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While JDVance allowed that perhaps Renee Good was not trying to ram the ICE agent,
Trump stated that she did it, and did it on purpose.
Noem also cast this as deliberate, calling it “an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents.”
This is not some minor, pedantic point.
The administration cast a woman who had just died as deliberately assaulting a law enforcement officer
and engaging in “domestic terrorism.”
Those are not small allegations, espe…

JD Vance just sharply undercut the Trump team’s ICE shooting narrative
Mere hours after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent killed a woman Wednesday in Minneapolis, the Trump administration staked out a maximalist position.

Don't even boost or repeat the narrative that DHS/ICE provides when they murder someone. They're lying, and you don't need to give their lies more attention.

When the oligarch-owned, reactionary-run "Minnesota Star Tribune" is the voice of reason in a news roundup, you know things are bad.
Amazing how these media can instantly make alleged fraud in social services a bigger story than a kidnapping ring funded with $165 billion of taxpayer money.

Block is a poster child for the lack of operational discipline common among mid-tier public tech companies that lived on the largesse of cloud, mobile, and ZIRP (Om Malik/On my Om)
https://om.co/2026/02/28/block-tackle-job-cuts-the-ai-narrative/

Block & Tackle: Job Cuts & the AI Narrative
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block (the company formerly known as Square), went on X (the company formerly known as Twitter, which he co-founded) and shared a lower-case employee memo, candidly outlining hi…

The White House debuts a website to revise the history of January 6, with false claims blaming police for fomenting the attack and calling Mike Pence a coward (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/trump-january-6th-revisionist-history-1236665860/<…

White House Debuts January 6th Revisionist History Website As Democrats Mark 5th Anniversary Attack On Capitol
Donald Trump attempted to establish a false narrative about the attack on the Capitol.

Former Raiders Executive Amy Trask Dispels Maxx Crosby Narrative https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-former-executive-amy-trask-dispels-maxx-crosby-narrative

Habe nichts hinzuzufügen - super zusammengefasst.
Lesen:
https://www.neuenarrative.de/magazin/ohne-milliardaere-wuerden-wir-alle-schon-laengst-viel-weniger-arbeiten
Hören:

Ohne Milliardäre würden wir alle schon längst viel weniger arbeiten | Neue Narrative
In dieser Kolumne geht es um die Frage, wie wir unsere Demokratie erhalten und uns gegen die autokratischen Bestrebungen von Überreichen verteidigen. Diesmal: Warum wir von der steigenden Produktivkraft kaum profitieren.

A cop lied?! I'm shocked, shocked. Clearly the only thing to do is give the police department even more money so it can improve training.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-video-tenderloin-attack/

Video shows Mayor Lurie’s security shoved man to ground before fight
Video shows moments before SFPD officer slammed to ground by man in Tenderloin brawl, calling into question the officer's narrative.

“I Audited $2.1 Billion in Epstein Financial Records. Here's Every Name the Money Touched.”
Update: he deleted the record of Trump (74 million) and Clinton (17 million), but it is still in the GitHub repo.
https://randallscott25-star.github.io/

I see that misguided narrative in the gutless business leaders who talk about “de-escalation” and “finding real solutions” — as if the problem is just that a few ICE murdered two people, not that all the ICE agents are an authoritarian secret police in the making.
I see that misguided narrative in the elected officials who decry ICE, but then talk about “better training” and “more oversight” — as if the secret police will become humane if they just get a few new rules to ignore and have to sit through a Powerpoint about them.
8/

"AI" does exist but it's a narrative/political movement of centralization and disempowerment.
But it's not tech and when talking about the stochastic systems popular these days the term shouldn't be used. It obscures way more than it helps and throws so many things together that one might want to look into in detail.
So if you are talking about "AI" is political project/narrative, go apeshit. Otherwise we probably should try to be more specific abou…

Defiant Jags shift narrative, beat 1-seed Broncos https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47385935/defiant-jaguars-shift-narrative-victory-broncos

Inside Netanyahu's Distorted Protocols: Debunking His October 7 Narrative - Israel Security
#Longread)
#Israel #October7 #Gaza

#WuppertalInstitut: Rechte Narrative – die Rolle der Medien im Klimadiskurs
Am 22. Januar 2026 fand zum zweiten Mal die vom Wuppertal Institut organisierte Veranstaltung "Demokratie unter Druck" statt. Thema war der Einfluss rechter Narrative auf die gesellschaftliche Transformation. Drei Impulsvorträge, eine Podiumsdiskussion.

Behind the Blog: An AI Army Foot Fetish https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-an-ai-army-foot-fetish/

dead freaks: rosie mcgee launched a newsletter & is posting 60th anniversary stories. around this time in 1966, she moved in with the band in los angeles, where they'd relocated with owsley. https://therealrosiemcgee.substack.com/p/storytime-for-deadheads-m…

Storytime for Deadheads: My Grateful Dead Stories - March 2, 1966
"60 Years Ago Today" blog posts here all this year, the year I first lived with the Dead. TODAY'S POST - March 2, 2026: The continuing narrative on living in L.A. with Phil, the Dead, and Owsley.

