My secret, Cap, is that I'm *always* angry about old books. For instance, here's a tiny slice of the millions of books 1931-1986 that have no commercial value, that are digitized, but that we're unable to use in large-scale research because they are illegal to share or display.

#DH2026 was a wonderfully organized conference. Things that I'll remember: the kindness of strangers; the sunset over the misty mountains; the music; the trees ❤️ Meeting people familiar and new. For now, time to return and hope I can come back to SK some day. 감사합니다 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social.

Next venues for the @adho-org.bsky.social DH conferences mentioned in #DH2026 closing ceremony. - #DH2027 28 June - 3 July 2027, Galway, Ireland dh2027.adho.org - #DH2028 4-7 July 2028 Capetown, South Africa - #DH2029 2029, Padua, Italy Hope that I can make some of these!

I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!

👀 Treat yourselves to pretty slides (courtesy of @resonanzfilter) at our Thursday morning (Korean time) talk about ideologies of knowledge work in #DH at #DH2026!

A point that Kim Hyeon's keynote at #DH2026 rightfully raises, in my view, even if implicitly, is the need for the field to finally drill down on our use of terminology like 'knowledge' (data, information). Made more urgent by adoption of AI (terminology), already a desideratum before.

Appeal to academic authority gone wrong. It also strikes me how scholars can be borderline illiterate outside their own area of expertise. Worst of all, the insufferable snobbery and snark permeating academia and social media. Everything is a contest. Deeply unserious.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Adding to the #DH2026 travel tips: When looking for the subway platform of Line 1 at Daejeon station (to go to Government Complex Station), look for signs that state the direction as Banseok. Naver will say Jungangno but that's not on any signs (not in English; neither is Banseok at first).

🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 With #DH2026 in #Daejeon starting next week, please join me in applauding the local organizers for publishing the complete "Book of (extended) Abstracts" ahead of schedule! In PDF with no less than 1013 pages, and also in glorious XML versions! […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Never seen a work of art so perfectly embody the concept of ›Zivilisationsbruch‹ (breach of civilization) as Nolan's Odyssey. Surely his most magnificent film.

For years I've scoured the internet for any kind of video footage of Roberto Busa. Nothing. I'd given up hope. And now, I just randomly STUMBLED ACROSS IT omg no one will understand, it's just a minute but it might as well be a unicorn and it says so much about IBM marketing and in this essay, I'll—

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

Carlo Ginzburg è morto, addio al grande storico italiano

Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari

repubblica.it

How do you do, fellow DH kids? Jokes aside: As a #DigitalHumanities centre @unicologne.bsky.social we look forward to engaging with the international #DH community and will be posting updates on our project work and conference activities. Also, shout-out to our neighbours @idhcologne.bsky.social!

In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo apologizes for the Doctrine of Discovery, which sanctioned colonialism & slavery, to talk about AI. Here, I thought I went off the rails in Data Empire, where I insist the Doctrine of Discovery is critical to the history of data’s power www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Thank you for every vote! I am really happy that Sappho Digital turned out to be the first runner-up in the category »DH Dataset or Model« of the Digital Humanities Awards 2025! I’d like to use this moment to introduce the project a bit more – so here’s a short thread 🧵

DH Awards@dhawards.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The results for #DH Awards 2025 are now live. Sorry if your favoured resource did not win in this openly nominated, openly voted #DigitalHumanities awareness activity. There's no real prize (winners may use the associated icon), other than everyone seeing the resources. dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

Die Website meines Dissertationsprojekts, Sappho Digital, wurde in der Kategorie »DH Dataset or Model« für den Digital Humanities Award 2025 nominiert – darüber freue ich mich sehr. Abstimmen ist hier möglich: forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1... Weitere Informationen zum Projekt: sappho-digital.com

My writing used to have so much personality. Then academia completely trained that out of me. Now that I'm sitting here, writing the blandest prose, boring myself to death, I'm starting to think: What the hell! I might as well get my style back! At least it won't read like AI.

🚨Funded PhD opportunities🚨 Great opportunity for PhD positions in digital art history / multimodal digital humanities! A newly funded research initiative based in Zurich and Rome is currently advertising up to 5 fully funded PhD positions: arthist.net/archive/51998

Grammarly has added a new circle to hell. Please share to raise awareness. #Grammarly #GenAI #AI #impersonation

Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 5mo ago

This is what Grammarly looks like when it is impersonating you, in a fraudulent way, in order to generate revenue for its product. I have contacted a law firm asking for an opinion on a lawsuit. However, in the UK personality rights are not well protected, so a US case would be preferable.

Wunderbare Rezension von @peertrilcke.bsky.social zu Sybille Krämers "Stachel des Digitalen". Die #DigitalHumanities besitzen die Expertise; eine öffentliche intellektuelle Einordnung (von sich selbst, von Digitalität/Geisteswissenschaften, vom Einfluss von genAI) überlassen sie anderen.

Soziopolis@soziopolis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Plädoyer, Zuspitzung und genealogische Skizze, die eine erweiterte Geschichte geisteswissenschaftlicher Wissenspraktiken aufzeigt: @peertrilcke.bsky.social rezensiert „Der Stachel des Digitalen. Geisteswissenschaften und Digital Humanities“ von Sybille Krämer. www.soziopolis.de/im-strudel-d...

Actually I'm realising that the reviewer who (wrongly) assumed we used AI translation in our submission might have been confused by the AI translation option in the Conftool on top of things. Now I'm confused as well. @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social Was that option meant to be multidirectional? #DH2026

Our paper @sarahalang.bsky.social was accepted to #DH2026! Yay! But also: One reviewer thought we used AI to translate it into English! No! I can't express how incredibly offensive and patronizing that review is. Worse, I'm sure the reviewer is a lovely person. But wow. #DigitalHumanities

Sind wir alle Komplizen des Niederganges der (traditionellen) Geisteswissenschaften? fragt @windhagr.bsky.social in seinem sehr spannenden und neue Perspektiven eröffnenden Vortrag „First, They Came for the Traditional Humanities…“ @dhdkonferenz.bsky.social #DHd2026

#DataFeminism appeared in 2020. How come it’s still not established in #DigitalHumanities? Interest seems to have died down 😕 We provide an overview of its principles tailored to #DH in our working paper ⬇️ zfdg.de/wp_2026 PS: Take part in the open public review process! #DHd2026

Just in time for next week's #DHd2026, our new publication "From Global to Local?", a reflection on the state of #digitalHumanities in German-speaking countries, its pasts, currents and possible futures. doi.org/10.26298/198... #DHd @DHdKonferenz

It seems to me that defining DH as purely quantitative methods is a neat way of shaving off all the hard-fought interventions made by people who were interested in making the field reflect the diversity and complexity of the actual world.

Lauren Klein@laurenfklein.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My contribution to the discourse, which I've said before and will say again: DH isn't over. DH has won. 1/

To have a reasonable conversation about "AI" in which people are not just dunking or repeating truisms or (best case) muddying the waters, one must do two things: 1. Disentangle the signifier "AI" from actual material technologies. 2. *Entangle* actual material technologies w/ a sociology of use.

When Musk said the "cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted" for training AI, what he was really saying is that he would not pay for digitisation, and had reached the limits of useful data he could scrape for free. The GenAI house is built on sand.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized. And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

intense flashback to palaeography class

Mateusz Fafinski@calthalas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you Merovingian cursive: