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Associate Professor of Game Studies. Brock University, dept. of Digital Humanities.
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Digital Humanities at Brock University
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We are hiring a Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Social Change (Professor or Associate Professor, Tenured). Applications due March 26, 2026. Please share widely!
#BrockU
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Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Social Change (Professor or Associate Professor, Tenured)
This position is part of the BUFA (Employee Group) Brock University is located on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, many of whom continue to live and work here to...
https://brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_careers/job/St-Catharines-Main-Campus/Canada-Impact--Research-Chair-in-Artificial-Intelligence-and-Social-Change--Professor-or-Associate-Professor--Tenured-_JR-1022989
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Carolyn Petit
about 17 hours ago
resets "days since arma 3 footage has been presented as real" sign back to 0
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Global Newsâ Ben Mulroney Shared a Video of Airstrikes. The Footage is Actually from a Video Game.
The host of Global Newsâ West Block gets lost in a misinformation-driven fog of war as American and Israeli forces strike Iran
https://pressprogress.ca/global-news-ben-mulroney-shared-a-video-of-airstrikes-the-footage-is-actually-from-a-video-game/
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Disgraceful support for illegal aggression from our prime minister
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Katie Mack
3 days ago
In case youâre just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.
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Niko Stratis
5 days ago
the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.
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Michael Iantornoâď¸đšď¸
8 days ago
A few thoughts: 1) This is the natural end point of treating universities as degree mills. 2) AI companies are pushing VERY hard to make students utterly dependent on them. 3) Do you want handwritten assignments, because this is how you get handwritten assignments.
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Einstein - AI Homework Agent
Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer â he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.
https://companion.ai/einstein
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I think this is exactly right. So many of the pedagogical changes we've made over the years to increase accessibility are easily exploitable by GenAI tools, putting us in an impossible position
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Aparna Nair
8 days ago
what even is the fucking point
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Peter McDonald
8 days ago
It's book release day! The Impossible Reversal
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791622...
is out in the world. It's jam packed with 1960s art games, discussions of spies doing educational roleplay, electromechanical pinball cabinets, liberal theorists making baseball metaphors, and much more!
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The Impossible Reversal
Tracing the cultural history of playâfrom Fluxus to SimCityGames and gamified activities have become ubiquitous in many adultsâ lives, and play is widely...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916220/the-impossible-reversal/
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David_j_roth
9 days ago
Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.
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Sara Luterman
10 days ago
I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.
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Parker Molloy
10 days ago
The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.
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Canada please win or lose by 5 goals next game I can't handle these
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David M. Perry
12 days ago
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
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10,000 Motivated Rats
13 days ago
The Left Must Engage With This Thing That Really Seems Stupid Or Else Appear Out Of Touch by Pundit Who Fell For It Last Time And The Time Before That
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Marner!
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Team Canada looking like the Leafs with not clearing the zone
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Brendan Keogh
15 days ago
New book now coming out very soon. Next month!
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Critical Distance | Whereâs all the good writing about games?
15 days ago
This week: seventeen fresh picks on Relooted, Kiwami 3, Nioh 3, and lots more:
critical-distance.com/2026/02/15/f...
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https://critical-distance.com/2026/02/15/february-15th-2/
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Katie Mack
18 days ago
I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
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Michael Iantornoâď¸đšď¸
18 days ago
đžThe Games & Storage special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication is officially out! đThanks to editors
@nickttaylor.bsky.social
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@thechristinet.bsky.social
, and Robyn Hope for putting this together. đĄBe sure to check out my article on Satellaview restoration, đđ˘đľđŚđđđŞđľđŚ đđłđ¤đŠđ˘đŚđ°đđ°đ¨đŞđŚđ´!
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Critical Studies in Media Communication
Games & Storage. Volume 42, Issue 5 of Critical Studies in Media Communication
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcsm20/42/5
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Hell yeah
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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) ććŞç´çž
19 days ago
The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential!
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We're Hiring! Join the NYU Game Center Faculty as an Associate Professor! - NYU | Game Center
Description Associate or Full tenure professor position for the NYU Game Center New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Position Overview The NYU Game Center is seeking applicants to join its fa...
https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-join-the-nyu-game-center-faculty-as-an-associate-professor/
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austin_walker
20 days ago
Unwinnable subscribers saw an excerpt of this last month, but here's the much, much longer convo I had with Autumn back in December about cultural criticism, my process, and a long, ongoing battle with alienation from my own taste and craft. A little rambly, apologies
unwinnable.com/2026/02/11/a...
