Camilla Holm Soelseth
@supercamilla.bsky.social
Kulturingeniør, informasjonsflanør, jungeltelegrafist, medieøkolog og (digital) humaniora-entusiast. Gift med @sortulv.bsky.social
Researcher and Destroyer in the (digital) humanities. PhD in Library and Information Science.
Academic hedge witch.
Researcher and Destroyer in the (digital) humanities. PhD in Library and Information Science.
Academic hedge witch.
Pinned
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I remember someone criticizing my dissertation for not having _enough_ quantitative methods* for a dissertation in DH and I was like "I thought the whole point of DH was to use it when it was _meaningful_ for the project"
*In itself a term borrowed from social sciences.
*In itself a term borrowed from social sciences.
Oh, but by DH you meant only quantitative work? I direct you to The Discourse ca. 2012. DH does not only mean computation. It never has. In fact, it was the people who rejected this assertion way back then who left the field 5/
miriamposner.com/blog/some-th...
miriamposner.com/blog/some-th...
Some things to think about before you exhort everyone to code – Miriam Posner
miriamposner.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I remember someone criticizing my dissertation for not having _enough_ quantitative methods* for a dissertation in DH and I was like "I thought the whole point of DH was to use it when it was _meaningful_ for the project"
*In itself a term borrowed from social sciences.
*In itself a term borrowed from social sciences.
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Oh, but by DH you meant only quantitative work? I direct you to The Discourse ca. 2012. DH does not only mean computation. It never has. In fact, it was the people who rejected this assertion way back then who left the field 5/
miriamposner.com/blog/some-th...
miriamposner.com/blog/some-th...
Some things to think about before you exhort everyone to code – Miriam Posner
miriamposner.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Oh, but by DH you meant only quantitative work? I direct you to The Discourse ca. 2012. DH does not only mean computation. It never has. In fact, it was the people who rejected this assertion way back then who left the field 5/
miriamposner.com/blog/some-th...
miriamposner.com/blog/some-th...
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Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation finds. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Scoop by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/students-are...
Scoop by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/students-are...
February 17, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation finds. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Scoop by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/students-are...
Scoop by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/students-are...
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This research is bad & you should feel bad. Even if word association is a good proxy for human creativity (which I find dubious, but for the sake of argument, you can have it) the notion that it's also a proxy for creativity in a *word transforming machine* is absurd! www.utoronto.ca/news/ai-more...
AI more creative than most – but not all – humans: Study
Large language models like ChatGPT-4 score higher in creativity than the average person but trail highly creative individuals by a significant margin, according to a new study co-authored by Jay Olson...
www.utoronto.ca
February 17, 2026 at 5:53 PM
This research is bad & you should feel bad. Even if word association is a good proxy for human creativity (which I find dubious, but for the sake of argument, you can have it) the notion that it's also a proxy for creativity in a *word transforming machine* is absurd! www.utoronto.ca/news/ai-more...
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"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence."
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
February 17, 2026 at 2:59 PM
"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence."
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
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Data labeling is notoriously brutal and underpaid work. Workers sometimes earn as little as a few dollars a day, work under algorithmic management, and, because they’re sometimes trying to train AI what not to do or show, they are often shown graphic, violent, or sexual content for hours at a time.
What It’s Like to Be a Data Labeler Training AI
YouTube video by 404 Media
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Data labeling is notoriously brutal and underpaid work. Workers sometimes earn as little as a few dollars a day, work under algorithmic management, and, because they’re sometimes trying to train AI what not to do or show, they are often shown graphic, violent, or sexual content for hours at a time.
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Jeg prøver å mase på alle våre IT-kollegaer i UH-sektoren om å join the dark side (onprem), men unnskyldingen (ofte med god grunn), er at det er veldig få som har stor økonomi til å lønne en like stor IT-avdeling som f.eks UiO, UiB og NTNU. Løsningen ligger jo seff i en nasjonal sky. Men.. forts.
February 17, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Jeg prøver å mase på alle våre IT-kollegaer i UH-sektoren om å join the dark side (onprem), men unnskyldingen (ofte med god grunn), er at det er veldig få som har stor økonomi til å lønne en like stor IT-avdeling som f.eks UiO, UiB og NTNU. Løsningen ligger jo seff i en nasjonal sky. Men.. forts.
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jau, filer og programvare er heller ikke så vanskelig å raskt migrere hjem om man må. den store elefanten i rommet er avhengigheten til Microsoft-skyen, spesifikt MS365, der finnes det ingen reelle alternativ på kort sikt. så og si alle, både offentlige og private er i samme båt.
February 17, 2026 at 2:44 PM
jau, filer og programvare er heller ikke så vanskelig å raskt migrere hjem om man må. den store elefanten i rommet er avhengigheten til Microsoft-skyen, spesifikt MS365, der finnes det ingen reelle alternativ på kort sikt. så og si alle, både offentlige og private er i samme båt.
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I got an email from a federal Liberal leadership candidate.
The subject line was: "Afraid * Peur"
In Gmail, I clicked the summarize button to see a summary.
Here's the main body of the email, the summary it gave, AND a longer summary that I asked it to give.
Wonderful job Gemini. 🤦
The subject line was: "Afraid * Peur"
In Gmail, I clicked the summarize button to see a summary.
Here's the main body of the email, the summary it gave, AND a longer summary that I asked it to give.
Wonderful job Gemini. 🤦
February 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I got an email from a federal Liberal leadership candidate.
The subject line was: "Afraid * Peur"
In Gmail, I clicked the summarize button to see a summary.
Here's the main body of the email, the summary it gave, AND a longer summary that I asked it to give.
Wonderful job Gemini. 🤦
The subject line was: "Afraid * Peur"
In Gmail, I clicked the summarize button to see a summary.
Here's the main body of the email, the summary it gave, AND a longer summary that I asked it to give.
Wonderful job Gemini. 🤦
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Akademia bruker mer og mer infrastruktur fra techgigantene, men samtidig så bygges det også egen. Det skal ikke være nødvendig å kjøre forskningsprogramvare utenfor sektoren?
docs.nrec.no
docs.nrec.no
NREC – End User Documentation — documentation
docs.nrec.no
February 17, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Akademia bruker mer og mer infrastruktur fra techgigantene, men samtidig så bygges det også egen. Det skal ikke være nødvendig å kjøre forskningsprogramvare utenfor sektoren?
docs.nrec.no
docs.nrec.no
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Minner om dette kule, fantastiske opplegget som du burde komme på neste uke! 🩷🩷🩷
Jeg skal snakke om trans og litteratur på Rosa Bøker den 26. Februar klokken 19:00! Ta en tur innom, vel!
February 17, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Minner om dette kule, fantastiske opplegget som du burde komme på neste uke! 🩷🩷🩷
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BREAKING: Canada are accusing Sweden of improperly filming the hog line during last night's game in order to "run to the officials" with cheating claims. There's video going around that appears to have been shot from the stands. Swedish team denies any involvement. nationalpost.com/sports/olymp...
Canadian curlers accuse Sweden of improper filming in Olympic venue after cheating allegations
Canada fires back after video emerges of alleged hog line violation
nationalpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:55 PM
BREAKING: Canada are accusing Sweden of improperly filming the hog line during last night's game in order to "run to the officials" with cheating claims. There's video going around that appears to have been shot from the stands. Swedish team denies any involvement. nationalpost.com/sports/olymp...
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Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
February 16, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
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I’m here for Canada curling cheating drama and Norwegian biathlon cheating drama and I am especially here for them being two completely different kinds of cheating dramas
February 16, 2026 at 3:20 AM
I’m here for Canada curling cheating drama and Norwegian biathlon cheating drama and I am especially here for them being two completely different kinds of cheating dramas
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“As some universities and journals adopt AI-text detectors, they risk creating a feedback loop that constrains how authors express themselves. I have seen colleagues intentionally simplify their grammar or break down complex rhetorical structures to avoid arousing algorithmic suspicion.”
Why artificial intelligence detectors could penalize academic writing - Nature Human Behaviour
Writing produced using artificial intelligence is becoming more common in academia, which has prompted institutions to look for ways to detect it. Bo Hu warns that an overreliance on fixed linguistic ...
www.nature.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:35 PM
“As some universities and journals adopt AI-text detectors, they risk creating a feedback loop that constrains how authors express themselves. I have seen colleagues intentionally simplify their grammar or break down complex rhetorical structures to avoid arousing algorithmic suspicion.”
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This is what AI scrapers are doing to our platform. Our database capacity is just being ruined every time they initiate a fresh scrape and our tech team has to scramble, taking radical measures, to keep the platform up.
February 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
This is what AI scrapers are doing to our platform. Our database capacity is just being ruined every time they initiate a fresh scrape and our tech team has to scramble, taking radical measures, to keep the platform up.
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mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
February 16, 2026 at 7:37 AM
mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
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Thanks @dmimno.bsky.social for sending me the article—I was trying to square the pull quotes I was seeing with my own sense that DH methods are everywhere these days—being used by many folks who would not identify with a field called "DH"—but I don’t think that take clashes with what Wilkens writes
Matt Wilkens on the end of DH:
"The steady state of DH, which I once believed was to be fully
subsumed within the humanities, now looks much more likely to involve the diffusion of humanistic knowledge into disciplines...constitutively quantitative and computational" academic.oup.com/alh/article-...
"The steady state of DH, which I once believed was to be fully
subsumed within the humanities, now looks much more likely to involve the diffusion of humanistic knowledge into disciplines...constitutively quantitative and computational" academic.oup.com/alh/article-...
What Instagram and Community Colleges Tell Us about the Future of Digital Humanities
Abstract. Two recent volumes illustrate the resilience of established critical approaches in literary studies, the potential use value of quantitative and
academic.oup.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Thanks @dmimno.bsky.social for sending me the article—I was trying to square the pull quotes I was seeing with my own sense that DH methods are everywhere these days—being used by many folks who would not identify with a field called "DH"—but I don’t think that take clashes with what Wilkens writes
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Important article that emphasizes proliferation + fragmentation of hist datasets & the need to
- rethink our responsibility+commitment as scholars to FAIR principles
- reeducate in dig skills for locating/navigating/using hist datasets
- build communities around data to naturalize reuse/engagement
- rethink our responsibility+commitment as scholars to FAIR principles
- reeducate in dig skills for locating/navigating/using hist datasets
- build communities around data to naturalize reuse/engagement
@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.
Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Important article that emphasizes proliferation + fragmentation of hist datasets & the need to
- rethink our responsibility+commitment as scholars to FAIR principles
- reeducate in dig skills for locating/navigating/using hist datasets
- build communities around data to naturalize reuse/engagement
- rethink our responsibility+commitment as scholars to FAIR principles
- reeducate in dig skills for locating/navigating/using hist datasets
- build communities around data to naturalize reuse/engagement
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Really good position paper on a legitimately urgent question - how humanists/historians can actively participate in, shape & organize the explosion of digitized historical data across commercial + public contexts. We can't sit this one out. The call for standards & norms is esp well taken + crucial.
@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.
Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Really good position paper on a legitimately urgent question - how humanists/historians can actively participate in, shape & organize the explosion of digitized historical data across commercial + public contexts. We can't sit this one out. The call for standards & norms is esp well taken + crucial.
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@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.
Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:33 PM
@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.
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HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
February 16, 2026 at 6:32 PM
HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
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Teksten "kan inneholde feil" midt på forsiden til en av institusjonene som har ansvar for å sørge for et pålitelig grunnfjell av informasjon som fundament for det norske demokratiet gir meg frysninger.
February 16, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Teksten "kan inneholde feil" midt på forsiden til en av institusjonene som har ansvar for å sørge for et pålitelig grunnfjell av informasjon som fundament for det norske demokratiet gir meg frysninger.
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Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity?
The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.
The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.
"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them"
Direct quote.
Direct quote.
February 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity?
The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.
The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.