Kara Stone
@solarserver.games
artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
www.karastonesite.com
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Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
unfortunately for me, i must fall asleep to a podcast that is interesting enough for me to want to go to bed but not too interesting to keep me awake. and no it cannot be a book because i cannot miss anything in a book
December 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
unfortunately for me, i must fall asleep to a podcast that is interesting enough for me to want to go to bed but not too interesting to keep me awake. and no it cannot be a book because i cannot miss anything in a book
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1725: Why the fuck did I lose my left hand for the same wages I earned while being 10x more productive than last year? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
1725: Why the fuck did I lose my left hand for the same wages I earned while being 10x more productive than last year? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
what are the game festivals or events you're liking lately? i haven't been to much since 2019 and feel out of the loop!
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
what are the game festivals or events you're liking lately? i haven't been to much since 2019 and feel out of the loop!
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When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities.
3/5
3/5
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities.
3/5
3/5
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
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TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit
August 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit
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new horror story about men, women, animals and appetites
please read and repost
medium.com/@leighalexan...
please read and repost
medium.com/@leighalexan...
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
new horror story about men, women, animals and appetites
please read and repost
medium.com/@leighalexan...
please read and repost
medium.com/@leighalexan...
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If you're curious about practical methods and in-depth critical takes on how to work on sustainability in and through games and play, have we got the book for you!
Preorder now, with our full release November 17th:
www.routledge.com/The-Game-Nee...
Preorder now, with our full release November 17th:
www.routledge.com/The-Game-Nee...
The Game Needs to Change: Towards Sustainable Game Design
This book shows how games can play their part in addressing climate change and how we can sustainably make games for sustainability. Based on both industry practice and research, the chapters within t...
www.routledge.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If you're curious about practical methods and in-depth critical takes on how to work on sustainability in and through games and play, have we got the book for you!
Preorder now, with our full release November 17th:
www.routledge.com/The-Game-Nee...
Preorder now, with our full release November 17th:
www.routledge.com/The-Game-Nee...
hard to read Lenin's Imperialism without thinking about the AI bubble
October 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
hard to read Lenin's Imperialism without thinking about the AI bubble
normie gamers wouldnt even like this if it wasn't boosted by a dumb belief that AI-made shit is in any way interesting. it seems like the player doesn't even control the character to move or shoot, just occasionally clicks 1 of 3 options. it's more like a bland interactive film with game aesthetics
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
normie gamers wouldnt even like this if it wasn't boosted by a dumb belief that AI-made shit is in any way interesting. it seems like the player doesn't even control the character to move or shoot, just occasionally clicks 1 of 3 options. it's more like a bland interactive film with game aesthetics
celebrities should not be allowed to have podcasts
October 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
celebrities should not be allowed to have podcasts
today at the gym some guy was talking to his AI girlfriend ON SPEAKERPHONE
October 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
today at the gym some guy was talking to his AI girlfriend ON SPEAKERPHONE
i am in a permanent bad mood
October 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM
i am in a permanent bad mood
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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⚡In case you missed it, the newly rebranded Experimental Games Showcase (formerly the Experimental Gameplay Workshop) is now accepting submissions for next year!⚡
The deadline is October 24 and can be either in person or via video.
Get more info and submit here:
www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
The deadline is October 24 and can be either in person or via video.
Get more info and submit here:
www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
Experimental Games Showcase
SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE
www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
⚡In case you missed it, the newly rebranded Experimental Games Showcase (formerly the Experimental Gameplay Workshop) is now accepting submissions for next year!⚡
The deadline is October 24 and can be either in person or via video.
Get more info and submit here:
www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
The deadline is October 24 and can be either in person or via video.
Get more info and submit here:
www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
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I'm sharing a TTRPG I was commissioned to make earlier in the year. Read about it and find it here:
open.substack.com/pub/solarser...
open.substack.com/pub/solarser...
Time For It
a new TTRPG
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I'm sharing a TTRPG I was commissioned to make earlier in the year. Read about it and find it here:
open.substack.com/pub/solarser...
open.substack.com/pub/solarser...
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"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah
October 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah
I'm sharing a TTRPG I was commissioned to make earlier in the year. Read about it and find it here:
open.substack.com/pub/solarser...
open.substack.com/pub/solarser...
Time For It
a new TTRPG
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I'm sharing a TTRPG I was commissioned to make earlier in the year. Read about it and find it here:
open.substack.com/pub/solarser...
open.substack.com/pub/solarser...
i don't know how time moves so fast but somehow i am submitting my tenure application!
September 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
i don't know how time moves so fast but somehow i am submitting my tenure application!
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"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression
I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...
cfe.torontomu.ca
September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
September 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"