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teaching creative code @ NYU, SVA, CUNY Hunter + bi-coastal + educator + consumer + lover + hater + freak + critic + noob + https://samheckle.com

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Latest posts by smarmy.bsky.social on Bluesky

first panel of a comic with two characters: first character says "i wonder who the--" and second character says "i'll ask chatgpt".
the second panel of the comic the two characters both have the sims negative relationship status effect modifier above their head (two blue people standing next each other with two red minus signs)

first panel of a comic with two characters: first character says "i wonder who the--" and second character says "i'll ask chatgpt". the second panel of the comic the two characters both have the sims negative relationship status effect modifier above their head (two blue people standing next each other with two red minus signs)

04.08.2025 17:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a woman is talking to a man and asking why can 't one part of the calculation of our eternal fate be easy Alt: a woman is talking to a man and asking why can 't one part of the calculation of our eternal fate be easy

and as the good place taught us: we are the sum of our choices. i'm not vegan/vegetarian, but i do choose to eat less meat and the less common cuts (manager's special ftw). being vege-only is a much more complicated lifestyle change than simply not using AI. we already lived so long without it!

04.08.2025 17:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma' “Without these safeguards, Mr. Barber eventually developed full-blown PTSD, which he is currently still being treated for,” the former mod's lawyer said.

its crazy to me to have these conversations comparing a chatgpt request vs. a google search vs. the water usage of creating a hamburger, and then set aside all ethical considerations of labor & trauma that goes into taxonomizing & moderating these datasets: www.404media.co/former-moder...

04.08.2025 16:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.

lately i've been having a lot of conversations around usages of AI (aren't we all 😑). two things have really come to the forefront especially now the inability to agree on energy consumption. www.wired.com/story/ai-car...

04.08.2025 16:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

tomorrow!

02.08.2025 02:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this show is closing today! we will be hosting a mindswap event, where 9 speakers will share their thoughts and research related to urban mythologies!

2pm today in SOHO

rsvp: lu.ma/pazwb01e

27.07.2025 14:48 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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see octavia butlers research into slime molds as alternative systems to collective organization. slop is a way to fight “the brand” methinks.

26.07.2025 16:58 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

looking at this list now though, i would probably pick boards of canada, capital cities, iamamiwhoami, and baths though

23.07.2025 14:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

honorable mentions go to the national and portugal the man

23.07.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

this was just before i had spotify and i had to burn the rips to cds because my car didn’t have an aux

23.07.2025 14:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Bluesky quick start guide ✨💻☁️Bluesky Guide☁️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ By Amanda Wyatt Visconti (@literaturegeek.bsky.social; formerly @literature_geek on Twitter). Please do share this guide with others!: tinyurl.com/DHBluesky. Last updated:...

#ICYMI I've a friendly Bluesky guide for folks you're hoping will try it, & for learning to use it more actively. Generally useful, but examples especially aimed @ folks in academia, libraries, DH. 3-step & multipage versions; starter pack list for social justice, humanities, tech, craft follows:

22.07.2025 10:13 — 👍 33    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 2

a close friend of mine always asks “have any weird dreams lately” when we catch up. i think it is also asking about your subconscious which i think is sweet.

20.07.2025 17:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Destruction Junket: Urban Mythologies [OPENING] · Luma This exhibition created by members of Destruction Junket revolves around "Urban Mythologies". Come join us at the opening for live interactive performances and…

if you are in NYC and feeling particularly chaotic, come to my show tonight!

themed around urban mythologies, looking at the stories we create around cities. there will be performances and interactive art starting at 9pm!

RSVP: lu.ma/m75qe693

18.07.2025 20:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

i feel like many recent bunker stories are the wealthy escaping to these havens. especially with influences such as altered carbon where the rich live above and away from the crisis, but it is more an indicator of class than anything else (including of the author)

17.07.2025 19:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

here are the slides from my #ELO25 talk yesterday, "Anti-Patterns and Queerness at the End of the World": bit.ly/smh-elo25. check the speaker notes for extra context, and bonus content in the skipped slides at the end :)

14.07.2025 19:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

overheard in toronto

> “im a slow reader, it takes me a long time to read—“
> “lemme tell you something: use chatGPT”

im going to jump off a bridge

14.07.2025 17:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A water color map with a bunch a red pins. One popup displays a flash fiction disaster story: 

Akron, Ohio
Monday, September 6, 2027

"It's hotter than Hades," they say. They're right. Hades is the devil's icebox compared to this. The tracks near Akron buckle, a sun kink it's called, derailing a freight train carrying chlorine and ethanol. The ambient sound of ten thousand HVACs washes over the land.

A water color map with a bunch a red pins. One popup displays a flash fiction disaster story: Akron, Ohio Monday, September 6, 2027 "It's hotter than Hades," they say. They're right. Hades is the devil's icebox compared to this. The tracks near Akron buckle, a sun kink it's called, derailing a freight train carrying chlorine and ethanol. The ambient sound of ten thousand HVACs washes over the land.

