@mareinna

■ interdisciplinary hybrid ■ digital culture, algorithmic folklore, and monsters ■ postdoc @UiB ■ she/her and/or they/them

 Bergen, Norway
Joined March 2008
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new ALGOFOLK blog post on Turkey's fortune-telling websites, coffee grounds reading apps, and chatbot diviners, by PhD candidate Yagmur Vik #algorithmicfolklore algofolk.substack.com/p/divi…
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@narrenhutOct 11
This is just like what that French guy Boulderyard talked about… Beauregard…. There’s a referent and uh another thing and they get all mixed up I believe. He talked about this in his book. Balltheguard
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Saw this AI-generated sign outside of a spa that is a sign of a sign
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maybe: leif weatherby@leifweatherbyOct 8
once again, and in solidarity: welcome to the humanities
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new article-spell by ALGOFOLK postdoc @mareinna on academic writing itself as a gothic practice euppublishing.com/doi/full/1…

Academic Meaning-Making as Gothic Practice: A Spell | Gothic Studies

The author uses the Gothic as both method and metaphor to examine academic meaning-making as an affective, haunted practice. Invoking the forces that interrupt, distort, and haunt thought as it...

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I wrote a spell. it's about dread.
胡子哥 @[email protected]/bsky, sannuvola.threads.net@SanNuvolaOct 8
new article-spell by ALGOFOLK postdoc @mareinna on academic writing itself as a gothic practice euppublishing.com/doi/full/1…

Academic Meaning-Making as Gothic Practice: A Spell | Gothic Studies

The author uses the Gothic as both method and metaphor to examine academic meaning-making as an affective, haunted practice. Invoking the forces that interrupt, distort, and haunt thought as it...

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It is also, implicitly, about all the things that are lost when we ask a machine to do the writing for us. And why I get the temptation to do so.
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we must acknowledge the existence of theoryslop
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@QiaochuYuanOct 4
absolutely loving that it's 2026 and chuds are discovering the joys of classical 2000s-era harry potter fandom practices such as genderbending and shipping
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you guys. archiveofourown.org/works?wo…
🎃HowlingSpookposter👻
@StrittposterOct 1
Someone with unlimited free time and severe enough autism should re-write every book, keeping the story generally the same but with Malfoy as the main female love interest. You would be a hero amongst men
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I'm begging you. got to aO3.org. you're welcome.
Visakan Veerasamy
@visakanvOct 3
I’m surprised to note that I had never until today considered a gender-swapped Draco Malfoy. Feels like a Harley Quinn level invention
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funny how the replies to this are talking about at least three different types of imminent collapse
Conrad Barski
@lisperatiSep 4
it's starting to feel like the early days of covid to me where everyone is still going about their day normally, but at some level you know it's all not real anymore and things will change very soon
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this is the new this
Paul Calcraft
@paul_calAug 27
"You don't see four clusters?"
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the ALGOFOLK Lexicon includes definitions of key terms with extensive citations, plus our own custom shoggoths!
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new essay by ALGOFOLK's @mareinna on the #algorithmicfolklore of AI thought experiments
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new ALGOpod episode with Santtu Raisanen discussing "convenience content" and other absurdities of algorithmic culture open.spotify.com/episode/2AQ…

ALGOpod #6: Santtu Raisanen

Off Center · Episode

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new coauthored article from ALGOFOLK postdoc @mareinna on the mostrous agency of smart assistants csalateral.org/section/digit…

Alexa’s Monstrous Agency: The Horror of the Digital Voice Assistant

First released by Amazon in 2014, the digital voice assistant Alexa allows users to connect and automate their smart home devices through the sound of their voice. Alexa’s automation of domestic...

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a better way to understand the reactions to this: imagine your favourite game/movie/novel would be deleted tomorrow. not just from stores, but from every shelf/harddrive/cloud everywhere. the media that helped you through the hardest days will just be gone. the grief is legitimate
OpenAI Newsroom
@OpenAINewsroomFeb 12
Tomorrow at 10am PT legacy models (GPT-5, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini) will be deprecated in ChatGPT. openai.com/index/retiring-gp…

Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

On February 13, 2026, alongside the previously announced retirement⁠ of GPT‑5 (Instant, Thinking, and Pro), we will retire GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini from ChatGPT. In the API,...

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this is the unhinged sci fi future I approve of
sam
@SamuelBeekFeb 12
This is amazing: this lady created a device that can control her balance, from a video game controller!!! What a time to he alive
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LLM-authored slop about
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third part in @DnVglr @OuzhouAdi & me's deepfake study, this on risk perception and regulation support doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-20…
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