Hello! I’m in the UK from the 23rd of April to the 22nd of May. I'll be in Cambridge / Edinburgh / London / Birmingham and Bristol and I’d love to be connected to folk who are interested in/working on:

The enshittification guy not just embracing enshittification tech, but defending it through strawman arguments that seek to misdirect his readers is quite the move. Yes, I’m talking about Cory Doctorow (very poorly) defending his use of LLMs, as @tante.cc expertly breaks down here:

Genuine question: does the #digitalhumanities need gen AI? Or is our work to imagine alternatives (psst, that's what I'm trying to do but I'm open to other ideas)

A message for you all to carry through the year

#digitalhumanities folk: could you please recommend significant work on topic modeling and small language models that you might have come across?

I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b... @apache.be you rule 🖤

enshittification intensifies. google now throwing up wrong timezone difference information. what is additionally bizarre is that it links to the correct result in from the linked snippet (worldtimebuddy.com)

Realising the academy only has itself to blame for the AI driven student plagiarism problem (at least in the humanities and social sciences) still largely entrenched in ossified modes of making knowledge available rewarded by systems like tenure made it easy for formulaic templates easy to emulate.

What are we doing about the semantic drift of the word data? In my explorations of indigeneity and data sovereignty, the word data feels less and less adequate for what it represents in this context. Ironically, data anchored in its original etymological context: what is given - is most appropriate.

*sighs in anne carson*

At a cultural sector conference + got into an argument w/ a self proclaimed technoutopian: after I declared capitalism is always inevitably corrupt: I was asked what the alternative is, accused of being socialist - I realised the model I want to see is not communist or socialist but *feminist*

Srsly why won't people realise that gen ai is just the most obsequious customer service dressed up as information making you believe it's knowledge

Yes hello I need to speak to the manager of native Minnesota raspberries

Very glad to share this piece where I explain why LLMs & AI in their current formations are unlikely to be fair & ethical in their representations of the Majority World. I make recommendations on how we might shift these imbalances, and what needs to be done in order to do so. bit.ly/3IMlgbr

applying for jobs again

is it my ignorance that leads me to believe that the early groundbreaking work of Alison Adam in feminist rethinking of the epistemological basis of AI is really not as central to teaching and research in the field as it should be?

It’s no longer possible to argue that social media giants aren’t publishers. Algorithms are being juiced to favour particular voices and worldviews. They are not even playing fields.

question for the hivemind: are there any countries where there is implemented regulation that compulsorily requires digital products to declare that a customer/user is interacting with an AI agent and not a human?

I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

Hello! I’m in Nova Scotia between the 25th of April & the 8th of May - I’m interested in meeting people who work in the fields of design justice, feminist ethics and technology as well as disability justice. Do put me in touch with anyone who might fit the bill - and if this is you, pls do say hi!

#OSINT tool share as first bsky post :) Do you need to analyse gory videos for visual clues? Run them through this tool to blur human forms so you're slightly less exposed to distressing material: colab.research.google.com/drive/1l6W52...

In the new year I’m going to publish a history of the last 5 years of building @transkribus.bsky.social as an AI cooperative: shared ownership, shared resources, all profit reinvested into infrastructure. It turns out we can build a better tech world together, but that takes work & community.

The memory hole is something I've been talking about for a while and a reason why I urge everyone to archive their social media as well as published work and not depend on the cloud or websites that are doomed to disappear.

If you guys miss the old internet, you can join in and contribute at any time. Sign up at a static host like neocities or nekoweb. Make a shrine to some random shit you love, and other people will love it. It doesn't have to look good, use barebones html, plenty find it endearing. It screams Human

Great to be back here - with some exciting news! So grateful to be nominated as one the ESRC's Digital Good fellows this year: digitalgood.net/dg-research/...

I'm glad to see more conversations about what participatory design for AI might look like, especially in the context of the Global South, and I wanted to share this paper that I wrote in collaboration with Shohini B. at Point of View and Sasha John from Digital Futures Lab. #aiethics

New series of Succession just dropped.

DH folks: is anyone doing close readings and/or stylometric analysis of ChatGPT generated poetry yet?

I couldn't remember what gremlins were called. 🙈

👋 It's my birthday today. I'm not a birthday person, but this year I'm doing a fundraiser for @internetfreedom.bsky.social 🎉. I'll be matching donations made to IFF today so you can double your impact: internetfreedom.in/double-your-... (Please boost)

So lovely to be part of this endeavour! Do check it out 🌿🌿🌿🌿

Watch here: youtu.be/pDB_wYdn5f4?... All ad revenues go to the fundraiser for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

#digitalhumanities friends & colleagues: how can we use our expertise + networks to push back against censorship and misinfo in a cohesive, united way? How can we challenge shadowbans and other strategies determined to silence us? 🍉

If JKR's argument is all men who transition are potentially rapists, then one assumes she basically means all men are potentially rapists, and unless women's bathrooms are the only places that rape occurs, then men shouldn't be allowed to exist either.

I'm proud of this editorial note from Jennifer Guliano and @roopikarisam.bsky.social on digital humanities work and the palestinian’s genocide reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/editoria...

"The Nakba Archive is a grassroots oral history collective founded in 2002 to record and commemorate the experiences of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon who lived through the 1948 Nakba, ‘catastrophe.’" (h/t The Syllabus Project) www.nakba-archive.org/new/

If you know anyone on England who's out on a protest this weekend, make sure they know about green and black cross BEFORE they go. greenandblackcross.org/guides/bustc...

Please comment on the original post on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/p/Cy8onz1Nl6...

I'm bewildered by the absolute lack of acknowledgement from fellow researchers and academic colleagues (especially from the US) of the ongoing eradication of a nation over the last 24 hours or so. So much for social justice.

Tired of shadowbanning because of sharing certain content on a certain platform. Follow linktr.ee/fuckmeta for more. Updated regularly with content. Use translation tools for Indian language content. 🍉🍉🍉🍉

PSA

For those folk advocating for tactics to evade the insta algo, do you genuinely believe that they are not taking cognisance of these and create strategies in response?

Another time, another place, still me.

It's great to be able to share the outputs from this workshop I conducted on Sharing the World With AI with Michiel Baas in collaboration with @befantastic.in - we've put together a poster - a "collaborative manifesto"

So, this happened :)