Rennie Mapp
@rcmapp.bsky.social
Director of the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) + the grad DH Certificate at UVA
- PhD in 19C British Lit
- MS in Mgmt of IT
Opinions are my own
Not here for the hot takes
- PhD in 19C British Lit
- MS in Mgmt of IT
Opinions are my own
Not here for the hot takes
Call first; rant on social media later. www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/t...
10 Tips For Making The Most Impact When You Call Congress
Here are 10 tips for calling Congress, to ensure your message is heard.
www.globalcitizen.org
February 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Call first; rant on social media later. www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/t...
New preprint!
Metaphors shape how people understand politics, but measuring them (& their real-world effects) is hard.
We develop a new method to measure metaphor & use it to study dehumanizing metaphor in 400K immigration tweets Link: bit.ly/4i3PGm3
#NLP #NLProc #polisky #polcom #compsocialsci
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Metaphors shape how people understand politics, but measuring them (& their real-world effects) is hard.
We develop a new method to measure metaphor & use it to study dehumanizing metaphor in 400K immigration tweets Link: bit.ly/4i3PGm3
#NLP #NLProc #polisky #polcom #compsocialsci
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February 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
February 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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I've updated Caracal to Qwen 2.5 VL. Enjoy!!
For those who haven't used it, it's free a free-to-use zero-shot HTR and NER app with historical documents in mind.
App: huggingface.co/spaces/wjbma...
#DigitalHumanities #MachineLearning #HTR
For those who haven't used it, it's free a free-to-use zero-shot HTR and NER app with historical documents in mind.
App: huggingface.co/spaces/wjbma...
#DigitalHumanities #MachineLearning #HTR
January 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I've updated Caracal to Qwen 2.5 VL. Enjoy!!
For those who haven't used it, it's free a free-to-use zero-shot HTR and NER app with historical documents in mind.
App: huggingface.co/spaces/wjbma...
#DigitalHumanities #MachineLearning #HTR
For those who haven't used it, it's free a free-to-use zero-shot HTR and NER app with historical documents in mind.
App: huggingface.co/spaces/wjbma...
#DigitalHumanities #MachineLearning #HTR
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Bernie Sanders grilling RFK Jr for selling anti-vaccination onesies is the energy I needed today.
January 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Bernie Sanders grilling RFK Jr for selling anti-vaccination onesies is the energy I needed today.
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we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
January 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
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And here comes the effect on our trusted repositories, and our trusted information environments...
Smithsonian Institution Will Close its Diversity Offices
The closure followed an executive order by President Trump that mandated the closure of DEI offices in federal agencies.
www.artnews.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
And here comes the effect on our trusted repositories, and our trusted information environments...
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Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
January 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
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Something for the #digitalhumanities people out there. This is the day before #RSAboston2025
@dhcertificateuva.bsky.social
@rcmapp.bsky.social
www.rsa.org/news/news.as...
@dhcertificateuva.bsky.social
@rcmapp.bsky.social
www.rsa.org/news/news.as...
2025 Day of Digital Learning - Renaissance Society of America
www.rsa.org
January 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Something for the #digitalhumanities people out there. This is the day before #RSAboston2025
@dhcertificateuva.bsky.social
@rcmapp.bsky.social
www.rsa.org/news/news.as...
@dhcertificateuva.bsky.social
@rcmapp.bsky.social
www.rsa.org/news/news.as...
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I'll be speaking at the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship in March this year. Do feel free to register here!
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/90a073...
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/90a073...
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January 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I'll be speaking at the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship in March this year. Do feel free to register here!
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/90a073...
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/90a073...
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Excited to see this news out - "Developing a public-interest training commons of books," www.authorsalliance.org/2024/12/05/d...
Developing a public-interest training commons of books
Photo by Zetong Li on Unsplash Authors Alliance is pleased to announce a new project, supported by the Mellon Foundation, to develop an actionable plan for a public-interest book training commons f…
www.authorsalliance.org
December 6, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Excited to see this news out - "Developing a public-interest training commons of books," www.authorsalliance.org/2024/12/05/d...
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Small update to what I asked on #academicsky recently. I downloaded @obsidian.md, linked it to @zotero.org & started importing annotations & bibliographies. Then, I tried to come up with important points-maybe not true #zettelkasten, but I've noticed cool connections. My #medieval & #earlymodern...
