1) Read GitHub Issue and decide to comment 2) Post barely literate comment 3) Phone buzzes with notification that someone has posted on a GitHub Issue I'm following 4) Eagerly unlock phone to see what this person has said 5) Discover, once again, that I am this person 6) Lather, rinse, repeat.

I did bring my other pet hooman along. I mean, we couldn't eat *that* much sushi in one go!

Hi LT! That's a coincidence, I know someone else doing that...

It's a big world for a small Totoro. Always best to fill up on sushi before travelling.

Off to Brussels for a week, just waiting for the Eurostar.

I don't believe a word of it... #satire www.newsbiscuit.com/post/social-...

Sure, maybe. But although the pope asks us to take personal responsibility, there is some equivocation in the Magnifica Humanitas. I think this would eventually start to fail most places as they'll just add AI to job descriptions. Then it will cause the employer 'undue hardship' to accommodate.

If someone spams me using a template email with the bare template fields, do you really think I'm going to trust you to run the membership site for my associations and nonprofits? {Association Name} indeed! Increasing, I'm assuming, because of people not actually reading the output of #genAI.

Here I am! 🤗 - what is the point of #digitalhumanities in a world which is on fire? and how has DH changed over the past 20 years? My personal take:

Is using contractions in translations for formal academic writing how we now demonstrate we aren't AI?

Another type of dangerous grooming of children online.

An excellent talk @melissaterras.bsky.social wish I could have been there. #DH #DigitalHumanities

Has anyone done a study comparing the reluctance to admit AI usage to the reluctance to admit porn usage? For some reason the shame associated with use ends up in the same kind of category in my brain?

This is the thing that the politicians really need to understand. Humanities degrees lead to employment, CS degrees lead to unemployment. This is especially true in a world of AI. (of course 15 months isn't enough time to capture that Humanities grads also earn more over their whole careers)

The advert says that it is a fixed term post, but nowhere in it does it say for how long. It is only when one finally looks at the job pack so potential applicants find out if it's only max 9 months maternity cover. Just wish employers would be more transparent.

OLH flips another journal from a for-profit, commercial publisher www.openlibhums.org/news/943/

I see that in the #FarageRiots, the racists have injured a police dog. Maybe this will convince some of the flagshaggers of the simple truth that... racism is a bad thing. 🙄

Saving this image for re-use.... ❤️

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I do appreciate that the @britishmuseum.bsky.social is now using the words “colonial loot” in its newer displays. A first step…

To be fair, it holds up quite well.

Þe sauete daunce!

Lots of great stories coming your way! Just dip in a toe if you don't have lots of time. Well worth a read. (Shameless plug - my story "Waxing" will be out on the day at around 9.10 am BST!) #FlashFiction #Fiction #Writing #Flash

Clear explanation of how LLMs work, or more precisely, do not work when it comes to truth.

Ah, the fun of travelling the Northern line where the digital information screens give us their IP addresses and Infotec software version instead of the train times...

Get a citation notification that doi.org/10.55885/jer... cites an article of mine on myths about the #TEI. In it I say *nothing* about the topic where they reference me. Bibliographic entry also messed up. Poor copy-editing and peer review of the Journal of Education Review Provision. Maybe AI?

About to see Ensemble '84's production of Hamlet, following the First Quarto. www.ensemble84.com #Hamlet #Shakespeare #Drama

Where are my fellow editors in the humanities? I am writing about journal submission volume, AI, and the humanities. If you are an editor, I'd love to know if you are seeing a lot of AI-generated submissions-- or a lot of submissions in general. Or if you have the problem of low submission volume.

At my desk early for the first meeting of the international advisory board (of which I am a member) of the SeDOA project: a German initiative to establish a network for diamond open-access journals and projects. diamond-open-access.de

This is excellent news.

An excellent project.

Hairy text! Surely a Jersey calf here? Durham Cathedral MS A.III.12.

I have donated to Wikipedia. I will do so no longer, unless they actually fix this. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

I mean, sure, but isn't the point of Machine Learning approaches to modelling like Transkribus is that you provide them some finetuning (e.g. a few pages of transcription) which makes their WER reduce by orders of magnitude?

I love how it was assumed that they were lovers when they couldn't determine their sex, but now that they can by DNA prove it is two unrelated women ... it is still a big mystery why there is this double same-sex burial! They even bring in the concept of fictive kinship to make sense of it. 🙄 🧡🩷

What a fun film. I would prefer it if pubs were like this and didn't have the football on.

Who do I know that (knows someone that) does linked open data work on Vatican (especially Papal) material?

In the age of AI, when I get 'prospective PhD student' spam, I'm almost offended now when it hasn't been pre-customised to my personal research areas. What do you mean that you want to do a PhD in 'English Language' rather than a digital scholarly edition of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament!?

I am wondering if anyone in English Lit would like to co-author a paper? That sounds vague, but the project is a digital assessment of writing over the course of our discipline in the 20th century. So looking at what lit academics published in journals and how their writing has changed over time.

I'm rewatching 'Singing In The Rain' through the analogy of the sudden and uncritical adoption of promising but problematic new technologies. Specifically 'Talkies' as a metaphor for social and technological shift of the increased use of generative AI. It puts a very different slant on the film.

Anything that makes him sad is probably a good thing for the world.

An attack on the human rights of one group of people, is an attack on the human rights of all. They try to distract us by turning us against each other but they're planning a bait and switch. Rights of trans people should be protected for their own sake but, if you need another reason, this is it.

Judging the reporting on this misguided guidance by whether they even mention that this means trans men will need to use women's loos. Most articles don't. That is so likely to generate complaints from cis women than if trans women were allowed there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some people forget that retired people also count as unemployed. (Though not when the government wants to show a reduction.) Frankly, I'd go the other way and make voting compulsory for 16 and over.

It is almost like we shouldn't be using LLMs to determine predictive outcomes of social rather than linguistic events. Who'd'thunk'it?!

Very much looking forward to the Textual Ecologies conference!I will be speaking on a panel with @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social and Elaine Treharne :)

Something I hate about the silo'ing of video content in streaming platforms in addition to the loss of cultural connection is when they allow you to download something, but then when in a particular country don't let you watch it. Yes, there are ways around this but still...

The AI boom is unsustainable because the entire thing is predicated on cannibalizing the future. Is this a better way to search? Maybe! Will there be anything new for the AI to search if no one gets web traffic from Google Search anymore? There will not.

The #TEI Consortium is accepting nominations for the TEI-C Board (governance and oversight) and the TEI Technical Council (technical development and maintenance of the TEI-C Guidelines and associated software). You may self-nominate. If you have any questions, please ask! tei-c.org/news/2026/05...

The TEI Consortium invites nominations for the TEI-C Board (2 positions) & Technical Council (4 positions),each for a 3-year term. Self-nominations are welcome. Nominations by 16 June: forms.gle/5dVnEuLYWzsF.... Elections conclude before August 2026. Diverse and new nominations are always encouraged