Have you ever read the first this Mrs Wobbles story? Check out where it all began for free for share it with your favorite little one or teacher. Stories of the magical foster care home!

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Come hear Daniel Temkin talk about the strangest prpgramming languages in the world at his USC book launch Wednesday! Sponsored by HaCCS lab, the Harman Academy, Media Arts + Practice and the Dornsife Writing Program!

@dtemkin.bsky.social @ahmansonlab.bsky.social

Woman Tends To Do Best Creative Thinking When Backed Into Corner With Livelihood At Stake

Woman Tends To Do Best Creative Thinking When Backed Into Corner With Livelihood At Stake https://theonion.com/woman-tends-to-do-best-creative-thinking-when-backed-in-1851338274/

OH at iDMAa: I have been a Klingon from time to time. -- Patrick Lichty

We're excited to host a book launch with Daniel Temkin, one of the world's leading experts in esoteric programming languages (or Esolangs).

Book Launch: Forty-Four Esolangs
2pm, October 15
Ahmanson Lab (3rd Floor of Leavey) @dtemkin.bsky.social @ahmansonlab.bsky.social

The Analog Sandwich Can we bring AI into the classroom and then ask it to step outside?

New today in The Important Work: @markcmarino.bsky.social on teaching writing with an "analog sandwich." First, AI, then, no AI, then...maybe AI. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/the-analog...

Today we delivered the edited copy for Inventing ELIZA due out next May from MIT Press. written with Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Anthony Hay, Peter McMillan, Arthur Schwarz, Jeff Shrager, Peggy Weil, and me, with a Foreward by Janet Murray. @sarahciston.com @mitpress.bsky.social

How come no one is feeling sad for all the paper mills that Chatgpt is putting out of business?

So cool. Team ELIZA just discovering that ELIZA was not even the original name of the program. Weizenbaum named the program SPEAK and then changed the name closer to the publicstion of the CACM article.

@mitpress.bsky.social

The Analog Sandwich: teaching writing with & without AI Can we bring AI into the classroom and then ask it to step outside?

In this new article, I explain “The Analog Sandwich: teaching writing with & without AI“: markcmarino.medium.com/the-analog-s...

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

I am adding my own kind of syntactic sugar in this last pass through our ELIZA book.

Making my way through Inventing ELIZA, our forthcoming book on the first chatbot from MIT Press. with Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Anthony Hay, Peter McMillan, Arthur Schwarz, Jeff Shrager, Peggy Weil, and me, with a Foreward by Janet Murray.

#critcode

Trying out a new phrase inspired by walking my dog: you pick up more poop with poop.

I think my new term for AI written content is Dog Food, minimally qualifying product mashed of bots and bobs that you would not serve your human loved ones.

Share how your code defines our world for UNESCO Exhibit - Software Heritage Your code builds solutions and tells a story. Feature it in our UNESCO exhibit. Submit your proposal by September 8, 2025.

Today is the last day to submit source code (original or historic) to the UNESCO exhibition curated by Software Heritage! What source code is important to you? Personally meaningful or socially relevant...

www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...

#critcode @softwareheritage.org

Share how your code defines our world for UNESCO Exhibit - Software Heritage Your code builds solutions and tells a story. Feature it in our UNESCO exhibit. Submit your proposal by September 8, 2025.

Last weekend to submit source code snippets to Software Heritage for the UNESCO exhibit.

www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...

@softwareheritage.org
#critcode

Congratulations to Sarah Ciston on winning the major prize at Ars Electronica!! Such a gifted and visionary artist!!

@sarahciston.com

Share how your code defines our world for UNESCO Exhibit - Software Heritage Your code builds solutions and tells a story. Feature it in our UNESCO exhibit. Submit your proposal by September 8, 2025.

Software Heritage is calling for code for its UNESCO exhibition, "treating code as the main event"! Send them a snippet of your computer source code by September 8!

www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...

#critcode

From John McDaid! Welcome to Palooka Palooza, the “August of Disgust” quad-fest you’ll deny remembering. Plinth, Clickbait, and stop eating paint headline three days of chaos, sweat, and citations. Come for the memes, stay for the OSHA violations. Sponsored by the UnderAcademy Student Union.

What are your favorite novels about AI? Extra points for BIPOC LGBTQ+ authors.

Two photos. One with Mark Marino holding a bag and a composition notebook. One with the notebooks in a bag.

Trying an AI sandwich writing course with a totally unplugged middle sectiin, inspired by many colleagues. It's like an AI Oreo, stuffed with the joy of writing by hand.

#teachingwriting #collegewriting

Mark C. Marino carrying a stack of books.

The ARCs just came of sentence number 115 of my email signature novel. Email me to request an advanced copy especially for reviews or promotion on socials. Looking for literary influencers!

Does anyone find it troubling that Ezra Klein gave his children's information to Chatgpt when searching for summer camps?

(hate to be another sourpuss on bluesky.)

@ezraklein.bsky.social

Thank you @histoftech.bsky.social for sharing these beautiful images of women programmers and their story. Ostracised from the industry for being mothers, revolutionising working remotely.

The chapter is from an anthology of non-fiction viewing the history of technology through a different lens.

Weird Science: When Elon made Ani A swirly for Musk as he rolls out a robot lover

New article: “Weird Science: When Elon made Ani“ on Medium:

Reflections on an 80s "classic" and Elon's amorous pecadillos with AI virtual companions.
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Weird Science: When Elon made Ani Another AI swirly for Musk as he roles out a robot lover.

New article: Weird Science: When Elon made Ani, reflections on robot lovers.

markcmarino.medium.com/weird-scienc...

#artificialintelligence

a logo, The Price of Education, UnderAcademy College, an upside down puggy bank crushes a student.

Join The Price of Education, as UAC offers a collective tale about the cost of expanding our minds and the debts we accrue as we climb up that mountain of learning, told on Venmo. Part of our August of Disgust.

Exercise: ask students to make a small change to a prompt in Hallucinate This! or use a different model to see how small changes in tokens or context affect generation.

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#artificialintelligence

Class is in session for Post Post Post. Basically, this post is the classroom, or rather anything you write in comment after this post is post post. The topic, being post all the posts. Post truth, Post democracy, Post Raisin Bran, etc.
Q: What posts are you post? Post your reply posthaste!