missing a few, but otherwise... solid!

“by a celebrity 💅” fuck her god she’s SO MAD someone else besides her is being lauded as the patron saint of child literacy. you had your chance and blew it, lady! that’s not who you are anymore! gotta force HBO to reboot your movies just to feel something smh

@cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · last wk.

How the BBC is reporting Dolly Parton's passing.

having watched 八仙/All Wishes Come True! yesterday, and having not quite vibed with its animation style (so uncanny, so smooth), seeing the two posters together in that first photo is such a potent contrast

Accented Cinema@accentedcinema.bsky.social · 3w ago

Niu Lai (lit. Cow Come) was released without a press kit. Movie theaters in China have begun making their own posters. Surprisingly, not an AI in sight, just ppl living in the mement.

the entire Chinese internet has embraced what's basically a work of outsider art; a terribly animated film about a cow's dream made by a mother-son team and distributed by a former interior decoration company. It's now made millions at the box office.

Accented Cinema@accentedcinema.bsky.social · 3w ago

Niu Lai (lit. Cow Come) was released without a press kit. Movie theaters in China have begun making their own posters. Surprisingly, not an AI in sight, just ppl living in the mement.

My new journal article on TV adaptations of Watership Down is now live in Children's Literature Association Quarterly! If you want to read it but don't have library access, contact me for a PDF 🐰📑

Got a new google scholar notification, so I go check and find this very cool poem by Wang Jibing 王计兵, the recent Lu Xun prize winner, prefacing a PhD thesis on women migrant workers and the gig economy PhD students in all disciplines: more poems in theses please, we love to see them! ✨💫

Emily Wilson set the entire world to arguing how to properly interpret an ancient poem and a modern blockbuster but sure, this is a failure of public engagement.

Robert Borden Stan Account@bordenstan.bsky.social · last mo.

If the academy gets pulled into coming out swinging against the biggest adaptation of Homer in probably a couple generations off the back of one prominent scholar deciding to be Reviewer 2 to Nolan's work, it will say, IMO, pretty damning things about academia's ability to foster public engagement.

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

cause of death: ticking endless "I am human!" verification boxes while doing literature searches to build an academic misconduct evidence trail for genAI-falsified citations

A good day to remind you all that you can spend £5.50 on a 28mm @countbinface.bsky.social model from Troublemaker Games, £3 of which goes to NHS supporting charities Now who is selling some frog faced fiends and a scale model pier for them to fight over? www.troublemakergames.co.uk/product-page...

Something fun for a Friday: pre-orders are open for reasonably-priced paperback copies of ENCOUNTERING OTHERNESS IN VIDEO GAME CULTURES, due out this November. (Get €5.00 discount on forthcoming books by using coupon code "PRE-ORDER" in your shopping cart!)

Hello everyone, I'm currently writing about fan experiences with collective protest actions against media companies such as boycotts, letter campaigns etc. If you are above 18 and would like to participate please get in touch! More details in the form: forms.gle/FbgMDV1SfqkC...

Call for Interviews: Fan Boycott Experiences

Fan boycotts of media companies are undertaken as an act of collective protest aimed at using fan consumer power to bring attention to diverse issues. These include but are not limited to political, e...

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Viggo didn't break his toe when he kicked that orc helmet so you could me that AI is "inevitable"

Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

Why so many game developers don't want to use generative AI

With credits ranging from Dispatch and Marvel Rivals to Uncharted and Dragon Age, over 30 devs share their thoughts on gen AI

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It's publication day for Writing Game Histories!! 🥳🎉 Please do recommend it for your library, but it's also out in paperback so not as hideously expensive as academic books can be: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g... @doktornick.bsky.social @doni.bsky.social @historygamesnet.bsky.social

Exactly this. Every statement from almost every institution is kneecapped waaay before it begins by the unspoken but unilaterally understood requirement to first accept/protect the interests of the investor class. Without capitulation, you cannot be taken seriously. But the Pope can just go for it.

chris xu@chrysaora.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Skimmed the encylical and was repeatedly struck by how shocking (good) it feels to read a coherent institutional vision / strategy for how to maneuver through These Times rooted in common sense and firm principles. We have been intellectually failed and starved by so many other institutions.

the group chat has been trying this, and we're all getting slightly different "cool, what else do you need?" responses

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Oh my fucking god I thought they made this up. They did not. I just tried it myself

so far a 100% hit rate for students, having accepted meetings from me to "have a quick chat about research and writing process for the essay submission" (aka fess up on your AI use), reporting family emergencies that keep them from the Teams call

This is next week! Come and join us! #historicalgames #gamingthepast

Historical Games Network@historygamesnet.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our Analogue theme event will take place online on Tuesday 19 May, 16:00-17:30 UK time - just 2 weeks away! We're joined by the excellent Izzy Bartley, @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social, and @theoldkingscrown.bsky.social. Tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/histo... #gamestudies #skystorians #gtp

Stop! It is necessary for you to see graphic designer extraordinaire Margaret Calvert’s 90th birthday cake. Perfection.

> settle in to finally tackle overdue writing > get the phone call that completion has happened and when do i want to pick up the keys for the flat i've just bought > aaaaah

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

the high of delivering a book MS brought back to reality by the publisher reasonably also asking for keywords, the blurb for the back cover, "single phrase to describe the book" 🥲

Happy @alcs.co.uk March Distribution Day to all who celebrate 🥳📚💰

[Friday afternoon victory screech]

The call is live! #videogames #academia #VGC2026 #conference #games

Official account for the conference series "Video Game Cultures"@videogamecultures.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hi folks! The place for our next VGC conference is set: Klagenfurt, AAU 👏 More specifically, from September 3-5 2026 (Thu-Sat). Further details and especially the call for papers will follow late March to April. Stay tuned and have a good weekend! #videogames #academia #VGC2026 #conference #games

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

tomate 🍅@jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 6mo ago

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

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