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Tag Archives: ds106
Free all the GIFs
While in Portland, Oregon last week doing some serious DVD, VHS, comic, and vinyl shopping (what a city for physical media!), I came across The Incredible Hulk #315 from January of 1986. The title “Bruce Banner … Free at last?” … Continue reading
Living in AI Oblivion
It’s a ds106 world and I’m justing living in it. One of the many tasks for week 2 of ds106 is availing yourself to the wisdom of ds106’s AI bot the venerable Dr. Oblivion. So, given I have been thinking … Continue reading
Revving Up the ds106 Engine
The tech noir edition of ds106 is in full swing this spring, and I’m feeling locked-in. It’s been a while since I have felt energized like this, and so much of that is rooted in commenting. Not only has ds106 … Continue reading
You Can’t Go Holm Again
This weekend I finally watched Alien: Romulus (2024) given I thought it might give me something to talk about for Tech Noir, I was right. I enjoyed the return to the original Alien (1979), which in many ways is one … Continue reading
Noir Chopper
I am creating a course aggregation site for the current Tech Noir ds106 course, and it’s been a while. Thankfully Alan Levine and Tom Woodward have been kind enough to help me hack the old gold TwentyTwelve WordPress theme to … Continue reading
The Automated Dark Side of ds106: Tech Noir
I tried to make a ds106 comeback last year with the AI 106 course, but it turns out I wasn’t even up to getting off the couch. It was a long winter, and quite a few of my responsibilities were … Continue reading
Aggressive Technologies is Overvalued
A couple of weeks ago Paul Bond and I caught up with Martha “Sinclair” Burtis to do a playful skit around the fictional company Aggressive Technologies that the students in ds106.ai not only created, but have also been running with. … Continue reading
The Dr. Oblivion Bot
In the latest episode of Reclaim Today, Paul Bond and I catch up with Michael Branson Smith (MBS) in order to break down how he created the Dr. Oblivion bot running at Oblivion.University. Paul has been integrating the bot into … Continue reading
AI106: Long Live the New Flesh
I’ve been hinting a bit about Oblivion University, and part of being coy was that it wasn’t entirely clear what form it would take. I knew after Michael Branson Smith‘s (MBS Productions) brilliant example of training AI Levine for his … Continue reading