U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social

Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Not the full story, but a big chunk of it: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Do you write research software for the humanities? Consider writing a software paper to share your work! Reach out to me, @nolauren.bsky.social , or any of the other editors at the CHR journal with your questions or ideas.

Such a rich paper by @jeddobson.bsky.social on the challenges of "the interpretation of computational interpretations": i.e. interpreting cultural objects using methods like LLMs which are themselves so actively interpreting. Discussing it with my students tomorrow. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“Google used to be good,” “online recipes aren’t content mills,” and other fictions of our present

In 2021, I developed PromptArray, which lets you muck around with the internals of GPT models. I moved on because this method doesn't work with closed-source models like GPT-3, but GPT-OSS makes it possible again. Read if you miss the weirdness of the GPT-2 era! jeffreymbinder.net?p=480

Here's a short thing on adversarial language, following yesterday's poetry news. It argues for interpretability work undertaken via literary studies and tries to acknowledge some difficulties this would entail. For Those Who May Find Themselves on the Red Team: tylershoemaker.info/docs/shoemak...

This is fascinating. It’ll also kick off another round of poem=noise=khora discourse

I wrote a comprehensive introduction to basic information theory, with added context from social scientists of the cybernetics movement (Gregory Bateson) & later (Katherine Hayles). It covers everything from bit encoding to comparative metrics like cross-entropy. mikaelbrunila.com/information-...

The ablations will continue until I can find a good dataset

my interview for the Digital Theory Lab with Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social at the Remarque Institute www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZpH...

The virtual exhibition on critical AI “Debox” opens today at Public Access Memories as part of The Wrong Biennale! Very excited to be included amount so many other great artists (list to be commented). #netart #publicaccessmemories #thewrong #criticalai

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

The ablations will continue until the Unicode homoglyphs appear

The ablations will continue until morale improves

Excellent stuff always comes out of this

Don't tell the book historians, but subword tokenization is first and foremost a typographic procedure

👁 Now available online: this year's Research Workshop publication Everything is a Matter of Distance Responding to the 2025 festival theme, the journal explores how space is produced and shaped within contemporary techno-culture. A cooperation with Aarhus University ► aprja.net

This is from some NLP paper fyi

Is there an aggregator for chat templates somewhere? I’m looking for models that use optional <think> tags. Or is the strategy just “full-text search for hybrid reasoning on Hugging Face”?

Is there an aggregator for chat templates somewhere? I’m looking for models that use optional <think> tags. Or is the strategy just “full-text search for hybrid reasoning on Hugging Face”?

CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions. Abstracts by February 2: www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.

I’m ready to extract so many actionable insights from unstructured data

Zoom in: “We thought a lot about how to represent a token, and so we chose a token”

Wanted: a theory of synthetic media

The first in a (jam-packed) series of events on cultural AI this year from DTL. More incoming!

Where is “fine-tuning” here?

Genuine Q: do model builders still think in terms of LLM fine-tuning or have all the mid-/post-training recipes obsoleted this?

Extremely good stuff from Leif here