Been there, done that, got the chicken…

I'm co-editing a special issue for the European Journal of Humour Research on humanistic or social-scientific perspectives on #humour and #AI. Abstract submissions are open until 1 October: https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ejhr #humorstudies #artificialintelligence

Finally found a restaurant that caters to my interests.

Together with Katie Szilagyi, @apdamegriff, and @raynerlucas, I convened a panel on #Usenet as an #archive of digital discourse at #BDCAM25: https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Usenet_panel_at_the_Born-Digital_Collections,_Archives_and_Memory_Conference

From https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/q7g3jc/comment/hhy353g/: "Out of commercial presses in my book heavy field, the reputation goes something like: University Presses > Routledge > = (a bunch of specialty presses like Polity/ Brill) > Taylor Francis> Springer >>>>>>>> World scientific." Interestingly, I had independently come up with a similar mental ranking. How would you rank #academic book #publishers in your field?

Are you a #TeXLaTeX user wondering what's happened to comp.text.tex now that #GoogleGroups has shuttered its #Usenet gateway? We give an explanation in the latest issue of TUGboat: The Communications of the @TeXUsersGroup: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb45-3/tb141lucas-usenet.pdf

Wow—I've never seen such a brazen offer in predatory journal #spam! (Though something tells me that if I submitted a paper that was 100% plagiarized, they'd happily publish it anyway as long as I paid the APC.) #predatorypublishing

I particularly like the "#Google as a mutant anglerfish" analogy here. The entire thread is worth reading for its criticism of claims that #LLMs are #OpenSource. https://lwn.net/Articles/982954/#CommAnchor982966

What does #ArtificialIntelligence need to be funny? I'm quoted in a new Digital Frontier article on this question: https://digitalfrontier.com/articles/AI-humour-chatgpt-her-elliq (free registration required).

Remember #GEOS, the Mac-like desktop environment for the #C64 and #C128? TPUG will be interviewing its creator, Brian Dougherty, a couple hours from now: https://www.tpug.ca/2024/04/tpug-meeting-for-april-18-2024-brian-dougherty-founder-of-berkeley-softworks/