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

Goblin attractor? openai.com/index/where-...

Lots of interesting tools I’ve developed to investigate AI vector spaces vector-lab-tools.github.io

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati... Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96

Writing on a 2016 PC laptop (Thinkpad), due to my 2024 MacBook having died, creates a real sense of digital friction. It concentrates the mind on the paradigm shift we’re living in. stunlaw.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

Vector Theory An extract from a new book I am writing stunlaw.blogspot.com/2026/02/vect...

AI Sprints stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/11/ai-s...

Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University - great piece by @berrydm.bsky.social "academics will need to find new means to defend the university and contest the use of scholarslop before it is too late" stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Involution and Artificial Intelligence Geertz observed that just as wet-rice cultivation became increasingly elaborate and labour-intensive without corresponding productivity increases, I want to argue that AI exhibits a form of technological involution. stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/07/invo...

Editors’ Choice: Prompt anxiety digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/prom...

Remembering Eliza, one of the first chatbots: Lessons, warnings it holds for AI today indianexpress.com/article/expl...

"Prompt Anxiety" (by @berrydm.bsky.social) stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/06/prom...

API: AUTHORITARIAN PROGRAMMING INTERFACE Why the Trump Administration's Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to legacy financial systems is so serious. stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/02/api-...

World's first AI chatbot has finally been resurrected after decades ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost – until now www.newscientist.com/article/2463...

The reconstruction of historical computer code, what we might call digital ruins, presents unique challenges for digital preservation and historical understanding. stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/01/digi...

As our December issue is due tomorrow, you can check out some interesting articles from the last month, including an article by @berrydm.bsky.social and Mark Marino on ELIZA and Critical Code Studies 20 years after Marino's Critical Code Studies Manifesto. electronicbookreview.com/essay/readin...

Reflections on Method for Critical Code Studies Critical code studies offers a crucial intervention for understanding the algorithms by studying source code through close reading techniques stunlaw.blogspot.com/2024/12/refl...

TEAM ELIZA submitted the full draft of our book about the code of the world's first chatbot. Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Peggy Weil , Jeff Shrager, Arthur Schwarz, Anthony Hay, Mark Marino and Peter Millican with Foreword by Janet Murray findingeliza.org

The Inversion and the Algorithmic Condition stunlaw.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-...

IS IT BECAUSE YOU ARE THE BARKER THAT YOU CAME TO ME It is. ELIZA, I need your help. electronicbookreview.com?mailpoet_rou...

who could have predicted that the full commodification of all human endeavor would result in feelings of dysphoria and meaninglessness

Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence. By Ted Chiang www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

CfP: Critical Code Studies and Code Conversations We invite contributions to a Special Issue on Critical Code Studies. We take up the idea of the code conversation as a means of critically interrogating computer source code. link.springer.com/journal/146/... #critcode #digitalhumanities

“Universities’ management systems are not up to that task. … The quality of university leadership is variegated: the nimble mixed with the static, the precise blended in with the clumsy, and the forward-looking cheek-by-jowl with the antediluvian. “ www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories in January 2024 #critcode #digitalhumanities www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

The Future of the University: A Proposal for a ‘Digital Research University’ stunlaw.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-...

Code as Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/37778/ #critcode

Tractable Tensions: A Review of Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age by David M. Berry and Anders Fagerjord. By Onyekachi Henry Ibekwe www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...

New publication (myself and James Stockman): Schumacher in the age of generative AI: Towards a new critique of technology (2024) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

CALL FOR PAPERS | Code as Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies (1 June 2024, Cambridge, UK) #critcode #digitalhumanities www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...

CFP: 8th biennial Critical Code Studies Working Group 2-29 Feb 2024 To apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Apply by 31 Jan 2024 Planned topics for this year include: Queering Code CCS and AI The DHQ Special issues Teaching Code and Code Studies

Niklaus Wirth has died RIP. The creator of Pascal, the first real programming language I got to grips with.

Shocking behaviour by Queen Mary www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The big news of today, and for many days to come! Immensely pleased to welcome Jane Winters to her new role as Chair of the DPC, and with very many thanks to outgoing chair Juan Bicarregui after 6 years. #digitalpreservation #digipres #dpc

The University of Geneva's #DigitalHumanities Unit is hiring a candidate for a 1-year postdoc position in NLP and Linked Data. The position starts March 1, 2024. Applicants with a Ph.D. and up to 5 years experience apply before January 15th. @ncarboni.bsky.social ℹ️ www.unige.ch/lettres/huma...

The “poem poem poem” hack for ChatGPT is very interesting! not-just-memorization.github.io/extracting-t...

The Limits of Computation: Joseph Weizenbaum and the ELIZA Chatbot New paper discussing Weizenbaum’s work and life ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj... #Weizenbaum, #ELIZA, #ArtificialIntelligence, #MachineLearning, #Chatbots, #ChatGPT

Many congratulations to @leightonevans.bsky.social Leighton Evans on his well-deserved award of the Dillwyn Medal 2023 from the Learned Society of Wales at the Senedd this evening. swanseamumbler.com/digital-medi...

Expanding DH toward reflection on sociotechnical institutions, this ends up pretty close to our undergraduate information science degree.

Towards a Design for an Undergraduate BA Digital Humanities Degree – some thoughts stunlaw.blogspot.com/2023/10/towa... #digitialhumanities #digital #critcode #digitalmedia

Five million documents from the Dutch East India Company will be searchable starting on Wednesday, with an improved version of the database expected next year #archives nltimes.nl/2023/10/08/m...

Wait, when is my paper due?

Getting to know ELIZA: ChatGPT’s Great Grandmother Wednesday, October 11 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 United States cmsw.mit.edu/event/gettin...

Amazing interview with @karaswisher.bsky.social recommended watching youtu.be/M9XoUUYeZD8?...

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities will be published in paperback in next 12 months; priced at £24.99, reasonable for some ~250,000 words worth of work. See a Zotero library of contributions as follows: www.zotero.org/groups/48889... Thanks as always to @bendoyle.bsky.social 🙏

Pretty interesting that Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA chatbot from the 1960s is Turing Complete