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Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.bsky.social |
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he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—suspected mechanical paragraphist—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—PI for Viral Texts and Skeuomorph Press
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Ryan Cordell
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After they brought the jet bridge the pilot announced that “had we landed one minute later” they would have turned us away. Apparently their backup plan was to go to Hannover. When he said this the flight applauded but all I could think was “wait, WHAT?!?”
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Ryan Cordell
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That was a wild flight. Left Heathrow way late. Plane had electrical issues & had to be jumpstarted. Then as we’re flying the pilot announces that Berlin airport closes at midnight, but he’s “flying fast as he can” to make it. We land at 11:58. They let us off & through customs. Phew!
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Ryan Cordell
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My flight was delayed, but this means I am in a Heathrow airport restaurant with a bunch of Germany fans who just erupted when Germany tied the match in the last minutes of regular time. As delays go it’s pretty delightful.
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Ryan Cordell
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When I sat for my “Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton” tattoo in March, we ran out of time to finish the brilliant “xray” section J had planned—today I popped in to finish that piece & to extend the wreckage on the front—why not?—so the front & inside of the Moby Dick arm would be the same length
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bri watson 🐝
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as one of the organizers of CAIS 2024 we chose to do this too! We started with Grant Campbell, who announced his retirement and ended with Maggie McDonald, a PhD candidate at UoT. It was really fun.
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Ellen Forget
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For those sticking around #SHARP2024 tomorrow, I'll be presenting at 9am. My paper is about my project training an OCR model to read embossed braille. There are lots of fun complications involved in this project that I'm excited to share with you!
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Ryan Cordell
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I love that #SHARP2024 gave one of its two conference keynotes to a graduate student researcher—for one, it gets fresher perspectives wider attention at the event & hopefully provokes new ideas for all but two, it usefully disrupts the typical conference hierarchies—more conferences should do this
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Ryan Cordell
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It is true that the #SHARP2024 volunteers are all wearing red shirts, but I know enough Star Trek that calling them the "red shirt team" makes me nervous
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Ryan Cordell
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At the paper writer’s request I pulled down that post. They were a bit chagrined to get this info
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Ryan Cordell
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interesting—his role is so prominently featured here still authors.ai/about/
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Ryan Cordell
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It is Election Day in the UK & a strange fiery orb has appeared in the sky. I don’t know what it portends but please take care my British friends
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Ryan Cordell
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Jeff you might be interested in this lecture I gave last month that specifically thinks about LLMs in the context of the scissors & paste journalism we study in Viral Texts ryancordell.org/research/sci...
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Ryan Cordell
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My mind is a little broken by the reality of llama.ttf, which @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social discussed in his position paper for our #SHARP2024 roundtable "AI in the Communications Circuit." As described at fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/ "llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model" 🤯
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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Oh, good, here is @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social's talk on llama.ttf for all to see.
bsky.app/profile/mkir...
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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And please do read Martin Eve's cautionary remarks about AI and a potential a backlash to open culture, quoted: #sharp2024
eve.gd/2024/06/30/a...
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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Watched a provocative #sharp2024 session on AI & book history. @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social gave a tour de force inspired by an LLM inside a font, llama.ttf. I'm eager to talk with @ryancordell.bsky.social re his research on newspapers copying each other. 1/
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Ryan Cordell
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ENVY-INDUCING THREAD
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Ryan Cordell
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In this morning’s #SHARP2024 session on piracy, Michael Knies is describing methods C19 pirates used to copy fonts sold by other foundries, including methods using electrotype. What I’m wondering, of course, is whether we might use similar methods today to reproduce lost typefaces?
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Ryan Cordell
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Maybe, by the last conference I attend before retirement, senior faculty I don't know will stop assuming I'm a grad student
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Ryan Cordell
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So are we still going forward with the whole “Independence Day” thing or are we using the time to practice our curtsies & beseechings & stuff?
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Ryan Cordell
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We all knew this was the decision this court would make. We did know it. But reading it, and really sitting with the consequences it will have—that’s a whole other thing. I guess we have kings again?
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Ryan Cordell
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Berta Ferrer's #sharp2024 talk about "hyper tangible novels" introduces me to *Woman’s World*, a novel "collaged entirely from fragments of text clipped from the pages of vintage women’s magazines"—Ferrer didn’t draw this parallel, but it’s impossible for me to not compare this to an LLM
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Ryan Cordell
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Galey points to this edition of bpNichol’s *First Screening* as the closest thing we have to a scholarly edition of a born-digital work—& encourages us to think more broadly about the "scholarly edition" so as to include a carefully-curated site such as this www.vispo.com/bp/introduct... #SHARP2024
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Ryan Cordell
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Fascinated by Alan Galey’s provocation at #SHARP2024 — why, despite decades of discussions about digital scholarly editions, are there no scholarly editions of born-digital texts? We increasingly teach & take born-digital literature seriously, but we don’t create scholarly editions of it (yet)
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Ryan Cordell
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Eagerly awaiting the Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents, of course, are not above the law but Republican presidents, of course, are in fact above the law because Thomas Jefferson never saw an elephant or some shit
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Ryan Cordell
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Landed at Heathrow & making my way toward #SHARP2024. Realized on the plane that while I’ve been to a few tiny academic gatherings the past few years, this is likely my first real conference since MLA 2020 in Seattle—wild. See some of y’all soon!
