This couldn't possibly lead to any of a number of dystopic outcomes... interestingengineering.com/innovation/w...

World-first biological data center packs 16 mn living human neurons

Singapore has unveiled a biological data center prototype that harnesses living human neurons for low-power computing.

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@aspirelab.bsky.social , @katta.bsky.social , and I have a wee correspondence out in Nature soon about how we need to update copyright licensing to better accommodate/mitigate re-use in the AI era. You can access it early here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Good read for some through around AI in games... www.gamesradar.com/games/echoin...

Echoing Palworld dev, video game lawyer says all her clients have anti-AI contracts because gamers hate it and it's a copyright landmine: "I think we're going to see lawsuits"

"Don't touch it. It's not worth the legal liability"

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if you feel like hearing me actually talk about my book, rather than just read my posts, I was on the Game Studies arm of the New Books Podcast network. Thanks again @gamestudies.bsky.social !

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I had the great pleasure to talk to DANIEL L. GARDNER about his new book "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay" (MIT Press) on my podcast #GameStudies! newbooksnetwork.com/thresholds-o... Please enjoy our conversation and share it afterwards!

If you enjoyed Penny-arcade today, it might as well be a visualization of similar points I make in ch6 of my book. Thanks, @cwtycho.penny-arcade.com and @cwgabriel.bsky.social .social for providing a handy image to use in polite conversation, lol. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Had a great time giving my talk, "Taboo Interfaces and infrastructures on the periphery of gameplay" at British DiGRA today. Thanks again Mariza DIma for being an enthusiastic volunteer for the interactive portion of the talk! Image included for algorithmic purposes. #bdigra #bdigra2026 #gamestudies

If you are thinking about using AI today, please consult this 30 year old episode of The Outer Limits: www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ved1c

The Outer Limits S03E05 Stream of Consciousness

Dailymotion video by Big Time Rush Full Episodes

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Wrapping up a lovely visit to Vienna to chat about research, my book, and help with @youthdmh.bsky.social summer school. Thank you again @katta.bsky.social and Pawel Wozniak for having me! Also obligatory pic of stuff to appease the Algorithm.

To adapt an excerpt from a novel I enjoy, AI demonstrates impressive algorithmic logic. But, logic can be a feeble tool for innovation; it proved airplanes would never fly. No matter the data AI devours, it cannot produce anything tomorrow that isn’t a version of something that happened yesterday.

www.youtube.com/shorts/dcCsg...

Don’t worry about it! #nvidia #ai #finance

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A hyper-realistic simulation. www.youtube.com/shorts/zLoGG...

Moving a photo in microsoft word

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For the first time in our 9-year history: WE ARE HIRING! We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Thanks Paul, a game those who couldn't make it this year can play along at home... #CHI2026

In Outer Worlds 2, you can ask an "AI" whether it is an "artificial intellect." It's response is appropriate to our broader AI situation. "That, I fear, would be a misleading choice of words, as it implies a form sentience or cognition. 'Applied statistics' might be functionally more apt."

I empathize with sci-fi writers most when I encounter folks citing my work to support making the thing my co-authors and I said would be a terrible, potentially harmful, idea.

Our (@mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and I) book GAME STUDIES: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD is officially OUT everywhere in the world except the US for some reason. So here is an actual thread about why we wrote it and what we were trying to achieve with it.

Oh look at that, my book is on sale at GDC! Very cool! If you are attending, stop by @mitpress.bsky.social and give it look. I couldn't make it this year, but thanks @kcisbister.bsky.social for the pic, lol. #GDC #GDC2026

I am so glad co-pilot is in outlook now to offer me AI summaries of 5 word emails >.>

So, they are technically only looking at coding skills, but the implication here is about learning, not the specific task they observed being learned, so Anthropic is essentially saying using more than a little bit of AI assistance keeps you bad at stuff. www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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I have been peddling my book a lot, but now its available Open Access, in case you wanted to see what my fussing was about but didn't have the budget! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Thresholds of Digital Gameplay

How the often-overlooked interfaces, interactions, and inequities on the edges of gameplay are more central to gaming than we realize.Contemporary digital

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In "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay," Daniel Gardner demonstrates how a series of interfaces and other elements on the edges of gameplay are more central to gaming than we realize. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255358...

It's book launch day! Very excited and super thankful. If you can help me amplify with a share, that would be amazing. Or, if you read it and want to tell people about it, that would be pretty rad too! Thanks again @mitpress.bsky.social, and many more who helped along the way.

Counting the days until I have a student tell me "The AI ate my homework..." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Google's AI Deletes User's Entire Hard Drive, Issues Groveling Apology: "I Cannot Express How Sorry I Am"

The Google Antigravity AI agentic screwed up big-time — but was very contrite about its blunder nonetheless.

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Only a few weeks before my book is out! Thanks again Braxton Soderman, @kcisbister.bsky.social, and @kishonna.bsky.social for kind endorsements on @mitpress.bsky.social. Also, US folks, the code MITP30 should give 30% off a pre-order! (details on the code: mitpress.mit.edu/discount-cod...)

Maybe, if massive networks of GPUs eating the internet and guzzling down whole cities-worth of power are only kind of ok at replicating stuff our brains do pretty well with about a dim lightbulb's worth of electricity, its a qualitative issue, not a quantitative processing challenge?

2025: a late stage soviet bureaucrat larp you can never leave. Everything is strained and worn beyond function, everything breaks ever-faster, & the job is to make do & pretend & report numbers up & to the right, while everyone knows & copes & bonds over black humour & too much drink in private.

Perfection and until 6 days ago impossible to produce with AI, and still unlikely until MOAR actual creativity is fed to the alter regurgitation. Even if replicated or remixed, it will be as derivative as the rest :/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=j33f...

むかしストリート - 桃男 -｜Once Upon A Dance Time - Peach Boy -

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For folks in/around HCI. If you haven't seen already, its SIGCHI volunteering app season. All executive subcommittees and ad-hoc committees are looking for volunteers, but if you care about Equity issues, please consider expressing interest in the Equity committee! medium.com/sigchi/open-...

Open Call for Volunteers 2025

As a volunteer-driven organization, we are deeply reliant on numerous volunteers who give their time to organizing conferences, reviewing…

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Hey! My book from @mitpress.bsky.social has a cover now! I think it captures the book's theme about the transactions and transitions we negotiate with to participate in digital gameplay @barnesandnoble.com has another pre-order sale for 25% off too. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/thresholds...

Thresholds of Digital Gameplay|Paperback

How the often-overlooked interfaces, interactions, and inequities on the edges of gameplay are more central to gaming than we realize.Contemporary digital gameplay is only accessible by navigating an ...

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After 5 years of hard work by @sparklebliss.bsky.social, @cmejeur.bsky.social, @onlyalishak.bsky.social, myself, our contributors, and the lovely people at @punctumbooks.bsky.social Historiographies of Game Studies is out NOW! You can read all 780 pages for FREE. 🔓 punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...