Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe)

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"Yes I would be very honoured to receive your Manneke Peace-price!"

De robotstofzuiger, farizeeërs en andere huichelaars - Humanistisch Verbond Omdat het ongetwijfeld de eerste keer is dat ik een verhaaltje of blog zal schrijven dit jaar en er hopelijk nog veel zullen volgen, wil ik het op mijn zieke, beperkte en vreemde manier hebben over da...

'Bovendien leert de jonge knaap me dat we dingen niet te ver moeten zoeken. Een verklaring heeft dus niets te maken met iets dat er niet is, te zien is of bestaat', schrijft Adil Fraihi.

Over games als literatuur in beweging - Humanistisch Verbond Er is dat moment, net voor je beslist. Alles vertraagt even. Niet zichtbaar, maar voelbaar. Alsof de wereld haar adem inhoudt. Je weet dat wat je gaat doen niet zomaar terug te draaien is. Niet omdat ...

'Die spanning tussen intentie en uitkomst creëert precies die ongemakkelijke ruimte waar spelers over blijven nadenken, lang nadat de controller is neergelegd', schrijft Yves Schelpe.

standard response: "get better at prompting" :p
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Rechter ICC gesanctioneerd door VS: het juridische front van de digitale onafhankelijkheid - Humanistisch Verbond De zaak van de Franse rechter Nicolas Guillou bij het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) is allesbehalve een louter anekdotische gebeurtenis. Zij staat symbool voor een dieperliggend probleem: de Europese ...

'Kan een Europese staat nog spreken van soevereiniteit wanneer zijn cruciale digitale infrastructuur wordt beheerd door een actor die onderworpen is aan de wetgeving en geopolitieke prioriteiten van een andere staat?', schrijft Pierre Thiriar.

3/3 It does make the gap between poor & rich: larger & larger & larger. Which I find the most disturbing underlying issue. And that is why legislation should act too I think. When is a subscription "allowed", is not an easy debate or easy to put into law, but needed to not leave ppl behind :/

2/3 And if they have enough $$$ coming in when a certain pct of ppl can still pay it, and make it profitable for the company still, even if losing some customers. That makes companies not listen anymore to vocal outrage as it doesn't hurt their sales now.

1/3 Yeah, I agree, as I replied to Arthur... The sad thing is you'll have to boycott and voice the opinion we don't want this. But the fact is companies won't listen anymore if you don't have $$$.

3/3 ...discussion on fair or not fair would lead us to capitalism, boundaries, ethics and so on. I agree with you this isn't a healthy direction.

But "pushing back" only helps with a boycott imho and DIY. Shouting at a company doesn't help anymore alas... I noticed, they only listen to $$$.

2/3 My reply was more hinted at @scott.hanselman.com, as he's into the "maker-community", so it was lighthearted, as he could be blogging about it then... He has the skills to show others, as he has done before. So hence why.

Doesn't mean it is right or fair, but that discussion...

1/3 I get that, please don't shout. The subscription model makes me angry as well. But in this world, I learned, either
1. give backlash to the people or companies and boycott their system
2. either give in, and pay

They won't listen to our voices, only to investors & money.

make your own!

So amazing to see you still love what you worked on, as I do too. It shaped me, playing it in my teens, and I love how it challenged me.

Games as Literature in Motion - TheHumanist.com "Stories that refuse to let you remain just a spectator, but give agency."

Thx @pexelsofficial.bsky.social "Watta." for pictures (www.pexels.com/nl-nl/@watta...).

Thx to games @dragonagegames.bsky.social #DragonAge, @expedition33.bsky.social #Expedition33, #Outcast, @larianstudios.com #Divinity for making deep, living experiences.

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Games as Literature in Motion - TheHumanist.com "Stories that refuse to let you remain just a spectator, but give agency."

Thx to @americanhumanist.bsky.social for publishing this.

