OK, this is incredible. Mad genius @samplereality.bsky.social has created a web tool for exploring Subcutanean (my novel where each copy is unique) across every axis you can think of: source code, 25 diffed versions, VR projections(!), bubble viz(!!) & a lot more. (1/2) subcutanean.fugitivetexts.net

I've pushed a new DH project out into the world! It's a digital workbench for @aaronareed.bsky.social's 2020 Subcutanean, a novel in which every copy is different from every other copy. Introducing the Subcutanean Variorum!

🧪 NEW STUDY: Reproductive toxicants (eg microplastics & PFAS forever chemicals) + climate change are likely driving plummeting global fertility rates ACROSS THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. [Anyone expressing glee about rising human infertility will be blocked] 1/2 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Here's a chance to play a role in the next volume of the field-defining Electronic Literature Collection!

This is going to be great! I'll be there in person, but there are also robust online-only options for NarraScope.

Mackenzie’s post is about teaching DH to undergrads at a SLAC but I think it capture what it feels to teach anything anywhere right now.

That Chronicle op-ed about teaching and learning centers is such bullshit, as in, authoritatively making shit up. I’ve worked significantly with three different CTLs (private research university, large state school, and SLAC) and NONE are remotely like the imagined CTL in the piece.

That Chronicle op-ed about teaching and learning centers is such bullshit, as in, authoritatively making shit up. I’ve worked significantly with three different CTLs (private research university, large state school, and SLAC) and NONE are remotely like the imagined CTL in the piece.

The lifespan of Hampshire College (1970-2026) almost perfectly maps onto the timeline of a Gen Xer eventually crushed by conformity and capitalism.

Good example of @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social’s textpocalypse thesis. This blog “Worse on Purpose” is surely mostly AI-generated. No citations. Punchy writing with short declarative sentences. Like this. Churned out with extremely low effort. The blog equivalent of AI slop. Blop.

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

1963

Next time Trump travels to Germany they should arrest the war criminal. (Germany being one of the few countries with universal jurisdiction laws.)

In the same way faculty often have to caveat their posts, saying they don’t speak for their institutions, institutions should caveat their posts by saying they don’t speak for their employees.

Infrastructure junkies, this one is for you! This month's free e-book from the University of Chicago is @inquiline.myatproto.social's Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEb...

I've taught @samplereality.bsky.social's "10 Lost Boys" a bunch of times over the years and I did again today. I always expect to take some flack for "being political" but I never do. Students seem really struck by it. I watched one young woman laugh and then cover her mouth in shock repeatedly.

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

Conversion therapy is child abuse.

Žižek famously analyzed movies he had never seen and repeated the same anecdotes word-by-word in multiple books. He also straight up made up things. LLMs have nothing on Žižek.

every time i read about ai agents allegedly blogging about drama, it’s really just some human playing wizard of oz

I got a blue screen of death on my brand new computer. Why? My parents installed an "anti-virus" before I got home. I rise extatic through all, and sweep with the true gravitation.

Killer quote from @nathankhensley.bsky.social: “AI products are best understood not as technologies of information (as their backers prefer them to be discussed) but of labor management and the accelerated concentration of wealth.”

The current polycrisis is just a monocrisis in disguise. The Monocrisis of Capitalism.

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

Spain always fucks with my American sense of time. They'll be talking about the "new" cathedral, which turns out was built in 1780s. Meanwhile the "old" cathedral from the 13th century was built over a mosque that was finished in the 9th century.

The dew point reads 52.2°F && okay, count it: 13 seconds between every crest. Maybe someday... maybe soon, my friends in stations and seas🕳 have. or what brings you today? Just me and some° noize? Might as well see what the skies say. Remember always seek adventure. Now

I mean the less funny thing to consider is that the reason Sora got discontinued so shortly after OpenAI signed a military contract is that those GPUs are gonna be busy

This is a tectonic shift in North Carolina Republican politics. Not sure what it heralds, but good riddance to Berger.

Thrilled to see the depositions of the DogeBros back online from the @modernlanguage.bsky.social et al lawsuit? If so, join me in donating to your friendly local scholarly association. Mine's the MLA's Paving the Way campaign. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

My scholarly org out there trolling DOGE with the official MLA Style Guide on citing a deposition. For example... “Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition (Part 1) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH.” YouTube, uploaded by ModernLanguageAssoc, 7 Mar. 2026, www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY-QvaJ_QJk.

Basically the judge noted that the depo videos were already viral and you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube, so

Truly exceptional essay by @kevinbaker.bsky.social on the automated “kill chain.” LLMs are a charismatic technology that orient all discussion toward them, which has the effect of obscuring even more insidious non-LLM networks of information and power…like Palantir.

One wonders if sending ICE to airports wasn't part of the plan all along.

ICE has been hacked! And you can explore the data, which includes every DHS contract, in this convenient new tool micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts

zoya is an agent wired to ocean buoys, weather readings, seismic events, wildfires. an ISS position. it's a distant tribute to @samplereality.bsky.social @_LostBuoy_ and one melancholic book written in a crumbling stagnating Soviet empire: "Notes on Tea Drinking and Earthquakes" by Leon Bogdanov

just permanently muted the word "Clavicular" here. hopefully i won't even see this very post

There are several versions of the NEH DOGE depositions on the Internet Archive. This version includes full transcripts and subtitle files. archive.org/details/doge...

There are several versions of the NEH DOGE depositions on the Internet Archive. This version includes full transcripts and subtitle files. archive.org/details/doge...

Pretty sure Marc Andreessen is an investor in PureGenius.

Now here's some AI-powered ed tech I can get behind. Signing my provost up for a demo!

Literally a Black Mirror episode

It's easy to dunk on the DOGE bros in those NEH deposition videos—I know I certainly have. But don't forget that the fig leaf of "efficiency" long precedes them, and is in fact the raison d'être of consulting firms that advise the gutting of academic institutions and new corporate acquisitions.

DOGE Bro don't like wasteful spending, with one notable exception

DOGE Bro don't like wasteful spending, with one notable exception

In honor of Habermas, a meme I made

Stephen Miller’s America First Legal and Jenin Younes’ New Civil Liberties Alliance gloated about their depositions and posted them online to get civil servants harassed but the DOGE boys are delicate flowers and rules dont apply.

DOGE bro doesn’t know

Yep. LOCKSS…

Dash offers a beautiful, eminently quotable turn of phrase here. But the pithiness gnaws at me. I suspect it has something to do with the mistaken idea that "the drudgery" of writing is separate from the "soulful human" part of writing.