What is the relationship between #Twilight and Fifty Shades? What do these texts reveal about the relationship between published fiction and fanfiction when studied computationally? Find out in our new article (with Barbara Bordalejo and @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social) doi.org/10.16995/dsc...

"Dit spruitjesland moet de blote werkelijkheid over vrouwenrechten eens in de ogen kijken" Emma Curvers in de Volkskrant, over hoe pro-life ook hier geniepig en stilzwijgend aan de poten van zaken zaagt waar alleen vrouwen over zouden moeten gaan.. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

This is REAL CLASSICS done by REAL CLASSICISTS. Look what they have been demanding your respect for all this time. "Hello I would like 'et plus Cd K Mi Ob Pd Pe Q Vcul] at plus Cdul: hac plus Pdul: ha' poetry, please?" They have played us for absolute fools.

Lead moveable type for printing used to be stored in large wooden drawers in cases. Capital letters (or majuscules) were stored in the UPPER CASE. Miniscules were stored in the LOWER CASE.

This is from a publisher's review backend, but this should be just.. you know.. generally available, for life. Just wondering where the feedback would go in that case. Somewhere between dev/null and higher deities, I suppose?

Well, not to put a finer point on it…

Okay, I'm not going to whine a lot, but still a little. I'm in Lisbon for #DH2025. But currently I'm in bed with the cold that I apparently attracted at #IMC2025 last week. Bummer. Scrap today. Retry from start tomorrow.

Such a shame to find "//TODO: to be implemented" about a very nice feature in my own code.

Century+ duration electronic data preservation is in fact an unsolved problem, but magnetic tapes set read-only are as close as we have right now. This is a massive, active research problem at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, others. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... Some tape can be replaced, not all.

Journalists should be insistently pointing out that tariffs are controlled by Congress, and they can revoke the President’s authority over them—and lots of other things!—the moment they grow a spine. The abject gutlessness of Republican legislators is the real story here.

I think the Orange Monster is planning to go short on the world economy.

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨ Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!). academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

What a cosmic dipshit.

There is hope: anti-vaxxers only need 5 years to finally catch up with 140 years of science and research. How hopeful for the world is that?!

I merely wanted a strawberry donut..

It seems Putin's lapdogs were not very well received by President Zelenskyy..

This just pisses me off. I know that kind of posturing, that tone. It's deeply reminiscent of some ass-clown adults from my childhood, and other ass-clown employers I've had. Trump and Vance are gonna burn bridges. They're gonna ruin our international alliances. They are repugnant people.

Of natuurlijk de helft als je zo'n *nutsvoorziening* nationaliseert.

More or less equivalent to my current sentiment regarding world events…

Trump is now an aide in Russia’s regime change plan for Ukraine. Europeans need to act NOW, not after the German elections, to make sure Ukrainians have an alternative. All the worst came true and there is no other way to put it than that the US is in Russia’s team now.

Fascist dekt niet langer de lading. Als Europees extreemrechts denkt dat MAGA Amerika wél een bondgenoot zal zijn als wij ook veranderen in fascistische, zwakke en verdeelde autocratieën, is men volstrekt naïef. Maar vooral een stel landverraders.

In the series “typos that deserve a good gloss” (as in dictionary entry): situtatuon. Please elaborate…

I guess I would feel better about Google's new willingness to use AI for weapons and surveillance if I thought the country leading in AI development actually *was* a democracy guided by core values like equality and respect for human rights. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Oh I’ve found the one person from OpenAI I hate the most.

Social media achievement unlocked: had my first conversation on Bluesky as opposed to just posting in the vast empty space. Next level!

A dear colleague and friend of my made a typo, and now we are having to figure out what the research programme of the University of Applied Silence would look like. Honorary points for good ideas…

Nostalgic for when Tacitus wasn’t so day-to-day useful

I don’t know where this meme is from, but

I know the “men thinking about the Roman Empire” meme is old news, But WOW has the past week had “Caligula appoints his horse to the senate” vibes

The whole narrative of AI increasingly appears to me to resemble a very well known folktale. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emp...

A far-right attack on North Idaho College, a popular community college, reveals a blueprint for destroying higher ed. ⤵️

Sam Morril is one of my favorite comics 😂

So depending on how you want to count that is 31 windows, or a whooping 194 view ports. I'm thinking: 1) was this even possible in the times of Windows 3.1? 2) is this productivity or anti-productivity? <<

8 Slack windows (no, *not* channels, windows. Each with their various channels and DMs) 2 Mattermost windows 3 Chatty applications (Signal, Bluesky and Whatsapp) 3 Email clients 1 Calendar application 1 Password manager 1 Reference manager (Zotero) 2 windows with 6 PDFs in all >>

Currently open on my MacBook screen… 7 Browser screens with 156 tabs 1 Terminal with 3 tabs 2 Development IDEs (1 for coding with 5 tabs open, 1 for note taking with 5 tabs open) >>

In the Netherlands we've seen blue patches of sky maybe a few times since October 2024. I wonder if it's a record. It inspired some chat poetry in any event.

Meta firing fact checkers seems a logical move: you don't need them where there are no facts to be found..

I have lost control of the situation.

You’ll be pleased to know Santa’s sleigh runs on 100% renewable reindeer shit.

Explain this, humankind

Once again reminded of @rmcelreath.bsky.social's "Science as Amateur Software Development" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qzV...). I know that time is a finite resource, but better coding would definitely be worth it -- it's a genuinely useful skill, outside of academia as well.

Come see us critically discuss fanfics and collaborative storytelling in Nijmegen next week ❤️

To those outside of the Netherlands: Yesterday and today, Dutch Christian religious parties sold their souls to the right-wing government in exchange for a few dimes and now support radical and destructive cuts to the Dutch educational system. This makes this, sadly and terribly, a done deal. 1/

While everyone is creating artificial "intelligence" that may erode and eradicate creative jobs, this company is creating home help robots to free up time of humans to be creative.. www.therobotreport.com/1x-unveils-n...

I realize this is a weird thing to do for an atheist, but I'm looking for God. The God that was on the platform that shall not more be named, that is. Has He moved already? Is it @godpod.bsky.social or @skeetgod.bsky.social? Both? Neither? Who's going to save this wandering sheep?

South Korean pres. announces martial law and backs off same day. Increasingly it feels like I'm living a version of Earth in which the screenwriters are desperately seeking for good WTF?! cliffhangers. And we weren't short of cliffhangers anyway.

🚨 #DH2025 submission deadline has now been extended! ⏰Send us your abstracts by December 8st, 2024. Check out the CFP and more details here: ➡️ dh2025.adho.org Don’t miss out on the chance to contribute! 🚀 #dh #CFP #digitalhumanities #adho #dh2025