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If you have written or published an article or book using critical code studies in the last year, let me know.

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December 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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So enjoying the Queer Bodies, Embodying Code discussion led by Edmond Chang and Jarah Moesch

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February 9, 2024 at 5:01 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
We're featuring the new book on Intellivision by Braxton Soderman and Tom Boellstorff this week in the Critical Code Studies Working Group! Looking at code from the game system for smarties. #critcode

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Book: Intellivision by Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman
Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman's Intellivision:
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January 22, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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#s12tot students intrigued by @sramsay’s “Algorithms are Thoughts, Chainsaws are Tools” video should check out the #critcode hashtag
November 9, 2024 at 1:56 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
We're extending the deadline to Feb 1. CFP: Retro AI: Archaeologies of Artificial Intelligence at USC July 31-Aug 1, 2026, in-person symposium looking at the history of AI, ethics, innovation, and more.

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#artificialintelligence #critcode #criticalAI
Retro AI: CFP
Retro AI: Archeologies of Artificial Intelligence In-Person at USC: July 31, August 1 Extended Deadline: Feb 1 The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has long been obsessively focussed on the nex...
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January 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
Software Heritage is calling for code for its UNESCO exhibition, "treating code as the main event"! Send them a snippet of your computer source code by September 8!

www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/07/c...

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Share how your code defines our world for UNESCO Exhibit - Software Heritage
Your code builds solutions and tells a story. Feature it in our UNESCO exhibit. Submit your proposal by September 8, 2025.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
This appears to be a screengrab from a fan doing a code reading of Taylor Swift's webpage from Feb 4 when it offered a redherring (unscrambled hneriergrd) 321 Backend fetch error.

Swifties, welcome to the 2024 Critical Code Studies Working Group!

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February 5, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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Team ELIZA will be presenting our code discoveries in a week at MIT. I will be there with Peggy in person, and more of the team will join via Zoom!

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October 1, 2023 at 3:42 AM
markcmarino.bsky.social
The Source Code Exhibition by UNESCO and the Software Heritage Foundation marks a major milestone on Critical Code Studies. Mathilde Fichen, Titaÿna Kauffmann, Stefano Penge, and Camille Picard. #critcode

Check out the online manifestation.
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Source Code Exhibition |
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January 28, 2026 at 3:54 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
Feeling Glücklich to get my copy of Digitale Schriftlichkeit, eds. Martin Bartelmus and Alexander Nebrig, which includes my #critcode reading of The Gay Science by Daniel Ravipinto from the Ryan Veeder invitational, great work of codework in interactive fiction.
Photo of of me holding book beside first page of my chapter
July 10, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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The call is up to join the Critical Code Studies Working Group that will feature Edmond Chang and Jarah Moesch and more! Spondored by Jeremy Douglass and HaCCS. Sign up by Jan 15 for our Feb discussions.

bit.ly/ccswg24 #critcode
January 6, 2024 at 4:15 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
We launch our DHQ week, featuring authors from our 2 #critcode special issues as cohosts! Zach Whalen, Daniel Temkin, Annettee Vee, David Berry, Zach Mann, Joris Van Zundert, Evan Buswell, Jason Boyd, John Cayley, Lai-Tze Fan, & Kevin Brock
February 19, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories in January 2024 #critcode #digitalhumanities

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New York Times source code stolen using exposed GitHub token
Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories in January 2024, The Times confirmed to Bl...
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June 11, 2024 at 10:20 AM
markcmarino.bsky.social
Deadline Feb 1. CFP: Retro AI: Archaeologies of Artificial Intelligence at USC July 31-Aug 1, 2026, in-person symposium looking at the history of AI, ethics, innovation, and more.

bit.ly/retroai26

#artificialintelligence #critcode #criticalAI
Retro AI: CFP
Retro AI: Archeologies of Artificial Intelligence In-Person at USC: July 31, August 1 Extended Deadline: Feb 1 The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has long been obsessively focussed on the nex...
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January 29, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Very cool! John Cayley will be co-hosting our discussion of the Critical Code Studies DHQ special issue in the 2024 CCSWG! Sign up for our online February discussions!

bit.ly/ccswg24

#critcode #softwarestudies #eliterature #digitalpoetry
Portrait of John Cayley
January 24, 2024 at 5:23 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
AI can manipulate symbols, whether code, image, or text, without intention or the goal of making meaning. This website converts hallucinated code to WookieScript (also hallucinated) and then translates that into depictions of Space Battles.

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March 2, 2024 at 8:03 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
10 PRINT night in the Critical Code Studies course!

#10PRINT #critcode
September 26, 2023 at 4:26 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
CFP: Retro AI: Archaeologies of Artificial Intelligence at USC July 31-Aug 1, 2026, in-person synposium looking at the history of AI, ethics, innovation, and more. Submit a proposal by January 8.

bit.ly/retroai26

#critcode
Retro AI: CFP
Retro AI: Archeologies of Artificial Intelligence In-Person at USC: July 31, August 1 Deadline: Jan. 8. The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has long been obsessively focussed on the next big b...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
How do we study hidden operations through code?

One of the discussions in the 2026 Critical Code Studies Working Group.

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Ice-Air Data Appendix
Title: Ice-Air Data Appendix Author/s: University of Washington Center for Human Rights Language/s: pmd -- python + markdown Year/s of development: 2019
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January 26, 2026 at 1:33 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
On episode 32, First Officer Locks discovers code that causes the shipboard computers to compliment Captain Khairk's hair every day.

#hairwars #startrek #critcode #aigenerated by #dalle
First Officer Locks, the vulcan, has just discovered the following code on the ship's computer and has decided to run it. Show us what happens to the bridge and crew when he runs the following code: (lea: codar "e atttkeri(1 LepataPo ceot 1) (resi) caper's Centtiprss! ((eo))) ..001-20l) I cateva "conttapoere) o canttthsirttrer 1. (ac) ( (1801) "a cacrl ) ((081) lacator, Cattthar))) cotoe, Katttperize "E)) ) !mor Stur)) 'cattittberell) "" G(har. (-(-(-) canpa Lee's 1). !) cternen 1) ((00().t) Captain Khair'k - Comproclil, ta- (Lls, (.. (kiLt, subrocruzine's > thatrorier thort, stabootasrtirk, (cas) Compaction, for cod, 1 compimattt complintitt.) 1. I onlarctrockis hair (cool) SS: Enttirpprize.) First Officer Locks, the vulcan, has just discovered the following code on the ship's computer and has decided to run it. Show us what happens to the bridge and crew when he runs the following code: (lea: codar "e atttkeri(1 LepataPo ceot 1) (resi) caper's Centtiprss! ((eo))) ..001-20l) I cateva "conttapoere) o canttthsirttrer 1. (ac) ( (1801) "a cacrl ) ((081) lacator, Cattthar))) cotoe, Katttperize "E)) ) !mor Stur)) 'cattittberell) "" G(har. (-(-(-) canpa Lee's 1). !) cternen 1) ((00().t) Captain Khair'k - Comproclil, ta- (Lls, (.. (kiLt, subrocruzine's > thatrorier thort, stabootasrtirk, (cas) Compaction, for cod, 1 compimattt complintitt.) 1. I onlarctrockis hair (cool) SS: Enttirpprize.) First Officer Locks, the vulcan, has just discovered the following code on the ship's computer and has decided to run it. Show us what happens to the bridge and crew when he runs the following code: (lea: codar "e atttkeri(1 LepataPo ceot 1) (resi) caper's Centtiprss! ((eo))) ..001-20l) I cateva "conttapoere) o canttthsirttrer 1. (ac) ( (1801) "a cacrl ) ((081) lacator, Cattthar))) cotoe, Katttperize "E)) ) !mor Stur)) 'cattittberell) "" G(har. (-(-(-) canpa Lee's 1). !) cternen 1) ((00().t) Captain Khair'k - Comproclil, ta- (Lls, (.. (kiLt, subrocruzine's > thatrorier thort, stabootasrtirk, (cas) Compaction, for cod, 1 compimattt complintitt.) 1. I onlarctrockis hair (cool) SS: Enttirpprize.) First Officer Locks, the vulcan, has just discovered the following code on the ship's computer and has decided to run it. Show us what happens to the bridge and crew when he runs the following code: (lea: codar "e atttkeri(1 LepataPo ceot 1) (resi) caper's Centtiprss! ((eo))) ..001-20l) I cateva "conttapoere) o canttthsirttrer 1. (ac) ( (1801) "a cacrl ) ((081) lacator, Cattthar))) cotoe, Katttperize "E)) ) !mor Stur)) 'cattittberell) "" G(har. (-(-(-) canpa Lee's 1). !) cternen 1) ((00().t) Captain Khair'k - Comproclil, ta- (Lls, (.. (kiLt, subrocruzine's > thatrorier thort, stabootasrtirk, (cas) Compaction, for cod, 1 compimattt complintitt.) 1. I onlarctrockis hair (cool) SS: Enttirpprize.)
February 21, 2024 at 5:38 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
Sign up for the 2026 Critical Code Studies Working Group to help explore culture through code.

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December 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
Making my way through Inventing ELIZA, our forthcoming book on the first chatbot from MIT Press. with Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Anthony Hay, Peter McMillan, Arthur Schwarz, Jeff Shrager, Peggy Weil, and me, with a Foreward by Janet Murray.

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September 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
2 more days: deadline Jan 7 to register for the 2026 Critical Code Studies Working Group. online January 12 to February 6. Don't miss out!

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CCSWG26 CFP
Call for Participation: CCSWG ‘26 9th biennial Critical Code Studies Working Group Jan 12 - Feb 6, 2026 To apply: Fill out this form Apply by January 7, 2025 20 years after the publication of the ma...
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January 6, 2026 at 4:36 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
Craig Dietrich leads us into the final week of CCSWG24 with a discussion of qays of teaching Critical Code Studies

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February 26, 2024 at 6:55 PM
markcmarino.bsky.social
Come read code at my workshop on Critical Code Studies today hosted by the Cambridge CCS reading group, coordinated by Claire Carroll and Orla Delaney
Nov. 27 at 9am PST, 5pm UK

Open to all who register (free)

www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/39160/

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Critical Code Studies Reading Group - CDH
Convenors Claire Carroll Orla Delaney Description Algorithmic Bias: 12 November The readings for the first session, themed around "Algorithmic Bias" are as follows: https://www.propublica.org/article/...
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November 27, 2024 at 3:14 PM