Judy Malloy
judymalloy.bsky.social
Judy Malloy
@judymalloy.bsky.social
poet/writer electronic literature
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Thrilled that Hunting and Gathering in Cyberspace -- www.narrabase.net/roar2/about_... -- received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Robert Coover Award for a work of Electronic Literature.
This week, The Flagrant Algorithms control output stanzas from Keats' Ode to Psyche and anti-suffrage texts
www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...
December 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
New In the flagrant Algorithms:
www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...?
Jane Austen goes dancing in letters to her sister. Generative Output using an algorithm that favors voices of women changes with each play; output using an algorithm that favors voices of 19th century men has not radically changed
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Welcome to data entry notes for The Flagrant Algorithms Visit the Lives of 19th Century Women
www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The adventures of the Flagrant Algorithms continue. Today 4 more variables were added from Fuller. Since AI apps might not distinguish between reliable & pop sources, 2 variables were taken from a “quotes from Margaret Fuller” website. To find out more, visit www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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🧵 Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the work that goes into lovingly repairing historic books from The Portico's 19th-century collection...
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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It's the #BookBirthday of Animal Crossing: New Horizons — Can a Game Take Care of Us?

If you were one of the players swept up in the embrace of #ACNH, or one of the people puzzled by the whole phenomenon, I hope this book reveals something new.

Thanks to everyone at @uchicagopress.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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In its announcement of the acquisition, Qualcomm said that Arduino would "[retain] its brand and mission," including its "open source ethos" and "support for multiple silicon vendors."
Qualcomm is buying Arduino, releases new Raspberry Pi-esque Arduino board
Qualcomm claims Arduino will keep its own branding and “open source ethos.”…
arstechnica.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Book talk: join us to talk about Binding Media on Friday October 3 with the amazingest team of @apprecovery.bsky.social
RSVP for link!
September 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
In 1986, when a Bad Information database was created on The WELL people.well.com/user/jmalloy...
my pop conceptual work of net art demonstrated that all information on computers was not accurate. Now, my just begun sequel will demonstrate how algorithms can distort the contents of datasets.
September 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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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
September 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Musical theatre fans / theatre kids / game designers / players: this Thursday we have a talk + workshop for you. Come learn how Stephen Sondheim was also a game designer and learn more about his games at Barry Joseph's book presentation. RSVP below!
Announcing:
How to Play the Sondheim Way w/ Barry Joseph
Thurs. Sept. 25th, 7pm-8:30pm

Join us for a lecture/workshop! Discover how the playful approach to parlor games of the famed lyricist/composer Stephen Sondheim can inspire our own creative practices.

RSVP: barryjosephworkshop.eventbrite.com
How to Play the Sondheim Way - A Lecture & Workshop with Barry Joseph
Join us for a lecture and workshop with Barry Joseph, games educator and author of How to Play the Sondheim Way!
barryjosephworkshop.eventbrite.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Happy 40th birthday Super Mario Bros
September 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Daniel Temkin’s book Forty-Four Esolangs, coming from the MIT Press on Sep 23 in the Hardcopy series, is reviewed & @dtemkin.bsky.social himself is interviewed in IEEE Spectrum

spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-pro...
Can You Code With Pictures? Esoteric Languages Challenge How We Code
Esoteric languages spark creativity by challenging conventional coding. Daniel Temkin is writing codes to confront the lack of creativity in AI code.
spectrum.ieee.org
September 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Thrilled that Hunting and Gathering in Cyberspace -- www.narrabase.net/roar2/about_... -- received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Robert Coover Award for a work of Electronic Literature.
July 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Recreating working online in the mountains in early 1990's, Hunting & Gathering in Cyberspace people.well.com/user/jmalloy... appears at the Electronic Literature Conf, York Univ, Toronto &the U of Waterloo, July 10-13. Beer cools in mountain streams & the sound of the modem echoes in the woodlands
July 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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An extra special Pride Month to all of my Two-Spirit cousins out there. Y'all are a huge inspiration and a big part of the soul of the Coyote & Crow RPG. It wouldn't be what it is without your indomitable Indigenous hearts.
June 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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#LudoNarracon has begun!! 🎉 This event celebrates amazing narrative games and is hosted by @fellowtraveller.games! I’m so proud and excited that The Crimson Diamond is part of the Official Selection — and it’s 20% on Steam! 🤩 store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/... Long live narrative games!!! 🎉
May 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Verse Verso: Visual Poetry and Artist Books, Warburg Institute, London, 30 May 2025, 1:00PM - 6:00PM warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/verse...
Verse Verso: Visual Poetry and Artist Books
warburg.sas.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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From unprocessed collection (Efrem Lipkin & St. Jude Milhon), this is a fun sticker we found--
April 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Starting on Earth Day: Solarpunk Game Jam in support of environmental causes, with a $10K grand prize.

May 10 deadline to submit your game.

#gamejam #climatechange #environment

itch.io/jam/day-zero...
Day Zero Games: Solarpunk Jam
A game jam from 2025-04-22 to 2025-05-11 hosted by animainteractive. WELCOME GAME MAKERS, STORYTELLERS, ARTISTS, VISIONARIES, AND PUNKS! Welcome to Day Zero Games: SOLARPUNK JAM, hosted by Trevor Noah...
itch.io
April 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Thrilled that Hunting and Gathering in Cyberspace
www.narrabase.net/roar2/
about: -- www.narrabase.net/roar2/about_... has been accepted for exhibition at the Electronic Literature Organization's 25th Anniversary Conf : "Love Letters to the Past and Future" at York Univ in Toronto this July
April 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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"A disdain for misogyny past and present shines through in Shohini Ghose's rich history of women's underappreciated contributions to astronomy and physics." — @newscientist.com 🔭

Ghose's award-winning book "Her Space, Her Time" is now available in paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204831...
April 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Student take on #GPTs ability to tell stories. "The general tone of the plot is similar to many stories generated by ChatGPT, where there is a small challenge that ends up being resolved in a relatively empty and unmeaningful way. The plot of the story is vague and generic."
November 15, 2023 at 3:21 PM
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It's hard to know where social is heading. Fortunately, @chaykak.bsky.social is on the case — Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user.
www.newyorker.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Listen to the sound of the modem and come across to the Internet in Hunting and Gathering in Cyberspace - now working at
www.narrabase.net/roar2/
or visit the about file at
www.narrabase.net/roar2/about_...
February 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM