Brandon Walsh

The Public Fires Kristi Noem That's not the story you'll hear from Washington

The public fired Kristi Noem
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-public...

Can’t wait to pitch my next games piece - “Education is Hell: Demon School and Pedagogy of the Oppressed”

(A joke about our previous governor’s ambitions that I expect to only hit in VA)

Congratulations to new DHS secretary Glenn Youngkin

Back to basics on grad ed reform Dear friends, Here in Brooklyn it's finally spring, kind of. The piles of filthy snow aren't completely gone, but the light is changing, the birds are waking...

I wrote about some VERY simple things that would make grad ed a lot better. Some of this is not that hard! Tl;dr: Make sure students have a clear sense of expectations, help them understand the institution, & put up some basic guardrails around advising.

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I studied Dolly Parton with Beefcake the Mighty from GWAR.

I used to do the same thing when I had really bad flight anxiety. I would clutch the armrest and learn Whitman for hours. Would love to hear what words are giving others strength right now.

Lately that has been this powerful statement by Ada Palmer.

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Words have power. One of the ways I’m trying to deal with despair is by reaching for inspiring writing. Rather than doom scroll I am trying to memorize language that gives me hope.

Feels like a different planet

“Huh I wonder how old Dustin Hoffman is in this movie?”

*finds out it is my age*

☠️☠️☠️

Same!! It’s always a highlight.

100%. And am always down for any recharging and energizing collaborations you want to get into. Starting with the ACH workshop series!

Solidarity with all of this, but also you give inspiration to others (incl. me) - which is not nothing!

I love this!

Screenshot of a course description that reads: Surviving the Textpocalypse. The advent of generative AI has been described as a ¿textpocalpyse," with chatbots producing content ranging from ¿AI slop¿ to missile target suggestions. As literary scholars and as people in the world, how do we survive? This course, paired with a humanities graduate seminar, will explore this question through theories of resistance, refusal, and reimagining; and through practice by gaining knowledge about how genAI works. Our goal is to implement strategies of survival and worldbuilding.

Pretty excited for HOW TO SURVIVE THE TEXTPOCALYPSE, the seminar I'm teaching at @emorycollege.bsky.social next fall with @shsalter.bsky.social (and with a nod to @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social for title inspo)

ICYMI a piece of mine came out yesterday that reads the mechanics in Death Howl as frustrating by design. Loss, Elizabeth Bishop, and more.

Oh lord Slay the Spire 2 coming out so soon. I’m not ready.

Congratulations, Amy!

Thank you, my friend!

Deck builders are meant to elicit a sense of snowballing strength. What if one used its mechanics instead to explore loss and grief?

@walshbr.bsky.social's debut on @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social is a banger.

I wrote for @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social on Death Howl, frustrating mechanics, and narratives of loss.

Thanks for having me!

How dare you have ideas

fever + mario tennis fever - one more run fever Last Saturday, I was supposed to run my first 5K of the year. I woke up not feeling great, though, so I did what any smart and not at...

I got COVID for the first time, missed a 5K, and bought Mario Tennis Fever. If this blog doesn't make sense, it's because I'm still in the guest room with a mountain of empty Gatorades and a perpetually charging Switch 2.

It's interesting seeing all the take-havers having viral takes about AI that are essentially verbatim recitations of deeply researched analyses offered by AI scholars ten years ago, when they those caveats were ignored by press + the general public because the threat wasn't yet so intensely palpable

If only we had any films, television, music, art, etc etc that warned us of such things.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

Ah thanks for pinging me!

Cc @zorakc2c.bsky.social

Hey, it's @walshbr.bsky.social & more The Hard Modes musicians! If you need a breather, their jazz mashup of Chrono Trigger + AC:NH is delightful: m.youtube.com/watch?v=BF7v...