I do worry that the overarching focus on the environmental impacts of AI comes at the cost of conversations about the human, cultural, economic, and artistic costs. Like, the attempt to substitute human-made sentiments about truth for meaning-ignorant technical synthesis should be more troubling.

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This is a reminder to myself and all the other thinks-about, writes-about, creates-through TTRPG folks, the work we do is not trite, vapid, or meaningless because the material stakes of the world seem higher than ever. TTRPGs are narrative form given scaffolding, and that shapes imagination.

Time once again to post the meme

Students blatantly using gen AI makes me deeply and overwhelmingly sad. Like, do you have no value in your self growth? Is 250 words too much? If capital burdens are pushing you to the edge, then you can have an extension. It's easy. Just like, let me know. Anything but the gen AI....

Congress has not formally declared war since 1942, 83 years ago. Look at all the war the US has done in the past 83 years. Very obviously, it long long ago stopped requiring congressional approval for war according to its own constitution.

If you're arrested in Illinois protesting against Trump's war on Iran for Israel, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].

I feel like convos about GenAI surrounding accessibility are always a little fraudulent, because they are always interested in bringing certain people up to the bar of 'surviving while creating', rather than lowering/removing the bar.

Laws are made up and fluid. What is legal today can change tomorrow. Every person is precarious. The leopards will eat your face, regardless of how you ended up in the United States.

No nation is healthy, but the least healthy of them employ military violence against citizens

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

Real photo from 1937 LA found in the LA Times

While it's far from unexpected, it's still very weird to see solidarity break down over something as trite as 'vandalism', 'public disturbances', and 'property destruction'.

Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.

Again, this isn't Los Angeles. This is happening right now outside an ICE building in SF:

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The crackdowns on civilians and the threat of the national guard being sent to LA should be *the* most important story right now-- not the Trump/Musk feud or whatever the f**k that was. People are being terrorized all over the country. News outlets need to get it together.

Kind of obsessed with the fact that I could fit all the text from this image into the alt-text. Kind of epic. Kind of accessible and based and stuff.

An excerpt from a short paper I wrote, but never got around to fleshing out enough for a proper academic publication. It was inspired by the combat wheelchair, and uses that to interrogate ableist sentiments about linear growth, healing, and "correct bodies".

There are some really important performance studies sentiments about how performance is rehearsal for real life. This is especially true when your performance is close to your heart, in the way that TTRPGs are. I think we could all use some rehearsal in resistance and solidarity.

I actually have an answer to why it was different. It was different because the Napalm Girl photograph did not actually end the war. A year before the photo was taken, a majority of Americans already believed it had been a mistake to send troops to Vietnam. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Vampirism Sinners 2025 :handshake: Stormtroopers Star Wars Representations of oppressive systems, embodied by people who are victims themselves, taken on in a lighthearted manner because the aesthetics are sexy/cool or because individual members are relatable/sympathetic/sexy.

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

I wish I remembered to take more photos at PAX, so that I can put together a real post about it, or something

This isn't my area of research, but as someone who frequently gets read as non-Asian through his voice (and acting), I think that there is something to think through the ways that vocalics encode kinship relationships, histories, and oppressive structures.

Putting together a go bag doesn't have to be daunting or expensive. Here's how to create a functional kit that doesn't require much money, time or effort.

Juneteenth Black TTRPGer Stream Producer Interest Check It's happening and that means Imma need help producing the games You must be able to run live streams via OBS and arrive 45min before scheduled game time! Happy to teach those interested in learning live production! forms.gle/9x3PiCwpfzRf...

Hey #TTRPG folks! I didn't see one already, so I created an Asian American / Pacific Islander (AAPI) in tabletop roleplaying games starter pack to build community, and added the minimum to get started. If you'd like to be added (or removed), just let me know! go.bsky.app/AP6Shtn

After the my panels at PAX this weekend, I feel like there is a really important conversation to be had about the differences between representation as "political tactic" vs as "reflection of lived experience"

transphobes go to the shadow realm

Today, we're writing through TTRPGs and the rhetorical force (and empty promise?) of queer legibility

I think its interesting (read "Wack") how often conversations about 'the human condition' or any sense of innate human philosophy turn into unspoken gestures at a fascism/libertarian freedom dichotomy, as if that's the only ways to format social spaces?

I totally forgot to say, I'm going to be at PAX East! If anyone is also there who happens to think I'm cool, let's chat!

Nothing frightens me more like a straight man recognizing my body. Please do not talk to me about how big you think my biceps are. Please do not hail me into your imagined relationship through toxic masculinity.

Kind of epic of me to get a liddol grant for performance work within my department. Even more epic of me to put that aside to pay some people to do an actual play TTRPG as a performance of queer kinship, grief, and mourning.

People are excited for Inzoi because 😱*GASP* new Sims-like BUT PLEASE DON'T SUPPORT IT, IT HEAVILY uses gen-AI, from AI generated 3D objects, to AI generated images (not just textures, but decorations and more), even the steam banner is AI If you are against AI, don't give this game your money!

Shout out to the writer comrades at ICFA for affirming that I'm actually just 7 romantance genre tropes rolled into one man Boyfriend-husband coded, frankly

I guess with all the other open-air graft going on it's easy to overlook, but the U.S. Commerce Secretary using his official position to go on cable news to tell people to buy the stock of his boss's largest campaign donor is just astonishingly corrupt.

Authors and publishers of fiction and TTRPGs: there is a class action lawsuit being put together against Meta who are using the Libgen database to mine content to train their AI with. It is possible that your work is in there, I know mine is, if so and you're in America, contact the lawyers listed.

It’s important to understand that when a white person says “this has never happened before” or compares some oppressive behavior to a foreign regime, but it *did* happen here to Black/brown people for years/decades/centuries, it represents a massive blow to solidarity. It’s selfish.

With Big Bad Con cancelled this year, what TTRPG con is everyone going to?

Born to be the stressed out, put upon male love interest in a poorly planned out romance webcomic, Forced to be the stressed out, put upon academic in a poorly planned out real life.

try to be there if you can

Being radicalized increasingly since 2016 has just been banging my head against this post indefinitely.