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• Post #4299913

  For decades, we've been going on vacation on the Baltic Sea, and for decades we’ve been renting bikes there. But the prices have gone up and the quality has gone downhill. So we finally bought our own bikes today and immediately went for a short ride to the Border Museum in Schlutup. Also, we can now recommend “at Fahrräder” in Lübeck: https://at-fahrraeder.de #Lübeck #BikeTooter

• Post #4299912

  After yesterday’s thunderstorm it was much cooler today, good conditions for riding our new bikes to #Travemünde. Didn’t know you had to take a bus shuttle through the Herrentunnel, but it’s free and works well. #Lübeck

• Post #3102652

  Not gonna live-toot, but #dhbenelux2026 has started, and I’m happy to be here! #dhbenelux26

• Post #3102651

  Bon ben, le slogan de l'UDC est «qualité suisse 🌞🇨🇭», pas «cohérence logique». https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2026/article/des-patrons-udc-recrutent-dans-l-ue-malgre-l-initiative-anti-immigration-29261525.html

• Post #3102650

  It’s great that conferences today are concerned with accessibility and inclusivity, but something that's still commonly overlooked is air quality. Such levels of CO₂ are unhealthy.

• Post #3102649

  The first #dhbenelux2026 keynote is given by @electricarchaeo: “Once Upon a Time: The Behaviour Space(s) of Stories.”

• Post #3102648

  I understand that potential security or ethical issues of a computer system may not be obvious when the intended application is generally unproblematic. However, when you specifically list medical, legal, and defense as application domains of your system, storing data locally rather than in the cloud is certainly a good idea, but you should think a bit harder about it. In particular when it involves AI. #ReviewerDuty

• Post #3102647

  Surprise, il s’avère que l’on peut en effet calculer l’effet de la mésapplication du bouclier fiscal. Mais bon, 202 millions, c’est des peanuts. On peut simplement couper le budget des hautes écoles. https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/vaud/2026/article/la-mauvaise-application-du-bouclier-fiscal-aurait-fait-perdre-202-millions-a-l-etat-de-vaud-de-2009-a-2021-29262649.html

• Post #3102646

  The second #dhbenelux2026 keynote is given by Sandra Carmada: “The Shape of the Playable Past: Narrative Systems and the Practice of History.” #dhbenelux26

• Post #3102644

  Coming up soon at #dhbenelux2026: “Arguing with Corpora: The Epistemic Status of Corpora in Computational Humanities” by Tonia Ramogida and yours truely. Abstract: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19440091 #dhbenelux26 #DigitalHumanities

• Post #2471350

  In LaTeX, you typically use an array environment for this type of equations, and \hline for the horizontal rule. I just discovered that #Pandoc doesn’t translate the \hline for #Typst output—but I also couldn’t find how you’d even do this in Typst. Any suggestions?

• Post #2471343

  TIL: to reimburse the travel costs of invited speakers, the university requires the indication of their marital status. #AcademicChatter

• Post #2471342

  Halfway through this paper that I’m reviewing appears an AI-generated diagram of the system the paper describes. The authors are transparent about it, but what do I make of this? I’ve got to admit, this annoys me more than I expected. Even if we assume that the diagram is structurally correct, the text contains the typical genAI artifacts (mashed-up letters, misspellings, etc.) that one wouldn’t accept in the main text—so it’s simply sloppy. What’s the point!?

• Post #2221534

  RE: https://zirk.us/@golmac/116502334391790642 Ooh, I’ve been waiting for the Gold Machine take on “Hollywood Hijinx” for a long time! #InteractiveFiction #retrocomputing

• Post #2049501

  RE: https://fediscience.org/@vardi/116426319636832980 … and how did ACM then decide adding “AI Summaries” to the premium tier was a good idea?

