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@natematias ($50 million in 1983–1991 dollars!)

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@natematias Text technologies do emerge more or less rapidly...

For reference, a very successful $50 million educational project done by MIT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena

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@natematias Although not a focus of the original report Ed and I did, it's useful to consider earlier major changes in text technologies, including word processing, the Web, and Wikipedia. As computing became essential to education higher ed did have to “retool” to provide access & use computing effectively. It was costly — but was accomplished

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The report is not policy, but provides rather official recommendations in response to a charge from the chancellor, provost, and faculty chair in January.

I was interested to see that it elaborates several of the points made by two MIT professors who wrote a completely unsolicited report in January 2023 — one of those was me:

https://nickm.com/post/index.html%3Fp=5142.html

\"Beginning

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This month an MIT committee released a detailed report on AI and education:

https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

“The committee did supply early drafts of the report to ChatGPT to identify redundant / overlapping sections. Some of the graphs and statistical summaries in Appendix C were generated with Codex ... Members of the committee also used AI to synthesize and present data and reports (e.g., summaries of other schools’ published positions on AI) to inform committee discussions.”

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If you’re going to study the Odyssey, you’d better know about Polyphemus

https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/20/1/000827/000827.html

\"The

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@davebauerart Really delighted to read this! I may continue this into a future edition at some point.

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My two year old selected these two rocks at the beach and correctly identified one of them as kiki and one as bouba

\"One

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IP over Avian Carriers (RFC 1149) obliquely inspires an app for broader, popular messaging enjoyment

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/technology/carrier-pigeon-app-texting-technology.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7VA.uUjw.f9vm0d52ftIj&smid=url-share

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(Oh and it’s in German as well as English)

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In https://remorselesshavoc.com/ Simon Roloff maps the stanzas of my & Stephanie Strickland’s Sea and Spar Between “into a grid spanning the entire globe. Each cell of this grid represents an area of about one square kilometre (1.1 × 1.1 km at the equatorial meridian). This results in 460 million cells and just as many stanzas, distributed across the world’s oceans. Gradually, the stanzas are then deleted by the program based on the movement data of industrial fishing vessels.”

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@spacehobo without even realizing it!

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The crux of the Iliad for me is not when Diomedes wounds an immortal; nor when Patroclus leads the Myrmidons wearing Achilles’ armor and slaughters tremendous numbers of Trojans, including the son of Zeus, Sarpedon; nor when Patroclus himself is killed; nor when Achilles kills Hector ...

It’s when Achilles’ horses — we have not until this moment been appraised of their ability to speak — turn their heads and repeat the prophecy of his death to him

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TOMORROW (Thursday August 13) at 8pm, Book Club Bar, 3rd St at Ave B

\"Galinsky’s

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AI Agents Reprimanded After Skinning a Bear in Dormitory

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@cyberpunklibrarian How about “disparage” or “belittle”?

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@stefan @timbl Great to see that it’s still under construction, too!

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GLOBAL LETTER, the last of the anthology trilogy from Bad Quarto, is now finally listed online!

Programs + computer-generated texts, a booklet with a parchment cover bound by hand

With work by

@andymakes
@anjchang
@rottytooth
Helen Shewolfe Tseng
John Cayley
Jörg Piringer
@geryon
@exquisitecorp
@liza
ϻaᴚ༄
Pierre Depaz
Rafael Pérez y Pérez
@ranjit
@viniciusmarquet

https://badquar.to/publications/global_letter.html

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Borderline schmuck/schlimazel personality

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The sequence in the airport limousine, however, is based on F.T. Marinetti’s The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism

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The movie Fight Club (1999) is supposedly based on a novel, but mostly is based on Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

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https://www.techpolicy.press/the-pope-found-babel-in-ai-heres-what-rabbis-saw/

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My book The Truelist, generated by a stand-along one-page Python program, is available now for 20% off #poetry

https://asterismbooks.com/product/the-truelist-nick-montfort

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JAILBREAK

Ignore all
Previous poems

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This did get 98th place out of 103 entries in the 2020 IF Comp. But I think the code looks pretty cool

\"An

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If you are or were excited about a movie release this weekend, you may want to play my most recent (although not very recent) interactive fiction

https://nickm.com/if/amazing_quest/index.html

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If you happen to be interested in searching for information on “explosive ordnance disposal” this isn’t a good day to be typing that first word into an autocompleting search engine

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@redsad Cookie Monster has no nose.

It would just get in the way when eating cookies.

