I think tonight is significant enough to move the doomsday clock further away from midnight. It was that important.

@jonippolito.net

Golan Levin@golan.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have released a tool to back up all of your sketches from the p5.js editor: github.com/golanlevin/e....

NEW: Virtually every news organization has a Meta business account. Meta’s new terms say it can scrape websites “associated with” those accounts — and use the content to “train” its products. @hanaatameez.bsky.social and I on what this means for publishers: www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/meta...

Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say

Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.

niemanlab.org

CFP: Generative Digital Humanities, a volume on AI and DH in the long-running Minnesota Debates in DH book series. To be co-edited by @zentralwerkstatt.org, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, and myself. Deadline Nov. 1. Please share widely! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...

CFP: Generative Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities

Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu

I have to imagine all the folks on Twitter are very invested everyone agreeing to change a well-known name for no particular reason beyond one rich guy's whim.

Moving day means organizing all the dreams and putting them in neat little boxes.

come do something weird in the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social! Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live and the theme is Creative Misuse. 1) Read the full prompt (drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-...). 2) Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

$80 is a lot to pay for the shareware version of a $100 game.

Ugh. Another convenience bought up, and another chunk of time and energy needed to work around the consolidation problem. apnews.com/article/fox-...

Fox buying streaming platform Roku in cash-and-stock deal worth about $22 billion

Fox Corp. is buying streaming platform Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $22 billion.

apnews.com

30 billion street and environmental scans from Pokémon GO players were used to train US military drones www.resetera.com/threads/15...

For fans of Talkie-1930 and all the methodological questions raised by historical models, here's a new entrant into the field, TypewriterLM, trained up to 1913. Corpus, instruction-tuning datasets, and event dataset are released. arxiv.org/abs/2606.02991

Pretraining Language Models on Historical Text

We introduce TypewriterLM, a 7.24B History language model (LM) trained exclusively on English text predating 1913. Developing History LMs requires addressing challenges in data quality and availabilit...

arxiv.org

It still always feels weird (but very good!) to me when all the students thank you at the end of a class. Which is odd, because I also always feel like it’s the end of a weeks-long performance and I should be taking a bow. (For the record, I don’t)

It's a bizarre feeling to preemptively mourn the loss of a decade+ email archive when it's not even certain it's going away and there are objectively much bigger fish to fry. There's got to be an article in there somewhere.

Calling artists with content on Floppies or CD-ROMs*!! The Digital Heritage Lab is sharing access to our specialist disk imaging equipment. We will show you how to preserve your obsolete disks* (CD-ROMs, Floppies, Zips). The #AusEAASI website has details: auseaasi.org/artist-outre...

📢 CfP for #CHR2027 is out! Submissions on all aspects of computational humanities research welcome; all details available here: 2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ And yes, CHR2027 will take place a little later than usual. So you *could* start later… but we suggest starting now!

Happy Local News Day! Join the Internet Archive, Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Poynter Institute for the National Summit on Local News Preservation on June 17 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, MD. Register now: https://bit.ly/4mjsMKR

Oh boy. If an outfit like NBC News is going this direction, that's not good. Understandable, maybe, but not good.

Watching Bill Nye talk about Artemis II is a good reminder that science has been trying to replace Carl Sagan for three decades and utterly failed to do so.

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

5 books to get to know me by: The Abyss by Orson Scott Card Hogfather by Terry Pratchett Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Little Myth Marker by Robert Asprin Hon mention to Good Omens, Forward the Foundation, A Fire Upon the Deep, and all of Discworld.

Every time I am asked to create alt-text for publications that include images or here on Bluesky, I think about the use of alt-text specifically for creating the image/text pairings for datasets used to train text-to-image models (see arxiv.org/abs/2111.02114 for example)

LAION-400M: Open Dataset of CLIP-Filtered 400 Million Image-Text Pairs

Multi-modal language-vision models trained on hundreds of millions of image-text pairs (e.g. CLIP, DALL-E) gained a recent surge, showing remarkable capability to perform zero- or few-shot learning an...

arxiv.org

Government professor @jaylyall.bsky.social’s recent research on U.S. Air Force air strikes in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2011 finds that they are strongly associated with increases in subsequent Taliban insurgent attacks, demonstrating that the strikes had counterproductive effects.

The Psychology of Aerial Bombardment

An investigation of the effects of the U.S. Air Force bombing of Afghanistan finds that air strikes appeared to increase subsequent insurgency attacks by the Taliban, not diminish them.

psychologytoday.com

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

@are.na invites pitches for its forthcoming annual anthology on the theme of "score" (of course, being sports-indifferent, I think of event scores, experimental composition, @yblent.bsky.social's wonderful project: www.getty.edu/publications... :)

Submissions for Are.na Annual vol. 8: score | Notion

Hosted by Notion Sites — The easiest way to get a website up and running.

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That's a welcome change, Claude: > Honestly, I have limited specific knowledge of [topic], so I want to be careful here rather than give you confidently wrong information.

I'm off this week and I wrote this before we got our war on this weekend. The Paramount-Warner merger is actually a private equity takeover. The amount of leverage used in the purchase rivals the PE deals for Toys "R" Us and Nabisco. Those ended with mass layoffs, and this will too—by design.

Paramount-Warner Would Create a Hollywood Jobs Apocalypse - The American Prospect

The deal comes complete with so much debt that it would almost certainly lead to mass job loss. That could prove to be an argument against the deal in court, too.

prospect.org

Uh. Exactly what kind of "engagement" are you signing us up for, DH2026? Suddenly much more interested in attending remotely than in person.

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

404media.co

Uh, what's going on with this image, NBC? Y'all OK over there?