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Steve Wilcox
@stevewilcox.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
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drinfosec.bsky.social
Very interesting🧵by @stevewilcox.bsky.social on the benefit that gamification can bring to help people better understand diseases and the need to adapt their behaviors when risks are high. 🎯👇
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@stevemwilcox: I was just describing this phenomenon to a journalist yesterday. For me, we've focused too much on trying to get ppl information abt COVID when it's clear that many struggle w how to ma...
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February 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
stevewilcox.bsky.social
Juno turned 13 this past week and despite all that time she still sees me off every day with the saddest look imaginable 😅 (bonus Pixel content here; he comes out for scritches whenever I sit down to put my boots on).
A photo of the greatest dog in the world
February 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
For the past decade we were told canceling events at colleges over private protests was the harbinger of totalitarianism but now a right wing government is doing it so it’s fine bsky.app/profile/adam...
adamhsays.com Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · Jan 24
An HBCU conference at Rutgers was cancelled following Trump's EO:

“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Rutgers cancels HBCU event to align with Trump DEI orders
The Rutgers University Center for Minority Serving Institutions announced Thursday that it has canceled an upcoming virtual conference about registered apprenticeship programs as a result of President...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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botherer.bsky.social
This is a splendid piece of writing by @edwinet.bsky.social. He really is one of the best at this.

www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-gamergat...
The Gamergator rhetoric of historical accuracy has come back to bite Kingdom Come on the arse
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 isn't out until next month, but some would-be players are already mad about its apparent representation of history.
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January 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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apihtawikosisan.bsky.social
This is also why we have been fighting against the notion that STEM is rational, objective, and truth-based. Technology exists within the same constellation of structural forces as everything else. It has and can be wielded to oppress and destroy.
January 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Krugman says the editors at the Times editorial page were increasingly trying to water down his columns and arguments www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...
Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times
The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.
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January 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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lovetheants.bsky.social
Collaborating with @rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and Kanako Shimizu, we put together what's basically a top-ten list of ways to help foster trans inclusivity and awareness within our scientific and academic communities and would love if you could help share the guide!
How to Support Trans Colleagues Create a Gender-Inclusive Environment Research institutional, governmental, local, and other bureaucratic procedures and policies that recognize and support gender transition. Support training and advocacy for colleagues’ personal/professional safety (ex. in fieldwork, lab work, conferences, institution visits, affinity groups). Establish and/or identify gender-neutral bathrooms throughout your building. Implement trans-inclusive recruitment and hiring procedures. Acknowledge intersectionality and the unique needs and barriers that someone with multiple marginalized identities may face. Consider the importance of representation in your field. Advocate for Name Changes Research institutional, governmental, local, and other bureaucratic procedures and policy to recognize and support an individual’s name change. Identify journals in your field that allow authors to change their names post- publication. Improve Information Accessibility Publicly share information on inclusive practices throughout your departments and institution. (Ensure the content centers and is created by trans people.) Consider Daily Language & Use Decrease use of gendered terms to avoid exclusionary language. Ask for personal pronouns. List on all public-facing directories, and consider including them in email signatures and on professional websites. Practice discretion. Don’t out your colleagues without their consent.
January 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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ibogost.com
That time when I wrote this seven and one half years ago
Cryptocurrency Might be a Path to Authoritarianism
Extreme libertarians built blockchain to decentralize government and corporate power. It could consolidate their control instead.
www.theatlantic.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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vladadraws.bsky.social
Hey! #PortfolioDay

I'm a freelance artist working in video games and tabletop! I'd love to illustrate your characters, creatures, or items, and make bespoke iconography for your game. My commission queue is clearing up soon!

💌[email protected]

#uiart #ui #gamedev #illustration #gameart #ttrpg
January 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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annabookwriter.bsky.social
Something disability justice activists have been screaming about for the last five years and some of you may just now be realizing: eugenicists believe disease is good. They believe themselves part of the “superior” race and that disease clears out the poor and unworthy. 1/
January 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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moudhy.bsky.social
May as well dive right in.

Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?

According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”

Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.
November 13, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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danielgillis.ca
Preparing my academic self (as best I can) for the next four years.

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The Next Four Years
In fearful times, Fred Rogers’ mother comforted him by telling him to look for the helpers. Her advice feels particularly relevant these days.
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January 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
stevewilcox.bsky.social
Do you know how awesome it would be to take this course with Dr. Tilley?! In my undergrad, these were the kinds of courses that truly broadened my experience of art/life/society. To me, they're the lifeblood of higher ed and they're absolutely worth fighting for.
anuncivilphd.bsky.social Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · Jan 23
Today is my first class meeting of the term with undergrad honors students. The class? A history of race, gender, and sexuality in US comics. This will be my 4th time teaching it. Even though I live in a blue state, I wonder if it will be my last. We have a lot of difficult conversations ahead.
January 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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ntnsndr.in
My department is hiring TWO assistant teaching professors of media studies! This is a great opportunity for people who are passionate teachers eager to explore new approaches to cultivating media literacy among diverse students.

Learn more & apply here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Excerpt of the text of the open call, shared in the link
January 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
stevewilcox.bsky.social
"[Musk's grandfather] was all about dog-whistle politics. He wouldn’t say ‘Jew,’ but he’d say everything short of it. He knew what he was saying, and his base knew what he was saying" - Janine Stingel, a historian of anti-Semitism in Canada. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Elon Musk’s Anti-Semitic, Apartheid-Loving Grandfather
The billionaire has described his grandfather as a risk-taking adventurer. A closer read of history reveals something much darker.
www.theatlantic.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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thechristinet.bsky.social
Now in paperback! 📕 My contributor’s copy of “Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Method” in colourful glory! Mess with somebody’s computer clock today, in honor of us ⏰
Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method, edited by Milena Droumeva; cover My chapter “The Great Lateness of Lon-Live Gaming: A Temporal Eulogy to the Video Game Playthrough OP in a screenshot of their accompanying video essay
January 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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youmeyou.bsky.social
Wrote about Stalker 2's abandoned men for @bulletpointsvg.bsky.social: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/01/22/t...
January 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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tartanllama.xyz
Presented without comment, just a deep tiredness
“chatgpt down in the middle of the workday i’m about to get fired pray for me,” wrote on user on X, alongside other complaints from people who said they were in the middle of coding or writing essays and now had to do the work themselves.
January 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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gerald-voorhees.bsky.social
Genre studies of games are mostly stuck on early 2000s formalism.

These 2 companion volumes push game studies toward understandings of games as 'equipment for living' and genres as located in the social and cultural conditions of their production and consumption.

Coming Summer 2025!
January 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Some fascinating things happening on Reddit. 22,000 upvotes on the subreddit dedicated to posting pictures of houses that are over 100 years old.
January 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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michaeliantorno.com
Just finished up a draft of a white paper studying game jams, so it seemed like a good time to re-share "If You Don't Like the Game, Change the Rules!"

@omarieclaire.bsky.social and I collaborated on this project about Canadian worker co-ops and unions.

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Six panelists sit in front of a table, with one woman in a red dress speaking into a microphone. On a screen behind them are the words "what new way sof producing games can we imagine together."
January 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
stevewilcox.bsky.social
I'm teaching Ethics for Game Design this term where our major project is to create print-&-play expansion packs to existing games that add ethical reflection.

Operation in a for-profit healthcare system? Risk but you're saving civilians caught in the crossfire? Read on for last year's expansions!
January 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM