Miller Prosser
@millerprosser.bsky.social
Director of the Online Publication Service of the University of Chicago, Co-Director of the Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory. Interested in scholarly digital publishing, data modeling for humanities research, textual studies, ancient languages
Apropos of something…
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Wag the Dog (1997) ⭐ 7.1 | Comedy, Drama
1h 37m | R
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September 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Apropos of something…
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Srsly considering executing my courses this year in the mode of Taskmaster. Each quarter starts with a prize task and winner takes all during the final. Yes?
August 31, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Srsly considering executing my courses this year in the mode of Taskmaster. Each quarter starts with a prize task and winner takes all during the final. Yes?
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My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...
Lost in Extraterrestrial Translation
The University celebrates the success of area studies alumni, all the while erasing the programs that made those careers possible.
chicagomaroon.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...
I’m committed to getting this book draft in on time, no matter how long it takes me.
August 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I’m committed to getting this book draft in on time, no matter how long it takes me.
Technologist Miller Prosser sees a future where students expand creativity and critical thinking by reading and writing, all without a single subscription to a faulty techbro app.
Technologist Victor Riparbelli sees a future where students interact with AI avatars rather than read and write. We ask teachers and kids what they think and how they're using AI right now.
Will AI avatars eventually teach our kids?
Technologist Victor Riparbelli sees a future where students interact with AI avatars rather than read and write. We ask teachers and kids what they think and how they're using AI right now.
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August 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Technologist Miller Prosser sees a future where students expand creativity and critical thinking by reading and writing, all without a single subscription to a faulty techbro app.
It’s just some limited firing, you know, for the profitz
a man is standing in a room with the words `` i hope your firings go really well '' written on the screen .
Alt: a man is standing in a room with the words `` i hope your firings go really well '' written on the screen .
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August 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It’s just some limited firing, you know, for the profitz
“…no LLM is ever going to morph into a truly superintelligent agent because intelligence isn’t actually in its DNA.”
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My advice to Sam Altman: read Jacques Derrida | The Observer
The bold claims made about the new version of ChatGPT are yet more big tech hyperbole
observer.co.uk
August 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“…no LLM is ever going to morph into a truly superintelligent agent because intelligence isn’t actually in its DNA.”
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
It is helpful to remember that AI/LLMs do not think and many do not remember what they previously responded. (Yes, yes, I know you can train them to build on training...). As educators are increasingly being asked (some required) to use AI in the classroom, consider the following. 🧵
August 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It is helpful to remember that AI/LLMs do not think and many do not remember what they previously responded. (Yes, yes, I know you can train them to build on training...). As educators are increasingly being asked (some required) to use AI in the classroom, consider the following. 🧵
The Wire is overrated have a good weekend no follow up questions at this time 💨
August 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The Wire is overrated have a good weekend no follow up questions at this time 💨
Pardon me while I take a semihemidemisemiquaver rest to gather my thoughts. Whew, ok...
June 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Pardon me while I take a semihemidemisemiquaver rest to gather my thoughts. Whew, ok...
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Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope
May 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope
Just emptied Trash on my MacBook for the first time in a long time. Removed over 800k items. 🗑️
April 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Just emptied Trash on my MacBook for the first time in a long time. Removed over 800k items. 🗑️
Hello world! I posted again via the API.
April 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Hello world! I posted again via the API.
Hello world! I posted this via the API.
April 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Hello world! I posted this via the API.
I honestly can’t tell if this is gaslighting, which I guess makes it good gaslighting www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Movement Needs High Art, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Can Help
Gutting the federal arts and humanities agencies is a mistake.
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April 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I honestly can’t tell if this is gaslighting, which I guess makes it good gaslighting www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...
