Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

On 27 February, Olaf Scholz held his famous #Zeitenwende speech. More than ten months have passed since then. What’s the verdict? Have times turned in German defence and security policy? My assessment of where we are at the moment - the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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Des chercheurs de Microsoft ont créé une #IA capable d’imiter une voix à partir d’un échantillon de son de trois secondes. VALL-E préserve le timbre de la voix et peut imiter l'environnement acoustique de l'échantillon. L'IA devra produire un signal permettant de distinguer ses enregistrement. Pour éviter les fakes, pour l'instant, seul l'article scientifique et des enregistrements témoins sont disponibles #audio #IntelligenceArtificielle #AI https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/microsofts-new-ai-can-simulate-anyones-voice-with-3-seconds-of-audio/

New #OpenAccess #NLProc paper and dataset:
OpenBoek: A Corpus of Literary Coreference and Entities with an Exploration of Historical Spelling Normalization.
https://github.com/andreasvc/openboek

@ummjackson @sandofsky I suspect that users of 3rd party apps are some of the most likely to bail from Twitter to some alternative (like Mastodon) though, so it’s not like the move allows Twitter to start showing them ads now. And Twitter will also end up losing the value of those users’ tweets. And risk that those users will take a proportion of their followers with them to an alternative platform.
This is certainly the last straw when it comes to Twitter for me if the ban proves permanent.

A tiny fraction of Twitter users use third-party apps. So put yourself in the shoes of a bean counter…

"We can't serve ads. We can't sell a subscription. The API costs moeny. If we kill the clients we lose a few users, but some will stick around."

It makes sense on a spreadsheet, but misses the users' value. They produce the content that brings you to Twitter.

Killing clients is exactly what you expect from people who just don't get social networks, and too arrogant to listen to those who do.

“The neural network's operations are largely opaque and inscrutable. It is, in other words, a black box. And as these black boxes assume responsibility for more and more of our daily digital tasks, they are not only going to change our relationship to technology—they are going to change how we think about ourselves, our world, and our place within it.” (2016)
https://www.wired.com/2016/05/the-end-of-code/

We're delighted to announce the open-access @ManifoldScholar edition of _Global Debates in the Digital Humanities_, edited by Domenico Fiormonte, Sukanta Chaudhari, & Paola Ricaurte

https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/global-debates-in-the-digital-humanities

The volume is part of the Debates in the Digital Humanities series from the University of Minnesota Press

This post reframes the venerable Unix tool Make in an insightful way:

"Makefiles are machine-readable documentation that make your workflow reproducible."

Declaring dependencies documents the build process by making explicit the required sources, build steps and actions, and intermediate products, as well as their relationships.

https://bost.ocks.org/mike/make

#linux #unix

I'd fallen for, and helped spread, what I now realize was a myth about quote tweets: That there's almost no research on them. Big mistake! Now rectified.

Here's my new post, digging into more than 30 studies with data on quote tweets. They don't settle all the questions. But there are answers, or at least partial ones, to most. It's still complicated, though.

It's a * very * long read, but there are summary points ....1/2

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/01/12/quote-tweeting-over-30-studies-dispel-some-myths/

#MissedQuoteBoost #QuoteBoost #QuoteTweets

What nice cover art!

#Paperware #ComputerPhilology

New blog post! Let's start the new year with a post by our DigiKAR colleague Mariam Gambashidze: “EuroCarto 2022 - presenting DigiKAR to the international cartographic community”

-> https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/?p=2874

#DHLab_IEG @DigiKAR

Eins unserer Hightlights #2022? Unser DH-Tag!
Die Keynote von @VanOorschot_FEST zum Thema „Neue Technik(en) – Neue Wissenschaft?!“, die Poster und Slampräsentationen haben wir auf Zenodo veröffentlicht. Schaut vorbei!
https://zenodo.org/communities/unboxingdh/?page=1&size=20

#unboxingDH #digitalhumanities

Robert Tinney was the cover artist for Byte magazine from 1975-1986, where he cranked out these fantastic paintings that captured the spirit of tech from that time. Here is one of my favorites (from 1981). #RetroComputing #Byte

I've shared more of Robert's retro-futuristic paintings on my blog https://docpop.org/2020/11/robert-tinneys-visions-of-the-future/

Robert is also selling prints via his site http://tinney.net/

Doc CH richtet sich an vielversprechende Forscherinnen und Forscher, die eine Dissertation zu einem selbstgewählten Thema im Bereich der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften in der Schweiz verfassen möchten. Die Ausschreibung ist offen bis am 15.03.2023
https://sohub.io/tj79

Doc CH is aimed at promising researchers who wish to write a doctoral thesis on a topic of their own choice in the humanities and social sciences in Switzerland. The call for proposal is open until 15 March 2023.
https://sohub.io/navd