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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 13h

A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls --
An ad campaign for a wearable A.I. companion has blanketed New York City, starting conversations and inspiring vandalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/s...

A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls

www.nytimes.com

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 1d

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 5d

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to ‘illegal immigrants’ apnews.com/article/fact...

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants'

This is false. Democrats say they are pushing for the inclusion of key health care provisions in the next congressional spending package.

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 6d

The #DiGRA2026 conference theme is Intersectional Pleasures. The theme invites a critical and celebratory exploration of how digital games enable, mediate, or restrict pleasure across lines of identity, genre, platforms, politics and more. www.digraconference2026.com #DIGRA

DiGRA 2026 Conference | Maynooth University

Join the DiGRA 2026 conference at Maynooth University, 14–18 June 2026. Theme “Intersectional Pleasures.” A global hybrid event for game research, culture, design, and industry.

www.digraconference2026.com

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 6d

Video game lets you return African artifacts from Western museums: www.cnn.com/world/africa...

Video game lets you return African artifacts from Western museums | CNN

In “Relooted,” players plan a heist to reclaim real-life African artifacts held in Western institutions.

www.cnn.com

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing to work with @oozannesay.bsky.social!

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 6d

I just backed Drink Coffee, Talk Fast: A Documentary About Gilmore Girls on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ink...

Drink Coffee, Talk Fast: A Documentary About Gilmore Girls

Honoring the 25th anniversary with a doc that transforms everything you thought you knew about its legacy & multi-generational fandom.

www.kickstarter.com

Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 6d

I said I'd include it! All of it! Yay!

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 6d

DEPLORABLE: Hegseth’s decision on Wounded Knee medals sparks outrage in Native American communities apnews.com/article/indi...

Hegseth's decision on Wounded Knee medals sparks outrage in Native American communities

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dashed the hopes of Native American communities that long sought the removal of military honors for the soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre.

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 7d

Featuring some familiar faces from @analoggamestudies.bsky.social!

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 7d

Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 7d

#F4SCSTSgonnaF4SCST Trump defends use of the U.S. military against the 'enemy within' www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

Trump defends use of the U.S. military against the 'enemy within'

Earlier, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the purpose of the department would exclusively be "war fighting."

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 9d

I talked quite a bit about consent and gen AI with my students, particularly the inability to opt out: Stuffing AI Into Everything Is Backfiring Spectacularly www.vice.com/en/article/s...

Stuffing AI Into Everything Is Backfiring Spectacularly

AI might actually do more to turn us off than to unlock a better world. Who would of thought... who could have seen that coming?

www.vice.com

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 16d

Our latest issue of Analog Game Studies is now available!

Daniel Lawson on transmediation and the Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Hugh O’Donnell on tabletop simulations, Brian Jason Thomas on Taskmaster & mental health, and Keith Jones on Around the World in 80 Games.

#StayAnalog

analoggamestudies.org

Analog Game Studies

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 12d

I remember doing the Time Warp: The 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' turns 50: www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

I remember doing the Time Warp: The 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' turns 50

Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show flopped at the U.S. box office — then became the longest-running theatrical release in history.

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 15d

@analoggamestudies.bsky.social 12.3 is out: analoggamestudies.org feature essays about transmediation and Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Tabletop Simulations as Museums, Leveraging Contingency in Taskmaster and in Mental Health, and a review of Around the World in Eighty Games #analoggamestudies

Analog Game Studies

analoggamestudies.org

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 22d

My recs include Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh's Squire & the @goldencobra.bsky.social Challenge 2023 Winners!

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 22d

Part I: otherwiseaward.org/2025/08/cele...

Part II: otherwiseaward.org/2025/09/cele...

Celebrating work from 2022-2023: Part I « Otherwise Award

Recommendations spotlighting gender-expanding genre fiction from 2022 & 2023, starting with work by Kim Fu, Dominique Dickey, Bogi Takács, Gretchen Felker-Martin, and Anya Johanna DeNiro.

otherwiseaward.org

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 22d

The @otherwiseaward.org had a hiatus a few years ago & did not give out awards in 2022 & 2023, the org still wanted to spotlight gender-expanding genre work, invited freinds to recommend writing they loved from those years.

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 26d

"Do not surrender: Expect that our elected officials, our law enforcement officers, our armed forces, and our judges follow the law and the constitution. Demand that they do." Trump Is Ready for Authoritarianism. Charlie Kirk’s Killing Could Tip Us Over. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I Really Hope I’m Wrong About What’s Coming After Charlie Kirk’s Killing

Trump is ready for authoritarianism. This could tip us over.

slate.com

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 28d

Deeply impressed that the BIPOC Game Studies Conference at The Strong Museum hasn't happened yet--it's in 2 days--but the Proceedings are already available: playstorypress.org/books/procee... (@analoggamestudies.bsky.social has an entry, Aaron Trammell & I have a brief essay...) #playstorypress

Proceedings of the BIPOC Game Studies Conference 2025 – Play Story Press

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Octavia E. Butler Literary Society @oebsociety.bsky.social · 28d

‘Positive Obsession’ Is a Fresh Look at #OctaviaEButler -- A new biography by Susana M. Morris reveals the struggles, passions and triumphs that shaped the science fiction icon and her books. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b....

‘Positive Obsession’ Is a Fresh Look at Octavia E. Butler

www.nytimes.com

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Octavia E. Butler Literary Society @oebsociety.bsky.social · 28d

All That You Touch, You Change: The Life and Legacy of Octavia E. Butler: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/07/08/a...

All That You Touch, You Change: The Life and Legacy of Octavia E. Butler

Helena Ramsaroop Octavia E. Butler passed away nearly twenty years ago, but her legacy lives on in every reader she touched with her words. She is often regarded as one of the most important writer…

ancillaryreviewofbooks.org

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 29d

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 29d

CFP: Black Cultural Futurism

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