The Braid Roundtable today on Openness and AI in culture, arts and humanities has been absolute 🔥.Listening to @creativecommons.bsky.social discuss how they see AI in relation to the commons and their new Signals framework for indicating what creators want back from the use of their data - 🔥🔥

Today we dive into Public Data Cultures with coffee and cats.

What could ever go wrong with our decorator leaving this up overnight?

Related note I saw a group of film student ladies in my garden in classic form shooting on super 8 yesterday. Leopard coats ✅ Red lipstick ✅ Laying on the ground half dressed in the sun looking impossibly beautiful ✅ This gave me more faith that the kids are ok than anything I’ve seen in years. ❤️

Finally getting around to playing with the open source models in ComfyUI and it’s making me feel really creative again. I have so many days of footage I can play with from my archive I’m excited to see what weirdness I can create with it.

I'm pro machine learning and against AI slop, closed models, and theft. Great stuff is happening but just not where you might happen to be looking, and like anything, sustainable pro-humanity solutions are not always incentivised. We have to work together to create a sustainable AI future.

New idea. Is there a capture, spay, and release program for billionaires?

Can’t wait for this!

Has to be said. @apwot.bsky.social is next level. Love the smell of the freshly printed ink on the GF Smith paper!

Tonight I got this little momma, the sister of the first cat I recused. Both these little girls were pregnant and as adorable as they come. She is at the Celia Hammond trust. The security guard caught her for me finally right before the building are demolished.

Strongly recommend folks Profoundly Waste their Time with the upcoming APWOT issue 6 in which I’ll be writing about some of my favourite alt game scene events, collectives & weirdos from around the world. 🗺️ 📍

Today I rescued the sweetest cat who is under a year old living in a site to be demolished in a week. We couldn’t take her but she’s at Celia Hammond Trust in Lewisham if anyone wants a Calico with a personality that is pure love. Her name is, at present, Phoenix. I’m 💔 but our house it full up.

This conference rocks!!!

AI is amazing - just not the AI that big tech is trying to convince you to surrender all your data to use. There are other ways to do this that rock. You can run and train models locally that are open source and ethical as an artist. Exhibit A - Wekinator www.wekinator.org

Novel interaction has never been more obvious. So many similar diy interfaces appear again and again on social but never seem to come to market or really change our locked in form factors. We need to ask for more from our technologies.

We should all know her name.

I can think of no finer job than being the baddie. Spoilers, it's the best life.

Coding while listening to techno... yep this is my happy place.

2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group! Internships in Story, Ideation, Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks), Prototyping (3D printing etc), Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!) Physical (springs and spinny things) Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)

Something anyone who lived through being a gg target implicitly knows…

This critique writes itself....

Play for Peace - Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle - itch.io share.google/NQA8gyN57GEe... @seagamesforgood.bsky.social

The best philosophers of the 21st century are the technologists. Technology is political and social vision made manifest. If you want a better reality, right now you need to be coding like life on this planet depends on it, because it does.

Today I discovered dreams from 2007 on blogger of all things.

My new book has a cover! Much gratitude to Tabitha Nikolai for letting me use a shot from her peerless dysphoric suburban hikikomori simulator Shrine Maidens of the Unseelie Court 🙏

Note to self - when writing papers in computing, do not assume reviewers can understand using puns to collapse meaning and instead will accuse you of not being able to spell... I used the word reimaging and they thought I misspelled reimagine. 🫣 Gods save me with this field.

The UK’s flagship AI institute, once progressive and public-minded, is now being repurposed for the military. Named after Alan Turing, a queer man chemically castrated and driven to death by the state, it’s not irony. It’s continuity. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Zomg. So excited as a goo completionist. 💖

Today is brought to you by the letter N for neurospicy. I've now spent 5 hours detailing a chair. Totally normal, nothing to see here.

Since 2008, CAN has defied big tech’s dominance, nurturing a global network of artists, designers, educators, hackers & makers—proving alternative networks not only exist, but flourish!

We're hosting an Alt.Ctrl Festival on Sunday August 24th! Want to showcase your game? Apply here: www.wonderville.nyc/altctrlfest-...

Today, a book chapter I wrote on teaching in the creative arts came out. If you're interested in personal transformation through education, this one is for you! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Resonate is one more step to being real! My installation game is still dev art but my system is really coming along. It is hilarious wearing 3 heart rate monitors at once but here we are. Development :D.

I’ve finally worked out how to do conferences. Now, I focus on my talk and do very little socializing. If folks resonate with what I say, they are worth my attention and vice versa. Otherwise, I am restful and take long walks. This is the way. There is no more running myself into the ground.

@alexglow.bsky.social great to connect today IRL. I adore your esp earring! 🔮

Just went to Hardware Happy Hour and am genuinely excited for the @oshwassociation.bsky.social conference in Scotland tomorrow. ❤️❤️❤️ @helenleigh.bsky.social

I have published my talk ahead of schedule on Notion if you would like to read it ahead of time to prepare: www.notion.so/phoenixperry...

If you're in the UK, now is the time to remove yourself from this party.

I’m so excited for this talk.

Got to a full low-fi working prototype today! 🎉 My new game uses haptics to cue the vagus nerve, plays sound, and connects 3 players via heart rate monitors to explore biosignal synchrony through sound, image, and vibration. It's cool to hear. If you're at the same rate, you trigger the same note.

Was aiming for MVP on my new art piece this week—didn't fully get there, but made solid progress: built a Swift app that connects to 3 Polar heart rate monitors, sends data to through Max, and drives my synth. Even got the ESP32 ready to talk to the app. ALMOST! Resonance is coming along!

A test of how effective your code of conduct & support structures for an event are is if they can apply equally to the event’s leader. This is excellent news for the health of A MAZE as an event and the safety of those who work on it and attend. I’m so sorry for those harmed a-maze.net/cocviolation/

Ever had a game moment that stuck with you for years? ✨ That’s the magic of emotional game design and you can create it too! 🎮💛 Join me for a whole day 1-on-1 session where we’ll explore how to craft meaningful player experiences. Only 3 spots left! Book here: emotionalgame.design

ChatGPT is going to transform the number of women out there who are extremely competent coders. Why? Because it's free of all the gender bias and nonsense so common in coding ed materials and forums while also turning coding into a social, conversational process. Win, win.

When I code with chatGPT, I vibe. 🌈

'Consume Me' wins the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Nuovo Award, and the Wings Award at the 2025 Independent Games Festival Awards. See the full list of winners here: gdconf.com/news/consume... #GDC2025 #IGF2025

I'm really excited to be doing a short talk and panel on Crip Tech at OHS this summer in the UK. Come join us!

Today in Disability History March 12, 1990 - The Capitol Crawl Protesters marched from the White House to the U.S. Capitol demanding that Congress pass the Americans with Disabilities Act. 60 of those protesters abandonded wheelchairs and other mobilit aids to crawl up the 83 Capitol steps.

I created a @codeliberation.bsky.social account here today for International Women’s Day. Inspirational stories about how femmes and themes change the world for the better through creativity and technology incoming.

I'm putting on my first solo exhibition! A mix of interactive installation, game-making and poetry, Return to Dreamphone continues my collaboration with the tributaries of the River Brent and the communities living alongside.