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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 3h

“Do they give Nobel Peace Prizes to war criminals, Minna?”
“All the time. Aung San Suu Kyi, Henry Kissinger, and also the prize you think, it is not the Peace Prize.”
“Oh, don’t start with that.”
“It is a second tier peace price. It is made of very hard plastic.”

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Veep: Mina H turns Selina in as a War Criminal

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 4h

Next time you’re here, take the time. It’s 1-2 hours, and has a really cool looking set of avant garde pieces from a century ago.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 5h

Sadly, I just extended a work trip so no.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 5h

It’s an incredibly beautiful place

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 14h

... because that’s what we need to discuss with colleagues and administrators. Why is ChatGPT being used? What knowledge do people have about how it works? Do they understand why its use devours more time and not less? What are the negative consequences, including for our networks of trust? (6/x)

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 13h

The Qalqan exhibit by Ukrainian ceramic artist Rustem Skybin, “Symbols of Crimean Tatars,” is simply jaw dropping.

A brightly lit qalqan, or circular Ceramic Shield, decorated in contrasting dark and vibrant geometric patterns. This has green highlights and evokes plants.

A brightly lit qalqan, or circular Ceramic Shield, decorated in contrasting dark and vibrant geometric patterns. This one has larger fields of blue and tighter patterns resembling florals.

A brightly lit qalqan, or circular Ceramic Shield, decorated in contrasting dark and vibrant geometric patterns. This has bright and dark purple fields and is cut with intricate turquoise patterns.

A brightly lit qalqan, or circular Ceramic Shield, decorated in contrasting dark and vibrant geometric patterns. This is a highly stylized Star of David, with indigo offset by bronze and silver.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 14h

“Diamonds are Trumps” (1931), Jānis Tidemanis. Oil on canvas.

An oil painting, very dark with muted pops of color. Four men, highly impressionistic and almost indistinguishable, in a circle holding playing cards. The only visible suit is an ace of diamonds.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 14h

The Džemma Skulme exhibit at the Latvian National Museum of Art is pretty stunning, btw

“Folk Song” (1969) by Džemma Skulme, an expressive painting in dark reds and tinted whites of a woman with a pained expression sitting down. It is hard to describe.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 15h

The only missing fighter is a drag queen. It took seven bigots to put Kevin Aviance in the hospital and he still marched at pride three weeks later.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 15h

This is incredible work

Blackniss Everdeen @the-green-queen.bsky.social · 18h

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 15h

Was it everything you imagined

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 16h

a woman holding a cupcake with the words good for her above her

ALT: a woman holding a cupcake with the words good for her above her

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 22h

There is a FASCINATING new video from @thesamantharei.bsky.social about how media like Hunger Games and Handmaid's Tale use clothing to illustrate creeping fascism. (And, spoiler, it's not just fictional fascists who use clothing to control people.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwJV...

Clothing as Control in The Handmaid's Tale and The Hunger Games - Dressed to be Oppressed

YouTube video by Cinemattire by Samantha Rei

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 As an academic whose formative college and graduate experiences took place during the 'modernists' vs. 'neo-primordialist' debates about nationalism, I find the causal ideological & methodological nationalism of even left-wing social media shocking.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

Do you know how hard it is to teach tone and voice to young people in today’s media environment.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

Yeah. They have received very different responses, too, but I haven’t looked closely enough to see if they’re all linked together.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

Part of what made Trammel’s book so interesting and useful for the current moment is in how it extracts play from the implied assumption that all play is good.

Repairing Play

Contemporary theorists present play as something wholly constructive and positive. But this broken definition is drawn from a White European philosophical tr...

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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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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

Buddy Cole, looking nonplussed, as if he were quoting the below post.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

I was really sleeping on this place. It’s so lovely.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

I really can’t say enough about how beautiful Riga, Latvia is. Tons of beaux-arts architecture, endless parks, cute cafes and restaurants. It’s a very happy surprise and I want to come back when I’m not distracted and exhausted from work.

A leafy, serene park on a rainy day with manicured grass, tall trees, and a meandering creek.

A city street with pastel beaux-arts buildings, cobblestone sidewalk, and eurocars.

A tea house covered in wood paneling and blinking lights with large windows overlooking trees and a street.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

Thanks, I do too

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 1d

It never ceases to amaze me how after years of digital media, we're still talking about "screen time", conflating a huge range of phenomena into a single, clumsy variable. In my view, the rough equivalent is discussing food and nutrition only using calories - or "eating time".

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

Anyway, it was a great conference. There was a very interesting session on strategic synthetic influencers I will be thinking about for a while. Really thought provoking.

I also want to shout out my co-panelist from the Global Games Jam, Maria Burns Ortiz, who is absolutely brilliant.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

Whether it’s because many of the security policy folks in the room — several with a lot of uniforms on — had never realized or never framed it that way, I don’t know. And to be clear this was a great discussion; I thought it was substantive and constructive. But the reaction stuck with me.

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