Would be great to stop having this debate and instead really dig into what should go in the curriculum, with or without AI, so that we can meet this moment in a way other than trying to hang on to the idea that embracing or not embracing is the question. /4

I've said this before but the point to me of data center opposition is not limited to "we oppose this forever" but for communities to bring pressure on companies and public officials to extract concessions and otherwise get what they want

MIT offers sensible guidance on AI in Education in this report: aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ And it’s a readable, straightforward set of recommendations that are well attuned to the guidance published by the MLA. www.mla.org/Resources/Gu...

The live recording for the MLA Webinar: "AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship" is now live. leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/p... Relevant tags: #AI #LLM #humanities #english #language #literature #research #scholarship #DH #digitalhumanities

Webinar: AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship

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I'm happy to share the recording of an MLA Webinar in which we discussed "AI and the Humanities: a Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship" prepared by the MLA AI in Research Working Group. www.mla.org/Events/Webin...

"Disruptors" are best when they move value from existing companies to those companies' customers. The first TV remotes let people change the channel when an ad came on, making their TV better at broadcasters' expense. 22/

a few general observations from a week that has included a lot of getting yelled at: 1) many to most people still think of AI as chatbots. Chatbots are at this point useful but they are imo perhaps an order of magnitude less useful than agentic AI.

5) there are a bunch of reasonable objections to AI but most people who object to AI, at least the ones in my mentions, dislike AI first and then find objections later. The water thing has always been bullshit. The psychosis thing looked like it was going to be a huge problem and then it wasn’t.

3 days left—4 if you count the full day of August 17– to submit your tiny computational poems to Taper #17. #elit #DH

Leonardo Flores@leoflores.bsky.social · 4w ago

Attention #elit & #DH communities, digital poets, and creative coders! There are 10 days left until the open call for Taper #17: Prime closes (August 17, AoE - Anywhere on Earth). Here's a link to the call: taper.badquar.to/16/about.htm... Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Attention #elit & #DH communities, digital poets, and creative coders! There are 10 days left until the open call for Taper #17: Prime closes (August 17, AoE - Anywhere on Earth). Here's a link to the call: taper.badquar.to/16/about.htm... Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

"Deadly fungal storms" not on my #2026bingo card.

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 4w ago

Are deadly fungal storms bad

Attention #elit & #DH communities, digital poets, and creative coders! There are 10 days left until the open call for Taper #17: Prime closes (August 17, AoE - Anywhere on Earth). Here's a link to the call: taper.badquar.to/16/about.htm... Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

I’m officially coining the term menu poetry (#menupoetry) to refer to how menus (which already have a high poetic function) and food ordering create powerful poetic moments. I will now read this out loud to a Chipotle employee. And huge credit to my son Blake, for triggering this insight.

I love the term "folk forensics"—and indeed, many cloying tells of AI use—like lists of threes, words deemed statistically likely to be LLM output, and em dashes—are mere superficialities. Not only that, they distract us from the underlying logic of textual production in the 21st century.

Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · last mo.

Raise your hand if you look forward to a cultural future that consists of policing every artist, performer, entertainer, or author whom you love and admire for the slightest whiff of “AI,” defined by vibes and whatever set of folk forensics is currently in circulation.

Raise your hand if you look forward to a cultural future that consists of policing every artist, performer, entertainer, or author whom you love and admire for the slightest whiff of “AI,” defined by vibes and whatever set of folk forensics is currently in circulation.

New game idea: AI-whack-a-mole.

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · last mo.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

I was joking to mom that at the rate I’m going I’ll have to start an OnlyFans to afford college next year. She shrugged like it was nothing because this man was of wonderful vigor and calmness and beauty of person.

Sensible piece, that puts some of the AI data center moral panic into perspective. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...

Opinion | The Flawed Environmental Case Against Data Centers (Gift Article)

Our animosity toward data centers is really more about our anxieties about A.I.

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As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

This month only, the triple bean Cheetos Mexican pizza locos returns to Taco Hell! Rush to a Taco Hell near you!

Here are the recordings and slideshows for my two interconnected talks at the #ELO26 conference. "Slipping into the Future" is a critical/creative prelude to the keynote, "Beyond Impossible Writing: Electronic Literature in the Age of AI." #AI #elit #DH leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/p...

Presentation and Keynote at the ELO 2026 Conference

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It won’t stop at math. Machines getting better at thinking through abstract problems than we are is going to be an emotional crisis for lots of people. I wish we were engaging that directly instead of having ridiculous shadow-debates about GPUs’ inherent thirst for water.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very worried about this sort of thing hitting more broadly:

Here are the recordings and slideshows for my two interconnected talks at the #ELO26 conference. "Slipping into the Future" is a critical/creative prelude to the keynote, "Beyond Impossible Writing: Electronic Literature in the Age of AI." #AI #elit #DH leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/p...

Presentation and Keynote at the ELO 2026 Conference

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Here are the slideshows and (soon) links to recordings for my panel presentation and keynote at the Electronic Literature Organization Conference. Relevant tags: #elit #AI #DH #ELO26 leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/p...

Presentation and Keynote at the ELO 2026 Conference

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Delighted to share that Binding Media has won the 2026 N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature! So honored to received this particular award because Hayles' work taught me to think about the weird literary works I've always been interested in. @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Here are the slideshows and (soon) links to recordings for my panel presentation and keynote at the Electronic Literature Organization Conference. Relevant tags: #elit #AI #DH #ELO26 leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/p...

Presentation and Keynote at the ELO 2026 Conference

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As we say in Puerto Rico, “Reír, por no llorar.” (We laugh, to not cry.)

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

i’ve been really stressed about the air quality but i just heard the news say that breathing this air all day would be the equivalent of smoking seven cigarettes and a deep calm washed over me

For no particular reason I keep telling people to check out notime.now

No Time to Discourse

A speculative atlas that explores climate disaster across North America through interactive mapping and procedurally-generated flash fiction.

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This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in social media this week. Sick burn!

Polymarket@polymarket.extwitter.link · 2mo ago

BREAKING: U.K. reveals Bluesky will be included in the under-16 social media ban, affecting dozens of teens.