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Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent point! I think there's an important comparison between this and the mascot dance protests as a form of playful resistance.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

“We could hear them laughing” 😧

Aaron Trammel argued in “Repairing Play” that playfulness can be a tool of subjugation. Has anyone tried applying ludological frameworks to how ICE is behaving? It seems like there might be a “there” there.

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 9d

This is the next iteration of “participants were 138 undergrads looking for extra credit it psych 102”

Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 23d

Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

THREAD 🧵

The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention

Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

arxiv.org

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15d

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

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Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 16d

I hope you're proud of this poetic line, @mattcolville.bsky.social
"Victories are glass,” the bright faerie spake.
Her brother nodded. “While tragedies are fingerprints.”
It will live in my heart forever.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 22d

Déjà vu: Trump, far-right.
Totalitarianism, neo-fascists, neo-Nazis ...

Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 22d

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”

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JD Boucher 💀 @jdboucher0.bsky.social · 22d

As someone who worked at a Nexstar station, this would be a 5 alarm all hands on deck fire for even one account

The Weeping Somnambulist @pigeon75.bsky.social · 22d

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 10

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Sep 10

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · Sep 2

How do we convince publishers to stop doing this? Bibliographies and footnotes matter. They should be printed.

Websites decay faster all the time. Especially in an era of huge mergers like the one that created Penguin Random House, where calls for efficiency see pages culled at every chance.

THGR

Please visit sites.prh.com/oraphicdeadmanwalkina
for Q bibliograpny and footnotes, as well as
wealth of resources for schools, colleges, and ạ/j
those who want to diq deeper.

Penquin Random House collects and processes your personal information.
See our Notice at Collection and Privacy Policy at prh.com/notice.

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Cyrus "OmegaEgo" Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · Aug 28

Even by Rascal's high standards, this was a great article

Rascal News @rascal.news · Aug 26

Tariffs are actively hobbling the tabletop industry, but writing about it as if precarity is new serves nobody.

Tabletop industry becomes poster children of tariff collapse

The Gray Lady is about 15 years too late noticing the cracks in the facade.

www.rascal.news

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · Aug 29

I quite enjoyed this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

anthonymoser.github.io

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · Aug 26

What more evidence do people need before they realize what serious danger we are in?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 26

Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · Aug 23

For my money still the best single paragraph on AI/LLMs I've read

But A.I. is a parasite. It attaches itself to a robust learning ecosystem and speeds up some parts of the decision process. The parasite and the host can peacefully coexist as long as the parasite does not starve its host. The political problem with A.I.’s hype is that its most compelling use case is starving the host — fewer teachers, fewer degrees, fewer workers, fewer healthy information environments.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · Aug 24

It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion…

… and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines.

Infuriating.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · Aug 24

Giant YTD drops in Chicago for basically all crimes.

Huge 4-reductions in Chicago for all violence. Murders are down FIFTY PERCENT.

Property crimes are dropping, tho still higher than before. But MRAPs don’t stop theft.

This is all pretext. Yet the WaPo subhed frames it as a “crime” issue.

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Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · Aug 18

Congrats, Emma, Alisha Karabinus, @sparklebliss.bsky.social, and @cmejeur.bsky.social! Fantastic collection with a TOC that makes me salivate to keep reading. What I've already read is wonderful. It's going to do heavy lifting in the intro course for my new Game & Media Studies program!

Dr. Emma Vossen @emmavphd.bsky.social · Aug 11

The book is out now! Free to download! punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books

punctumbooks.com

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Czepeku @czepeku.bsky.social · Aug 16

This question feels like the heart of the survey. Another company scrambling to fuck over creators for a quick cash injection. I'm sure they'd be paying us cents on the dollar for that data.

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Le Caghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · Aug 3

ok so I know I've been fundraising for a local family but I also need to tell y'all about this other fundraiser

@jamescsanchez.bsky.social, a mutual and colleague and friend, has been working on the documentary In Loco Parentis about cover-up and sexual abuse at elite boarding schools for 6 years

In Loco Parentis - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark

Trigger Warning: This six-year-long investigation focuses on the survivors of sexual abuse in two elite boarding schools and the cover-up that hid these stories for decades. By supporting this project, you will ensure that these stories will be finally be heard for the first time.

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Rascal News @rascal.news · Aug 5

Draw Steel's art description guide isn't just a new approach to alt-text. It synthesizes museum-tested accessibility with an eye towards poetry and metaphor.

Lin spoke with @dreamwisp.bsky.social about MCDM's mission-in-progress and creating "more visceral and tactile" descriptions.

Draw Steel sets new standards for alt text in their books

A deep dive into what an Art Description is, how it works, and who it’s for, including an interview with alt text writer, Jen Kretchmer.

www.rascal.news

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Le Caghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · Jul 29

Y'all, I'm asking for your help with a GoFundMe I'm sponsoring.

Along with other members of my local community, I'm fundraising to support a pregnant asylum-seeking Mom and her family here in central Kentucky.

Every dollar helps, as does every share. Thank you thank you!

gofund.me/afcd1f1a

Donate to Support a Pregnant Asylum-Seeking Mom in Central Kentucky, organized by Lauren Cagle

Hi, I’m Cagle! I’m fundraising for an asylum-seeking mother… Lauren Cagle needs your support for Support a Pregnant Asylum-Seeking Mom in Central Kentucky

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Jul 27

ATTN: Academics!

If FOIA comes for you, do not cower! You've done nothing wrong! @noupside.bsky.social knows what to do. Read her thread!

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · Jul 27

The House UnAmerican Activities Committee is one parallel. It operated for 30 years — and was most effective *when its targets cowered*.

If you are FOIA’d you have options: you can say “fk you” to these 🤡s by posting your syllabus yourself. Don’t give them the thrill of a ‘secret documents’ story!

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jul 26

Just learned from LinkedIn that a Heritage Foundation affiliate is now FOIA-ing (or equivalent) instructors’ syllabi to go snooping for supposed illegal DEI at state universities. It’s hard to describe how far past McCarthyism we’re headed here.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · Jul 25

My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies.

Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world!

punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books

punctumbooks.com

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Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · Jul 25

He was a year behind me at Purdue but went on the market at the same time. Given his complaints about the letter of application genre, your observation about not being crowned fits.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jul 19

That was my point, yep.

They just described a literature course, a library science course, a liberal arts program — all things that exist and that AI hollows out. Parasitic.

Amy @amygalford.bsky.social · Jul 19

And wasn't part of your point that this is taking the long way 'round to the fact that composition and critical thinking skills are necessary after all?

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Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · Jul 20

Congrats!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Jul 19

I would be ashamed not to stand up for trans folks, not just because there are trans folks I like and love, but because everyone should get to live with the same personal freedom and dignity I get simply for existing. Who are we if we do not wish for others every right and privilege we have.

Stellarator 🏳‍🌈 @stellarator.bsky.social · Jul 18

Thank you for being a straight cis man with some amount of fame and platform who pushes back on that sort of thing. Marginalization usually only changes when people NOT in the marginalized group start to push back on the hate and move the Overton window.

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