Matthew Kirschenbaum

@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social

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Another blue world.

Distinguished University Professor (so they tell me) at the University of Maryland. Speaking only for myself here though.

Default content will be cats.

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My Project 2025: napkins and every takeout bag without having to ask.

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New issue of ROMchip is up, filled with good stuff! Especially excited for @mattknutson.bsky.social's "Accessible Sport and 'Wheelchair Romance'", which tells an important & powerful story of DIY game accessibility in the 1980s. www.romchip.org/index.php/ro...

Vol. 6 No. 1: July 2024 | ROMchip www.romchip.org

People saying this is the last Fourth of July have no idea what they’re talking about. Come Jan. 21 of next year, it’s going to be Fourth of July EVERY DAY. It’ll just be kind of . . . mandatory.

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Woooo SHARP 2025 will be in Rochester!! Announcement at the AGM by Anna Siebach-Larsen to applause

In it to win it is the energizing tag line I’ve been waiting for.

This is published in a book bearing the imprimatur of a respected university press.

“What if downloading an ebook meant not just downloading a text to read but downloading an entire content farm, the mere act of turning the pages spawning shadow versions of the text, individualized and customized to targeted preferences, populating platforms the original reader will never see?”

A (very) short talk I just delivered at the SHARP conference in Reading about a large language model embedded inside of a font and the implications of the post-GPT textuality. llama.tff here: github.com/fuglede/llam...

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this is wild.

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This talk (and the panel) was super — I wish we'd had had much longer than we did for discussion! Many thanks to everyone who participated.

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This was a really enjoyable roundtable with lots of stimulating content - including great stuff from Matt! A version of my comments here eve.gd/2024/06/30/a... and here eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/53...

AI and Open Cultural Licensing (remarks to be presented at the SHARP plenary roundtable: AI In the Communications Circuit)eve.gd Some remarks that will be presented at the SHARP plenary roundtable: AI in the Communications Circuit.

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My mind is a little broken by the reality of llama.ttf, which @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social discussed in his position paper for our #SHARP2024 roundtable "AI in the Communications Circuit." As described at fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/ "llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model" 🤯

llama.ttffuglede.github.io llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.

For history of computing folks, obit for one of the founders of WordPerfect: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/b...

Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76www.nytimes.com A favorite of early personal computer users, his company was eventually overtaken by Microsoft Word. He later came out as gay and became an L.G.B.T.Q. activist.

He fucking better fucking be fucking spitting fucking nails.

Serious question. What if prosecutors continued to try cases with due cause, judges and juries continued to rule according to their convictions, and the inevitable appeals, finding their way to the Supreme Court, would force the court to repeatedly and publicly uphold this absurd decision?

I think we’re at the emergency cats portion of the day. I’ll start:

Can’t wait to get my July 4th on.

A gerontocracy, if you can keep it.

A banana republic if you can keep it.

tl;dr Whelp.

So to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution, Biden can now have Trump whacked—

They’re just playing with us now.

Dear Etsy, While I am in fact buying toys, I am (nonetheless) not five years old.

In the event of warning of an incoming ICBM, the President will have 3-7 minutes to decide whether to launch in response, the fate of the planet in the balance. As this (terrifying and forensically unforgiving) book makes clear, the authority is his and his alone. Is EITHER candidate up to that?

Really kind of fascinating to watch some of the very same people who couldn’t type Genocide Joe fast enough now all “hands off muh Biden.”

❌ To be or not to be, that is the question. ✅ Fuuuuuck

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

Considering accelerationism.

Everything else said it’s hard to think the media isn’t getting _exactly_ the narrative they wanted.

Get angry man.