Till A. Heilmann
@tillheilmann.info
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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Till A. Heilmann
@tillheilmann.info
· Oct 16
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...
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#Xmas Invaders, by @masswerk.at, to get you in the right mood.
December 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
#Xmas Invaders, by @masswerk.at, to get you in the right mood.
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
Happy #birthday, dear Norbert! @masswerk.at
Unexpected Thalia
December 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Unexpected Thalia
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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
If you feel like teaching photography as an art practice and as a historical matter, here is your position at Boulder:
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…
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
Cheering for you from my kitchen! (While preparing pre-Christmas dinner tonight.) I’ll have a drink of homemade eggnog on you tonight!
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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…
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
X-Mas Quest:
Can I do a 6502 X-mas themed game for the Commodore PET in a single day?
Progress so far…
Can I do a 6502 X-mas themed game for the Commodore PET in a single day?
Progress so far…
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
Cassiopeia (“Kessi”) wishes you a happy Fourth Sunday of #Advent. #Christmas (Kessi is the youngest, and cutest, #GuineaPig of our little herd.)
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
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.
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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
Sigh... Alternative-academic career as neoliberal entrepreneur in all things paranormal. Sadly, this looks more and more realistic.
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
Grab it here:
masswerk.itch.io/pet-invaders
#petscii #commodore #8bit #mos6502
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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.)
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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
Grab it here:
masswerk.itch.io/pet-invaders
#petscii #commodore #8bit #mos6502
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I think, I finally managed to capture "PET Invaders" with sound.
Grab it here:
masswerk.itch.io/pet-invaders
#petscii #commodore #8bit #mos6502
Grab it here:
masswerk.itch.io/pet-invaders
#petscii #commodore #8bit #mos6502
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
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).
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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
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...
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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
I try to avoid linking to Substacks but this essay is FASCINATING
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
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!
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.
Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
Protests force disclosure of costs totaling $16,000 per student over 7 year rollout replacing 80 legacy systems
The total cost of a Workday implementation project at Washington University in St. Louis is set to hit almost $266 million, it was revealed after the project was the subject of protests from students.…
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December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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.
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
Hey, @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, ist das nur meine Maschine/Verbindung, oder geht’s unserem Mailserver gerade nicht gut?
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...)
(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
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...)
(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...)
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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
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
#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
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
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Well, this is beautiful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZE...
The Sorrowful Ballad of Jet Set Willy | ZX Spectrum
YouTube video by RoseTintedSpectrum
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December 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Well, this is beautiful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZE...
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.
Eben #OpenAccess erschienen: meine Einordnung von #Textverarbeitung in die Virtuelle #Universität, im gleichnamigen Band, hg. von Patrizia Breil und @floriansprenger.bsky.social am @sfb1567.bsky.social bsky.social Virtuelle #Lebenswelten bei @transcript-verlag.bsky.social bsky.social. Dank an alle!
Virtuelle Universität – Geistes- und gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Zugänge
Virtualität als Möglichkeitsraum für die Universität: Potentiale, Chancen und Zukünfte der Hochschule.
www.transcript-verlag.de
December 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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.