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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1h

This is a good piece, but it’s missing a discussion of how platform affordances create the incentives to behave this way so as to gain visibility in feed algorithms.

David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 19h

"Politics in the second Trump era can be mostly defined as people Posting adversarially in public"

- a quote that will one day make for a fantastic essay question

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 2h

🤷

Futurism @futurism.com · 4h

So that's where we're at.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

trib.al

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 2h

“As a fellow portfolio company of Silver Lake, EA is now, just like Qualtrics, best understood as a surveillance operation.”

When the Saudis backed EA’s acquisition, they bought both cultural power and a surveillance infrastructure. It’s weird to see so much official disinterest in this move.

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 2h

Inspired by Northwestern students protesting EdTech-delivered loyalty oaths, by the student-led Luddite Renaissance, by Matthew Josephson, Connie Bruck & @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, I tried to track how kleptocratic antitrust policy enables a surveillance megalith.

open.substack.com/pub/theameri...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 2h

Inspired by Northwestern students protesting EdTech-delivered loyalty oaths, by the student-led Luddite Renaissance, by Matthew Josephson, Connie Bruck & @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, I tried to track how kleptocratic antitrust policy enables a surveillance megalith.

open.substack.com/pub/theameri...

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 2h

It’s bait but so was your OP lol

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 3h

I’m working on a project tracking the rhetorics of coercion for AI, and my problem isn’t finding data but rather the opposite: what are exemplars of coercive rhetoric? Examples abound…

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 3h

This is the correct answer.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 3h

Basically this

A big bearded dude wearing a pug face tshirt, while holding a pug wearing a big bearded dude tshirt

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 3h

Excuse me

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

a lot of people on the internet don’t realize that if you quote-post someone, they may decide to respond to you

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19h

“I’m a proud piece of shit” seems to be the prevailing stance of elite opinion writing these days.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19h

Like, no one is a “contrarian.” Oppositional defiant disorder is a mental illness requiring treatment, not praise as a laudable personality trait for an opinion columnist.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19h

Like, these unethical writers may have more tenure protections than a college professor but they really don’t matter. They are famous because rich people think they make liberals angry. They don’t have an audience and don’t produce knowledge. It’s just noise. You can ignore them, I promise.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19h

You guys know you don’t have to amplify the bad faith take of Lance Armstrong’s ghost writer when it comes to pretending Bari Weiss has any business being in charge of a newsroom, right?

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21h

*stares in highly over-specialized researcher wondering how to describe his work*

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like in the 2000-2010s there was this sea change in academia where young scholars were supposed to brand themselves in this or that way to be competitive on the market, but 3 market collapses later it feels like the pivot simply led to atomized individualistic approaches to illegible fields

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 22h

Yeah get out of here

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

It’s like they know

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

I was really happily surprised by how lovely that city is

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

My brain is like, you fool, you monster

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

It is such a lovely city, even with gloomy fall rain

A tree lined park outside the Latvian national museum of art in Riga.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

Yeah

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

It took 22 hours to fly home from Riga. I don’t sleep on planes. Ask me how I’m doing this morning 🥺

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

It’s Sunday, so you should make this rice for the week (trust me)

وداعاً لوصفات الأرز العادية 😎 وصفة رز على مستوى اخر من الفخامة 🔥 Basmati rice with baked vegetables

YouTube video by هدوء الطبخ Peaceful Cooking

youtu.be

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 2d

And FWIW here’s my write-up, with another pic because why not I’m flying home and exhausted.

joshuafoust.com/2025/10/11/t...

The same people as in the above pic, plus a moderator, with a podium in frame and a visible slide of various content examples from the Russian game streamer Grisha Putin.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 2d

My reaction is more to Barno’s comment, specifically

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Applied Game Studies @appliedgames.bsky.social · 2d

#FROG2025 is about to start! This year's theme: “Play. Learn. Connect. Esports in Youth Media Practice” 🎮🐸💡

Feel free to join us at the wonderful "Game City" in the Vienna City Hall or online (no registration needed)!

Zoom Link and programme: www.frogvienna.at

#gamestudies #conference #esports

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