iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3h

I get to sit in on rehearsal for this today and I’m very excited (apparently they got permission from The Decemberists to use their music for like a movement piece where all the kids play their D&D characters????) all my pop culture references are so 2018 though, I gotta let them change some shit

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

Cities are terrific. It's why most people want to live in them.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 2h

I’ll be there!

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 4h

Excited to speak about *Gulliver’s Travels* and scotomaphobia (fear of sight loss) at the Centre for Eighteenth-Century-Studies Research Seminar, University of York. I look forward to being among eighteenth-centuryists en masse! Thanks for the invitation CECS colleagues.

The Fear You Had for Your Eyes: The Terror of Sight Loss in Gulliver's Travels
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University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social · 6h

We're participating in the ACLS #TalkAboutHumanities campaign this fall! We invite you to join in and advocate for your discipline. Read more about the campaign here: www.acls.org/TalkAboutHum...

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 4h

Quincey Morris always gets cut out by Big Stake, they can't stand the idea people might learn that if you've got a Dracula problem you can just use a Bowie knife.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 4h

Oh, my backlog at home is a very different thing (most of them ARE technically with me via PDF, so may make a dent…)

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Lucas Kreuzer @lucaskreuzer.bsky.social · 4h

Citation is love! It's a quote from @ecfriedman.com, and it's just great!

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 4h

All GM-less, of course! Only maps, no minis.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 4h

Jokes on you I CAN’T GET MAIL.

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(Brought to the Folger, which does make this a less impressive feat!)

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 4h

Only one unread! (But I am away from most of my collection)

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 5h

Well, it’s official: I have read almost all the games I brought (in physical form).

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's yet another way that men sabotage women's careers: enable networking events that are threatening, abusive, potentially catastrophically violent for women, and so women leave early. How convenient for men. Remember this when you compare career trajectories.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 7h

I have been a guest at conventions where, during the pre-con walk through, my handler has pointed out the bar and mentioned how some guests are "more fun" and "get asked back," then names only men. Because a lot of female guests aren't comfortable hanging out around alcohol with strangers.

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NYU Game Center @nyugamecenter.bsky.social · 5h

Hey New York! It's NY Games Week!!! Show out for this exciting inaugural event series boosting our local industry. It's a labor of love backed by many of the friendly developer organizations of NYC, along with the city itself! Fun & games every night from now through the weekend, check it out!

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Ross Payton @rosspayton.bsky.social · 6h

The Quiet Year is a brilliant map-making storytelling game created by @lackingceremony.bsky.social - I had the privilege of playing in a game recently with Avery, along with @ecfriedman.com and my co-hosts, @gregstolze.bsky.social and @jameswallis.bsky.social for LND www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8IF...

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The Quiet Year: An Actual Play featuring creator Avery Alder and Dr. Emily Friedman

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 9h

Cover reveal! The keywords I sent the press were “historical,” “natural,” and “multimedia” and I’d say they nailed it. Featuring my (book’s) main man Humphry Repton on the left there. Coming from Yale University Press this fall.

Image of a book cover with the title The Book of Improvement, subtitle Media Landscapes in the Global Enlightenment, and author Rachael King. The cover features a tree in the center with two men with surveying equipment to the left of the trunk and two men reclining under an umbrella to the right of the trunk. There are a river and rolling hills in the background.

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 7h

I make a boardgame agony aunt podcast with @giantbrain.co.uk & @ava.foxfort.net - we've made 16 episodes so far with a new one out soon. I hope you've enjoyed it if you've listened to it, & if you haven't (& you play games) why not give 1 episode a try? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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But Why Vikings?

Games Podcast · Updated fortnightly · Any unanswered questions at your gaming table? Ava Foxfort, Tim Clare, and Iain McAllister mull over tabletop conudrums: from etiquette at the table to recommenda...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 8h

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t think teaching a canon is bad, and studying intellectual traditions as historical phenomena is important to understanding culture, past and present. What’s bad is teaching a specific canon as if it’s above history and somehow universal. The frame matters, as does what’s available beyond it.

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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 8h

Love seeing friends from all over at the zoom book launch for @walshbr.bsky.social's book. Hearing him in conversation now w/ @winnieepm.bsky.social, on how the uni infrastructures we teach w/in restrict+shape our teaching; how teaching infra empowers us to challenge+shape our worlds in turn.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 8h

We first sat down to try to play this when I was in London, only for catastrophic failure to claim my computer and Avery’s. Delighted to finally play a game that has shaped so much of my teaching & outreach with its maker.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 11h

My question would be which fields with such requirements/needs could this be done WELL in?

