Dr. Christine H. Tran
@thechristinet.bsky.social
✨CEO of peer-reviewed vibes (they/she)
✨Asst Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of work, play, livestreaming & creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool; formerly LTA Prof @ UTM Game Studies
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
✨Asst Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of work, play, livestreaming & creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool; formerly LTA Prof @ UTM Game Studies
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
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What's up, fellow docs? Today, I defended my PhD on Twitch livestreaming & the platform of playing-at-home!
Waves of thanks to all who got me over the finish line: my valiant committee, my pals & anyone who let me watch them play a game 🎮 (1/2)
Waves of thanks to all who got me over the finish line: my valiant committee, my pals & anyone who let me watch them play a game 🎮 (1/2)
Refreshing a journal front page every morning to see if a specific article is up yet:
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Refreshing a journal front page every morning to see if a specific article is up yet:
Jorah “Libertarian” Mormont 🐻
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Jorah “Libertarian” Mormont 🐻
Post a famous bathroom scene.
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene.
when a popular Toronto coffee shop gets landlorded (evicted for family), a hundred bearded guys become rōnin
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
when a popular Toronto coffee shop gets landlorded (evicted for family), a hundred bearded guys become rōnin
Being an AI musician is even more humiliating than being an AI visual artist. You're killing the planet for NEGATIVE money on the table AND helping to deskill even LESS desired transferable qualifiactoins!? Struggle potpourri.
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Being an AI musician is even more humiliating than being an AI visual artist. You're killing the planet for NEGATIVE money on the table AND helping to deskill even LESS desired transferable qualifiactoins!? Struggle potpourri.
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Boosting this again - the tribal chair would still appreciate donations, as he put a massive amount of his own funds into this event but is now struggling to pay his bills. Any donation would help! www.paypal.com/paypalme/one...
November 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Boosting this again - the tribal chair would still appreciate donations, as he put a massive amount of his own funds into this event but is now struggling to pay his bills. Any donation would help! www.paypal.com/paypalme/one...
future op-ed: "Using the Notwithstanding Clause to Mandate my Ex-Wife and Her New Husband Into Thinking I'm Cool"
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
future op-ed: "Using the Notwithstanding Clause to Mandate my Ex-Wife and Her New Husband Into Thinking I'm Cool"
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Years ago I wrote a paper on "the fappening" (celeb nude photo leaks) and young men's sense of entitlement to women's nude bodies. The slogan "AI Girls Never Say No" is beyond disgusting and tells us a lot about how this user base views women: as goods, trophies, possessions, not people
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Years ago I wrote a paper on "the fappening" (celeb nude photo leaks) and young men's sense of entitlement to women's nude bodies. The slogan "AI Girls Never Say No" is beyond disgusting and tells us a lot about how this user base views women: as goods, trophies, possessions, not people
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
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1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
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Wait did the monsters in Monsters Inc live in Omelas?
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Wait did the monsters in Monsters Inc live in Omelas?
I feel like I could make every Conservative member of of Canadian parliament super accurately in The Sims.
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I feel like I could make every Conservative member of of Canadian parliament super accurately in The Sims.
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Would anyone like to join forces with me to create another matching gift for this charity bundle? Looking for two people to commit $100 each with me so we can create a $300 matching gift on the campaign to support Doctors Without Borders 🖤
Games against Genocide Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!
There are 50 TTRPGs to discover for a $10+ donation to @doctorswithoutborders.org and their Palestinian relief efforts.
Purchase the bundle here: tiltify.com/@jesthehuman...
There are 50 TTRPGs to discover for a $10+ donation to @doctorswithoutborders.org and their Palestinian relief efforts.
Purchase the bundle here: tiltify.com/@jesthehuman...
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Would anyone like to join forces with me to create another matching gift for this charity bundle? Looking for two people to commit $100 each with me so we can create a $300 matching gift on the campaign to support Doctors Without Borders 🖤
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Here's the abstract :) #gamestudies
November 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Here's the abstract :) #gamestudies
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At Jess Walter's @uvalibrary.bsky.social Zines Now! workshop in @scholarslab.bsky.social. Jess is starting us off w/reading zines they shared on our tables so we can share the different approaches to advocacy-via-zine we observe (& folks new to zines can get up to speed too).
"Can expressing and exchanging our experiences through zines provoke changes in perception, convention, or policy?" Tuesday 11/11 Jess Walters helps us explore—and then learn to make!—zines as tools for advocacy. (You may remember their past excellent SLab event on zines for disability justice!)
Zines Now! Workshop: Zines for Change
Join us for an interactive workshop for Zines Now!, a year-long initiative showcasing the history of zines as an art form, highlighting future possibilities for the making and...
cal.lib.virginia.edu
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
At Jess Walter's @uvalibrary.bsky.social Zines Now! workshop in @scholarslab.bsky.social. Jess is starting us off w/reading zines they shared on our tables so we can share the different approaches to advocacy-via-zine we observe (& folks new to zines can get up to speed too).
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fortnite friday is a talk show that takes place entirely in fortnite, which has nonetheless pulled names as big as gavin newsom, george santos, and the rizzler. I’ve always wondered how @connoreatspants.bsky.social does it, and I finally got a chance to ask him
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
fortnite friday is a talk show that takes place entirely in fortnite, which has nonetheless pulled names as big as gavin newsom, george santos, and the rizzler. I’ve always wondered how @connoreatspants.bsky.social does it, and I finally got a chance to ask him
me all week @ Federal Budget coverage if the welfare of working class Canadians weren't on the line:
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
me all week @ Federal Budget coverage if the welfare of working class Canadians weren't on the line:
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New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
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vimeo.com/1116289621
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The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…
vimeo.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
🧵
vimeo.com/1116289621
🧵
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As of today, I can finally be Vietnamese in Crusader Kings!? Thanks, Zorhan Mamdani! 🫡
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
As of today, I can finally be Vietnamese in Crusader Kings!? Thanks, Zorhan Mamdani! 🫡
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We do need digital sovereignty in this country BUT it needs to be regulated. "Innovation" is total horseshit here because it just means "back tech corporations" and that means don't regulate.
And we need to start understanding that "AI" is such a large umbrella you might as well say "digital tech"
And we need to start understanding that "AI" is such a large umbrella you might as well say "digital tech"
It's actually insane that the feds are promising to put more than double the amount of money they're putting into childcare, into AI.
Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?
Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
We do need digital sovereignty in this country BUT it needs to be regulated. "Innovation" is total horseshit here because it just means "back tech corporations" and that means don't regulate.
And we need to start understanding that "AI" is such a large umbrella you might as well say "digital tech"
And we need to start understanding that "AI" is such a large umbrella you might as well say "digital tech"
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The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!
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Capitalism is now illegal
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Capitalism is now illegal