Zach Whalen
@zachwhalen.bsky.social
Associate Professor teaching Digital Studies at the University of Mary Washington.
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The news is out and so is the Call for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
Thanks to an army of translators it's available in a bunch of languages 🎉
Questions: contact @zachwhalen.bsky.social @videlais.bsky.social Dani Spinosa or me @ elcvol5 [at] gmail [dot] com
Please share widely!
Thanks to an army of translators it's available in a bunch of languages 🎉
Questions: contact @zachwhalen.bsky.social @videlais.bsky.social Dani Spinosa or me @ elcvol5 [at] gmail [dot] com
Please share widely!
Call for Submissions
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
collection.eliterature.org
October 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The news is out and so is the Call for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
Thanks to an army of translators it's available in a bunch of languages 🎉
Questions: contact @zachwhalen.bsky.social @videlais.bsky.social Dani Spinosa or me @ elcvol5 [at] gmail [dot] com
Please share widely!
Thanks to an army of translators it's available in a bunch of languages 🎉
Questions: contact @zachwhalen.bsky.social @videlais.bsky.social Dani Spinosa or me @ elcvol5 [at] gmail [dot] com
Please share widely!
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I am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5.
eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/
I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa.
This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!
eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/
I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa.
This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!
Call for Submissions
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
eliterature.github.io
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5.
eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/
I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa.
This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!
eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/
I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa.
This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!
This is a good one...
a group
of people
sitting on
a
boat in
the water
in front
of
the light of
the
world
of people
sitting on
a
boat in
the water
in front
of
the light of
the
world
September 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is a good one...
It's beginning to look a lot like figmas
August 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It's beginning to look a lot like figmas
I want to try using Blue Sky more consistently, so I will use this to report that I tried a "Picklerita Slush" from Sonic. I have mixed feelings.
July 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I want to try using Blue Sky more consistently, so I will use this to report that I tried a "Picklerita Slush" from Sonic. I have mixed feelings.
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I'm part of the august team tasked with editing the FIFTH volume of the Electronic Literature Collection (w/@videlais.bsky.social @zachwhalen.bsky.social and others not on Bsky). We're hoping to reach as far as possible beyond the historic contours of the ELO. Ping me or follow the link to the form.
As announced at #elo25, work toward the Electronic Literature Collection 5 (to be published in 2027) has begun and a call for submissions will soon be released.
We are asking for help translating and spreading the upcoming call.
Past ELCs: collection.eliterature.org
We are asking for help translating and spreading the upcoming call.
Past ELCs: collection.eliterature.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I'm part of the august team tasked with editing the FIFTH volume of the Electronic Literature Collection (w/@videlais.bsky.social @zachwhalen.bsky.social and others not on Bsky). We're hoping to reach as far as possible beyond the historic contours of the ELO. Ping me or follow the link to the form.
Hello BlueSky, maybe you can help me with something. I'm trying to find examples of personal websites that are set up "link in bio" style but on a personal domain. Like what you get on a Link Tree page but self-hosted.
Do you have a personal website like this, or do you know someone who does?
Do you have a personal website like this, or do you know someone who does?
June 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Hello BlueSky, maybe you can help me with something. I'm trying to find examples of personal websites that are set up "link in bio" style but on a personal domain. Like what you get on a Link Tree page but self-hosted.
Do you have a personal website like this, or do you know someone who does?
Do you have a personal website like this, or do you know someone who does?
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Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/
Binding Media | Stanford University Press
Far from causing the "death of the book," the publishing industry's adoption of digital technologies has generated a multitude of new works that push the boundaries of literature and its presentation....
www.sup.org
March 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/
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The @eliterature.bsky.social #MLA26 session call focuses on "Open Source Humanities in the Age of AI" and using digital humanities and electronic literature as tools for building critical AI literacy outside of mainstream and edtech platforms. Call here: mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...
Session: Electronic Literature Organization (2026 MLA Annual Convention)
mla.confex.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The @eliterature.bsky.social #MLA26 session call focuses on "Open Source Humanities in the Age of AI" and using digital humanities and electronic literature as tools for building critical AI literacy outside of mainstream and edtech platforms. Call here: mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...
