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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️

@michaeliantorno.com
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📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. 🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.

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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 5h
"The votes were triggered by failure of the government and trade unions to find a working framework for a new, multi-year pay deal, to replace the 30 month Public Service Agreement, which expired in June and gave 9.6 percent pay rises over its duration, barely above inflation."
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Huge public sector strike votes in Ireland
Around 200,000 public sector workers in Ireland have voted for strike action in pursuit of improvements in their pay and conditions. More are anticipated in the weeks ahead.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 13/06/2026
The goal isn’t to replace the work of humans. It’s to make a case for its devaluation.
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 5h
"The votes were triggered by failure of the government and trade unions to find a working framework for a new, multi-year pay deal, to replace the 30 month Public Service Agreement, which expired in June and gave 9.6 percent pay rises over its duration, barely above inflation."
wsws.org
Huge public sector strike votes in Ireland
Around 200,000 public sector workers in Ireland have voted for strike action in pursuit of improvements in their pay and conditions. More are anticipated in the weeks ahead.
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 28/08/2026
I'm happy to share a new 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 for an edited collection on game preservation in Canada, with co-editors @jeanketterling.bsky.social and @videogamehistorian.bsky.social. We welcome essays, material studies, and interviews. Full details at the link below - please share widely!
gamepreservation.ca
Call For Papers – GamePreservation.ca
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Baby Ghosts @babyghosts.org · 26/09/2026
🚨 20 days 🚨 left to apply to be one of our four regional hub coordinators. The form is three questions, and you can submit voice memos or short videos for each! Short and sweet is fine. $30,000 contract for 5 months. Closes Friday, October 16. babyghosts.org/hubs/coordin...
Dark graphic with a faint dotted map of Canada in the background. Top left: the Baby Ghosts wordmark, with a small smiling white ghost as the "O". Top right, a numbered list of regions: 01 British Columbia & the North, 02 Prairies, 03 Ontario, 04 Atlantic Canada. In purple: "Applications open." Large dotted white and blue headline: "Regional Hub Coordinators." Body text: "Build partnerships with local organizations, train Peer Supports to run Baby Ghosts' Cooperative Foundations sessions, and develop a toolkit of the region's own resources. There are four contract positions, one for each region, with a tight five-month timeline active from November 2, 2026 to March 31, 2027. $30,000 for approximately 25 hrs/week." At the bottom, a pink and orange gradient button reads "Apply by Friday, October 16."
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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Been asked to say a few words on Winifred Carney for the launch of @ucdcolr.bsky.social tomorrow so did up a small zine for the occasion
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UCD Winifred Carney Centre for Organising and Labour Research @ucdcolr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks to everyone who came to the launch party for the UCD Winifred Carney Centre for Organising and Labour Research (COLR) on Thursday and to @conormccabe.bsky.social for speaking about Winifred Carney and for the amazing Carney zine!
sign reading COLR LAUNCH PARTY HERE taped to a glass door centre director ben anderson speaking at the launch alongside conor mccabeconor mccabe speaking about winifred carneycolr typewriter logo sticker, sticker with an image of a woodpecker in a colr hard hat holding a hammer in its enormous tongue that it normally keeps wrapped around its brain so that it doesn't get a brain injury from all the pecking, winifred carney zine
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 25/09/2026
"UK Games Expo (UKGE) has announced that any products created “completely or in significant part” with AI tools will be prohibited at the annual tabletop convention."
rascal.news
UK Games Expo bans AI-generated work via a new policy
Enforcement of its “absolute discretion” remains unclear at the UK’s largest tabletop show.
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 25/09/2026
Restaurant owners: nothing makes me want to avoid your restaurant more than seeing pictures of AI food. First, it looks gross. Second, if you're cutting corners with your advertisements/menus, you're probably cutting corners with your food.
cbc.ca
AI-generated food imagery at restaurants has some customers losing their appetites | CBC News
Diners have taken to social media to share photos of overly-shiny sandwiches and circular shrimp, lamenting the suspected use of AI. But some in the restaurant business say it's helped them reduce cos...
