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Mark Sample

samplereality@post.lurk.org

<p>Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies at Davidson College. Makes weird things for the internet. Teaches, researches, and practices computational creativity. Current project: reading Moby Dick a few words at a time for the next 150 years.</p>

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    How Generative AI Destroys Institution, with a killer opening line: &amp;quot;If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than artificial intelligence.&amp;quot; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5870623

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    Times New Resistance - a free font that looks like Times Roman, except it autocorrects certain phrases. Type &amp;quot;Trump&amp;quot; and it autocorrects to &amp;quot;Donald Trump is a felon.&amp;quot; About three dozen other corrections in there as well. Perfect for installing on your MAGA uncle&amp;#39;s laptop. https://www.abbyhaddican.com/times-new-resistance

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    Key comment I saw on the AAUP training chat tonight: Voting rights were not won through voting rights. The right to collective bargaining was not won through collective bargaining.

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    Yesterday I dumped some bookings for an upcoming trip into Claude and asked for an itinerary. I panicked when I saw a flight was a day later than I planned. But it wasn&amp;#39;t. Claude just doesn&amp;#39;t know how days of week work. This is the tool the Pentagon wants to deploy to autonomous killing machines. https://wapo.st/3OCZdqY

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    Good example of Matt Kirschenbaum&amp;#39;s textpocalypse thesis. The blog “Worse on Purpose” is surely mostly AI-generated. No citations. Punchy writing with short declarative sentences. Like this. Churned out with extremely low effort. The blog equivalent of AI slop. Blop. https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-backpack-got-worse-on-purpose

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    The lifespan of Hampshire College (1970-2026) almost perfectly maps onto the timeline of a Gen Xer eventually crushed by conformity and capitalism.

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    A fantastic new issue of Taper is out. 21 new works of digital poetry, prose, and viz, each one under 2KB of code. https://taper.badquar.to/16/index.html

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    Tired of working 16 hour days? My new digital poem &amp;quot;Work&amp;quot; is sure to get you to slam your laptop screen shut... https://taper.badquar.to/16/work.html

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    I&amp;#39;ve pushed a new DH project out into the world! It&amp;#39;s a digital workbench for Aaron Reed&amp;#39;s 2020 *Subcutanean*, a novel in which every copy is different from every other copy. Introducing the Subcutanean Variorum! https://samplereality.com/2026/04/30/the-subcutanean-variorum/

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    Infrastructure junkies, this month&amp;#39;s free e-book from the University of Chicago is for you! It&amp;#39;s @inquiline&amp;#39;s *Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond*. Check it out! https://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html