Victor Navarro-Remesal

“We’re not starting a war, we’re ending one” was a Russian talking point on Ukraine — four years ago.

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

An image of the book Zen and Slow Games by Victor Navarro-Remesal, published by MIT Press

I enjoyed reading it!

“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto

Happy Mario day!

The Catalog Anniversary Sale begins....NOW 💫

🛍️ play.date/games

People Hate AI Even More Than They Hate ICE, Poll Finds The only things less popular than AI in the poll were Iran and the Democratic Party.

USA: People Hate AI Even More Than They Hate ICE, Poll Finds
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#pol #polUSA #AI #ICE

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

Gentle reminder that the future is always inevitable*

*except in the cases of 3D TVs, Meta's metaverse, Amazon Fire Phone, Microsoft Bob, Windows Phone, Google+, Netscape, Quibi, NFTs, Segway, the Sinclair C5, the CD-i and the 3DO, iTunes Ping, Google Glass, human cloning, the Apple Pippin, Juicero

I highly recommend @vthewanderer.bsky.social’s great book Zen and Slow Games, out now on @mitpress.bsky.social !

I just got this picture from @kierannolan.bsky.social! Zen and Slow Games in Ireland :)

UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI Tracy Chevalier announces registration scheme at the London Book Fair as AI works flood market The Society of Authors (SoA) has launched a scheme to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books. The scheme is the first of its kind launched by a UK trade association, and allows authors to register their books and download a “Human Authored” logo to display on their back cover. Continue reading...

UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI

Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches, an Online Symposium

Just 2 days to go before 'Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches: An Online Symposium'!

www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/event/videog...

Fíjate si es inclusivo y bueno el acceso universal a la sanidad pública y gratuita que hasta incluye a todos los que destruirían la sanidad publica y gratuita universal.

Así es :)

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Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

HIJO NEOLIBERAL
Sketch de Vaya Semanita (ETB)

An exquisite passive-voice haiku from the New York Times

Poorly drawn sketch of a large computing machine connected to electrical wires and three stick figures kneeling in front of it. Text above the stick figures says: "O Deep Thought what is the ultimate answer to the problem of the climate crisis?"

Same sketch, now with text above the machine saying: "You should have stopped burning fossil fuels"

Same sketch, zoomed out to see three smoke stacks and text above the stick figures saying: "How could we have known?"

I'm no artist, but hopefully this gets the point across. A comic in three panels.

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Video games shouldn't try to win the 'attention war' I don't need your attention war.

Video games shouldn't try to win the 'attention war'

Interview about Zen and Slow Games in the Game Studies podcast of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social by @gamestudies.bsky.social

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No one could’ve predicted this. No one.

This from 13 June 2016 - ten days before the #Brexit Referendum

#Immigration #MigrationWatch

We’re recruiting a postdoc and up to 3 research assistants at the Creative Media Policy Observatory (www.cmpo.net), City University of Hong Kong.

Apply for the RA position: www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c...

Apply for the postdoc position: www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c...

Tenure Track Assistant Professor for Game Technology at IT University of Copenhagen The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position starting in Au

Friends! The ITU is hiring! We're looking for a tech-savvy person who can help us develop the games program and the Center for Digital Play research profile: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!

A mí, a bote pronto, ya se me ha ocurrido una: la lucha contra el analfabetismo. Eso sí, hay que reconocer que las deudas estratosféricas por tratamientos médicos y las matanzas a tiros en centros escolares (y en cualquier otro sitio) se les dan mucho mejor a los yanquis, dónde va a parar.

Are they going to sue Caravaggio too?

Terrible move and weird, seeing how they dodged Robert Pattinson suing them.

God, video games are so stupid.

A turn around of the Bug! wind up walker that came with Jack In The Box Kids Meal toys back in 1999. You could get a Sonic, Knuckles, Ecco or Bug! toy as part of a SEGA PC promotion.

Nomura no Famicom Trade was a stock trading application for the Japan-only dial-up modem add-on for the Famicom. Through a Nintendo collaboration, the game featured Mario on the information screen, doing a unique little dance.

La dulzura del león Durante la última década, el descrédito de la empatía y la compasión ha avanzado en paralelo al auge del odio

Una nueva corriente intenta arrojar la empatía al sótano tenebroso de todos los males. Tres autores norteamericanos han publicado recientemente ensayos que la describen como una emoción tóxica y suicida. Su descrédito avanza en paralelo al auge del odio.

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