Nanna B Thylstrup
@nannathylstrup.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
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My new book will be out in early December 2025 via
@mitpress.bsky.social
Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
@mitpress.bsky.social
Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My new book will be out in early December 2025 via
@mitpress.bsky.social
Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
@mitpress.bsky.social
Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
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We’re now watching the murder of space sciences in America. Unless someone can stop this, this is the beginning of the end.
The brain drain will accelerate until there’s nothing left to stay for. 🧪🔭
The brain drain will accelerate until there’s nothing left to stay for. 🧪🔭
Most of the Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Campus is planned to be demolished by March 2026, if not sooner.
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
We’re now watching the murder of space sciences in America. Unless someone can stop this, this is the beginning of the end.
The brain drain will accelerate until there’s nothing left to stay for. 🧪🔭
The brain drain will accelerate until there’s nothing left to stay for. 🧪🔭
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"Finance and computer science BAs have higher unemployment rates than do Art History graduates; coding is a path to Chipotle."
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
www.compactmag.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"Finance and computer science BAs have higher unemployment rates than do Art History graduates; coding is a path to Chipotle."
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
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This is why we can’t have nice things
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This is why we can’t have nice things
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
@brewster.kahle.org and @murchstudio.com from @internetarchive.eu visited DATA LOSS (@erc.europa.eu) and The Danish Royal Library in September. Now a great interview has come out of it w @marcelfard.bsky.social and @moltke.bsky.social! Listen here [the interview is in UK]: www.dr.dk/lyd/special-...
Prompt | Browser, Claude-skældud og netakiv | Lyt som podcast | DR LYD
Lyt som podcast her på DR LYD. OpenAI har lanceret sin egen browser - og med den kommer løftet om, at ChatGPT kan blive centrum for hele vores online-liv. Men den kan også blive et mareridt for dit pr...
www.dr.dk
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
@brewster.kahle.org and @murchstudio.com from @internetarchive.eu visited DATA LOSS (@erc.europa.eu) and The Danish Royal Library in September. Now a great interview has come out of it w @marcelfard.bsky.social and @moltke.bsky.social! Listen here [the interview is in UK]: www.dr.dk/lyd/special-...
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I really do want to see the lawsuits from people who were assured by Google that its AI platform is all you need to learn how to do major renovations on your house, explicitly including the plumbing and electrics.
October 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I really do want to see the lawsuits from people who were assured by Google that its AI platform is all you need to learn how to do major renovations on your house, explicitly including the plumbing and electrics.
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One of the q's on the new citizenship test is incorrect. 1920 is not when "all women" got the right to vote. The 19th A prohibited sex-based disenfranchisement, but didn't guarantee voting. Many women, esp. women of color, remained disenfranchised. #WeTheMen
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
October 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
One of the q's on the new citizenship test is incorrect. 1920 is not when "all women" got the right to vote. The 19th A prohibited sex-based disenfranchisement, but didn't guarantee voting. Many women, esp. women of color, remained disenfranchised. #WeTheMen
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
First delve, now emdashes and parallelisms 🤌🏻
listen, I didn't stop listening to Nirvana when they started selling the smiley face shirts at Urban Outfitters; I'm not gonna stop using em-dashes just because chatGPT uses them
October 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
First delve, now emdashes and parallelisms 🤌🏻
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We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
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In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
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Good thing the government hasn’t come to rely on AWS for tons of cloud and computing needs!!
Another day when the assimilation of the internet into a tiny number of hands becomes obvious. AWS (Amazon web services) goes down and takes half the internet with it!
October 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Good thing the government hasn’t come to rely on AWS for tons of cloud and computing needs!!
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we've got you covered, assignments, short readings, syllabus language, o captain speeches, the works! against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
we've got you covered, assignments, short readings, syllabus language, o captain speeches, the works! against-a-i.com
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See @vanessathorpe.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social — a devastating story:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
October 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
See @vanessathorpe.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social — a devastating story:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
October 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
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the thing with Wikipedia is that its human editors are way faster at and more diligent in reporting celebrity deaths than even Google's A.I.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
the thing with Wikipedia is that its human editors are way faster at and more diligent in reporting celebrity deaths than even Google's A.I.
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It’s gothic nostalgia, isn’t it? All these shows about humanities profs with wood-paneled offices, fame, and enough autonomy to act like a diva. We’re doing it for the same reason cozy 1930s mysteries involved vicarages and viscounts with decaying mansions.
The Age of Unhinged-Professor Art
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It’s gothic nostalgia, isn’t it? All these shows about humanities profs with wood-paneled offices, fame, and enough autonomy to act like a diva. We’re doing it for the same reason cozy 1930s mysteries involved vicarages and viscounts with decaying mansions.
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Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 essay in defense of public libraries.
October 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 essay in defense of public libraries.
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New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.
Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating Generative AI as a Cultural Technology
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<p>Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat cul
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August 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.
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"This used to be the best job I’ve ever had, the best environment I’ve ever had, the best culture I’ve ever had—and they fucking ruined it.
I will never ever forget how much they ruined it."
I will never ever forget how much they ruined it."
The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
www.wired.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"This used to be the best job I’ve ever had, the best environment I’ve ever had, the best culture I’ve ever had—and they fucking ruined it.
I will never ever forget how much they ruined it."
I will never ever forget how much they ruined it."
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And then there's this classic:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbS...
Librarians Remake Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage' Video, Win Internet
YouTube video by Graham Steel
www.youtube.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
And then there's this classic:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbS...
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Very glad to take part on "Humanities in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil" seminar series organised by @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and @fabianlferrari.bsky.social.
📆 Follow the thing AI: 20/11/2025: 15:30 - 16:30
@oii.ox.ac.uk
cdh.uu.nl/event/cdh-on...
📆 Follow the thing AI: 20/11/2025: 15:30 - 16:30
@oii.ox.ac.uk
cdh.uu.nl/event/cdh-on...
October 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Very glad to take part on "Humanities in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil" seminar series organised by @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and @fabianlferrari.bsky.social.
📆 Follow the thing AI: 20/11/2025: 15:30 - 16:30
@oii.ox.ac.uk
cdh.uu.nl/event/cdh-on...
📆 Follow the thing AI: 20/11/2025: 15:30 - 16:30
@oii.ox.ac.uk
cdh.uu.nl/event/cdh-on...
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An absolutely terrifying SCOOP from @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @agreenberg.bsky.social revealing that everything from inflight browsing data to military communications are being beamed unencrypted from satellites all the time
www.wired.com/story/satell...
www.wired.com/story/satell...
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
An absolutely terrifying SCOOP from @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @agreenberg.bsky.social revealing that everything from inflight browsing data to military communications are being beamed unencrypted from satellites all the time
www.wired.com/story/satell...
www.wired.com/story/satell...
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This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.
I’m sure many of you might be interested.
#STS #HPS #HistSci
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
I’m sure many of you might be interested.
#STS #HPS #HistSci
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
www.lse.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.
I’m sure many of you might be interested.
#STS #HPS #HistSci
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
I’m sure many of you might be interested.
#STS #HPS #HistSci
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
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I use archival images for my posts so that I don't have to 1) pay for good ones or 2) steal them or 3) use shitty AI ones, which means I do a lot of searches in the National Archives index for things like "FBI" which sometimes yield unusable but awesome images like this. Check out the hat!
October 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I use archival images for my posts so that I don't have to 1) pay for good ones or 2) steal them or 3) use shitty AI ones, which means I do a lot of searches in the National Archives index for things like "FBI" which sometimes yield unusable but awesome images like this. Check out the hat!