John Bell
@novomancy.bsky.social
Director, DREAM Studio. DH & XR @ Dartmouth College. Digital Curation @ UMaine. Art & code @ WWW. #10print
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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
Eyebeam launches the search for the next Executive Director | Eyebeam
Eyebeam invests in artists who create with technology and explore how it influences the way we live.
eyebeam.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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
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toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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🚀 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/
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/
DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️
’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
vole.wtf
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🚀 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/
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/
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You can't spell "calipers" without AI...
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
You can't spell "calipers" without AI...
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"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.
Good read but always weird to see a genre I followed from early on be looked at from a historic lens.
The Cyberpunk Guide: 50 Years of High Tech, Low Life Across Literature, Film, Anime, Comics & Gaming - RetroFuturista
Cyberpunk explained: the cultural movement that merged technology with rebellion, from Neuromancer and Blade Runner to global variants and modern derivatives.
retrofuturista.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
"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.
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.
October 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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.
October 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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!
October 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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!
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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!
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!
Call for Submissions
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
eliterature.github.io
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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!
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.
October 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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.
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2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group!
Internships in
Story,
Ideation,
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Prototyping (3D printing etc),
Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!)
Physical (springs and spinny things)
Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)
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)
!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!!
Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students.
We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept…...
!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!!
Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students.
We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept ...
www.linkedin.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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)
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.
September 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I'm too old to be looking for missing semicolons.
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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
Grok's sexy AI "companions" are being powered by listening in on user's private conversations with chatbots, say former workers.
"It made me feel like I was eavesdropping... like people clearly didn't understand that there's people on the other end listening to these things."
"It made me feel like I was eavesdropping... like people clearly didn't understand that there's people on the other end listening to these things."
Behind Grok's 'sexy' settings, workers review explicit and disturbing content
Workers say they've faced sexually explicit content while xAI has marketed Grok to be deliberately provocative. Experts say the company should be cautious.
www.businessinsider.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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.
September 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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.
September 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The editors gave us a lot to unpack in this header, but you have to applaud the effort.
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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
September 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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
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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
@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
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de
September 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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
@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.
September 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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
rslstandard.org/rsl
September 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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
rslstandard.org/rsl
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One of the coolest video game preservation stories I have ever covered arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity
Finding working copies of the last few titles was an “especially cursed” journey.
arstechnica.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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)
(These have the four parts of Vinge’s Marooned in Real Time plus a bonus of Clarke’s The Steam-Powered Word Processor)
September 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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)
(These have the four parts of Vinge’s Marooned in Real Time plus a bonus of Clarke’s The Steam-Powered Word Processor)
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Hey Firefox users.
August 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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...
sciplus.com/important-in...
August 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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...
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.
August 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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.