Donald Glover says he will be surprised if he isn’t nominated for an Oscar for voicing Yoshi. “I don’t want to say it’s Daniel Day-Lewis esque… but it’s in that range.” (Source: @ReutersShowbiz)

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

I also finally watched the first (and second) episode of The Pitt this evening! Very intense and claustrophobic atmosphere created temporally and spatially. Exhausted by end of one ep! So far seems Wyles's character is not just an annoying extension of Carter from ER 🤞👍

Finally watched the first episode of The Pitt and it was even better than I expected

I am fortunate to have a chapter in this: “Existential Gothic in SOMA and The Swapper,” kindly edited by @mutanttheorist.bsky.social

New volume in the Approaches to Digital Game Studies series! Games That Haunt Us: Gothic Game Space As a Living Nightmare edited by @mutanttheorist.bsky.social released today! Very worth your time to check out! www.bloomsbury.com/us/games-tha...

My chapter focuses on Hollow Knight and Gothic Epistemology - reading the Metroidvania genre through the lens of #Gothic to explore how the genre serves the same function as novels by Radcliffe or Lewis, using disturbing emotional experiences to break down the barriers between reality and fiction.

The wonderful collection Games That Haunt Us, edited by @mutanttheorist.bsky.social is out today! Couldn't be prouder to be included in an absolutely wonderful collection that really demonstrates just how interdisciplinary and innovative our field can be! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/games-tha...

My chapter ‘“It always ends like this”: Temporality and the Refrain in NieR: Automata” has been published in Games That Haunt Us: Gothic Game Space as a Living Nightmare, edited by @mutanttheorist.bsky.social 😁

Games That Haunt Us is out! www.waterstones.com/book/games-t...

'For many Afghan women, the opportunity to study abroad is one of the last remaining pathways to education, professional development and personal safety.' 2/2

'The impact of this policy will be particularly severe for women. In Afghanistan, girls have been excluded from secondary education and women from higher education for over four years.' 1/2

My verdict: Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the most iconic and aesthetically pleasing, and it walked so Pokémon: Pokopia could run. But Pokopia blows it out of the water. A far superior game.

Not only did I get up at 4am to watch silly cars go in circles but @spacesandplaces.bsky.social was the best wife and kept me company. Rest of the day will be spent on Pokopia and writing 🥰

Excuse me?! Grammarly's new "‘Expert Review’ AI agents make suggestions supposedly inspired by subject matter experts, including several staff members here at The Verge... none of whom gave Grammarly permission to include them..."

Lovely to be a guest on LBC this morning to talk about the enduring obsession of Pokémon

"UK to end study visas for four countries’ students"

Last night, I signed a contract with McFarland to turn my PhD thesis into a book - The Mutants of Mass Effect. This was my dream when I started the PhD as I always envisioned the final output to be a book to sit in my bookcase!

There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on. 2/4

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Keir Starmer abandoned net zero to court Reform voters. He failed

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

Reform UK's Gorton and Denton candidate Matt Goodwin holds a visiting professorship at a university centre allied with at least five ‘race science’-linked organisations including the front publication of a rebranded Nazi eugenics foundation - a network whose central figures he has defended and promo

NEW on Wonkhe: We need to look at SEND in the light of transition to university buff.ly/oBY7jkf

All good things come to an end | Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) - UCL – University College London share.google/YhmPV6CqJPyX...

This lawsuit seems appalling to me, honestly. I feel for people whose student experience was lousy due to Covid but that's not the fault of universities. "I wanted in-person study." I'm sure you did. Nobody gets what they want in a global pandemic

Harvard administrators pushed a faculty committee to cancel a long-running, biannual symposium featuring tenure-track women’s research, citing legal concerns about hosting a single-gender event. The cancellation comes as Harvard has scaled back... TAT: [Weakening Civil Rights | Attacking Education]

Don’t go to the US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Even today news outlets are missing one of the most explosive issues in the Epstein files: the wealthiest in society being implicated in corruption, and the potential systematic destruction of British democracy.

I Am What I Am is a wonderful film that actually represents aromanticism and asexuality well, especially in relation to how people react to these identities.

"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI. AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.

Love it when a videogame recommendation emotionally destroys someone

Ghost of Yōtei multiplayer next month!!

Pre-order Games That Haunt Us now! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/979876512...

Ironic, as this was the magazine that referred to Pokémon as a "pestilential Ponzi scheme" in 1999, characterising its creator Satoshi Tajiri as a literal monster "His eyes are bloodshot; dark circles ripple beneath them... His monsters are a child's predelictions." He never gave another interview.

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

It's been clear for some time that sustained use of AI for knowledge work de-motivates and de-skills. Even among academics, the last population I'd expect to allow such atrophy, folks are now reduced to playing cynical games with the language machine and justifying it via the grant hamster wheel.

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

The real victim is Starmer? Labour are so bad at narratives

A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

Stanley Kubrick did not know who Jeffrey Epstein was and had not left England for several years before making the movie, I hope this helps

“The best way to proceed is to ignore it,” Chomsky wrote in a text Epstein sent to a lawyer and publicist. “That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder.”

Atlantic Shmatlantic. My students all watch every movie and love every movie I assign. After a screening of "Diary of a Country Priest" a freshman first-gen came up to me and said "Sir, that was an amazing aesthetic experience!" I am the best film prof evah.

Cult of The Lamb is still a favourite

Really loved Split Fiction. Some parts felt slightly too derivative of the Jedi series but overall huge fun. Been teaching genre theory today and would work so well as part of a workshop

For those of us here in the UK who are watching with horror what is going on over in the US it is very important to remember that this is exactly what Reform wants for us over here. They've said so. They want 'forced deportations' in the US style. We're not safe here either if they win.

Venba is an extraordinary short game. Any cooking fans will especially enjoy it