Douglas Wilson
@doougle.net
🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Clown+Theater w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @ https://eggplant.show/
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ/NY)
he/him
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Clown+Theater w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @ https://eggplant.show/
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ/NY)
he/him
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary.
“If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” Daniel, the commander of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank unit, says in Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
btw I'm giving the closing talk at Playtopia next month on exactly this topic (playtopiafestival.co.za/program-satu...). Taking a big swing at this issue in terms of the evolution of my own installation games practice, happy to called out on my bullshit if I miss the mark.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
btw I'm giving the closing talk at Playtopia next month on exactly this topic (playtopiafestival.co.za/program-satu...). Taking a big swing at this issue in terms of the evolution of my own installation games practice, happy to called out on my bullshit if I miss the mark.
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bsky.app/profile/doou...
Finally started diving into Ring Racers.
Holyyyy shit, this is so wild. Any Mario Kart 64 sickos out there should take a look at this (running in the Doom engine?!)
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Holyyyy shit, this is so wild. Any Mario Kart 64 sickos out there should take a look at this (running in the Doom engine?!)
bsky.app/profile/domi...
After NINE RELEASE CANDIDATES and over a month of intensive testing, Robotnik's Ring Racers v2.4 is out now.
www.kartkrew.org/index.html
Crossworlds is cool and all but this fangame is designed by and for kart racing and fighting game sickos. Big drop in/drop-out online MP and a huge solo mode too
www.kartkrew.org/index.html
Crossworlds is cool and all but this fangame is designed by and for kart racing and fighting game sickos. Big drop in/drop-out online MP and a huge solo mode too
Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers - Promo (2024)
YouTube video by Kart Krew Dev
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Finally started diving into Ring Racers.
Holyyyy shit, this is so wild. Any Mario Kart 64 sickos out there should take a look at this (running in the Doom engine?!)
bsky.app/profile/domi...
Holyyyy shit, this is so wild. Any Mario Kart 64 sickos out there should take a look at this (running in the Doom engine?!)
bsky.app/profile/domi...
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It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare
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genuinely worried the internet is about to be abandoned as a place unbearably hostile to human connection and creativity
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
genuinely worried the internet is about to be abandoned as a place unbearably hostile to human connection and creativity
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.
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Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
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In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
Latest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Oooh just tried Q-UP, here are my two takes:
1. Lots of projects chasing Balatro these days, but I reckon this is the most interesting post-Balatro game I've seen so far
2. I'll play any game with a good D&B soundtrack
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1. Lots of projects chasing Balatro these days, but I reckon this is the most interesting post-Balatro game I've seen so far
2. I'll play any game with a good D&B soundtrack
bsky.app/profile/flan...
The biggest day in esports has arrived. Q-UP is out. store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
Save 10% on Q-UP on Steam
Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...
store.steampowered.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Oooh just tried Q-UP, here are my two takes:
1. Lots of projects chasing Balatro these days, but I reckon this is the most interesting post-Balatro game I've seen so far
2. I'll play any game with a good D&B soundtrack
bsky.app/profile/flan...
1. Lots of projects chasing Balatro these days, but I reckon this is the most interesting post-Balatro game I've seen so far
2. I'll play any game with a good D&B soundtrack
bsky.app/profile/flan...
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Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January
Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.
The detainees include at least two civilians who are being held without charge or trial: a nurse detained in his scrubs, and a young food seller, according to lawyers from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) who represent both men. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
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Tonight, over 240,000 Venezuelans will lose Temporary Protected Status.
The Trump administration is dismantling our core humanitarian protections, leaving hundreds of thousands at risk of detention, deportation, and harm.
Congress must protect TPS holders and pass a pathway to citizenship now.
The Trump administration is dismantling our core humanitarian protections, leaving hundreds of thousands at risk of detention, deportation, and harm.
Congress must protect TPS holders and pass a pathway to citizenship now.
November 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Tonight, over 240,000 Venezuelans will lose Temporary Protected Status.
The Trump administration is dismantling our core humanitarian protections, leaving hundreds of thousands at risk of detention, deportation, and harm.
Congress must protect TPS holders and pass a pathway to citizenship now.
The Trump administration is dismantling our core humanitarian protections, leaving hundreds of thousands at risk of detention, deportation, and harm.
Congress must protect TPS holders and pass a pathway to citizenship now.
