Open Source #DigitalHumanities software engineer. Founder of FromThePage.com, a platform for collaborative #manuscript #transcription to engage the public in #archives and create digital scholarly editions.https://bsky.app/profile/benwbrum.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/benwbrum.bsky.social/post/3muaawrloa22sI noticed something interesting in the #HTR that #Gemini produced from this #Hebrew letter today: עֵת נִפְרְדָה פְּרַאנְסִיס מֵאֲהָבֶיהָ הוּסַר מִבֵּית כֹּהֵן כְּלִיל תִּפְאֶרֶת עָלֶיהָ בָּכוּ עֲנִיֵּי עַם יַעַן נֶעֱדֶרֶת זוֹרַעַת חֶסֶד בִּתְבוּנוֹת כַּפֶּיהָ29 Aug 2026 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:w6artmrmpr4rndb2dss4nu35/app.bsky.feed.post/3muaawrloa22shttps://bsky.app/profile/benwbrum.bsky.social/post/3mthudnlbr226I'm getting really excited about tomorrow's webinar. Not because I think it'll be our best--editing historic account books is pretty niche, and the presenter (me) is way out of his depth--but because it's on my own historical research. https://content.fromthepage.com/aug-2026-webinar/19 Aug 2026 23:15 +0000at://did:plc:w6artmrmpr4rndb2dss4nu35/app.bsky.feed.post/3mthudnlbr226https://bsky.app/profile/benwbrum.bsky.social/post/3mtf3kgaw2s2dI'm getting very tired of LLM-based spam. No, I don't think that you've "booked 100 calls" with companies buying manuscript transcription in the last month, Caleb.18 Aug 2026 20:46 +0000at://did:plc:w6artmrmpr4rndb2dss4nu35/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtf3kgaw2s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/benwbrum.bsky.social/post/3mtefttl2zc2dJoin me this Thursday to walk through my process transcribing 19th-century account books in a quest to memorialize people buried in a Virginia slave cemetery. Editing Historic Account Books: When and Whether to Use AI (August 20, 2026) https://content.fromthepage.com/aug-2026-webinar/18 Aug 2026 14:17 +0000at://did:plc:w6artmrmpr4rndb2dss4nu35/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtefttl2zc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/benwbrum.bsky.social/post/3mrvi35cu6s2t100 years puts me at my great-grandparents generation, but I know what they were doing: Tobacco farmer Tobacco farmer Tobacco farmer Tobacco farmer My grandparents would have been approximately 10 years old, but they would have been pulling leaves or tying hands with the adults, depending on gender. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jul 2026 22:22 +0000at://did:plc:w6artmrmpr4rndb2dss4nu35/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrvi35cu6s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/benwbrum.bsky.social/post/3mql2pttows2sI've been worrying about cognitive atrophy and moral disengagement from #AI use for a while, but it really bit me today. My dev machine is in the shop, and so Sara and I were using her laptop to run some Claude Code sessions. One session was for a one-off script to run analytics and report in CSV14 Jul 2026 01:31 +0000at://did:plc:w6artmrmpr4rndb2dss4nu35/app.bsky.feed.post/3mql2pttows2shttps://bsky.app/profile/benwbrum.bsky.social/post/3mmwbn2lonc2tHow efficient is AI at transcribing a deluxe medieval manuscript? That's the wrong question! Some thoughts from a conversation with medievalist @lauramorreale.bsky.social and a letter from the pope. https://app.bentonow.com/share/bX0mnjxkKG52RW28 May 2026 14:54 +0000at://did:plc:w6artmrmpr4rndb2dss4nu35/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmwbn2lonc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/benwbrum.bsky.social/post/3mijexd3lvs2nIn just under two hours, we're hosting @jonippolito.net in a webinar presenting his research on the environmental impact of #AI use compared with other common digital technologies. Register for "How Green is your Prompt" webinar here: https://content.fromthepage.com/april-2026-webinar/02 Apr 2026 14:08 +0000at://did:plc:w6artmrmpr4rndb2dss4nu35/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijexd3lvs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/benwbrum.bsky.social/post/3mgfq7t64bc2mI stumbled across something interesting during a live demo in yesterday's webinar. Not having anything prepared, I tried a page in the Queens University Archives' Riel Resistance Collection. The hand was extraordinarily difficult for me, even though it was late 19th-century North American script06 Mar 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:w6artmrmpr4rndb2dss4nu35/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgfq7t64bc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/benwbrum.bsky.social/post/3meodkxibec2aWe're 75 minutes away from our webinar on responsible AI use in FromThePage--the challenges we face from AI and how we're addressing (some of) them: https://content.fromthepage.com/feb-2026-webinar/12 Feb 2026 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:w6artmrmpr4rndb2dss4nu35/app.bsky.feed.post/3meodkxibec2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/benwbrum.bsky.social/post/3m7zths5ihk2xThis is the first time we've been willing to add LLM-supported transcription to FromThePage. Last week's webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhqRbqBsFpo15 Dec 2025 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:w6artmrmpr4rndb2dss4nu35/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7zths5ihk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/benwbrum.bsky.social/post/3m7pmt3smqk2dIn four hours we will present our experiments integrating #gemini AI #transcription into the #crowdsourcing platform #FromThePage https://content.fromthepage.com/dec-2025-webinar/11 Dec 2025 12:58 +0000at://did:plc:w6artmrmpr4rndb2dss4nu35/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7pmt3smqk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/benwbrum.bsky.social/post/3m7iahoacjc2gIt looks like we passed another milestone on FromThePage last week:08 Dec 2025 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:w6artmrmpr4rndb2dss4nu35/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7iahoacjc2g