To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

"After weeks of frustrating research, I found one brace that got me back to not just playing games again but also mending my own clothes and cooking, too." -- @nicoleclark.bsky.social is back on the site today to wax poetic about the thumb brace that let her play Silksong buff.ly/JhYnxZU

alright, which academic is doing the work on Gamer identity and prediction (gambling) sites, with probable intersections with capital and meritocracy?

I regret not buying a house with a basement. I was told tornadoes don't happen here; they go around. Then last year (6 months after moving here) a tornado went through the city. I didn't think my storm anxiety could get worse. Anyway, I just got a quote for an above ground shelter for my garage...

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all. The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6. Link to the full resolution below.

having secret beef with someone on the other side of the world who doesn't know that such passionate disagreement exists.

I have a syllabus to write and some drafting to do, but I want to leave this somewhere so it's out of my head and in the ether: The US administration is playing a video game. They are mixing real war footage with game footage to normalize equating loss of life with loss of pixels.

I just published an article on this very issue with @saffista.bsky.social. Mixing real footage with game footage and hyperealistic graphics presents a very real problem for understanding not just history, but immediate events. Article here (or by DM): doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2025-0109

I look forward to @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social's sketches every year. ❤️ 🎮

Last week, I attended a workshop on creating a uni-wide GAI literacy requirement (I'm the squeaky wheel). One of the participants brought up ethics, including environmental consequences for the Colorado River. A man behind me started heckling; he was sick of hearing about the Colorado River.

If you're interested in Call of Duty, the Cold War, or how song lyrics can be rhetorical framing devices for arguments -- please check out our latest piece! (and message me if you have trouble finding it and I can help)

Last year @toskakoshka.bsky.social and I wrote a bad ass piece on historical revisionism through Call of Duty paratexts and its out(-ish) in the latest issue of of *Digital Culture & Society*. If you're an academic with library access please go download it!

We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...

At 9:45am, I texted a friend a question: Is it too early for Mountain Dew? She told me it wasn't. This exchange has happened every couple of months for eight years (industry besties). Not sure I believe her, but she gives me the confidence to have Mountain Dew before noon (breaking rules).

I don't know. I've been teaching since 2006 and I have never seen someone pretend to be disabled to get accommodations. I mean that literally: I cannot think of a single instance where someone was trying to game the system.

Understanding Generative AI: A Primer for College Writers docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The CCCC Special Committee on Generative AI in College Composition & Writing Studies is pleased to share two docs that have been in the works since this past summer: Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Judging from the quotes in here, university admins are some of the least “ai literate” people in existence. No wonder they think students need to be taught how to use it.

What an insult to all Alaska. This is outrageous.

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Excited to announce that University of Tennessee at Martin is hiring a TT faculty member! Specialty is Prof/Tech Writing, and teaching first-year comp is also expected. bit.ly/UTM-PTW-AY26TT. Priority deadline is Nov 3rd. I'm Search Chair, so let me know if you have questions. #techcomm #rhetcomp

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

not to make it a competition, but I've been on the phone for an hour (so far) with the drug manufacturer, insurance, and the specialty pharmacy trying to get my monthly dose of way-too-expensive-MS-disease-modifying-drug. how's your healthcare going?

You can use this tool to find out just how much funding your local district (or any district in the country) will be losing in the new federal budget: "DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT will lose $8,175,391 in federal funding." public.tableau.com/app/profile/... #EduSky #EdChat

"coding error" lolol

All the punitive deplatformization & surveillance that gamers egged on against hot tub/"egirl"/OF streamers is a rehearsal for attacking that freedoms of expression that YOU love, sooner than later

if you read one thing about higher ed or tech or venture capital this week, make it this theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/how-ventur...

I interviewed Kishonna Gray for _Historiographies of Game Studies: What it Has Been, What it Could Be_. It was published today and I'm so excited to see it in print! This book contains 31 chapters of awesome scholarship *and* it's open access. So... >>> punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:

All power to ADAPT, who saved Medicaid last time and of course got us the ADA many years ago. Probably the most serious contemporary American direct action outfit.

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

This has been on my mind since I left games media. It's readily apparent how many marginalized folks have been pushed out over these last few years and it's no coincidence that there's generally been a lot less interesting coverage as a result. The whole games space feels like it's sliding backwards

Today I would like to find content and course creator bsky. Where are you all? I don't mean like, academic course creators, I mean people who are building out courses as part of their side hustles or main hustles. I want to find you!

In light of today's SCOTUS ruling upholding Tennessee's ban on youth gender-affirming care, it would be amazing to see donations flood into OUTMemphis, the mid-south's longest-running LGBTQ+ org. OUTMemphis offers material and social support for trans kids and adults and has since 1989.

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

I presented at #ATTW2025 yesterday on 10 years of GG & the alt-right. I used this quote from #CharlieWarzel to introduce the importance of GG when discussing modern politics and what we're seeing in online spaces. Disinformation on yesterday's political assassinations is already spreading.

I’m sorry, this has such “now that I’m grown I eat five dozen eggs, so I’m roughly the size of a barge” energy. Amazing.

“how people should protest the right way” is a parlor game played by people whose experience of protest is watching the news on tv

If you ain’t doing propaganda, the NEH ain’t interested.

Hello #ATTW! We are 11 days away from our hybrid conference! Check out the conference website for information about the schedule, keynote speakers, and Missouri S&T and Rolla! sites.mst.edu/attw2025/ #ATTW2025 #ATTW25

Fascinating to finally see some AI skepticism from... CNN? Let's go??? www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...

Want to pick up some merch before the conference on June 14-15? Proceeds go towards the grad moving fund! #ATTW2025 www.bonfire.com/store/attw-1/

Shout out your favorite resources for creating #ttrpg art and imagery that are *not* gen AI! Whether it's artists who provide stock art, a repository of CC-BY images, or a directory of public domain works, drop your faves in the replies! We'll start: Smithsonian Open Access www.si.edu/openaccess

This. Sometimes we study and take seriously things that aren’t easily mapped as “inherently good” or “inherently bad” (or “educational” or “therapeutic” or what have you) They are human, and we are better for understanding & engaging with them, in all their complexity.

My disabled-led transcription and closed captioning biz, @aat-transcribes.bsky.social has availability for later in May and June Doing fieldwork? Drafting dictated manuscripts? Publishing a podcast or vlog? Contact us today for a quote, or to book a discovery call with me this week

Just a note: This is my favorite stress ball. Other S&T campus favorites include a robot and a fuzzy-headed monster.

Hey #ttrpg players, writers, & devs! I'm building an undergrad course on narrative games and sims - students will be playing&writing&designing print&digital games. I'm building a library of solo/duets for students to play and analyze. I've got money to spend. Got recommendations? (hype yourself!)

Always always always compare what these people say they think is COOL and EXCITING and INNOVATIVE….with what they actually do with their own children. 🙄