Geoffrey Rockwell
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Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the U of Alberta
Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto include academics as the enemy, but the description of our sins could just as well fit venture capital.
about 2 years ago
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Reading Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto. He quotes Martinetti's Futurist Manifesto which includes, "We want to glorify war - the only cure for the world - militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman."
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First world war: The manifesto of Futurism
FT Marinetti's 1909 manifesto of the principles of the Futurism movement
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/13/first-world-war-futurism
about 2 years ago
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Ross Dahlke
about 2 years ago
"Digital detoxes" are trendy. But who actually does this voluntary disconnection? Minh Hao Nguyen &
@eszter.com
find that younger, higher educated, more frequent internet users, and those with less dependable access are more likely to voluntarily disconnect
doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad021
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Ted Underwood
about 2 years ago
I can't bring myself to read more than a page of the Andreessen thing. It's word vomit; LLMs do much better. But the meta-pattern is interesting: academia and tech are locked in the sort of struggle for moral authority that used to take place between academics and journalists.
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Miriam Posner
about 2 years ago
Hoooo boy
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Call For Papers is now up for Replaying Japan 2024. This is being jointly organized at the U of Buffalo, SUNY and at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester (with transportation.) Should be a great conference on Japanese game culture. See
replaying.jp
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Call for papers 2024 - Replaying Japan
Replaying Japan 2024 Â â The 12th International Japan Game Studies Conference â [Conference Theme] Preservation, Innovation and New Directions in Japanese Game Studies [Dates] Monday, August 19 (U...
https://replaying.jp/
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Reflecting in my blog on how OpenAI has changed the "core values" it describes on its Careers page. Now AGI is the first core value and anything that doesn't help with the commitment to building safe and beneficial AGI is out of scope. See
theoreti.ca?p=8364
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Brett Bobley
about 2 years ago
A 21 year old undergrad played a key role in this major breakthrough for the Herculaneum Scrolls project (one of the coolest DH projects NEH has funded). Luke Farritor, from U Nebraska-Lincoln, was the first person to uncover a full word from a 2000 year old scroll.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time
Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus. Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03212-1
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Ted Underwood
about 2 years ago
Every field has its own challenges.
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Quinn Dombrowski
about 2 years ago
It's 1991. While you and your buddies are doing humanities computing, across campus people are experiencing science with computer-created "virtual reality".
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Reflecting on presentation tools like PowerPoint and Tufte's critique. Wishing MORE had been successful.
theoreti.ca?p=8346
about 2 years ago
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The Wynter in Black đđââŹ
about 2 years ago
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition has been awarded $124,000 to digitise 20,000 images from Swarthmore and Haverford archives to reveal truth and begin repair around #Quaker boarding schools, 1852-1945 #Quakers #Skystorians
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Native American group to digitize 20,000 archival pages linked to Quaker-run Indian boarding schools
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition says it will digitize 20,000 archival pages related to Quaker-operated Indian boarding schools.
https://apnews.com/article/native-american-boarding-schools-quaker-digitize-records-37c2c3c56a8b369f7f8e7759b6592d21
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Boorandoom Wailsh
about 2 years ago
Down to less than five extra new codes in the can in our spreadsheet that has 220 rows in it! Keep an eye out for any new codes you get and submit them here to share out to a colleague.
bit.ly/dh-bluesky
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Digital Humanities Bluesky Code Sharing Form
Given the ongoing deterioration of Twitter as a viable space for the sharing of digital humanities work, ACH has begun exploring alternatives. Bluesky social has the makings of a viable alternative, b...
https://bit.ly/dh-bluesky
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Second day of Replaying Japan in Nagoya and continuing my conference notes,
https://philosophi.ca/pmwiki.php/Main/Replaying2023
. Excellent paper on the challenges of game studies in China. If I understood the story their DiGRA chapter was ruled illegal by the government and papers disappear.
about 2 years ago
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Reading AP's "Standards around generative AI" (
https://blog.ap.org/standards-around-generative-ai
) they strike me as sensible advice we should give our students including "We urge staff [students] to not put confidential or sensitive information into AI tools."
about 2 years ago
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Ted Underwood
about 2 years ago
This is a really good example of a general principle about prompting, which is that you have to ask yourself when & how words are actually used in captions â not what the dictionary says they mean.
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At Nagoya Zokei University for Replaying Japan 2023 in Nagoya, Japan. Finally we are back in person. Keeping conference notes at
https://philosophi.ca/pmwiki.php/Main/Replaying2023
about 2 years ago
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Mark Sample
about 2 years ago
Hey babe, wake up, a new robots.txt just dropped
https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot
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OpenAI Platform
Explore developer resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's platform.
https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot
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Just posted a small album from our trip to Bamfield and KiixÌŁin on Vancouver island.
https://flickr.com/photos/geoffreyrockwell/albums/72177720310428843
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