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Infographic noting Building Relationship's delay to Q1 2026

Building Relationships is now launching Q1 2026

We need a bit more time for the story to breathe, to launch with the best version of the game!

Thank you for all your support thus far, and your patience with the delay 🙏

It is a screenshot of a short commentary paper titled "Smart infrastructure, techno-authoritarianism, and the threat to democracy in Brazil," written by Jess Reia and published in the journal Dialogues on Digital Society. It features an abstract and keywords. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/29768640251382644

I have a short piece on smart infrastructure and techno-authoritarianism in Brazil in the new journal Dialogues on Digital Society ✨ Available here: doi.org/10.1177/2976...
If you cannot access it through your library, ping me and I will make sure you get a copy.

lack of critical thinking strikes even the most renowned poets of our generation /s

thanks brendan!!

because, you know, "you have turned my father's house into a den of thieves".
That's Matthew 21:13 for people who can't access bible gateway dot com

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floating lines

new dana terrace project!!!!!!!!!! pilot was a great watch and it’s so insanely beautiful

LinkLog #4 Sept 8th - Sept 21st, running around NYC

bleep blop closing tabs

New Yorkers Against ICE! - PSC CUNY Unions and community groups will rally and march through lower Manhattan the evening of Thursday, September 25th to protest ICE’s persecution of immigrants 26 Federal Plaza  and in our communities, re...

NOW is the time to make your voice heard! Join the PSC up for immigrant New Yorkers on September 25th at Foley Square at 6PM ET.

I've just launched the Steam page for my new game Factory 95! It's a retro-Windows inspired automation game about making PowerPoints. You can wishlist it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3987250/...
#gamedev #indiegame

white cat (very small) peeping from behind a mirrored table

white cat (very small) sleeping on mirrored table. little cat reflection.

cat sitting the smallest guy known to man

it's not just cuz all our colleagues gave them the O Captain Speech recommended here, it is also cuz they want to be persuaded, and the question "who benefits when you steal from yourself?" is persuasive.

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Scholarship Under Autocracy We Have Been Here Before

I wrote this for my US friends and colleagues, but also for all of us. Lessons from the past. open.substack.com/pub/verakemp...

Just a reminder that this bundle is still going on, and it's raised nearly 80k already! Grab my game and many others for very cheap and help a good cause

#indiegames #playforpeace

Sign the Petition Defend the Internet Archive

Archive.org is being sued by record labels and they're asking people to sign this petition to help get the suit dropped.

www.change.org/p/defend-the...

Sunday, September 7th ahhhhhhhhhhh from a dreary Brooklyn apartment

linklog #3, a little late ;)

We're less than 6 hours away from the launch of our Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle! We have a little something special made to go live at Sept 2, 9am PST/12am SGT.

Here's a teaser screen. Stay tuned to our socials and at itch.io/b/2979/play-...

ANTH/FMS/STS 189 How to Pay Attention

just wrapped a top-to-bottom refresh of my attention seminar, How To Pay Attention, using the lovely @leaflet.pub classes.nickseaver.net/htpa

A man in front of his apple collection. A sign says "Heritage Apples. My Hobby Finding "Lost" Apple Varieties." Another sign says "Do you have any moonshine stories?"

A man behind a table full of apples.

Of course, some collections are fairly benign. Like Tom Brown, an Appalachian man who collects rare apples.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 - smarmy://now Maybe a little malnourished in Manhattan.

#weeknotes for your Wednesday. small link dump but lots of little things

Wednesday, August 20, 2025 From a chilly and rainy studio space in New York.

starting a weekly "now" list of things i'm doing for self accountability reasons using leaflet. experimenting with lowest barrier of entry, but i also have a bookmark in there of more blog tools i will be trying in the coming weeks

also @leaflet.pub ! with direct bsky integration which is pretty awesome. looking into making a little weekly /now page or something

ok good to know! you are the third cool person who regularly uses it, so it’s definitely on the list. might consider prototyping a micro blogging syllabus to explore all these tools…

when i used gatsby i only rendered as ssg (iirc), which was fine but also cumbersome when i felt like my css was insufficient. so writing became a chore when i also had to make visual changes. although this would probably happen regardless of tool if im using a custom theme…

Astro Astro builds fast content sites, powerful web applications, dynamic server APIs, and everything in-between.

yeah i’m seeing this one a lot, usually in conjunction with astro.build

writefreely.org seems to be a substack + fediverse

@bront.rodeo recommended ghost and eleventy, and i’ve used gatsby in the past but it seemed to have a lot of bloat (and idk about graphQL, rip?)

poking around for some open source blogging tools and looking for some recs! would love rss capability and cms not required. any plugins for other tools (obsidian, notion etc) would also be a bonus!

kind of like chinese twitch/youtube. it has time based chat superimposed on the video, similar to how soundcloud comments work.