The obvious point/joke here is "ah it is so easy to imagine the work I do without AI." But would also like to point out the vast amount of imaginative labor and energy spent trying to apply these technologies to our work. Labor and energy that could be spent in other directions!

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 12h ago

I have one answer.

One of my pet peeves about ads, particularly for genre films, is how they all use the same language of staring to the side and up 45 degrees to the horizon as though that is the only visual vocabulary available.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h ago

This pose is killing me

After @walshbr.bsky.social recommended it to me, I start my day with Oblique Strategies. Today's was scarily timely as I worked on a new outline of the B story of the manuscript I'm working on:

Inspired by @walshbr.bsky.social's live posting, I'll be skeeting "book reactions" of all the (mostly) DH reading I'll be doing this fall. Starting with the very hot Data Empire by @roopikarisam.bsky.social : [Reactions will be posted as replies.]

I love this idea, and now I'm thinking about how to apply it to some of my more currently-frustrating crafts. And the examples for Terminal and Git are wonderfully thought-out. Relatedly, the #DataSittersClub has a tl;dr that we'll be posting soon by @alyssavi.bsky.social about the Terminal. 🥰

Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · last wk.

New post applies Kenny Werner's concept of Effortless Mastery to DH. Maps out a semester-long, daily practice with the very basics of terminal, Git, HTML, CSS. Intended to help students find inner confidence as they navigate difficulty, frustration, and GenAI. walshbr.com/blog/effortl...

This is neat and will be a handy reference when I step into a more DH-adjacent role as a Digital Fellow with @cunygcdi.bsky.social this fall and will have to recall and practice lots of foundational skills. Agree that adapting this to writing could be helpful too.

Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · last wk.

New post applies Kenny Werner's concept of Effortless Mastery to DH. Maps out a semester-long, daily practice with the very basics of terminal, Git, HTML, CSS. Intended to help students find inner confidence as they navigate difficulty, frustration, and GenAI. walshbr.com/blog/effortl...

Every house has one member who will wear a pair of boots for years until they literally disintegrate off their feet while wearing them. In this essay on digital humanities I will

Taking a break from audiobooks to work through the huge backlog of Dimension 20 I have missed in the last year and this vampire season is so good.

Just finished an advance copy of Emily Ruth Capper's Happening Pedagogy: Allan Kaprow’s Experiments in Instruction, which is such a smart, heartening complement to Rachel Sagner Buurma + Laura Heffernan's The Teaching Archive, reminding us that so much impt thinking happens in the CLASSROOM...

Happening Pedagogy

How Allan Kaprow’s happenings fused modernist pedagogy with an emerging college culture. In Happening Pedagogy, art historian Emily Ruth Capper argues that Allan Kaprow’s famed invention of the happen...

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This morning: 2 pieces on my episode of @dimension20.dropout.tv Adventuring Academy on @dropout.tv First I went Full Nerd Professor annotating our convo with explainers & links for every digression, citation, & anecdote (if I missed any, y’know, Get in the Comments there) Free to read RIGHT NOW.

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Last #ByteSizedPedagogy of the summer is this Friday 8/7, but we're picking right back up for the fall semester in September! Sept through Dec, first Fridays at noon ET, all free and open to public. Sign up and bring a snack. Links and readings here - walshbr.com/byte-sized-p...

Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 3d ago

This Friday 8/7, don't miss our last summer event: the online+free #ByteSizedPedagogy, on @seagillicuddy.bsky.social's "DH Ghost Towns: What Happens When Makers Abandon Their Creations?" (read in Debates in DH: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/what-we...)

One last ICYMI for the new week - a post that takes inspiration from jazz performance to map out a practice of daily DH work students aiming to build confidence and familiarity with the unknown.

Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · last wk.

New post applies Kenny Werner's concept of Effortless Mastery to DH. Maps out a semester-long, daily practice with the very basics of terminal, Git, HTML, CSS. Intended to help students find inner confidence as they navigate difficulty, frustration, and GenAI. walshbr.com/blog/effortl...

Done with the book manuscript. Took me a year, which not bad. This is not exactly the book I promised the press. Now to convince them that I'm not insane. Hopefully they won't get cold feet, and I have to spend extra time finding one that gets it.🤞🏼

This Friday 8/7, don't miss our last summer event: the online+free #ByteSizedPedagogy, on @seagillicuddy.bsky.social's "DH Ghost Towns: What Happens When Makers Abandon Their Creations?" (read in Debates in DH: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/what-we...)

Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 3d ago

We're booting up our fall public events schedule, & lots are already listed live! Free public workshops (eg text analysis for humanities+soc sci), speakers (including @patymurrieta.bsky.social), and makerspace events including repair cafés 🪡🧵 as part of the Library's year of "Away from Keyboard"🫸⌨️

Now here's a challenge for the men of @ach.bsky.social: volunteer to be next in line for secretary and mix things up so it's not always women and enbies doing that work. The last male secretary was Stéfan Sinclair from 2004-2007. It's been 20 years, my dudes!

