Andreas Wagner
@anwagnerdreas.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
I am #DigitalHumanities Coordinator at Max Planck Institute for #LegalHistory and #LegalTheory (#mpilhlt) #Frankfurt
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It might become difficult to explain why AI is not a replacement for the Humboldt model. Here's the tl;dr: education is tied to *ongoing* research. Convincing the uneducated that the *ongoing* part is the key is a snooze...
and thus we approach Borges' City of Immortals...
and thus we approach Borges' City of Immortals...
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It might become difficult to explain why AI is not a replacement for the Humboldt model. Here's the tl;dr: education is tied to *ongoing* research. Convincing the uneducated that the *ongoing* part is the key is a snooze...
and thus we approach Borges' City of Immortals...
and thus we approach Borges' City of Immortals...
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This is really fun - @beetle_b ran a variant of my pelican riding a bicycle SVG test using POV-Ray instead and got terrible ray-traced pelicans out of a bunch of different models: https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Oct/pelican-on-a-bike-raytracer-edition/ and […]
Original post on fedi.simonwillison.net
fedi.simonwillison.net
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This is really fun - @beetle_b ran a variant of my pelican riding a bicycle SVG test using POV-Ray instead and got terrible ray-traced pelicans out of a bunch of different models: https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Oct/pelican-on-a-bike-raytracer-edition/ and […]
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Endspurt beim #crowdfunding für @riffreporter – dem genossenschaftlichen Medium freier Journalistinnen und Journalisten zu #klima, Biodiversität, Gesellschaft, Weltgeschehen, Technologie und mehr.
Journalismus von Mensch zu Mensch braucht Unterstützer*innen.
Noch 11 Tage, um von 31.451€ auf die […]
Journalismus von Mensch zu Mensch braucht Unterstützer*innen.
Noch 11 Tage, um von 31.451€ auf die […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Endspurt beim #crowdfunding für @riffreporter – dem genossenschaftlichen Medium freier Journalistinnen und Journalisten zu #klima, Biodiversität, Gesellschaft, Weltgeschehen, Technologie und mehr.
Journalismus von Mensch zu Mensch braucht Unterstützer*innen.
Noch 11 Tage, um von 31.451€ auf die […]
Journalismus von Mensch zu Mensch braucht Unterstützer*innen.
Noch 11 Tage, um von 31.451€ auf die […]
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Maybe this isn't your parent's capitalism?
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Maybe this isn't your parent's capitalism?
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Looking for recommendations: What's a good entry-level paper/article/chapter on social media algorithms?
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Looking for recommendations: What's a good entry-level paper/article/chapter on social media algorithms?
Reposted by Andreas Wagner
This week I have been digging around in the #internetarchive looking for digitised Arabic periodicals. With a bit of #rstats and far too many hours with #xslt and #tei/XML spent on identifying titles based on the very patchy metadata provided by uploaders, there are quite some exciting finds […]
Original post on digitalcourage.social
digitalcourage.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This week I have been digging around in the #internetarchive looking for digitised Arabic periodicals. With a bit of #rstats and far too many hours with #xslt and #tei/XML spent on identifying titles based on the very patchy metadata provided by uploaders, there are quite some exciting finds […]
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As someone who uses AI heavily, I don't lose sleep worrying about student usage. But I do lose sleep worrying that proprietary tools will outpace open ones and I'll be dependent on them. Or that I won't be able to keep up with the meta-cognitive burden of figuring out how to use all this! +
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
As someone who uses AI heavily, I don't lose sleep worrying about student usage. But I do lose sleep worrying that proprietary tools will outpace open ones and I'll be dependent on them. Or that I won't be able to keep up with the meta-cognitive burden of figuring out how to use all this! +
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I'm pretty sure more than half of my colleagues use AI. My Provost uses it.
I feel our discourse focuses on coursework, not b/c it's the main way AI will affect higher ed, but because that's where friction between AI adopters and resisters is most visible (plus, easy to complain about students).
I feel our discourse focuses on coursework, not b/c it's the main way AI will affect higher ed, but because that's where friction between AI adopters and resisters is most visible (plus, easy to complain about students).
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I'm pretty sure more than half of my colleagues use AI. My Provost uses it.
I feel our discourse focuses on coursework, not b/c it's the main way AI will affect higher ed, but because that's where friction between AI adopters and resisters is most visible (plus, easy to complain about students).
I feel our discourse focuses on coursework, not b/c it's the main way AI will affect higher ed, but because that's where friction between AI adopters and resisters is most visible (plus, easy to complain about students).
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What I liked about that speech was a) It was hopeful and forward-looking but also b) frankly angry about billionaires & corruption. Obama gave us (a) but this is a time in our history when you can't be honest without (b).
Also c) seeing Mira Nair and aloof wife on stage at the end.
Also c) seeing Mira Nair and aloof wife on stage at the end.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
What I liked about that speech was a) It was hopeful and forward-looking but also b) frankly angry about billionaires & corruption. Obama gave us (a) but this is a time in our history when you can't be honest without (b).
Also c) seeing Mira Nair and aloof wife on stage at the end.
Also c) seeing Mira Nair and aloof wife on stage at the end.
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Yay!! Just woke up to the news. Congrats, NYC !! What a day! ❤️🫶🏼
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Yay!! Just woke up to the news. Congrats, NYC !! What a day! ❤️🫶🏼
I'm at the AI and Law conference in Tübingen and have just heard a MARVELOUS keynote lecture by Sylvie Delacroix on preserving productive uncertainty in designing AI systems. It reminded me of (among other things) an idea brough up by @andreaskuczera at #Dhd2025 : How about allowing (or […]
Original post on hcommons.social
hcommons.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I'm at the AI and Law conference in Tübingen and have just heard a MARVELOUS keynote lecture by Sylvie Delacroix on preserving productive uncertainty in designing AI systems. It reminded me of (among other things) an idea brough up by @andreaskuczera at #Dhd2025 : How about allowing (or […]
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You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]
Original post on hcommons.social
hcommons.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]
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LibreOffice Base is a usability nightmare, Access and FileMaker are proprietary. I know of Heurist, but its UX is not exactly modern. NodeGoat is kind of nice, but there’s no generic instance to get started with. I recently encountered NocoDB, but I still have to make up my mind on that one […]
Original post on fedihum.org
fedihum.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
LibreOffice Base is a usability nightmare, Access and FileMaker are proprietary. I know of Heurist, but its UX is not exactly modern. NodeGoat is kind of nice, but there’s no generic instance to get started with. I recently encountered NocoDB, but I still have to make up my mind on that one […]
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Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.
If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.
www.chronicle.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
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Somehow feel compelled to add a picture of Kim Novak in front of San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge
October 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Somehow feel compelled to add a picture of Kim Novak in front of San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge
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The other problem is that interpretability papers belong to the same genre as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. When I read about Golden Gate Claude I don't feel *LLMs* have been demystified. I feel like Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo and start to wonder about my own mechanical obsessions.
Two answers:
- Anthropomorphization makes sense when dealing with written human-like characters, which is what LLMs generate
- We aren’t very deep into interpretability yet
x.com/pfau/status/...
- Anthropomorphization makes sense when dealing with written human-like characters, which is what LLMs generate
- We aren’t very deep into interpretability yet
x.com/pfau/status/...
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The other problem is that interpretability papers belong to the same genre as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. When I read about Golden Gate Claude I don't feel *LLMs* have been demystified. I feel like Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo and start to wonder about my own mechanical obsessions.
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#tainacan: With nearly 2,000 active installations and over 50,000 downloads, the project has moved beyond "Beta." Having been tested by thousands, Tainacan version 1.0.0 is now launched, marking the completion of the initial roadmap. The primary goal of providing a #freesoftware solution for […]
Original post on mato.social
mato.social
November 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
#tainacan: With nearly 2,000 active installations and over 50,000 downloads, the project has moved beyond "Beta." Having been tested by thousands, Tainacan version 1.0.0 is now launched, marking the completion of the initial roadmap. The primary goal of providing a #freesoftware solution for […]
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This week was packed with #metaphor related events. Three days of the #metaphorsofreligion conference of @sfb1475, then two very promising meetings with other metaphor projects – #crc1646 and #metanet – about future collaboration, and finally the initial publication of our dataset of metaphor […]
Original post on fedihum.org
fedihum.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This week was packed with #metaphor related events. Three days of the #metaphorsofreligion conference of @sfb1475, then two very promising meetings with other metaphor projects – #crc1646 and #metanet – about future collaboration, and finally the initial publication of our dataset of metaphor […]
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Nicely put @scalzi
Musk wants to castigate Wikipedia because he is launching a competing product and because, as Stephen Colbert once memorably put it, “facts have a liberal bias,” meaning that they often don’t fit into the (current) conservative viewpoint. Also, Musk is an asshole, which is […]
Musk wants to castigate Wikipedia because he is launching a competing product and because, as Stephen Colbert once memorably put it, “facts have a liberal bias,” meaning that they often don’t fit into the (current) conservative viewpoint. Also, Musk is an asshole, which is […]
Original post on mastodonsweden.se
mastodonsweden.se
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Nicely put @scalzi
Musk wants to castigate Wikipedia because he is launching a competing product and because, as Stephen Colbert once memorably put it, “facts have a liberal bias,” meaning that they often don’t fit into the (current) conservative viewpoint. Also, Musk is an asshole, which is […]
Musk wants to castigate Wikipedia because he is launching a competing product and because, as Stephen Colbert once memorably put it, “facts have a liberal bias,” meaning that they often don’t fit into the (current) conservative viewpoint. Also, Musk is an asshole, which is […]
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MiniMax M2 is the new "most intelligent" open weights model (according to Artificial Analysis) - the MIT licensed weights are just 230GB and it appears comparable to Sonnet 4, while priced closer to Gemini 2.5 Flash. Notes here, including a new LLM plugin […]
Original post on fedi.simonwillison.net
fedi.simonwillison.net
October 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
MiniMax M2 is the new "most intelligent" open weights model (according to Artificial Analysis) - the MIT licensed weights are just 230GB and it appears comparable to Sonnet 4, while priced closer to Gemini 2.5 Flash. Notes here, including a new LLM plugin […]
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Friends, I'm about to provide info about another legal proceeding regarding the Trump regime's force in Chicago, but first, an ask. If you get something out of what I write about law and litigation here, would you consider a $5 donation to the Mastodon for Hunger Relief fundraiser? I don't […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Friends, I'm about to provide info about another legal proceeding regarding the Trump regime's force in Chicago, but first, an ask. If you get something out of what I write about law and litigation here, would you consider a $5 donation to the Mastodon for Hunger Relief fundraiser? I don't […]
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As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
Reposted by Andreas Wagner
Reposted by Andreas Wagner
For anyone working in #DigitalHumanities, #spaCy is a powerful good old Python #NLP library for processing text: It can identify word types, base forms (lemmas), sentence structure (dependency parsing), recognize named entities (NER), etc.
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Spacy Analyzer - a Hugging Face Space by cstr
This application analyzes text to provide detailed morphological and syntactic information, including dependency parsing and named entity recognition, in multiple languages like German, English, Sp...
huggingface.co
October 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
For anyone working in #DigitalHumanities, #spaCy is a powerful good old Python #NLP library for processing text: It can identify word types, base forms (lemmas), sentence structure (dependency parsing), recognize named entities (NER), etc.
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In August, the #Trump admin sent #ucla a 27-page list of demands and settlement proposal, which UCLA wanted to keep confidential during its deliberations and negotiations. The UCLA Faculty Association sued to compel its disclosure, and the California Supreme Court just decided in favor of the […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
October 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM