Philosophy and Social Theory This is to help supplement the gaps in my knowledge in these topics because it's very patchy.

I had to withdraw my talk at a conference b/c the travel grant I applied for will only cover attendance fees & not the actual travel expenses. Gutted as well as saddened to experience how attending & presenting at conferences is increasingly becoming a thing for the wealthy & the privileged! 😞

Allah kitap aşkına şu şeyi kaldırımda yürürken içmeyin insana cinnet geçirttireceksiniz

Emphasis on «feel» ofc on both instances thereof.

Tinky-winky, Dipsy, Lala, Po.

Fugly car, beautiful wreckage. Thanks, bollard!

Only because you're not westoid it's very allowed By the way we should all go here it's so wholesome www.atlasobscura.com/places/donke...

I saw this today and it reminded me www.reddit.com/r/cyprus/s/F... I went with carrots and they love you until they are gone hahaha

Damb.. with all the traffic in this hell city it's us who should be remunerated! We got tricked!

So bsky is suspending journalists now? This app is basically a cyan HN...

The world: with all this AI crap maybe it's time to try Linux. Is it the year of Linux on the desktop? Canonical, as always: Hold my Soylent

me, up about 3:30am, saturday, after mostly procrastinating: damn, can i possibly read those 200 pages before 4am?

More trams! MOOOOORE

wow, a typo machine: mashable.com/article/sinc... I have an inkling that the machine made typos will feel different than the real ones

There's also a hilarious story to how I ended up in this school. Apparently after watching Bob Ross on telly I called in and left a note, in English cos Bob's speaking that ain't he, asking if he'd give me private painting lessons. That set off some Rube Goldberg machine too tedious to recount here.

Absolutely never do this to your "gifted" (i.e. most probably neurodivergent) child btw. I faced very little actual abuse/bullying but just trying (and ofc failing) to socialise amongst those kids in my most formative years set me up for failure in every aspect of life. Took me ages to fix.

My mum had found a pirated copy of 1984 on the metro. Now I was a bookish kid and teen but around 20yo I was more interested in coding and becoming a CS academic. Reading that book started a chain reaction where I ended up doing Italianistics at uni rather than CS.

"Lest we Forget the Surafend Massacre. 10 December 1918. Mass killing of Palestinian villagers by ANZAC forces." Mural in Sydney about the premeditated massacre against the villagers of Sarafand in Palestine by occupying Australian, New Zealand & Scottish soldiers in 1918.

🥳 _Advertising Pornography, 1822-1870_ is now available on Nineteenth Century Data Collective! This is a package of two complementary datasets derived from advertising material issued by major figures in the early Victorian pornography trade. One draws on sales catalogues, one on periodical ads +

This is... how's this... how's this not satire?