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Narrative Nubs is a joint project of the MIT Trope Tank https://tropetank.com and the Computational Narrative Systems node at the Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen @cdn

Six contributors made v1.0 possible; see the release note.

The Trope Tank

Nick Montfort’s lab/studio, seeking to develop new poetic practices and new understandings of digital media by focusing on the material, formal, and historical aspects of computation and language.

Nick Montfort 1h ago

Today is release v1.0 of —

Narrative Nubs, a project to develop a set of story generators — nubs, as in "the nub of the argument" — that present the essence of systems from the past 65+ years.

Today’s release v1.0 has nubs for GESTER, Story Machine, TAILOR, and “Through the Park”; two of these share a realizer to generate surface text.

These nubs are intended for anyone (including you!) to use in research, teaching, and/or creative practice.

Share and enjoy!

https://codeberg.org/nickmontfort/narrative-nubs/releases/tag/v1.0

v1.0 - nickmontfort/narrative-nubs

Four nubs are complete (GESTER, *Story Machine,* TAILOR, and "Through the Park"). While refactoring could still be done, they are in a consistent programming style which is documented. Two of them (GESTER and TAILOR) share a Realizer that produces surface text from abstract representations of sen...

Codeberg.org

Nick Montfort May 8

Mistigris computer arts May 7

Mistodon: looking for representation from the non-fiction field for last month's new literary MIST0426 artpack collection, Cthulu opted to make an #ANSIart adaptation of the maze-like cover art to @nickmofo 's 2005 history of the #textadventure computer game genre, #TwistyLittlePassages.

Nick Montfort May 4

GlitchyZorua

May 3

Your #android #phone is going to stop being yours!

Keep android open!

#fdroid #opensource #eff #technews #news #tech #technology #tech #sideloading #smartphones #technologynews

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

Nick Montfort Apr 29

Every time I hear the phrase artificial intelligence I reach for my blockchain.

Nick Montfort Apr 10

◯🖌️

A pond and a frog
Are one
A pond and a sound and a frog
Are nothing

Nick Montfort Apr 9

BORDER CONTROL

What do you do?

I’m an academic.

An academic? What’s that? What do you do?

I’m a professor. I teach, research, write, and attend a lot of committee meetings.

#poem #freeverse

Nick Montfort Apr 8

qurlyjoe Apr 7

Charcuterie, a visual explorer for #Unicode. Browse the character set, discover related glyphs, and learn more about the scripts, symbols, and shapes that make up the standard.

https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/#U+221E

Charcuterie

A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse characters, discover related glyphs, and explore scripts, symbols, and shapes across the standard.

Charcuterie

Nick Montfort Apr 3

Jesus walks into a restaurant for the last supper.

He asks the host, “could we have a table for 26?”

She looks at the group for a moment. “But ... there are only 13 of you?”

“Yes — we’re all going to sit on one side of the table.”

Nick Montfort Mar 31

I was just connecting with someone from Austin who has a 512 number.

I lived in San Antonio and had a 512 number.

“In 1992, the western part of [the 512] territory, including San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley, became area code 210, making 512 the last of Texas' original four area codes to be split.”

We didn’t cross the border — THE BORDER CROSSED US