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Reposting @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social:

'A (very) short talk I just delivered at the SHARP conference in Reading about a large language model embedded inside of a font and the implications of the post-GPT textuality. llama.tff '

OG post has screenshots with the actual talk https://bsky.app/profile/mkirschenbaum.bsky.social/post/3kwf2ndonr32g
#SHARP2024

... and we have a winner. This book https://historians.social/@dbellingradt/111686491277800136 won the 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize, as has been announced yesterday at #SHARP2024

Congratulations, Prof. Sebouh David Aslanian. #bookhistory

At #sharp2024 and hearing Ellen Forget talk about OCR processes for Braille books. Many complications in training a model for this task.

I'm watching #sharp2024 presentations on ISOTYPE, a sort of century-ago combination of what we would think of today as infographics and emoji. Fascinating.
https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/isotype.html

Have I told you this week how much I FUCKING HATE MICROSOFT TEAMS. Trying to watch a fascinating pane at the #sharp2024 conference and it keeps quitting on me. Why would anyone choose to use this junk software when we have better?

Some of you have noticed that #SHARP2024 started: "Global Book Cultures: Materialities, Collaborations, Access". And like a good historians that I aim to be, I searched for the early uses of the hashtag #globalbookhistory. Well, the (first?) appearance was on Twitter in April 2020. #bookhistory #histodons

Tweet from a platform once known as "Twitter". It is the first usage of the hashtag #globalbookhistory that I found on social media. April 14th 2020.

Fascinated by Alan Galey’s provocation at #SHARP2024 — why, despite decades of discussions about digital scholarly editions, are there no scholarly editions of born-digital texts? We increasingly teach & take born-digital literature seriously, but we don’t create scholarly editions of it (yet)

Landed at Heathrow & making my way toward #SHARP2024. Realized on the plane that while I’ve been to a few tiny academic gatherings the past few years, this is likely my first real conference since MLA 2020 in Seattle—wild. See some of y’all soon!