@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-11 05:21:53
On Friday Oct. 10, MIT President Sally Kornbluth formally rejected the Trump administration's proposed compact in an email to the U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon.
This decision came after mounting pressure from many MIT organizations, students and faculty alike, that called on the Institute to formally reject the compact.
MIT is the first university to openly decline the compact.
The Institute’s Response
In her response to Secretary McMahon, President Kornbl…
@darkrat@chaosfurs.social2025-12-05 20:18:21
For todays #fursuitfriday , have a photo of my #protogen Breakpoint from last years #38c3
And he'll also be at
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-01-07 08:25:50
I'm disappointed to learn today that my name twin Scott Miller, founder of Apogee Games, is an idiotic antivaxxer.
Please let me reassure you that despite having the same first and last name, I am very pro vaccine.
#AntiVaxxer #ScottMiller
@Life_is@no-pony.farm2025-10-24 19:58:34
Meine Schwester und ich sind furchtbar zusammengestoßen in der Sache der Klimakatastrophe. Und sie hat tatsächlich wortwörtlich das Argument eingeführt "Heute geht die Welt nicht unter..." und offenbar hat sie wirklich keine Ahnung, wen sie da zitiert hat. Definitiv weiss sie nicht und will es auch nicht wissen, dass ich ein GPT-generiertes Bild dieses Merz-Zitates (korrekt gekennzeichnet als generiert) nach wikipedia importiert habe. Der böse Beigeschmack: Sie ist studierte Umweltingenieurin, …
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-11-11 18:19:21
🚜 Electrification will change the farm. Swappable batteries, bidirectional charging and on-site solar charging
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@mia@hcommons.social2025-10-21 12:15:27
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-30 09:09:31
Okay, here's the promised follow-up with more authors I respect who didn't make it onto this list. I won't do deep dives but I'll list at least one work per author:
YA novelists:
- Randi Pink ("Girls Like Us")
- Louisa Onomé ("Twice as Perfect")
- Emery Lee ("Meet Cute Diary")
- Robin Benway ("Far from the Tree")
- Angela Velez ("Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity")
Children's book authors:
- Jacqueline Davies ("Bubbles Up")
- Freya Hartas ("Slow Down in the Park")
Novelists:
- Rimma Onoseta ("How You Grow Wings")
Graphic novelists:
- Linda Medley ("Castle Waiting")
- 🖋️Magsalene Visaggio 🖌️Paulina Ganucheau ("Girlmode")
- Ursula Vernon ("Digger")
- SJ Sindu ("Tall Water" w/ Dion MBD)
- Hope Larson ("Be That Way"; "Salt Magic" w/ Rebecca Mock)
- Lily Williams Karen Schneemann ("Go With the Flow")
- Maia Kobabe ("Gender Queer")
- Kay O'Neill ("Tea Dragon Society")
- Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis")
Mangaka:
- Kaoru Mori ("Young Bride's Stories")
- Ryoko Kui ("Delicious in Dungeon")
- Natsuki Takaya ("Fruits Basket")
Anime writers/directors and/or Japanese light/fantasy/SF novelists:
- Nahoko Uehashi ("Moribito")
- Sayo Yamamoto ("Michiko & Hatchin"; "Yuri!!! On Ice")
- Mari Okada ("Ano Hana: The Flower we Saw That Day"; "Toradora!")
Game designers/programmers:
(Upon review I was pretty remiss in skipping over a few of these people, some of whom I wasn't aware of but most of whom I just didn't remember when writing my short list. Subconscious misogyny in action. Short & Thorson probably would have squeezed out some of the YA authors I included, although I have no real regrets.)
- Junko Kawano ("Suikoden")
- Elizabeth LaPensée ("When Rivers Were Trails")
- Momo Pixel ("Hair Nah")
- Zoë Quinn ("Depression Quest"; narrative designer on "Solar Ash")
- Kellee Santiago ("Cloud"; "Flower")
- Tanya X. Short ("Moon Hunters")
- Kim Swift ("Portal")
- Maddy Thorson ("Celeste")
- Andi McClure @… ("Jumpman")
Note: I haven't included composers or artists here, but there's a deep bench.
Games journalists/steamers:
- Tanya DePass @… (#/INeedDiverseGames; twitch streams)
- Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)
Game/play scholars:
- Mary Flanagan ("Critical Play")
- Tracy Fullerton ("Game Design Workshop")
- Brenda Laurel ("Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System")
- Janet Murray ("Hamlet on the Holodeck"l
- Susana Tosca ("A Pragmatics of Links")
- Jichen Zhu ("Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design")
- Magy Seif El Nasr ("Design patterns to guide player movement in 3D games")
- Kate Compton ("Causal Creators"; also "Spore")
P.S. upon consideration I've decided not to include any authors who are men in this coda.
There are definitely others who probably deserve to be here that I'm forgetting...
#GsmeDesign #Authors
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-31 22:14:33
Kyle Cheney. @kyledcheney
Jack Smith says Trump's claims that he won the election were not protected free speech because they were intended to target a government function.
"There is no historical analog for what President Trump did in this case."
Smith says Trump "without question" added to the danger to Mike Pence's life with his 2:24pm tweet while the Capitol was under attack.
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizza2025-12-17 03:29:03
Let's get festive! 🎄 Tonight we're back in Middle-earth for more LOTRO Yule Festival chaos! Time to throw rotten fruit at the actors in Frostbluff and grab those new cosmetics.
All the holiday action powered by my Bazzite gaming setup! Come join the snowball fight!
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@arXiv_eessSP_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-13 09:34:40
Optical Link Tomography: First Field Trial and 4D Extension
Takeo Sasai, Giacomo Borraccini, Yue-Kai Huang, Hideki Nishizawa, Zehao Wang, Tingjun Chen, Yoshiaki Sone, Minami Takahashi, Tatsuya Matsumura, Masanori Nakamura, Etsushi Yamazaki, Koichi Takasugi, Ting Wang, Yoshiaki Kisaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09384
