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PhD Candidate at DMRC - Queensland University of Technology
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Brendan Keogh
2 months ago
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Luke Plunkett
5 months ago
seeing people hit by the layoffs today who have worked in the industry for DECADES. one guy had worked on fucking STAR WARS GAMES FOR THE SNES, another had been at blizzard since starcraft. that kind of continual experience in the industry is like gold dust, and MS are just throwing it in the bin
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Brian Merchant
8 months ago
OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generatorādespite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait. Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.
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OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself
Sam Altman is promoting his new image generator by appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animatorsāwho is "disgusted" by AI.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openais-studio-ghibli-meme-factory
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Luke Plunkett
8 months ago
Hi, are you working in the video game industry in a chiefly creative capacity (artist, writer, designer, etc)? Is your boss/company trying to foist AI on you against you or your team's wishes? If so I'd love to chat. lukeATaftermathDOTsite, or a DM here if you prefer, thanks!
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Brendan Keogh
9 months ago
I am in Adelaide for DiGRA Australiaās national conference the next three days! There probably wonāt be any liveposting because no one really does that any more but here is the great program:
digraa.org/post/digraa-...
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DiGRAA 2025 Conference Programme ā DiGRA Australia
https://digraa.org/post/digraa-2025-conference-programme/
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Anna šæšļø
10 months ago
Sad to see that the GDC State of the Games Industry '25 confirm what I have suspected for a while: narrative roles particularly hard-hit by layoffs in the industry. Narrative is sometimes seen as expendable on a project: when the reviews of our story come out, are we still on the team?
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Writing a paper using ChatGPT is therefore a crime against (the authorās own) humanity
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ashley fairbanks
10 months ago
as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6ā of snow and Iām praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we donāt need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us
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Deb Chachra
10 months ago
Occasional reminder that thereās no, āitās too late, its overā for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesnāt go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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Brendan Keogh
11 months ago
I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Academic Work Tracker Template v2.2 (2025)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W-w_pbJgsemr5vznErqqNG5UJsfxeiPUNgG8f6pXyfg
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Brendan Keogh
11 months ago
Know thereās been discourse about this article but itās great to see this very real problem facing the game industry in a mainstream outlet: the industryās silver bullet for always creating more consumer demand and higher profits simply doesnāt work anymore.
web.archive.org/web/20241228...
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Video Games Canāt Afford to Look This Good
The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?
http://web.archive.org/web/20241228064319/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/arts/video-games-graphics-budgets.html
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Sarah de Lange
11 months ago
Super important experimental study by
@lcjacobs89.bsky.social
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showing that mainstream parties signaling willingness to govern with radical right legitimize these parties with higher propensity to vote for radical right as a result
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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To rule or not to rule? An experimental study of the electoral ramifications of claims to (not) rule with radical right populist parties - Laura Jacobs, Jean-Benoit Pilet, 2024
In a between-subjects experiment (n = 3270) conducted in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), we examine the electoral ramifications of claims by a ri...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13540688241311867
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Frank Pasquale
11 months ago
āChatGPT is a woefully bad way to explore the historical record.ā
www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...
And much else.
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Stop using generative AI as a search engine
Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original āĀ and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24313222/chatgpt-pardon-biden-bush-esquire
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
11 months ago
I know we all realize this, but to underline the point: AI is predicated on exploitation, environmental degradation, and financial speculation. It should be the antithesis of everything we stand for as professors. Also, how the fuck are you going to ask your students to do their work if you won't?
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Daniel Angus
11 months ago
Universities in Australia have undergone a seismic shift, moving from public institutions dedicated to knowledge and community to entities run increasingly as private businesses. Central to this change is the rise of the vice chancellor as a highly paid executive figure.
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
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ANU deans hauled in for āchange managementā meetings
Three of the Australian National Universityās seven college leaders were summoned to meetings this week where they were told the governing council had lost confidence in them.
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/anu-deans-hauled-in-for-change-management-meetings-20241203-p5kvh8
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Brendan Keogh
11 months ago
Every dollar spent on exec salaries is a dollar drained from the labour of university workers and the quality of teaching and researching. Corporate parasites, the business worldās anti-intellectual proxy agents, that contribute nothing of value to the academy.
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Jeff VanderMeer
12 months ago
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is the best novel I have ever read.
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Brendel
12 months ago
I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like āTHE WORLD IS ENDINGā and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong
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Brendan Keogh
12 months ago
It's really hard to overstate how many world-leading experts on digital media and social media are at Australian universities (I work with many of them!), and the overwhelming majority of them will tell you the social media ban is a bad and counterproductive idea.
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QUT Digital Media Research Centre
about 1 year ago
We made a starter pack of researchers affiliated with the QUT Digital Media Research Centre
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