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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one

Photo of Charles Darwin's hand-written journal entry from 1 Oct 1861 and digitized text of same

"But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 24/09/2026

RE: social.coop/@cwebber/11732124277930… Elish (2019) calls this role "the human crumple zone" when discussing the role of the driver on supposed-self-driving cars. The driver is there only to take the blame when things inevitably go wrong. That is why control is always given back […]

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 17/09/2026

Is there something like grep that can handle pdf files?

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 08/09/2026

I told them that their form was broken and they just told me to misspell my town name, so this is clearly something they know about.

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 08/09/2026

I have to misspell my town name, because a Taylor & Francis – a company operating on all continents except Antarctica – form can't handle umlauts in 2026.

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 20/08/2026

@jrhawley I don't actually want to get paid – my university already does that – but I still don't want to make a billion-dollar company richer with my free work.

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 17/08/2026

"I would be interested in reviewing the manuscript in question but unfortunately could not agree to do so this time, because I do not provide free labour to billion-dollar for-profit companies."

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

I wonder where I fall here 🤔 source: rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19

Hand-drawn scatter chart titled with y-axis 'Number of blog posts' and x-axis 'Number of posts about elaborate blog setups,' showing a steep downward curve. High on the y-axis with few setup posts: 'WordPress setup from 2004,' 'old-ass Blogger.com site,' 'weird dude who writes raw HTML,' 'cool MIT professor,' and 'that guy who never stopped using Tumblr', labelled the 'prolific peak of tools-don't-matter.' Along the flattened curve toward the x-axis: 'corporate blog with unnecessary continuous integration,' 'Welcome to nginx!,' 'Gatsby fan,' 'org mode fan,' 'my mobile git workflow guy,' and a cluster of 'authors of custom static site generators' and '"moved from Jekyll to Hugo" people', labelled the 'static gen basin.' A single outlier point floats high above the x-axis, disconnected from the curve, labeled 'Superhuman from that big FOSS project.' Signed rakhim.org.

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 10/08/2026

RE: kamu.social/@fransmayra/11706951890… This means that my chapter "Understanding Games: Hermeneutic Approaches to Game Studies" is now available here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-e…

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 07/08/2026

@Sandra Did they mention where they will get the 30 billion to give to the unemployed so that they have something to tax?

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 07/08/2026

Someone tried to make a fake university and sell fake degrees in Finland. The number of universities in Finland is so low that it became front page news.

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 07/08/2026

Just increased my monthly scholar.social Patreon payment.

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 03/08/2026

My goal in today's rpg session is to include both The Library of Babel and the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. #TTRPG #Borges

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 29/07/2026

@coreworlder I plan on running larp for them at another time!

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 29/07/2026

@alxd Thanks, I’ll see if that works for me!

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 29/07/2026

@BigJackBrass @esko I think something with a more dispersed structure would work better. Thanks for the suggestion though!

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 29/07/2026

@BigJackBrass @esko Could be fun, but not sure it is ideal for more than a dozen people!

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 29/07/2026

@alxd That requires multiple people with game mastering experience.

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 29/07/2026

Are there any role-playing games out there that can handle more than a dozen players at the same time and can do a one-shot in a couple of hours? #TTRPG

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 20/07/2026

Have you played Pokémon Pokopia or know someone who has? Answer this research survey from researchers at the University of Jyväskylä and the Institute of Science Tokyo! link.webropolsurveys.com/Participat… #pokemon

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Pokémon Pokopia Research Survey

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 29/06/2026

RE: kamu.social/@fransmayra/11677108069… Don’t buy the Cultural Game Studies book! You will get it for free and the publisher hasn’t made that information available yet. #GameStudies

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 17/06/2026

Any art historians that could point me to a good source on the historical change in how art has been understood? Either long-term or recent changes.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Spammers found a new way to abuse our commons, this time via Zenodo: The Zenodo object in question is a LLM-generated PDF of spam, and is then getting 'sent around' to people via 'granting view access' which as a default-enabled email notification. 🫠 If this gets more common, Zenodo will need […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Assoc editor of Frontiers in Systems #Neuro: > Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out […]

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 10/06/2026

Just a friendly reminder not to trust stuff that comes out of a generative AI system. We just had to reject submissions because their references were fictional

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 04/06/2026

RE: kamu.social/@fransmayra/11669097766… I have a chapter in this book, "Understanding Games: Hermeneutic Approaches to Game Studies". The author's copy is available here, if you want to see what's in the book: jonne.arjoranta.fi/publications #GameStudies

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 01/06/2026

Do you think we’ll see oil company executives tried for crimes against humanity?

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 30/05/2026

"I wish my email was working" was not a problem I expected in 2026.

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 30/05/2026

I can't get Thunderbird to work, probably because of snap. Not sure when installing things with apt started to just give you the snap package instead. Do I need to move to Debian? I don't want to fiddle with my computer, I just want it to work.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

«Wikipedia’s workers are fighting to unionize because the institution hosting the world’s encyclopedia has started acting like a regular employer at exactly the moment when the world most needs it to act like something better. The encyclopedia belongs to everyone. The labor that sustains it […]

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 27/05/2026

@merilainen.bsky.social Yeah. I was ughing at the latter interpretation.

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 25/05/2026

I found instructions on how to add "convert to PDF" to MacOS quick actions and now I no longer have any need for Microsoft Word.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@docpop/11660851517… The dude who's telling on himself by saying it's impossible to actually read the literature you cite in your academic papers is a professor of economics. Quite on-brand for the field. 😅

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 25/04/2026

If you are interested in the research, you can find the whole dissertation publicly available here: hdl.handle.net/10138/630000

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 25/04/2026

In her opening statement Emilia highlights how incel communities are not unique in their beliefs about men and women. Their beliefs are radical and harmful, but also outgrowths of the more widespread beliefs common in in our culture about gender and sexuality. Incel communities may be marginal […]

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 25/04/2026

Emilia Lounela is currently defending her dissertation on the incel community. You can follow the defense live online. tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/en-FI/page/6…

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 22/04/2026

It's really hard to tell apart Onion stories these days. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/allbi…

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 07/04/2026

Catalan academics are organising this special issue in game studies and pedagogy. The CFP is quite inclusive, so consider submitting something if you work in this area: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/tempseduc… #GameStudies

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CFA: Monografia TE72 (2027/1) Ludologia i fonaments d'una pedagogia del joc | Temps d'Educació

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 05/04/2026

@mmezabet Never heard of this before. Could still be an old folk belief, but not a very common one at least.

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 02/04/2026

@vrtxd Reading everything is impossible these days. Just finding the most relevant things is enough!

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 02/04/2026

These days I'm probably always Reviewer 2.

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 02/04/2026

A lot of people like games, so a lot of researchers get excited about contributing to the study of games. Reviewing game studies papers is often just repeating “have you considered reading what has previously been written on this topic?”

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Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jonne.arjoranta.fi · 27/03/2026

Game Research Days 2026 CFP is out! We're looking for all kinds of approaches to games next Fall in Jyväskylä. This is mainly for people already in Finland working with games, but if you happen to be around, feel free to drop by! […]

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