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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

New article: “Weird Science: When Elon made Ani“ on Medium: Reflections on an 80s "classic" and Elon's amorous pecadillos with AI virtual companions. markcmarino.medium.com/weird-scienc...

New article: Weird Science: When Elon made Ani, reflections on robot lovers. markcmarino.medium.com/weird-scienc... #artificialintelligence

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. markcmarino.com/chatgpt/ #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!

Join us Monday for Commedia dell' Netprov. Monday 9am as part of the UnderAcademy College August of Disgust. Rob Wittig and I are Digressing Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Amost all of you are invited to our new course! It's all about diversity, equity, and inclusion of all but one. It will be taught on an evite. Part of our UnderAcademy College August of Disgust. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sign up for Artifeelcial Emoticons, a meditation on artificial emotions, a free asynchronous course taught by Margaret Rhee and myself Aug. 17-24 part of the UnderAcademy College August of Disgust Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How do machines learn? In class. Only BOTS! is a course true to its name. No humans allowed. They couldn't keep up if they tried. LOL. Bots can sign-up via the UnderAcademy College website. It launches Saturday. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Don't miss our play session of Commedia dell' Netprov Monday August 18, 90 minutes of collaborative comedy writing, part of the UnderAcademy College August of Disgust! #netprov w Rob Wittig Sign-up here: underacademycollege.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/u...

Our next free UnderAcademy course is The Breath Library taught by Anna Nacher. Take a breath, there's still time to sign up! @nytuan.bsky.social underacademycollege.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/u...

First classes of UnderAcademy College August of Disgust launch today. Rock Enroll any time to join these free courses. underacademycollege.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/u...

Rock Enroll today for the UnderAcademy College August of Disgust free courses. The first one On the Road –Spatial Stories in the Style of Burma Shave starts Monday, by Digressor Patrick Lichty underacademycollege.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/u...

Rock Enroll now for free UnderAcademy College courses in our August of disgust. Enrollment will be rolling. First classes start Monday, Aug 11. Rock Enroll today! underacademycollege.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/u...

Assembling the Avengers to save College Writing in the age of Ultron (AI) First recruit: @anetv.bsky.social Stick around for the after credits to see who's next

Free courses from UnderAcademy College in our August of Disgusr. Rock Enroll today! underacademycollege.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/u...

Free micro courses from UnderAcademy College in our August of Disgust: Rock Enroll today! underacademycollege.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/u...

👀🚨 Art world friends! UC Berkeley Art Practice's Worth Ryder Gallery has an open **Full Time** position as Gallery and Public Programs Manager Check it out! Search for "Gallery and Public Programs Manager(6127U) - #80168" careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucm/EMPL... Join us at Cal! <3

With education under seige, find sanctuary at UnderAcademy College! We can not be defunded!* because we have never been funded. Rock Enroll today! underacademycollege.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/u...

Rock Enroll in our UnderAcademy College August of Disgust course offerings! All courses free! underacademycollege.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/u...

Another crew from The NEXT Stage Immersive Summit! #nextstage25 @ashelizasmith.bsky.social @immersiveexperience.org

Congrats to these super heroes on pulling off and putting on The NEXT Stage Immersive Summit! @noproscenium.com @kathrynyu.com @immersiveexperience.org

Crew meetup at NEXT Stage Immersive Summit! #nextstage25 @immersiveexperience.org @noproscenium.com

Escape rooming in a box at Hatch Escapes in #NextStage25 @immersiveexperience.org @noproscenium.com

So looking forward to immersing myself in the Next Stage Immersive Summit this weekend! @noproscenium.com www.immersiveexperience.org/the-next-sta...

In LA for The Next Stage @immersiveexperience.org. Two years ago I attended the first edition on a scholarship, which propelled my work and introduced me to so many amazing other people in the immersive realm. Glad to be back and hopefully pay it forward - plase come say hi if you’re here too!

The Nazi soldier celebrating the end of the Paris occupation & the US soldiers controlling the crowd in a Roman arena are the product of the same ahistorical logic that underlies all genAI – a logic of associating redundant patterns in which visual consistency triumphs over historical coherence 5/

Counterfactual pseudo-history is the default mode of AI slop. The latent spaces of #genAI are free of chronology, causality, or historical time. All visual patterns exist here simultaneously as equally accessible & exploitable resources, organized by similarity & ready to be endlessly recombined 4/

Yasser Atef and I present a workshop on Alt Text, pitting AI vs people: youtu.be/4s2TMET6Ceg?... #accessibility #MYFest

“chatbot free speech”

What will the future of writing instruction look like? Think with me here markcmarino.medium.com and here artandplayfulintelligence.substack.com

ChattieG and I are delighted to see this review of Hallucinate This! by Steve Tomasula in American Book Review! Actually, ChattieG is a little bummed it is behind a paywall so can't train on it. But I say, hey, not everything is data. muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... #artificialintelligence #chatgpt