Our Forerunners series of print and digital publications are all under 30K words and booksellers and educators love them. manifold.umn.edu/projects/pro...

@penguinsolution.bsky.social is helping #PenguisSavingPenguins at #SC25!

@ibogost.com feels like something you’ve noticed too!

Greetings from @mitpress.bsky.social at SuperComputing 2025! This one’s a little outside my normal purview, but it’s in STL, so it was only a 30 minute drive. If you happen to be at #SC25, stop by booth 6352 and say hi!

Implication that Muggsy Bogues will be forgotten to history? I’d never accept that erasure

From the transformation of higher education in the age of generative AI to how animals and smart machines measure up to human intelligence, get a great deal on MIT Press ebooks focused on AI via @humblebundle.com. Purchases support Sandy Hook Promise: www.humblebundle.com/books/human-...

This mood is just - really strong right now.

Dear premium TV shows: please stop pushing your official podcast on me. I will listen to a podcast about your show like I’m supposed to: 5 years later and three hours devoted to each episode with hosts who I have chosen over a squad of other lesser options

We have a cover! Coming soon and OA too! Based on the Rethinking Sexualities project with the always brilliant, always beautiful, always kind @susannapaasonen.bsky.social and @jenmadelene.bsky.social Steered through the editorial process with ease and competence by @noahspringer.com at MIT Press

Thanks @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social, @noahspringer.com, Alyssa Napier, & Sara Cohen for a great book proposal webinar on a cold rainy Monday. As writers and editors we often work alone. Don't underestimate the power of connection (even virtually) and enthusiasm to maintain your energy. #Academicsky

ICYMI: "A green, velvet texture rippled across the yard, in all directions, but mostly towards the southeast corner. And the corner waved back." This Halloween, @noahspringer.com comes across a horror in his backyard:

The doctors said I got some pretty nasty poison ivy over the summer, but I wasn't quite convinced of their diagnosis

The doctors said I got some pretty nasty poison ivy over the summer, but I wasn't quite convinced of their diagnosis

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

This is one of the most interesting writing experiments I’ve done. I really like how it turned out, and I hope you do too!

An updated story of fatherhood: For sale Baby crocs Never worn Child is fine, just grew so fast we needed to get a new set of crocs before he ever wore the first pair

Just saw someone reposting starter packs, and remembered mine! Check out some @mitpress.bsky.social authors here

A terrific week spent at Tongji University and the China Academy of Art celebrating the 40th anniversary of our journal Design Issues. The hosts put on a remarkable conference and exhibit that showcased the profound impact of the journal on design thinking and research. @mitpress.bsky.social

Hear from 3 fantastic acquisition editors at our Nov 10 webinar Crafting a Winning Book Proposal: - Sara Cohen, @uofmpress.bsky.social - Alyssa Napier, @columbiaup.bsky.social - Noah Springer @noahspringer.com, @mitpress.bsky.social ideasonfire.net/first-book-p... #FirstBook

An updated story of fatherhood: For sale Baby crocs Never worn Child is fine, just grew so fast we needed to get a new set of crocs before he ever wore the first pair

You’ve got a fantastic idea for your first book, but do you know how to capture the attention of the publishers? 📚 On November 10, join us for our Crafting a Winning First Book Proposal webinar. Claim your spot and learn more about our webinar series. ideasonfire.net/first-book-p... #FirstBook

Find tricks and treats galore in this month's issue of Unwinnable Monthly, including @jhensliterature.bsky.social on myhouse.wad, @orringrey.com on Sepulchre, and our regular crew on all things spooky. Buy: unwinnable.bigcartel.com/product/unwi... Subscribe: unwinnable.com/subscribe/

ICYMI: "Plus, the psychedelic vibes and Aubrey Plaza felt perfectly ripe for those edibles I crushed back in California a few years from now." @noahspringer.com traces a path back through time that crosses media like Turning Red, Undone and Sinners:

🎉🔥🎉ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉🔥🎉DAY🎉🔥🎉 Jonathan Rey Lee’s book on CATAN is almost out. It’s the first in the Tabletop Gaming series that Paul Booth and I have been hard at work editing this past three years. Anyway, the book is fantastic. Please consider it and share with the right people.

