YoYoni
@yoyoni.bsky.social
Playing history. Filmmaker and Designer of “Chicago ‘68” and “The Nights of King Ludd”
Our relationship to visual evidence is being profoundly disrupted by GenAI tools, which will impact how we know, what we can know, and what we think can be known about the world. A massive epistemological shift is upon us.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d agoI used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
Next month is the 58th anniversary of the DNC riots. We’re planning a special Chicago ‘68 game event with our friends at Marz brewing on August 28. Stay tuned!
Today we announce our next board game, "The Nights of King Ludd: The Luddite War on Industry 1811-?" A collaborative game of industrial sabotage ⚒️ 🔥 on Kickstarter September 2: www.kickstarter.com/projects/die... @joedewhurst.bsky.social @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social @ronengoldstein.bsky.social
Played two fantastic games about spying, smuggling, and racketeering: @dnlnwmn.bsky.social ‘s Watch & @colewehrle.bsky.social ‘s Pax Pamir 2ed. #boardgames
Next week we are heading to Gen Con. We've spent months preparing the for the big show in one capacity or another. This is a ton of work with often low returns, but Gen Con isn't just about sales. It's about community and the work of making games together.🧵https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErRzMS2YmAs
GenCon is for Playtesting
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Please consider nominating Chicago ‘68 for this year’s @sdhistcon.bsky.social Summit Award ✊
SDHistCon@sdhistcon.bsky.social · 2w agoNominations are now open for the 2026 Summit Award (for historical games published in 2025) and the 2026 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award (for historical gaming content published in 2025)! More info, and the nominations form, available here: sdhist.com/nominations-...
Teach & Play of Chicago ‘68 with @catastrophegames.bsky.social and the good people of Riverwalk Games in Michigan. The loser was punished with a shot of Malört, Chicago’s tear gas in a bottle. #boardgames #malort
I had a great time with @joedewhurst.bsky.social discussing the research that went into The Pure Land, forthcoming from GMT. youtu.be/BCG_wPNKy0s
Heretical Buddhist Social Upheaval (w/ Joe Dewhurst) | Board & Book
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I can't believe we ran a 25 player John Company mega game using the 1813 deregulation scenario AND mess of demos for An Infamous Traffic. Thank you @sdhistcon.bsky.social for organizing an incredible weekend of gaming here St. Paul. Until next time!
Day 2 of @sdhistcon.bsky.social! Starting Baltic Empires with @danbullock.bsky.social, @yoyoni.bsky.social, Joseph and Jeff!
Expansions are kinda weird, right? I spoke with ten game designers and a historian about one of the most unusual elements of modern board games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v08K...
Expanding Board Games
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there's a full frontal attack on literacy, and yet people hunger for ideas and love to find them in books! A SUNNY BOOK NOOK is a vibrant booktube channel reveling in reading, and it was a total delight to talk with them www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0cC...
interviewing Anna Kornbluh, author of Immediacy: or the Style of Too Late Capitalism
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We played The Glasgow Train Robbery last night (by @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social), getting close but still not managing to pull off that heist! #boardgames
Honored to announce that Molly House has been nominated for Best Tabletop Game for Impact at this year's @gamesforchange.bsky.social Games for Change Festival! Huge congrats to all the other finalists and excited to share that Jo will be attending the festival this July in NYC too. 🎉🎉
“There’s no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There’s no knowing where we’re rowing Or which way the river’s flowing…” 📸 Root: The Underworld Expansion @leder.games #boardgames
Played my first game of Burning Banners designed and illustrated by Christopher Moeller. It’s a highly modular, somewhat messy but generous game loaded with narrative details and dramatic turns. #boardgames #fantasy
The Luddites are having a moment (again): they're being discussed and rehabbed everywhere from NPR to US Catholics Magazine to Psychology Today. So, adapted from my book on the subject, here's a short-ish rundown of what you need to know to understand the Luddites in the age of AI.
Understanding the Luddites in the age of AI
The Luddites are back in fashion, but too many people still get them all wrong. This is what they really stood for, fought against, and why they matter now more than ever.
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Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2mo agoNPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet
We played Stephen Rangazas & @joedewhurst.bsky.social’s the Guerrilla Generation: Uruguay by @gmtgames.bsky.social last night. I played the state power this time. The Tupamaro cells were tough as hell to keep up with … until the Military stepped in and wiped them off the map.
Revisiting it now as an adult, Dragonslayer (1981) isn't very good but it does have this scene where Valerian, after pretending to be a boy her entire life, reveals to her village that she's a girl. 🧵
This morning @joedewhurst.bsky.social, @ronengoldstein.bsky.social, and I had the honor of accepting the Premio Comenio prize for historical games from the Board Game Research Meeting in Genoa. The award recognizes Chicago ‘68 as a game that “makes history accessible, engaging, and meaningful.”
In the first scenario of The Guerrilla Generation, we're presented with an urban insurgency that will inadvertently succeed when the military that crushes it proves too oppressive. That's right, it's Uruguay. spacebiff.com/2026/06/09/g...
Liberation Ludology, Part One: Uruguay
It’s safe to say that The Guerrilla Generation is the wargame I’ve been looking forward to the most since its announcement on the heels of The British Way. Like that title, this is a mu…
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50s Good Morning (Ozu) 60s Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky) 70s One Sings the Other Doesn’t (Varda) 80s Where is the Friend’s Home? (Kiarostami) 90s Beau Travail (Denis) 00s Werckmeister Harmonies (Tar) 10s Cemetery of Splendor (Weerasethakul) 20s … check back in with me in the 30s
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2mo ago70s Three Days of the Condor 80s Dirty Dancing 90s The Matrix 00s Memento 10s Pitch Perfect 20s I Love Boosters