So we opened 2026 nominations early for the #DH2026 conference.

ChatGPT vs. the Duplex: A Collaborative Student-Centered Inquiry into the Limits of Gen AI's Poetic Capabilities!, Lena Marchese, Elizabeth Garcia, Brittany Whelan, + working with @laurenfklein.bsky.social found Jericho Brown's poetry is resistant to LLM dupes: all repetition, no presence #DH2026

#DH2026, where I used spatiality in Interactive Fiction and 20 years of IFComp as a proxy to talk for a minute about our collective transition from the bulletin board regime of online discourse as the dominant social-cognitive paradigm (e.g. let's all stand around the dumpster fire

Great first day #DH2026 workshop on "Engaging Difficult Audiences: Designing Games for Bored Students, Visitors, and DH Scholars," by Sophia Booij (Australia National Uni) and Nellie Seale (Uni of Melbourne). Awesome real thoughtful framework for game design in GLAM, community, and teaching spaces.

@dh2026daejeon.bsky.social It turns out, most everywhere is a 10+ hour flight from New Zealand, including #DH2026, my first DH since moving. Got mine and Kevin Qu's poster on spatiality and topology of interactive fiction for the #SIG-DLS & DCL mini-conference, icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/20...

"Fela understood that corruption is rarely just about losing money. It is about losing legitimacy. It is the theft of a nation’s faith in itself." In the US again, briefly, reading Fahamu's consideration of what it should mean to celebrate America. fahamupecou.substack.com/p/authority-...

Authority Stealing

Fela Kuti, Frederick Douglass, and the Unfinished American Experiment

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If anyone's heading to @aclmeeting.bsky.social and wants to grab tea, I'll be at @nlpandcss.bsky.social talking about how opioid products and the companies that made them act the same, as seen in their semantic action trajectories and a random sample of 10k docs from Opioid Industry Archive (OIDA).

Documenting Corporate Harm: A Semantic Action Trajectories Approach to the Opioid Industry Document Archive Shared Task

Ben Miller. Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science. 2026.

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got reminded of this piece today, one of the great intersections between games and weird fiction

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ETHICAL CONSUMPTION IN THE PRETA-LOKA — THE MYRMECOLEON CLUB

On Pac-Man, the Bardo Thodol, and Borges.

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I'd wait an hour in the rain for a lecture half as good as Peter Caviello's grounded, informed, scathing, funny takedown not of a single NYT author, but of the whole rhetorical framework on which lazy Crossfire journalism is built. Didn't Jon Stewart demolish that mode ages ago?

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

I just finished "There Is No Place for Us" by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social It's a modern, non-fiction, "The Jungle", about the purposely designed-to-fail housing system in this country - an unholy abomination of government & corporations - and the resulting dystopia www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in Ameri…

Through the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta famil…

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We knew in our guts while hiding that the shooter was targeting us. This violence is driven by anti-vaccine propaganda. And the rot start at the top. Just this week RFK Jr canceled all mRNA vaccine research while lying about the technologies safety and effectiveness.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12mo ago

“The shooter was either sick or believed he was sick, and blamed his illness on COVID vaccine — which is why he was targeting the CDC.”

How did we so quickly go from the GDPR's Right to Be Forgotten (2014) to the (2025) EU AI Act's solution to bias being more data in the system? Yes, each approach deals with a different problem, privacy and algorithmic violence by administrative regimes. Did we cede the finacialization of speech?

The penguin is quilted and ready to protest! It’s a bit crooked, but I have had vertigo off and on all week, so I’m okay with crooked.

👉 👈 Meta announced that they're changing their models to reduce "left-leaning [political] bias"--that means leaning them to the political "right". Lots to unpack about what that might mean. So I ran a quick "shot in the dark" study...and found a *political right* bias in Meta models. Some notes.🧵

I don't know how I could have misses the launch of this initiative by @carlbergstrom.com & @jevinwest.bsky.social but it's absolutely a must for anyone confused about what LLMs are and can do, as well as for anyone not skeptical enough about this technology: thebullshitmachines.com

Spending the day at the Africana DH convening at Clark Atlanta U. Panel 1, @drtonieshat.bsky.social, Rico Chapman, Marco Robinson, Charmayne Patterson. So much good work on sharing local knowledge, imagining the future, and why Starbucks needed to think before putting a slogan on a coffee cup.

A newsletter for folks interested in cities, housing, affordable housing, and urban political economy. Please subscribe! Free! First up: "WHAT DO HOUSERS DO NOW?" I expect most entries to be more focused on a particular housing policy debate or an important piece of research I read.

What Do (U.S.) Housers Do Now?

This crisis is so different from others that housing folks have been through. A bit about some previous crises, and some initial thoughts about being a houser in the face of authoritarianism and hosti...

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There are just nine days left to get the World SF Bundle! storybundle.com/scifi Supporting independent publishers, benefiting authors directly, and also supporting non-profit Locus Magazine! Re-posts much appreciated!

NarraScope news: we have keynote speakers and a schedule! narrascope.org/schedule We have registration open! narrascope2025.eventbrite.com We have other info on the web site too. narrascope.org Join us in Philadelphia in June. Hope to see you there.

"It’s not that OpenAI picked something cute and accidentally the co-founder of that studio hates. OAI picked Ghibli because Miyazaki hates their approach It is display of power: You, as artist, animator, illustrator, writer are powerless. We will take what we want & do what we want. Because we can"

tante@tante.cc · last yr.

OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power. https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

🚨 Our Call for Papers is out! 🚨 We continue our tradition of providing a dedicated platform for presenting computational work that bridges formal methods and traditional inquiry in the arts and humanities. Check out the website for all details: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

Atlanta friends! I'll be launching my book this Wednesday, 3/26, at Decatur Library, 7pm. I’m honored to be joined in conversation by the brilliant journalist and author Malaika Jabali. The event is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · last yr.

I was set to launch my book at the Carter Library next month. This week, we were told all events now need approval from the National Archives. The next day, my event was forced to relocate. A book about the working homeless. A book about civil rights. Apparently these topics are now off limits.

Join me on Reddit for an AMA about housing precarity and homelessness in the U.S. Why are so many people—even those with multiple jobs—unable to afford a place to live? The AMA is live now, and I’ll be answering questions starting Monday at 1pm ET.

From the povertyfinance community on Reddit: I’m Brian Goldstone, author of "There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America," about why millions of Americans with jobs still can’t afford a ...

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On regulating AI absent fed oversight, my take on Kevin Frazier's grounded, practical, www.lawfaremedia.org/article/amid... "UDAP [Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices] enforcement ... [is an] important means of protecting consumers amid the rapid adoption of AI.” (1/2)

Yes, and laid the model for disparate bailouts post-2007-2010 foreclosure crisis that enabled the subsequent rise of institutional single family home investors. Some recent related work. www.lewis.ucla.edu/2023/02/08/4... quantitative.emory.edu/images/11-4-... doi.org/10.1080/0735...

Race, uneven recovery and persistent negative equity in the southeastern United States

I analyze neighborhoods with persistent negative equity in the Southeast to understand whether persistent negative equity can be explained by the same factors that led to the crash or whether dynam...

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA@arrianna-planey.bsky.social · last yr.

E.g. "redlining maps" were co-created by HOLC (founded in the late 30s)- which offered financial products to prevent borrowers from defaulting on existing mortgages. Also, Black farmers were largely excluded from financial supports that kept white farmers solvent during the Great Depression.

I'm deeply sorry and upset that the wonderful people at the NEH who have spent careers helping people tell essential American stories are being anything but praised and rewarded. "Appalachia Youth," "Up from the Dust," HiPSTAS. Nationwide library programs. The NEH made public humanities possible.

Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · last yr.

I’m so sorry, to my brilliant, talented, devoted friends at NEH, and for all of us.

They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.

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Went to the capital w/ my son and a few 100 others to #StandUpForScience. He talked to two geneticists, a political scientist, an academic union rep, a mass spec salesperson w/ a PhD, a computational biologist, a behavioral biologist, and a person in a frog costume who 100% studies frogs in a lab.

I wish all of our institutions would have an equally forceful rebuttal as unqualified Republicans (often illegally) try to tell us what to teach. These people are the inheritors of TN in State of TN v. Scopes. They continue to be wrong, reactionary, repressive, and regressive.

Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · last yr.

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter: