2 weeks left on this (no idea why I put the deadline on a weekend)

Total Theory of Vibe cultural victory alignment.anthropic.com/2025/sublimi...

Building on the great papers from our Global Mediations workshop this past April, we're launching a CFP for additional contributions to an anthology on the global contestation of computational imaging. Details below; proposals due 9/13

My personal 5-min. video: vimeo.com/84252711 on why humanities matter. I can’t improve on the message. But my passion now is the Center for Humanities Communication, which I cofounded to assist the humanities in methods, resources, tools for telling its _why_, center-humanities-communication.org

Happy to to announce that @mellonfoundation has awarded our Center for Humanities Communication (CHC) a $150,000 grant (via @aacu.org, which supports CHC in the role of our fiscal sponsor). Our news release: center-humanities-communication.org/chc-blog/new...

Just published Ground to Cloud, a wide-ranging web gallery of planetary AI infrastructure: g2c.owenleonard.dev

Brilliant talk today by Hannes Bajohr (@hannesbajohr.de) on “Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text & its Styles” at launch of UCSB Center for the Humanities & Machine Learning (huml.ucsb.edu/events). Bajohr is 2nd from left with (L to R) ‪@zentralwerkstatt.org, Rita Raley, & @owenleonard.bsky.social.

"The semantic bleaching of 'AI' as valuations climb threatens to confine Critical AI scholarship to the very cultural moment it seeks to criticize." Check out the conclusions from my survey of humanities-inflected AI critique in the U.S.: huml.ucsb.edu/report