Hey, things are rough for me; if you'd like to support my work, I'd appreciate it. Shares are also greatly appreciated.

https://ko-fi.com/ideocene

Teaser 2 for my interactive fiction game! The official game title is:

Alight on Tyrnasìth

The title track is called "Inward, Outward, Forward, Backward"

#gamedesign #indiegame #sensemaking

https://youtu.be/SMfr02nUL4o?si=Ll2c1MDeEAhH59rf

There are still spots left for the fall session: www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

One last thing! Starter packs are a *really* good way to help whole communities (of practice or interest) move from one network to another without losing their whole history of connection and conviviality, and I think that's been quite successful at Bsky—it helped a lot of communities make the […]

The thing I had most hoped would happen on the feature-design side is that fediverse systems and ATProto systems would learn from each other and I think this is a good example of that actually taking place.

I think Mastodon's proposal for starter packs is a significant positive evolution of the way Bluesky rolled them out. I wound up on a bunch of packs there and it was…not a great thing for my specific brain and purpose.

I do hope the people in Masto's comments saying […]

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Teaser 2 for my interactive fiction game! The official game title is:

Alight on Tyrnasìth

The title track is called "Inward, Outward, Forward, Backward"

#gamedesign #indiegame #sensemaking

https://youtu.be/SMfr02nUL4o?si=Ll2c1MDeEAhH59rf

THANK YOU, Fediverse, seriously. 🙏

The playable demo for my game project Hawthorn will be available in the coming weeks. The game's official title will be released then! The story of the game is based on the work from my Ph.D. thesis on sensemaking and information ecologies. #gamedesign #indiegame #informationbehaviour #sensemaking

Hey, things are rough for me; if you'd like to support my work, I'd appreciate it. Shares are also greatly appreciated.

https://ko-fi.com/ideocene

It is now safe to put on your Mittentosh

As ever, silence is complicity.

I am begging you to stop sharing generative AI images of that fascist turnip on here.

Reminder: check to see if OpenAI, Meta, and others used your published work illegally to train their LLMs.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

If you find your published and copyrighted material in the database, make sure to file a claim here […]

"The level of creativity and versatility on display on your average Geocities site is hard to understate. Most were a cross between amateur experiments and love letters to this or that piece of pop culture. They were plastered with recipes, vacation photos, esoteric images, and tidbits of slash […]

If you spend enough time in the "social media for public good" space, you'll realize there is a subset of people who essentially want to build what I call "Valhalla but for debate club members".

Their vision of a perfect social media experience is endless debate about big important ideas where […]

You can hire me for information design work! My editing services will go live later this month. More information here:

https://ko-fi.com/ideocene

Happy New Year! On the December break, I wrote a piece of speculative fiction (folk horror) and you can read the entirety of it for free on my blog.

The Path of the Moon: An outlaw hunter of women travels a moonlight path to its brutal end.

[CW: brief mentions for suicide, intimate partner […]

Happy New Year! On the December break, I wrote a piece of speculative fiction (folk horror) and you can read the entirety of it for free on my blog.

The Path of the Moon: An outlaw hunter of women travels a moonlight path to its brutal end.

[CW: brief mentions for suicide, intimate partner […]