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Ryan Cordell
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working in an information sciences school has made me more, not less, sensitive to this dynamic, where teams of data scientists or computer scientists (or in this case, economists) assume they can gut-check the historical/humanities contexts of their data because DATA! This could be so much better
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Ryan Cordell
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Some larger urban dailies had moved to a more modern front page by the late 1870s, but the majority of papers had not—page one was for poems, fiction, less-urgent matter "going the rounds," and sometimes ads—some wire content would be there but I bet they’d find more inside the fold
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Ryan Cordell
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This is a novel approach we will learn from at Viral Texts, though as always I wish this team had a historian collaborator who could have nudged them to realize that only using front-page articles presumes papers in 1878 worked like papers in 1978, which they didn’t—breaking news was usually on pg 2
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southpaw
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The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.
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Ryan Cordell
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I feel more confident navigating in German every day I’m here (& each time I visit) but some things still wrack me with anxiety. Trying to describe how I want my hair cut (yes, even with pictures on hand) is one of those
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David Mimno
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I’m really impressed by llama3 in ollama for Humanities applications. Thinking of adding a prompt collection to aiforhumanists.com, would people contribute?
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Ryan Cordell
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Have been using llama3 for classification & for identifying research-relevant segments within longer text. Would contribute!
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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜
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:dons librarian hat: Digital preservation is more expensive than preserving paper; it takes more staff, active attention, and consistent computing resources. Libraries have discussed “digital dark age” since the 1990s. Corp archives often 1st to go b/c suits haven’t figured out how to profit.
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Glen Layne-Worthey
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A 2023 interview w/Yrs Truly is the newest episode of ADHO's "CoreDH" podcast:
m.soundcloud.com/adhorg/cored...
Thx to Alex Núñez for a nice conversation, expert editing & production, and above all persistence! A nice capstone to many memorable years on the ADHO Exec. #DH #alt-ac @ach.bsky.social
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Brett Bobley
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Just a periodic reminder: If you are interested in a grant to do research on the impact of AI on people, society, and the arts, check out the Dangers & Opportunities of Technology program. Next deadline is Sept. 12, 2024. www.neh.gov/program/dang...
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Quinn Dombrowski
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We've got a #DataSittersClub all about going on your first archival visit, written by Cadence Cordell! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc17.h...
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Ryan Cordell
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The sun is so bright in Berlin today I keep trying to put on my sunglasses only to realize I’m already wearing them
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Ryan Cordell
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Excellent! One advantage of coming from Germany is no jet lag
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Ryan Cordell
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Yes!
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Ryan Cordell
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Can’t wait to see you!
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Ryan Cordell
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A reminder: we’re hosting a hack-a-thon at the Ada Lovelace Center for DH at the Freie Universität in Berlin July 8-9, focused on the reuse/layering/interoperability of DH datasets—we have a nice group already but would be happy to have a few more! www.ada.fu-berlin.de/events/avh-h...
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Ryan Cordell
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it may have been…? I’m so excited you’ll be there!
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Anil Dash
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Read this quick before the op-ed side of the house directly undermines the idea of a factual comparison of candidates’ policies.
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Ryan Cordell
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it couldn’t have happened to a shittier person
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Ryan Cordell
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I am really looking forward to hanging out with other book historians, bibliographers, & related fellow nerds at SHARP next week—who else will be there? research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
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Ryan Cordell
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GPT-5 will reply to every query by suggesting that we form a subcommittee to investigate further and make recommendations
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Chris Forster
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I wrote about my recent experience working with HathiTrust data to try to categorize about 1,000 three-volume, Victorian novels. There's mystery, intrigue, and some odd visualizations.
cforster.com/2024/06/data...
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Ryan Cordell
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When the kiddo mentions that it might be cool, actually, to go watch the game with about 30,000 other Berliners at the mile-long fan zone by the Brandenburg Gate, you brave the crowds and go, and even buy him an overpriced scarf. Wish Germany had won rather than tied but it was still a blast.
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Jer Thorp
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A few days into writing a report on machine learning and cultural data for the Library of Congress, I came back with a question:
"Can it be a comic?"
Two years and many iterations later, here's "A Search for the Heart":
libraryofcongress.github.io/a-search-for...
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