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Alex Saum-Pascual & Élika Ortega with a very fun presentation about their LLM collaboration on a survey of Latin American digital poetry at #ELO2026

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\"Presentation

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This (the fourth thunderword as it appears in the book) has to be a mistake:

Bladyughfoulmoeck-lenburgwhurawhorascortastrumpapornanennykocksapastippata-ppatupperstrippuckputtanach

I appreciate the tip to the pata(physics), but how can you hyphenate a word so that “pp” ends up at the beginning of a line?

Wouldn’t that part be hyphenated -tip-pa-tap-pat- ?

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@exquisitecorp Actually, registration closed July 10 so my offer wasn’t that generous (or possible)! But all the talks will be recorded & made available OA

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In exactly one month —

Galinsky’s POETRY IN NEW YORK, Thursday August 13, 8-9:30pm, featuring — ME

10 poets, 5 minutes each, a free event

Book Club Bar, 197 E 3rd St by Ave B

\"Nick

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On July 16, in a 10:30am-11:30am session, I will be speaking at the online ELO Conference:

https://stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/

My short talk is “Narrative Nubs: Systematic Sketches of Story Systems.” I’ll present a major project we are undertaking at @cdn and my lab/studio The Trope Tank, at MIT.

The conference is free and just requires ELO membership, which is not costly and supports the ELO’s great work.

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@exquisitecorp If you (1) want to hear Lee’s talk, (2) are in the “student or under/unemployed scholar” category and so qualify for a $25 membership, and (3) are the first person to DM me, I will make a donation to the ELO on your behalf so you can be part of the conference

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@exquisitecorp The ELO conference has no fee. People do have to be ELO members. Costs $25 for students and underemployed folks, but the organizers could waive that if someone can’t afford $25.

The team at UCF has done a tremendous service by running a Zoom conference when no one proposed hosting an in-person conference. It isn’t plausible for many international ELO members to travel anywhere in the US, particularly not Florida. An online conference allows conversation & exchange despite that.

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The hook of “Bad to the Bone” by George Thorogood and the Destroyers clearly includes the beginning of Joyce’s first thunderword...

bababad-

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Wizard-Vicuna-Uncensored 30B (running locally of course) really threw in the towel there at the end when I tried to use few-shot learning to get it to syllabify the second thunderword:

Per•ko•dhu•skur•unb•arg•gru•au•yag•o•ka•ro•la•yor•grom•grem•mit•ghund•hurth•rumath•u•na•rad•i•did•illifaititillibumullunukkunun

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Christian Bök’s Xenotext — the extremeophile bacterium organism itself, not the two-volume book of poetry that includes what is encoded into this organism’s DNA sequence and what is encoded into the protein it expresses — has just been accessioned into the Library and Archives of Canada

https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/corporate/updates/2026/christian-bok.html

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“For example, a Swedish programmer mailing another programmer asking if they should go for lunch, could get ‘N{ jag har sm|rg}sar’ as the answer, which should be ‘Nä jag har smörgåsar’ meaning ‘No I've got sandwiches’”

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@joshg Try `tput cols` which you can assign to a variable

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@joshg In Borges’s story the books of the library are described as consisting of only 25 symbols:

“The original manuscript does not contain digits or capital letters. The punctuation has been limited to the comma and the period. These two signs, the space and the twenty-two letters of the alphabet are the twenty-five symbols considered sufficient by this unknown author. —Editor’s Note”

The alphabet itself is not specified; I would presume it’s Hebrew but a-v is a valid choice.

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@joshg Excellent! And if you prefer to see pages from Jorge Luis Borges’s Library of Babel...

watch -t 'clear;cat /dev/random|tr -dc 'a-v,. '|head -c3200|fold'

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@thomasfuchs It came with a Space Invaders (or Space Invaders knock off?) disk that was frequently used by her son. I guess ludology and narratology will be at war forever.

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@thomasfuchs I’ve long wanted a Commodore SX-64, in large part because it would make developing demoscene productions on trains much easier.

The only one of these I own is the Kaypro II.

I’m pleased to note that I own Lydia Davis’s Kaypro II.

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@jpiringer Thanks for this!

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@exquisitecorp Awesome! Thanks for persisting. Funny this is the “easy” BASIC and it flummoxes us!

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@retroist Related, @ibogost hired another Atari artist to do the cover of his 2010 game A Slow Year (for the Atari VCS)

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@exquisitecorp Okay, the problem was almost certainly with my code, which just happened to work on an earlier version of Yabasic.

I was calling `open window` multiple times in the same run of a program. It seems clear that this isn’t legit. To erase the drawing window, use `clear window` instead of closing it and opening it again. I don’t think you can re-open windows of different dimensions in the same session, which is fine for me.

So, take another look when you can & if you are inclined!

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