Please spread the word far and wide if you can… trying to get the word out across Europe…

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

🆕 Ariadne-Forschende geben in neuer Analyse Empfehlungen, um Leitmärkte für die emissionsintensiven Grundstoffe #Zement, #Stahl & #Ethylen zu schaffen. Lang- & Kurzfassung jetzt online 👉 ariadneprojekt.de/news-de/co2-... @fraunhoferisi.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social @guidehouse.bsky.social

Damit die Industriewende in Deutschland gelingt, braucht es neben dem CO2-Preis und Förderung sogenannte grüne Leitmärkte. Unsere Kollegin Meta Thurid Lotz hat mit weiteren Forschenden des Fraunhofer ISI, @guidehouse.bsky.social und @pik-potsdam.bsky.social Vorschläge erarbeitet 👇

This is an incredible set of resources for anyone in or around “games” and interaction design more generally. Thank you, Jaakko.

I have 11 books about games out as author or editor. Ten of them are available as free pdfs. Check out the full list here: jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/books/

🚨 Why youth when democracy is under pressure? In this new video, Michael J. Bernstein project coordinator of YouthDecide 2040 and scientist at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology reflects on why youth participation matters... especially now! 🎬 Watch the full interview here: shorturl.at/oNgZl

#OnThisDay, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize was born: Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Today, the MSCActions 🇪🇺 fellowship carries her name, supporting young scientists in their research.  Together, we’re building a brighter future for generations to come.

A Dictionary of Words Invented to Name Emotions We All Feel, But Don’t Yet Have a Name For: Vemödalen, Sonder, Chrysalism & Much More

🎓 Our Zenodo community is now live! A growing open space where you can explore the project’s research outputs and insights through the #deliverables! Visit it here: shorturl.at/A2ThX

Today is the 29th anniversary of the founding of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. We interviewed a couple of the founding members just a few years ago to talk about the work of the institute. Check it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u33j...

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Today at 3pm ET: @rwjf.org’s Unscripted series features D&S affiliate Joan Mukogosi and neuroscientist Julia Mossbridge discussing how to improve people's wellbeing as entrenched power structures seek to limit who creates our futures. www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwj...

There's definitely a lot here—but I'd argue that the "strange situation in which young designers are situated between activism, performative gesture and a residual urge to create" is exactly because they recognise that design as only "a tool to improve lives" was a naïve approach to "social purpose"

🚚⚡Startschuss für das #Megawattladen in Deutschland: Zum ersten Mal können schwere Lkw in nur 30 bis 45 Minuten für hunderte Kilometer Reichweite geladen werden. Im Rahmen des Projekts »HoLa« haben wir den ersten öffentlichen Megawatt-Ladepunkt (MCS) für E-Lkw eröffnet. 📸:Mike Abmaier

Have been excited to work with colleagues @eui-eu.bsky.social school of transnational governance to compile these initial seeds of democratic innovation and the talents of WeDo (Barcelona) who created the beautiful card deck. These are a key part of our new co-creation workflow launching soon!

Liam Young’s cinematic worlds are at the heart of Another World Is Possible at ArtScience Museum. We’re proud to present the global premiere of World Machine, Liam’s new work tracing Asia’s role in AI. Alongside it are Planet City, After the End and The Great Endeavour.

At our symposium We Dream in Futures and the Design Futures Forum, Liam spoke with urgency about why he makes these works. He reminds us that world-building is not just an artistic gesture - it is a political, ethical, and environmental act. The futures we imagine shape the future we make.

🌱 Big democratic impact grows from small seeds! The #DemocraticInnovations or seeds help you in the process of imagining a better 2040! In #YouthDecide2040 workshops, these #Seeds inspire new ways to strengthen democracy locally & beyond! 🌐 👉 Explore them here: shorturl.at/5l1Si

🌍 Today is the #InternationalDayofDemocracy: a moment to celebrate, reflect, and keep pushing democratic innovation! We mark this day by closing an important moment: the refinement of our #RegionalWorkshops: shaping a methodology that makes youth voices central in imagining the #FutureOfDemocracy

Join us in the Playground at Utrecht University next Friday Sept 26 to launch the Library for Transformative Play! It is the product of 4 years of collaborations within the Playing with the Trouble team, funded by CUCo. Sign up here, It's open to all! unusualcollaborations.ewuu.nl/agenda/playi...

Did you know that the @archive.org has been archiving TV 24 hours a day since 2000, or that it digitizes about 3,000 books a day? Learn more about how @brewster.kahle.org and the Archive team preserve history on the new episode of “How to Fix the Internet.”

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

«Es ist ein Irrglaube, immer grössere KI-Texterzeugungssysteme würden irgendwann ein Bewusstsein erlangen und den Fortschritt aktiv beschleunigen.» Soziologin @alexhanna.bsky.social‬ und Linguistin @emilymbender.bsky.social («The AI Con») im Interview mit @h4ck.bsky.social

Want to protect your privacy and security online, but not sure where to start? Surveillance Self-Defense has you covered. ssd.eff.org/en/playlist...

Does anybody know what just streaked across the night sky? Asking for a friend. Saarland, DE

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

Thanks to the influx of #newskies we've updated our #Immersive Sky Starter Pack. This one brings together IRL and #XR immersive creators, journalists, and more key figures across #gaming, #performingarts, #themedentertainment, and art. go.bsky.app/FcLHUFg

Artists’ “purpose may lie in being that counterpower—demonstrating alternatives + standing up to gov’ts, institutions, corporations + so on—to societal bullies. Artists shld also be a counterbalance to trends + conformity. Existing outside the norm is a very precious + important position in society”

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

🔗 For more info and to apply, visit www.youthdecide2040.eu The call for applications will remain open through the month of May 2025. 📑 YouthDecide2040 has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement nº 101177438.

Workshops will take place in: 📍 Central/Eastern Europe – June 2025 📍 Southern Europe – July 2025 📍 Western Europe – September 2025 📍 Northern Europe – September 2025 📍 ‘Future’ Europe – June 2025 ✈️ Travel & accommodation covered for selected participants. Fill the application form 📄 ⤵️

📣 Youth Decide 2040 is looking for participants to join our regional workshops and co-create the future of European democracy! Be part of an immersive workshop where diverse voices come together to imagine and shape resilient, thriving European democracies. Who can apply? ⤵️

"Leverage art and culture to challenge oppressive systems, build alternatives and offer an inclusive inspiring vision... Cultivate and share a positive vision of a future that has room for everyone who is willing to work together." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/01/how-...

Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,

I do not post much here or anywhere. This is not because I am not trying to pay attention. Nor is it a lack of ‘care’.