Reposted by Finn DawsonCassandra (Cass) Barkman @cassiebara29.bsky.social · 06/08/2026New career milestone: Yesterday @antipollution.bsky.social informed me that our paper is now cited in Wikipedia. I think I can happily retire now. 171
Reposted by Finn DawsonCassandra (Cass) Barkman @cassiebara29.bsky.social · 28/04/2026How prophetic given the article @antipollution.bsky.social and I wrote earlier this year exactly on the microgenre of interface games! You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....journals.sagepub.comInterface Games as Microgenre: Definition and Thematic Investigation - Finn Dawson, Cassandra Barkman, 2026In this article, we identify and define an emerging microgenre of videogame we call the interface game. While all videogames contain interfaces, “interface game... 031
Reposted by Finn DawsonAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/04/2026"The most characteristic SF does not seriously attempt to imagine the real future of our social system. Rather, its multiple mock futures serve the quite different function of transforming our own present into the determinate past of something yet to come." Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future 17413
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 11/03/2026totally baller move by Fredric Jameson to make the conclusion of Postmodernism more than 100 pages 010
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 08/01/2026@cassiebara29.bsky.social and I have a new article out about the "Interface Game" microgenre: games that remediate user interfaces (like Hypnospace Outlaw and Her Story). Check it out at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comInterface Games as Microgenre: Definition and Thematic Investigation - Finn Dawson, Cassandra Barkman, 2026In this article, we identify and define an emerging microgenre of videogame we call the interface game. While all videogames contain interfaces, “interface game... 030
Reposted by Finn DawsonThe Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 22/10/2025🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR: Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility. Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy... 413783
Reposted by Finn DawsonSF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Clifford D Simak sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/simak_... was born on this day, so here's are some of his covers: for 'Time and Again'; the fixup novel 'City'; plus two for omnibus's that include both novels (Artist: Chris Moore, [couldn't identify], Karel Thole and [couldn't identify]): 24514
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Sydney Harbour Bridge today -- have never seen anything like this 0101
Reposted by Finn DawsonMax Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Notes on Cosmic Osmo (1989) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/... 021
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 24/07/2025$ilkmoney gotta be the only person in the world rapping about ray-tracing 010
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Doing both these things at the same time is great because i'm now spending all my time thinking about how DS2 imagines circulation and the importance of logistics/transportation labour for it. You literally build highways to make commodities move quicker! 000
Reposted by Finn DawsonBrendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 06/07/2025I haven't fleshed it out into a full article, but at DiGRA last year I presented this talk which was a Marxist analysis of the tendency of (indie) developers becoming publishers after a big hit. Maybe of interest to the current discourse I'm seeing around publishers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ey014... 1126575
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Death Stranding 2 semi-accurately captures Australian verbiage until they start referring to bushfires as "wildfires" 020
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 26/06/2025born to play Death Stranding 2 forced to read Capital vol. 2 020
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Reading the first 70% of The Talented Mr. Ripley: 😀 Reading Patricia Highsmith's Wikipedia page when I'm 70% through The Talented Mr. Ripley: 😬 000
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Discord is trying to get me to buy orbs and complete quests -- literally who is asking for this shit 210
Reposted by Finn Dawsonvibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 11/03/2025in spite of the decades-long clamoring for the need to look at video games as a serious and consequential art form, we still largely don't do that. instead they're still largely approached as excellent machines for a certain kind of playful addiction. the "play" is more important than anything else 630749
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Walter Benjamin famously argued that fascism is about the Ghibli-isation of politics 030
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 10/03/2025fuck Windows 11, I'm running the Austin Powers OS 030
Reposted by Finn DawsonOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025I guess it's good to know that there is a line for elite conduct somewhere but it is depressing how it's more commonly drawn in response to breaches of etiquette rather than, say, dropping of bombs or withdrawals of food aid 181095233
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 25/02/2025fuck roguelikes I'm over here playing dictionarylikes and encyclopedialikes 130
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Reading Typee - Melville loves descriptions of sucking, rubbing, massaging, ejaculating (prayers, of course). Highly erotic work! 020
Reposted by Finn DawsonJames Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 05/02/2025This is so disgusting there aren’t words 2434
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 28/01/2025feels like the time to start getting into psychoanalysis 010
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Dream job is making all of the iRobot robots for AI article header images 030
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Interesting how streaming decision paralysis has led me back to older mediums -- have been listening to nothing but radio for the past few weeks so I don't have to worry about choosing what to listen to (and I won't let the algorithm do it for me!) 010
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Made not cherry but banoffee pie to rewatch Fire Walk With Me 030
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Björk describing Pärt's compositions as Pinocchio and the Cricket is so sick www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfqE...youtube.comBjork interviews Arvo PartYouTube video by La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand scène nationale 020
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Spent most of my day watching the NFL and the UFC and feel like I mainlined American fascism 020
Reposted by Finn DawsonPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025At 100 years old, legendary saxophonist and Sun Ra leader Marshall Allen is releasing his debut solo albumcons.lvLegendary saxophonist Marshall Allen announces debut solo album at age 100Marshall Allen, the legendary saxophonist, composer, and Sun Ra Arkestra member, is set to share his debut solo album, New Dawn, on February 14th. 492670581
Reposted by Finn DawsonThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/01/2025🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive 529183138423
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Giving the Lemonade Monster Rehab ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Surprisingly subtle Arnold Palmer-esque taste with a good mouth feel and a nicer buzz than a regular Monster. This can was imported so it was $8AUD, but I could see myself grabbing it regularly if it was cheaper. (I wish there was a Letterboxd for drinks) 071
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 27/12/2024joinreboot.org/p/mr-beast-s... incredible workjoinreboot.orgMr. Beast Saying Increasingly Large Amounts of MoneyTaking a look at the world's biggest creator through his content's biggest theme. 020
Reposted by Finn DawsonMax Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Thoughts on R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 (1998), Spinoza, and peregrines maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/... 252
Reposted by Finn DawsonEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Lots of clarity today 252162775090
Reposted by Finn DawsonJames Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 14/12/2024critics & theorists! the CTWG journal, V1 is live as a free PDF on our site! It’s a year’s worth of work—special thanks to the authors (Mac, Sam, J.E. Morain, Esther, Zach) & the ed crew (Anatarah, Re, Jefferson, & last but not least J.E. Morain the V1 Czar). Have at it ya’ll! 129725
Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 12/12/2024might just pivot every chapter in my thesis to be about Caves of Qud -- I don't want to stop writing about it! 030