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Till A. Heilmann
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Doing #MediaStudies at RuhrUniBochum as part of CRC Virtual Lifeworlds | Book project on #Photoshop and #ImageProcessing | #Culture, #History and #Theory of #Digitality
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Neu❗ Was weiß #GPT von Mark Twain, Alice Munro und überhaupt von #Literatur? 📚 Mein aktueller Versuch, etwas herauszufinden: 🔍 "Was liest #ChatGPT? Vom Take Off der Token", in: Digitales Lesen, hg. von Susanne Düwell u. Nicolas Pethes, Metzler 2025. #LLM #Lesen #Digital
Was liest ChatGPT? Vom Take Off der Token
Der Beitrag untersucht, welche literarischen Texte für das Training von OpenAIs Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) verwendet wurden. Über öffentlich zugängliche Informationen...
link.springer.com
#Xmas Invaders, by @masswerk.at, to get you in the right mood.
BTW, here you are:

masswerk.at/pet/?prg=xma...

(and now off for festivities… 😀)
December 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Happy #birthday, dear Norbert! @masswerk.at
mass:werk - media environments
Home page of Norbert Landsteiner (Design, Web-Development, Media, Consulting, Computer History)
www.masswerk.at
December 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Unexpected Thalia
December 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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If you feel like teaching photography as an art practice and as a historical matter, here is your position at Boulder:
​Assistant Professor in Photography and the History of Photography
jobs.colorado.edu
December 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Cheering for you from my kitchen! (While preparing pre-Christmas dinner tonight.) I’ll have a drink of homemade eggnog on you tonight!
X-Mas Quest:
Can I do a 6502 X-mas themed game for the Commodore PET in a single day?

Progress so far…
December 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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X-Mas Quest:
Can I do a 6502 X-mas themed game for the Commodore PET in a single day?

Progress so far…
December 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Cassiopeia (“Kessi”) wishes you a happy Fourth Sunday of #Advent. #Christmas (Kessi is the youngest, and cutest, #GuineaPig of our little herd.)
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I’m wearing my ugly Christmas sweater (it’s really ugly), drinking coffee, reading in my 800+ pages book, listening to smooth jazz, guarding the Advent wreath. This is fine.
December 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Merry Advent IV
December 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sigh... Alternative-academic career as neoliberal entrepreneur in all things paranormal. Sadly, this looks more and more realistic.
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Okay – now, to get into the right mood, we need a #PET #Invaders #Christmas edition: gift boxes, reindeer, Santa in his sleigh, elfs, pointed hats ... (You get my drift.)
I think, I finally managed to capture "PET Invaders" with sound.

Grab it here:
masswerk.itch.io/pet-invaders

#petscii #commodore #8bit #mos6502
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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I think, I finally managed to capture "PET Invaders" with sound.

Grab it here:
masswerk.itch.io/pet-invaders

#petscii #commodore #8bit #mos6502
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Letzter universitärer Text für dieses Jahr ist geschrieben und raus. Ab jetzt nur noch Gruß- und Geschenkkarten, Einkaufslisten, Neujahrs-Mails und alberne Skeets (hauptsächlich zu Meerschweinchen). Außerdem: Eggnog (selbstgemacht) und Christstollen (selbst gekauft).
December 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I am trying to meet a #deadline I missed weeks ago and my #Emacs keep crashing and corrupting text! WTF!!
December 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Ab heute geht die #Sonne hier jeden Abend wieder ein kleines bisschen später unter als am Vortag. 🌆 Es ist geschafft! 🕟 ⬆️
December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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I am pretty thrilled to announce the publication of Perceptron, a creative-critical reading of Frank Rosenblatt and his world-changing invention. I co-authored Perceptron with Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social, my collaborator and partner in all things. punctumbooks.com/titles/perce...
December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I try to avoid linking to Substacks but this essay is FASCINATING
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
marcusolang.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Jetzt online❗Letzte Publikation von mir in diesem Jahr: #Analoge #Medien 📷 📽️ 🎙️, in: 📖 Handbuch #Medientheorien im 21. Jahrhundert, hg. von Christoph Ernst, Katerina Krtilova, Jens Schröter und Andreas Sudmann, @springernature.com. Danke an die Herausgeber und den Verlag!
Analoge Medien
Der Beitrag bespricht die Bedeutung analoger Techniken für Theorien von Medien. Er zeichnet die Begriffsgeschichte des Ausdrucks ‚analog‘ nach und unterscheidet dabei zwischen einer engeren und einer weiten Auffassung. Zwar spielte der Begriff in...
link.springer.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
#GuineaPigs Minerva (“Mimi”) and Snofru wish you a happy Third Sunday of #Advent. #Christmas
December 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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In my 25yrs in the academy I 👀 the proliferation of expensive enterprise software that shifted the burden of sooo many basic administrative functions — reconciling receipts, paying honoraria, booking travel — from competent, efficient staff to faculty + students. I’d spend entire days on this crap.
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Hey, @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, ist das nur meine Maschine/Verbindung, oder geht’s unserem Mailserver gerade nicht gut?
December 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Jedes Jahr derselbe Irrsinn.

(In den letzten einhundert Jahren gab es gerade sechs Mal weiße Weihnachten in ganz Deutschland: 1906, 1917, 1962, 1969, 1981 und 2010. www.geo.de/wissen/gab-e...)
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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#ResistanceRoots

Grace Hopper was born on this day in 1906 in New York City. Hopper was a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy and a pioneering computer programmer who was called “Amazing Grace” and the “grandmother of the computer age” for her innovative work. /1
December 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Well, this is beautiful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZE...
The Sorrowful Ballad of Jet Set Willy | ZX Spectrum
YouTube video by RoseTintedSpectrum
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
500 (!) Seiten schöne Beiträge, etwa zur Geschichte der Virtuellen Frauenuniversität (Anna Tuschling), zur E-Mail (Simon Rothöhler), zu Large Language Models (Katia Schwerzmann), zum Hörsaal (Natalie Binczek), u.v.m.
December 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM