John Bell @[email protected] and bsky

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

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.

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

ARIKA CO., LTD. and The Tetris Company, Inc. signed a license agreement on the New Tetris Game (TGM series). arika.co.jp/news/press-rel… @Tetris_Official #Tetris #TetrisTurns40 #NewGameAlert #VideoGames #TGM #tgm_series

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.

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 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/int…

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

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 ✨

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

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

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/getinvolved/se… @BKCHarvard

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?

@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.

In this timeline, I’m a postcolonialist. In another timeline, I’m a tool of US imperialism. It’s wild.

CIA recruiting preys on young people in area studies. Ask me how I, a brown woman with aptitude in South Asian languages and a South Asian studies major who graduated from college in 2003, would know!

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/postings/74939

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

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

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/…

What in the actual fuck is this fortune cookie?!

MAGE-TAB, at least, has potential.

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