Brian Lennon @bitfragment
No longer active here bitfragment.net Pennsylvania, USA Joined November 2012-
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Thoughtful essay on the abusive concept of surprise in cultural discourse on computing and some research. Too balanced for my taste, I think that abuse is cynical and ideological, but still a great essay. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
"The supremacy of one of these strategies over the other – Agile and Waterfall, respectively – is cognate to a broader structural renegotiation that took place between capital and labour in the twilight of the twentieth century." newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…
To think that the digital humanities certificate peddlers do so poorly when this is their competition theverge.com/2020/2/11/2113…
Thank you for sending me the special issue of your journal on the varieties of opportunism, payola, and jobbery. Only last year's Festschrift for a fugitive sexual predator seems less likely to reverse your parent organization's misfortunes
No further comment! Michael P. Barnett, "SNAP: A Programming Language for Humanists" (1970) jstor.org/stable/30199362
Stories matter because the STEM "skills gap" was an enabling fiction that English professors themselves boosted washingtonpost.com/business/2019/…
It is the question of the age. Can spleen calling itself generosity save the soul of critique?
Thursday 28 March @dcmipsu lecture by Olivia Banner: "Technopsyence and Afro-Surrealism’s Cripistemologies" dcmi.la.psu.edu/2019/03/19/lec…
This delightfully uncowardly essay refuses to placate and is unrecuperable with platitudes ("healthy debate," "all publicity is good publicity"). Nan Z. Da, “The Computational Case against Computational Literary Studies” doi.org/10.1086/702594
Thursday 14 March @dcmipsu lecture by Aden Evens: "Ontological Limits of the Digital" dcmi.la.psu.edu/2019/02/18/lec…
Re-read in its just-published form: Max Larson (@loadedonloaded), "Optimizing Chess: Philology and Algorithmic Culture," Diacritics 64.1 muse.jhu.edu/article/716099
A nice side effect of nailing the truly bad men in academe: general perplexity of everyone else who lives for ingratiation, obsequiousness, payola, and other jobbery.
Future Humanities Profs It’s important to understand the civil liberties, human rights, and privacy implications of facial recognition technology. Future Digital Humanities Profs It’s important to get grant money to access the latest massive name-face database.
Future Humanities Profs It’s important to understand the civil liberties, human rights, and privacy implications of facial recognition technology. Future Digital Humanities Profs It’s important to get grant money to access the latest massive name-face database.
Rockstar Devops engineer at work, no disruption to authorization network anticipated..
Toward full automation of the book catalog. This is Springer's page for A. A. Markov, Theory of Algorithms (1954; 1988): springer.com/us/book/978902…
In U.S. academe we had a "tech humanist" movement for a decade. It *aspired* to make these mistakes. theguardian.com/news/2018/may/…
Academics have inserted themselves into this narrative in the role of firespotter, when concierge would be more accurate. slate.com/technology/201…
The center can't afford to delete Facebook, so it tsks supinely at the semiperiphery ablaze. nytimes.com/2018/04/22/ins…
From "powder keg" lede to "can't delete platforms" denouement, this is how empire enjoys lamenting itself. "Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match" nytimes.com/2018/04/21/wor…
Congratulations. You have located both your eyeglasses and your face.
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