„Get Started Preserving your Web Content and Data” ACH pre-conference workshop materials by Allison Fischbach and me are now available in Knowledge Commons! Please use and share widely! You can access everything at doi.org/10.17613/9qs... #webarchiving #webrecorder #ach #digitalhumanities

“For a field that is supposedly reshaping science and is so advanced in terms of scientific potential, not having any scientific documentation seems like a very weird paradox,” says paper co-author John Ioannidis, a metascientist at Stanford University. 🤡 www.science.org/content/arti...

AI’s top startups are barely publishing their research

More than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint

science.org

yikes

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · last wk.

Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...

Just…. No

CBS News@cbsnews.com · 2w ago

ChatGPT now has a space for sharing medical records. Should you?

Should also say - I am happy to share a preprint with people who might have need earlier than mid-September. Have already done this for a few. Just send along a note!

Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Now that I've signed the contract, excited to share my first book "Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change" is forthcoming with @openbookpublish.bsky.social! Much more info about it on the publisher site here. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Reminder: our strategy session for NEH grantees is coming up today at 2:00 p.m. ET. If you were notified that your grant would be reinstated and want tips on navigating the reinstatement process, join @jasonrhody.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social for this free event.

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEH grantees: join us tomorrow, 9 July, at 2:00 p.m. ET for an MLA strategy session on how to reinstate terminated grants. You'll get guidance on navigating the NEH’s instructions and have the opportunity to ask questions about the reinstatement process. Register at www.mla.org/Events/Webin...

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

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As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

wired.com

Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Palantir has a hand in NIH's most ambitious health initiative

The defense tech firm's work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.

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What to the Colored Conventions was the Declaration of Independence? Normally we hear Frederick Douglass on the 4th of July. This year, we are trying something new. From now until Monday night, we are posting quotes every half hour from the Colored Conventions movement. coloredconventions.org

"AI cannot take responsibility, and we can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it." @godotengine.org gets it. 👍

Open source game engine Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions: 'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it'

At risk of drowning in AI slop code, Godot is firming up its contribution requirements.

pcgamer.com

Test the use of local AI in improving access and interpretation of born-digital archives in this funded fellowship Apply by 15 July link.bl.uk/4j9

New paper! "Recalibrating Artificial Intelligence for Social Biases: Four New Priorities for Datasets, Models, and Metrics" Coming out of learnings from Lucy Havens' PhD, we suggest alternative priorities for AI that could rebalance its handling of social biases: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Recalibrating Artificial Intelligence for Social Biases: Four New Priorities for Datasets, Models, and Metrics | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

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So helpful! '7 Ways to More Frugal AI' by James Martin - from don't use AI to use the smallest model possible, use non-US models for greener electricity, host your own to 'green prompting' bettertech.blog/2026/04/09/7... Find small, local models bettertech.blog/frugal-ai-sw...

7 Ways to More Frugal AI

The onslaught of big AI seems unstoppable. But it’s not inevitable! Here are seven tried and scientifically tested ways to reduce the environmental impacts of AI. And its financial costs too&…

bettertech.blog

Demonstrators chant "Albania is not for sale," challenging coastal projects tied to Kushner amid environmental concerns https://aje.news/q28j7f

Today on the @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog: Heidi Reed with a lesson that "helps demystify AI as a sociomaterial construction of natural resources, human labor, habitats of non-human animals, government legislation, toxic chemicals, computer codes, and techno-capitalist ideologies.”

What is AI made of? A two-part lesson plan on asking critical questions about technology — Civics of Technology

Civics of Technology Announcements Book Club this week: Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine by Thomas Dekeyser. Join us on Wednesday, June 24th at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Re...

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HCR starts with an update on Ukraine💪🏼🇺🇦followed by Vance’s latest lying spin to sell the Iran agreement, Mamdani’s inspirational Knick’s win speech, and the amazing celebration marking the opening of Obama’s Presidential Center. Details Below 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)@hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

June 18, 2026

In a buried report, oil regulators pinpointed nearly 600 wells operating illegally, threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water. Then there were 1,400+ wells that had operated for decades without any limits at all — grandfathered in from an earlier era. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.

Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking wa...

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This weekend @andybeta.bsky.social Alice Coltrane's Cosmic Music: Andy Beta Guest DJ Sat, Jun 20, 7-10pm(ET) @wfmu.bsky.social STREAM ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Join Allison Fischbach and me on June 23 for a full-day virtual ACH pre-conference workshop: Get Started Preserving your Web Content and Data. Details and registration at ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops... #ach2026 #webarchiving #preservation

I’m hiring a digital humanities librarian to join my team at Tufts! Please share with your networks! Full details: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/23231

Assistant Librarian of Digital Humanities in Medford, Massachusetts | Tufts University

Tufts University is hiring a Assistant Librarian of Digital Humanities in Medford, Massachusetts. Review all of the job details and apply today!

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Hey #DigitalHumanities peeps. This is the last week to sign up for an #ACH2026 pre-conf virtual workshop! 1) DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative + Critical Assignment Design 2) Get Started Preserving your Web Content & Data 3) Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Instn ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops/

June 23 @akijas.bsky.social and Allison Fischbach will be teaching "Get Started Preserving your Web Content and Data." I've checked our their materials, and the session is a fascinating mix of theory and praxis.

Good news!

The Torment Nexus doesn't love you back@bankuei.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Germany rules that Google is responsible for misleading information in AI Google Searches. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

📚 📝 Today we celebrate International Archives Day 2026. Our Bodleian archives preserve stories of extraordinary and everyday lives from the UK and beyond - surviving through both chance and deliberate care. So here’s to archives and archivists - thank you and keep up the good work! 🎉

Experimentation. Iteration. Time. These are pretty much the core ingredients of everything related to DATA BY DESIGN, and the cover is no exception. But now it is final and out there on the internet and also right here for you to see! Preorder at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

The MLA AI and Research Working Group's new "AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship" offers questions and case studies on AI literacy, human-centered expertise, and responsibility and ethics to guide discussion and reflection. mlaai.hcommons.org/ai-and-the-h...

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.

businessinsider.com

I’m pleased to share “AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship” a framework written by the MLA AI and Research Working Group. Huge thanks to the members of the Working Group, and to @lmrhody.bsky.social, who co-chaired it with me. mlaai.hcommons.org/ai-and-the-h...