π¨ TAKE ACTION: No team from genocidal Israel at the WUCC Frisbee Championships in Limerick! #BDS www.ipsc.ie/action-item/...
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π Out now in open access: Games and Literature, ed. @dilan-c.bsky.social, @annakinder.bsky.social & @sebomat.bsky.social (@wallsteinverlag.bsky.social). 23 chapters on games, narrative and preservation π www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383536017...
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Are computer games literature? Β»Games and LiteratureΒ« explores the intersections of literary studies and digital games. This volume examines how games function as narrative media, cultural artefacts,...
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Ireland also appointed a former Meta exec to the role of Data Protection Commissioner for the whole of Europe. If you think you see a pattern here, no you don't.
Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social Β· yesterdayjust a reminder the cathaoirleach of the AI committee has stock in a AI-based revenue intelligence company. Naoise insists the stock β whose value is only realisable if the company goes public β is not a conflict of interest for him as a TD forming AI legislation www.ontheditch.com/fianna-fail-...
If this was suggested in Ireland, Simon Harris's entire skin would boil from his body in waves of dark smoke, leaving only a Terminator-type skeleton, which would still be re-elected by the 32% of Irish people who never learn.
Kerrie B@wheels002.bsky.social Β· 2d agoCan we have this here in Australia? Shoppers should be paid for their efforts in serving themselves #auspol
It's online co-op only :( It's free with a PlayStation Plus subscription :)
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β (π»πππππ’ ππππ)@alanbutler.info Β· yesterdayAnyone want to play Big Walk?
Anyone want to play Big Walk?
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Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
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15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.
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π Jef Geys, Catalogue Raisonnable (2025) π
The dread of the inbox.
Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...
Transform any place with Nano Banana in Google Earth
Custom images β generated from Google Earth satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery β help you redesign any location.
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This study conducts a Fourier analysis of the wave contours in five paintings by Bridget Riley, in order to estimate the extent and character of their harmonic distortion. github.com/golanlevin/r...
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Boy Iβm so glad weβre razing the institutional press so we can outsource knowledge production to easily-gamed syntax extruders controlled by three massive tech companies.
David Roberts@volts.wtf Β· last wk.Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.