Fascinating read, tagging for this week’s #DigitalFriday
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Fascinating read, tagging for this week’s #DigitalFriday
This looks cool, but I'm especially posting for @hpsvanessa.bsky.social and her regular #DigitalFriday appeal! 🗃️
📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +
How Fast Was the Mail?
Explore mail transit times via railway between major U.S. cities, 1882–1908.
cblevins.github.io
March 27, 2026 at 9:17 PM
This looks cool, but I'm especially posting for @hpsvanessa.bsky.social and her regular #DigitalFriday appeal! 🗃️
What a project! One for #DigitalFriday
So pleased my article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 is now out with Historical Methods! #openaccess
- map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address
- link census to other spatial datasets
Get the code and data 👇
- map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address
- link census to other spatial datasets
Get the code and data 👇
January 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
What a project! One for #DigitalFriday
One for #DigitalFriday
On the Wayback Machine homepage there are two sections researchers ought to know about web.archive.org
1. "Save Page Now".
2. "Tools". there are extensions for browsers that make it easy for you to check whether a page has been archived, and save any page that hasn't yet with a click of a button.
1. "Save Page Now".
2. "Tools". there are extensions for browsers that make it easy for you to check whether a page has been archived, and save any page that hasn't yet with a click of a button.
Can't be stressed enough: what's on the web isn't permanent.
Always download your own copies. Use Zotero from @digitalscholar.bsky.social to grab webpages, PDFs, etc. Mirror webpages with the WaybackMachine from @archive.org
#DigitalHistory 🗃️
Always download your own copies. Use Zotero from @digitalscholar.bsky.social to grab webpages, PDFs, etc. Mirror webpages with the WaybackMachine from @archive.org
#DigitalHistory 🗃️
December 2, 2024 at 12:56 PM
One for #DigitalFriday
Amazing #DigitalFriday resource!
Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
Full and Final Edition Now Available
News article - 24 February 2025
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Amazing #DigitalFriday resource!
I thought this worth sharing on #DigitalFriday. bsky.app/profile/djta...
Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.
www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...
www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...
www.thatprivacyguy.com
June 19, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I thought this worth sharing on #DigitalFriday. bsky.app/profile/djta...
in slightly less serious #DigitalFriday news, if you're tired of the udm=14 workaround it seems like swearing in your google search automatically removes the unwanted "AI summary" (HT @metafilter.bsky.social ) www.tumblr.com/andthenthere...
January 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
in slightly less serious #DigitalFriday news, if you're tired of the udm=14 workaround it seems like swearing in your google search automatically removes the unwanted "AI summary" (HT @metafilter.bsky.social ) www.tumblr.com/andthenthere...
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
One for #DigitalFriday
wonderful essay here on archiving obsolescent technologies: flash is now history
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August 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
One for #DigitalFriday
My only #DigitalFriday find this week is this intriguing thread of wiki pages.
bsky.app/profile/jlph...
bsky.app/profile/jlph...
For reasons, I am starting a thread of Canadian historians with Wikipedia pages. (The reasons are because I just think that's neat.)
Sarah Carter, historian of Indigenous history focusing on women, celebrated scholar in women's history, wrote Importance of Being Monogamous:
Sarah Carter, historian of Indigenous history focusing on women, celebrated scholar in women's history, wrote Importance of Being Monogamous:
Sarah Carter (historian) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 25, 2026 at 3:10 PM
My only #DigitalFriday find this week is this intriguing thread of wiki pages.
bsky.app/profile/jlph...
bsky.app/profile/jlph...
A little radical #DigitalFriday offering (ht @neurosismancer.gay )
January 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
A little radical #DigitalFriday offering (ht @neurosismancer.gay )
Banger of a #DigitalFriday hint here!
This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.
January 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Banger of a #DigitalFriday hint here!
This, by @markriedl.bsky.social, is a great piece of writing that I recommend to my A&H students: mark-riedl.medium.com/a-very-gentl...
A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype
1. Introduction
mark-riedl.medium.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
#DigitalFriday came a day early!
Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...
November 28, 2024 at 8:31 AM
#DigitalFriday came a day early!
Some responses to this post highlighting candidates for #DigitalFriday
Someone needs to do a Google Maps, but for the past. For example, typing in "London to York" but you can select a period e.g. 1450s, and it would give you the likeliest route. That'd be great.
November 21, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Some responses to this post highlighting candidates for #DigitalFriday
I’ve written a blog post of reflections on Google Scholar and some alternatives which might be of interest blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Google Scholar is not broken (yet), but there are alternatives
For many Google Scholar has become a critical piece of research infrastructure. Yet, revelations in the manipulability of its metrics and its inclusion of AI generated papers have led some to ask i…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 25, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Just recommended this great resource to my students and realised I haven't mentioned it on here for a while. Dionysus was a journal focused on alcohol and literature which is now available for free thanks to the generosity of its original editors: teaching.shu.ac.uk/ds/sle/Diony...
Dionysos Home Page
teaching.shu.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
No #DigitalFriday today because it is a public holiday in the UK; take that work/life balance seriously and I'll see you all next week ;)
April 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
No #DigitalFriday today because it is a public holiday in the UK; take that work/life balance seriously and I'll see you all next week ;)
One for #DigitalFriday
I've just learned about kumu.io, and I am really liking it! Browser-based, clear documentation, intuitive UI, easy annotation and metrics. A quick google turned up an easy way of doing dynamic time slices. Here is an example with the networks in Venetian spy reports🕵️ #digitalhumanities #dh 🗃️
February 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
One for #DigitalFriday
Important #DigitalFriday update, it's not just costa that has free access to the BNA! (100% not a Weatherspoons endorsement, many other venues are available)
I suspected any "_The Cloud" wifi would be able to access the British Newspaper Archive for free, so found my nearest location using wigle.net (a Wetherspoons) and I was correct!
January 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Important #DigitalFriday update, it's not just costa that has free access to the BNA! (100% not a Weatherspoons endorsement, many other venues are available)
It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)
September 25, 2026 at 7:25 AM
It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)
My #DigitalFriday find this week is the "Luddite Lab Resource Hub" for people who need to challenge the uncritical acceptance of "AI" intheir workplaces bsky.app/profile/alex...
Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org
May 22, 2026 at 3:03 PM
My #DigitalFriday find this week is the "Luddite Lab Resource Hub" for people who need to challenge the uncritical acceptance of "AI" intheir workplaces bsky.app/profile/alex...
A resource for #DigitalFriday !
We published our 13th 'Will of the Month' blog post. That means you can easily access 13 full transcriptions of various wills from the period - particularly useful for teaching ...
#EarlyModern 🗃️ #Skystorians
View all the WOM posts here 👇
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
#EarlyModern 🗃️ #Skystorians
View all the WOM posts here 👇
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
March 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
A resource for #DigitalFriday !
No #DigitalFriday today as it's I am on annual leave. I try to take work/life balance seriously even on social media!
April 10, 2026 at 7:22 AM
No #DigitalFriday today as it's I am on annual leave. I try to take work/life balance seriously even on social media!
New collections added (pt 1)
• Zabalaza (South Africa)
• Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization
• Afro-Americans for Black Liberation
• Der Proletarier (1869-71 Bavaria)
• Der Volksstaat (1870s Bavaria)
• Neuer Social-Demokrat (1870s Bavaria)
hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...
• Zabalaza (South Africa)
• Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization
• Afro-Americans for Black Liberation
• Der Proletarier (1869-71 Bavaria)
• Der Volksstaat (1870s Bavaria)
• Neuer Social-Demokrat (1870s Bavaria)
hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...
radical online collections and archives
I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…
hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM