… and then build a collection randomly from that corpus. (Or maybe you are using such a corpus to create the variability you want for annotation purposes?)

I'm just asking questions because I'm curious, so please forgive me if some of them are obvious! I don't know what you are hoping to annotate, but is it safe to assume you are introducing randomness through the prompt? I confess my first thought was cull short story collections from Gutenberg … 1/2

Curious about the goal here! Maybe I can help. I've done this with legends and conspiracy theories.

Not fair. You need to wait until I retire and come take workshops with you.

Same here! I tried to call in a prescription because I knew I was going to be traveling. I was too early. I waited 48 hours and I had entered that magical sweet spot. Next time I'm in, I am going to ask how early is too early!

Yes, this.

If you want bleak, check out the punkrot genre of TTRPGs. There is such amazing creativity on display there (in the bleakest of ways).

To add a bit, and perhaps echo @dmimno.bsky.social, one thing to consider is the fuzzy boundaries of DH vis-a-vis computational social science(s) and information science(s). To some degree this resolves in the DIFI model of field as "who goes to the DH conference reliably."

If this involves an old-fashioned printing press, color me green with envy. One of my dumbest moments was turning down the offer of a tabletop press. (To be fair I was in grad school and about to move and couldn't imagine loading it into my Toyota along with everything else.) Sigh.

All the "crazy" (racist, homophobic) uncles were dealt with in the usual way—uncomfortable silence, not invited to all events—until the internet made it possible for them to affirm each other.

Is it wrong that my first thought was: "Where is this code? I must try to blow up the planet."

As someone who came into the profession as it was beginning to shrinking, I now realize that all the economic and demographic study was so much theater to undermine and dismantle higher education. The shift to MBA-oriented administrators only sped things up.

I should add that I understand you can add an author by first adding an editor and then changing them to an author, but, wow, that seems like unnecessary steps.