Mark Sample

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.

I've pushed a new DH project out into the world! It's a digital workbench for Aaron Reed'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/

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

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

Good example of Matt Kirschenbaum'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

Infrastructure junkies, this month's free e-book from the University of Chicago is for you! It's @inquiline@assemblag.es'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

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

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't. Claude just doesn't know how days of week work.

This is the tool the Pentagon wants to deploy to autonomous killing machines.

https://wapo.st/3OCZdqY

How Generative AI Destroys Institution, with a killer opening line:

"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."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5870623

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

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