@hcayless
DH Dev at Duke University Libraries. Likes: Ancient / multilingual DH, Digital Preservation, TEI, Libraries, my brilliant colleagues, MUFC, UNC basketball, running. Dislikes: talking to computers (does swear at them a *lot* though), mean people.
Stormy grey sky in the background, with trees (mostly pines) at a dutch angle at the bottom of the screen. A light pole sticks up on the left side. There's a bright rainbow on the left, crossing the pole, with a faint double to the right.
Double rainbow for morale
Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.
Not user error. Could be the search service it’s hitting is down.
Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $
Not even a job. Applying to get on their list of people they might offer part time temp work to. I’m sure it pays well though…
Wall Street has a panic attack. Maybe destroying the economy not good for economy? 🤷🏻♂️ www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
Damn, that’s grim.
The Greenlanders are gonna have to rescue the crew, aren’t they?
And that’s another thing. They clearly aspire to be a Ponzi scheme, but they’re having to pivot to ads to try to make up for the money they’re hemorrhaging.
There is something about language being the API to the human brain that comes into play here. All those myths about how careful you have to be when you talk to nonhuman entities…
I get some of the same vibe from AI evangelists that I do from Evangelical Christians. Like, I’m glad this is working for you, but I cannot myself access it. Entirely possible I’m just stupid, but there it is.
AI might be a cult. Discuss.
Preach!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups apparently no longer contain chocolate. It is the end of days.
It’s funny to me that the Dow had an “oh shit, Dad’s gonna be pissed” moment when the tariff announcement came out and then a couple of hours later was like “Nah, it’s gonna be fine.” 🤷🏻♂️
Good news! The TEI 2026 Call for Papers deadline has been extended to February 27th!
tei2026.tei-c.org/CFP.html
Looking forward to seeing your proposal!
Possible. I’d bet a lot of money that grant proposals that would have had a line item for a programmer will now have one for a Claude (or whatever) subscription instead. If I were a funder, I’d ban that, but 🤷🏻♂️
Yeah, and that’s a genuine thing. I think there was an opportunity to reconfigure things so that it would be less of a problem, but also that that ship has sailed. It’s a hard ask for humanities faculty to become programmers to do what they want. Some do it successfully.
Does no mean no, or “not only”? 😁
It does. But some lessons have to be learned the hard way.
Present company obviously excepted!
Rather cynically, I think for many DH practitioners, the need to work with programmers was always an irritant and they’ll embrace any opportunity not to.
It probably isn't going to kill off our jobs, but the joy at the idea really makes you realize who your friends are. It probably will get you a lot further in scaffolding a new project than was possible before, but it's not going to do things like realize you've got entirely the wrong idea.
It doesn't help at all that "AI" conflates a lot of genuinely useful and interesting stuff (HTR! Better cancer diagnosis! Etc.) with stuff that's kind of terrible and mediocre, not to mention all the people I'd otherwise respect burbling happily on about how this is going to kill off all our jobs. +
I'm genuinely a bit torn about this stuff. I think everyone who codes at work finds AI coding support really useful. I find it occasionally helpful and frequently annoying. Stack that up against the harm these companies are doing. +
She makes them absolutely panic is why.
Of course, there are other, funnier possibilities. bsky.app/profile/carl...
The liiive annotation interface: image control bar on the top left (sharing, zoom, image rotation); drawing tool bar on the top right (move, rectangle, triangle, circle, trash, undo/redo), navigation bar at the bottom. Colored cursors and annotation shapes above a medieval manuscript page.
It's done! 🚀 The first formal open source release of liiive is out — my real-time collaborative #IIIF annotation environment.
As of today: fully self-hostable.
A big thank you to the University of Graz Department of Digital Humanities and the DHInfra.at initiative who's support made this possible.
Probably not because the bottom could fall out of it any time. No point in building new factories if that’s a risk.