Tyler Shoemaker
@t-shoemaker.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Critical AI
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my interview for the Digital Theory Lab with Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social at the Remarque Institute
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZpH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZpH...
Karen Hao on Empire of AI
YouTube video by Remarque NYU
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
my interview for the Digital Theory Lab with Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social at the Remarque Institute
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZpH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZpH...
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The virtual exhibition on critical AI “Debox” opens today at Public Access Memories as part of The Wrong Biennale! Very excited to be included amount so many other great artists (list to be commented).
#netart #publicaccessmemories #thewrong #criticalai
#netart #publicaccessmemories #thewrong #criticalai
November 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The virtual exhibition on critical AI “Debox” opens today at Public Access Memories as part of The Wrong Biennale! Very excited to be included amount so many other great artists (list to be commented).
#netart #publicaccessmemories #thewrong #criticalai
#netart #publicaccessmemories #thewrong #criticalai
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Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society - School of Information Science
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
The ablations will continue until the Unicode homoglyphs appear
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The ablations will continue until the Unicode homoglyphs appear
The ablations will continue until morale improves
November 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The ablations will continue until morale improves
Excellent stuff always comes out of this
For those interested in computer generated writing, including but going way beyond #AI, check out #NaNoGenMo, starting today it’s 13th yearly tradition of dedicating the month of November to writing code that generates a 50k word novel and sharing it and the code on GitHub. nanogenmo.github.io
#elit
#elit
NaNoGenMo
nanogenmo.github.io
November 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Excellent stuff always comes out of this
Don't tell the book historians, but subword tokenization is first and foremost a typographic procedure
The project that started my whitespace obsession... #EMNLP2025
While we've all been worrying about tokenizers, lurking in the background has been the preprocessing *before* tokenization. Poems break standard HTML-to-text linearization systems, and we find that multimodal models aren't a solution.
While we've all been worrying about tokenizers, lurking in the background has been the preprocessing *before* tokenization. Poems break standard HTML-to-text linearization systems, and we find that multimodal models aren't a solution.
October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Don't tell the book historians, but subword tokenization is first and foremost a typographic procedure
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👁 Now available online: this year's Research Workshop publication Everything is a Matter of Distance
Responding to the 2025 festival theme, the journal explores how space is produced and shaped within contemporary techno-culture.
A cooperation with Aarhus University
► aprja.net
Responding to the 2025 festival theme, the journal explores how space is produced and shaped within contemporary techno-culture.
A cooperation with Aarhus University
► aprja.net
A Peer-Reviewed Journal About
APRJA is an open-access research journal that addresses the ever-shifting thematic frameworks of digital culture.
aprja.net
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
👁 Now available online: this year's Research Workshop publication Everything is a Matter of Distance
Responding to the 2025 festival theme, the journal explores how space is produced and shaped within contemporary techno-culture.
A cooperation with Aarhus University
► aprja.net
Responding to the 2025 festival theme, the journal explores how space is produced and shaped within contemporary techno-culture.
A cooperation with Aarhus University
► aprja.net
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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
This is from some NLP paper fyi
October 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is from some NLP paper fyi
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Is there an aggregator for chat templates somewhere? I’m looking for models that use optional <think> tags. Or is the strategy just “full-text search for hybrid reasoning on Hugging Face”?
October 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Is there an aggregator for chat templates somewhere? I’m looking for models that use optional <think> tags. Or is the strategy just “full-text search for hybrid reasoning on Hugging Face”?
Is there an aggregator for chat templates somewhere? I’m looking for models that use optional <think> tags. Or is the strategy just “full-text search for hybrid reasoning on Hugging Face”?
October 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Is there an aggregator for chat templates somewhere? I’m looking for models that use optional <think> tags. Or is the strategy just “full-text search for hybrid reasoning on Hugging Face”?
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CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions.
Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
CFP for A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
www.shawnaross.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions.
Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
I’m ready to extract so many actionable insights from unstructured data
i think this is the crux of DeepSeek-OCR
1. (text) context gets longer as you add words
2. long context is quadratic
3. you can fit lots of words in an image
4. if you use encoder-decoder architecture, your tokens encode a ton of information
1. (text) context gets longer as you add words
2. long context is quadratic
3. you can fit lots of words in an image
4. if you use encoder-decoder architecture, your tokens encode a ton of information
October 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I’m ready to extract so many actionable insights from unstructured data
I am once again begging vLLM to expose prefill token logits
October 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I am once again begging vLLM to expose prefill token logits
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I am recruiting PhD students to start in 2026! If you are interested in robustness, training dynamics, interpretability for scientific understanding, or the science of LLM analysis you should apply. BU is building a huge LLM analysis/interp group and you’ll be joining at the ground floor.
