Two 10-year lecturerships in #DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie.
Requirements to teach at the Communications University of China in Beijing on a new joint BA programme.
For information package including full details of the post, selection criteria and application process see ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 094538).
This gives me hope that even if all those MPs - with dollars in their eyes from what they can personally gain from US Big Tech’s ravaging of human creativity - vote for a data mining exception to copyright, the Lords ain’t having it - and the boom will be over by the time any dust settles?
Anthropic is not your friend
There's a lot in this article by Tom Felle that I agree with.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Years ago at an MLA panel that touched upon MOOCs @amandafrench.net said that whatever your feelings about them are, at least they have prompted important discussions about teaching.
The same is true of LLMs. Wherever you stand, at least they are prompting serious discussions about student writing.
Has there been a more spectacularly failed experiment in the history of the Irish State than @irishrail.bsky.social's attempt to introduce a “quieter coach”?
Hey @zotero.org, now that data papers are becoming more of a thing in the humanities, it would be great to see them as an item type! I know they fit 'journal article', but I feel like that overstates what they are? Or maybe mine is the type of thinking that data papers are trying to overcome.
Congratulations to wonderful colleague @claireconnolly.bsky.social on her new book, Irish Romanticism: A Literary History, launched this evening by @jfcryan.bsky.social, VP for Research & Innovation @ucc.ie, and Prof. Clair Wills, King Edward VII Prof. of English Literature at Cambridge.
I was the same with em dashes (though editors used to rein me in a lot), and for a while I avoided them completely. Recently I decided I’m just going to start using them again, and if my writing looks like AI slop, so be it.
The roof timbers in Saint Mary’s Collegiate Church (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2021)
The roof timbers in Saint Mary’s Collegiate Church Youghal which have been carbon dated to 1170. Likely built by shipwrights so essentially an upside down boat. www.patrickcomerford.com/2021/08/sain... #speirgorm
"Large language models like ChatGPT have introduced into written culture a problem that resembles the problem of forgery in fine art—once you know that a convincing fake is possible, the status of every authentic work becomes precarious."
jamescosullivan.substack.com/p/llms-are-m...
#GenAI #LLMs
Oh you’ve to read the whole thing. It’s glaring.
Seeing a lot of AI slop in newspapers lately, like this piece in the @theguardian.com. Editors need to do better. I’m conscious of being over suspicious, but it’s so painfully obvious when you see it. (Gold medal still goes to the Irish editor who ran an anti-AI article clearly written by ChatGPT.)
I suspect the worst indexes are those done by the authors themselves (ironically).
Book indexes feel like legacy matter. I never use them. With so many publishers now offering PDF editions (with glorious ctrl-f) or selling individual chapters (ie. no index), are their days numbered? I typically read print editions; do people really use indexes when reading a 300-page monograph?
@eireidium.bsky.social
The title page of volume one of The Gospel of John embossed in moon type.
The same moon title page, but a screenshot of a 3D scan of the page that is blue with scanner guide markers placed randomly on the page.
The same 3D scan but now white with the extra details around the page deleted and cleaned up as a 3D model.
The same title page in moon, but now a 3D printed physical object printed with purple filament. There are printed supports on the front, right side, and base still attached.
From rare book (physical) to 3D scan (digital) to cleaned-up 3D model (digital) to 3D printed object (physical).
This was a really fun process to think through texture and materiality of a tactile book object. This was a test, and I learned a lot from the process. More to come later this year!
There is a particular fantasy that recurs throughout the history of industrial capitalism, that the ideal worker is a person stripped of everything superfluous to the act of production...
jamescosullivan.substack.com/p/silicon-va...
#artificialintelligence #generativeAI #genAI #siliconvalley
“The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
LLM disclosures are, in part, trigger warnings. Trigger warnings go at the top.
It's 2026 and the Microsoft Word desktop app still doesn't let me sync my Style Gallery. See you all in 2027!
How Algorithmic Systems Automate Inequality
www.techpolicy.press/how-algorith...
#genAI #AI #criticalAI @techpolicypress.bsky.social
"the danger is the flood of Automatenwissenschaft becomes a kind of scholarly dark matter that exists to pad CVs and satisfy bureaucratic metrics, but which no one actually reads or relies upon."
It was already growing in pre-automation days, with the replacement of qual w/ quant tenure review.
www.ft.com/content/734a... The reinvention of America’s shopping malls
It's mad to me that the company making Visual Studio Code also makes Word and Teams.
I think about this famous passage from Orwell’s 1984 a lot these days: ‘The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.’
Newspaper headline
Book cover
Thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social and Mary Miniham @irishtimes.com for taking my piece on heavy coats and ragged people for today’s paper - with a shoutout for new @universitypress.cambridge.org book on #IrishRomanticism #speirgorm
