PD (Petey) Edgar MFA, MA

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Our first information session is TONIGHT, October 15, at 6pm. Come learn about the T&T PhD!

Call for Submissions The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.

I am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5.

eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/

I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa.

This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!

Our first information session for the T&T PhD is in ONE WEEK on Wednesday, October 15. Be sure to sign up to learn more about our program!

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

I wish i knew of this sooner! Excited to see what comes of it

GitHub - pdedgar1/borges-taxonomy: A fun minigame made to illustrate the taxonomy that Borges made and that tickled Foucault enough to write The Order of Things! A fun minigame made to illustrate the taxonomy that Borges made and that tickled Foucault enough to write The Order of Things! - pdedgar1/borges-taxonomy

And I talk a little more about the process in the ReadMe file below. There's a minor interest in providing categories and asking for examples of them to think about mapping semantic space/categories as a kind of exploratory gesture, but really this is just for fun

github.com/pdedgar1/bor...

I read this translation of the original story:
www.alamut.com/subj/artifac...

idk if anyone's teaching Borges but I Distant (Claude) Coded a matching game for the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge's taxonomy! (Bigger screen better)

lmk how it makes you feel — I still haven't gotten it perfect

pdedgar1.github.io/borges-taxon...

They asked me about spark notes. I proceed to go off on learning theory and cognition.

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Yes! Humanities majors get jobs!

Which is quite separate from humanities *departments* getting funding. We're under-funded for ideological reasons, alongside mistaken cultural assumptions about employability.

But our majors get jobs! At a high rate! History is a *good* major, so is Classics!

re•mediate's next issue will publish November 15. inviting works on the theme [MachineWitness]— as always, welcoming computer-assisted work and criticism of computer-assistance. Poetry <150 lines, Prose <4000 words, Image-Text-Media welcome! Direct Pitches for interviews to remediateeditor@gmail.com

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excited for this !

meme format where a man from an anime is looking at a butterfly and asks if it's a pigeon, but instead the man is Americans, the butterfly is labeled "basic human rights” and the quote is "is this communism?"

probably a good time to bring this back

Nam June Paik Reference >>> as an in-the-wild-glitch collector I'm really loving these and gift a malfunctioning-display-at-a-farmers-market-in-tuscaloosa

reading through the other pieces in the collection and loving this

Screaming!!! Thank you so much @thearsonista.bsky.social & John for including me, and @leeches.bsky.social for the heads up to submit!!

is it fair to suggest that LLMs depend on a Whole Language/Word approach to text, rather than a Phonics approach? Question prompted by my chat with @parrishka.bsky.social about LLMs' failure with syllabics/lipograms… What would change if calculations were made on smaller units than that of the word?

there's only a week left to submit to re•mediate— we're still taking XR, AR, VR, MR, and invite reviews of those works as well as creative writing that fits our theme of [Next Realities]!!

Evaluate the truism arrayed here:
"Attention overcomes republics;
Depression decorates ratios."

As there's only one month left to submit, time to reintroduce the co-editorial staff reading for this issue! Founding Editor @pdedgar30.bsky.social and Guest Editor @digitalpoetics.bsky.social are excited to read your [Next Realities] work.

Maybe No One Is Talking About This or We Are Watching Eliza Bright? Both on my shelf but haven’t read them all the way

Thank goodness yes! Someone else’s car caught on the second level but the fire trucks got there quickly and a path cleared for everyone to get out 😶‍🌫️

It’s here!!!! Ordered just before the parking garage fire at U.Tampa right after @loriemerson.net ‘s talk!

I know that media use the term "big beautiful bill" in quotes but it's unfortunate that this many years into covering this president we are still suckered into leading with his language and framing when covering such consequential stories