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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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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 4h
Our Saturday hike in Ras Il-Wahx #Malta
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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Party! Our special issue on party studies is out from Eludamos! Post your fave party reactions!
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @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
Thank you for finding it interesting, and perhaps even useful!
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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 · 24/09/2026
It felt like a long climb, but I was not alone :) The book will soon to be announced, out in January with SetMargins' >> @freeklomme.bsky.social
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 24/09/2026
Thank you :)
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 24/09/2026
It did feel a bit like that. Thank you
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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 · 21/09/2026
Take me with!!!
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 20/09/2026
Is this yesterday's storm or one approaching this morning? I was about to go out for a run :(
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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
Logo that looks like a tree with speech bubbles as canopies.

Nordic DiGRA 2027 
Game Culture Narratives
9-11 June 2027, University of Bergen, Norway

Logo of UiB and CDN
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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
I will come to Gent to promote the new book in Spring (at Paard Van Troje)! Maybe I'll see you there. I will probably be accompanied by Elly McCausland (it's worth coming just to hear her talk haha)
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 09/09/2026
I was in Milan for a talk about it, but have nothing (work-related) planned for my 5 days here. If you liked the book, you might like to hear that I will soon announce another one (not a sequel per se, but in the same 'fictional universe' with a couple of returning characters).
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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
Absolutely. Send it over ^^
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 07/09/2026
Thank you, dear Matthew! (Also, I am finalizing the last draft for the new one in these days... Looking forward to sending you a copy ^^)
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 07/09/2026
facts
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 07/09/2026
I realized it was a scam because they claimed to be interested in what I write. ^^
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 06/09/2026
No, but I finally was approached not by one, but two 'reading groups'. Thanks for the heads up! 😆
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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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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 03/09/2026
Enhorabuena a todos los involucrados! 🎉
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 02/09/2026
Congrats! :) Well deserved! 🎉
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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BE UNREASONABLE
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 01/09/2026
As someone with literally 163 successive versions of the text saved in my repository, I must say I can relate.
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 01/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Rn...
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"Let me tell you about my boat." - The Life Aquatic
YouTube video by Dan Perdue
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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
P.S. the event will be in ITALIAN and, taking place in a bookstore, you will be able to buy the book directly at the venue. Or on the publisher's website >> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... << CC @freeklomme.bsky.social @indigitalgames.bsky.social
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What We Owe the Dead - Set Margins'
€20.00 In stock What We Owe the Dead quantity Add to cart Category: Books Description Additional information Description In a desperate attempt to lower the temperature of Earth’s atmosphere, humanity...
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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
Wish I could take this one :)
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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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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 22/08/2026
Good stuff! :) Suit's the Grasshopper (like Banks) envisages a society in which nothing needs done anymore. Work, science, art, and psychotherapy are solved problems... and all we are left to do is play and enjoy (scientists can still do science, but as purposefuly playing an already solved game).
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 22/08/2026
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