I made this Choose your own Adventure / RPG based on 400+ retellings of Little Red Riding Hood. It’s kind of fun, actually, a sort of playable critical apparatus! www.karsdorp.io/rrh-rpg/

Roodkapje — The Forest of Tellings

Walk the forest as Little Red Riding Hood. Every choice is a fork taken from 427 Dutch versions of the tale, 1781–2015.

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Happy to announce that our article 'The style of scorn: computationally operationalizing the relationship between anger and complexity in 'Ik Ga Leven' by Lale Gül' (together with @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social) is out now with Digital Scholarship in the Humanities! OA link: doi.org/10.1093/llc/...

#CCLS2026: 5th Talk is"The Anatomy of the Online Book Review" by Marijn Koolen, @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social, Peter Boot, Silvia Lilli, Katja Tereshko, detecting reader engagement in #fiction via large-scale online reviews analysis. Preprint: doi.org/10.26083/tud... Code: github.com/impact-and-f...

My kid made a video for her illustration class about her condition and wants you all to watch it! youtube.com/watch?v=VZNX...

I found out I'm intersex

YouTube video by aspenedits

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If it makes you feel any better –even "Schadenfreude" is allowed this time round I guess– this is a great time to go around yelling: "Hate to tell you told you so!" #whatcouldpossiblygowrong

When did Friday morning become "Answer Your E-mail Day" worldwide? They just want to have me thinking about all that stuff all weekend, I bet. 😝

Burton & @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social’s article is really superb.

the most annoying shift in my academic career

DH friends, take note!

Daniel van Strien@danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 8mo ago

There is no best VLM OCR model - rankings can flip completely by document type. I built ocr-bench: run open OCR models on YOUR documents, get a per-collection leaderboard. VLM-as-judge with Bradley-Terry ELO, all running on @hf.co. No local GPU needed.

Leibniz, looking at the universe: "Why is there something instead of nothing?" Me, looking at my Outlook calendar: same

What is the relationship between #Twilight and Fifty Shades? What do these texts reveal about the relationship between published fiction and fanfiction when studied computationally? Find out in our new article (with Barbara Bordalejo and @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social) doi.org/10.16995/dsc...

Fifty Shades of Twilight: A Computational Approach to Textual Adaptation

This paper analyzes the relationship between the Twilight Saga and Fifty Shades trilogy as a case study on the relationship between published fiction and fanfiction. We aim to develop computational me...

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"Dit spruitjesland moet de blote werkelijkheid over vrouwenrechten eens in de ogen kijken" Emma Curvers in de Volkskrant, over hoe pro-life ook hier geniepig en stilzwijgend aan de poten van zaken zaagt waar alleen vrouwen over zouden moeten gaan.. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

Dit spruitjesland moet de blote werkelijkheid over vrouwenrechten eens in de ogen kijken

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This is REAL CLASSICS done by REAL CLASSICISTS. Look what they have been demanding your respect for all this time. "Hello I would like 'et plus Cd K Mi Ob Pd Pe Q Vcul] at plus Cdul: hac plus Pdul: ha' poetry, please?" They have played us for absolute fools.

Lead moveable type for printing used to be stored in large wooden drawers in cases. Capital letters (or majuscules) were stored in the UPPER CASE. Miniscules were stored in the LOWER CASE.

This is from a publisher's review backend, but this should be just.. you know.. generally available, for life. Just wondering where the feedback would go in that case. Somewhere between dev/null and higher deities, I suppose?

Well, not to put a finer point on it…

Okay, I'm not going to whine a lot, but still a little. I'm in Lisbon for #DH2025. But currently I'm in bed with the cold that I apparently attracted at #IMC2025 last week. Bummer. Scrap today. Retry from start tomorrow.

Such a shame to find "//TODO: to be implemented" about a very nice feature in my own code.

Century+ duration electronic data preservation is in fact an unsolved problem, but magnetic tapes set read-only are as close as we have right now. This is a massive, active research problem at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, others. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... Some tape can be replaced, not all.

Project Silica

Project Silica is developing the first-ever storage technology designed and built from the ground up for the cloud, using femtosecond lasers to store data.

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duen 🪏@riolu.gay · 2y ago

LTO-9 tapes are 18TB, cost under $100 each, and last for 30+ years making them the most efficient cold storage solution on the market, which every competent IT professional knows, but no im sure you can just dump all of that essential data in some shitty budget cloud storage service lmao

Journalists should be insistently pointing out that tariffs are controlled by Congress, and they can revoke the President’s authority over them—and lots of other things!—the moment they grow a spine. The abject gutlessness of Republican legislators is the real story here.

I think the Orange Monster is planning to go short on the world economy.

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨ Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!). academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections

Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others

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