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Hugh Davies
@hughdavies.bsky.social
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Artist, Curator, Media and Games Researcher President of Chinese Digital Games Research Association https://www.hughdavies.au/

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Hugh Seymour Davies was a musicologist, composer, and inventor of experimental musical instruments.

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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Jan 10
My 2024 paper interrogating the intersection of AI, future forecasting, and games is now freely available online. "this paper reveals and critiques the unannounced spiritual mysticism surrounding contemporary AI and its increasing embrace within late-capitalist future forecasting". bit.ly/4h9JLLH
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d
Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers. Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites @evanhill · 11m Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Sep 4
I am intensely proud of my wife Yoko who has just had her book published! Next Wednesday, Yoko will be book signing at Kinokuniya in Sydney. Please book a seat and come along if you are in town. tinyurl.com/bdfxrs9z
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LeftwardSwing 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 ♿ @leftwardswing.bsky.social · Aug 21
The Thai cover band you didn't know you needed in your life.

Crank it! 😀 🎸
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · Aug 17
Tel Aviv Anti-War Riots

Riot police - most without identification tags and some masked - violently attack protesters and beat them, while their colleagues shield the actions with their bodies and stand in a ready-to-attack position
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · Aug 17
Bendigo Writers Fest confirms that 59% of speakers withdrew.
What an own goal.
I hope those responsible for trying to silence writers are feeling good about themselves. Wrecked an important cultural institution.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · Aug 14
so so excited that we were able to excerpt Seth Harp's incredible new book, The Fort Bragg Cartel, which was one of the most jaw-dropping reading experiences I've had this year. www.wired.com/story/the-fo...
The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus
Seth Harp’s new book, “The Fort Bragg Cartel,” goes deep into the forming of the Joint Special Operations Command and its origins in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · Aug 14
If you have plans to attend the Bendigo writers festival as a speaker or participant, now would be a good time to loudly withdraw

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Writers festival requires ‘complete self-censorship’ over Gaza war, academic claims, as speakers withdraw in protest
Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah among those to boycott Bendigo writers festival, arguing she cannot appear ‘as a Palestinian’ due to speaker code
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · Aug 14
Yeah, here’s a piece by @alexmckinnon.bsky.social: www.deepcutnews.com/p/authors-wi...
Authors withdraw from Bendigo Writers Festival over anti-Palestinian 'censorship'
Festival organisers sought compliance with controversial definition of antisemitism that includes criticism of Israel
www.deepcutnews.com
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Aug 14
This weekend as part of the IndieCade Festival, I will be discussing Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) in the Age of “Alternative Facts” with Michael Andersen and Celia Pearce. The event is online and in US/European time. www.indiecade.com/playablethea...
Playable Theatre Symposium – IndieCade
www.indiecade.com
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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · Aug 14
Wow! Bendigo Writers Festival (15 - 17 Aug) is making guest speakers sign a last-minute agreement to not mention Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Writers who care about human rights are cancelling. Any writer/guest still thinking of appearing should seriously reconsider. Stand up! Refuse to comply
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Aug 7
Outstanding words by Ge Zhang on Sino-Sinopessimism madeinchinajournal.com/2025/08/05/o...
On Sinopessimism, or Junkies of Futility | Made in China Journal
This essay is written precisely so that it could be dismissed. —Paul Mann (1991: 141)   Gary Zhexi Zhang (2021) first coined the term ‘Sinopessimism’ as a speculative counterpart to Afropessimism, ima...
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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · Aug 4
Israel doesn’t want anyone to see this aerial photo.
Gaza.
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Aug 3
Deadline extended! Following popular demand, we have extended the deadline for abstract submissions to the Video Games in Museums event in Shanghai this November. New deadline is August 12th. chinesedigra.org/934-2/
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Aug 1
See you there.
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Jul 31
Our Little Sister www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QYp...
Our Little Sister (海街diary) soundtrack + SCENE: 13 Sakura Tunnel/桜トンネル
YouTube video by LucianaVerace
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Jul 31
Portrait of a Lady on Fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkmz...
Portrait of a Lady on Fire OST - La Jeune Fille en Feu [Extended]
YouTube video by Drifting Transience
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Jul 31
Volver www.youtube.com/watch?v=yav6...
Penélope Cruz singing in movie Volver
YouTube video by 1979moviefan
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Frederik Vanhoutte - Winterbloed @winterbloed.be · Jul 31
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Inclusions

#GenerativeDice
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Jul 30
Absolutely agreed, so the NAZIs could live with their war crimes. So they could commit a genocide but also alleviate suffering - of the Jews, but ultimatly and primarily - of themselves. But to my original point, that's not what's happening in Gaza.

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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Jul 30
Totally agree the NAZIs sought the eradication of all European Jews. Disagree the book is nonsense.
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Jul 30
Yes, and again, see the book chapter I posted. Its freely accessible, informative, well researched. It's by Dr. Nestar Russell, a trained criminologist, and titled is "The Nazi’s Pursuit for a “Humane” Method of Killing".
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Jul 30
I'm not talking about living conditions or scale. Im talking about death. Read the paper I posted.
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Jul 30
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
The Nazi’s Pursuit for a “Humane” Method of Killing
When Nazis of all ranks spoke of a “humane” method of killing other human beings, what exactly did they mean? One outcome of this book is a tentative outline of the key characteristics&#82...
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Jul 30
The difference is the NAZI's worked to produce a humane death in the holocaust. The Israeli's have worked to produce an inhumane death in the Gaza genocide.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · Feb 10
This is Tux. He is the cutest black hole we have ever seen. And we thought you should see him too. 12/10
a solid black dachshund puppy sits on some white carpet and looks up at the camera. the pup’s fur and the photo’s contrast combine to make it impossible to see any distinguishing features of the puppy’s body; he’s just one little vantablack splotch in the middle of the frame. only his little brown eyes sparkle with a few reflections of the light around him.
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · Mar 6
Setting the “days since an Australian university admitted to wage theft” clock back to zero www.hrleader.com.au/law/26563-la...
La Trobe University signs enforceable undertaking for $10.77m underpayments
Another tertiary educator has signed an enforceable undertaking (EU) with the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO), locking La Trobe University into more than $10.77 million in payments, including superannuation...
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Jul 21
What an appalling place Britain has become. The sadness and shame on peoples faces; protesters, police, politicians, everyone, but the support of genocide and violent supression of its protest continues.
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Jul 11
Someone will get AI to write it. Then it will be Friendslop slop.
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · Jul 10
That article is an ouroboros
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