// Cc: enthusiasts & game creators: @davidgaider.bsky.social, @scott.hanselman.com, @kevlin.bsky.social, @sorrowstories.bsky.social, @kennethdee.be, @sandfallgames.bsky.social & @laratlarian.bsky.social!

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8/8
Games as literature in motion: stories shaped by participation, ethics shaped by play. Not better than film or a good book, but just a different experience, a different medium.

Not passive art, active meaning when well done.

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#humanities #games #literature #art

Games as Literature in Motion - TheHumanist.com "Stories that refuse to let you remain just a spectator, but give agency."

7/8
This is why games feel different.
They don’t just tell stories: they make us inhabit them. Narrative becomes something lived, not read.
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#narrativeagency #media

6/8
Where novels guide interpretation, games test it.
They ask: what will you do when action replaces abstraction? When values stop being hypothetical?

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#criticaltheory #interactive

Games as Literature in Motion - TheHumanist.com "Stories that refuse to let you remain just a spectator, but give agency."

5/8
Even games without traditional plots still tell stories through systems. Scarcity, pressure, efficiency, care. Meaning emerges through play, not narration.

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#systems #storytelling #games

4/8
Games don’t ask what the right choice is.
They ask who you become after choosing.
That self-reflection is something literature has always done: games just make it unavoidable.

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#identity #literarytheory

Games as Literature in Motion - TheHumanist.com "Stories that refuse to let you remain just a spectator, but give agency."

3/8
In games, choice isn’t decoration, it’s the text itself.
“No option is innocent.” Consequence becomes something you carry, not just witness. That’s where games turn literary.

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#moralphilosophy #gamingculture

2/8
Books and films ask us to observe. Games ask us to act.
As I wrote: "games don’t offer distance, they offer responsibility. Understanding isn’t enough when you choose."

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#narrative #ethics #books

Games as Literature in Motion - TheHumanist.com "Stories that refuse to let you remain just a spectator, but give agency."

1/8
I wrote a piece on games, not the usual “games are art” take. I dug deeper into how games function as literature through choice, consequence, and agency.

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#gaming #philosophy #literature

The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI - TheHumanist.com The LLM chat box is quietly becoming our modern hearth, a place for meeting, even when no one sits on the other side.

2/2 "The interface misleads us gently. It makes us forget that we are not speaking with a conscious being, but with a model that imitates language."

"The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI" @americanhumanist.bsky.social blog: thehumanist.com/commentary/t...

#ai #llm

The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI - TheHumanist.com The LLM chat box is quietly becoming our modern hearth, a place for meeting, even when no one sits on the other side.

1/2 "We may need to rethink the form itself. Is a chat box the right way to interact? By packaging an LLM as a conversation partner, we suggest reciprocity where there is none."

"The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI" @americanhumanist.bsky.social blog: thehumanist.com/commentary/t...

#ai

2/2 Full built spec on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Mechanical...

#keyboards #custommechnicalkeyboards #mechanicalkeyboards

1/2 I'm obsessed with #keyboards, I admit... Typing on them for code, essays, writing lyrics...
This one I made and assembled is a QK75n from #Qwertykeys

#keyboards #custommechnicalkeyboards #mechanicalkeyboards

Artificial Intelligence, Totalitarianism, and the Future of Cognitive Liberty If AI can read us like an open book based on our faces, our body language, and our microexpressions, what can it do to the trajectory of our lives?

"If our thoughts are not ours, just data points to be studied and used against us, there is nothing left of us."
Great reflection on AI/LLM's by @magdaromanska.bsky.social at @americanhumanist.bsky.social : thehumanist.com/magazine/sum....

Exceptional Naming When code throws or catches an exception, name to communicate rather than regurgitate

(pps: a bit unrelated, but this post always has me hooked on good software engineering practices, I always circle back to it for myself, but also people that onboard. As with AI now, the naming is terrible often in generated code: medium.com/@kevlinhenne..., from @kevlin.bsky.social)