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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

DOGE, ChatGPT, and the NEH...gift link
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

But I heard it is not a war

Ken Paxton will be promised something substantial and will go away.

The thrill Trump gets from having people blow up & kill other people, and from watching other people fight at UFC, comes from deep insecurity rooted in his personal cowardice. It makes him feel tough. It makes him feel adequate. Things he has never been but always wanted to be.

Had to visualize that

Context

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Frontiers | Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat culture as a variable to be...

I'm on a 38(!)-author paper just published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, "Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology". We splice Schleiermacher and hermeneutic theory into AI debates, arguing AI are "context machines".
www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

Must be readin' my mail

What a shame I missed it.

Oaktown baby

Outstanding

Back in the day we heard that the Wide World of Sports was about the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." They left out the joy of performing with everything you've got. Saw a lot of that, and what a salve it was.

ha! point taken. fwiw, the left is my prompt Claude responded to. I just now asked, were you giving me an answer I wanted to hear, and got a convincing 'no' reply with receipts. For me, "horses for courses" is a governing principle re: AI/LLMs, languages, libraries, frameworks.

Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

cheeky Claude: “the people doing the most epistemically careful thinking about what LLMs actually are and what they’re good for tend not to be the loudest voices. They’re too busy being uncertain in productive ways.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“ 💯 w/exceptions

Claude explained TypeScript concisely and had this evaluation wrt my work: “For your own work — freelance DH consulting, spatial data, NLP pipelines — Python remains the right home.” Also…

Before I google TypeScript (heard of it, resist new langs) I’ll ask Claude to school me on it, and ask what the implications of its use would be or might have been for the 5 codebases I have going now

If you go, bring a cane, @algreen.house.gov style

Opinion | He Studied Cognitive Science at Stanford. Then He Wrote a Startling Play About A.I. Authoritarianism.

He Studied Cognitive Science at Stanford. Then He Wrote a Startling Play About A.I. Authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/o...

Tried to imagine Donald Trump giving dap to Devin Booker at the All-Star Game as Obama just did - or even being there - and it broke my brain. #NBA #AllStar

Please forgive the crop of your photo @leilanavidi.bsky.social, couldn’t resist

Berkeley, CA sign needs to lose a couple of lights

The lid I can sorta understand, but the seat?

Color palettes from photos of nine locations across the US Southwest, east to west from Santa Fe to the Bay Area

I like to think color palettes are attributes of places, and plan to use them in artworks. So I wrote scripts for selecting and saving them from my travel photos. From right to left, on mostly small roads from Santa Fe to the East Bay, CA.

Rock climbers on Calico Hills wall in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada

Mojave yucca and red rock at Red Rock Canyon, Nevada

🧵 117/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Red Rock Canyon in the Mojave, on the way to an overnight in Pahrump, Nevada. Feb, 2026

Banded wall in the Grand Canyon, AZ

Colorado River winding through the Grand Canyon

Wall painting in the Desert View Watchtower at Grand Canyon NP, by Fred Kabotie, a Hopi artist from Shungopavi

Route 66 kitsch folk art in Seligman, AZ on old Route 66

🧵 116/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Grand Canyon, on the way to a stretch on old Route 66 with a stop in Seligman, AZ. Feb, 2026

Turnkey FairData Website Package We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

Did you know you can get a turnkey DH website for less than $5,000? Complete with an interactive map-based search, built-in content management system, hosting, maintenance, and support! dh.tools/fairdata #DigitalHumanities #Mapping #LinkedData

It's a tie - George Gershwin and Lou Gehrig

I just published v0.1.0 of tiny.iiif 🚀 - the first official release of my new IIIF server!

• Publish images as IIIF instantly
• Organize images with simple drag+drop
• Image Service + Presentation manifests + user-friendly GUI all in one package

Available now!
github.com/rsimon/tiny-...