The strangest game of the year is a channel-surfing simulator

It’s still extremely surreal to that I *wrote a video game* that’s out on Nintendo. Even more surreal is the fact that people seem to (really) like it! www.inverse.com/gaming/blipp...

Blippo+ is out NOW and in FULL COLOR on PC and Switch!!! 📡 Steam blippo.plus/steam 📡 Switch blippo.plus/switch 📺 Tune in and get bent today!! blippo.plus 💫

🗓️ 📡 1 Day until Blippo+ The revolution in television crash-lands tomorrow on Steam and Nintendo Switch. Be ready! blippo.plus

Four days until Planet Blip crash-lands on an unsuspecting Earth 🪐

OH MY GOB! Blippo+ arrives on Steam in less than a week. Wishlist now: blippo.plus/steam

nobody has ever been or looked as cool as Robert Redford in Sneakers

attn: Portland buddies and future buddies!

🚨Announcement: it's been a year since the release of our perpetually-novel album 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒! In August 2024, 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 was 7 years before its time, and although the clock keeps ticking, the good news is you’ll still be ahead of the curve if you get into it now. yacht.bandcamp.com/album/new-re...

Elmer Fudd, desperate to kill the rabbit, racked with grief the moment he thinks he might have succeeded, head over heels in love the moment the rabbit puts on a dress. Now that’s an interesting guy

among other things I am very proud of this little movie theater animation lobby that I drew for @blippo.plus' buffer week

TERRAFORM is a collection of speculative fiction edited by @theuniverse.bsky.social and yours truly, a greatest-hits of the years-spanning project we ran at Vice (RIP). It features stories from some of the very best SF authors, tech journalists, and writers. It's excellent, in my opinion

Ambitious to the point of danger: what did it take to create @blippo.plus? COMING SOON: a behind-the-scenes look at building Planet Blip! Another TV is Possible. Blippo+ arrives on Nintendo Switch and Home Computers September 23rd! blippo.plus

thinking about what AI is doing to writing, formally. I'm a great lover of the em-dash, now I find myself leaning on semicolons and colons in an attempt to avoid them. It's a small thing but I wonder what other habits we're shifting away from, subconsciously or otherwise

Another TV is Possible. Blippo+ arrives on Steam and Switch on September 23rd! Wishlist: blippo.plus/steam youtu.be/3f69DgOfBCU

Blippo+ in the news 📡 🌴 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

they really shoulda called it Bonky Kong

AND BONES ARE THEIR MONEY

punk’s not dead but it is in its late 40s and its back hurts

I wrote a video game! Many many brilliant people came together to bring it to life and we’re celebrating them all next week in LA ✨

Loved reporting this heady piece about the cellular basis of memory!

so many horrible things in the world so I feel like a cretin even caring about something so small but Why Oh Why did Apple get rid of the perfectly-good Trailers app

A wonderful article on work (both old and new) pushing the frontier of memory research.

Fun with mortality!

What can a cell remember? A lot more than you think. My latest, for @quantamagazine.bsky.social, is on memory beyond the brain—in tiny unicellular creatures and the smallest, most ancient parts of ourselves: www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-a-c...

If you’ve ever tried to cram for an exam, you know that it’s easier to memorize something if you learn the information in shorter, spaced-out sessions. These dynamics are as relevant to each individual cell’s existence as they are to ours. Claire Evans reports: www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-a-c...

1. Here's a fish swimming upstream. Nothing unusual about that. What's unusual is that this particular fish is *dead*. Vortices in the water as it flows past the fish cause the fish's body to flex, maintaining orientation and actually propelling it forward. (D. N. Beal et al 2006 J. Fluid. Mech.)

truly nothing in this world is funnier to me than Bugs Bunny making this face

comforting AI news from @theuniverse.bsky.social: " it currently takes ten hours of compute time to render a single second of a basic mechanical model of a worm inching forward." clairelevans.substack.com/p/enter-the-...

“It was a raucous, fun time, so long as you didn’t really care about movies.” Writer, musician, and @blippo.plus co-creator Claire L. Evans (@theuniverse.bsky.social) muses about the curious history of interactive cinema. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/in...

On modeling complex horizons, the mind of a worm, and some personal news: open.substack.com/pub/clairele...

Blippo+ The de-evolution revolution in television everyone is talking about. Out now on @play.date, coming this fall on Nintendo Switch ½ and Steam! Made by YACHT, Telefantasy Studios, & Dustin Mierau. Published by Panic. @com.y-a-c-h-t.com @telefantasytv.bsky.social @panic.com

Interactive cinema isn’t a game. For PW Broadcast, writer, musician, and @blippo.plus co-creator Claire L. Evans (@theuniverse.bsky.social) considers the strange art of playing god. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/in...

Another TV is possible. @blippo.plus is out now on Playdate. Coming this fall to Nintendo Switch & Steam. blippo.plus

✨New from me!✨ From ill-fated choose-your-own adventure movies and 35mm arcade games to FMVs and the unclassifiable oeuvre of @mrsambarlow.bsky.social, I take a journey through the twisty history of interactive cinema. For @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/in...

“Is it a confessional? Is it Brechtian theater? Am I God?” Claire L. Evans (@theuniverse.bsky.social) on the past and future of interactive cinema: the art form that never quite succeeds, yet is somehow always just around the corner. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/in...

Whoa, neat! I won an @lapressclub.bsky.social award for my @noemamag.com piece on lucid dreaming! 💭

been living on Planet Blip a looong time. very excited for some company!

Little guy theory of consciousness: everyone’s got a little guy, although not all little guys are the same. Mine’s pulling levers saying “oops” a lot

inspired by Mission Impossible I will henceforth refer to AI exclusively as “The Entity”

today I learned about Martian poetry, a minor movement in British poetry in the mid-1970s in which poets tried to describe everyday objects as though they were Martians. the canonical poem is Craig Raine's "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" and I love it so much: www.mit.edu/people/dpoli...

3. "The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack," @theuniverse.bsky.social @wired.com "Evans is a superlative guide to the frontiers of virtual nematodes, delivering crisp and engaging explanations while keeping an eye on the world beyond her story." www.wired.com/story/openwo...

"To truly understand life, you can’t just break it down. You have to be able to put it back together, too." @theuniverse.bsky.social @wired.com

So incredible to have @theuniverse.bsky.social writing this piece for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/openwo...

my first big story for WIRED is about the inconceivable, uncomputable complexity of the simplest organisms on Earth 🪱

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 21,1950

well this made me cry over breakfast. to any democrats holding even a shred of power right now: look at what’s possible from people far more endangered and vulnerable than you and grow a spine, you fucking cowards www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-s...

watching a wonderful movie from the late ‘70s and all I can think is that wow all these people eat real food. Their furniture is made of wood

just when I thought the internet doesn’t have the juice anymore: I got drawn into an email exchange with a Brazilian man who fell in love with a Mormon missionary who shares my name. he refuses to believe I’m not her. now I’m tracking her down out of pure curiosity. the world is actually so small

somehow I’ve become a spokesmodel for LA’s bumper sticker renaissance