@markcmarino.bsky.social
CFP: The Future of Writing '26
Feb 20 (online), 21 (in person at USC) Submit by Dec 6
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Feb 20 (online), 21 (in person at USC) Submit by Dec 6
bit.ly/futureofwrit...
Future of Writing 2026 Proposals
The Future of Writing ‘26: A Symposium for Teachers Pedagogy, Process, Potential University of Southern California, https://bit.ly/futureofwriting26 Online February 20 In Person February 21 9 am - 5 ...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
CFP: The Future of Writing '26
Feb 20 (online), 21 (in person at USC) Submit by Dec 6
bit.ly/futureofwrit...
Feb 20 (online), 21 (in person at USC) Submit by Dec 6
bit.ly/futureofwrit...
Don't miss this call for a Critical Code Studies conference in Porto and online next summer!
CFP for Breaking the Code is out! check it out, #elit and #newmedia friends>>>
Hacktivating Non-Normative Algorithms conference (18–19 June 2026) in Porto and Online
Submission deadline is January 15, 2026!
coda.letras.up.pt/brkcode/conf...
Hacktivating Non-Normative Algorithms conference (18–19 June 2026) in Porto and Online
Submission deadline is January 15, 2026!
coda.letras.up.pt/brkcode/conf...
Breaking the Code: Hacktivating Non-Normative Algorithms | International Conference – 18–19 June 2026 – Breaking the Code
coda.letras.up.pt
November 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Don't miss this call for a Critical Code Studies conference in Porto and online next summer!
USC annnounced a deal to give all students and faculty ChatGPT accounts at the same event former Google CEO Schmidt said not to worry because "I am sure your writing instructors can spot AI content." Generate on!
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
USC annnounced a deal to give all students and faculty ChatGPT accounts at the same event former Google CEO Schmidt said not to worry because "I am sure your writing instructors can spot AI content." Generate on!
Got some embarrassing moments you'd like to rewrite?
Come play our new netprov: The Plot Twist Swapmeet. Find gently used stories to replace your awkward moments.
www.reddit.com/r/plottwists...
Come play our new netprov: The Plot Twist Swapmeet. Find gently used stories to replace your awkward moments.
www.reddit.com/r/plottwists...
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Got some embarrassing moments you'd like to rewrite?
Come play our new netprov: The Plot Twist Swapmeet. Find gently used stories to replace your awkward moments.
www.reddit.com/r/plottwists...
Come play our new netprov: The Plot Twist Swapmeet. Find gently used stories to replace your awkward moments.
www.reddit.com/r/plottwists...
The fact that I vibe coded this game I made about rescuing college writing instruction by launching composition notebooks at zombifier students captures a lot of how I feel about AI.
claude.ai/public/artif...
claude.ai/public/artif...
notebook-hero.html | Claude
Play Notebook Hero, a retro arcade game where you help a professor save zombie students by shooting composition notebooks. Free browser-based gaming fun!
claude.ai
November 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The fact that I vibe coded this game I made about rescuing college writing instruction by launching composition notebooks at zombifier students captures a lot of how I feel about AI.
claude.ai/public/artif...
claude.ai/public/artif...
Check out "Vernacular computing as encoded aesthetics for decolonial code intervention" by Koundinya Dhulipalla in AI & Society which is becoming a strong site for #critcode link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Vernacular computing as encoded aesthetics for decolonial code intervention - AI & SOCIETY
This paper examines programming languages as cultural and political artifacts embedded within colonial systems of power. Drawing from critical code studies and decolonial theory, it explores how domin...
link.springer.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Check out "Vernacular computing as encoded aesthetics for decolonial code intervention" by Koundinya Dhulipalla in AI & Society which is becoming a strong site for #critcode link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Have you ever read the first this Mrs Wobbles story? Check out where it all began for free for share it with your favorite little one or teacher. Stories of the magical foster care home!
markcmarino.com/tales/storyb...
markcmarino.com/tales/storyb...
Mrs. Wobbles & the Tangerine House
markcmarino.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Have you ever read the first this Mrs Wobbles story? Check out where it all began for free for share it with your favorite little one or teacher. Stories of the magical foster care home!
markcmarino.com/tales/storyb...
markcmarino.com/tales/storyb...
Come hear Daniel Temkin talk about the strangest prpgramming languages in the world at his USC book launch Wednesday! Sponsored by HaCCS lab, the Harman Academy, Media Arts + Practice and the Dornsife Writing Program!
@dtemkin.bsky.social @ahmansonlab.bsky.social
@dtemkin.bsky.social @ahmansonlab.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Come hear Daniel Temkin talk about the strangest prpgramming languages in the world at his USC book launch Wednesday! Sponsored by HaCCS lab, the Harman Academy, Media Arts + Practice and the Dornsife Writing Program!
@dtemkin.bsky.social @ahmansonlab.bsky.social
@dtemkin.bsky.social @ahmansonlab.bsky.social
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Woman Tends To Do Best Creative Thinking When Backed Into Corner With Livelihood At Stake https://theonion.com/woman-tends-to-do-best-creative-thinking-when-backed-in-1851338274/
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Woman Tends To Do Best Creative Thinking When Backed Into Corner With Livelihood At Stake https://theonion.com/woman-tends-to-do-best-creative-thinking-when-backed-in-1851338274/
OH at iDMAa: I have been a Klingon from time to time. -- Patrick Lichty
October 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
OH at iDMAa: I have been a Klingon from time to time. -- Patrick Lichty
We're excited to host a book launch with Daniel Temkin, one of the world's leading experts in esoteric programming languages (or Esolangs).
