BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
Dr. Mike Sell
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Digital Humanities, Playful Literatures, and Decision Education • English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Founder of the The Digital Storytelling Project • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
A small organ in eastern Germany is the headliner of the world’s slowest concert. It has been playing the same piece of music by composer John Cage at a glacial pace for nearly 25 years.
This organ will play one composition until 2640. It's redefining how slowly music can be played
A small organ in eastern Germany is the headliner of the world’s slowest concert. It has been playing the same piece of music by composer John Cage at a glacial pace for nearly 25 years.
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Gods, I could eat cherries all the live-long day. I’m heading to Leland, MI, in the near future and intend to wreck entire bushel-baskets full of sweets, tarts, dried, chocolate-enrobed, conceptual, imagined—whatever I can get my hands on.
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
Rewatching Park's 'No Other Choice' and was struck by a detail that I don't think has been noticed: the omnipresence of horrifying smells. The protagonist and his victims work for paper mills, notoriously fragrant, and his father owned a pig fram, likewise so. One of his victims is flatulent. 🤔
Science & unions must continue to join forces against the renewed horrors of deregulation, because both know otherwise *exactly* where they'll lead. Unaccountable employers are friends to no one, save the rich.
NPR@npr.org · 9h agoRates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines. n.pr/4yZJVPo
This, this, and this👇 What indie games didn't save is the bloated, unsustainable industry that was built on the top of the diverse, widespread cultures of game play and creation.
Feline🧪🐈Entity@felineentity.bsky.social · 10h ago"Indie games are not gonna save gaming." True, because they already did. If indie games didn't exist I probably wouldn't be playing games anymore.
You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Followers of WNBA news will be surprised to learn that Women’s and Gender Studies scholars have produced a body of work detailing how Black women in sports are understood by some as inherently non-female, in ways dating back to slavery.
At that stage in designing syllabi for the fall semester where the darlings are desperately pleading not to be cut from the schedule . . . I do love them so . . .
Nine Space Games is now available! Get it here: bpglink.com/9spacegames or here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... as you prefer, but definitely get it.
Nine Space Games
Nine Space Games is a collection of freeform games that share a universe and a set of rules. They are designed to be played however you like, and they play fast—each lasts no more than an hour. And th...
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Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
After teaching several courses on game design, I find myself more and more in line with the ethos of Eric Zimmerman's 'The Rules We Break.' For effective, creative, collaborative work to succeed, the participants must learn how to collaborate, how to listen to each other, how to empathize.
FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
I love having a little library at the foot of our front stairs. I love it even more when someone lends beautiful works like this into it.
After reconsideration (and thank you for your feedback!), the syllabus (in order): The Apartment His Girl Friday Safety Last! Police Story Beau Travail Seven Samurai The Searchers Black Girl Pandora’s Box Meshes of the Afternoon The Passion of Joan of Arc Tokyo Story In the Mood for Love
Dr. Mike Sell@profmikesell.bsky.social · 5d agoTeaching our Intro to Film Studies course this fall. Here's the syllabus: Tokyo Story In the Mood for Love Beau Travail The Searchers Meshes of the Afternoon The Apartment Breathless Daughters of the Dust Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Black Girl Seven Samurai His Girl Friday
Pirates announcers praising Ozuna getting to third from second on a long right-field fly ball lol
A second thread on pedagogical design, this one quite a bit longer, concerning one of the more challenging but beneficial classroom activities: small-team work. Let me know your thoughts!
Dr. Mike Sell@profmikesell.bsky.social · 2y agoI’ve been a university-level teacher for over 30 years. Part of that work is observing and mentoring new and experienced teachers. One lesson I’ve learned? Small-team tasks are where good teaching goes to die. A thread on how to make small-team tasks work in the classroom. 🧵 1/38
As many of us gear up for a new academic year, I thought it timely to post this brief thread regarding student cheating and the pedagogical and ethical benefits of radical honesty. Please share your thoughts!
Dr. Mike Sell@profmikesell.bsky.social · 2y agoA proposal to address student cheating, improve instructor-student relations, and push back against carceral pedagogy: radical honesty. 1/18
Pirro should be disbarred. Burgum should be fired. Trump should be impeached. And they all should be criminally charged.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 5d ago🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ is moving to dismiss the indictment against David Hearn in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool case and is admitting the damage was the result of a flawed, botched installation job, not vandalism.
Teaching our Intro to Film Studies course this fall. Here's the syllabus: Tokyo Story In the Mood for Love Beau Travail The Searchers Meshes of the Afternoon The Apartment Breathless Daughters of the Dust Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Black Girl Seven Samurai His Girl Friday
A second thread on pedagogical design, this one quite a bit longer, concerning one of the more challenging but beneficial classroom activities: small-team work. Let me know your thoughts!
Dr. Mike Sell@profmikesell.bsky.social · 2y agoI’ve been a university-level teacher for over 30 years. Part of that work is observing and mentoring new and experienced teachers. One lesson I’ve learned? Small-team tasks are where good teaching goes to die. A thread on how to make small-team tasks work in the classroom. 🧵 1/38
As many of us gear up for a new academic year, I thought it timely to post this brief thread regarding student cheating and the pedagogical and ethical benefits of radical honesty. Please share your thoughts!
Dr. Mike Sell@profmikesell.bsky.social · 2y agoA proposal to address student cheating, improve instructor-student relations, and push back against carceral pedagogy: radical honesty. 1/18
Unpopular opinion: If you're designing your course and your exams entirely around the possibility that a minority of students will cheat, you are undermining the educational experience of the majority who don't cheat. And you're a cop.
UCLA illegally fired me for posting my personal opinions about the death of open Christian White Nationalist Charlie Kirk. UCLA has hired a top firm to defend their case—my expert legal team is ready. www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-05/ucla-dei-director-fired-johnathan-perkins-charlie-kirk
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 6d agoFired Over Speech, Professors Take Their Employers to Court—and Win The recent spate of censorship and academic freedom violations is the worst since the McCarthy era, according to one lawyer. But as faculty rack up legal victories, universities may start to think twice. https://bit.ly/4g4d1pm
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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I rarely wax about physical media, but I just watched the Radiance Blu-ray and it is a proper revelation. The way the locations almost float in darkness, the virbrancy of the colors of character and settings, and the uncanny quality of Joan Mocine's paintings. www.radiancefilms.us/products/mes...
