Alberico Gentili, author of De Iniustitia Bellica Romanorum Actio (1590), would like a word

It is bittersweet to have to leave the fabulous 13th International Milton Symposium, July 2023 before it’s over but at least I got a chance to take my selfie (#norfie?) with Northrop Frye

Publicado recentemente! 🌟 Uma nova tradução da lição Programming Historian de @johnrladd, Dr. Jessica Otis | jmotis.bsky.social, Christopher Warren, Scott B. Weingart. 🔗 doi.org/10.46430/phpt0… Obrigado a João Domingues Pereira pela sua tradução e a Josir @[email protected] + Daniel Alves pelas revisões. Obrigado a Eric Brasil pela edição.

Others have pointed this out, but this renaming is stepping on the exact same rake that got him ousted by PayPal. Wrote about this in my book

This is not sad, this is a warning. A company did everything (mostly) right: created a vitally useful free service, worked hard to keep it healthy, shared data for research. Then another company swooped the data and made it compete against itself.

dropping in just to say I'm mostly on chrisvvarren.bsky.social these days

so I'm assembling a teaching unit on reconstructing LLM training data. What should I know about? currently including 1.) doi.org/10.48550/arXiv… (David Bamman) 2.) wired.com/story/fanficti… (Rose Eveleth) 3.) washingtonpost.com/technology/int… (Nitasha Tiku)

Hello, I’m Dr Jacob Baxter and will be running today’s #TwitterTakeover! I’m going to focus today on our English data from 1651-1700 which I have been working on for the best of the past year. #USTCTwitterTakeover

When Print & Probability collaborator nikolai heard that ESTC was down due to the BL cyberattack, he jumped into action. Here’s the site he built estc.printprobability.org

Join CMU Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University and The Frick Pittsburgh Museums and Gardens in welcoming award-winning #Shakespeare author, Stephen Greenblatt. This in-person event will address issues surrounding the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio. 11/30, 3PM, McConomy Auditorium. cmu.is/greenblatt

Ever wondered what the color of early modern book pages can tell us about the text's construction? Check out my video for The Bibliographical Society of America on our exciting tool at @Print_and_Prob, using paper color analysis to solve mysteries in book history: youtube.com/watch?v=OOJCXt… 🌈🕵🏻‍♀️

Only here b/c it has come to my attention that some of y'all didn't know that you NOT have to carry on without the ESTC. We stood up a temporary ESTC site in mid-November and thousands of people have been using it nearly every day since. Print & Probability estc.printprobability.org

not gonna lie, a feature in the Dartmouth Alumni Mag is kind of a dream come true dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/chris…

OUT IN THIS WEEK'S The TLS— IDENTIFYING JOHN MILTON’S COPY OF HOLINSHED’S CHRONICLES by me, @aarontpratt, & jes1003 the-tls.co.uk/articles/john-… cc Phoenix Public Library 🧵

Christopher Warren ’99 is an expert on Elizabethan literature and a pioneer in the emerging field he calls “computational bibliography.” dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/chris…

Read how an interdisciplinary Carnegie Mellon University project of Curator of Special Collections Sam Lemley and Associate Professor of English Christopher Warren led to the Print & Probability project, which aims to restore access to an essential humanities resource. bit.ly/4e2v8ZP

cool deep dive from Sarah Bender CMU Libraries on our work with ESTC bit.ly/4e2v8ZP

world’s first network visualization imho aeon.co/ideas/network-…

Usha Vance, spouse of JD Vance, apparently wrote a Cambridge MPhil thesis on 17th-century London printer John Field before law school and then clerking for John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh

On Election Day, please consider this lesson inspired by the most irritating children’s song I know