This is one of the most interesting writing experiments I’ve done. I really like how it turned out, and I hope you do too!

"Plus, the psychedelic vibes and Aubrey Plaza felt perfectly ripe for those edibles I crushed back in California a few years from now." @noahspringer.com traces a path back through time that crosses media like Turning Red, Undone and Sinners:

What do we truly mean when we talk about agency and free will? And could AI models have these qualities? In my new book “What Is Intelligence?,” I offer a perspective on how building intelligent machines forces us to confront deep questions about consciousness and our own minds.

We'd love to have more pitches for our Exploits mag! All sections are open for pitches. $25 for a ~500-word meta essay and $10 for a ~375-word section essay. More info here: unwinnable.com/submissions/

“I went to school in Boston. Well, not IN Boston. And no, I didn’t go to Tufts”

Apple out here using the drug dealing business model for Tolkien

Together, we can stop it. 98 more subscribers says "NO," and the world will be safe from such a dangerous collection of top shelf writing by the finest minds in games crit...until the next subscription drive.

Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment? If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com. Please spread the word

a real "lemon it's wednesday" kind of tuesday

One of my favorite classic internet bits

Can you still play Final Fantasy 1 somewhere? Maybe that would ease some woe

We reached the 100 new subscribers we needed to unlock a Final Fantasy and politics issue for you folks! We'll start production soon with the goal of publishing it in early 2026. Thank you SO much for all of your help with this drive! We couldn't have done it without you.

God, I’m going to have to learn about Final Fantasy finally aren’t I? Can I figure out how to write a column for this issue without ever playing the game?

A new, expanded iteration of my pandemic show of compulsively straightened trees and hand-rendered dither patterns opens tomorrow; join me Wed Sept 24, 5-8pm @ Higher Pictures, 45 Main Street #723 Brooklyn Also a chance to see the esolangs book with @mitpress.bsky.social which has pub date TODAY!

In "What Is Intelligence?", @blaiseaguera.bsky.social offers a radical new perspective on what intelligence really is, and how AI’s emergence is a natural consequence of evolution. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204995...

In his playful collection "Forty-Four Esolangs," Daniel Temkin (@dtemkin.bsky.social) challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255308...

Step into a new identity. This month's issue of Unwinnable Monthly features @daytenrose.bsky.social on butterflies in games, @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social on Disco Elysium and the trans experience, and our regulars on the topics on their minds. Buy: buff.ly/7V3prT1 Subscribe: buff.ly/UexEQz3

We are at 89 out of the 100 new Unwinnable Magazine subscribers we need to unlock a Final Fantasy and politics issue, so the gloves are off. This is an image of the social media vulture's cat. You will be denied future images unless more people subscribe to Unwinnable. You know what to do.

This year’s Nancy Baym Book Award committee would also like to give an Honourable Mention to @tbonini.bsky.social and @emilianotrere.com for Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power (@mitpress.bsky.social). Congratulations also!

Cover reveal! Here's your first look at Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, a new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from Orrin Grey (@orringrey.com) coming next month, featuring this creepily chthonic cover art by Matthew Revert!

@brennanleemulligan.bsky.social buying @mitpress.bsky.social books right during the @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social Fireside Recording — love to see it.

You can avoid this terrible fate. Subscribe to Unwinnable to unlock a Final Fantasy and politics issue once we reach 100 new subscribers. Take your wagon to this link: unwinnable.com/subscribe/

Ideas bigger than you can imagine. The latest issue of Unwinnable Monthly features @orringrey.com on Godzilla, @srtrzinski.bsky.social on birds in games, and @muditaheart.bsky.social on Prince of Persia. Buy: unwinnable.bigcartel.com/product/unwi... Subscribe: unwinnable.com/subscribe/

I went to LA and engaged in some “cinema”

"I walked down the Hollywood Walk of Fame and quickly realized that 'hallowed club' wasn’t quite as exclusive as I had previously thought." @noahspringer.com soaks in Los Angeles's film scene and history: