Distinguished University Professor of English @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social has emerged as a leading voice on AI. Read our Q&A to learn more about how AI is transforming the way we communicate, educate and govern: english.umd.edu/news/how-matthew-kirschenbaum-sees-ais-impact

New CFP from JITP on Minimalist Digital Pedagogy. Due June 15th. cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

Personally can't wait to have @alondra.bsky.social and @amplify285.bsky.social up on the stage in dialogue with Milner and Lanier at the closing keynote of Who Owns Black Data, vol. 2. It's gonna be lit 🔥🔥🔥 Check out the program here: wobd.blackbeyonddata.org/yale/schedule/

Day 1 with @aadhum-umd.bsky.social was amazing. Introduced folks to @mmasnick.bsky.social’s Trust & Safety Tycoon. Great questions about building decentralized platforms and thinking through content moderation challenges. And, and, aaaand — I soldered something for the first time!

You were excellent and we loved having you here. Don't be a stranger whenever you're in MD again - our doors are always open to you! 🌟

Here at this @aadhum-umd.bsky.social workshop today, @rudyfraser.com is taking us under (I mean under) the hood to play with and learn about creating custom feeds in bluesky, in this case developing custom algorithms— thinking about weights and requirements, definitions and filtering the firehose. 😍

Here we go! @rudyfraser.com is describing matters of representing/supporting Black communities on social media. Turns to technical infrastructure: open source, user support, & other considerations. Thinking about systems that are sustainable, and that can operate well into the future.

From scholars working on independent projects to gatherings of #BlackDH centers and initiatives, it's been a great week at the Africana Digital Humanities @ HBCU's Convening! Keynote convo'ing w/ Kenton Rambsy & the GOAT Maryemma Graham; amazing panels for days + basking in Colored Conventions-isms

#Blacksky y'all. #blackDH #digitalhumanities

As I was saying to a friend today, it's always a privilege to have someone care about your ideas. Gratitude today to The Black Studies Podcast for this opportunity to chat w the glorious Ashley Newby @ digital things, Black Studies things, teaching things, & more! open.spotify.com/episode/6IdA...

Still we march along with the love— excited here today for @awwsmith.bsky.social at MITH & @aadhum-umd.bsky.social. We’re talking about his progress on LiteraryDJ, which begins w/ the limits of classical computing vis-à-vis Black language, & exploring new possibilities in computing. Quantum y’all!

Today? Advising projs, teaching my Black Digitalities grad course, & sitting @ this talk by @safiyanoble.bsky.social (How’s that for burying the lede?🌟) Moving constantly btw headlines & actually getting my job done. It’s a devilish both/and. Talks like this remind us why we must also do what we do

When we say digital @aadhum-umd.bsky.social, we mean ‘digital + experimental,’ which is how we think about our own version of #digitalhumanities Today? Sitting here at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social listening to Curry J. Hackett on landscape, Black life, Black joy, and AI image generation.

AI? Ecology? Poetics? Black joy? Sign. me. up. Join us this week as we welcome the renowned artist and technologist Curry Hackett to AADHum, for a campus workshop + the second event in our ongoing series at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville!

AADHum & MITH got together and made a baby! We named it NarraSpace. It feels good to push toward new and ever more interactive ways to share scholarship & to find and tell our stories — looking for the new new while also homebrewing... english.umd.edu/news/step-na...

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Today at Maryland-College Park? Walter Greason and Tim Fielder talking about The Graphic History of Hip-Hop!

What better way to slink back onto the socials than to say how happy @aadhum-umd.bsky.social is to host members of the Afrotechtopia @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville! We are joining Ari Melenciano and Jeremy Kamal in celebrating Black Metal, an art book based in Black speculative design!

Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.

What do we have here? AADHum's first 2025 event! 🚀 Over the moon excited for this one. Come hang with us for a night about futures, speculative design, and the important work of independent Black digital and experimental makers. Swoon. Busboys & Poets Hyattsville — 5pm on 2/12 — Free!

At CNI, James Shulman and @amplify285.bsky.social discuss the ACLS Commission on Fostering & Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship's report: "Other Stories to Tell: Recovery Scholarship and the Infrastructure for Digital Humanities." 📹 Watch at:

Clear, detailed explanation for *users* about how to do reports for Blacksky content moderation. So well done by Dr. KáLyn Coghill! @drkalyncoghill.bsky.social Trust & Safety folks ought to read this.

