John Bell @[email protected] and bsky

Director, DEV Studio. DH & XR @ Dartmouth College. Digital Curation @ UMaine. Art & code @ WWW.

[John Bell @[email protected] and bsky @nmdjohn]

New ToS means it's time to exit Twitter stage left. I'll be at the places mentioned in my profile.

[John Bell @[email protected] and bsky @nmdjohn]

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.

[Modiphius @Modiphius]

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! https://t.co/CxjaNWKAzv #Discworld #ttrpg @PratchettOnline

[株式会社アリカ公式アカウント @arika_co_jp]

ARIKA CO., LTD. and The Tetris Company, Inc. signed a license agreement on the New Tetris Game (TGM series).

https://t.co/Wa3OfJ7fw3

@Tetris_Official
#Tetris #TetrisTurns40 #NewGameAlert #VideoGames #TGM #tgm_series

[John Bell @[email protected] and bsky @nmdjohn]

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.

[John Bell @[email protected] and bsky @nmdjohn]

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.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

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

🔗 https://t.co/PzxVe7oYyJ

[Jon Ippolito (🦋 @jonippolito.net) @jonippolito]

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

[NVIDIA AI Developer @NVIDIAAIDev]

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 ➡️ https://t.co/UU3FOaNj9i ✨

[John Bell @[email protected] and bsky @nmdjohn]

Always remember to check server capacity before hiring your bot audience, folks.

[Lior Alexander @LiorOnAI]

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

[Plurality.Institute @PluralityInst]

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:
https://t.co/XCjuaueVaY

@BKCHarvard

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

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?

[John Bell @[email protected] and bsky @nmdjohn]

@roopikarisam Wow. In a timeline where recruiters were more effective, we could be catching up on water cooler gossip from the CIA and NSA at a nondescript cafe in Langley.

[Roopika Risam @roopikarisam]

We are hiring for a digital technician specialist for our digital lab, shared between Film & Media Studies and Studio Art. Please share! https://t.co/uD82zK3I2t

[John Bell @[email protected] and bsky @nmdjohn]

Sure, Idiocracy trends, but not BSG. Maybe we just need to wait for everyone's machines to be back up.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

This is going to be a disaster for our country. Just a nightmare.

[ARTnews @artnews]

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. https://t.co/7Y0pfvB6jM

[John Bell @[email protected] and bsky @nmdjohn]

What in the actual fuck is this fortune cookie?!

[John Bell @[email protected] and bsky @nmdjohn]

MAGE-TAB, at least, has potential.

[John Bell @[email protected] and bsky @nmdjohn]

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