Chris Warren
@chriswarren.info
Head of English/Prof. of English & History@Carnegie Mellon. Knowledge-monger: clandestine print, weird data, book history, computational humanities, political thought. Author, Literature & the Law of Nations. 6 Degrees of Francis Bacon. Humanities for all.
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🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read???
stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
October 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read???
stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
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George Saunders was exactly as funny and interesting in conversation as he is on the page. Such a fun convo and such an awesome dude.
pghrev.com/talking-abou...
pghrev.com/talking-abou...
Talking about Thrills with George Saunders - Pittsburgh Review of Books
George Saunders will be appearing at Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures as part of the "Ten Evening Series" at the Carnegie Music Hall on September 14th, 2026 at
pghrev.com
September 10, 2026 at 5:33 PM
George Saunders was exactly as funny and interesting in conversation as he is on the page. Such a fun convo and such an awesome dude.
pghrev.com/talking-abou...
pghrev.com/talking-abou...
George Saunders was exactly as funny and interesting in conversation as he is on the page. Such a fun convo and such an awesome dude.
pghrev.com/talking-abou...
pghrev.com/talking-abou...
Talking about Thrills with George Saunders - Pittsburgh Review of Books
George Saunders will be appearing at Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures as part of the "Ten Evening Series" at the Carnegie Music Hall on September 14th, 2026 at
pghrev.com
September 10, 2026 at 5:33 PM
George Saunders was exactly as funny and interesting in conversation as he is on the page. Such a fun convo and such an awesome dude.
pghrev.com/talking-abou...
pghrev.com/talking-abou...
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Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
September 9, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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OCR for Japanese manga, Swedish handwriting or Arabic print?
There’s a growing range of OCR models on @hf.co: VLMs, dedicated text recognisers and complete OCR pipelines.
I’ve gathered 41 models into four collections, with short notes to help you choose:
huggingface.co/collections/...
There’s a growing range of OCR models on @hf.co: VLMs, dedicated text recognisers and complete OCR pipelines.
I’ve gathered 41 models into four collections, with short notes to help you choose:
huggingface.co/collections/...
OCR on the Hub - a davanstrien Collection
Curated OCR models for documents, languages, handwriting and text in images. Browse four collections with short practical notes.
huggingface.co
September 7, 2026 at 3:43 PM
OCR for Japanese manga, Swedish handwriting or Arabic print?
There’s a growing range of OCR models on @hf.co: VLMs, dedicated text recognisers and complete OCR pipelines.
I’ve gathered 41 models into four collections, with short notes to help you choose:
huggingface.co/collections/...
There’s a growing range of OCR models on @hf.co: VLMs, dedicated text recognisers and complete OCR pipelines.
I’ve gathered 41 models into four collections, with short notes to help you choose:
huggingface.co/collections/...
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Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.
September 5, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.
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8/ Robbins:
PRoB, published by Carnegie Mellon’s English department, is the first Review of Books birthed in academia...[It's] arrived at the perfect time, just as newspaper book sections are disappearing and readers want something more than AI algorithms and spam stars.
pghrev.com/hollis-robbi...
PRoB, published by Carnegie Mellon’s English department, is the first Review of Books birthed in academia...[It's] arrived at the perfect time, just as newspaper book sections are disappearing and readers want something more than AI algorithms and spam stars.
pghrev.com/hollis-robbi...
September 3, 2026 at 9:55 PM
8/ Robbins:
PRoB, published by Carnegie Mellon’s English department, is the first Review of Books birthed in academia...[It's] arrived at the perfect time, just as newspaper book sections are disappearing and readers want something more than AI algorithms and spam stars.
pghrev.com/hollis-robbi...
PRoB, published by Carnegie Mellon’s English department, is the first Review of Books birthed in academia...[It's] arrived at the perfect time, just as newspaper book sections are disappearing and readers want something more than AI algorithms and spam stars.
pghrev.com/hollis-robbi...
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1/ If you'll indulge me, I want to take a second to crow about something I'm really proud to've fostered as Head of Carnegie Mellon Department of English: The Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social.
September 3, 2026 at 9:44 PM
1/ If you'll indulge me, I want to take a second to crow about something I'm really proud to've fostered as Head of Carnegie Mellon Department of English: The Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social.
8/ Robbins:
PRoB, published by Carnegie Mellon’s English department, is the first Review of Books birthed in academia...[It's] arrived at the perfect time, just as newspaper book sections are disappearing and readers want something more than AI algorithms and spam stars.
pghrev.com/hollis-robbi...
