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💾The Games & Storage special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication is officially out! 📚Thanks to editors @nickttaylor.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social, and Robyn Hope for putting this together. 📡Be sure to check out my article on Satellaview restoration, 𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴!

From 2020, but @cfarivar.bsky.social did a great piece on the lack of evidence that these things cut down on crime. Note that this is what police said!

Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.

Anger is no longer working as a secondary emotion! There is only the incapacity of pain!! Oh noooooo

And may I once again echo something I wrote back in September following the death of Charlie Kirk "Nothing good will come of this ... We now have to live in fear that this violent incident will further galvanize the wrong people." xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Has anybody followed up on this "gamechanging" technology? After all those headlines? How many film & TV roles has she signed so far? Is it So Joever for women actors yet?

Has anybody followed up on this "gamechanging" technology? After all those headlines? How many film & TV roles has she signed so far? Is it So Joever for women actors yet?

The Liberals clearly want Canada Post to shrivel so private corps can take its place, that's why they won't replace the CEO who's overseen its nosedive over the last 7 years. But they can't actually let it die, so instead they have to keep doing this. It's a great system for losing public money.

Keir Starmer's Dark Place

The Uluburun shipwreck is one of the most fascinating archaeological finds of the Late Bronze Age world. But how was it made, who built it, and how long did it take? My paper represents a (tentative) step forward in answering these questions. doi.org/10.71160/OWC...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

re: the "AI will level the playing field between those with talent and those without it" argument having been in creative spaces for a hot minute "talent" is just a word for ppl who got through their 'i need to push through sucking at this' phase in their teens by people going through it later

I am heartbroken to see that the journal First Monday is shutting down. I'm all the more grateful I got to check one off the bucket list and publish there last year. But it will be missed. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Every reactionary movement is an effort to hallucinate Vivian “GamerGate” James back into being. But she’ll never happen again. There’s no level of compute that can alchemize this level psychic damage from the proto-egirl troll mascot eve again.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Every news update this week about Team Canada at the Olympics:

Just as *they* designed it … targeting certain industries for layoffs, reducing WFH, and all that Soft Life/Trad wife content monetizing…

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

Very excited to say that 404 Media's zine about ICE Surveillance is here. If you ordered a print copy, I put it in the mail last week. If not, we of course think the info inside is very important so here's a free PDF. We also translated it into Spanish: www.404media.co/icezine/

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

Qanon existed as a kind of cognitive dissonance movement for child abusers and guys who mainline csam to not think of themselves as monsters

If I was a billionaire I would not take trips to Crime Island. I would own The Simpsons arcade machine

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

corporatist pseudo-journalistic infotainment is VERY HOT right now

Every reactionary movement is an effort to hallucinate Vivian “GamerGate” James back into being. But she’ll never happen again. There’s no level of compute that can alchemize this level psychic damage from the proto-egirl troll mascot eve again.

there's nothing easy about EasyChair.

i wrote about mothership.blog for @theguardian.com today by the way. thanks so much to @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity to tell more people about mothership and what we are doing with the site <3 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

On Feb 23rd, I'll be giving the 2026 Lansdowne Lecture in Media Studies at UVic! Join us virtually to speculate on how feminist game studies warned us about everything—from GenAI scandals to online swarms—and why/if/when we need to burn it all down 🔥 events.uvic.ca/media-studie...

1/ As the people of Minneapolis rise up against ICE, it's painful and shameful that Canadian companies are selling armoured vehicles to Trump's masked militia and providing tech support to the dept of Homeland Security.

first taste is always free

Hate that I’ll never come up with something this funny:

Bridgerton is a historical AU where the elimination of colonial racism—but endurance of Regency sexism—has accelerated the rise of petroleum-based fabrics at a pre-apocalyptic rate. England had become a petrocracy for polyester. Season 5 will cover a centuries long Butlerian Jihad against sequins.

Bridgerton is a historical AU where the elimination of colonial racism—but endurance of Regency sexism—has accelerated the rise of petroleum-based fabrics at a pre-apocalyptic rate. England had become a petrocracy for polyester. Season 5 will cover a centuries long Butlerian Jihad against sequins.

Today is my birthday and all I’m asking for is for you to support and/or talk about your favorite Ranged Touch show or project! Patreon.com/rangedtouch

The movie Ice Age (March 15, 2002) is older than ICE’s age (March 1, 2003)

Would love to speak to any regular international GDC attendees who are skipping this year's show (or were going to attend and have now cancelled) due to the current political climate. DMs here or [email protected], thank you!

Guys believe in stoicism in 2025 the same way they believed in sun tzu in 2015--as a flattering portrayal of insensitive masculinity shorn of any historical context.

It’s wild how the owners of big companies used to call themselves “job creators” and now they’re all trying to abolish the idea of paying people to do labor, and not in the cool way.

The Nintendo Game Gal - featuring Barbie!

Does anybody in critical disability studies have Thoughts(TM) about 2025's two Big Class War movies building thriller-level ambience over whether the NT protag can sufficiently care for a precocious autistic child? (Aidan Delbis was in high school when he auditioned).

Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

It’s so funny to be like “this is when women were WOMEN”

Love that I haven’t seen a single post or headline trying to defend Scott Adams’s legacy as “complex” or anything. No Bridget Bardot treatment for you, bud. You lived in a Dilbert-shaped castle whose eyeglasses windows were in the bathroom for your cats. And the racism. Too weird to defend!

Dogbert weighing Scott Adams’ heart against a feather