Reposted by J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy)
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work.
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
![There is likely no true starting point for the rise of cognitive psychology but I will begin the story of that rise with mathematician Alan Turing (YEARS). Turing, considered by many as the father of computer science, was instrumental in helping the Allies crack the German ciphers used by their Enigma Machine. He published, in his short life*[1], some of the most important works for the development of modern digital computers. Of special note was the abstract model of any universal computing device called a Turing Machine, which denotes the functions necessary to operate on any valid, computable sequence. That’s a lot of words to basically say that Turing described how any computing device can be created to process data. Such devices are so universal that people have developed Turing Machines in Minecraft (CITE), in PowerPoint (CITE), and the video game Doom, using the monster movements on the maps as digital switches (CITE). Even the card game Magic the Gathering can be shown to operate as a Turing machine (CITE).

[1] Turing was weeks away from his 42nd birthday when he died of cyanide poisoning. The poisoning was self-inflicted, though some have suggested it was unintentional. He had suffered greatly at the hands of the British government, who offered him either prison or chemical castration for the crime of being gay. He chose the chemical castration and died less than two years later. Queen Elizabeth II pronounced Turing posthumously pardoned in 2014, 60 years after his death.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vtmyczjgwejqvjtufxzfdcpn/bafkreihz74g5aag5fo2m5uhc4kcq2ycphvmrkpam6hfytm65r3xtxbw62u)