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Exciting PhD Opportunity! Come join @memsunikent.bsky.social for a CHASE-funded collaborative doctoral award with Westminster Abbey to investigate the manuscript fragments held in the Abbey’s Archives. Learn more at the link below, deadline to apply 17 Feb 2025 📜🎉
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News - Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies - Research at Kent
research.kent.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Exciting PhD Opportunity! Come join @memsunikent.bsky.social for a CHASE-funded collaborative doctoral award with Westminster Abbey to investigate the manuscript fragments held in the Abbey’s Archives. Learn more at the link below, deadline to apply 17 Feb 2025 📜🎉
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
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Data is never ‘collected’, it is only *generated*.
This isn’t merely a pedantic semantic gripe; by misrepresenting ‘data’ as something that exists in nature & has only to be scooped up, evasion of accountability for data harms has already begun
Data doesn’t exist until someone constructs it
This isn’t merely a pedantic semantic gripe; by misrepresenting ‘data’ as something that exists in nature & has only to be scooped up, evasion of accountability for data harms has already begun
Data doesn’t exist until someone constructs it
November 27, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Data is never ‘collected’, it is only *generated*.
This isn’t merely a pedantic semantic gripe; by misrepresenting ‘data’ as something that exists in nature & has only to be scooped up, evasion of accountability for data harms has already begun
Data doesn’t exist until someone constructs it
This isn’t merely a pedantic semantic gripe; by misrepresenting ‘data’ as something that exists in nature & has only to be scooped up, evasion of accountability for data harms has already begun
Data doesn’t exist until someone constructs it
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The question we're most often asked, as indexers, is 'Can't a computer do that?' Well, no. In a recent blog post we asked a panel of expert indexers how they respond to this question when it inevitably comes up
Ask the Indexers: can’t a computer do that?
This is the first in a series of blog posts that ask a panel of experienced indexers questions about indexing practice and life as an indexer. These will be appearing regularly over the next few…
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November 28, 2024 at 11:00 AM
The question we're most often asked, as indexers, is 'Can't a computer do that?' Well, no. In a recent blog post we asked a panel of expert indexers how they respond to this question when it inevitably comes up
It's grad school application season which means writing and reading recommendation letters. I realize the following is restating the obvious and probably preaching to the choir, but wow academia's current approach to recommendation is such a flawed system.
November 27, 2024 at 3:57 PM
It's grad school application season which means writing and reading recommendation letters. I realize the following is restating the obvious and probably preaching to the choir, but wow academia's current approach to recommendation is such a flawed system.
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The 3rd annual Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) will offer a day of workshops and talks on DH tools and methods especially for pre-modernists. Come join us on March 19, 2025 in Cambridge and Boston, MA! Sessions at the Houghton Library and McMullen Museum! docs.google.com/document/d/e...
November 26, 2024 at 10:56 AM
The 3rd annual Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) will offer a day of workshops and talks on DH tools and methods especially for pre-modernists. Come join us on March 19, 2025 in Cambridge and Boston, MA! Sessions at the Houghton Library and McMullen Museum! docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Love this! I had a similar reaction when studying cuneiform tablets. You mean I can pick it up? But it’s 3000 years old!
Archival research will always amaze me. You mean I can ask for a document from the 1800s, and they’ll just hand it to me?!
November 26, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Love this! I had a similar reaction when studying cuneiform tablets. You mean I can pick it up? But it’s 3000 years old!
Brushing up on histories and implementations of peer review. It should come as no surprise, people have strong opinions on the topic. 🔥
November 25, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Brushing up on histories and implementations of peer review. It should come as no surprise, people have strong opinions on the topic. 🔥
I don’t know why the phrase “one more sleep until…” creeps me out but here we are.
November 22, 2024 at 11:08 PM
I don’t know why the phrase “one more sleep until…” creeps me out but here we are.
It’s lovely walking past City Hall on a Friday afternoon and seeing the newlyweds posing for photos. All walks, young adult to elder, sometimes just a couple sometimes a big group. Always lots of smiles and great clothes.
November 22, 2024 at 10:00 PM
It’s lovely walking past City Hall on a Friday afternoon and seeing the newlyweds posing for photos. All walks, young adult to elder, sometimes just a couple sometimes a big group. Always lots of smiles and great clothes.