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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Does anyone have favorite references on the interdisciplinarity penalty (people doing interdisciplinary work are underrewarded in their appointing departments, run centers and degrees without resources or dedicated hires, go to double committee meetings, etc.)?

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Today marked my first day as a full professor. This professor-ing thing has been a wild ride and it's been pretty great, thanks to all the people I get to work with! I celebrated by not working, and instead hiking through a coastal forest to a beach in Olympic National Park. Can strongly recommend.

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

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mel, binface’s knight 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

So an entirely after-hours (for US east coast) downtime for a single piece of software felt like an existential threat. This seems kind of unhealthy, no?

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Advice from my Serious and Applied Games class this term. I asked them to make a manifesto based on what they've learned and done, and then to adapt it for different audiences. Then, we rewrote it to be a call to action for ourselves. (First one is mine, the rest is from the students.)

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/04/2026

75% of 1980s video games tracked by the LGBTQ Video Game Archive are preserved & accessible in some form. 25% are still at risk or unavailable. Preservation isn’t automatic. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE 📖 Download: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta...

Pixel-art style infographic showing a white pie chart in drag on a gray background. Large text reads “75%.” Smaller text states that 75% of video games from the 1980s tracked by the LGBTQ Video Game Archive are preserved and accessible in some form through the Internet Archive. Caption reads “Vanishing Culture.”

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 25/04/2026

[ slaps top of game theory game] All right then, if you’re not satisfied let’s fit some stakes into this busted jalopy

Google Form reading:

Final Grade - Which Option?
In this class you will either receive an A or a C for your grade.
Please indicate your preference for how your final grade will be calculated by selecting one of the options below.

If most students who express a preference choose “BLUE,” every student in the class will receive an A.
Otherwise, students who choose “BLUE” will receive a C and only students who choose “RED’ will receive an A.

Note: failing to submit this form by the deadline will result in a C grade.

Please choose.
_ BLUE
_ RED

SUBMIT

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Faculty in CA in the 1990s successfully protested mandatory online components of their classes largely on the grounds of IP and labor intensification. We don’t have to accept this. We can start with abandoning the LMS.

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It's IMGD Presentation Day! We have a full-day student conference of creative and technical research. Graduate students present in the morning, undergraduates in the afternoon. If you're interested you can tune online, and I'll be sharing project work here too. echo360.org/section/b7d6...

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My 10yo got a letter from the library notifying him of an overdue book fine. He is convinced that because our library uses a computer for checkout and the letter is not hand-written, it must be AI-generated. Which means it can’t possibly be real. Parenting through this moment is just really weird.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it. Out May 7th, in bookshops: linktr.ee/next_level 🎲🔮

A picture of a hardback book on a washed blue background. The title is Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves, by Mike Cook.

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I think the people positioned to fund games are really sleeping on how many people are struggling to make friends IRL after COVID. A year ago if you’d asked me where to put money, it would have been IRL connector games (something like Pokémon go but smaller/with less infrastructure)

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time Install at greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5... or read more about it everest-pipkin.com#projects/des...

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Desire Paths for Wikipedia

An extension that remembers the path of a cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, “wearing” them into the page.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

As more academic names keep coming up in the Epstein files, I keep thinking about this NYT interview with the Bard president from a few years ago, and wondering how many people were rationalizing in similar ways. www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/u...

“People don’t understand what this job is,” he said, adding, “You cannot pick and choose, because among the very rich is a higher percentage of unpleasant and not very attractive people. Capitalism is a rough system.”
In defending his pursuit of Mr. Epstein and candidly describing the burden of raising money, Dr. Botstein gave insight into how the need to attract dollars can appear to run headlong into an academic institution’s stated values.
Mr. Epstein gave prolifically to many charities and universities, including Harvard and M.I.T., and the Wall Street Journal report showed that his network of contacts was wider than had been thought, including prominent figures like the linguist Noam Chomsky and Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury secretary and president of Harvard. Dr. Summers sought money for a poetry foundation, led by his wife, Elisa New, a Harvard literature professor. Mr. Summers declined to comment.
“Would we accept money from Jeffrey Epstein today? No,” Dr. Botstein said, describing the former donor as a “monster” and “truly evil man.” “We had no idea, the public record had no indication, that he was anything more than an ordinary — if you could say such a thing — sex offender who had been convicted and went to jail.”

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

whenever people would go "well it's not popular enough yet" i think not only of all the popular things they ignore anyway, but how apparently the expectation is for everybody else to the job of politics for politicians so they don't have to

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

We are increasingly being encouraged to integrate generative AI into research and teaching. Individuals use it for writing, planning and teaching; universities are experimenting with embedding it into curricula. However, my case reveals a fundamental weakness: these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 18/01/2026

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

A much-liked post by Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com with the titles “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student” and the caption “They don’t want to get blamed again“

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IndieCade @indiecade.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

UPDATE: The awards ceremony will now be at 12:00 PST! The best place to watch is on steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/IndieCa... In the meantime, why not check out some of our incredible nominees?

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19th Annual IndieCade Festival

Join us this January 16th - 30th, 2026 as we celebrate this past year’s IndieCade indie game nominees. Connect with the creators, play demos and featured games, and more!

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

"Two to three thousand armed agents of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota. Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live."