I want to make more websites for my interests next year!! Nothing stopping us from doing this. I think social media broke our brains and made us all obsessed with numbers. Back in the day we didn’t care about that, it was exciting if even one person signed the “guest book” on your weird little page.

Marisa Parham on the WNBA (plotting a battle between Clark v Reese!)-brilliant! Kate Starbird on supposed concerns about protecting women’s sports from trans people-brilliant! Soraya McDonald on the Washington Post, minoritized reporters-brilliant! Renee DiResta on how to study platforms-brilliant!

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'The co-lead of Remains // an Archive tells us about the lab's art exhibition, the importance of centering relationships between enslaved people in her writing, and the family photos that inspire her.' lifexcode.substack.com/p/dive-into-...

Ask me about listening to Dana Williams talk about the uses of data in examining Toni Morrison’s editorial legacy, because… swoon. Here at #NMAAHC for the Black Literary Network/Future of #BlackDH gathering.

This Wed. @ 12p — Join UMD English on the Zooms for an authors' conversation about OUTPUT ⇢ "An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT." english.umd.edu/events/book-...

Thinking of @amplify285.bsky.social saying repeatedly during the day of our panel hosted by Brown's Democracy project (I will post YT link when it's up for this interested) we HAVE to deal with the racism and sexism on the left. Because PHEW.

Moving this from X to here - reminder that Black feminist theory summer institute applications are open. Details here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...

NOPE HELL NAW ABSOLUTELY TF NOT

ANYWAY looks like we chose bluesky, how nice to tie a little bow on this piece, only took seven months!! #BlackSky #blackademics

For my newsletter I wrote about some things I learned as a young activist that have just stayed true over the last 35 years. I’ve thought of a few more, will put those in the next one.

Same, girls. Hard same.

Currently at a dream team talk about digital disinformation featuring @sorayamcdonald.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social @noupside.bsky.social and @amplify285.bsky.social here at Brown.

Why not start my (online) life here with a pic of this luscious cat?

Parts of history and the whole of history don't need to harmonize. It is all the parts- racial, ethnic, gendered, economic, structural, belief-based, empire, thousands of other things- that sing together in different keys and tunings to create the rhyming, dissonant cacophony that is the whole.

In my latest #NewScientist column, I think through what we can learn from @helendecruz.net’s thinking about wonder: ‘Philosopher Helen De Cruz…explains that “wonder is a useful emotion, because it points to gaps in what you thought you knew”.’ www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

As a former NEHer who believes strongly in their mission & the state humanities councils, I’m gravely concerned about their future. I wrote this in March 2017 when their budget was last targeted for elimination. Please share & talk about their value to your community! medium.com/@jasonrhody/...

Looking forward ⇢ This Friday!

"I can understand being despairing. Yet I’m with Audre Lorde, who wrote that “despair is a tool of our enemies.” Why do I believe this? Because despair has a way of distorting, it often pairs well with cynicism... a way of being that contracts what’s possible rather than expanding possibilities."

From "My Project 2025," A New Poem By Saeed Jones. saeedjones.substack.com/p/my-project...

Reminder that @haymarketbooks.bsky.social is giving away these ten books including by @prisonculture.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and others. Get in on it. www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

After these last few weeks of campus visits and conferences, I’m more convinced than ever that giving students freedom to work outside traditional forms is crucial. They want to use the humanities to make a difference. We need internships, community engagement, podcasts, data viz, SOTL, and more.

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Can't wait to welcome @amplify285.bsky.social to Atlanta as part of our #AIAINetwork spring speaker series. She'll be talking about "Black living + other computational poetics" and you can RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/aiai-speak...

Humans will human, so even in the absence of animated GIFs and video in the sky, I also look forward to seeing the new visual language people will create.

So pleased to share good good news... ✨ Comments (thoughts? feelings?) ⇢ www.instagram.com/p/C0QRIVFOrsi/

the most deeply insulting part of the racist trolley problem is that - in a world facing the nightmare in Gaza, global warming, and countless other issues - the thing most concerning to our tech overlords is that they aren’t allowed to say the N word

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” — James Baldwin, 1980