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 11h

The key here for me is the accredited continuing education part — is that something we see from other ed tracks? I haven’t but I’m also new to all this.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 11h

It’s a whole 3 panel track — and I’m guessing ReedPop is supportive given it adds $200-700 to the attendees’ registration

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 11h

I’m familiar with the educator/librarian track — what’s striking to me is that lawyers can get pro passes by this route (admittedly costly but is then in theory paid out via professional dev funds). As far as I know there isn’t a comparable accredited continuing ed option for other professions.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 13h

I’m still navigating the “industry” and “enthusiast” distinctions — and they places they overlap or blur. A lot of the fields I study are in the early days of professionalization. Which combines folks with expectations from the (different) fields they were trained in & folks without any baseline.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 13h

I’m fascinated precisely because I can see compelling argument (these look like solid, certified coverage of relevant topics in the field) and also I can see ways in which this could be very poorly emulated.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 18h

Bring back engraved invitation tickets to university lectures! Look at this beauty from 1798: an invitation to a lecture on "Dramatic Literature" at the School of Eloquence on 3rd May 1798. #academicchatter

a paper invitation ticket to Professor Nogo's Lecture on Dramatic Literature. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1983-U-1926

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 13h

I’m *fascinated* by this, because I have spent the last decade wondering what panels are/can be FOR. NYCC provides 3 panels that have been certified for continuing legal education. If you exclude the value of the included Pro Badge, it’s $100/hr — on the high end of CLE costs but not extortionate.

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Over on VoynichNinja (an excellent discussion board with lots of solid linguistic & cryptological work), someone posted this new resource based on my (credited!) work that lets you visualize structure & rearrange quires, bifolia, and pages! It's incredibly cool and really valuable. voynichviewer.com

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 21h

It's time! The Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference 2026 begins TODAY, October 5th, at 9:45am UTC+1 with our opening address to kick off a fantastic programme of three days of papers. Everything you'll need is in the live programme here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/middl...

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Middle Ages in Modern Games, October 5-7 2026: Programme – The Middle Ages in Modern Games

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The Golden Cobra Challenge @goldencobra.bsky.social · 15h

Our "long tail" is now fixed! Ssearch hundredss of Golden Cobra gamess in our interactive archive sstarting with 2014 and ending with 2025. "I wonder if there's a Golden Cobra game about...." Well just go ahead and look it up! www.goldencobra.org/GCInteractiv...

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 22h

I would say a lot of that is about front-loading expectations about table culture. You can’t know everyone’s hearts, but you can (and should) insist on behavior that aligns with what you value in terms of respect for people.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 23h

To this day, I *highly resent* that the tools we all contributed to have now transformed into instruments of algorithmic-political suppression: HTML, UNIX/Linux, TCP/IP, Java, "cookies," JPEG, GUI. These were *supposed* to help bring us all together, not become a cord tightened around our neck!

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 23h

Caught the #FirstTheyCameForMyCollege here in Houston at the MFAH. Every @aaup.org chapter in the country should be airing this, to explain to students, faculty, and parents how destructive the right wing takeover has been for the education & careers of students www.firsttheycameformycollege.com

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First They Came For My College

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stages a coup at New College, the state’s beloved public honors college, students and professors confront a new reality: their campus is ground zero in an unpreceden...

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

USENET, GOPHER, ISCA BBS, DIKU MUD 4 EVA

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Greg has his finger on the pulse of radical art." — Dread Scott, artist In "The Radical Unpresent," Greg Sholette explores art activism today, informed by centuries of protest. Out October 20th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205411...

3D image of the book "The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World" by Gregory Sholette on a blue background.

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AbiWail KaBooKer @akabaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think a lot of people jumping on this don’t know Josh’s area of expertise or background, this post is not about devaluing your critiques, or a “you participate in society” thing, it’s about how insidious ai is, it’s in so much of our tech that it’s becoming embedded in our information systems.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I begged Woman’s Hour to cover Gamergate in 2014, when it was the NYT front page & UK women in games were living in terror. Gamergate became the model for MAGA. They said they didn’t think it was an important story. That week they covered women mountaineers of the 19th C & new ways with aubergine

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I feel like maybe it’s time for an oral history of Gamergate. what people heard was happening. The stories we couldn’t tell publicly at the time. The absolute failure of mainstream feminism to understand what had happened, or take it seriously

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is all the internet was ever supposed to be. This and maybe a little billpay. youtube.com/shorts/hRiKM...

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Miyu Jackson 🌟 at JOAT

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 04/10/2026

There’s a new Digital Art(s) Track that I’m curious about.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 04/10/2026

I’m on a lot of press lists that either make no damn sense, assume I still write for Polygon, or otherwise curiously misread my whole weird deal. But sometimes I agree to the pitch, and I get a mysterious box with [redacted for press embargo] that leaves me punching the air in glee. More soon.

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