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Governor Walz Addresses Ongoing Federal Presence in Minnesota

YouTube video by Office of the Governor of Minnesota

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

#genuary12 Boxes only. A tiny and simple sketch before my evening screen time cutoff. I do like the texture, though! #genuary #p5js

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

One day late #genuary9, playing with cellular automata rules based on hue. #genuary #p5js

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“The wrong ICE is melting, the wrong Amazon is burning.” (Written on the back of a frozen pizza box)

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 08/01/2026

friends! acquaintances! help! i'm looking to hire a game designer (living in the Netherlands) to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks. know someone who's a good fit? pls forward this, ty! hiddenfolks.com/job-opening/...

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Job opening: game designer @ Hidden Folks

We're looking for a game designer in the Netherlands to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks.

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Ah, an opportunity to recommend the great book, “More Work For Mother” by Ruth Cowan. Because obviously, no, AI won’t do this. And historically, domestic “labor saving” technologies have only entrenched domestic labor expectations while shifting the specifics of the work.

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

#genuary7 Inspired by boolean algebra. I don't feel much like making silly art on this horrifying and sorrowful day. But it's been nice seeing a bit of art show up tonight, as I struggle to stop doomscrolling. #p5js #genuary

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Mbsolheim @mbsolheim.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

#genuary6 A tiny city that becomes that little bit more complex every time you turn out the lights. Until, suddenly, your city is gone and a new one takes its place. #genuary #p5js

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

#genuary5: write "genuary" and avoid using a font Handwritten text used as a mask when generating surrounding shapes. (Looks a bit like a colorblindness test, especially when I make "genuary" green!) A fun, quick sketch that also made me want to draw with my iPad more often. #genuary #p5js

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

#genuary4 lowres This was a lot of fun! Started out making a cross-stitch pattern generator (my favorite low-res non-digital rendering technique) and ended at making dragon scales. #genuary #p5js

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

#genuary3 prompt is the fibonacci sequence: I used the fibonacci numbers for mapping circle color and position within each bloom. #genuary #p5js

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

It's #genuary! Today's prompt: one color, one shape. Keeping it simple for #genuary1. Hoping to keep this up at least until the new term starts. #p5js

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

New Year’s Day with my husband’s great uncle. He is 101 years old and has lived in the same farmhouse in Central MA for 100 years. His granddaughter found a ledger from the farm’s old creamery covering 1895-87. It has absolutely perfect penmanship and later became a kids’ sketchbook. I love it.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2026

🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has highlighted some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026! More ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... @dukelaw.bsky.social

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Joe Crimi @darkkijin.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Back in 2019 I took a class about procedural generation in game design and made a really cool LED board project that I promptly misplaced before I was able to hang it up. For the holidays this year I decided to buy myself the parts to build an upgraded version of it!

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I read this article every time I see it.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28/12/2025

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28/12/2025

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 22/12/2025

I think this is a really important point. When folks say "no AI" they often don’t mean "I can conceive of no possible use for AI"—they mean "the use cases I’ve been shown do not begin to justify the harms"—that’s not something you respond to by offering another narrow use case

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Piter Pasma @piterpasma.nl · 16/12/2025

YEAAH GENUARY 2026⋆˚꩜.ᐟ.ᐟ genuary.art GENUARY is the most GENERATIVE (creative code based) ART month of the entire universe // There are 31 creative coding prompts for you to play with for daily challenge // beepboop // please enjoy // time travelers welcome #genartclub #generative #creativecoding

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/12/2025

“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’” Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”

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To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI

“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Last December, a student came into my AI-Based Experience Design class excited about his prototype. It didn't use AI in any way but he was inspired by critical AI literacy. He wanted to explore mechanics where meaning and form are divorced. Fast forward a year, and his demo released on Steam today!

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A Color Theory on Steam

A Trippy Puzzle-Platformer That Literally Plays with Color

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 26/11/2025

Love this video walkthrough of GIS crochet! #DHmakes

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I was asked to supply a title for my December talk at Stanford. I've settled on: "Nobody Wants This: Please Stop Ruining Everything."

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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

very excited to share this story about an emerging video game genre: games that live on bottom of your desktop screen. my first story in the NYT, featuring @mistermorrisgames.bsky.social, @toadzillart.itch.io, and more! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

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These Video Games Want Only Some of Your Attention

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

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Anna Megill @annamegill.com · 08/10/2025

The OTHER project at CDPR's Boston studio is hiring a Lead Writer. (FT, onsite preferred) Come work with a very chill and creative team on Project Sirius ✨️ jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED...

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Lead Writer

Company Description: To create revolutionary, story-driven RPGs which go straight to the hearts of gamers — this is our mission. Want to dive deeper into our company’s culture? Explore our social medi...

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

We're hiring!! WPI IMGD seeks a new Assistant Teaching Professor to support and grow our multidisciplinary, project-based curriculum in technical and design areas of our undergrad (BS, BA) and graduate (MS, MFA, PhD) degrees. More details here: wpi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/WPI_External...

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Assistant Teaching Professor

JOB TITLE Assistant Teaching Professor LOCATION Worcester DEPARTMENT NAME Interactive Media & Game Development - IMGD DIVISION NAME Worcester Polytechnic Institute - WPI JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY In...

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