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I've now released the generation code, origin text, bonus materials, and 10,000 newly generated copies of Subcutanean, my queer horror novel where each copy is unique (as I promised back in 2020 that I'd do five years after release). Details and links here: subcutanean.textories.com/source-relea...
Subcutanean: Source Code Release
The source code and contents of procedural horror novel Subcutanean are now publicly released under a Creative Commons license.
subcutanean.textories.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I've now released the generation code, origin text, bonus materials, and 10,000 newly generated copies of Subcutanean, my queer horror novel where each copy is unique (as I promised back in 2020 that I'd do five years after release). Details and links here: subcutanean.textories.com/source-relea...
I really like the idea of Pixelfed, and I briefly got @crookedcosmos.bsky.social posting there. But now there's a bug in the API that prevents me from uploading images. The API has a lot of good features, in theory, but the documentation is spotty at best.
January 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I really like the idea of Pixelfed, and I briefly got @crookedcosmos.bsky.social posting there. But now there's a bug in the API that prevents me from uploading images. The API has a lot of good features, in theory, but the documentation is spotty at best.
@samplereality.bsky.social In your talk the other day, you discussed running LlaVa on a laptop to generate alt text. Did you have to use Ollama (or something similar) for running LLMs locally?
January 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
@samplereality.bsky.social In your talk the other day, you discussed running LlaVa on a laptop to generate alt text. Did you have to use Ollama (or something similar) for running LLMs locally?
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Just 2 days left to submit to #ELO25, our in-person conference in Toronto and Waterloo.
eliterature.org/2024/11/cfp-...
eliterature.org/2024/11/cfp-...
CFP: ELO25 @ 25: Toronto (July 11-13; ext deadline Jan. 15, 2025) – Electronic Literature Organization
eliterature.org
January 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Just 2 days left to submit to #ELO25, our in-person conference in Toronto and Waterloo.
eliterature.org/2024/11/cfp-...
eliterature.org/2024/11/cfp-...
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The panel. Photo credit: Kathi Inman Berens
January 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The panel. Photo credit: Kathi Inman Berens
It looks like my solar-powered raspberry pi kept running all night
January 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It looks like my solar-powered raspberry pi kept running all night
I didn't post about it while there, but now that I'm heading out from #MLA25 (my flight is earlier than I realized), just want to say it was a great time! It was so good to learn things, connect with friends, and meet new people.
January 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I didn't post about it while there, but now that I'm heading out from #MLA25 (my flight is earlier than I realized), just want to say it was a great time! It was so good to learn things, connect with friends, and meet new people.
I am pleased to share that one of my favorite bots from that other place is now available on Blue Sky. It posts pixelsorted images of outer space, with a few upgrades for this version:
- alt text has info and credits for the base image
- it is running on a solar-powered Raspberry Pi
- alt text has info and credits for the base image
- it is running on a solar-powered Raspberry Pi
January 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I am pleased to share that one of my favorite bots from that other place is now available on Blue Sky. It posts pixelsorted images of outer space, with a few upgrades for this version:
- alt text has info and credits for the base image
- it is running on a solar-powered Raspberry Pi
- alt text has info and credits for the base image
- it is running on a solar-powered Raspberry Pi
Maybe this was a "you just had to be there" situation, but I just had a pretty funny AI interaction. I asked Copilot to help me create a self-contained system to generate alt text for images. It suggested an image classifier for labeling, and then prompting GPT-2 to make alt text from those labels
January 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Maybe this was a "you just had to be there" situation, but I just had a pretty funny AI interaction. I asked Copilot to help me create a self-contained system to generate alt text for images. It suggested an image classifier for labeling, and then prompting GPT-2 to make alt text from those labels
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Taper #13 : Superstitions (the Fall 2024 issue) is out!
taper.badquar.to/13/
A gift for you all from author/programmers and editors, whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, both or neither.
The 29 works are wide-ranging engagements with language and computation, and all are free software.
taper.badquar.to/13/
A gift for you all from author/programmers and editors, whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, both or neither.
