Hugh Cayless
@hcayless.bsky.social
DH Dev at Duke University Libraries.
Likes: Ancient / multilingual DH, Digital Preservation, TEI, Libraries, my brilliant colleagues, MUFC, UNC basketball, running.
Dislikes: talking to computers (does swear at them a *lot* though), mean people.
Likes: Ancient / multilingual DH, Digital Preservation, TEI, Libraries, my brilliant colleagues, MUFC, UNC basketball, running.
Dislikes: talking to computers (does swear at them a *lot* though), mean people.
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Calling the #AncientSky, #Prosopography and #TEIFriday crowds: Please join us for a workshop on SNAP:DRGN secondary recommendations for TEI XML next week (general intro on Monday, working session on Wednesday)
Info and booking: linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...
Info and booking: linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...
Linked Pasts 11 programme – Linked Pasts Symposium
linkedpasts.hcommons.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Calling the #AncientSky, #Prosopography and #TEIFriday crowds: Please join us for a workshop on SNAP:DRGN secondary recommendations for TEI XML next week (general intro on Monday, working session on Wednesday)
Info and booking: linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...
Info and booking: linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...
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Dan's post is great, as usual! It's exciting to move to full-page models that allow us to engage with the text and avoid mucking around with image processing. But we don't need to pronounce a eulogy on paleographers yet. The War Department and Jane Austen examples are likely known to the LM. 1/
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Dan's post is great, as usual! It's exciting to move to full-page models that allow us to engage with the text and avoid mucking around with image processing. But we don't need to pronounce a eulogy on paleographers yet. The War Department and Jane Austen examples are likely known to the LM. 1/
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The student-run Daily Tar Heel is doing stellar reporting on deep struggles over #UNC's School of Civic Life and Leadership, created by the legislature, here's the latest from reporter Aidan Lockhart: www.dailytarheel.com/article/inve...
'Dictatorial powers': SCiLL dean ignored vote of the School's advisory board
New evidence obtained by The Daily Tar Heel gives weight to claims made by professors who resigned from the School of Civic Life and Leadership.
www.dailytarheel.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The student-run Daily Tar Heel is doing stellar reporting on deep struggles over #UNC's School of Civic Life and Leadership, created by the legislature, here's the latest from reporter Aidan Lockhart: www.dailytarheel.com/article/inve...
Donations for families in need in Durham urgently requested:
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Funds urgently needed for food to neighbors on Saturday
Email from Durham Public School Strong This holiday week ensure our neighbors have food on the table. Dear neighbors, Our community has shown an incredible mobilization of love, care and protection
myemail.constantcontact.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Donations for families in need in Durham urgently requested:
myemail.constantcontact.com/Funds-urgent...
myemail.constantcontact.com/Funds-urgent...
We all finally had the talk a few years back and concluded that everyone hates turkey. This year, for the second time in a row, we will be doing Piepallooza.
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
We all finally had the talk a few years back and concluded that everyone hates turkey. This year, for the second time in a row, we will be doing Piepallooza.
At intermission at the Jordan HS production of Water for Elephants. It’s brilliant. The kids are all right. cejordantheatreandchorus.ludus.com
JHS Theatre and Dance Boosters
cejordantheatreandchorus.ludus.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
At intermission at the Jordan HS production of Water for Elephants. It’s brilliant. The kids are all right. cejordantheatreandchorus.ludus.com
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📣The next EpiDoc drop-in office hour sessions will take place on:
📅Wednesday, November 19th
🕰️16:00 GMT = 17:00 CET = 18:00 EET = 11:00 EST
📅Wednesday, December 10th
🕰️16:00 GMT = 17:00 CET = 18:00 EET = 11:00 EST
📲Details and registration form:
github.com/EpiDoc/Tutor...
📅Wednesday, November 19th
🕰️16:00 GMT = 17:00 CET = 18:00 EET = 11:00 EST
📅Wednesday, December 10th
🕰️16:00 GMT = 17:00 CET = 18:00 EET = 11:00 EST
📲Details and registration form:
github.com/EpiDoc/Tutor...
EpiDoc office hour
Online Syllabus for EpiDoc training. Contribute to EpiDoc/Tutorials development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is the fatal flaw of US society, that some people, like some corporations, are “too big to fail.”
this country will not be healed until genuinely rich and powerful people start experiencing genuinely severe consequences for their evil actions. these people will only respond to force.
And no, don’t tell me it’s somehow impossible - the U.S. is by no means exceptional in this regard, either.
And no, don’t tell me it’s somehow impossible - the U.S. is by no means exceptional in this regard, either.
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is the fatal flaw of US society, that some people, like some corporations, are “too big to fail.”
Trying very hard to work while I’m too angry to concentrate. My daughter’s HS seems to have failed to send in her materials in time for her early action applications to be accepted. Just fuming. 😡
October 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Trying very hard to work while I’m too angry to concentrate. My daughter’s HS seems to have failed to send in her materials in time for her early action applications to be accepted. Just fuming. 😡
You know, I used to think it was a bit much how some people talk about their pets.
October 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
You know, I used to think it was a bit much how some people talk about their pets.
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
Wife at grocery store says it looks like it did in 2020 right before the lockdown, so that’s ominous.
October 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Wife at grocery store says it looks like it did in 2020 right before the lockdown, so that’s ominous.
