Director, DEV Studio. DH & XR @ Dartmouth College. Digital Curation @ UMaine. Art & code @ WWW.
Joined September 2009
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New ToS means it's time to exit Twitter stage left. I'll be at the places mentioned in my profile.
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Just cancelled my @washingtonpost subscription. A lot of things had to go wrong to get here-consolidation of media ownership, rise of fascists intimidating US businesses, utter cowardice of journalistic institutions-but where we ended up is not ok.
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John Bell @novomancy@digipres.club and bsky retweeted
14 Oct 2024
The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired - but that's not the start. Tomorrow is! 🐢
🎉 Join us for the Discworld: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork TTRPG Kickstarter launch tomorrow! buff.ly/4eZotPQ #Discworld #ttrpg @PratchettOnline
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John Bell @novomancy@digipres.club and bsky retweeted
27 Sep 2024
ARIKA CO., LTD. and The Tetris Company, Inc. signed a license agreement on the New Tetris Game (TGM series).
arika.co.jp/news/press-relea…
@Tetris_Official
#Tetris #TetrisTurns40 #NewGameAlert #VideoGames #TGM #tgm_series
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I really want someone to ask Donnie how he's any better than Neville Chamberlain just to watch the back flips as he tries to answer without admitting he has no idea who that is.
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An insightful paper could be written about overlap between communication skills developed coming from disadvantaged backgrounds and those needed to excel as higher ed staff, but it may be those capable of writing are also tautologically incapable of writing it until retirement.
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John Bell @novomancy@digipres.club and bsky retweeted
4 Sep 2024
Internet Archive Responds to Appellate Opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive
"We are disappointed in today’s opinion about the Internet Archive’s digital lending of books that are available electronically elsewhere. We are reviewing the court’s opinion and will continue to defend the rights of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books."
-Chris Freeland, director of library services
🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/04/…
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John Bell @novomancy@digipres.club and bsky retweeted
Because it’s a context-independent answer to a vast range of questions across the web, the final state of every AI fed on synthetic data will just be a video loop of Rick Astley singing "Never gonna let you down, Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you" HT @nmdjohn @lazerwalker
19 Aug 2024
A customer reached out asking for video tutorials.
We obviously have a Lindy handling this, and I was delighted to see that she sent a video.
But then I remembered we don't have a video tutorial and realized Lindy is literally fucking rickrolling our customers.
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John Bell @novomancy@digipres.club and bsky retweeted
22 Aug 2024
A new #AI-powered system is making visual content more #accessible for blind and low-vision users by transforming it into an interactive and immersive experience. 🎥 Learn more about the research and technology behind it ➡️ nvda.ws/4fLFQoJ ✨
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Always remember to check server capacity before hiring your bot audience, folks.
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John Bell @novomancy@digipres.club and bsky retweeted
6 Aug 2024
LangChain just released the first AI agent IDE.
You can now develop LLM applications and easily visualize, interact with, and debug complex agent workflows.
With advanced multi-step logic, the IDE makes it easy to see node connections and execution paths clearly.
It's equipped with:
- Visual Graphs
- State Editing
- Real-time Debugging
- Collaborative Tools
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John Bell @novomancy@digipres.club and bsky retweeted
3 Aug 2024
Harvard's Berkman Klein Center is hiring a new Senior Software Engineer for their Applied Social Media Lab.
If you have an interest in building new social media infrastructure this role may interest you.
Apply here:
cyber.harvard.edu/getinvolve…
@BKCHarvard
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America is at an inflection point.
We must choose between moving forward or backward.
Between hope and hate.
Between unity and division.
We have to decide: Do we still believe in
honesty, decency, and respect?
Freedom, justice, and democracy?
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John Bell @novomancy@digipres.club and bsky retweeted
22 Jul 2024
We are hiring for a digital technician specialist for our digital lab, shared between Film & Media Studies and Studio Art. Please share! searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/pos…
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Sure, Idiocracy trends, but not BSG. Maybe we just need to wait for everyone's machines to be back up.
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John Bell @novomancy@digipres.club and bsky retweeted
13 Jul 2024
This is going to be a disaster for our country. Just a nightmare.
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Bill Viola, whose decades-long engagement with video proved vital in establishing the medium as an integral part of contemporary art, died on July 12 at his home in Long Beach, California. artnews.com/art-news/news/bi…
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What in the actual fuck is this fortune cookie?!
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Science culture really need to value acronyms* more. MINSEQE, which expands to "Minimum Information about a high-throughput SEQuencing Experiment"? Really? Humanists would have spent a couple days coming up with a pithy backronym for that.
*I know. It isn't. Don't worry about it
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MAGE-TAB, at least, has potential.
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