• Post #1941160

  Day 3 of #UndoneCS starts with a session on “Undone CS in the cloud.” The first talk will be on “Agile software production in computational infrastructures,” given by Donald Jay Bertulfo. https://www.undonecs.org/2026/programme.html

• Post #1722157

  “In this work, we conduct a large-scale simulation of how users might delegate work to LLMs across 52 professional domains. We find that current LLMs are unreliable delegates: even frontier models corrupt an average of 25% of document content over long workflows, with sparse but severe errors that silently compound over time.” Good to see the issue addressed explicitly, even though the results aren’t surprising—why would anyone expect LLMs to be reliable!? https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597

• Post #1636289

  Mise au concours d’un poste de maître·sse assistant·e en linguistique générale dans notre section https://unil.ch/sli/, Université de Lausanne #Unil (80 %, max. 4 ans, dès le 1er août 2026). Délai de candidature: 20 avril 2026. N’hésitez pas à faire circuler l’information dans vos réseaux et auprès de toute personne potentiellement intéressée. Personne de contact: @rbnmyr. Annonce officielle: https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?company=universitdP&career_job_req_id=22665&...

• Post #1502905

  Mise au concours d’un poste d'assistant·e diplômé·e (= doctorant·e) en humanités computationnelles dans notre section https://unil.ch/sli/, Université de Lausanne #Unil (80 %, max. 5 ans, dès le 1er août 2026). Délai de candidature: 20 avril 2026. N’hésitez pas à faire circuler l’information dans vos réseaux et auprès de toute personne potentiellement intéressée. Annonce officielle: https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career%5fns=job%5flisting&company=universitdP&amp...

• Post #1335632

  We’re kicking off our workshop on Structure and Interpretation with a keynote by Manfred Thaller: “Extracting and Communicating Historical Knowledge via ‘Graphs.’ Pipedreams of a Disbeliever in Hermeneutics.” #ComputationalHumanities #DigitalHumanities

• Post #1315334

  Since there seems to be renewed interest in #CDE, I thought I'd have a look at the my CDE utilities from back then, which led me to my old Web page “Linux on a VAIO Z600LEK” http://dynalabs.de/mxp.old/vaio/index.html, because there's a screenshot of my work environment from back then. ⇢ #retrocomputing

• Post #951341

  À la recherche d’un poste de #postdoc? En #HumanitésNumériques? En Suisse? Ça pourrait vous intéresser: La Section des sciences du langage et de l’information https://unil.ch/sli/, Université de Lausanne #Unil, met au concours un poste de premier·ère assistant·e en humanités computationnelles (80 %, max. 5 ans, dès le 1er février 2026). Délai de postulation: 16 novembre 2025. Annonce officielle: https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?company=universitdP&career_job_req_id=22518&a...

• Post #906154

  RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@mxp/116022427362651937 ▶︎ Reminder: we’ve got an open #PhD position in #ComputationalHumanities; deadline: April 20, 2026. (Knowledge of French required.) ▷ Rappel: nous avons un poste d’assistant·e diplômé·e (= doctorant·e) en #HumanitiésComputationnelles à repourvoir. Délai de candidature: 20 avril 2026.

• Post #852975

  @xmlarbyter Bon voyage!

• Post #852972

  TIL that Google Docs can’t automatically number headings. And people use this... thing for, like, serious work!?

• Post #852969

  Heute müssen die funkuhren umgestellt werden.

• Post #760883

  This is of historical interest on so many levels. When the notion of AI first appeared, chess was considered the epitome of intelligence (before that it was calculating)—which, of course, it isn’t. Now AI is all about pattern recognition, which certainly covers more of what we associate with human intelligence, but go figure, it’s not *just* pattern recognition either. ⇢ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-got-absolutely-wrecked-by-atari-2600-in-beginner...

• Post #760878

  If you’re interested in the theory and epistemology of digital and computational humanities, especially in the context of historical research: Call for Participation 🞲 Workshop on Structure and Interpretation: Towards Computational Historiographical Modeling https://www.unil.ch/events/1770376802338 March 31, 2026 in Lausanne #Unil. Participation is free, but the number of places is limited. #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalHumanities #DigitalHistory #HumanitésNumériques #HumanitésComputatio...

• Post #669965

  There’s still time to submit a long paper to ACM #DocEng25: share your document-related research and submit a paper by April 29! Short papers and demos are due June 17. (For all categories, abstracts are due a week before). #DocEng2025 #DocEng #DocumentEngineering https://mastodon.acm.org/@mxp/114182356855235680

• Post #128935

  Why not just label all posts by mailing list subscribers as “SUSPECTED SPAM” and be done with it? :-/