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DH ten Cate

@dhtencate.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate at DMRC - Queensland University of Technology

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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 02/07/2026
I have said this before - but also I have said that if discs do get phased out we also need to address the monopoly power of digital stores. Sustainability is not a single issue, it’s a lens to view all our choices and tradeoffs through. gtg.benabraham.net/whats-the-ga...
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What’s the game industry’s plastic footprint?
Hello! Quick little note at the top before we dive into the main post – once again (and with absolutely zero warning) my book’s publisher is running a steep discount on Digital Games After Climate Cha...
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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Some people may remember that the majority of series editors resigned last summer in protest against Amsterdam University Press' sale of their film and media program to Taylor & Francis/Routledge. T&F and Routledge, while formerly respectable publishers, are now / mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 03/07/2025
seeing people hit by the layoffs today who have worked in the industry for DECADES. one guy had worked on fucking STAR WARS GAMES FOR THE SNES, another had been at blizzard since starcraft. that kind of continual experience in the industry is like gold dust, and MS are just throwing it in the bin
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait. Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.
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OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself
Sam Altman is promoting his new image generator by appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animators—who is "disgusted" by AI.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I am in Adelaide for DiGRA Australia’s national conference the next three days! There probably won’t be any liveposting because no one really does that any more but here is the great program: digraa.org/post/digraa-...
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DiGRAA 2025 Conference Programme – DiGRA Australia
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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Sad to see that the GDC State of the Games Industry '25 confirm what I have suspected for a while: narrative roles particularly hard-hit by layoffs in the industry. Narrative is sometimes seen as expendable on a project: when the reviews of our story come out, are we still on the team?
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/01/2025
as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us
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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Academic Work Tracker Template v2.2 (2025)
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Know there’s been discourse about this article but it’s great to see this very real problem facing the game industry in a mainstream outlet: the industry’s silver bullet for always creating more consumer demand and higher profits simply doesn’t work anymore. web.archive.org/web/20241228...
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Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good
The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?
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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Super important experimental study by @lcjacobs89.bsky.social and @jbpilet.bsky.social showing that mainstream parties signaling willingness to govern with radical right legitimize these parties with higher propensity to vote for radical right as a result journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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To rule or not to rule? An experimental study of the electoral ramifications of claims to (not) rule with radical right populist parties - Laura Jacobs, Jean-Benoit Pilet, 2024
In a between-subjects experiment (n = 3270) conducted in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), we examine the electoral ramifications of claims by a ri...
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“ChatGPT is a woefully bad way to explore the historical record.” www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24... And much else.
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Stop using generative AI as a search engine
Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original — and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I know we all realize this, but to underline the point: AI is predicated on exploitation, environmental degradation, and financial speculation. It should be the antithesis of everything we stand for as professors. Also, how the fuck are you going to ask your students to do their work if you won't?
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Daniel Angus @antmandan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Universities in Australia have undergone a seismic shift, moving from public institutions dedicated to knowledge and community to entities run increasingly as private businesses. Central to this change is the rise of the vice chancellor as a highly paid executive figure. www.afr.com/work-and-car...
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ANU deans hauled in for ‘change management’ meetings
Three of the Australian National University’s seven college leaders were summoned to meetings this week where they were told the governing council had lost confidence in them.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Every dollar spent on exec salaries is a dollar drained from the labour of university workers and the quality of teaching and researching. Corporate parasites, the business world’s anti-intellectual proxy agents, that contribute nothing of value to the academy.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is the best novel I have ever read.
To The Lighthouse text from chapter 17 of part 1 that describes Mrs Ramsey's feeling at dinner that paying attention to various conversations is like light stealing underwater and revealing various details, some equally fascinating, so it is difficult to keep one's attention on any individual thing.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like “THE WORLD IS ENDING” and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It's really hard to overstate how many world-leading experts on digital media and social media are at Australian universities (I work with many of them!), and the overwhelming majority of them will tell you the social media ban is a bad and counterproductive idea.
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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We made a starter pack of researchers affiliated with the QUT Digital Media Research Centre
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