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Should a volunteer use #AI to help them transcribe pages for a #crowdsourcing project? That question got me thinking about why, exactly, my answer is "no" and what kinds of purposes different transcriptions may be used for.
content.fromthepage.com/can-voluntee...
content.fromthepage.com/can-voluntee...
Is That Transcription Really Human? - FromThePage Blog
Last month, someone asked this question on the Genealogy and AI Facebook group:If volunteers use AI to transcribe documents, is that OK? I have strong opinions, but want to explain them. First off, th...
content.fromthepage.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Should a volunteer use #AI to help them transcribe pages for a #crowdsourcing project? That question got me thinking about why, exactly, my answer is "no" and what kinds of purposes different transcriptions may be used for.
content.fromthepage.com/can-voluntee...
content.fromthepage.com/can-voluntee...
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#EpiDoc Office Hour: Wednesday Oct 22 at 17:00 BST / 12:00 EDT. github.com/EpiDoc/Tutor...
Feel free to drop in at the open zoom link if you want to know more about EpiDoc, have specific questions, need technical help, are thinking about a project or just want to hear what other people are up to.
Feel free to drop in at the open zoom link if you want to know more about EpiDoc, have specific questions, need technical help, are thinking about a project or just want to hear what other people are up to.
EpiDoc office hour
Online Syllabus for EpiDoc training. Contribute to EpiDoc/Tutorials development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#EpiDoc Office Hour: Wednesday Oct 22 at 17:00 BST / 12:00 EDT. github.com/EpiDoc/Tutor...
Feel free to drop in at the open zoom link if you want to know more about EpiDoc, have specific questions, need technical help, are thinking about a project or just want to hear what other people are up to.
Feel free to drop in at the open zoom link if you want to know more about EpiDoc, have specific questions, need technical help, are thinking about a project or just want to hear what other people are up to.
Covid and flu vaccines on board. Up yours RFK!
October 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Covid and flu vaccines on board. Up yours RFK!
Been saying this for years to anyone who’d listen. Excess capacity == resilience and agility. Not the opposite.
The centrist democratic position between 2006-2016ish was all “lean orgs!” And I kept saying, “oh yes sure make it easier for stable institutions to break.” We need to own how much our bleating about bureaucratic efficiencies created an easier-to-capture university.
Everyone wants to streamline bureaucracy, but maybe we'd get better results by making it *harder* for university admins to chase fads. Imagine the money we'd save with a mandatory cooling-off period before launching a "Center for Blockchain Studies" or dumping millions into the latest edtech toy.
October 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Been saying this for years to anyone who’d listen. Excess capacity == resilience and agility. Not the opposite.
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
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A really interesting piece about the indebtedness of the University of Chicago and how it is destroying its academic reputation - killing the humanities subjects - so it can finance prestigious buildings by top architects.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities?
The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects.
www.thenation.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A really interesting piece about the indebtedness of the University of Chicago and how it is destroying its academic reputation - killing the humanities subjects - so it can finance prestigious buildings by top architects.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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⚡ The #TEI2025 Book of Abstracts has just been published, edited by Joanna Hałaczkiewicz (@jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social).
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
@teiconsortium.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
@teiconsortium.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
October 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
⚡ The #TEI2025 Book of Abstracts has just been published, edited by Joanna Hałaczkiewicz (@jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social).
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
@teiconsortium.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
@teiconsortium.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
In other words, the shadow docket lets them have their cake and eat it too. They can give Trump whatever he wants and still be able to rule against a Democratic president in any similar circumstance.
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
October 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
In other words, the shadow docket lets them have their cake and eat it too. They can give Trump whatever he wants and still be able to rule against a Democratic president in any similar circumstance.
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Hey, Roman military historians! Are "tutela", "armicustos", and "duplicarius" offices/roles/assignments/ranks on Roman navy ships? I'm thinking so, but see what you think .... (via this open-web thread on my Fedi account)
"tutela" of a trireme? in the Roman Classis Misenensis?
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
#classics #ancientRome #romanMilitary #romanNavy #ancientHistory #epigraphy #Latin
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
#classics #ancientRome #romanMilitary #romanNavy #ancientHistory #epigraphy #Latin
Tom Elliott (@[email protected])
OK Roman military historians, can you help me with "tutela III Asclepio" from that looted funerary inscription for a sailor in the Misenum fleet that turned up recently in New Orleans (EDCS-21100456 =...
hcommons.social
October 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Hey, Roman military historians! Are "tutela", "armicustos", and "duplicarius" offices/roles/assignments/ranks on Roman navy ships? I'm thinking so, but see what you think .... (via this open-web thread on my Fedi account)
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Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚
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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.
www.dailytarheel.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚
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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
So Fed Ex weirdly delivered my package to a random address and sent me a shot of someone else’s front door as proof of delivery. 🤷🏻♂️
October 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
So Fed Ex weirdly delivered my package to a random address and sent me a shot of someone else’s front door as proof of delivery. 🤷🏻♂️
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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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I had a judge presiding over one of my cases ask me if I had been a defendant in one of his cases because he recognized me. I was like nope. I'm counsel. I was dressed impeccably in a vintage Calvin Klein suit that I'd paid way too much money for. It happened in 2005ish and I still think about it.
September 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I had a judge presiding over one of my cases ask me if I had been a defendant in one of his cases because he recognized me. I was like nope. I'm counsel. I was dressed impeccably in a vintage Calvin Klein suit that I'd paid way too much money for. It happened in 2005ish and I still think about it.