This post confirms something I discuss in my book project: large, consumer-facing AI models now outdo specialty apps for handwriting recognition. Cohen doesn't mention that they can also tell which handwriting looks more "graceful," "angry," etc. 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
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November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This post confirms something I discuss in my book project: large, consumer-facing AI models now outdo specialty apps for handwriting recognition. Cohen doesn't mention that they can also tell which handwriting looks more "graceful," "angry," etc. newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
This is starting to feel like a real thing...
October 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is starting to feel like a real thing...
Kinda digging the name of this press.
September 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Kinda digging the name of this press.
Shame on ABC and Disney.
September 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Shame on ABC and Disney.
Maybe they'll indict a ham sandwich, but not the hero who throws it!
August 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Maybe they'll indict a ham sandwich, but not the hero who throws it!
Given that a very viral, very misleading story from WaPo helped to fuel the whole "AI kills the climate" thing in the first place, it's nice to see this more...informed piece from them. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Column | ChatGPT is an energy guzzler. These things you’re doing are worse.
AI services have earned a reputation as energy-hungry beasts. But what about the other emissions in our digital lives?
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August 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Given that a very viral, very misleading story from WaPo helped to fuel the whole "AI kills the climate" thing in the first place, it's nice to see this more...informed piece from them. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
New white paper: “Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google Scale”
Curious what people think of this.
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Curious what people think of this.
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August 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
New white paper: “Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google Scale”
Curious what people think of this.
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Curious what people think of this.
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Is Michael Camille's book, Image on the Edge, still the definitive study of funny/crude marginalia in medieval manuscripts? e. g. for lulz . . .
August 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Is Michael Camille's book, Image on the Edge, still the definitive study of funny/crude marginalia in medieval manuscripts? e. g. for lulz . . .
- Old old: your phone rings in the movie
- New old: it’s in your pocket with the flashlight on
- New old: it’s in your pocket with the flashlight on
August 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
- Old old: your phone rings in the movie
- New old: it’s in your pocket with the flashlight on
- New old: it’s in your pocket with the flashlight on
Did the scary thing! Wrote the first paragraph of the book. The first word of this book is “In.” Stay tuned for the rest . . .
July 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Did the scary thing! Wrote the first paragraph of the book. The first word of this book is “In.” Stay tuned for the rest . . .
Wait, all of you people have read FIFTY books?
July 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Wait, all of you people have read FIFTY books?
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Academics! I have space this summer to take on indexing work. Please message me if interested!
July 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Academics! I have space this summer to take on indexing work. Please message me if interested!
Recently had the pleasure of interviewing the founders of @leotranscribes.bsky.social and trying their platform, which is *very* effective with tricky manuscripts. If you’re doing a transcription project, check them out! Easier and more accurate than other common HTR tools today.
We’re excited to launch our most advanced model yet. ATR-1 sets a new benchmark for automated text recognition, transcribing handwritten and printed text with unprecedented accuracy and reliability.
blog.tryleo.ai/2025/06/20/i...
blog.tryleo.ai/2025/06/20/i...
Introducing ATR-1 — our most advanced text recognition model yet
We’re excited to launch our most advanced model yet. ATR-1 sets a new benchmark for automated text recognition, transcribing handwritten and printed text with unprecedented accuracy and reliability…
blog.tryleo.ai
July 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Recently had the pleasure of interviewing the founders of @leotranscribes.bsky.social and trying their platform, which is *very* effective with tricky manuscripts. If you’re doing a transcription project, check them out! Easier and more accurate than other common HTR tools today.
Current saddest holiday of the year.
July 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Current saddest holiday of the year.
Funniest thing about transcribing Dickinson manuscripts is where an early editor (likely Todd) wrote "No" on a bunch of manuscripts, presumably flagging those too week for publication. But it turns out, actually: yes!
June 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Funniest thing about transcribing Dickinson manuscripts is where an early editor (likely Todd) wrote "No" on a bunch of manuscripts, presumably flagging those too week for publication. But it turns out, actually: yes!
New book—and free! EXPRESSIVE NETWORKS: POETRY AND PLATFORM CULTURES, ed. Matthew Kilbane. Love the open access. Check it out . . . www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures
Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have co...
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June 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
New book—and free! EXPRESSIVE NETWORKS: POETRY AND PLATFORM CULTURES, ed. Matthew Kilbane. Love the open access. Check it out . . . www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Have you used Transkribus, eScriptorium, or similar tools to transcribe post-1800 manuscripts? Drop me a line! Would love to ask you some questions…
I wonder if this model could be generalized to work on nineteenth-century American handwriting more broadly?
This is a good use of AI: transcription of 2.3 million pages of manuscripts trained on 30k pages transcribed by hand
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June 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Have you used Transkribus, eScriptorium, or similar tools to transcribe post-1800 manuscripts? Drop me a line! Would love to ask you some questions…
Butts, analyzed!
Hold onto your butts, folks--my butt shot article is finally out! Thanks for all of your help, hivemind. I can't wait to hear what you think! Here's an open access link: www.google.com/url?q=https:...
Reassessing the Butt ShotFeminism Versus Spectacle in The Substance and Anora
Two of 2024’s most talked about, putatively feminist films—Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance and Sean Baker’s Anora—both tell stories of women who make their livings exploiting the male gaze and both su...
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June 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Butts, analyzed!
Very happy to share that my next book, tentatively called *The Digital Hand: Electronics and Literary Manuscripts*, is under contract with Stanford University Press! Now just need to finish writing it . . . @stanfordpress.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Very happy to share that my next book, tentatively called *The Digital Hand: Electronics and Literary Manuscripts*, is under contract with Stanford University Press! Now just need to finish writing it . . . @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Very sad to hear about Joshua Clover. Nice to see folks sharing his poems and essays. Here's his "How I Quit Spin," one of the truly great Twitter threads of olden times—not his best or most influential work, but it'll make you smile if you haven't read it. genius.com/Joshua-clove...
Joshua Clover – How I Quit Spin (in about 200 tweets)
#HowIQuitSpin 1. I moved to France on the day GWB was inaugurated. Email was a little squiggly in 2001 but good enough. / — Pirate Bae (@bookofriot) July 19, 2015 / #HowIQuitSpin 2
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April 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Very sad to hear about Joshua Clover. Nice to see folks sharing his poems and essays. Here's his "How I Quit Spin," one of the truly great Twitter threads of olden times—not his best or most influential work, but it'll make you smile if you haven't read it. genius.com/Joshua-clove...
Do any paleography or ML peeps on here know how I can get access to eScriptorium? ✍️Appears to be invite-only. 🙏
April 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Do any paleography or ML peeps on here know how I can get access to eScriptorium? ✍️Appears to be invite-only. 🙏
Look at these fascist cowards pulling up their masks as they abduct someone off the street for expressing the wrong opinions.
RUMEYSA OZTURK KIDNAPPING VIDEO
Here is a video of federal agents detaining Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk Tuesday night.
Rumeysa was abducted as she was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast.
Here is a video of federal agents detaining Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk Tuesday night.
Rumeysa was abducted as she was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast.
March 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Look at these fascist cowards pulling up their masks as they abduct someone off the street for expressing the wrong opinions.
This is an autopen. The orange fascist claims that Biden’s pardons are invalid because an autopen was used to sign them. This is, of course, a load of shit, but because I’m currently writing a chapter about signature machines, I can’t resist…will add to this 🧵through the day…
March 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is an autopen. The orange fascist claims that Biden’s pardons are invalid because an autopen was used to sign them. This is, of course, a load of shit, but because I’m currently writing a chapter about signature machines, I can’t resist…will add to this 🧵through the day…
At MLA, I talked about how AI is changing aesthetic judgment. This is that: a perception of “AI style” in an illustration (one I actually like, and apparently made by a human) makes the logo toxic enough to be replaced. Even as things to resist, these tools are reshaping aesthetic values.
This bums me out, but I’m going to start the process of changing the podcast logo because I know it gets me blocked. (And I get that.)
The logo was created by a CMTS student intern in 2022. I know they used Adobe CC but I don’t know whether they used Firefly or other (early stage) AI tools.
Sigh.
The logo was created by a CMTS student intern in 2022. I know they used Adobe CC but I don’t know whether they used Firefly or other (early stage) AI tools.
Sigh.
I don’t know this person, but they popped up in my feed.
Can someone tell me if they’re using AI ironically? That isn’t an excuse, but it concerns me how many mutuals follow this person.
This is how AI is normalized by people who should know better.
Not surprised, but disappointed.
Can someone tell me if they’re using AI ironically? That isn’t an excuse, but it concerns me how many mutuals follow this person.
This is how AI is normalized by people who should know better.
Not surprised, but disappointed.
January 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
At MLA, I talked about how AI is changing aesthetic judgment. This is that: a perception of “AI style” in an illustration (one I actually like, and apparently made by a human) makes the logo toxic enough to be replaced. Even as things to resist, these tools are reshaping aesthetic values.
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Absolutely fantastic panel on “Rereading Generative AI” at #MLA2025. One of the best conversations I’ve heard about AI, copyright, language, & the future of the humanities and university.
Highly recommend you check out all their essays in this PMLA special issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Highly recommend you check out all their essays in this PMLA special issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
PMLA: Volume 139 - Issue 3 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - PMLA - Volume 139 - Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
January 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Absolutely fantastic panel on “Rereading Generative AI” at #MLA2025. One of the best conversations I’ve heard about AI, copyright, language, & the future of the humanities and university.
Highly recommend you check out all their essays in this PMLA special issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Highly recommend you check out all their essays in this PMLA special issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...