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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 6d

Perfect fit for your life, wifa

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Universidad de Granada @universidadgranada.bsky.social · 9d

💥 ¿Planazo en la Alhambra con entrada gratis? 🆓
Sí: #CulturALH. Trap, performance, literatura rebelde y cultura digital🔝

🎟️ Ya puedes reservar en la web del Patronato

🎫 ¡No te quedes sin la tuya! Consulta toda la info👇

https://canal.ugr.es/noticia/disponibles-entradas-gratuitas-para-cultur-alh/

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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 13d

Posting about this again because it’s too cool to just post once.

TRACEROUTE POEMS AT THE ALHAMBRA, what?!🔥🧯🥵

Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 15d

CULTUR_ALH va a ser el festival literario más hermoso del año (y bonus points porque @mariosantamaria.bsky.social y yo volvemos a recitarle poemas de amor a los cables del internet)

VENGAN. ES GRATIS. ES EN GRANADA. QUÉ MÁS SE LE PUEDE PEDIR A LA VIDA?

www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/pr...

Traceroutes Poems | Viaje creativo con Álex Saum y Mario Santamaría | cultur_ALH

Segundo viaje de Traceroutes Poems con Álex Saum Pascual y Mario Santamaría. Poesía digital y arte en CulturALH.

www.alhambra-patronato.es

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 13d

Book talk: join us to talk about Binding Media on Friday October 3 with the amazingest team of @apprecovery.bsky.social
RSVP for link!

A flier reading:
UNIVERSITY of HOUSTON ARTE PÚBLICO
2025 Fall Speaker series on Digital Humanities
The US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) Center serves as a venue for scholarship focused on the US Latino written legacy. USLDH provides a physical space for the development, support and training in digital humanities projects using Latino and Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage collections; promotes and fosters interdisciplinary scholarly work; and administers a communal virtual space to share knowledge and projects related to US Latino digital humanities.
To RSVP, please visit:
bit.ly /bindingmedia
"Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas"
PUBLIC LECTURE
Open to all
Friday, Oct. 3
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11:00am-12:0pm CT
Virtual
RSVP required
Far from signaling the "death of the book," digital technologies have enabled new literary forms that merge print and digital media. Binding Media explores these hybrid works across the Americas, showing how they challenge conventional literary, regional and linguistic boundaries.
While often marginalized due to technological and commercial constraints, these projects leave a rich legacy that illuminates cultural hybridization in the digital age.
Élika Ortega-Guzmán, PhD
Élika Ortega-Guzmán is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research focuses on the intersection of digital and print publishing, digital literature, cultural hybridity, digital humanities and multilingualism in academia. Ortega-Guzmán's work on these topics has appeared in venues such as ASAP Journal, PMLA, Hispanic Review, Debates in the Digital Humanities, EBR and others. She has also created literary bots, including Twitter bots dedicated to the work of Mexican writer and artist Ulises Carrión, which were featured in Antología LitELat Vol. 1 and have more recently been ported to Bluesky as @BotCarrión.
USLD!:
US LATINO DIGITAL HUMANITIES

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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 12d

Amor a la wikipedia forever and ever

The Verge @theverge.com · 12d

When governments have cowed the press and flooded social platforms with viral propaganda, Wikipedia has become the next target, and a more stubborn one.

Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 13d

Posting about this again because it’s too cool to just post once.

TRACEROUTE POEMS AT THE ALHAMBRA, what?!🔥🧯🥵

Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 15d

CULTUR_ALH va a ser el festival literario más hermoso del año (y bonus points porque @mariosantamaria.bsky.social y yo volvemos a recitarle poemas de amor a los cables del internet)

VENGAN. ES GRATIS. ES EN GRANADA. QUÉ MÁS SE LE PUEDE PEDIR A LA VIDA?

www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/pr...

Traceroutes Poems | Viaje creativo con Álex Saum y Mario Santamaría | cultur_ALH

Segundo viaje de Traceroutes Poems con Álex Saum Pascual y Mario Santamaría. Poesía digital y arte en CulturALH.

www.alhambra-patronato.es

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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 15d

CULTUR_ALH va a ser el festival literario más hermoso del año (y bonus points porque @mariosantamaria.bsky.social y yo volvemos a recitarle poemas de amor a los cables del internet)

VENGAN. ES GRATIS. ES EN GRANADA. QUÉ MÁS SE LE PUEDE PEDIR A LA VIDA?

www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/pr...

Traceroutes Poems | Viaje creativo con Álex Saum y Mario Santamaría | cultur_ALH

Segundo viaje de Traceroutes Poems con Álex Saum Pascual y Mario Santamaría. Poesía digital y arte en CulturALH.

www.alhambra-patronato.es

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Drawn @commoner.bsky.social · 15d

Luddism is more about the enclosure of the commons [digital in this case] than about 'hating tech'.

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James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · 19d

Delighted to share that the Department of #DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie will host a digital artist as part of the first @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Digital Artist in Residence pilot programme.

