Yeah, this idea probably would have worked better if I'd done it before the shelves started to bend.

Includes this great roundtable on author influence in spec fic by @fantasycafe.bsky.social, Yvette Ndluvu, @cypayseur.bsky.social, and Daniel Rabuzzi strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

I’m excited to share the @aip.bsky.social 2026 Research Agenda. Developed with leaders across AIP’s Federation, it outlines five initiatives on policy & funding, workforce, digital preservation, international collaboration, and identities in the physical sciences. www.aip.org/aip/2026-aip...

Agenda from an upcoming faculty meeting, which I'm choosing to interpret as a Fluxus score:

You know the day will be either amazing or horrible when the random song stuck in your head is from Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

🎬 Filmmakers! The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Day Remix Contest is open! 🎥 Create a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain material from 1930. 🎶🎭📚 📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2... #publicdomain #contest

Wow, love the visuals in this.

Come research with us at the Max Planck Research Group for Machine Visual Culture — “Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing” positions open under Dr Leonardo Impett. We’ll get to hang out sometimes. www.biblhertz.it/3757971/0412...

#JobAlert! Assistant/Associate Professor in the Arts and Unconventional Computing, in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

📣🎬 Calling all filmmakers & artists! Celebrate Public Domain Day in January 2026 by making a 2–3 min short film using public domain works from 1930 & earlier. 📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2... #contest #filmmaking #publicdomain

Minor good news for libraries: "A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency" IMLS funds leadership training and R&D in libraries in the US. but everyone is gone and grants cancelled so who now gets employed? www.libraryjournal.com/story/a-vict...

Apparently I am “Driving for five hours straight physically hurts” years old now.

Narrator: it was exactly as worthy as the name Encyclopedia Galactica as Will Smith's I, Robot movie was worthy of that name.

We re-watched Wall-E tonight for the first time in forever. I was struck with an overwhelming feeling of "wow, remember when Pixar tried? They were good at their jobs, huh?"

eyebeam.org/executive-di... big transition time for an org that changed my life and the lives of so many artists, hope they find someone with the vision, fortitude, and courage its legacy deserves

Oh FFS, this was MEANT TO BE A JOKE bsky.app/profile/hald...

🚀 NEW MAGAZINE ⌨️ Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages! 10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed vole.wtf/doctype/

You can't spell "calipers" without AI...

"Crucially, [Bruce Sterling] articulated the genre’s defining cultural synthesis: the “overlapping of worlds that were formerly separate: the realm of high tech and the modern pop underground” Good read but always weird to see a genre I followed from early on be looked at from a historic lens.

I kind of hate how tearing down part of the White House without being ready to replace it with anything is so on the nose for the accelerationists running things. I knew parody and irony were dead, but now we're just stabbing metaphor right in the face as if artists didn't have enough problems.

Since I'm using two different dev environments, I'm now in the middle of an argument between Claude Sonnet and ChatGPT about the finer points of error checking. The good news is, neither is right.

Huge congratulations to everyone at The Hop on the reopening of their big stage with tonight’s concert featuring Renée Elise Goldsberry! Can’t wait for tomorrow’s Yo-Yo Ma / We Are Water performance. We missed you Hop!

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!

Following a student mispronunciation yesterday, I'll be referring to all LLM output as the Ship of Thesis going forward. Thank you for your time.

2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group! Internships in Story, Ideation, Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks), Prototyping (3D printing etc), Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!) Physical (springs and spinny things) Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)

I'm too old to be looking for missing semicolons.

I for one am shocked, shocked to learn that the training for Elon Musk's trash chatbot is not being conducted with the absolute highest ethical standards

I'm not at all sure Nexstar and Sinclair want to test exactly how required they are in the current media ecosystem by trying to bully a massive content creator with multiple OTT platforms.

The editors gave us a lot to unpack in this header, but you have to applaud the effort.

There are very, VERY few people who are equipped to talk about this shooter correctly given the brainrot written on the shell casing. You have to understand so much of online culture to get it and also understand how that culture is both connected to and separate from real world ideological spaces

10 four-year PhDs @dfg.de Research Training Group 3064 “Technologies of Witnessing: Media and Cultural Practices“ at the University Mainz – Deadline Oct 17 The RTG examines technologies of witnessing in contemporary media cultures in transformation. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/50416

Well, clearly. Thus the problem.

Seems this is just a way for platforms to sell UGC right now. Let me know when the schema supports micropayments to users and granular per-post settings with a CC-style license picker. Also, an enforcement mechanism since now it's just wishcasting. rslstandard.org/rsl

One of the coolest video game preservation stories I have ever covered arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

This is why I shouldn’t be allowed in used book stores. (These have the four parts of Vinge’s Marooned in Real Time plus a bonus of Clarke’s The Steam-Powered Word Processor)

Hey Firefox users.

This genuinely makes me sad. Growing up in the sticks with no money to my name, AS&S has all kinds of stuff I could be creative with - everything from tesla coil parts to nixie tubes to rubber chickens. Uncurated streams of trash from alibaba aren't the same. sciplus.com/important-in...

I'm choosing to believe the reason 20th and 21st century media shows up so often in Star Trek is copyright laws keep getting extended and Starfleet can only stores public domain songs and videos for their ships.

Ugh. There are no good outs here. Once the information is collected, it will be abused - either directly (though likely not at a place like Wikipedia) or via the inevitable data breach.

The right path is unclear; maybe it doesn't even exist. Still, LLMs appear to consistently follow the values of secular\rational people who strive for self-expression (sounds like me😅) To show it they collect and release 200K human-model chats+feedback, 5 languages and 21 LLMs 🤖📈🧠

“The jury reached a verdict on Monday that there was a ‘preponderance’ of evidence showing Meta had ‘intentionally eavesdropped on and/or recorded conversations using an electronic device,’ unbeknownst to Flo app users.”

Sure, because our society has reacted so well to human experts giving people advice on how to improve their lives recently.

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

More academic papers should use the word pompatus. And before you say it, yes, I am being the change I want to see in the world, thank you very much.

We've somehow landed in a cage fight between the Streisand Effect and the Reality Distortion Field for the future of the country.

WeTransfer now trains on your content for machine learning, without any option to opt out. I've just told them no thanks and goodbye forever, and you can do the same. Legal Terms: wetransfer.com/explore/lega... Contact Support: help.wetransfer.com/hc/en-us/req...

"The Mellon Foundation today announced the appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as a senior fellow." bit.ly/3GxwShQ