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🔔 Free online workshop on March 6th, 4:35PM EST If you newish to data curation and are wondering how to clean it up a bit (or maybe not?), you are welcome to join us for "Organized Chaos: Humanities Data and Cleaning with a Purpose" by @walshbr.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities Register to attend👇

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SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

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A recording of a talk I gave at the Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linköping University, which is a pretty good summary of the "AI + humanities" work I completed last year. I loved that this audience had so many questions!

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Check out FORMA's inaugural Debate series, featuring essays that discuss the state of the field, and where the field should move in the next quarter century. I contributed an essay on affect and form in film, with a discussion on the legacy of David William Foster.

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"[A] clearly distinct Anglophone Latin Americanism has developed; one which understandably responds to its own logic and fads: going from postcolonial to subaltern studies to gender theory to affect theory ... to eco-criticism, etc." www.formajournal.org/essays/the-f...

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Two new position papers on the state of Latin American literary criticism published in Forma (www.formajournal.org/debate) this week. "The Failures of Latin America and Criticism on Latin America" by @juanedecastro.bsky.social and "Affects and Forms in LGBTQ Cinema" by Vinodh Venkatesh

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FORMA has launched its inaugural Debate series! Organized and edited by @jose-eduardo.bsky.social and Steve Buttes, established scholars address the current state of the field by examining the past 25 years and projecting forward. See the first two installments: www.formajournal.org/debate

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TRUMP: fires black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; fires female chief of naval operations; hires unqualified replacement, a white man NYT:

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FORMA's "State of the Field" Debate series has launched! In the first set of "position papers," Ignacio López-Calvo and Mark Anderson examine the sets of subdisciplines comprising the field. Read more at www.formajournal.org/debate

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At what point in time the division between literary fiction and genre fiction reached a point of no return in contemporary literature? Now, anything that resembles plot must be rejected; slice of life is king. Things really went the opposite way Borges thought it would.

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UNL undergrad is trying to come up with a new campus map and they are asking for suggestions about what to put on it Squirrel density has been suggested

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Iowa's House File 274, which would criminalize librarians, passes out of the House Education Committee. It can now be heard on the floor. What this bill is, what it would mean for library and school workers, and why it was rushed through. bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...

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If you're still shopping for a noon Thursday thing, zoom on right in for "AI, Data and Ownership Roundtable" with Kim, Nadejda, and Sayeed. Funnny thing is this started as a conversation on a zoom, and we were like "we should now do it in public."

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If you're more comfortable learning to save sites via a website tool see zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... for the website/data-saving method the global group that's crowdsourced saving Ukraine sites for years (@sucho-org.bsky.social) uses to successfully teach many (public! kids!) how to back up data

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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A Reddit thread of terminated federal employees ready to run for office to fight back. www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

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A real possibility: your uni is classified as a govt contractor bc it takes grant funds. Govt says "everything in repository that uses 'DEI' language goes or we pull funding." Uni admin capitulates bc millions. Your work is gone. YOU NEED A COPY. Sorry if this overwhelms. I focused on action items

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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I built a free URL shortener for teachers bc we don't need ads when we're just trying to help each other out Edushare.ing No redirecting to ads, no stealing your traffic, no registration or log-in, no charge I hope you find it useful. Please share with teachers freely #TeachersHelpingTeachers

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

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Roper is hiring! A great opportunity for someone who likes data and wants to learn the ins and outs of cleaning, curation, de-identification, transparency requirements in polling while working with an amazing collection of historical data. cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cornel...

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The 19th-Century Latin American Forum at the MLA is organizing two panels and a workshop for the 2026 convention in Toronto. Send us your abstracts and share this call with your colleagues!

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me this morning taking out all the references to equity from my NEH grant proposal.....

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well, this pretty much kills the grant proposal I have been working on for 3 weeks now

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Today we got a message from administration about the "Future Ready Cloud Collaboration Workspace Project (FRCCWP)" plan, which will require us to change email addresses and logins, etc. They list several reasons for it, but something tells me that only the first one matters...

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Well, Forma (www.formajournal.org) does not have a Bluesky presence yet, but in the next few weeks I will be posting about a pretty cool new issue that is coming up, focusing on the "state of the Latin American literary studies field."

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“Qué significará ‘DIP’” “It’s like a place where the road goes down” “No, no soy PENDEJA, sé que es un ‘DIP,’ pero quiero saber qué significan las LETRAS del ACRONYM de esos que a ustedes gringos les MAMAN, Dive Into Pavement o una mamada así” “Oh no…in this case it’s just a word” “Oh ok”

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"What will happen when America has a dictator?" Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was born on this day. Speculative fiction bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Howard Terpning, 1961; R, uncredited, 1935 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

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AI is the new Clippy. Make it go away.

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Grateful for my topic modeling and word embeddings training, which made me suspicious of any output that "looks good" but for which I haven't seen any alternative outputs that might also "look good." Running a prompt and getting output that looks good isn't sufficient evidence for a paper.

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Teaching Latin American literature over the last 20 years or so, every time there was a text about dictatorships erasing history, my students used to say with confidence that "something like that couldn't happen in the U.S."

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Email: Google is eliminating its goal of hiring more employees from historically underrepresented groups and reviewing some DEI programs (Miles Kruppa/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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