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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 37m

Og ja! Vi har utstilling med spillbare poesispill og egen masterclass der du kan møte opp og lage ditt helt eget minispill fra ingen ringere enn Jordan Magnuson (har du spilt Minecraft eller Papers please burde du vite hvem han er!)

Gleder meg 🥰

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 37m

Sykt fett å vite at helgen blir sjåka full av gode spillarrangementer som del av OFM2025, med generøs støtte fra NFI 💚👾💚

Velkommen til det jeg håper blir starten på en skikkelig kul spillfestival i de kommende årene! ❤️‍🔥

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 1h

Min ble kjøpt i 2020 og den gang kjøpte jeg tilgang for et engangsbeløp. Kan ikke se jeg har blitt trukket noe siden.

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Anne Sigrid Refsum @annesigrid.bsky.social · 12h

Gi meg deres beste re:markable hacks!

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 1h

Tags gjør det superlett å finne tilbake til ting. Bruk tags både på sitater og hele artikler så trenger du bare huske tema for å finne igjen et sitat.

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 4h

Ah, ja godt spørsmål!

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 5h

Til humaniorafolket, både i og utenfor arkiv,bibliotek og museum:

"du skal bruke din kunnskap til å forme et samfunn med rom for mangfold, kunst og opplevelser, og hvor vi bruker teknologien til det beste for samfunnet"

Som overingeniør og fra humaniora stiller jeg meg bak dette!

Tre råd til deg som studerer humaniora

Yrket ditt er ikke forhåndsdefinert, men du får forhåpentligvis jobbe med det du brenner for hvis du gjør noen lure grep.

www.universitetsavisa.no

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 6h

Can't believe I once again have to write this when commenting an article about this topic:

People really need to read the Palestinian speculative fiction novella "Cyrano de AI" by Karl El-Koura from @soniasulaiman.bsky.social edited anthology Thyme Travellers before reading this article.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

Today in luxury surveillance.

“They’ll [ai wearables] be embedded in what we already wear: glasses, jewellery, clothing. Fashion will play a critical role in normalizing them.”

Style Meets Surveillance as Agentic AI Redefines Wearables

Are we seeing the rise of smarter accessories—or sleepwalking into a future where data privacy is out of style?

threemagazine.com

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Rivo @rivouk.bsky.social · 2d

Amusing, but also infuriating article, with how it effectively follows up the tales of how these people fail at life relying on their digital Cyrano de Bergeracs, with "AI is amazing, all these instances of it were hopelessly dishonest, and ended in failure, but it does work, please keep using it "

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Dan Cohen @dancohen.org · 4d

New issue of my newsletter: “The Library’s New Entryway” — An interface that combines the advantages of the traditional index with the power of LLMs is the path forward newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

The Library’s New Entryway

An interface that combines the advantages of the traditional index with the power of LLMs is the path forward

newsletter.dancohen.org

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Audun Rodem @arodem.bsky.social · 4d

Gøy å se @tbatbadottno.bsky.social og Håkon Hoffart fortsette å spikke videre på gumbo-formatet "anmeldelse-essay-mimremoro-historieleksjon".

(Selv om det hoppes bukk over håndholdtspillene, og selv om Returns og Tropical Freeze får ufortjent hard medfart)

www.tbatba.no/donkey-kong-...

Donkey Kong Bananza: Frihet på boks - Kulturplattformen TBA

ANMELDELSE/ ESSAY: Kan en figur bli fri fra firmaets lenker, og bare blomstre? Ja, viser Donkey Kong Bananza. Men hvis du betaler ekstra, kan du bli fanget i et kapitalistisk mareritt.

www.tbatba.no

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 10h

(On my way to #DHKO2025 in Hamar! Looking forward to two days of presentations, workshops, and seeing colleagues/friends. I'm reading both the 'Guide to Terminology' (in Norwegian; we're establishing a term group for #DigitalHumanities) and R.F. Kuang's Babel, coincidentally a complementary pair.)

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 11h

På vei til #DHKO2025 i Hamar! Gleder med til to dager med presentasjoner, verksteder, og gode kolleger. Leser litt i Termlosen (vi skal etablere en termgruppe for digital humaniora på norsk) og litt i Babel av R.F. Kuang. En tilfeldig kombo, men de passer ganske bra sammen. @dhko.bsky.social

Utsikt fra en togsete. Utenfor vinduet, noen furutrær viser at toget er i farta. På bordet foran meg er PC-en med Termlosen på skjermen.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 7h

He's one of those writers who sounds good until he hits a subject you know anything about and then you're like "oh, he's just full of shit."

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14h

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 10h

Found this on mailing list. Still hard to visualize what's going on

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 12h

De betaler ikke, men TikTok gir penger til kontoer som lager innhold hvis de er registrert som en viss type konto og produserer innhold med viss terskel for metrics over tid.

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 15h

Perfect! Thank you and @matti-lamela.bsky.social for this text! This will be read (and most probably) used in a future article I am working on 🎉💚

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 1d

The 30th anniversary anthology PDF is now published online:

Read "What is Digital Humanities and what's it Doing in the Department of ALM (Archive, Library, Museum)? by myself and Matti La Mela here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

uu.diva-portal.org

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 12d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17h

I note some opposition to this proposition, ie "But surely [author] holds up better than every other!" and "there is no perceptible variation in literary opinion based on disparate life experiences," and in both cases: oh, honey. Okay.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21h

The answer to "how does [author] hold up?" is always "for whom?" Bester holds up fine to me, but I'm a 56-year-old white dude who has a vested interest in the genre. My take on his hold-uppedness will be different than, say, a 15-year-old BIPOC girl approaching science fiction for the first time.

Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 21h

How does Alfred Bester hold up?

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Alice @starinthetitle.bsky.social · 16h

You actually don’t have to read books if you don’t enjoy it, reading is a hobby for fun, it isn’t inherently a morally superior way to absorb information/stories and you are not automatically a better person for doing it 🤷‍♀️

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

“Keep out of the way of officers, ‘cos they ain’t healthy. That’s what you learn in the army. The enemy dun’t really want to fight you, ‘cos the enemy is mostly blokes like you who want to go home with all their bits still on. But officers’ll get you killed.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

The late (or at least severely delayed) Bergholt Stuttley Johnson was generally recognized as the worst inventor in the world, yet in a very specialized sense. Merely bad inventors made things that failed to operate. He wasn’t among these small fry. Any fool could make something that did absolutely nothing when you pressed the button. He scorned such fumble-fingered amateurs. Everything he built worked. It just didn’t do what it said on the box. If you wanted a small ground-to-air missile, you asked Johnson to design an ornamental fountain.

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 1d

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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