PRoB, published by Carnegie Mellon’s English department, is the first Review of Books birthed in academia...[It's] arrived at the perfect time, just as newspaper book sections are disappearing and readers want something more than AI algorithms and spam stars.
pghrev.com/hollis-robbi...
September 3, 2026 at 9:55 PM
8/ Robbins:
PRoB, published by Carnegie Mellon’s English department, is the first Review of Books birthed in academia...[It's] arrived at the perfect time, just as newspaper book sections are disappearing and readers want something more than AI algorithms and spam stars.
pghrev.com/hollis-robbi...
PRoB, published by Carnegie Mellon’s English department, is the first Review of Books birthed in academia...[It's] arrived at the perfect time, just as newspaper book sections are disappearing and readers want something more than AI algorithms and spam stars.
pghrev.com/hollis-robbi...
1/ If you'll indulge me, I want to take a second to crow about something I'm really proud to've fostered as Head of Carnegie Mellon Department of English: The Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social.
September 3, 2026 at 9:44 PM
1/ If you'll indulge me, I want to take a second to crow about something I'm really proud to've fostered as Head of Carnegie Mellon Department of English: The Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social.
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Really worthwhile CFP f/ Computational Humanities Research on "Peripheries," inviting work that uses data-driven approaches to recovering marginalized, lost voices in the cultural record/archive & what's been lost through processes of mass corpus digitization: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Peripheries
Call for Papers: Peripheries
www.cambridge.org
August 24, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Really worthwhile CFP f/ Computational Humanities Research on "Peripheries," inviting work that uses data-driven approaches to recovering marginalized, lost voices in the cultural record/archive & what's been lost through processes of mass corpus digitization: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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📢 AI and History Conference 2026
📍 October 15–16, 2026 | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
🔗 The conference program is available at: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc...
⏰️ Registration closes September 15, 2026.
🔗 More info & registration: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc...
📍 October 15–16, 2026 | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
🔗 The conference program is available at: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc...
⏰️ Registration closes September 15, 2026.
🔗 More info & registration: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc...
AI and History Conference 2026
A practitioner-focused conference for historians using AI and computational methods, October 15–16, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University.
proflouishyman.github.io
August 25, 2026 at 8:30 AM
📢 AI and History Conference 2026
📍 October 15–16, 2026 | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
🔗 The conference program is available at: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc...
⏰️ Registration closes September 15, 2026.
🔗 More info & registration: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc...
📍 October 15–16, 2026 | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
🔗 The conference program is available at: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc...
⏰️ Registration closes September 15, 2026.
🔗 More info & registration: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc...
spreadsheets ARE people
August 20, 2026 at 9:00 PM
spreadsheets ARE people
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This is just to say
I have OCRed
the text
thet was in
tne arch:ve
and whicb
yov were prabaldy
seamhing
for "breahtast"
Fargme ms
fheg mem debo:w5
sb ?mccf
mmb 5c oc1b
I have OCRed
the text
thet was in
tne arch:ve
and whicb
yov were prabaldy
seamhing
for "breahtast"
Fargme ms
fheg mem debo:w5
sb ?mccf
mmb 5c oc1b
July 28, 2026 at 5:49 PM
This is just to say
I have OCRed
the text
thet was in
tne arch:ve
and whicb
yov were prabaldy
seamhing
for "breahtast"
Fargme ms
fheg mem debo:w5
sb ?mccf
mmb 5c oc1b
I have OCRed
the text
thet was in
tne arch:ve
and whicb
yov were prabaldy
seamhing
for "breahtast"
Fargme ms
fheg mem debo:w5
sb ?mccf
mmb 5c oc1b
Drop your crime-fighting Catholics
📸: Kenneth Spencer Research Library (blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/tag/...)
📸: Kenneth Spencer Research Library (blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/tag/...)
![expurgated copy of Opere del die vino poeta Danthe [Divina Commedia]. Venice: Bernardino Stagnino, 1512.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uxu7i3t4zi4t6aztimyks6rp/bafkreieoxre7mrd62gxhskufh6c5j5siilkatose7akfjpl3rdporfxzya)
July 26, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Drop your crime-fighting Catholics
📸: Kenneth Spencer Research Library (blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/tag/...)
