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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 2d

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

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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · 5d

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

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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · 13d

How come no one is feeling sad for all the paper mills that Chatgpt is putting out of business?

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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · 15d

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

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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · 15d

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

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 21d

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · 22d

I am adding my own kind of syntactic sugar in this last pass through our ELIZA book.

markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · 23d

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

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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · 26d

Trying out a new phrase inspired by walking my dog: you pick up more poop with poop.

markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · 26d

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.

markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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

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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · Sep 6

Last weekend to submit source code snippets to Software Heritage for the UNESCO exhibit.

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

markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · Sep 6

Congratulations to Sarah Ciston on winning the major prize at Ars Electronica!! Such a gifted and visionary artist!!

@sarahciston.com

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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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

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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · Sep 1

From John McDaid! Welcome to Palooka Palooza, the “August of Disgust” quad-fest you’ll deny remembering. Plinth, Clickbait, and stop eating paint headline three days of chaos, sweat, and citations. Come for the memes, stay for the OSHA violations. Sponsored by the UnderAcademy Student Union.

markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · Aug 30

What are your favorite novels about AI? Extra points for BIPOC LGBTQ+ authors.

markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · Aug 27

Trying an AI sandwich writing course with a totally unplugged middle sectiin, inspired by many colleagues. It's like an AI Oreo, stuffed with the joy of writing by hand.

#teachingwriting #collegewriting

Two photos. One with Mark Marino holding a bag and a composition notebook. One with the notebooks in a bag.

markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · Aug 26

The ARCs just came of sentence number 115 of my email signature novel. Email me to request an advanced copy especially for reviews or promotion on socials. Looking for literary influencers!

Mark C. Marino carrying a stack of books.

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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · Aug 24

Does anyone find it troubling that Ezra Klein gave his children's information to Chatgpt when searching for summer camps?

(hate to be another sourpuss on bluesky.)

@ezraklein.bsky.social

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thank you @histoftech.bsky.social for sharing these beautiful images of women programmers and their story. Ostracised from the industry for being mothers, revolutionising working remotely.

The chapter is from an anthology of non-fiction viewing the history of technology through a different lens.

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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · Aug 22

New article: “Weird Science: When Elon made Ani“ on Medium:

Reflections on an 80s "classic" and Elon's amorous pecadillos with AI virtual companions.
markcmarino.medium.com/weird-scienc...

Weird Science: When Elon made Ani

A swirly for Musk as he rolls out a robot lover

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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · Aug 22

New article: Weird Science: When Elon made Ani, reflections on robot lovers.

markcmarino.medium.com/weird-scienc...

#artificialintelligence

Weird Science: When Elon made Ani

Another AI swirly for Musk as he roles out a robot lover.

markcmarino.medium.com

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markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · Aug 21

Join The Price of Education, as UAC offers a collective tale about the cost of expanding our minds and the debts we accrue as we climb up that mountain of learning, told on Venmo. Part of our August of Disgust.

markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social · Aug 20

Exercise: ask students to make a small change to a prompt in Hallucinate This! or use a different model to see how small changes in tokens or context affect generation.

markcmarino.com/chatgpt/

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