And they walked out on their own presentation, leaving the zoom window empty, albeit for a short time.

With the danger of seeming overly critical of presentation form today: if you send a video to represent yourself at a conference, record your face as well. This increases the engagement with your text, and makes it easier to understand. Particularly if you speak rapidly.

Yes, still in Bremen, at Beyond Play. Due to the urgent administrative issue from yesterday, I am not all that present in the presentations. What I do catch is the droning cadence of presenters looking firmly down at the text. Newbies, do not write out the text, look up, change tone. Please!

Still in Bremen, but no live commenting, as I had, of course, not finished an administrative task with a deadline today. I got an extension for tomorrow, so I will probably multitask during the keynote... the glorious life of an academic...

Evil is banal, a simple and dedicated path to the most profoundly transgressive of acts.

Q-anon is not a game, but a weaponised fandom.

How does social media play into this? Q apparently spreads organically, but was truly controlled. Spread through carefully curated social media use.

Grieve gives us the history of conspiracies from The elders of Zion and up to today, which by insiders is considered to be "the great awakening."

Where did Q-anon go? It is still around, but it is not as clearly in the public image. He starts with the story of Q and of Q-anon - for mroe on this, read Frederik Grønbæk Aarup's master thesis from the IT-University of Copenhagen, he looked at the activities on the forum for the election.

He starts with Q-anon, Capitol and jan 6th 2021. Citing Q, this was clearly announced early. He positions Q-anon as not just bad, but evil and driven by white nationalism.