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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 2h
When Robin Farquharson died at 42, his remarkable life faded into obscurity. But he was once a game theorist who, as M. Syd Rosen writes, was “primed for a brilliant career in academia, cutting-edge industry, or some yet-to-be-defined media role.”
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The Game Theorist Who Couldn’t Solve Himself
Robin Farquharson was poised to revolutionize election studies. But debilitating periods of mania pushed his extraordinary life into obscurity.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 3h
New month, new books: A pioneering exploration of the maternal brain; a darkly comedic journey into the science of aging; a fascinating inquiry into why beauty matters and how it has played an evolutionary role in our understanding of the world; and more: mitpress.mit.edu/october-2026...
Three book covers on a green background: "A Mother's Brain,""Morbid," and "Why is the World So Beautiful?"
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 6h
"I am not demoralized in this moment." @leahstokes.bsky.social spoke with @thestar.com about "The Carbon Wave" and the state of climate policy in the face of artificial intelligence, war, and Trump.
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Why this Canadian climate professor thinks Trump is the ‘poster child’ the world needs for climate action
Leah Stokes speaks to the Star about her new book, heat pumps, why energy should be cheaper and the AI versus climate debate.
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Ben Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social · 11h
The first copies of Algorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice have arrived! It's pretty surreal to hold a physical copy after years of staring at Word docs and PDFs. The book comes out next week, so get your preorders in now! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...
A picture of Ben Green hold up a physical copy of the book Algorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice.
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Nature @nature.com · 29/09/2026
Book review 📚 How to put people first in cyberspace go.nature.com/4xSx9k7
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How to put people first in cyberspace
Digital technologies increasingly shape everyday life. Computer scientist Francine Berman tells Nature that stronger safeguards are required to protect the public interest.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Unlike A.I., climate change’s existential threat is not hypothetical. It is killing people now." Amidst the AI-pocalypse, we can't lose sight of the climate crisis and the urgency of electrification. Gift link! shorturl.at/On4Jk
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The Big Threat Has Been Climate Change. Now Comes A.I. (Gift Article)
Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 12h
"The perfect guide to understanding a transformative process that sits at the center of humanity." — @drdanasuskind.bsky.social Built from Dr. Carmona's own research, "A Mother's Brain" shows how profoundly pregnancy transforms our brains. Out Oct. 6th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205478...
3D image of "A Mother's Brain: The New Science of the Neuro-Maternal Revolution" by Susana Carmona on a blue background.
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Carol Chiodo, Ph.D. @digitaldante.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Asymmetry in access to data plagues knowledge production. Amelia Acker's unpacks how (& why) in _Archiving Machines_. Not since @nannathylstrup.bsky.social _The Politics of Digitization_ have I read a book so brilliantly argued & researched mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324... And of course it's #OA
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Edmund Rolls provides fascinating insights on important neuroscience discoveries that advanced our understanding of brain mechanisms for behaviors ranging from feeding to face recognition to memory function.” —Michael Hasselmo New & #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205772...
Book cover titled "Neuroscience Discoveries" by Edmund T. Rolls featuring an illustration of a human brain. Beneath the cover, a black banner announcing "Now Available Open Access" with direct.mit.edu and a "Direct to Open" D2O logo.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 30/09/2026
Hear former EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and EFF co-founder John Gilmore discuss the Secret Service’s “Operation Sundevil,” jet-setting tech titans, tie-dyed cypherpunks, and a fateful house party in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district amid the earliest battles for online privacy.
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Privacy’s Defenders Podcast: Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries
People are increasingly concerned about the ways in which mass surveillance is tracking our every move: from Flock license plate readers to face recognition to creepy ads that – based on what we see a...
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Morbid pulls no punches. Why did Newman write it? 'Sheer bloody-mindedness.'" @irishexaminer.bsky.social interviewed Saul Newman on his book "Morbid," out October 13th: www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/he...
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Will you live to 100? The numbers don’t add up
Saul Newman’s book ‘Morbid’ debunks the science behind the longevity industry and the claim that people in blue zones live longer
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Data by Design @dataxdesign.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Join us on Thursday, October 29 for our New York book launch event at P&T Knitwear Bookstore from 6:30pm - 8:00pm. Get tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/lauren-kle...
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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Honored by the words of colleagues and friends who have found that The Formula for Better Health offers a roadmap to build a healthier future. The paperback version comes out on October 6. All proceeds go to programs working to improve health around the world. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205096...
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Philip Laughlin @philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Perfectly timed with the forthcoming publication of Felipe's new book NEUROSCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY II (just like we planned it)! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205590... @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
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Neuroscience and Philosophy II
Neuroscience and Philosophy II, edited by Felipe De Brigard and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, continues the interdisciplinary mission of its predecessor by bring...
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"A century before a human being left Earths’ gravitational pull, Verne saw technology reshaping his world and penned a novel that captures the complex social, political, and *human* reality of innovation and space exploration." @reactorsff.bsky.social @anaklimchy.bsky.social
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Misunderstanding the Genius of Jules Verne — And Why It Matters to Science Fiction - Reactor
Our cultural obsession with Verne's predictive abilities ignores the real critical nuance and power of his writing, to everyone's detriment.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Candidates’, parties’, and committees’ spending reveals that AI is fast becoming an essential tool of politics. Nathan Sanders and Bruce @schneier.com, co-authors of "Rewiring Democracy," take a closer look at new campaign finance disclosure data for @theguardian.com.
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New campaign disclosures reveal how much American political campaigns spend on AI tools
Though politicians are quiet about how they use AI, the book Rewiring Democracy examines how AI is starting to influence American politics
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Luis Villa @lu.is · 25/09/2026
Highly recommend @natematias.bsky.social @alondra.bsky.social et al on building audit skills and mindsets: short, concrete, practical. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205172...
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Auditing AI
Our lives are increasingly governed by automated systems influencing everything from medical care to policing to employment opportunities, but researchers an...
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Dr. Karen Huxtable-Jester 🍎📚🎓🔥 @drkarenhj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much has already been written about this, but this week I am reading Getting Learning Right mitpress.mit.edu/978026205420... which nails it.
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Getting Learning Right
As the challenges to higher education continue to mount, Chris Gallagher, Kristi Girdharry, and Kevin Smith believe that the surest path forward is a renewed...
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Jen Hoewe @jenniferhoewe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today is my book's release day!!!
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"On the Perspective of Painting" is the first English translation of Piero della Francesca’s renowned "De Prospectiva Pingendi," complete with many of della Francesca’s drawings as well as never-before-seen drawings: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204999...
A copy of "On the Perspective of Painting" by Piero della Francesca and Rocco Sinisgalli on a white background. The cover is orange with the Francesca's painting 	
"Madonna and Child with Saints (Montefeltro Altarpiece)" in the middle.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Through a candid, illustrated celebration of lowrider culture, "Tumbados" examines the politics of cruising, the Latinx experience, and the intrepid artwork of Guadalupe Rosales: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205654...
A copy of "Tumbados: Lowriding Memories and Cruising Futures" edited by Guadalupe Rosales on a white background. The cover features a color photo of a woman's face reflected in a car's side mirror.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI is changing how commerce works. In "Pricing in the Age of AI," Maxime Cohen explores the evolution of pricing decisions, AI's influence, and the opportunities and risks this brings: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205677...
A copy of "Pricing in the Age of AI" by Maxime C. Cohen on a white background.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We no longer look to the news just to be informed; we expect enjoyment, too. In "Enjoyment Is Breaking News," @jenniferhoewe.bsky.social explains how and why this shift occurred and what we can do to address the current information crisis: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205591...
A copy of "Enjoyment is Breaking News: How We Became Less Informed and More Divided (And How to Fix It)" by Jennifer Hoewe against a white background.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New this week from the MIT Press. Congratulations authors! 📚👇
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The data collected as we attend to content is the unwitting work we do for those who want to monopolize our time. It is this kind of labor that creates surplus value for them in the attention economy."
