Citing and crediting an LLM as the source of an idea in your research is like reporting pickpocket earnings on your taxes.

The Trump regime actually let two guys with zero government experience use ChatGPT to cancel $100M in grants—including Holocaust education. A federal judge just humiliated them, called it unconstitutional, and reversed every single cut. Read how she did it: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...

"Writers and scholars had structured their lives around these awards—taking leaves of absence, giving up other income, making commitments—because the government had entered into a legally binding obligation. That obligation must be honored." - Mary Rasenberger, Author's Guild CEO #NEH #humanities

A federal judge granted the motion for a summary judgment on all counts in favor of the AHA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social in our lawsuit to restore the NEH, ruling that the mass termination of grants was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect." 🗃️

There will be more to say - and this is far from over - but this is one giant step toward justice for our grantees at the National Endowment for the Humanities. #NEH staff have awaited this day for more than a year - for you, and for us. 🙏✊

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” https://bit.ly/4wmbFg8

AI-generated poetry is plastic fruit on a floor model table in a furniture store

Can an LLM write a poem? Sure, as long as we don't ask what a poem is, what a poem does, or why we write poetry.

In light of the news about the Einstein AI agent, please enjoy this thought experiment from my syllabus last quarter. 🧵/5 www.404media.co/whats-the-po...

Apropos of something… www.imdb.com/title/tt0120...

Srsly considering executing my courses this year in the mode of Taskmaster. Each quarter starts with a prize task and winner takes all during the final. Yes?

My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...

I’m committed to getting this book draft in on time, no matter how long it takes me.

Technologist Miller Prosser sees a future where students expand creativity and critical thinking by reading and writing, all without a single subscription to a faulty techbro app.

It’s just some limited firing, you know, for the profitz

“…no LLM is ever going to morph into a truly superintelligent agent because intelligence isn’t actually in its DNA.” observer.co.uk/news/columni...

It is helpful to remember that AI/LLMs do not think and many do not remember what they previously responded. (Yes, yes, I know you can train them to build on training...). As educators are increasingly being asked (some required) to use AI in the classroom, consider the following. 🧵

The Wire is overrated have a good weekend no follow up questions at this time 💨

Pardon me while I take a semihemidemisemiquaver rest to gather my thoughts. Whew, ok...

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

Just emptied Trash on my MacBook for the first time in a long time. Removed over 800k items. 🗑️

Hello world! I posted again via the API.

Hello world! I posted this via the API.

I honestly can’t tell if this is gaslighting, which I guess makes it good gaslighting www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...

Exciting PhD Opportunity! Come join @memsunikent.bsky.social for a CHASE-funded collaborative doctoral award with Westminster Abbey to investigate the manuscript fragments held in the Abbey’s Archives. Learn more at the link below, deadline to apply 17 Feb 2025 📜🎉 research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

Data is never ‘collected’, it is only *generated*. This isn’t merely a pedantic semantic gripe; by misrepresenting ‘data’ as something that exists in nature & has only to be scooped up, evasion of accountability for data harms has already begun Data doesn’t exist until someone constructs it

The question we're most often asked, as indexers, is 'Can't a computer do that?' Well, no. In a recent blog post we asked a panel of expert indexers how they respond to this question when it inevitably comes up

It's grad school application season which means writing and reading recommendation letters. I realize the following is restating the obvious and probably preaching to the choir, but wow academia's current approach to recommendation is such a flawed system.

The 3rd annual Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) will offer a day of workshops and talks on DH tools and methods especially for pre-modernists. Come join us on March 19, 2025 in Cambridge and Boston, MA! Sessions at the Houghton Library and McMullen Museum! docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Love this! I had a similar reaction when studying cuneiform tablets. You mean I can pick it up? But it’s 3000 years old!

Brushing up on histories and implementations of peer review. It should come as no surprise, people have strong opinions on the topic. 🔥

Oh my god you guys Amazon found something I might like and were kind enough to email me about it! #grateful

I don’t know why the phrase “one more sleep until…” creeps me out but here we are.

It’s lovely walking past City Hall on a Friday afternoon and seeing the newlyweds posing for photos. All walks, young adult to elder, sometimes just a couple sometimes a big group. Always lots of smiles and great clothes.

The proliferation of digital publications that mimic a print publication makes one question whether the scholarly community perceives a need for a type of digital scholarly communication that integrates data at a more granular level and includes a more dynamic user interface. 🧵

It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing.

I’m excited to share this piece I wrote for Deep Baltic magazine about a strange discovery in the Białowieża Forest that rocked Baltic linguistics - a story so strange it reads like an off-beat late Soviet comedy… deepbaltic.com/2024/05/22/w...

A fun surprise is finding a bookmark left behind in a library book. Found this fun guy in Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Planned Obsolescence (2011) from the UChicago Library

I will never not marvel at Johnny Cash on his version of I've Been Everywhere.

It's mid-October, which means it is time to go on high alert for woodpeckers tearing apart the wood trim. Every little rat-a-tat of any kind and I jump into silent observation mode like I'm a WWII submarine captain. Bird on the east side of the house captain!

Either that was indeed Nick Lowe in the coffee shop today or I just got the autograph of a stylish dude apparently named . . . Frank.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare sounds like a title Joel and the bots would make up while brainstorming rejected Roger Corman projects.

Oh boy. Someone is going have a tough day. Chicago west loop outside of the French Market.

Like a delicious cheddar wheel of democracy, the sun is rising on a new day in Wisconsin.

This time reading through "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush I can't help but see Matthew Modine as the narrator. And you know what, I'm fine with that.

Me: Ok, let me just save this Excel spreadsheet. Excel: The picture is too large and will be truncated. Me: Um...no, there are no pictures in this... Excel: You are welcome. No to save now, okbye.

Word spellcheck: Sorry sir, the word "a" is not found in the dictionary. Me: But...that's... Word spellcheck: To make my point, here's a red squiggle underline. I'm sure you understand.

On a cold snowy midwestern Saturday time to warm up with some HAIM

ALERT: There ain't no such thing as feudalism. Zero. Zip. Zilch. It never existed. So now what do we replace it with? In our first @buttondown.email post, @profgabriele.com and I that you can replace bad ideas with good questions. Please read. Please share. Please subscribe.