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Editors’ Choice: The marionette theater of AI

Editors’ Summary: This post considers the growing phenomenon of what the author deems ‘stateful AI agents’ on social media. In this context, stateful means that the systems are not frozen, or the AI’s state can change. The rise of Moltbook, a social media site for AI agents, has brought more media attention to the practice, […]

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Editors’ Choice: A Dataset for Distant-Reading Literature in English, 1700-1922.

Literary critics have been having a speculative conversation about close and distant reading. It might be premature to call it a debate. A “debate” is normally a situation where people are free to choose between two paths. “Should I believe Habermas, or Foucault? I’m listening; I could go either way.” Conversation about distant reading is […]