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The squad, the group chat, the enfants terribles wherever they are, girlboss mentors and whisper networks, the found family, et cetera.

The roundup for the List Jam just went up on CD and the jam page for the Alternative Ecologies jam I'm running with Now Play This is live too.

I am always glad to see more people blogging!

I wrote a longer piece about my feelings on crypto-art schemes and crypto/blockchain in general presented as a solution to current perceived ills around arts funding, artist ownership and control of their work, and DRM/"authenticity" of digital items.

I like this video a lot.

Pillowfort came out of closed beta this week, leading to a lot of people signing up in hopes of finding the magic of past, cozier and more hobby or community focused social media.

Not much to this post, I just had a blast reading this 1997 article which offers a set of lenses and themes for reading a series of depictions of bisexuality in media that are what we would now likely call instances of the "evil bisexual" trope.

⠀Mephistopheles.

I am enjoying having a lot more time to read over the break, because I've decided to not start up on any new projects or academic work until the new year!

I made a Twine game about a recent leak of Nintendo internal protocol docs!

This year, while I was separated from my partner for several months due to the pandemic holding up visa processing and travel, I had to come up with things to do.

One of my fav writers in (but certainly not limited to) the games space, Lana Polansky, has written a great article which elegantly lays out the ways that IP law, instead of guaranteeing the right of artists of all types to be paid for their work, as it is

Or: So Your Organization Has Started a Small Grant/Low-Bar Funding Framework My most read piece from this year is almost certainly what I wrote on the response to a round of EU cultural funding going to a few game studios, Alexis Kennedy's independent ven…

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No Artist Left Alive: Speculations on the Post-Pandemic Struggles of Cultural Workers Within, Against and Beyond Capitalism - Max Haiven I really like Max Haiven's Art After Money, Money After Art which I feel like is a great art historical work in that it

My own Tandy WP-2 came in the mail today!

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The first computer I really learned my way around as a kid was my dad's PC, which ran Windows 95.

Another Art World, Part 1: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcity Another Art World, Part 2: Utopia of Freedom as a Market Value Another Art World, Part 3: Policing and Symbolic Order By Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber This blog seems like a good place to…

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Stricken is a dead simple looking Zonelet style inspired by Low Tech Magazine and using dithering textures from Strike.