I find it striking how in the aftermath of Helene, libraries are providing crucial community services like free wifi while cops are guarding stores with rotting food from potential "looters" instead of serving and protecting people. Worth considering how we spend local funding.
I am 👀 at this language. While the court resisted outright acknowledging forced labor as involuntary servitude, here it is walking riiigghht up to the line of making a 13th Amendment argument for abortion rights, which I would be absolutely here for !!
This is the fundamental paradox of AI: if it's actually helping you, there is no way to know when it is no longer helping you. Put another way: if you can supervise it effectively enough to catch its mistakes, you probably didn't need it in the first place.
I had no idea Vonnegut was a board game designer, but I love that the game design / narrative overlap isn't at all new! (I don't count Lewis Carroll, btw, because Alice isn't really a narrative thing) Also, if you've read any of Vonnegut's writing advice it reads a lot like it's from a game designer
GHQ is Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game, unstuck in time and transported from 1956 to 2024 thanks to Geoff Engelstein, and it's surprising how familiar it feels despite occupying an entirely different medium from Vonnegut's novels. My review: spacebiff.com/2024/09/25/g...
Before he became a famous author, over a decade before Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut was a board game designer. A failed board game designer, with only a sheaf of notes, a single rejection note, ...
Folks deserve credit for their work however small, regardless if they left the studio or not. The @igda.bsky.socialigda.org/wp-content/u...
Are there freelance producers in my network looking for work? I actually have to turn down some offers and I would love to recommend some folks 😅
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Hello friends. I’ve been in and around the game industry for almost 20 years as a narrative designer and writer and it has never been harder to find a job. At this point I’m looking for almost any kind of writing work, even short term, just to keep the lights on. Let me know if you know of anything
Of particular interest to my Computational Media colleagues:
Computational Humanities is now available! (OA version this winter.) Thank you to the amazing contributors, co-editors extraordinaire @dmimno.bsky.social and Jessica Marie Johnson, the team Minessota, and series editors @laurenfklein.bsky.social and Matt Gold! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791598...
The first book to intervene in debates on computation in the digital humanities Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, Compu...