J.D. Porter

@jdporter.bsky.social

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Digital Humanities guy, Price Lab at UPenn | I work on text mining, canons, literature and philosophy, and so on | Writing in Synthese, The Atlantic, Cultural Analytics, Episteme, the Stanford Literary Lab pamphlet series, etc

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So impossible to make Trump seem like a feasible choice that the NYT has pivoted to covering an imaginary primary that no one wants and couldn’t happen and won’t.

At the top of this screenshot, an AI-generated summary of a table Google took from Fox sports. It’s not correct, not in order, and doesn’t make any sense—did Kirby really throw fewer pitches per inning than there are outs in an inning? 1/4

Think of student loan cancellation as a kind of gratuity for past actions

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“Which Philly sports fan is the worst human being?” a question considered impossible to answer until Alito showed up at that Phillies game

Chet Holmgren might stand alone in history in being that incredibly talented, yet so clearly second best in such an unfathomably specific way.

If Jokic wins MVP and the Nuggets lose two more games, this will be the first conference finals ever that features no current or former MVPs.

Barely eking past a seven seed whose best player has one bendable knee and one closable eye, are these folk heroes, nay, demigods? Consulting the scriptures (rewatching “When the Garden was Eden” twice today instead of once), reciting my most vexing mantras (“physical basketball is fun to watch”)

Excited to see this piece come out in PMLA! @fredner.org and I argue that the literary canon, as reflected in the Norton Anthology of American Lit, has favored a growth model to address inequities of race and gender (adding authors), over redistribution (swapping authors)—to its detriment! 1/4

Counting on The Norton Anthology of American Literature | PMLA | Cambridge Corewww.cambridge.org Counting on The Norton Anthology of American Literature - Volume 139 Issue 1

“The overall effect – a pleasing one – is of a prog band that is not particularly skillful on their instruments and has never read Tolkien.” Great review

Start your morning with @andrewwalser.bsky.social on a "musical platypus" that unites, among other improbable ingredients, Houses of the Holy and The Changing Light at Sandover. Rarely has there been such a perfect match of writer and subject!

The Fiery Furnaces' Songs on 'Widow City' Are Multiverse 45swww.popmatters.com The songs on the Fiery Furnaces' 'Widow City' are like a multiverse 45; they'll never be hits on this Earth but might sell millions in a world slightly tweaked.

This course is a lot of fun to teach—we go basically from zero programming experience up to “code your own text analysis project” in a couple days. Drop me a line if you’re interested and have any questions!

Get started with text analysis (or hone your skills) with @jdporter.bsky.social at Dream Lab 2024. More info here: bit.ly/Text-Analysis #digitalhumanities #dh

Every poll: Trump leads 48-46 as most voters say they “never heard of” Jan 6 Every election: Linda Somerando (D) defeats 8-time incumbent Earl Chudboy (R) 64-30 in Forrest County, a +80 Trump stronghold where the Chudboy family has held office since 1873

Cool paper, can tell I’ll be citing this a lot

What are the best ways of clustering literary works by genre? In our new paper, @artjomshl.bsky.social & I compare 291 combinations of algorithms to find this out. Many findings are surprising: say, k of topics in LDA doesn't matter, or Euclidean distance is terrible 🤷‍♂️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rihanna and Coldplay could have swapped a bunch of their hits while still sounding completely natural, this must be the key to something

The origins of so many sports are shrouded in mystery and legend and basketball is just “a guy thought of it”.

Kind of seems like the age of a well known guy can’t be news, like by definition. We’ve known for many years how old Biden would be right now, don’t need “reporting” on this unless he is somehow a different age than that

Feels like a pretty pro-labor moment, but then you see NBA fans come out of the woodwork to support the 65-game minimum because “I don’t get to take a bunch of days off at my job”.

Music genres with the suffix “core” on Pitchfork: a thread *abstinence-core* Ex: "He seems humbled by his interactions with younger rappers in the wake of the abstinence-core of KOD and the schoolmarmish “1985 (Intro to The Fall Off).”" pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Music genres with the suffix “core” on Pitchfork: a thread *montage-core* Ex: "Call it “sync-indie” or “montage-core” or, more accurately, corporate rock." pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Music genres with the suffix “core” on Pitchfork: a thread *post-munchkin-core* "It could be heard, too, as a more tuneful take on the post-munchkin-core of Avey Tare & Kria Brekkan." pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Music genres with the suffix “core” on Pitchfork: a thread *screamo advice-core* Ex: “even the unstodgy "Society Dome" falls from its fresh lyrical beginnings to words worthy of screamo advice-core” pitchfork.com/reviews/albu... (Or is it just advice-core, which may have screamo iterations?)

This is arguably the first digital humanities movie

Music genres with the suffix “core” on Pitchfork: a thread *NyQuilcore* Ex: "After three NyQuilcore tracks that make the drum machine from Timmy Thomas' "Why Can't We Live Together" sound like a Clyde Stubblefield/Ginger Baker showdown…" pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Music genres with the suffix “core” on Pitchfork: a thread *scrape-core* Ex: "This relentless grind and screech could suffice as passable garage scrape-core if coupled with an intelligent, provoking singer." pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Music genres with the suffix “core” on Pitchfork: a thread *Snore-core* Ex: "Unlike the great Lambchop, however, Clem Snide's contribution to the Snore-core movement features little but silly, oblique wordplay with music as mere afterthought" pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Music genres with the suffix “core” on Pitchfork: a thread *MoMA PS1-core* Ex: “Over his prolific past decade, the Gary, Indiana rapper’s made just about any style work for him, from Madlib’s weirdo breakbeats to MoMA PS1-core bangers.” pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Music genres with the suffix “core” on Pitchfork: a thread *waiting-room-core* Ex: “This is full-on waiting-room-core, with guitars that moan, saxophones that mewl, and synths that twinkle like costume jewelry.” pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Music genres with the suffix “core” on Pitchfork: a thread *ogre-core* Ex: “On other standouts, such as record opener “Gang” and the ogre-core stomp of “Fifafofum!”, that free-for-all feeling is reminiscent of the old Odd Future energy” pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Music genres with the suffix “core” on Pitchfork: a thread *tiptoe-core* Ex: “it's the most vivid example of what happens when tiptoe-core is turned into turbo-bump” pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Navigating a sea of born-obsolete middlebrow articles and healthcare scam ads, resolutely ignoring all evidence in my attempt to nominate 100 Gecs for TIME Person of the Year