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That's ok guys tackling isn't that important anyway
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Jess Morrissette
27 days ago
My co-author Dr. Megan Condis and I gathered nearly 3,000 print ads from the console wars era to analyze whether the popular narrative that "Sega was for rad teens and Nintendo was for babies" actually holds up. The results paint a slightly more nuanced picture. Read about it on
@aftermath.site
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The Console Wars, As Told By '90s Nintendo And Sega Advertisements
'The way you come to understand [anything] inside and out is by seeing how it evolved over time'
https://aftermath.site/console-wars-nintendo-sega-ad-research/
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lauren
27 days ago
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
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Brian Phillips
27 days ago
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
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Jack Mirkinson
28 days ago
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on
@thenation.com
, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read!
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/a-day-for-gaza-intro-explainer/
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Keza MacDonald
28 days ago
Finally! My book Super Nintendo is out TODAY in the US + Canada. Here's where to buy it:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753986...
"MacDonald is one of the best games journalists... Here is a book bursting with love. Bop your head against it and see if a shower of gold coins comes out." -The Times
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Jjinandtonic
about 1 month ago
âNotorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for childrenâ what is this sentence, what is this world
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michael lutz
about 1 month ago
"technologists, reactionaries, and seething upstarts are brought together by decadent parties on a wealthy idiot's pedophile island, laying the groundwork for a digital-first fascism" sounds like a cyberpunk plot but you know it's real life because they did it with the style of people in bumper cars
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Ranged Touch
about 1 month ago
In the 90th episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, we journey all the way back to 1984 to discuss the first published textbook on video game development, Atari legend Chris Crawford's pointed, prescient, and idiosyncratic THE ART OF COMPUTER GAME DESIGN:
rangedtouch.com/2026/01/31/9...
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Better Things Are Possible
about 1 month ago
For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again
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Chris Hayes
about 1 month ago
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministryâs casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-01-29/ty-article/.premium/idf-accepts-gaza-health-ministry-estimate-of-over-70-000-palestinians-killed-in-the-war/0000019c-0918-dec4-adfd-fd5dde830000
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Robert Yang
about 1 month ago
new blog post: notes on level design workflows for the 3D platformer Big Hops
www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/01/note...
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Notes on level design workflow for the 3D platformer Big Hops
A behind-the-scenes look at some of the tooling, level design methods, and metrics use for this cartoony 3D exploration game I helped make.
https://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/01/notes-on-level-design-workflow-for-3d.html
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Stephanie Carvin
about 1 month ago
There is not a lot Canadians can do about ICE, but we can ask Parliament to investigate Canadian companies doing business with them, like Hootsuite. Call or email your MP - or contact the INDU House committee MPs. Will post link below.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Hootsuite CEO says ICE contract will stand as long as agency honours terms and conditions
âWe did nothing wrong here,â head of Vancouver social media company said in internal call with employees
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-hootsuite-ceo-says-ice-contract-will-stand-as-long-as-agency-honours/
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onion person
about 1 month ago
rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think itâs some sort of grand conspiracy because they donât understand what it means to care for others you donât personally know
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Amanda Mull
about 1 month ago
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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Tim Onion
about 1 month ago
By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
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Almost like the whole "freedom of speech" thing was a rightwing ruse and everyone who fell for it are giant marks...
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T. Ryan Gregory đ¨đŚ
about 1 month ago
Speeches are great but a reminder that what we're getting here in Canada so far is: * Tax cuts for the wealthy * Militarization and more surveillance powers * More oil, less action on climate change. * Austerity and cuts to the public service * Deals with authoritarian regimes
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Adam Serwer
about 1 month ago
If a conservative anywhere has to hear, encounter, or be subject to judgement based on an opinion they disagree with thatâs maoism but if conservatives use state power to prosecute, defund, or censor you thatâs fine because theyâre just entitled to do that for reasons
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A.R. Moxon
about 1 month ago
It exposes directional alignment; you still seek to limit, not expand, who is allowed to be human. Yes, you have set your limitation more inclusively than our fascist gang of white supremacists; it doesn't mean you're not also setting limitations & they'll use your limit as long as it serves them.
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Brendel
about 2 months ago
Itâs so funny to be like âthis is when women were WOMENâ
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Corey Rayburn Yung
about 2 months ago
This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
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Adam Serwer
about 2 months ago
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad itâs the leftâs fault, and if the right does something bad, itâs also the leftâs fault for making them do it. Itâs a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
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Andrew Lawrence
about 2 months ago
a government agent, who murdered a civilian for peacefully protesting, flying a dont-tread-on-me flag is such a perfect distillation of the maga ethos it almost feels fake
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leon
about 2 months ago
this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier
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Emmett Macfarlane đ¨đŚ
about 2 months ago
Today's events with ICE are an example of why I don't quibble about calling the Trump regime fascist. There's no utility in throwing around academic terms like 'competitive authoritarianism' when the President has a personal army invading cities and murdering citizens. It's fascism.
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