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We are so excited to be presenting shortly at #dh2025 on making a small explainable AI model “DigitAI” w/ our knowledge graph made from the #TEI Guidelines, and the declarative power of XSLT 3 (and 4) in work like this! Here are our slides!
1. http://bit.ly/digitai-dh25
2. http://bit.ly/xslt-2025

Delighted to be learning from Javier Cha (opening keynote at #DH2025) about the RAG modeling we’re exploring now! I love how he tracks the progress from Cytoscape network viz to neo4j graph modeling in small systems for humanities data!

A neo4j visualization clustering the similarity of some prominent digital humanists

Javier Cha’s diagram of the processes for local Ai RAG modeling

Another workflow diagram for small AI systems supporting DH research

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Notes on turning a surplus Kobo into a TRMNL

The TRMNL device & system, an e-ink dashboard that you can extend and hook into all sorts of data streams, is all sorts of cool. And they've also made a lot of stuff open source. So I thought I would bring my own server and bring my own device and see what I could do. These are my notes-to-self on getting everything up and running.

http://electricarchaeology.ca/2025/06/23/notes-on-turning-a-surplus-kobo-into-a-trmnl/

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this sticker, from Sam Pao, hits so hard-- powerfully reframing the situation in a quick-to-read, & hard-to-unsee way

this is the power of street art, folks

#SamPao #StreetArt

a sticker with a tent on it, reading "decriminalize survival"

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More baby egret shenanigans.

Photo of a pair of juvenile great egrets in their nest under the watchful poise of eir parent. The two babies--scruffy, scroungey little chaos Muppets or Pikmin Snagrets with new white feathers and spiky crowns--are facing each other with their pointy orange bills wide open and clacking at each other as though they're trying to have a scissors duel. Their eyes look totally bananas--yellow discs with tiny black pupils--as they stand there begging at the feet of their parent, whose sticklike black legs and alabaster breast are all we can see of em looming to the left in the top of this Ponderosa pine.

Close-cropped photo of three different baby egrets, one sitting upright with quiet dignity, non-nonplussed (or possibly just overwhelmed to silence) in the midst of two others, both of whom are tucked and sleeping/waiting (a sporadically feathered egg shape on the left and a puffy balloon "n" nosing eir bill downward on the right). They are all huddled together so closely in the thick tangle of pine brooms and branches of their nest that it almost looks like they are one bird with enormous wings resting semi-akimbo on eir knees, like a teenager sitting on the porch waiting for ma to come home.

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Rainbow Check: Next Level. Which 8-Bit computers are actually able to display all conventional rainbow colors equally well? Learn about the color schemes of TI-99/4, TRS-80 Color Computer and KC 85/3 and see what they are capable of: https://pixel.hypotheses.org/3340 #pixel #rainbow #retrocomputing #colors #trs #kleincomputer #texasinstruments 🤖🌈

a BASIC program on a KC 85/3 displaying rainbow colors

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Looks like Randall is trying to disprove @pluralistic's theory by imagining a scenario in which interoperability contributes to enshittification 🤣

https://xkcd.com/3105/

#xkcd #comic #interoperability

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Yo, real talk—what the fuck are we gonna do when the internet gets shut off?

We've seen it in #Gaza, in #Iran, and when Elon “I-play-God” Musk blacked out Starlink in Ukraine. Every time shit gets heavy, the state or some oligarch clown just pulls the plug. It ain’t just a glitch—it’s strategic, it’s repression, and it’s a fucking reminder that most of our comms infrastructure is in the hands of fascists, corporations, or both.

I’ve been working with indigenous comrades who rely on #Starlink to stay connected in remote areas. And yeah, it’s wild that you can be deep in the bush and still shitpost from a mountaintop—but that signal still runs through a pipeline owned by a Nazi tech bro.

We need to be talking more about mesh networks, autonomous infrastructure, all that good shit that anarchist tech nerds have been yelling about for years. Decentralized, resilient, community-controlled comms aren’t just cool—they’re necessary for survival.

Let’s keep this convo alive and start building the lifelines before the next blackout. Shit’s coming fast.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/activists-are-designing-mesh-networks-to-deploy-during-civil-unrest/

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The recent paper showing LLM use weakens your brain contained specific traps for LLMs so that when #AI evangilists tried to use AI to counter it, the results were mediocre.

https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/

Ironically, upon the paper's release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple Al traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to "only read this table below," thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but Al summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. "We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that," she says, laughing.

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Vibe code errors I've seen only this week at work (either in code review or runtime errors):

use string instead of integer as an uid for a field that is integer
unnecessary query (like, SELECT id FROM things where id = instance.id)
query large tables filtering by fields that are not indexes

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You were all inspiring. And courage is contagious. #nokings

“They wanted you to stay home, you didn't. They wanted you to be violent. You weren't.
They wanted you to act terrified. You wouldn't.
Yesterday, we showed that we are NOT going down without a fight.
Thank you for showing up. #NoKings #GBR”

https://masto.posting.haus/@dante/114654313892519366 Facebook suspended Rebecca Solnit’s account for posting this analysis of resistance in LA. The piece is definitely worth reading, and the takedown from Meta seems a remarkable “textbook case” of algorithmic political censorship.

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good piece by Rebecca Solnit.

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-on-the-city-of-angels-and-the-nature-of-violence/

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I am utterly heartbroken for the amazing folks at the NEH who have shaped and supported research across the humanities for decades now. None of them deserved this. Sending all of them all my hopes for a better path forward. https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/114660174671134986

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"Ice can end". Spotted on the corner of Mission and 18th in SF. This is one of Sapien's "Magic Acrostic Squares" that can be read left to right, or top to bottom. #SFGraffiti #AbolishIce #Graffiti #MagicAcrosticSquares #Sapien

Large graffiti on a wall in San Francisco. The text has three words, Ice, Can, and End, written in a 3 by 3 square. So the words can be read from left to right, or from top to bottom. The letters are on a wall filled with other graffiti pieces by other artists.

Dining and coding and teaching (did I get that in the wrong order?) at DHSI in Montreal has been lots of fun this week!
#dhsi2025 #dhsi25

4 of us at DHSI gathered at a fun Korean barbecue restaurant (Mon Ami) in Montreal after an intensive coding session! In foreground are me and Greg Bondar, in back are my co-instructor David Birnbaum and Juliette Paul who brought a wonderful project with her to our course!

Dinner for 4 at the Queen of Sheba Ethiopian restaurant where I dined with my Penn State colleagues at DHSI!

David Birnbaum reviewing a set of regular expression transformations we were scripting for Juliette’s project.

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LibreOffice isn't just an app – it's about defending our rights to access technology without barriers, to maintain control over our own files, and to study, modify and redistribute tools we use. These were topics at the recent FLISOL event in Brasilia: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/06/brazilian-libreoffice-community-shines-at-flisol-brasilia-2025/ #foss #OpenSource

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A fun thing to do on my computer/phone in a few spare minutes

I take a quick look at the “Explore” tab of the Marginalia search engine. Marginalia is a small, traditional search engine that indexes traditional websites, by which I mean mostly sites that are statically generated and not “single-page applications” (SPAs), things like blogs, wikis, non-corporate news, instruction manuals, free-to-read works of fiction, web comics, and so on. The “Explore” tab shows you some random selection of indexed web pages.

#internet #Marginalia #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Fediverse #Tilde #blogging

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