The 29 works are wide-ranging engagements with language and computation, and all are free software.
Taper #13
taper.badquar.to
December 25, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Taper #13 : Superstitions (the Fall 2024 issue) is out!
taper.badquar.to/13/
A gift for you all from author/programmers and editors, whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, both or neither.
The 29 works are wide-ranging engagements with language and computation, and all are free software.
taper.badquar.to/13/
A gift for you all from author/programmers and editors, whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, both or neither.
The 29 works are wide-ranging engagements with language and computation, and all are free software.
With the release of the latest issue of Taper, I am please to share my contribution, "powers of belief," which among other things is an homage to Emmett Williams' "13 Variations".
(Note: the poem is interactive, but clicking too quickly can crash your browser.)
taper.badquar.to/13/powers_of...
(Note: the poem is interactive, but clicking too quickly can crash your browser.)
taper.badquar.to/13/powers_of...
Powers of Belief
A poem by Zach Whalen for Taper #13
taper.badquar.to
December 27, 2024 at 6:18 PM
With the release of the latest issue of Taper, I am please to share my contribution, "powers of belief," which among other things is an homage to Emmett Williams' "13 Variations".
(Note: the poem is interactive, but clicking too quickly can crash your browser.)
taper.badquar.to/13/powers_of...
(Note: the poem is interactive, but clicking too quickly can crash your browser.)
taper.badquar.to/13/powers_of...
@samplereality.bsky.social It looks like the film adaption of Station 51000 (@ _LostBuoy_) is going to be a 17,776 crossover! m.imdb.com/title/tt2137...
Love Me (2024) ⭐ 5.7 | Drama, Sci-Fi
1h 32m | R
m.imdb.com
December 25, 2024 at 11:26 PM
@samplereality.bsky.social It looks like the film adaption of Station 51000 (@ _LostBuoy_) is going to be a 17,776 crossover! m.imdb.com/title/tt2137...
I just want to give a quick shout out to WikiEdu (@wikieducation.bsky.social) and thank them for assembling such a useful set of materials to help students learn how to contribute to Wikipedia! The training is well-scaffolded, and the dashboard tools made it easy for me to keep track of everything.
December 11, 2024 at 4:35 PM
I just want to give a quick shout out to WikiEdu (@wikieducation.bsky.social) and thank them for assembling such a useful set of materials to help students learn how to contribute to Wikipedia! The training is well-scaffolded, and the dashboard tools made it easy for me to keep track of everything.
Yesterday, I was looking for things to delete so I could make some more room on my hard drive, and I discovered a 28GB Audicity file on my Desktop that I have no recollection of.
This file:
- has a single track that's over 22 hours long
- is named "maybe.aup3"
- was created on October 31, 2022
This file:
- has a single track that's over 22 hours long
- is named "maybe.aup3"
- was created on October 31, 2022
November 26, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Yesterday, I was looking for things to delete so I could make some more room on my hard drive, and I discovered a 28GB Audicity file on my Desktop that I have no recollection of.
This file:
- has a single track that's over 22 hours long
- is named "maybe.aup3"
- was created on October 31, 2022
This file:
- has a single track that's over 22 hours long
- is named "maybe.aup3"
- was created on October 31, 2022
I am about half-way through The Silmarillion, and while I actually don't hate Rings of Power per se, I think the story of Luthien and Beren would have made a great mini series.
November 15, 2024 at 4:00 AM
I am about half-way through The Silmarillion, and while I actually don't hate Rings of Power per se, I think the story of Luthien and Beren would have made a great mini series.
Twitter had tweets, Mastodon has toots (lol), X has x's (seriously -- I had to look it up), and Bluesky posts are supposed to be called "skeets." Really?
Why not "bleats"?
Why not "bleats"?
November 15, 2024 at 3:31 AM
Twitter had tweets, Mastodon has toots (lol), X has x's (seriously -- I had to look it up), and Bluesky posts are supposed to be called "skeets." Really?
Why not "bleats"?
Why not "bleats"?