January 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Small update to what I asked on #academicsky recently. I downloaded @obsidian.md, linked it to @zotero.org & started importing annotations & bibliographies. Then, I tried to come up with important points-maybe not true #zettelkasten, but I've noticed cool connections. My #medieval & #earlymodern...
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In the new year I’m going to publish a history of the last 5 years of building @transkribus.bsky.social as an AI cooperative: shared ownership, shared resources, all profit reinvested into infrastructure. It turns out we can build a better tech world together, but that takes work & community.
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 18, 2024 at 7:43 PM
In the new year I’m going to publish a history of the last 5 years of building @transkribus.bsky.social as an AI cooperative: shared ownership, shared resources, all profit reinvested into infrastructure. It turns out we can build a better tech world together, but that takes work & community.
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We face a similar challenge in all courses that have a coding component. On the one hand, we need to critically revise learning objectives when LLMs can code so well. On the other, redeveloping all assessments has huge labor costs! I’ve been losing sleep over this.
January 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
We face a similar challenge in all courses that have a coding component. On the one hand, we need to critically revise learning objectives when LLMs can code so well. On the other, redeveloping all assessments has huge labor costs! I’ve been losing sleep over this.
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things that remain difficult and require independent thought even in a world with LMs. “Fine-tune two models: one on all the books George Eliot read, the other on that list minus Darwin. Ask them both to interpret these passages of Middlemarch, and discuss the differences” &c. +
January 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
things that remain difficult and require independent thought even in a world with LMs. “Fine-tune two models: one on all the books George Eliot read, the other on that list minus Darwin. Ask them both to interpret these passages of Middlemarch, and discuss the differences” &c. +
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Today I'm launching #liiive: a new IIIF viewer that puts real-time collaboration front and center. View, annotate, and discuss together as if you're in the same room. Just paste a manifest URL and go! liiive.now 🎄 #DigitalHumanities #IIIF #DH #ArtHistory #Museums
liiive.now
December 23, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Today I'm launching #liiive: a new IIIF viewer that puts real-time collaboration front and center. View, annotate, and discuss together as if you're in the same room. Just paste a manifest URL and go! liiive.now 🎄 #DigitalHumanities #IIIF #DH #ArtHistory #Museums
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So excited to be able to announce this before putting 2024's work to bed: @celj.bsky.social has been awarded a $555,000 grant from the @mellonfoundation.bsky.social to assess and re-imagine peer review practices in humanities publishing. Absolutely stoked to be part of this incredible team.
Mellon Project — Council of Editors of Learned Journals
www.celj.org
December 23, 2024 at 5:52 PM
So excited to be able to announce this before putting 2024's work to bed: @celj.bsky.social has been awarded a $555,000 grant from the @mellonfoundation.bsky.social to assess and re-imagine peer review practices in humanities publishing. Absolutely stoked to be part of this incredible team.
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The Programming Historian in English has announced its CFP for lessons to be considered for publication in 2025. Please see the Call on the website: https://buff.ly/3OZwCsP. If you have any questions, you can reach out to Managing Director, Alex Wermer-Colan, at english@programminghistorian.org.
Call for Proposals (English edition)
The English edition of Programming Historian seeks proposals for new original lessons or translations to be considered for publication in 2025. Subm...
buff.ly
December 20, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers
1. Spinoza
1. Spinoza
December 19, 2024 at 12:05 PM
a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers
1. Spinoza
1. Spinoza
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The #MSUGlobalDH Symposium Program is live & registration is open! Join us for this *free* event, run virtually and in person.
Loads to explore in the program, including a full book of abstracts. msuglobaldh.org/schedule/
Register using Oxford Abstracts at register.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73423
Loads to explore in the program, including a full book of abstracts. msuglobaldh.org/schedule/
Register using Oxford Abstracts at register.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73423
December 19, 2024 at 9:05 PM
The #MSUGlobalDH Symposium Program is live & registration is open! Join us for this *free* event, run virtually and in person.
Loads to explore in the program, including a full book of abstracts. msuglobaldh.org/schedule/
Register using Oxford Abstracts at register.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73423
Loads to explore in the program, including a full book of abstracts. msuglobaldh.org/schedule/
Register using Oxford Abstracts at register.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73423
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A delight to contribute to this open access edited volume on digital film history! Check out our essay on distant viewing amatuer film with Tim van der Heijden and Taylor Arnold: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
December 19, 2024 at 10:02 AM
A delight to contribute to this open access edited volume on digital film history! Check out our essay on distant viewing amatuer film with Tim van der Heijden and Taylor Arnold: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
