Jonathan

I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me. Matthew 25: 42-43.

This is painful to sit through, even speeded up to 1.25x. And the facial expressions are so familiar if you’ve ever had a student who hasn’t kept up with the reading try to bluff their way through a question in class.

I feel like a grad student again! How much of this is this *about* hypertext or is the hypertext aspect more incidental to the bibliographical/cultural heritage computing material? So much of interdisciplinarity is being okay with discomfiture and context discovery and translation.

Longshot: any DH people out there w strong feelings about the differences between ACM Hypertext & ACM Computing and Cultural Heritage. Am writing about the relationships between data models, bibliographical schema, and techniques for copy-level citation (which are hypertext nodes). I'm new to ACM.

Every time I open a news app or site and this story isn’t being discussed or featured prominently I feel like I’m losing my mind. Do not look away.

This is absolutely hilarious and deserves a Veep-style TV adaptation.

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

Spreadsheet is available as part of the evidence in a suit brought by the ACLS, AHA, and MLA.

This line on the spreadsheet DOGE made w ChatGPT to determine which NEH programs were DEI contains the rationale for ending the 45+ year old NEH fellowship @ American Antiquarian Society that basically launched my career. Bc it mentioned "diverse backgrounds & career stages" it is DEI wrongthink.

Two columns of the DOGE spreadsheet summarizing my book “Yes. Analyzing race and print culture explores historical racialization and its lasting societal impacts.”

It is crazy to see my project on DOGE’s ChatGPT hit list. “Yes” my project about race is about race.

Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

MLA, ACLS, and AHA lawsuit reveals use of ChatGPT in illegal termination of grants by DOGE. Motion for summary judgment asserts violations of the First Amendment; violations of the Equal Protection Clause; and violation of the separation of powers. mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

In fairness, people were really confused about fictional characters in early novels! It does seem like there’s a parallel there.

Old enough that the culture of my youth is now the subject of a rare books catalogue.

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I keep thinking about how working class people will suffer so much if the price of gas spikes and the government continues to spend $1B/day on international conflict (plus ICE's budget for immigration raids) instead of education, research, international aid, clean energy, and healthcare

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

Elizabeth Savage - American Printing History Association Dr. Savage is 2014 recipient of the Mark Samuels Lasner fellowship, 2020 winner of the Schulman and Bullard Article Prize from the Association of Print…

A really great - and urgent - discussion of the conditions of possibility for doing printing history today - and why we should keep going - given by Elizabeth Savage for @printinghistory.bsky.social.

printinghistory.org/awards/eliza...

The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

Get Your War On, 3/20/2003.

over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people.

ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody.

Or ask the cartography curator at the Newberry.

*Woodward

@bruit.bsky.social the only thing I would think to do would be to look through the footnotes in David Woodword's books.

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

Sometimes eBay has exactly the letterpress cut you for you.

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In case you missed it, book bans are going national