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Judith Pintar

@judithpintar.bsky.social
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Director of Game Studies & Design at the U of Illinois; Sociologist (STS), storyteller, narrative designer, player of harps, digger of gardens, longtime wanderer in LOTRO; fan of Tanith Lee & CJ Cherryh; el3.judithpintar.com; judithpintar.com.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The orange goddess has appeared
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
👏👏👏👏
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nothing really special to see, just a frog peacefully navigating on a leaf Original post
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”
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Judith Pintar @judithpintar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hmm, where have we heard this defense before? “While OpenAI admits to agents behaving ‘unpredictably’, they must also acknowledge their responsibility to monitor and prevent these risks.”
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Finally, a member of this adminsitration that tells the truth.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A farmer in Brazil calls each cow by name, and they answer back, one by one Original post
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
About 29% of our daily cognitive load could be eliminated if we lived in an opt-in only culture.
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Judith Pintar @judithpintar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sometimes God comes through (though I'm inclined to give her the credit for her own exceptional life choices)
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Judith Pintar @judithpintar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wow. I don't think he accomplished what he was hoping to accomplish with this interview.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JUST NOW: A confused, clearly not-there McConnell votes “AYE” after almost voting NO with Dems but getting *corrected* by handlers around him
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David Autovino @davidautovino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Shel Silverstein somehow clocking AI all the way back in 1981
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Statement about AI from the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists: marcmurphy.substack.com/p/the-sun-se...
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The Sun Sets In Baltimore
My Letter On Behalf Of The AAEC To The Sun And Its Slop
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Judith Pintar @judithpintar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day!
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Judith Pintar @judithpintar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ah, it's the Gandalf Gambit -- tricking trolls into fighting each other -- until the first light of dawn turns them into stone.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Anthony Howe is a kinetic sculptor who creates wind-driven sculptures resembling pulsing, alien creatures and vortices. This one is in downtown Montreal. Original post
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US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal @us-political-news.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It’s-a me, racism: White House debuts unhinged video game site he Trump administration has created twisted arcade games for those wanting a retro feel to their anti-immigrant sentiment.
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It’s-a me, racism: White House debuts unhinged video game site
he Trump administration has created twisted arcade games for those wanting a retro feel to their anti-immigrant sentiment.
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SVB Station @svbstation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is something that really shouldn't have been normalized in the gaming industry.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🔥 ♥️
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Lol 😅🎶🤣🎶😂
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
GARY OLDMAN as Cary Grant from ‘North By Northwest’ for a photo project whereby Actors posed for a role they always dreamt of playing. (It had to be self-deprecating, ironic, absurd, a bit twisted and kind of like a funny/bad dream take on the movie.) Love it.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A crow casually removing several metal anti-bird spikes from a building ledge. Original post
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is the 300-year-old Yew Tree Tunnel at Gormanston Castle in County Meath, Ireland 🇮🇪
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🇬🇧 ♥️ London honors Dolly 🎵 (H/T @ikebarinholtz.bsky.social )
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Judith Pintar @judithpintar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Attacks on academic freedom at West Point constitute and institutionalization of state propaganda. This story is brought to us via Stars & Stripes, which is also the target of this administration's attack on press freedom.
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We are all Canadians now anntelnaes.substack.com/p/we-are-all...
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We are all Canadians now
Trump alienates one of our closest allies and neighbor
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.
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Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
While we are on a music kick, lets listen to what ancient Persia sounded like around 1400 BC? Sarah Parsaei performs on the Arjan harp — a historic instrument with roots going back nearly 3,400 years — in Tehran, Iran. #globalmuseum #music #Persian #musicalinstruments #history
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Judith Pintar @judithpintar.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This was so poetic, I made it a haiku A Black man surnamed Freeman scored on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
#California is testing water conservation and #renewableenergy generation. Instead of building solar farms on new land, engineers are installing #solarpanels above irrigation canals, allowing the same space to produce electricity while helping reduce water loss. #ActOnClimate #Renewables
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/06/2026
Stephen Colbert wore a tan suit to the Obama Presidential Center opening ceremony 😂 REUTERS/Octavio Jones
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Marc Bouldoukian a Wildlife Photographer captures a heartwarming moment a mama bear carrying her three cubs across the water.
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Daniel Mmesomachukwu coaxing some blues notes from her guitar. #blues #guitar
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TrekMovie.com @trekmovie.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
On his birthday, we remember René Auberjonois, who was Odo for all 7 seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and directed 8 episodes, guest starred on Enterprise, and played Colonel West in an eventually deleted scene from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He is very missed.
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Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com · 01/06/2026
Visible Deadline is now up! eblong.com/infocom/visi... That's the Visible-Zorker edition of Infocom's original mystery game, Deadline. I had a bunch of fun diagramming the NPC navigation logic on the map.
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The Visible Zorker: Deadline
A software exhibit that allows you to explore Deadline and also Deadline's source code at the same time.
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Judith Pintar @judithpintar.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I'm offering a 5 day Inform Bootcamp, free to all Narrascope Attendees! Online registration is open until June 10! The Game Jam starts tomorrow! If you've got a work if interactive fiction in you that wants out, here's a place to start! itch.io/jam/royal-fl...
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Royal Flush Jam (NarraScope 2026)
A game jam from 2026-05-31 to 2026-06-11 hosted by rubereaglenest. The time has come,' the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and kings — The W...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/05/2026
OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
daaaamn london
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/05/2026
GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Here is a very important video of an otter having his head stroked.
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The enchanted forests of Finland-based artist Ulla Thynell
Four artworks depicting enchanted forest scenes, featuring a unicorn, a fairy, a woman in a cloak and several otherworldly trees, bushes and plants.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.
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