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 22/09/2026
According to Respawn First, the system would first give players some ad-free playtime, which could either be based on time or in-game progress, such as levels and bosses. Once this expires, the company will then open a window and briefly serve “promoted content.”
tomshardware.com
Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes — watching commercials earns ad-free playtime credits
Is this patent a sign of things to come?
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 20/09/2026
Sleepy
A pink and purple game Boy camera photograph of a cat, who is napping on her side.
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Professor Layton studio Level-5's CEO admits using AI to make its digital showcase "more spectacular". bit.ly/4yBJg5X
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 18/09/2026
Really enjoying this retro-revival paradigm where players can choose between the original (warts and all) or a version with quality-of-life features and rebalancing. Terranigma is a gem too. Ahead of its time in a lot of ways.
youtube.com
Terranigma - Release Date Trailer
YouTube video by Clear River Games
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 18/09/2026
Execs working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLMs are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.”
404media.co
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 17/09/2026
Woods.
A game Boy camera photograph of a wooded path, colored in orange
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 14/09/2026
"As with all our company's operational decisions, this one was made democratically and was motivated by the survival of the studio rather than maximising projects. Our members are regularly updated on our cash flow situation and were made aware of this upcoming shortfall well in advance."
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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Last year, Rockstar was accused of firing over 30 workers for engaging in trade union activity. The studio said they were let go for leaking confidential information. The tribunal between the two parties begins today. I'll be attending and will do my best to provide updates over the coming weeks.
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 11/09/2026
Brutalist.
A game Boy camera photograph of a brutalist university building, taken between two trees.
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💜 Catsandra 💜 @cassie-opeia.northsky.social · 10/09/2026
fuck Danielle Smith, fuck yeah Saddle Lake Cree Nation
globalnews.ca
Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care safe haven | Globalnews.ca
Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it aims to defy Premier Danielle Smith’s government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care — contrary to provincial law.
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 10/09/2026
There's video!
youtu.be
Project Dream – Full Prototype Playthrough (No Commentary) | Game That Became Banjo-Kazooie
YouTube video by BurritoHDGames
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 10/09/2026
Finely, a brand collab I can get behind.
youtu.be
KALLAX STORAGEBORN, a free creation for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim™ from IKEA.
YouTube video by IKEA UK
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 10/09/2026
Just leaked: a SNES proof-of-concept alpha for Project Dream, the prototype that would go on to become Banjo-Kazooie. I haven't had a chance to dive into it yet, but I always love to see these scraps of gaming history resurface. archive.org/details/proj...
A screenshot from an unfinished N64 game. It's a little hard to see exactly what is going on, but a very anime-looking due is raising his fist against a reptilian fellow with a sword.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 09/09/2026
After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
the famous orc statue outside blizzard's HQ in irvine, california
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 09/09/2026
Great work here by Eric! It's amazing how much the performative aspects of #TTRPG gaming has taken off in the last decade. Really appreciate the important translation and contextualisation work that @ecfriedman.com does here as well.👏
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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026
every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 08/09/2026
My first reaction? Looks fun! Also, the cosplayers are going to have to up their game with all these *textures*.
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 08/09/2026
Boosting this again! Still lots of time to submit.
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Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My goal for 2026 was to hit 4k subs. I'm so close! If you like video games with a side of psychology, this one is for you! Also included: 🔎science without the student loans 🎮 obscure 90s video game references 🎬 my progressively improving iMovie skills www.youtube.com/psychgeist
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 06/09/2026
Birbs.
A game Boy camera style photo showing two starlings sitting on a rock.
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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"This is the worst crash we've seen since the 1980s," says Tim Sweeney Industry experts speak to Edge magazine's Alex Spencer about how the industry is facing "Crash 2.0" www.gamesindustry.biz/this-is-the-...
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 02/09/2026
Blackrock at night.
