Mark Sample
@samplereality.bsky.social
Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies at a small liberal arts college. Latest project: https://notime.now. Other things I've made: https://samplereality.itch.io
(I have noticed students with IB credit are much better prepared than students with AP credit though.)
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
(I have noticed students with IB credit are much better prepared than students with AP credit though.)
I wish we did that. At least there's a limit to how many APs (2) one can use to satisfy our distribution requirements (7). I have no confidence that a 4 or 5 means students can do college-level work, especially post-pandemic.
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I wish we did that. At least there's a limit to how many APs (2) one can use to satisfy our distribution requirements (7). I have no confidence that a 4 or 5 means students can do college-level work, especially post-pandemic.
Enjoy! You're definitely making the best out of a bad situation
November 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Enjoy! You're definitely making the best out of a bad situation
I don't often revisit old projects, but I've been thinking about vast grid-based generative works lately (for reasons soon to become clear), and I had a hankering to salvage House of Leaves of Grass and make it come alive on mobile.
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I don't often revisit old projects, but I've been thinking about vast grid-based generative works lately (for reasons soon to become clear), and I had a hankering to salvage House of Leaves of Grass and make it come alive on mobile.
I also fixed some errors in the code that had limited the number of generative possibilities. I also made it look fantastic on high def screens. And some other tweaks for usability.
House of Leaves of Grass
A poetry generator combining Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves. Explore 100 trillion procedurally generated stanzas.
fugitivetexts.net
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I also fixed some errors in the code that had limited the number of generative possibilities. I also made it look fantastic on high def screens. And some other tweaks for usability.
Hey, it's my anniversary today too! Congrats!
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Hey, it's my anniversary today too! Congrats!
As I read it, I was all smug about how my quaint college town would never give in to such Big Brother surveillance tech. Then I went to www.atlasofsurveillance.org and saw, oh shit, my town does indeed have a contract with Flock.
Atlas of Surveillance
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
www.atlasofsurveillance.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
As I read it, I was all smug about how my quaint college town would never give in to such Big Brother surveillance tech. Then I went to www.atlasofsurveillance.org and saw, oh shit, my town does indeed have a contract with Flock.
Also sent similar requests to two neighboring towns, one of which is Senator Thom Tillis's home.
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Also sent similar requests to two neighboring towns, one of which is Senator Thom Tillis's home.
No, I'm not--I was GSAS too. So not sure why I'm on the GSE list.
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
No, I'm not--I was GSAS too. So not sure why I'm on the GSE list.
Reminds me of the opening example Ted Chiang uses in his fuzzy jpeg piece, about a Xerox machine silently replacing building schematics as it copied them.
October 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Reminds me of the opening example Ted Chiang uses in his fuzzy jpeg piece, about a Xerox machine silently replacing building schematics as it copied them.