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Stefano Gualeni

@gua-le-ni.com
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Professor at the University of Malta's @indigitalgames.bsky.social Migrant ☆ gua-le-ni.com Author of strange literary fictions ⇒ www.setmargins.press/books/what-we-…

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 14h
Party! Our special issue on party studies is out from Eludamos! Post your fave party reactions!
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 29/09/2026
A fun take on my paper on antagonistic game design!
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Rasheed Abueideh - Now crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow 🍉 @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Take 1 minute to see the destruction... which age we are living in!
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ormiscaig, Wester Ross.
Digital painting, barn and croft house at Ormiscaig township in Wester Ross on the north east coast of Scotland
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 26/09/2026
A Saturday in Ras Il-Pellegrin #Malta
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 23/09/2026
The new novel is finished. It's done.
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 13/09/2026
✈️ KM 421 from Brussels back to Malta 🏝️
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 12/09/2026
A Sunny day in Brussels
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Center for Digital Narrative @cdn-bergen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#CFP for #NordicDiGRA in #Bergen, June 9-11 2027. The theme is Game Culture Narratives. Read more here: www4.uib.no/en/research/... Deadline: January 24! #gamestudies
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Nordic DiGRA 2027 
Game Culture Narratives
9-11 June 2027, University of Bergen, Norway

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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 10/09/2026
Mrinmayee Bhoot wrote a very sweet and supportive feature for #STIRworld magazine for my latest fiction ('What We Owe the Dead'). Take a read! 🐦 >> www.stirworld.com/think-books-... <<
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David Blatt @kopfstoff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Since Zelda is trending, a friendly reminder how CRAZY good Katsuya Terada is. (1/3)
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 09/09/2026
✈️ SN 3148 from Milan (IT) to Brussels (BE)
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 08/09/2026
It's this evening! 🐦
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 07/09/2026
facts
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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Today’s Italy update: we went in a church and there was a big inflatable bug
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BE UNREASONABLE
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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Prospective PhDs, come to Bergen!!
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 31/08/2026
In a few days, I will be talking with the ineffable @maurovanetti.itch.io about my scifi novel 'What We Owe the Dead' (SetMargin's 2025). The event will be in #Milan (Italy) on the 8th of September. If you're in the area, join us for hot takes and cold drinks!
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 30/08/2026
Mom's cooking
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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Perhaps AI will be the grit that makes the pearl: making institutions articulate, for the first time in decades if not ever, what the hell they’re about and what an education is supposed to be for. (This from the MIT committee‘s report on AI)
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David Ketelby @ketelby.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
scared geometry
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
With @maxhaiven.bsky.social ! forms.gle/KZoDWpTgppys...
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Communicating radical ideas application form
Thank you for your interest in the Communicating Radical Ideas workshop. For more information, please refer to the CFP at https://senseandsolidarity.org/ If you'd prefer not to use this form, please...
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𝕲𝖆𝖝 @gaxix.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
𝕮𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊𝖘
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Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
UN warns humanity is ‘dangerously close’ to handing kill decisions to machines www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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UN warns humanity is ‘dangerously close’ to handing kill decisions to machines
The United Nations and the International Red Cross are urging countries to adopt bans and restrictions on autonomous weapons systems, often called killer robots
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It was only a matter of time
Epistemic Assholes
Cameron Boult
Synthese (forthcoming)

