Happy to announce that, due to the support of the MIT Libraries and @mitpress.bsky.social, my first two books are now available as free PDF's ❤️ While they are very much histories at this point, hopefully they will still hold tidbits of interest!

Congratulations, Lisa! Best wishes on the change.

Have I mentioned recently how incredibly awesome Laura McCullough is? Because she's pretty damned awesome. Just got her second humor piece published in McSweeney's. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cla...?

Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job

Dear Students — I am sorry to say that I will need to cancel all classes for an indeterminate length of time while I work on doing my job. I realiz...

Drop something blue from your gallery

It's happening all over the country.

EBecothought.bsky.socialMar 22, 2024 11:37pm

U of AZ is making cuts to cover a $177 million budget shortfall brought about primarily because of administrative incompetence. And the State Legislature is using this as a pretext to eliminate shared governance. tucson.com/news/local/e...

Bill to limit faculty roles in university governance moves to Arizona Senate vote

University of Arizona faculty member tells Senate panel shared governance is needed because

Good Guy Swen Vincke, head of Larian Studios, talking at GDC yesterday after receiving awards for Baldur's Gate 3:

"So, if the projections by these agencies range from weak growth to stability to very slight decline, why are administrators preaching cliffs, crises, and cuts?"

Putting The "If" In "Enrollment Cliff"

Academic administrators are being prescribed Ponzi austerity by consultants who work for EdTech investors to solve a hypothetical demographic "crisis" with unsettling racist dog whistles.

Gamergate's main legacy is this kind of lying, which is the only way conservatives today communicate with the rest of the world. Everything they say they care about is a lie, it's only ever a proxy for their true ethnonationalist goals

NEnoescapevg.comMar 6, 2024 11:43pm

had some shit to say.

The thing they say they’re mad at never actually matters

Ten years ago, a bunch of bigoted fascist assholes used false pretenses to terrorize women, queer people and people of color in the video game industry, in games media, and even in academic games s…

A remarkable eulogy.

MNmartinnutbeem.bsky.socialFeb 21, 2024 10:09am

"We thought we knew how Voyager would end. The instruments would shut off, one by one.  The signal would get fainter.  Eventually either the last instrument would fail for lack of power, or the signal would be lost. We didn’t expect that it would go mad."

Death, Lonely Death

Billions of miles away at the edge of the Solar System, Voyager 1 has gone mad and has begun to die.Let’s start with the “billions of miles”. Voyager 1 was launched in early Septe…

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