"In reality, it will largely be down to parents to educate themselves on why these changes have been brought in and decide for themselves if they deem the games (and their loot box mechanics) suitable for their child," @h00dwinked.bsky.social said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cge84xqjg5lo
A devastating indictment of current NIH leadership.
i gave a talk at a uni about my gamedev journey and gave some advice on how YOU, TOO, could create your first game
www.youtube.com/live/8yzkASN...
Super interesting presentation on smartphone habits, automatic behavior, user perceptions, logged smartphone use, measurement gaps, and responsibility by Matt Sharpe at the @oii.ox.ac.uk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmDx...
New Substack post is up! bit.ly/3NAO61k
This one covers my new paper on measuring "Corporate BS Receptivity" (CBSR), including what BS actually is, how it spreads in the workplace, and what we can do about it. 🐂 💩
“Contrary to the promise of having more time to focus on meaningful work, juggling and multitasking can become the definitive features…'AI'-associated mental strain carries significant costs in the form of increased employee errors, decision fatigue, and intention to quit.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
My reactions to how PEGI will rate games with hashtag#LootBoxes 16+ from June 2026. Nice, but 99% of games won't be affected because the rule only applies to newly released games.
www.gamesindustry.biz/pegis-loot-b...
So @josephcox.bsky.social watched over six hours of this deposition featuring DOGE staffer Justin Fox who, when asked how he defined “DEI” kept saying he needed to refer to the EO.
Highlights here:
Watching fandom communities and women/girls with fandom accounts who have stayed on X has been brutal. Random posts that should have stayed within their communities are algorithmically blasted to alt-right adjacent edgelords being radicalized by Elon Musk to descend on and mock and terrorize
A painting of a bird beside the text "bullshit incoming"
Yuuup asking ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke?"
bsky.app/profile/lewa...
Holy shit: the guy who cut millions in grants because they were DEI cannot form a coherent explanation of what DEI is bsky.app/profile/lmrh...
Bystander Intervention in Response to Toxic Behavior in Online Gaming: A Naturalistic Observational Study by @louiseankernexoe.bsky.social & Lasse Suonpera Liebst
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The BIG DUMB WAR CYCLE HAWKS ITCH FOR BATTLE IT WILL BE A SPLENDID LITTLE WAR! 9/11 FALSELY INVOKED I'M SURE THEY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE HIJACKERS. BOOSTERS OF PREVIOUS WAR ALL OVER TV BOMBS AWAY! MILLIONS PROTEST AROUND THE WORLD AND ARE IGNORED THIS WAR IS BUNK TOO PATRIOTISM OF OPPOSITION QUESTIONED SUPPORT OUR TROOPS YOU TRAITOR WAR A BLOODY DISASTER WITHOUT END WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN? CONVENTIONAL WISDOM FORMS THAT WAR WAS A MISTAKE, BUT NO ONE HELD ACCOUNTABLE HOW'D WE GET INTO THAT MESS? BEATS ME!
This week's comic: The Big Dumb War Cycle
The use of impact factors in the evaluation of researchers has contributed to the distortion of scientific publishing practices and research practices, noted France's CNRS as it walked away from Web of Science, using $$$ saved to promote #OpenScience & #OpenData. www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...
There's so much to opine on so many problems, but I recognize that I should stay in my lane to listen and trust knowledgeable others
Trans ppl under attack from the govt could be identified and outed w/o their consent.
Undocumented immigrants would be cut off from the ability to communicate w advocates.
Young ppl seeking abortions won't be able to access info safely and anonymously.
This is what congress is advancing today 👇🏻
Why tenured academics and administrators insist that using this technology is unproblematic and just how the future should work with none of our input is baffling to me. Feels like a modern cargo cult.
How did these men know to stay away from Epstein? One googled him, one asked his mom for advice, and one actually listened to what Epstein said to him and quickly realized he was a witless misogynist.
It wasn't that hard, and every scientist who claims they didn't know is either lying or stupid.
This is an excellent essay by Shae Omonijo describing how the decline in critical thinking began long before the recent rise of AI, and that AI is accelerating existing trends.
shaeomonijo.substack.com/p/something-...
100% agree
This study by Ashley E. Martin & Shiri Melumad examined how this "technology will solve things or make things better" belief is paradoxically embedded with reproducing the status quo
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Exploring the experiences and wellbeing of competitive women, transgender, and gender diverse gamers by Cecilie Lolansen, Tyrone L. Burleigh, @drliamcahill.bsky.social & Eden Morley
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
can you teach something at Texas A&M? just follow this flowchart.
www.chronicle.com/article/insi... via @jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @mzahneis.bsky.social
The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/b...
You can read the letter here: csa-scientist-open-letter.org/ageverif-Feb...
A large number of privacy and infosec researchers have published a detailed letter calling for a moratorium on laws requiring age assurance technologies until there is a scientific consensus on the risk/benefit tradeoff of using them
www.politico.eu/article/age-...
"Once built, this surveillance infrastructure will be abused, just as every prior expansion of government surveillance and censorship power has been. We must do everything in our power to stop these laws where we can and preserve a free and open internet."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If you're lamenting the loss of critical video investigative journalism bc the biggest sites don't tend to keep around the folks with those skills, have i got done good news for you.
@pkrugman.bsky.social at his most trenchant. The Economics of Technological Change: What history and models can (and can’t) tell us about AI open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
