tegan pyke
@tegan.online
[insert more witty and interesting profile here] | PhD fellow @ University of Bergen, Norway | Editor and Barker @ electronicbr.bsky.social
💾 digital culture, the web, writing, and vernacular creativity
💾 digital culture, the web, writing, and vernacular creativity
I think we're hurtling towards a future where content is generated for us on the fly—Spotify Made for You playlists on steroids
October 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I think we're hurtling towards a future where content is generated for us on the fly—Spotify Made for You playlists on steroids
spent the weekend unpicking old Twine code. the horror.
October 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
spent the weekend unpicking old Twine code. the horror.
Do NOT recommend moving to Bergen with a dog who hates being out in the rain. Just had to bribe mine to stay out long enough to take a shit. Assured mutual misery.
October 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Do NOT recommend moving to Bergen with a dog who hates being out in the rain. Just had to bribe mine to stay out long enough to take a shit. Assured mutual misery.
Had a lot of fun riffing on fantastic articles and interviews by @mezbreeze.bsky.social, @yolandadgr.bsky.social, and Tuuli Hongisto for this month’s @electronicbr.bsky.social newsletter! Liminality with a touch of Bridget Jones—
March 2025: The Space Between
Monday 24th February
3216 steps (bad), 6 hrs 44 screen time (also, bad)
Started journey to self-improvement by widening mind with new knowledge. First piece? "María Mencía’s e-Poetry: A Conversation ...
electronicbookreview.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Had a lot of fun riffing on fantastic articles and interviews by @mezbreeze.bsky.social, @yolandadgr.bsky.social, and Tuuli Hongisto for this month’s @electronicbr.bsky.social newsletter! Liminality with a touch of Bridget Jones—
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I need to tell you about Internet Archive Scholar, which is a fulltext search index with over 35 million research articles & other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive -- and has the most synthwave logo ever
scholar.archive.org
scholar.archive.org
February 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I need to tell you about Internet Archive Scholar, which is a fulltext search index with over 35 million research articles & other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive -- and has the most synthwave logo ever
scholar.archive.org
scholar.archive.org
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New TikTok Content Scraper out there github.com/Q-Bukold/Tik...
GitHub - Q-Bukold/TikTok-Content-Scraper: TikTok Content Scraper -- No API-Key needed, minimal dependencies, citable | Download videos (MP4), slides (JPEG) and metadata of author, music, file, hashtag...
TikTok Content Scraper -- No API-Key needed, minimal dependencies, citable | Download videos (MP4), slides (JPEG) and metadata of author, music, file, hashtags, content, interactions etc. - Q-Bukol...
github.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
New TikTok Content Scraper out there github.com/Q-Bukold/Tik...
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Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social
#bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
#bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Science as Culture Forum on “Tech Oligarchy”
think.taylorandfrancis.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social
#bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
#bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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Me, working on my little articles and book projects in February 2025:
February 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Me, working on my little articles and book projects in February 2025:
AI has made spellcheck dumber, prove me wrong
February 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
AI has made spellcheck dumber, prove me wrong
Having finally watched Better Man, I’m wondering: can ALL movies be thematically elevated by replacing the protagonist with a human-like CGI chimpanzee?
February 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Having finally watched Better Man, I’m wondering: can ALL movies be thematically elevated by replacing the protagonist with a human-like CGI chimpanzee?
At what point does user-led adaptive algospeak transform into newspeak? Would be doubleplusgood to figure this out before oldthink is unalived
February 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
At what point does user-led adaptive algospeak transform into newspeak? Would be doubleplusgood to figure this out before oldthink is unalived
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You can’t post your way out of fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them
🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them
🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
You can’t post your way out of fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them
🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them
🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
Ey yooo but did you know there’s a new @electronicbr.bsky.social newsletter out?
February 2025: Contemporary and Classical Crossroads
The sun had already set in Atlanta, Georgia when the attendees of the Digital Arts and Culture '99 conference descended on the towering Sheraton Colony Square Hotel. It was Friday—the last day of a th...
electronicbookreview.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Ey yooo but did you know there’s a new @electronicbr.bsky.social newsletter out?
sleep paralysis is one of those things in life where I sympathise with early humanity. without contemporary science, I’d totally think I’d just been possessed
January 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
sleep paralysis is one of those things in life where I sympathise with early humanity. without contemporary science, I’d totally think I’d just been possessed
Downloaded The Sims 4 a couple days ago and I’m pleasantly surprised by how good just the base game is now
January 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Downloaded The Sims 4 a couple days ago and I’m pleasantly surprised by how good just the base game is now
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Our January issue is finally on, check it out at usual outlet and continue reading an impressive essay The Praxis of the Procedural Model of Digital Literature by Philippe Bootz (with it we bring a very interesting French research of electronic literature). electronicbookreview.com/essay/the-pr...
The Praxis of the Procedural Model in Digital Literature, Part 2: Applications
1.1 Points of view from within the model
1.2 How to show different theories from within the model
In order to visualize other theoretical points of view in the procedural model, it is enough to magnif...
electronicbookreview.com
January 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Our January issue is finally on, check it out at usual outlet and continue reading an impressive essay The Praxis of the Procedural Model of Digital Literature by Philippe Bootz (with it we bring a very interesting French research of electronic literature). electronicbookreview.com/essay/the-pr...
My research just led me to a cringe so powerful it momentarily obliterated my sense of self
January 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
My research just led me to a cringe so powerful it momentarily obliterated my sense of self
Log Lady Intro 4 (Twin Peaks s01e04)
YouTube video by Margaret Lanterman
youtu.be
January 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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January 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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An incredibly well-researched piece on the horrors of Neil Gaiman. It is extremely upsetting and explicit. Please be careful reading it.
www.vulture.com/article/neil...
www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
An incredibly well-researched piece on the horrors of Neil Gaiman. It is extremely upsetting and explicit. Please be careful reading it.
www.vulture.com/article/neil...
www.vulture.com/article/neil...
Just when you think things in the UK can’t get any worse, the government always manages to surprise you
‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI
Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Just when you think things in the UK can’t get any worse, the government always manages to surprise you
Nosferatu once again making me question Hollywood’s inability to adapt Dracula in a way that doesn’t do the Harkers incredibly dirty
January 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Nosferatu once again making me question Hollywood’s inability to adapt Dracula in a way that doesn’t do the Harkers incredibly dirty
“As a flesh-based intelligence system, I’m too insecure about my level of knowledge to try answering your question. Please ask something else.”
January 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“As a flesh-based intelligence system, I’m too insecure about my level of knowledge to try answering your question. Please ask something else.”