Join us tomorrow at 11am edt for AI Resistance Training, part of what you get when sign up for MYFest, a great celebration of knowledge sharing all summer long!
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Decades ago, Jeff Shrager wrote one of the most influential BASIC versions of ELIZA
Years later, he helped us rediscover the original source code
Nothing clever to say, but what symmetry!
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#TeamELIZA #ELIZA #AIHistory
What would AI Resistance Training look like? Explore with @markcmarino.bsky.social June 9th via #MYFest26 by @equityunbound.bsky.social
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Our work on ELIZA wouldn't be possible without an earlier collaboration, when Jeremy Douglass and Jessica Pressman joined me in a collaborative Reading Project. It taught me the power of combining approaches and the strength of interpretive dialogue over solitary scholarship.
#DigitalHumanities
Inventing ELIZA's acknowledgments start with Myles Crowley, Patsy Baudoin, Mikki Macdonald, and Allison Schmitt -- archivists at MIT Distinctive Collections
They found the source code for ELIZA!
#InventingELIZA @patsybaud.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
The future of politics will be controlled by Slopaganda: propaganda with AI Slop: audio, visual, and textual
Shoutout to Rupert Lane!
Most people read about old software. Rupert and a team brought ELIZA back to life -- actually running, actually responding, in its original environment on a simulated IBM 7094!
ELIZA! Back from the dead!
#InventingELIZA #SoftwareHistory #ELIZA
Coming this summer: Go To Your Room, the newest Mrs. Wobbles & the Tangerine House story. Explore our confusement park: Dizzyland.
Illustrations by Brian Gallagher and a map by Myra Balderrama!
#fostercareawareness #fostercare
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Thanks to Nick Montfort for his support on this project, including hosting us at MIT and his own writing about ELIZA!
Inventing ELIZA stands in great company beside 10 PRINT, Output, and Racing the Beam.
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#computerhistory #platformstudies
Tired of worrying how AI is going to mess up your job/art/teaching? Come do a little "AI Resistance Training," next Tuesday at 8am pdt. Part of MYFest, which offers cool and enriching content all summer long!
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Tue 9 Jun 2026 @ 15:00–16:00 - Can we learn about AI by sparring with it? In this workshop, we’ll try writing exercises that use AI as a foil or opposing force to test ideas rather than generate them,...