Life update: I'm starting as faculty at Boston University
@bucds.bsky.social in 2026! BU has SCHEMES for LM interpretability & analysis, I couldn't be more pumped to join a burgeoning supergroup w/ @najoung.bsky.social @amuuueller.bsky.social. Looking for my first students, so apply and reach out!
@bucds.bsky.social in 2026! BU has SCHEMES for LM interpretability & analysis, I couldn't be more pumped to join a burgeoning supergroup w/ @najoung.bsky.social @amuuueller.bsky.social. Looking for my first students, so apply and reach out!
October 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I am recruiting PhD students to start in 2026! If you are interested in robustness, training dynamics, interpretability for scientific understanding, or the science of LLM analysis you should apply. BU is building a huge LLM analysis/interp group and you’ll be joining at the ground floor.
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The news is out and so is the Call for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
Thanks to an army of translators it's available in a bunch of languages 🎉
Questions: contact @zachwhalen.bsky.social @videlais.bsky.social Dani Spinosa or me @ elcvol5 [at] gmail [dot] com
Please share widely!
Thanks to an army of translators it's available in a bunch of languages 🎉
Questions: contact @zachwhalen.bsky.social @videlais.bsky.social Dani Spinosa or me @ elcvol5 [at] gmail [dot] com
Please share widely!
Call for Submissions
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
collection.eliterature.org
October 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The news is out and so is the Call for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
Thanks to an army of translators it's available in a bunch of languages 🎉
Questions: contact @zachwhalen.bsky.social @videlais.bsky.social Dani Spinosa or me @ elcvol5 [at] gmail [dot] com
Please share widely!
Thanks to an army of translators it's available in a bunch of languages 🎉
Questions: contact @zachwhalen.bsky.social @videlais.bsky.social Dani Spinosa or me @ elcvol5 [at] gmail [dot] com
Please share widely!
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Two big changes to the precarity of the AI industry in the last year: (1) more and more companies are turning to debt to finance AI capex (see Meta, xAI, Oracle), and (2) OpenAI's flurry of deals in the past month are tying major companies to the fate of this startup
October 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Two big changes to the precarity of the AI industry in the last year: (1) more and more companies are turning to debt to finance AI capex (see Meta, xAI, Oracle), and (2) OpenAI's flurry of deals in the past month are tying major companies to the fate of this startup
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𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗣𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦 | 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗜
The call for papers for the next issue of the 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘮 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘐 is now open!
We welcome 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 that cross disciplinary boundaries between humanities and technical sciences.
Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The call for papers for the next issue of the 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘮 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘐 is now open!
We welcome 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 that cross disciplinary boundaries between humanities and technical sciences.
Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗣𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦 | 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗜
The call for papers for the next issue of the 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘮 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘐 is now open!
We welcome 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 that cross disciplinary boundaries between humanities and technical sciences.
Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The call for papers for the next issue of the 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘮 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘐 is now open!
We welcome 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 that cross disciplinary boundaries between humanities and technical sciences.
Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
cf. interpretability work
Congrats everyone, we finally improved the regex.
October 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
cf. interpretability work
Zoom in: “We thought a lot about how to represent a token, and so we chose a token”
October 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Zoom in: “We thought a lot about how to represent a token, and so we chose a token”
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The full announcement is now up at this link. Deadline still 31 Oct.
Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.
Pre-announcement: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US
AHRC and SSHRC plan to invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial int...
www.ukri.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The full announcement is now up at this link. Deadline still 31 Oct.
Wanted: a theory of synthetic media
bc of AI's statistical cultural regurgitation, its rightful critiques are doomed to mimic old media theory, just with "but even more now" attached to the end
October 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Wanted: a theory of synthetic media
The first in a (jam-packed) series of events on cultural AI this year from DTL. More incoming!
The Digital Theory Lab at NYU will host Karen Hao for a book talk on Empire of AI on Monday, October 13, RSVP required here:
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
Karen Hao on Empire of AI
Lunch will be available for the event. Event begins at 12pm
as.nyu.edu
October 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The first in a (jam-packed) series of events on cultural AI this year from DTL. More incoming!
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My friend @rorshock.bsky.social — CS undergrad, humanities PhD — has built a brilliant prgm @ The New School: “Code as a Liberal Art” nurtures “code + computational thinking as tools for critical + creative inquiry,” and as forces for 👍+👎 social change. His spring Software Engineering class looks 🌟
Software Engineering Applications
Software Engineering Applications Spring 2026 Code as a Liberal Art, Eugene Lang College, The New School This course gives students the opportunity to experience and critically examine the software e...
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October 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My friend @rorshock.bsky.social — CS undergrad, humanities PhD — has built a brilliant prgm @ The New School: “Code as a Liberal Art” nurtures “code + computational thinking as tools for critical + creative inquiry,” and as forces for 👍+👎 social change. His spring Software Engineering class looks 🌟