Applications are now open!
Enquiries to @stephenroddy.bsky.social

artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...

Arts Council Digital Artist in Residence at University College Cork (Pilot) - The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

artscouncil.ie

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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 15d

CULTUR_ALH va a ser el festival literario más hermoso del año (y bonus points porque @mariosantamaria.bsky.social y yo volvemos a recitarle poemas de amor a los cables del internet)

VENGAN. ES GRATIS. ES EN GRANADA. QUÉ MÁS SE LE PUEDE PEDIR A LA VIDA?

www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/pr...

Traceroutes Poems | Viaje creativo con Álex Saum y Mario Santamaría | cultur_ALH

Segundo viaje de Traceroutes Poems con Álex Saum Pascual y Mario Santamaría. Poesía digital y arte en CulturALH.

www.alhambra-patronato.es

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 23d

Do not miss Revista de Estudios Hispánicos' (59.1) Dossier
"Reading in the Time of Media Multiplicity: Practices from Latin America" edited by Marcy Schwartz!

I don't have an article there, but Binding Media got its first citation in the intro (...according to google scholar).

Project MUSE - Revista de Estudios Hispánicos-Volume 59, Número 1, Marzo 2025

muse.jhu.edu

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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 22d

As co-director of Spanish Studies at the Institute of European Studies [@ucberkeleyies.bsky.social], I am very happy to invite you to our first talk of the year by visiting jr. researcher Silvia Rusiñol!! Please join us if you are in Berkeley!!

events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...

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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 28d

Super thrilled to share with y'all that my new article on the infrastructures behind Digital Poetry in Lat Am just dropped at @jlacstravesia.bsky.social, under the amazing editorial work of @azucastro.bsky.social and Estefi Bournot <3 *YAY* #elit

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Material Algorithms: Bridging the Gap between the Virtual and the Physical in Latin American Digital Literature

This essay investigates the complex interplay between the virtual and physical realms in Latin American digital literature through the lens of material algorithms. By analysing three digital works ...

www.tandfonline.com

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UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · 29d

📅Save the date!

We have lots of fantastic events this semester, keep an eye on our socials for the details 👀

Register for events on our website, hit RSVP on the event you want to attend!

🔗https://events.berkeley.edu/ies

See you there Euro Bears 🐻🇪🇺

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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 28d

Super thrilled to share with y'all that my new article on the infrastructures behind Digital Poetry in Lat Am just dropped at @jlacstravesia.bsky.social, under the amazing editorial work of @azucastro.bsky.social and Estefi Bournot <3 *YAY* #elit

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Material Algorithms: Bridging the Gap between the Virtual and the Physical in Latin American Digital Literature

This essay investigates the complex interplay between the virtual and physical realms in Latin American digital literature through the lens of material algorithms. By analysing three digital works ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · Sep 1

You’ve got this!!!!

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BotCarrión @botcarrion.bsky.social · Aug 29

In the new art, poetry is the true ground of communication taking place through words, which occurs in the time.

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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · Aug 29

It’s not “flirty”. It’s non consensual pornography. And it’s always, always, wrong

Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 29

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

reut.rs

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · Aug 25

The #DataSittersClub is back with @anasalter.bsky.social @lucidbard.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social talking AI and pedagogy, with examples from the "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" class. Even if you're anti-AI, please fill out the survey! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc23.h...

A kid labeled "higher ed" splashes AI on Dawn, in a pink bikini on the beach.

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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · Aug 18

será esa

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Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · Aug 18

Iba yo tan tranquila auto-citándome en una reseña cuando de repente, zas!... Word sufrió un cortocircuito al encontrarse con una mujer refiriéndose a sí misma. Zasca!

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · Aug 18

New study by @nathanckim.bsky.social and @davidthewid.bsky.social on cloud investments of the Big Three.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Aug 18

Nvidia gets the spotlight, but *two* major groups are selling shovels in the AI gold rush, who profit whether or not AI products pan out: Chipmakers and Big Cloud—Google, Microsoft + Amazon.

A new study by @davidthewid.bsky.social + Nathan Kim shows how the AI boom is fueling Big Cloud's land grab:

The real winner of the AI boom so far? Big Cloud

How Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are concentrating even more power in the age of AI.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is an AI Tax. These services are not “free”and non-users cannot avoid their costs.

In other words, unless utilities negotiate higher specialized rates, other ratepayer classes — residential, commercial and industrial — are likely paying for data center power needs.
Meanwhile, Monitoring Analytics, the independent market watchdog for the mid-Atlantic grid, produced research in June showing that 70% — or $9.3 billion - of last year's increased electricity cost was the result of data center demand.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Aug 7

We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

Screencap of headline from linked article, reading:

He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse.
OpenAI’s chatbot self-reported it blurred line between fantasy and reality with man on autism spectrum. ‘Stakes are higher’ for vulnerable people, firm says.

Above the headline: Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Family & Tech: Julie Jargon
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