Truly, font files are some of our most cursed digital objects
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Truly, font files are some of our most cursed digital objects
If you’re around NYU next week, join us! We have a very exciting list of speakers lined up
We did a fun interview about our recent @punctumbooks.bsky.social book Perceptron, our research and writing process, and our fascination with and love for Frank Rosenblatt. Check it out! @renamosteirin.bsky.social fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/03...
Bonus: this one's also about OCR
If you’re around NYU next week, join us! We have a very exciting list of speakers lined up
Dang
I think it's republished in Grammalepsy but he did it separately here: mediarep.org/server/api/c...
Weirdly (or not so weirdly), coding is currently the most prominent site at which to glimpse these new forms of "writing on complex surfaces" (Cayley). Peer into any repo with an AGENTS.md file, and you will see whole new infrastructures of text springing up
Call for papers!
INSCRIPTION 7 (out 2027) will be all about BLANKS. It will be (as ever) a BEAUTIFUL and MAXIMAL object.
Send us your ideas!
Historical / theoretical / creative / creative-critical -- or some strange blend.
First step: 400-word proposal + brief CV by 1 April 2026.
CFP attached.
Series of photos of the book showing its cover, some early pages that are just spotted gibberish, then basic word forms with no semblance of sentence or paragraph, and then finally organized language recognizable as derived from the prose of the novel, including character names like Heathcliff and Catherine.
Series of photos of the book showing its cover, some early pages that are just spotted gibberish, then basic word forms with no semblance of sentence or paragraph, and then finally organized language recognizable as derived from the prose of the novel, including character names like Heathcliff and Catherine.
Series of photos of the book showing its cover, some early pages that are just spotted gibberish, then basic word forms with no semblance of sentence or paragraph, and then finally organized language recognizable as derived from the prose of the novel, including character names like Heathcliff and Catherine.
Series of photos of the book showing its cover, some early pages that are just spotted gibberish, then basic word forms with no semblance of sentence or paragraph, and then finally organized language recognizable as derived from the prose of the novel, including character names like Heathcliff and Catherine.
_for the sleepers in that quiet earth._ is a 2017 print on demand volume containing snapshots of an RNN trained (solely) on the text of WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Each copy as unique. Besides the novelty of this experiment, it has the great value of giving us a rare diachronic look at how the model learns.
Oh man, these are still available!? So good
Hosted by Acid Horizon, this free, open-to-the-public event will explore our recent book Digital Theory and its central claims.
Join us!
February 19, 2026 - 10AM EST.
www.acidhorizonpodcast.com
Maybe! I haven't done much on the OCR front for a long while, but others are reporting that HTR and other document extraction tasks are seeing big improvements with newer VLMs. Not exactly flawless though: bsky.app/profile/jimc...
The vibes have shifted
Today in research software
CFP: Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy on Humanities and Media 2026: Periodization
After a one-year hiatus, the Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy on Humanities and Media is back! The theme for 2026 is Periodization, and we'll meet for the week of June 22-26 in Berlin. How, why, and with what…
You guys are gonna get me in trouble
We’re on the precipice of CC-juiced hack vs yack debate. Dangerous times
Two (2)
You get two (2)
We have another exciting CFP! "Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemology & Computation examines noise across technical, social, and cultural domains, bringing together machine learning, critical AI studies, media theory and archaeology, art history, philosophy, and practice-based research."
discussion over
Shot. Chaser
“It’s Pythonic”
Yes! Unclear where they went. Aspic content was strong
Amazing. Also: cf. the bottom bookcase shelf in Glyn’s office