On a dark night, a small wooden building is illuminated work purple lightOn a dark night, a gazebo is brightly lit with pink lights
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 02/09/2026
A dictionary definition for buy: "transitive verb: to acquire possession, ownership, or rights to the use or services of by payment especially of money"
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 31/08/2026
It's very funny to me when a dog owner asks if my cat wants to be friends with their pupper while my cat is actively plotting to kill them both.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
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Jean Ketterling @jeanketterling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Excited to share a new 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 for an edited collection on game preservation in Canada, with coeds @michaeliantorno.com and @videogamehistorian.bsky.social. Full details can be found here: gamepreservation.ca/volatile-mem... Deadline is November 15th 2026.
gamepreservation.ca
Call For Papers – GamePreservation.ca
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Dany Guay-Belanger @videogamehistorian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Excited to share a new 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 for an edited collection on game preservation in Canada, with coeds @jeanketterling.bsky.social and @michaeliantorno.com. We welcome essays, material studies, and interviews. Full details here: gamepreservation.ca/volatile-mem... Deadline: November 15, 2026.
gamepreservation.ca
Call For Papers – GamePreservation.ca
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 28/08/2026
I'm happy to share a new 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 for an edited collection on game preservation in Canada, with co-editors @jeanketterling.bsky.social and @videogamehistorian.bsky.social. We welcome essays, material studies, and interviews. Full details at the link below - please share widely!
gamepreservation.ca
Call For Papers – GamePreservation.ca
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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 27/08/2026
We are here in a booth sponsored by the German government. Here's the PRESIDENT OF GERMANY this morning, posing in front of a game that Steam considers too pornographic for this whole country.
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 27/08/2026
"Palestinian students continue to have their visas rejected to study in Ireland, despite full scholarships having been granted by various institutions across the country."
irishtimes.com
‘Every day we wait is a gamble for us’: Palestinian students continue to face visa rejections
UCD offered computer science student full scholarship but Department of Justice rejected visa for ‘financial’ reasons
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 25/08/2026
The face of a cat who doesn't realise the chaos she has sown.
A gray cat lies on the carpet, staring blankly off into the distance.
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 25/08/2026
My tubby 16-year old cat has learned how to squeeze her girth through the fence around my patio. I have to rethink our entire outdoor strategy now.
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 30/07/2026
Once more, I share with you all this radical starter pack featuring Canadian game studies scholars. Let me know if you or someone you love should be added.
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 24/08/2026
Once again, I want to emphasize that Cooking YouTube's recent focus on bean recipes is a recession indicator. (also, I can't believe how much cheaper groceries are in Ireland)
A snapshot from a Youtube short. A woman with heart shaped glasses speaks to the camera. Onscreen text reads "Recession recipes: Black bean meatballs" and subtitles read "if this is your first time being poor..."
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 23/08/2026
This is such a great resource, especially this Satellaview Explainer: project.satellaview.org/articles/202...
project.satellaview.org
Project Satellaview - Satellaview - An Explainer
A large easy to understand round-up of information about Satellaview for those who aren't familiar, talking about what it was, how it was like to use it, and the games.
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Yakumono @luigiblood.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I am rebooting BS-X Project into "Project Satellaview". This comes with a full website revamp, and I'll pursuing new goals in relation to Satellaview... and I hope to set the example I've explained in the post. #Satellaview project.satellaview.org
project.satellaview.org
Project Satellaview - Home
All about the Satellaview and its games!
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 20/08/2026
Despite numerous warnings, I have still underestimated the amount of rain in Ireland.
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"There have been a lot of concerns about what happens post-buyout, and responses [from management] are mostly just vague reassurances. It hasn't done enough to quell a lot of the fears over job security or creative influences with Saudi owners."
gamedeveloper.com
EA workers trapped in a maelstrom of uncertainty after Saudi deal
Current EA employees share their views on how the publisher's seismic $55 billion buyout will impact the people behind its popular franchises.
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 20/08/2026
I wonder when we'll start seeing "How Millennials are Ruining Artificial Intelligence" opinion pieces.
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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 19/08/2026
Game developers are well aware of what happens to employees and projects after a new investor group steps in.
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