Abstract
In this paper, I develop and defend the concept epistemic assholes. An epistemic asshole is someone who exhibits a distinctive form of epistemic badness characterized not by gross irrationality or hostility to truth, but by a stable, entitled disregard for one’s epistemic relations with others. Drawing on Aaron James’s (2012) account of moral assholes, I examine how people can systematically exploit epistemic cooperation by allowing themselves special advantages—such as “freedom from inquiry”, “doxastic comfort”, and “freedom to criticize”—while remaining insulated from criticism by an entrenched sense of entitlement. The resulting view, the Relational Approach to Epistemic Assholes (REA), explains why epistemic assholes are not epistemically the worst, yet are nonetheless deeply galling. After motivating the need for this concept, I show how REA captures both “impure” cases (involving both epistemic and moral assholery) and “pure” epistemic assholes, whose objectionable conduct is driven by epistemic aims themselves. I further explore connections between epistemic assholes and epistemic vice, and the causal role that epistemic assholery can play in active ignorance and epistemic exploitation. Through this latter connection, I argue that epistemic assholes play an insidious causal role in sustaining objectionable social power dynamics. The concept of epistemic assholes provides a valuable lens for understanding and calling out important but often-hidden hazards in our social epistemic environment.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Tune & Fairweather @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🎧Scholar’s Codex is now an audiobook. Explore the lore, philosophy and hidden meanings of Bloodborne, Dark Souls and Elden Ring – brought to life by acclaimed narrator @jaybritton.com. #DarkSouls #Bloodborne #EldenRing #FromSoftware #Audiobook www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/sch...
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 18/08/2026
Summer
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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 29/07/2026
15MIN's back and he brought you something from the store
sketchbook page of a knight holding a plastic bag; there are detail studies of swords and food items
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#kimgakaku
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
SFRA 2027 CFP (Seoul, South Korea): sfra.org/conferences/...
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SFRA 2027 Conference | Science Fiction Research Association
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 06/08/2026
A hike on Monte Pora (Italy)
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
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Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Episode 24 is now available, featuring an interview with @friede.bsky.social focusing on all things TTRPG, Actual Play, Critical Role and, of course, Utopianism. And it's not even Thursday yet! open.spotify.com/episode/1Njk...
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Episode 24: Emily Friedman, Actual Play, Critical Role, and Utopianism
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 02/08/2026
c) anything else similarly visible at 20,000 feet.
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Thoughtbarf @thoughtbarf.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Thinking about the time i went to a planetarium and someone booed when they showed the earth
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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It’s really starting to grind me down
The Barney/Moe’s Tavern meme

“Default AI features” Barney being kicked out
“Finding how to turn it all off in the settings” -satisfied Moe

Third panel Barney coming in behind “software update”
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 25/07/2026
In Parre, somewhere in northern Italy
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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
i just realized i never posted this here Cover art for 'Scholar's Codex' @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social 30x40cm ink on claybord
a black and white scratchboard drawing depicting a scholar sitting at their desk, writing something in a book, lit by candlelight.
In the foreground, we can see piles of books, a cat sleeping, and an armillary sphere. In the background, shelfs are filled with books and and various artefacts. Drapery covered in stars and constellations hangs from the ceiling.
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Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta @indigitalgames.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
FromSoftware and Romanticism, Dark Souls II and Walter Benjamin’s theory of history? Justin Fenech reflects on Scholar's Codex and the depth of the FromSoftware Games in new @geeknative.bsky.social article. www.geeknative.com/240233/a-wor... @gua-le-ni.com @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social
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A Word on The Scholar's Codex - An Accessible Academic Study on FromSoftware Games
Art historian Justin Fenech reviews The Scholar's Codex, an accessible academic study offering fresh perspectives on FromSoftware games and game design.
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xreamy @xreamy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 12/07/2026
First hike of this summer #Ceratello
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 11/07/2026
✈️ FR 7325 from Malta to Milan Bergamo
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 10/07/2026
... And sometimes the abyss screams back.
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AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo
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Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta @indigitalgames.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Scholar’s Codex is a beautifully illustrated, philosophical exploration of the FromSoftware universes curated by game studies researchers @gua-le-ni.com @danielvella.bsky.social (U of Malta), @domford.bsky.social (U of Bergen), and @nelevdm.bsky.social (Tilburg U). www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/ac...
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New book decodes FromSoftware’s Lore and Philosophy through discarded items
A new deeply philosophical exploration of the FromSoftware games by leading game scholars
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 06/07/2026
"[...] the oblique terror of a game whose rules are unknown and its stakes everything."
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Baudrillard spinning in his grave so fast he torpedoes out of the hillside and remains airborne, lasers shooting out of his eyes with such force earth is cleanly cut in two
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