Book Launch: Forty-Four Esolangs
2pm, October 15
Ahmanson Lab (3rd Floor of Leavey) @dtemkin.bsky.social @ahmansonlab.bsky.social
Book Launch: Forty-Four Esolangs
2pm, October 15
Ahmanson Lab (3rd Floor of Leavey) @dtemkin.bsky.social @ahmansonlab.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
We're excited to host a book launch with Daniel Temkin, one of the world's leading experts in esoteric programming languages (or Esolangs).
Book Launch: Forty-Four Esolangs
2pm, October 15
Ahmanson Lab (3rd Floor of Leavey) @dtemkin.bsky.social @ahmansonlab.bsky.social
Book Launch: Forty-Four Esolangs
2pm, October 15
Ahmanson Lab (3rd Floor of Leavey) @dtemkin.bsky.social @ahmansonlab.bsky.social
Reposted
New today in The Important Work: @markcmarino.bsky.social on teaching writing with an "analog sandwich." First, AI, then, no AI, then...maybe AI. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/the-analog...
The Analog Sandwich
Can we bring AI into the classroom and then ask it to step outside?
theimportantwork.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New today in The Important Work: @markcmarino.bsky.social on teaching writing with an "analog sandwich." First, AI, then, no AI, then...maybe AI. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/the-analog...
Today we delivered the edited copy for Inventing ELIZA due out next May from MIT Press. written with Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Anthony Hay, Peter McMillan, Arthur Schwarz, Jeff Shrager, Peggy Weil, and me, with a Foreward by Janet Murray. @sarahciston.com @mitpress.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Today we delivered the edited copy for Inventing ELIZA due out next May from MIT Press. written with Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Anthony Hay, Peter McMillan, Arthur Schwarz, Jeff Shrager, Peggy Weil, and me, with a Foreward by Janet Murray. @sarahciston.com @mitpress.bsky.social
How come no one is feeling sad for all the paper mills that Chatgpt is putting out of business?
September 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
How come no one is feeling sad for all the paper mills that Chatgpt is putting out of business?
So cool. Team ELIZA just discovering that ELIZA was not even the original name of the program. Weizenbaum named the program SPEAK and then changed the name closer to the publicstion of the CACM article.
@mitpress.bsky.social
@mitpress.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
So cool. Team ELIZA just discovering that ELIZA was not even the original name of the program. Weizenbaum named the program SPEAK and then changed the name closer to the publicstion of the CACM article.
@mitpress.bsky.social
@mitpress.bsky.social
In this new article, I explain “The Analog Sandwich: teaching writing with & without AI“: markcmarino.medium.com/the-analog-s...
The Analog Sandwich: teaching writing with & without AI
Can we bring AI into the classroom and then ask it to step outside?
markcmarino.medium.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
In this new article, I explain “The Analog Sandwich: teaching writing with & without AI“: markcmarino.medium.com/the-analog-s...
Reposted
The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
September 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
I am adding my own kind of syntactic sugar in this last pass through our ELIZA book.
September 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I am adding my own kind of syntactic sugar in this last pass through our ELIZA book.
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
#critcode
September 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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
#critcode
Trying out a new phrase inspired by walking my dog: you pick up more poop with poop.
September 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Trying out a new phrase inspired by walking my dog: you pick up more poop with poop.
I think my new term for AI written content is Dog Food, minimally qualifying product mashed of bots and bobs that you would not serve your human loved ones.
September 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I think my new term for AI written content is Dog Food, minimally qualifying product mashed of bots and bobs that you would not serve your human loved ones.
Today is the last day to submit source code (original or historic) to the UNESCO exhibition curated by Software Heritage! What source code is important to you? Personally meaningful or socially relevant...
www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...
#critcode @softwareheritage.org
www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...
#critcode @softwareheritage.org
Share how your code defines our world for UNESCO Exhibit - Software Heritage
Your code builds solutions and tells a story. Feature it in our UNESCO exhibit. Submit your proposal by September 8, 2025.
www.softwareheritage.org
September 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today is the last day to submit source code (original or historic) to the UNESCO exhibition curated by Software Heritage! What source code is important to you? Personally meaningful or socially relevant...
www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...
#critcode @softwareheritage.org
www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...
#critcode @softwareheritage.org
Last weekend to submit source code snippets to Software Heritage for the UNESCO exhibit.
www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...
@softwareheritage.org
#critcode
www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...
@softwareheritage.org
#critcode
Share how your code defines our world for UNESCO Exhibit - Software Heritage
Your code builds solutions and tells a story. Feature it in our UNESCO exhibit. Submit your proposal by September 8, 2025.
www.softwareheritage.org
September 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Last weekend to submit source code snippets to Software Heritage for the UNESCO exhibit.
www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...
@softwareheritage.org
#critcode
www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...
@softwareheritage.org
#critcode
Congratulations to Sarah Ciston on winning the major prize at Ars Electronica!! Such a gifted and visionary artist!!
@sarahciston.com
@sarahciston.com
September 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Congratulations to Sarah Ciston on winning the major prize at Ars Electronica!! Such a gifted and visionary artist!!
@sarahciston.com
@sarahciston.com
Software Heritage is calling for code for its UNESCO exhibition, "treating code as the main event"! Send them a snippet of your computer source code by September 8!
www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...
#critcode
www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...
#critcode
Share how your code defines our world for UNESCO Exhibit - Software Heritage
Your code builds solutions and tells a story. Feature it in our UNESCO exhibit. Submit your proposal by September 8, 2025.
www.softwareheritage.org
September 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Software Heritage is calling for code for its UNESCO exhibition, "treating code as the main event"! Send them a snippet of your computer source code by September 8!
www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...
#critcode
www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...
#critcode