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we recorded like 4 hours with @eggplantshow.bsky.social and it was not enough time
November 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
we recorded like 4 hours with @eggplantshow.bsky.social and it was not enough time
Believe the hype, Consume Me is so good and so funny.
Really fun, revealing conversation here with @qdork.bsky.social and @apthomson.bsky.social with some incredible tidbits about the game system and development.
bsky.app/profile/robd...
Really fun, revealing conversation here with @qdork.bsky.social and @apthomson.bsky.social with some incredible tidbits about the game system and development.
bsky.app/profile/robd...
new pod and it's a special one! we talk to @qdork.bsky.social and @apthomson.bsky.social about CONSUME ME, the multi-award-winning overachievement simulator that took me personally on a real ride through my own history with academics, pressure, and food. incredible game eggplant.show/149-making-a...
Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games: 149: Making A Meal Of It with Jenny Jiao Hsia and AP Thomson (Consume Me)
Rob, Sarah, and Doug chat with Jenny Jiao Hsia and AP Thomson about Consume Me, an award-winning autobiographical resource-management RPG about the pressure cooker of young adulthood. We discuss the g...
eggplant.show
November 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Believe the hype, Consume Me is so good and so funny.
Really fun, revealing conversation here with @qdork.bsky.social and @apthomson.bsky.social with some incredible tidbits about the game system and development.
bsky.app/profile/robd...
Really fun, revealing conversation here with @qdork.bsky.social and @apthomson.bsky.social with some incredible tidbits about the game system and development.
bsky.app/profile/robd...
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Cornell paid millions to get illegally frozen grants unfrozen, and effectively agreed to help the Trump regime's assault on academic freedom to get bad faith investigations dropped, while also agreeing the govt can launch new investigations!
Full text here: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Full text here: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Cornell paid millions to get illegally frozen grants unfrozen, and effectively agreed to help the Trump regime's assault on academic freedom to get bad faith investigations dropped, while also agreeing the govt can launch new investigations!
Full text here: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Full text here: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
I know I keep posting about this, but:
I want to fully de-google but I'm still not sold that there's a decent replacement for Google Sheets/Docs, for my use cases.
If I were a billionaire or government I'd definitely be funding serious open source software efforts. So crucial to this century.
I want to fully de-google but I'm still not sold that there's a decent replacement for Google Sheets/Docs, for my use cases.
If I were a billionaire or government I'd definitely be funding serious open source software efforts. So crucial to this century.
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I know I keep posting about this, but:
I want to fully de-google but I'm still not sold that there's a decent replacement for Google Sheets/Docs, for my use cases.
If I were a billionaire or government I'd definitely be funding serious open source software efforts. So crucial to this century.
I want to fully de-google but I'm still not sold that there's a decent replacement for Google Sheets/Docs, for my use cases.
If I were a billionaire or government I'd definitely be funding serious open source software efforts. So crucial to this century.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
The link between genAI and anti-refugee carceral violence is, like, absurdly explicit here
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Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with officials www.afr.com/technology/g...
Google to build data centre on Christmas Island
The search engine giant signed a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year to build the facility, whose details remain secret, on Christmas Island.
www.afr.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
The link between genAI and anti-refugee carceral violence is, like, absurdly explicit here
bsky.app/profile/ashe...
bsky.app/profile/ashe...
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We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
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After a long gap, pleased to share:
Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me.
We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial.
games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...
Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me.
We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial.
games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...
S1E2 - 02 - Ramsey Nasser
# Episode 2 - Ramsey Nasser For our second episode, we talk to Ramsey Nasser, a Lebanese game designer, computer scientist, and educator who lives in NYC. We talk to Ramsey about one of his recent p...
games-and-resistance.pinecast.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
After a long gap, pleased to share:
Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me.
We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial.
games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...
Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me.
We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial.
games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.
After a long gap, pleased to share:
Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me.
We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial.
games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...
Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me.
We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial.
games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...
S1E2 - 02 - Ramsey Nasser
# Episode 2 - Ramsey Nasser For our second episode, we talk to Ramsey Nasser, a Lebanese game designer, computer scientist, and educator who lives in NYC. We talk to Ramsey about one of his recent p...
games-and-resistance.pinecast.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
After a long gap, pleased to share:
Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me.
We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial.
games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...
Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me.
We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial.
games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...