📸: Kenneth Spencer Research Library (blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/tag/...)
As if from a holy wind, this new book appeared in my fb feed. Imagine my disappointment when it turned out the real title of the book was **God’s Arsenal**
July 24, 2026 at 7:09 PM
As if from a holy wind, this new book appeared in my fb feed. Imagine my disappointment when it turned out the real title of the book was **God’s Arsenal**
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The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness.
careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
Postdoctoral Associate
MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139
careers.peopleclick.com
July 7, 2026 at 5:36 PM
The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness.
careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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2/ Infographic from Corrarino's @justsecurity.org essay.⤵️
As American as International Law
www.justsecurity.org/145416/as-am...
As American as International Law
www.justsecurity.org/145416/as-am...
July 3, 2026 at 3:38 PM
2/ Infographic from Corrarino's @justsecurity.org essay.⤵️
As American as International Law
www.justsecurity.org/145416/as-am...
As American as International Law
www.justsecurity.org/145416/as-am...
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"Independence may be the theme of the day, but even a simple backyard barbecue relies at almost every turn on international law."
Another eye-opening essay by @corrarino.bsky.social.
A wonderful and necessary read.
www.justsecurity.org/145416/as-am...
1/🧵
Another eye-opening essay by @corrarino.bsky.social.
A wonderful and necessary read.
www.justsecurity.org/145416/as-am...
1/🧵
As American as International Law
A Fourth of July barbecue demonstrates how international law shapes daily life, and where that architecture is under strain.
www.justsecurity.org
July 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
"Independence may be the theme of the day, but even a simple backyard barbecue relies at almost every turn on international law."
Another eye-opening essay by @corrarino.bsky.social.
A wonderful and necessary read.
www.justsecurity.org/145416/as-am...
1/🧵
Another eye-opening essay by @corrarino.bsky.social.
A wonderful and necessary read.
www.justsecurity.org/145416/as-am...
1/🧵
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Applications for this 2-year postdoc at @cmu.edu are starting to be reviewed now, so don't delay! Please spread the news to your local #DH networks.
One of the people you'll be working with is me :) I am excited to meet this new colleague and collaborate on computational humanities in Pittsburgh!
One of the people you'll be working with is me :) I am excited to meet this new colleague and collaborate on computational humanities in Pittsburgh!
Job! Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities & Publishing at Carnegie Mellon - cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CMU/de...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities and Publishing - CMU Libraries and CMU Press - UEIS
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Carnegie Mellon University Press invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Humanities and Publishing. This is an exciting opportun...
cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
June 24, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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This should concern all of us. What is your institution doing to preserve collective memory?
AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.
AI’s biggest casualty could be history itself
The Internet Archive is a vital resource that has helped the search for truth in more than one global event, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, but it is in danger of becoming the latest collateral damage of...
www.the-independent.com
June 20, 2026 at 3:39 PM
This should concern all of us. What is your institution doing to preserve collective memory?
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postdoctoral fellow in computational humanities and publishing: CMU cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities and Publishing - CMU Libraries and CMU Press - UEIS
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Carnegie Mellon University Press invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Humanities and Publishing. This is an exciting opportun...
cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
June 5, 2026 at 2:37 PM
postdoctoral fellow in computational humanities and publishing: CMU cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...
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Many thanks to Ed Simon and the amazing Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social for the invitation to share some thoughts on how networks reveal what @theguardian.com's ranked list obscures pghrev.com/networking-t...
Networking the Guardian 100 - Pittsburgh Review of Books
In an unfamiliar city, I rarely walk into an empty restaurant. How good could the food be if nobody eats there? At least a crowded restaurant's one that many
pghrev.com
May 29, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Many thanks to Ed Simon and the amazing Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social for the invitation to share some thoughts on how networks reveal what @theguardian.com's ranked list obscures pghrev.com/networking-t...
Many thanks to Ed Simon and the amazing Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social for the invitation to share some thoughts on how networks reveal what @theguardian.com's ranked list obscures pghrev.com/networking-t...
Networking the Guardian 100 - Pittsburgh Review of Books
In an unfamiliar city, I rarely walk into an empty restaurant. How good could the food be if nobody eats there? At least a crowded restaurant's one that many
pghrev.com
May 29, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Many thanks to Ed Simon and the amazing Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social for the invitation to share some thoughts on how networks reveal what @theguardian.com's ranked list obscures pghrev.com/networking-t...