While at #ELO25 I’m launching a new online project. Here is “No Time to Discourse”—a speculative atlas of future climate disaster. Millions of (non-AI) procedurally generated flash fiction disaster stories. And they all hit a little too close to home these days. notime.now

12.07.2025 15:09 — 👍 22    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

Arrived in Toronto this evening for #ELO25, for which I've just made this handy hashtag feed. Follow it (or pin it) to see all the #ELO25 conference posts....

bsky.app/profile/did:...

11.07.2025 01:02 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

“chat” as a reference to the little people living in my phone = good

“chat” as a nickname for chatgpt = bad so immensely bad

11.07.2025 04:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
grilled pineapple slice served on blue coconut ice cream with toasted coconut flakes on a narrow white rectangular plate

grilled pineapple slice served on blue coconut ice cream with toasted coconut flakes on a narrow white rectangular plate

coconut ice cream w grilled pineapple at som tum jinda in toronto. this photo (and the lighting) did not quite capture the blue color but it was so yummy and soft and pillowy

11.07.2025 03:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
I don’t think we want a world where a few oligarchs can influence our beliefs very heavily, including in subtle ways by shaping what their social media sites do, where they can plagiarize anything without consequence, where they can defame anybody without consequence. We don’t allow that with people. With people, we say, “Well, you’re infringing on this person’s copyright, you’re defaming them, this is hate speech.” And yet, because machines aren’t clearly people, and because the laws were designed before machines like this were widespread, there are a lot of holes in the current legal structure that basically let the companies get away with anything they want. Every effort to hold them liable, whether for smaller things — like defaming an individual — or larger things — like conceivably giving rise to some cyber-attack that takes out the infrastructure for the entire United States for five days or whatever. They have resisted having any liability whatsoever.

I don’t think we want a world where a few oligarchs can influence our beliefs very heavily, including in subtle ways by shaping what their social media sites do, where they can plagiarize anything without consequence, where they can defame anybody without consequence. We don’t allow that with people. With people, we say, “Well, you’re infringing on this person’s copyright, you’re defaming them, this is hate speech.” And yet, because machines aren’t clearly people, and because the laws were designed before machines like this were widespread, there are a lot of holes in the current legal structure that basically let the companies get away with anything they want. Every effort to hold them liable, whether for smaller things — like defaming an individual — or larger things — like conceivably giving rise to some cyber-attack that takes out the infrastructure for the entire United States for five days or whatever. They have resisted having any liability whatsoever.

👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿

11.07.2025 02:42 — 👍 65    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0

i’m also INSANELY excited for the train on monday

09.07.2025 11:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

heading to Toronto tomorrow for #ELO25 !!! and then taking the train to Montreal on Monday afternoon. if anyone knows any cool creative tech art things / galleries / bookstores / food recommendations in either city (without car access, but maybe bike!) that would be lovely 🥰

09.07.2025 11:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Games for Palestine Charity 2025 A game jam from 2025-06-15 to 2025-07-13 hosted by Junch & seagamesforgood. The people of Palestine continue to be subjected to repeated hostilities, destruction of homes and livelihoods, critical inf...

My friends in the Southeast Asian game dev community is organising Palestine charity bundle on @itch.io.

Submissions are open until 13 July 2025.
And all reposts are very much appreciated.

You can follow us on @seagamesforgood.bsky.social to get updates.

03.07.2025 17:19 — 👍 102    🔁 98    💬 0    📌 3

i need to schedule my next shift..

28.06.2025 04:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A photo of the cover of the zine, featuring a black protest sign with an icon of rolling dice on it. In the background are some board game boxes, including Bloc by Bloc: Uprising and Fog of Love

A photo of the cover of the zine, featuring a black protest sign with an icon of rolling dice on it. In the background are some board game boxes, including Bloc by Bloc: Uprising and Fog of Love

I put down some thoughts about game design, what it’s good for, and what it isn’t good for in this zine!

Plus, a short guide to help get you started making a game if you’ve never done that before: gregisonthego.itch.io/rulebooks-fo...

✂️ 🎲 ✊ 🔥

27.06.2025 23:33 — 👍 80    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 4

what does @joshuacitarella.bsky.social have to say about this

28.06.2025 04:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
TRADE MAGAZINE WEEK

TRADE MAGAZINE WEEK

are you ready

📰 It's TRADE MAGAZINE WEEK 📰

💥 NEARLY 400 video game industry trade magazines, full-text searchable by the public 💥

🎙️ NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto, Sid Meier, and more 🎙️

☠️ NOT for the FAINT-OF-HEART historian ☠️

🚨 ONLY at archive.gamehistory.org 🚨

23.06.2025 16:52 — 👍 335    🔁 113    💬 7    📌 11

why make good food when bad food do trick

28.06.2025 04:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Specifically, if you're looking for a CS job at a small liberal arts college check this list (later this summer): cs-pui.github.io

And warning: many of these jobs have early fall deadlines!

#FAccT2025

25.06.2025 12:47 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

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