Borges was predictive in a way that nobody quite expected.
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!
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?
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...
In this case it's because it's pretty damned funny.
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?
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.
It's a terrific book, glad you'll be getting a bigger audience for it!
Someone had to test the domain verification.