Sarah Werner@wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 4d ago

Hoo boy when I was the Secretary on a board and couldn’t find a man to take my place when my term ended because having to do that work of metacognition was too feminized

In chapter 4 of Middlemen now. Going slowly because it is mostly my reading while bottle feeding the six-month-old. Really powerful mix of archival work, sociological method, zooming in for literary analysis of canonical examples. Quite inspiring. Also it’s very funny. Hard to do in academic work!!

So excited I get to scheme square and learn Writing and Teaching from Brandon Walshhhh (aka talk more about ttrpgs of course!) #GamesBasedDHpedagogy #DHMakes #CriticalMaking

Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · 5d ago

Fun times this week scheming with @jajrk.bsky.social on a new project: a card game for teachers to work with students to co-create better, alternative visions for AI futures than the ones we are told are inevitable. Play and storytelling in the classroom for destabilizing narratives by/of power.

Fun times this week scheming with @jajrk.bsky.social on a new project: a card game for teachers to work with students to co-create better, alternative visions for AI futures than the ones we are told are inevitable. Play and storytelling in the classroom for destabilizing narratives by/of power.

Please consider writing a piece for this volume on Africana Digital Humanities at HBCU’s. I’ve worked with each of the editors, and they are all top notch humans! ( please circulate as well)

Strategies for Simple Sabotage that are life giving.

Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · 5d ago

Want to resist imposed genAI use in your workplace? There’s some advice and inspiration in here (h/t @readywriting.bsky.social) aftermath.site/ai-resistanc...

University statements like these make me happy the book is already at the typesetter.

@juliaflanders.bsky.social is such an inspiration.

Brett Bobley@brettbobley.bsky.social · 5d ago

Congratulations to Julia Flanders, who just won the Busa prize for lifetime achievement! @juliaflanders.bsky.social #DH2026

Last call! The deadline to submit abstracts for DHQ's special issue on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities Pedagogy is August 1. Send abstracts to editors@digitalhumanities.org with the subject line: "DHQ AI Pedagogy Special Issue." More details: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/submissions/...

Congratulations to Julia Flanders, who just won the Busa prize for lifetime achievement! @juliaflanders.bsky.social #DH2026

Ok officially going to test run this approach to "effortless digital humanities" with our dh fellows this year. As I mention in the post, it asks them to develop a daily ritual in which they engage with some basic DH fundamentals.

Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · last wk.

New post applies Kenny Werner's concept of Effortless Mastery to DH. Maps out a semester-long, daily practice with the very basics of terminal, Git, HTML, CSS. Intended to help students find inner confidence as they navigate difficulty, frustration, and GenAI. walshbr.com/blog/effortl...

Gods bless the venn diagram of my games-based pedagogy academic nerdery 😭🥹 @friede.bsky.social @dimension20.dropout.tv @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social "there's something magical about the emergent" 🌻 "teaching is the greatest improv of my life"🌿

Helen Rottier@helenrottier.bsky.social · 7d ago

“A fifteen-week course is a campaign.” 💯👩🏻‍🏫 “I serve the weirdos, God bless them.” “Another world is possible, not just in your head and at the table, but in the world!” @friede.bsky.social

Ring the bells this just became VERY Digital Humanities-y with @friede.bsky.social talking about all the Spreadsheets of Data for her book + Positionally on Facts, Institutions, People's Feelings Academics have a duty of care 😭 my heart, even as I am battling uncritical AI adoption

Jajwalya Karajgikar@jajrk.bsky.social · 7d ago

Gods bless the venn diagram of my games-based pedagogy academic nerdery 😭🥹 @friede.bsky.social @dimension20.dropout.tv @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social "there's something magical about the emergent" 🌻 "teaching is the greatest improv of my life"🌿

Okay I gotta hand it to the illustrator on this one for sorta combining Minard's visualization of the loss of troops during Napoleon's Russian invasion with Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa. Figuring out how to combine those in a viz has gotta be a bucket list item for dataviz people.

Dr Ian McCormick@wokestudies.bsky.social · 7d ago

Handy Guide to the death count in The Odyssey. #Homer #epic #film #Nolan

I am unbelievably touched that @dropout.tv titled my @dimension20.dropout.tv Adventuring Academy episode “A Duty of Care”

I’m overwhelmed today, but I want to circle back in a while to share the links to everyone & everything I cited. More soon.

A Duty of Care (with Dr. Emily Friedman) - Season 7 - Dropout

Dr. Emily Friedman joins Brennan to discuss the history of actual play and the best gaming system. Content Warning: Misophonia (Crunching) - [throughout 54:37-1:01:03]

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Now that I know Obama reads DH my simple question is this: when are The Hard Modes going to make the summer playlist?