Kick off your morning at #WHA2025 with some spicy takes on Generative AI and history from Sean Fraga, Rachel Birch, @jasonheppler.org, @regan008.bsky.social, and myself (8:15-9:45am, Santo Domingo Room)

What a memory @scottbot.bsky.social! The post office department occasionally published transit time for mail between major cities, that’s the closest I can think of. Ex. This one from 1882. Happy to dig up the other ones I have if you want to email me!

A lot of LGBTQ scholarship has focused on: a) gay men, and b) big cities. By mapping 5,000+ locations across 26 issues from 1975-1989, we showed something different: a much more expansive and dispersed geography of lesbian readers that tilted towards rural areas and mid-sized cities

Can’t imagine what you’re talking about here

Taking a break from grading on #DayofDH2024 to redesign our Data Advocacy For All website. I know zero Javascript/CSS, but used a combo of Claude + Github Copilot to get a fully functioning, clickable button interface for filtering and searching resources.

The state-level mortality figures are worth a look, although I'd caution that many individual states have very, very wide confidence intervals. From their full paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Imagine that!

New post, “A Large Language Model Walks Into an Archive…” explores how historians can use off-the-shelf LLMs to work with primary sources 📜 cblevins.github.io/posts/llm-pr...