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When Culture Becomes “Content”
Can art still illuminate reality in an age of monetized attention, generative AI, and culture produced at limitless scale?
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Max Haiven @maxhaiven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fascism is back and it's fun. The cheated players of gamed capitalism want revenge. The antifascist game is about more than slaying Nazis. It's a podcast interview with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my book The Player and the Played (now available open-access from @mitpress.bsky.social )
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Emily Arnesen and Kyutaro Matsuzawa's research in @restatjournal.bsky.social shows that intimate partner violence can increase by 10% in a team’s home market after an upset loss, and the effect is greater when mobile sports betting enters the picture: direct.mit.edu/rest/article...
A screenshot of an abstract from an article written by Emily Arnesen and Kyutaro Matsuzawa, published March 13 2026. The title is "Sports Betting Legalization Amplifies Emotional Cues and Intimate Partner Violence"

The abstract: This study emplores the relationship between legalized sports gambling, unexpected emotional cues stemming from NFL home team upset losses and reported intimate partner violence (IPV). Using 1995-2022 crime data from NIBRS, replicating and extending Card and Dahl (2011)'s model, we find that legalized gambling increases the impact of upset losses on IPV by 10 percentage points. The effect is larger in states with mobile betting, where higher bets were placed, around paydays, and for teams on a winning streak. These results suggest that financial losses from gambling amplify emotional reactions to unexpected team losses.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's incredible, right?
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Seth Turner @sethaturner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really interesting piece. Adorno and Horkheimer’s work on the culture industry becomes more relevant as time goes on.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Attention, like crude oil, is treated like a scarce natural resource that must be extracted, processed, and refined."
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When Culture Becomes “Content”
Can art still illuminate reality in an age of monetized attention, generative AI, and culture produced at limitless scale?
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Through a delightful mix of dry wit and textured storytelling, Jess Rahbek has crafted an insightful explanation and a really fun read." —Cas Holman, inventor of Rigamajig "This is Why You Love LEGO" is coming Oct. 13th! Pre-order your copy: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205491...
Cover image of "This is Why You Love LEGO" by Jess Uhre Rahbek on a red background. The cover is yellow and resembles a yellow brick.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"'I know of nothing in nature, in reason, or in revelation,' [Bergh] said at an early meeting of the ASPCA, 'which obliges us to suppose that the unalienated rights of a beast are not as sacred and inviolable as those of a man.'"
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How a Horse Flu Outbreak Spurred an Early Animal Rights Crusade
In 1872, New York’s devastating epizootic gave the ASPCA’s young founder a powerful moral argument for animal protection.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The emphasis on bans has come at the cost of progress on platform policies and features that make the online world better for people of all ages."
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Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point
Instead of treating platforms as monoliths, adults and policymakers should listen to the young people who know them best.
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Play History @playhistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A very good article looking at the backroom deals and legal wranglings that form the modern state of the Tetris IP. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bizarre-...
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The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris
Behind the beloved game lies a struggle over mathematical ideas, erased collaborators, offshore millions, and copyright power.
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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 26/09/2026
1859. 𝐒𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐓 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐒: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐙𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐙𝐙𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐃 𝐖𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐔𝐄𝐒 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/soviet-... This new book sets out to explore the geopolitical and legal history of the bestselling videogame Tetris. @mitpress.bsky.social #Gaming #Tetris #Booksky
Book cover for “Soviet Blocks.” Blue, red, and white Tetris blocks fall into place to form a flag resembling the United States flag, against a completely black background, with the book’s title in red at the top.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From Carbon Footprint to Carbon Wave: @tricyclemag.bsky.social hosts author @leahstokes.bsky.social on October 7th for a virtual talk on her empowering framework for protecting our planet. Sign up here: tricycle.org/events/carbo...
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From Carbon Footprint to Carbon Wave: An Event with Leah Stokes
Join us on October 7 for a free virtual event on rethinking our approach to the climate with professor Leah Stokes.
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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Somewhere in the world there's a newspaper columnist exhorting that "if you're uttering last words, make them good ones." You don't need BYE BYE I LOVE YOU to know why this isn't realistic. It will explain the columnist's exhortation and give you a sense of what people do have control over.
a cover of Bye Bye I Love You by Michael Erard as designed by the crack graphic design team at MIT Press
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Michael Brownstein @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Chuffed to learn that my book with @dryan149.bsky.social and @madva.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Book Prize for Social Justice. The winner will be announced Oct 7th. @mitpress.bsky.social @goddardriverside.bsky.social
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just one month until Gascia Ouzounian’s brilliant new book, "The Trembling City," is out. The book exposes the often-overlooked acoustic violence of genocide. Learn more/pre-order here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205648...
Cover of "The Trembling City: The Sonic and Atmospheric Violence of Vibrational Warfare," over a gray background.
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Goddard Riverside @goddardriverside.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Congratulations to Advancing Peace by Jason Corburn and DeVone Boggan for @mitpress.bsky.social. It made the shortlist for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice! #GoddardBookPrizes
The cover of the book plus the words Announcing the 2026 Shortlist
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Jen Hoewe @jenniferhoewe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Check out a new podcast from the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social where I talk about my forthcoming book, Enjoyment Is Breaking News, from @mitpress.bsky.social! I explain the book’s arguments and detail how we can all do better in our news use. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/enjoyment-is...
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Jennifer Hoewe, "Enjoyment Is Breaking News: How We Became Less Informed and More Divided (and How to Fix It)" (MIT Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pleased to see this displayed at the Kluge Center
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"If the goal of education is to maximize learning, then the system should be designed to connect students with the best instructors for them, not to protect faculty interests or maintain outdated structures."
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Masters of None: The Flawed Logic of One-Size-Fits-All Education
Mastery learning and one-on-one instruction could transform education. Why do we settle for less?
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our heartfelt congratulations to "A Black Gaze" author Tina Campt, who has been named the 2026–27 Scholar in Residence at @momanyc.bsky.social. Her book "Art in a Time of Sorrow," a poignant account of art's healing power in the face of profound grief and social grievance, will publish in fall 2027.
A headshot of Tina Campt against a white and purple background. Under her name reads 2026-2027 MoMA Scholar in Residence.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Artificial intelligence and atomic energy have become curiously entangled: they now share a grid, an apocalyptic vocabulary, and as of this year a Doomsday Clock." Nathan Ensmenger revisits his essay on the environmental consequences of our information technologies.
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The dirty parts of the computing world, revisited
Ten years ago in these pages, I argued that the environmental costs of computing were the dirty little secret of the digital economy. That secret is now out: Data centers have become the subject of…
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Data by Design @dataxdesign.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Already pre-ordered Data by Design? Submit a proof of purchase to receive your own riso bookplate signed by members of our project team. forms.gle/9fVQwb77QRVg... Pre-order Data by Design, out October 20 by @mitpress.bsky.social, at dataxdesign.io.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Tetris Company says it owns the pieces in Tetris, but there’s one problem: Those geometric forms were described decades before Tetris existed. Julien Mailland details the game’s Kafkaesque journey from Soviet labs to “capitalist copywrongs.”
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The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris
Behind the beloved game lies a struggle over mathematical ideas, erased collaborators, offshore millions, and copyright power.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Neurologist Richard E. Cytowic offers compelling evidence that we can change the way we use technology, resist its addictive power, and take back the control we have lost. "Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age" is available in paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204900... @neuromandc.bsky.social
A copy of "Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload" by Ricahrd E. Cytowic on a white background. The cover is an image of a rock split with a mobile screen.
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I just finished @leahstokes.bsky.social's new book, The Carbon Wave. I'd planned to read it slowly over weeks, one short chapter each day as a break from other tasks-- to unwind. Ended up reading the entire thing in 24 hours, simply because I couldn't put it down. (1/2)
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