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Ben Miller
@transitive.bsky.social
digital humanities, natural language processing, writing for games and social change. associate teaching professor, writing and quantitative theory and methods at Emory University. #AIAInetwork
Spending the day at the Africana DH convening at Clark Atlanta U. Panel 1, @drtonieshat.bsky.social, Rico Chapman, Marco Robinson, Charmayne Patterson.

So much good work on sharing local knowledge, imagining the future, and why Starbucks needed to think before putting a slogan on a coffee cup.
April 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Went to the capital w/ my son and a few 100 others to #StandUpForScience. He talked to two geneticists, a political scientist, an academic union rep, a mass spec salesperson w/ a PhD, a computational biologist, a behavioral biologist, and a person in a frog costume who 100% studies frogs in a lab.
March 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This year's tourney is a bit different: which Division I NCAA team will be the first to go under b/c their institution and students are casualties of Republicans' assault on Federal government and higher ed? Grand Canyon w/ $1.3b in debt? Clemson and their $194m athletics program? Place your bets!
March 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
What's merit?

From Quincy Stewart Thomas' chapter, "Swimming Upstream," in Zuberi and Bonilla-Silva's White Logic, White Methods.
February 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Here, for me, Yanis Varoufakis' Technofuedalism, appreciating his anchoring of genuine leftism and a visceral antipathy to social media platforms in family connectedness. Maybe that book's elsewhere and absence might be there, in the familial.
February 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Great day with @abeba.bsky.social on "Generative AI: sparks of AGI or glorified copy-paste machines?".
With the receipts, an argument on the errors, values, and problems of LLMs, plus, let the record show that AGI, “[is] always three years away.” (ca 1958, 1970, 2023).
January 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM