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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️

@snapdragoness.itch.io

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She/her. 📚 Associate Professor of Human-Centred Computing @ Monash University 🎮 Researching trans gaming, game history, & disaster response (unrelatedly) 🌟 STA Superstar of STEM 🐉 Ancient D&D nerd 🎶 Metalhead I like dragons. Opinions are my own.

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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 25d

If you're headed to #sxswsydney, come and hang out! I'll be discussing how the right game designs bring #transgender gender euphoria!

www.monash.edu/it/sxsw

Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 1h

I've learned that Dr. Martens Mary Janes are the best shoe for everything.

Casual Day Things? Simple, classy, cute.

Work? Obviously – see above.

More Formal? Let me show my goth aesthetic maybe with frilly socks.

Hiking? Yes because they have full boot treads.

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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 6h

Y'know, I love Melbourne. But Sydney has a frickin' airport train and that's just absolutely nice.

Bonus you can hear the station stops.

Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 9h

Fresh nails! Awaiting my flight to #SXSWSydney!

Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 2d

I'm looking forward to this.

$fractalecho.bsky.social$

Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 3d

Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI is now available in physical form! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Cover of Disabling Intelligences, a dark pink book with orange vines.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 2d

Im out here promoting that transgender ideology with my art. i.e., that we are awesome and beautiful and cool. And that we have special attacks with our magical musical instruments,

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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 3d

Yay!

Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 3d

You don't know what you don't know when it doesn't affect you...

Male colleague: all our desks have these vertical panels under them, but I don't know what purpose they serve.

Me: They're modesty panels... so no one looks up your skirt when you're sitting...

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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 3d

I've been monitoring this situation with great interest.

Becinator @artdragon86.bsky.social · 3d

Someone left their bike and helmet unattended outside the Information Technology Faculty building at uni and this little myna bird took advantage of it and built a nest in the helmet...

(photo credit: William Lay)

A myna bird sitting in a bird nest which is nestled inside a helmet hanging from the handle of a bicycle. Photo by William Lay.

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Tess "The Egg Prime Directive" Tanenbaum @drtanenbaum.bsky.social · 3d

If you haven't ever had to apply for IRB approval to conduct human subject research I don't think you can appreciate how profound of a violation of ethical research practices this is. This is information collected from a vulnerable community in a medical context disclosed without consent.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 4d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 4d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 4d

Here is a description of all tech now.

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Becinator @artdragon86.bsky.social · 4d

*walks into cafe*
Me: Hey, can I have a sandwich?
Server: Yes, it comes with lettuce, tomato and dogshit.
Me: I don't WANT dogshit on my sandwich!
Server: My manager measures my performance based on how many dogshit sandwiches I sell, so if you don't want one, this conversation is not interesting.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 5d

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> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT.
> I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 4d

Probably cheaper for Valve. 😫

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WincoFrightgirl 👻 @faggestfemsexual.bsky.social · 4d

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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chiplay.bsky.social @chiplay.bsky.social · 4d

We're excited to share that the PACM issue containing full papers that will be presented at CHI PLAY 2025 has just gone online 👉 dl.acm.org/toc/pacmhci/...
#chiplay #chiplay2025

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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 5d

OK first time properly speaking to game designers. I'm not nervous you're nervous!

*goes back to anxiously sipping espresso*

#GCAP

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 5d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 5d

This was clear from the beginning, but glad it's being called out.

Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 5d

Medical experts have claimed that the Cass Review was full of “implicit stigma and misinformation”

bit.ly/42v585s

Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 6d

Naughty Zoot!

Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 6d

Really excited to get to #GCAP... if only public transit was working this morning.

FYI for others – an "extended police operation" means trains (at least Cranbourne Line) are skipping City Loop.

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Pixel Nezumi 🗝️🐁 Mouse Vtuber🔞 @pixelkaye.bsky.social · 9d

Reminder that Duolingo laid off most of their staff, including their localization teams, so that they could invest heavily into AI. Don't support Duolingo. Disable drops for a few days.

Candy 🧶 Rhythm Witch Vtuber @candythecane.bsky.social · 9d

I'm disabling drops on my channel because fuck this ai first company

a twitch notification about Duolingo drops. this company is shit and i will not support them 💜

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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 8d

Pretty good one that.

Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 9d

That's what I expected. The internet isn't complete garbage. 🙂

Ross Graeber @majickthise.bsky.social · 9d

Correction. The answer was one day.

bsky.app/profile/nint...

Nintendo Life @nintendolife.com · 9d

Random: LEGO's New Game Boy Set Has Been Modded To Play Games After Just One Day. (Image: @natalie_thenerd)

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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 9d

I'm wondering how long it will be before someone figures out how to make the Lego Game Boy into an emulator...

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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 10d

One thing that I really love about the latest iterations of apps with AI is that they do things like flag correctly spelled words as misspelled and the correction is just "no suggestions".

I enjoy taking time out of my day to delete the word and spell it exactly the same to fix it.

Productivity!

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Liz Jackson @lizjackson.bsky.social · 12d

Posting again, because I think this has an audience beyond my reach. @fractalecho.bsky.social and I published a piece detailing Microsoft's inaccurate 'Inclusive Design' story and what it says more broadly about who 'Inclusive Design' omits from the record. buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

Screenshot of the headline, Human Censored Design - and a blurb "The Microsoft Inclusive Design Toolkit popularized norms about disability inclusion that when teased out, become taboos. It doesn’t just sacrifice the one for the many. It also exploits misconceptions about representation in order to locate and select whichever one can be used to neutralize, undermine, bury, and censor the many. There are three primary methods embedded within Inclusive Design power grabs, and they often work together to achieve something more resembling Human Censored Design"

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