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bschmidt.bsky.social
VP of Information Design at Nomic building new interfaces to embeddings; former history professor/digital humanist. Bsky for humanities/dataviz-y things, @[email protected] for techy stuff, the bad place for business. https://benschmidt.org
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NEW: In practice, no one is in charge of the Copyright Office right now for absurd reasons. Are copyrights now being issued valid? Great question that will buy many lawyers yachts! This is by @knibbs.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

My quick reaction is that the acquisition and retention distinctions (*if* they stick on appeal and are more widely adopted) will be enormous practical problems for any AI developer that was less than extremely scrupulous in assembling and maintaining training datasets.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

C'mon everybody why did we even make a social network exclusively for leftists with graduate degrees if we're not going to make #facultybratsummer a thing.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Hearsay, but would be best case at a place with lots of layoffs ongoing, & more coming.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Has there been news/unreported activity at the Library of Congress in June? Is it a weird stalemate? I haven't seen any news since a federal judge upheld the Register of Copyright's firing: seems as though the professionals have kept the politicos out? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Explore Wikipedia through a data map. Pages are grouped by semantic similarity, for topic clusters. Hover to see details, zoom to explore more fine-grained topics, click to go to a page. Search by page name to find interesting starting points for exploration. lmcinnes.github.io/datamapplot_...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

There’s something even deeper going on here; the NYer is drawing the line separating Modernity from Olden Traditional times to fall somewhere between the dot coms and the iPhone. Fees like this is becoming the new starting line for History, like the 1945 was when I was growing up.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

For my sins (working with 20-yo start-up engineers who ask questions), I ended up feeling like I had to read a bunch of Curtis Yarvin yesterday. My general takeaway is that the appeal seems to be for people who haven't ever encountered a real critique of modernity before…

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments