#TBT to "Playing with AI Chat: Positioning 'Dangerous' Language Model Futures through Interactive Fiction," published in 2023 by T&T alum @jackademia.bsky.social and faculty @lucidbard.bsky.social and @anasalter.bsky.social. Take a look! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Playing with AI Chat: Positioning “Dangerous” Language Model Futures through Interactive Fiction | Proceedings of the 41st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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Keep journals open-access, non-profit, and managed at minimal cost for the scholarly community and for posterity. Rent-seeking in academic journals must be called out and resisted. bsky.app/profile/robi...

Robin Ryder@robinryder.bsky.social · 4w ago

The resignation letter is here, along with the list of signatories which will be kept up to date as it expands: robinryder.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/r...

Register by July 10 to join us for our 2026 conference, entirely online, free with active membership. July 15-18, hosted by U Central Florida

I should remake my Gamer Foucault bot

Editing the ELO 2026 proceedings this week (as fast as I can). The last time I did this was for the 2024 Online conference which was (to my knowledge) the first time. In 2024 we had 5 submissions. This year we have almost 30! Thanks to everyone who sent something in!

Retsuko Overwhelmed by Paperwork

Alt: Retsuko (an animated red panda) Overwhelmed by Paperwork

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Excited to share the CFP for Into the Fog: Essays on Dead By Daylight, under contract with McFarland Press! Hoping to get a wide variety of submissions. Abstracts due July 30! See linked CFP for more details. www.facebook.com/share/p/1BN5... #DeadByDaylight #GameStudies #Horror

Just found out I have a substantial chunk of university money to spend by the end of the summer. What are some academic books, preferably in games and/or media studies, that you like? Plug your own books, plug your friends books!

What they are doing is actually amplifying a PR campaign which inaccurately recasts AI resistance movements as based on poetics, rather than resource allocation, cognitive & social costs, extraction & enclosure. People aren't angry because the million-monkey machine can maybe pound out a Macbeth.

Just found out I have a substantial chunk of university money to spend by the end of the summer. What are some academic books, preferably in games and/or media studies, that you like? Plug your own books, plug your friends books!

Sneak Peek at my lecture slides for this week

We need extra assistance as part of reviewing for Electronic Literature Collection 5 (github.com/eliterature/...). Please contact us (elcvol5@gmail.com) if you can read any of the following languages + willing to provide a short review of a work: Swedish Korean Gujarati Norwegian Catalan Tamil

[louder, as if that'll improve reception] THE BLUESKY DEVS WOULD BE VERY UPSET BY YOUR JOKES ABOUT VIBE CODING IF THEY COULD LOAD YOUR POSTS

This has been restored! Thanks to folks in Mexico who'd made a copy and re-shared it with me... not sure how it got deleted but it's back! Open biblio that anyone can copy/paste and add to (please add anything that fits!) CRITICAL DATA CENTER STUDIES docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Critical Data Center Studies

Critical Data Center Studies Books Amoore, Louise. 2020. Ethics Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others Duke https://www.dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics Bedir, M; Groen. L; Kuijpers. M; S...

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Myself and @mtrc.bsky.social are running a workshop on Games and Archaeological Play (GAP) at FDG 2026! Short papers of up to 4 pages are due by April 5th. We are interested in any work that broadly relates to video game archaeology. See the full CFP here: gapworkshop.org/call-for-pap...

I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time - Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026. belltowerhouse.org

Belltower House Artist Residency

Belltower House Artist Residency is a gift of creative sanctuary in southern New Mexico.

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Most of the footage of the famous 2000 "Super Mario 128" tech demo was recorded with handheld cameras by the audience, with the presenter drowning out the game sound. Only 10 seconds of direct feed footage exist, which reveal that the sound was a cacophony of Marios screaming.

Did you know the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 5 now has a blog? As we we hit milestones, we will be doing short posts to update what is happening and our next goals. February 2026 Update: eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/bl...

The Games and Animation Department at UT Dallas is hiring! A Tenure Track position in Emerging Media (Broadly defined as AR/VR/XR and/or Virtual Production) jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31115

The Games and Animation Department at UT Dallas is hiring! A Tenure Track position in Emerging Media (Broadly defined as AR/VR/XR and/or Virtual Production) jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31115

Do I know artists who work in an 18th century style of illustration who might take on a modest proposal (so to speak)? (would love to see portfolios)

The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live! The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US! store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...

The Quiet Year (box set)

The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every a...

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Me: So the Drukhari are the evil elves that need pain and suffering to nourish their souls. Friend: So it’s like Monsters Inc. Me:

Today is my birthday and all I’m asking for is for you to support and/or talk about your favorite Ranged Touch show or project! Patreon.com/rangedtouch

GOING BOX MODE 📦 Pleased to share the intro to our CSMC Special Issue on games + Sofia's theory of "container technologies." From solar gaming & trucking sims to hot tub streams & apocalypse bunkers, 13 articles square up for an expanded definition of gaming cultures: doi.org/10.1080/1529...

Containing games

Published in Critical Studies in Media Communication (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Wolves good. Not a movie or show, just, like, the animal. Wolves. They're pretty cool.

With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...

The list of what we've previously covered on Shelved by Genre is: Book of the New Sun The Earthsea Cycle A Unit on Junji Ito The Herald Mage Trilogy Burning Chrome + The Sprawl Trilogy A Canticle for Leibowitz Dr. Bloodmoney Brown Girl in the Ring A Unit on Alan Moore An array of Hallmark movies

imjusttoast@imjusttoast.bsky.social · 7mo ago

How is this the first time I find out you're on a podcast that talked through the whole Earthsea series?!

Hey, if you’re in the game industry and have a literature degree, would you please comment? We got a family friend over here who insists my having a career in games while holding a literature degree is a one-off aberration and per usual, I’m not letting it go.