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@ptrourke in all the other places. Software developer who likes words more than numbers, commits APIs & ETL. Recovering classics student. Work at a very large library, but these are my posts, not theirs. Mostly here to follow. he/him
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Pptrourke.bsky.social

Borges was predictive in a way that nobody quite expected.

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HFhannahfearn.bsky.social

I’m still quite new to Bluesky (only a couple of weeks) but my follow list and also people who follow me are both still disproportionately male. Please circulate among the women on here - and encourage more women to sign up. And let me know who I might still be missing so I can add them!

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Pptrourke.bsky.social

How much of that is just that the New York Times is one of the two or three dominant national print media outlets, and has a New York bias, which lends a New York bias to national media?

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DMsoundingline.bsky.social

If you think about it, "Fight For Your Right (to Party)" from License to Ill, the debut studio album by The Beastie Boys, COULD upon close reading be a retelling of the beginning of Beowulf, when the Scyldings are set upon by Grendel while partying. In this essay, I will...

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Pptrourke.bsky.social

In this case it's because it's pretty damned funny.

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BSbschmidt.bsky.social

Help me make a list for the good of the humanities. I'm trying to impress on some tech people how Digital Humanities, for such a tiny academic field, has a surprisingly large number of people making real contributions to AI/ML in the tech sector. What people have made that (DH -> AI) move? To where?

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BBbrettbobley.bsky.social

I know I've said this before, but some smart historian really needs to write a book about the DLI (Digital Library Initiative). It was a hugely influential grant program that launched not only Google, but, I'd argue, a lot of modern DH.

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Pptrourke.bsky.social

It's a terrific book, glad you'll be getting a bigger audience for it!

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Pptrourke.bsky.social

Someone had to test the domain verification.

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ptrourke
@ptrourke.bsky.social
@ptrourke in all the other places. Software developer who likes words more than numbers, commits APIs & ETL. Recovering classics student. Work at a very large library, but these are my posts, not theirs. Mostly here to follow. he/him
70 followers211 following147 posts