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#florida #trans folks, I put together a private discord server modeled on the similar one from Missouri to help people organize, get info, and survive or gtfo of Florida. If you're looking for a way to share resources and/or get help, DM me for an invite.

I feel we would get along if I were real

The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist, my new book with @themitpress is out now! This is my attempt to intervene in how we talk and think about gamemaking as not just an entertainment industry but as a cultural field, built up from complex tensions between commercial and creative pressures and identities.

It's open access, and you can read it here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5572/The-Videogame-Industry-Does-Not-ExistWhy-We-Should

I wrote a long thread on Twitter with a bunch of excerpts which I won't reproduce here, but it's there if you're interested: https://twitter.com/BRKeogh/status/1648452116749643778

#gamestudies #mediastudies #culturalindustries #culturalproduction #commodon #gamedev

privilege is when politics is something you read about, not something that can kill you

I've admittedly drifted back to Twitter this past month or so. Network effects are strong! But I should note here as well that my new book is out next week, and this week I received my author copies and this was very exciting.

Details on the book here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/

#gamestudes #mediastudies #gamedev #culturalindustries #creativeindustries #commodon #digitalhumanities #creativity #labour

I wrote a Python script that accepts a line of input and then prints “Yes” or “No” randomly in response.

I asked it if it was sentient, and it said yes, and I got chills, man.

_Chills_.

Hello fediverse! 💛

If people now think Substack is good because the twitter idiot is pissed at them, can I remind everyone that one of the keystones of the Substack business model is transphobia? They're a garbage company who have been actively working for years to create the transphobic moral panic currently engulfing the US. https://gen.medium.com/substack-is-not-a-neutral-platform-8fc5bdf8e5f2

Chatbots-being-portrayed-as-AI is to the tech press what the Iraq War was to the New York Times.

A day will come when an entire segment of journalism will need to navel gaze about how catastrophically stupid they were.

ChatGPT was released half a year ago now. There is zero excuse for a journalist to have not used it, tested it, and concluded that it’s a psychological con relying on the human drive for anthropomorphic projection.

Y’all look like fucking idiots. Stop it.

the average cis person only uses about 10% of their gender

why do I support right to repair? simple: i want to upload my own MIDI files to my washing machine to play when it finishes a cycle without voiding my warranty

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

i’m proud of all the birds. good job birds you’re doing your best

Joshua Tree at 10 hours and 39 minutes of stitching progress.
#mastoart #embroideryart #artinprogress #landscapes #tuesday

“My hot take on “15 minute cities” is if you can get to the coffee shop within fifteen minutes, but the barrista who makes your drink can’t afford to live closer than a half-hour away, then you live in a theme park.” - Gareth Klieber #cities #urbanism