Nationwide Shutdown Friday, January 30, 2026 No work, No school, No shopping ICE Out Everywhere
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Nationwide Shutdown Friday, January 30, 2026 No work, No school, No shopping ICE Out Everywhere
Flyer reads "from ally to activated: breaking barriers to community action. Free on Sunday January 11th 1-2:30pm at Oakland Asian Cultural Center
If you're in Oakland this weekend, I'm facilitating a FREE session on overcoming personal barriers to organizing. If you or a loved one, is unsure of what to do, how much risk to take, or generally has an aversion to thinking of themselves as an organizer. Everyone welcome! oacc.cc/event/activa...
Come work with me! The DIS community is incredible and this is a great chance to engage with and shepherd really cool cutting edge critical computing work. The primary responsibilities fall roughly late-January to late-March.
It’s that time of year~~
12 month tarot spread. I know it looks really intimidating but it’s actually very very beginner friendly.
#tarot
Call for Papers/Pictorials for #DIS2026!
Abstracts are due January 9th, and full papers/pictorials are due January 19th, 2026.
👉 Papers dis.acm.org/2026/papers/
👉 Pictorials dis.acm.org/2026/pictori...
Join us in Singapore 🇸🇬
#DIS2026 #HCI #DesignResearch #Singapore #BeyondInteraction
I finally cut a clip of what multiple people told me was their favorite joke from this set.
Do I add this to my CV as an invited lecture? 🤔
AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."
Early Voting this weekend at the Margarita Muniz Academy in JP (20 Child St) from 11 to 7.
Here's our updated endorsement flyer!
A friend at EA asked me to share this.
Time for solidarity... again 😞
actionnetwork.org/petitions/ma...
I assume you know but Ursula Le Guin has a great piece on tech that I break out for the lecture I give on critical computing. “As if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers.”
www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
Image text reads: Do you teach board games? We invite you to complete a short survey for academic research into people’s experiences of teaching boardgames, at home and elsewhere. The survey takes about ten minutes to complete. To find out more, please use the QR code, visit go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp or email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au (University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Approval 33778) There is also a decorative image of game pawns and dice, with a magnifying glass on top, as well as a QR code which points to the given link.
Do you teach boardgames? We have just launched a survey asking about your experience! It takes about ten minutes to complete - please share!
Survey link: go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp
Our paper, "Constructing a Community of Play: Black Sims Players and Game Modding," is up now on the ACM DL and won an Honourable Mention Paper Award at #CHIPLAY2025!!
This paper was a huge labor of love and a bittersweet sendoff to the Sims.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
We’re overdue for a catch up! But as a preview the number of completely dropped balls for very cool decolonial, anti-racist, and/or queer liberation alley-oops I’ve seen BIPOC GMs set up that yt players face plant at, followed up with the chaser of fans loudly celebrating makes me 😵💫😵💫😵💫
Would love to see your take on this! AP is strictly hobby and not work for me because I have to draw a line somewhere around games-for-fun but I think about this (and subject my spouse to hot take rants about it) a LOT.
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
Catch @jailynz.bsky.social tomorrow afternoon @qgcon.bsky.social talking about joy and play as resistance, TTRPGs, pleasure activism, and how spite motivates us to keep doing cool shit. ❤️
University of Michigan School of Information has four faculty positions ranging from Presidential Postdoc to Full. They're all linked here. PPFP due Sep 26, the others Nov 1 or 15. www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...
Recent coverage in msm on the use of coded memes and humor by the far-right looks at this phenomenon as a new problem or development, a product of genZ or social media. But the far right has been weaponizing violent humor over the last 5 decades. And it has gone from the fringes to the White House
This is one of the ways that white supremacy weaponizes civility: by implying that certain people get to be served, and other kinds of people (you know what kinds) need to be grateful, without interrogating it.
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work. —Joseph Fasano
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
Plus many more! My biggest project focuses on developing game design methods for engaging race. We’re 1 year into this 5-year NSF-funded project which supports students and pays game devs for their expertise collaborating with us on the future of games.
Press: news.northeastern.edu/2024/05/31/n...
Research looking at how existing games can facilitate serious transformation in players.
Paper on Papers, Please and critical consciousness led by @bethanymiatta.bsky.social and Alesandra Baca Vázquez with Angela D. R. Smith: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Experiences and algorithmic folk theories of Black femme content creators including differential content moderation as well as strategies for resistance and centering joy led by @giannawilliams.bsky.social with @michaelann.bsky.social and Natalie Chen.
Awarded Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Exploring queer TTRPGs led by @jailynz.bsky.social
Press: news.northeastern.edu/2024/08/30/q...
Paper on queer TTRPG themes: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Paper on queer TTRPG players: dl.digra.org/index.php/dl...
Intro thread! 👋🏼 I’m Alexandra, an Assistant Professor in Art+Design and Computer Science. I research transformational game design and racial justice & identity using human-computer interaction methods.
I get to work with incredible students and collaborators! Some recent projects include…
presenting this work at #usesec25 friday morning at 11am!
please come by and say hello to an academic job market candidate (me 👩🏻🏫)
official link to paper: www.usenix.org/system/files...
The five books I bought after my partner convinced me to put three back. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine Why I’m no Longer Talking to White People About Race Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men The Selected Works of Audre Lorde The Origins of Totalitarianism
Crashed out and sought answers at the bookstore:
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
Why I’m no Longer Talking to White People About Race
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Are they able to diminish or nullify Gay Marriage rights? Yes.. here’s how - and what my wife Natalie and I did to prepare.
youtu.be/hOhIHdmnBM0?...
Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began.
🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/1490et
