Paul Schacht

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Prof. of English and Director, Center for Digital Learning, SUNY Geneseo. Victorians, Thoreau, Digital Humanities, Digital Learning. Director, Digital Thoreau. https://digitalthoreau.org
Websitehttps://paulschacht.net
Paul SchachtApr 18, 2025
Digital ThoreauApr 18, 2025
New on the Digital Thoreau blog: Bob Young discusses Thoreau's fourth and final climb of Mount Monadnock, and explores the map of Monadnock that Thoreau drew in his Journal entry of August 9, 1860. Complete with high-resolution images of the Journal and a StoryMapJS tour of the map. https://digitalthoreau.org/blog/ #thoreau #manuscripts #americanlit #dh
Digital Thoreau

Thoreau digitized. Deliberately.

Digital Thoreau
Paul SchachtFeb 21, 2025
Micah LeeFeb 20, 2025
I just wrote a quick blog post about why Substack writers should switch to Ghost! https://micahflee.com/2025/02/not-only-is-substack-right-wing-broligarchy-garbage-its-way-more-expensive-than-ghost/
Not only is Substack right-wing broligarchy garbage, it's way more expensive than Ghost

A lot of us know by now that Substack has a Nazi problem. It not only profits from fascist voices, it actively promotes their work and recruits them. And it's funded by Silicon Valley anti-democracy billionaires like Marc Andreesen — the same type of people who are, right now, raiding the US government to basically cut funding for social services and scientific research, and to steal money for themselves.

Micah Lee
Paul SchachtDec 8, 2024
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Dec 8, 2024

Tomorrow!

It’s a bit like trying to shovel the walk in the middle of a blizzard, but @alex and I are going to attempt to clear the backlog of Fresh AI Hell in our next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream:

Monday, Dec 9, noon Pacific
https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

dair_institute - Twitch

Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

Twitch
Paul SchachtDec 5, 2024
Digital ThoreauDec 5, 2024
The first recorded instance in English of ”Brain rot,” the 2024 Oxford University Press Word of the Year, is in the concluding chapter of Thoreau's #Walden. It first enters Thoreau's drafts of Walden in the F draft (1853-1854), 6th of the 7 in HM 924, the manuscript of Walden at the Huntington Library. It appears in paragraph 7 of “Conclusion.” To see the full manuscript page, search for image 1252 at https://digitalthoreau.org/manuscript-search-tool/ Track all of Thoreau's revisions to the Walden manuscript at https://digitalthoreau.org/fluid-text-toc/ #manuscripts #dh #words #dictionary
Manuscript Search Tool

Walden Manuscript Search Tool The search tool is a work in progress. It is periodically updated as the Digital Thoreau editorial team continues to identify correspondences between the images and Th…

Digital Thoreau
Paul SchachtNov 20, 2024
kottke.orgNov 20, 2024
For the love of god, quit calling your newsletter “my Substack”. “You can talk about your work as *your work*. It’s your newsletter, or your email, or your blog. Or just your writing. But it sure as hell isn’t ‘your Substack.’” https://www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/
Don't call it a Substack.

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash
Paul SchachtOct 7, 2024
Dan GillmorOct 7, 2024

California Gov. Newsom is definitely not the progressive he claims to be.

This is disappointingly clear in his rejection of a law that would have -- very modestly -- restrained some of the worst behavior of the "private equity" and "hedge fund" financial manipulators who are looting so many industries and communities.

Biden has been vastly better on this all recent presidents. Where does Harris stand?

https://prospect.org/health/2024-10-04-democrats-serious-about-stopping-private-equity/

Are Democrats Even a Little Serious About Stopping Private Equity?

A notorious health care looter claims a Senate investigation into his private equity–enabled hospital collapse is a superficial show trial. Did Gavin Newsom just prove him right?

The American Prospect
Paul SchachtSep 29, 2024
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Sep 29, 2024

Join us tomorrow!

Announcing the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream!

Can “AI” do your science for you? Should it be your co-author? Join me and @alex as we not only say hell no but also pick apart some specific proposals:

Monday, September 30, 11am Pacific
https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

dair_institute - Twitch

Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

Twitch
Paul SchachtSep 10, 2024
Yvonne SealeSep 10, 2024

A reminder about the upcoming online workshop, "#Medieval Women’s Networks: Exploring Techniques and Tools for Digital Analysis" which will take place on Oct. 17/18! I'm looking forward to taking part.

For more info and to register, visit https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTBgj3Q13gVS2vCrxeFsDUFask1fb1-Xp9XNdMnYwwLiTGoU61TOhsPxZvVl7kHm9DB9QvZ-noW9yYQ/pub

Medieval Women DH Networks

Paul SchachtApr 21, 2024
Natasha  🇪🇺Apr 20, 2024
Requires a < /FOOT PATH > sign at the other end of the trail?
Paul SchachtApr 20, 2024
Brewster KahleApr 20, 2024

"...uphold libraries’ rights and interests to
use, re-use, adapt, aggregate, and share metadata
that describes library collections to serve the public interest, without restriction or limitation."
--Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries

https://icolc.net/statements/joint-statement-metadata-rights-libraries

Bet you did not think locking down metadata was a problem. Now you do. Open it up, and keep it open!

Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries | ICOLC Website

 StatementThe endorsers listed below urge all organizations, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, to uphold libraries’ rights and interests to use, re-use, adapt, aggregate, and share metadata that describes library collections to serve the public interest, without restriction or limitation.