For many people who’d been inside that bubble of comfort, particularly at national news orgs, the story •started• with those two murders. They now seem to have a half-formed mental narrative that runs something like this:
❝
1. First the Trump administration started deporting a lot more people.
2. Then ICE murdered Good and Pretti.
3. Those two escalations caused widespread unrest in Minneapolis.
❞
That narrative is wrong.
3/

Here's the story of how my factual queries to Google's AI system Gemini* led to it making up an elaborate fictional narrative about why and how the school bombing in Iran was done for good reasons…
https://woborders.blog/2026/03/01/gemini-fanfic-iran/

Worse than useless: Google Gemini synthesizes pro-military fan fiction about school attack in Iran
Without a doubt, the most horrifying event of the first day of the new US–Israeli war on Iran was the air strike on a girls’ primary school in Minab (Wikipedia), in the southwestern province …

Cultural Narratologies: Form and Context in Contemporary Narrative Theory https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/23/cultural-narratologies-form-and-context-in-contemporary-narrative-theory

🇨🇭🇨🇭
"Bei der Schweizer EU-Debatte auf X fiel auf: Die Posts der Fake-Konten waren auf SVP-Linie. Sie adaptieren die Wortwahl der Partei und verwenden den Hashtag Unterwerfungsvertrag. So bezeichnet die SVP das EU-Paket. [...] Die Analysten schreiben, dass sie Strategien identifiziert hätten, «die zur Verstärkung negativer Narrative gegen das Abkommen eingesetzt wurden»."
🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭
Wir brauchen seriöse Medien.

'Small-market' Jaguars want to keep being ignored: 'We really don't care about the narrative' https://www.nfl.com/news/small-market-jaguars-want-to-keep-being-ignored-we-really-don-t-care-about-the-narrative

Thank you Stranger Things. You convinced my kids that Eggos were fantastic. Now that they've had an opportunity to try them, after hounding me for months to buys some, the scales have fallen from their eyes and they will never again fall for a narrative pedaled by corporate media.
That's how it works, right?

I think being an egocentric asshole as a service is finally falling flat
and people want to hear more about what real living is about.
https://hachyderm.io/@suzannealdrich/115830103893974091

Anthropic's $60B in funding, half of which came just last month, from over 200 investors is now at risk due to the company's contract dispute with the Pentagon (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/02/anthropic-ai-openai-trump

Anthropic vs. White House puts $60 billion at risk
Anthropic has been at the heart of America's business narrative this year, but now it's under siege from its own government.

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In conclusion, I think the GOTY of 2025 is The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy.
It was extremely ambitious, made by a very small team of very dedicated people that sacrificed their health and well being to show that humans can make long narrative games without needing to use AI, and make a distinctly human piece of art without ever forgetting about their message about war, peace, tolerance, and individual decisions

»Das Lesen jenseits von Konversationen in Texten und Büchern, die Narrative verhandeln oder Wissen vermitteln, ist eine Ausnahme mit schrumpfenden Reichweiten.«
Aus: Christoph Engemann – Die Zukunft des Lesens (2025)

Just finished "The Daughters of Ys", a graphic novel written by M.T. Anderson and illustrated by Jo Rioux. Is apparently a telling on an ancient Breton legend, which explains some of the narrative devices and plot choices. The drawings are beautiful and the tale is interesting, but takes a royalty-focused and -friendly perspective I've grown unfond of at this stage in my life.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Ukraine Update: calling Trump's "Energy Peace Ceasefire" a narrative device is a polite way of calling out a manipulative lie.
In-depth reporting from the trenches in Ukraine, where US media will never venture.
Support Ukraine, support journalism and democracy, share the friend link that bypasses the paywall:

An Energy Truce Agreement As A Strategic Blackmail
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Currently trying to track down a Steam copy of Elevator to The Moon! I managed to find the Rift version but that obviously doesn't work without Oculus components.
I think the SteamVR version might be lost media at this point. All the links are dead and there are no torrents.
I managed to find the GearVR version but that doesn't work with Oculus Touch controllers (the button it asks you to use to open the menu for a tutorial doesn't exist, softlocking the game)

How bystander video and newsroom analysis undercut the White House narrative on Alex Pretti (Tom Jones/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/video-evidence-alex-pretti-white-house-messaging/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p68#a260127p68

AI won't reduce the number of programmers. It will create millions more, because running code you cannot understand is not programming. It is faith.
https://www.ocrampal.com/there-will-be-more-programmers-not-fewer/

There Will Be More Programmers, Not Fewer
AI won't reduce the number of programmers. It will create millions more, because running code you cannot understand is not programming. It is faith. Part I — The Hypothesis The Democratization Arc, and What It Actually Produced. The prevailing narrative about AI and programming runs like this: LLMs will automate code

DraftKings DFS: What to consider when picking a Showdown captain https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/47838975/draftkings-showdown-lineup-super-bowl-strategy

The paradox of Nazism being both the most capitalist thing possible, defining itself as explicitly anticommunist, while masquerading as "socialism" is difficult to resolve until you understand one thing: fascism pivots around antisemitism (and its extension, conspiratorial thinking).
I'm, of course, not talking about the redefinition of "antisemitism" into meaning any criticism of Israel but rather an anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative rooted in Roman Christianity.
This is critical to understand as MAGA fascism pivots between capitalist and pseudo-anticapitalist with Trump in the middle. Hitler did the same thing. Strasserism helped the Nazis gain power by pulling in the Left. In the Nazis case they killed the Stasserists pretty quickly. Now, I think we're seeing an attempt to make the opposite pivot happen in MAGA. But it's all the same thing.
Fascism can infinitely fail to address the needs of the people while dismissing it's own responsibility for creating the problem by maintaining a permanent enemy.
This is why it's important to understand antisemitism and how to fight it. It's especially important now because the apparatus of violence in Israel is itself a tool of global fascism, and we finally have an opportunity to dismantle the whole thing. But we have to be aware of how fascists can pivot around to block this.
I've been reading Safety Through Solidarity, and I think it's especially relevant at this time.
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html

🗜️ The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
https://paulallies.medium.com/the-silicon-valley-stack-doesnt-work-here-why-africa-will-lead-the-post-bloat-web-e7c34b577c61

The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
For years, we’ve followed the global tech narrative: Bigger is better. We import heavy-duty JavaScript ecosystems from the US, implicitly…

Trump’s First Year Sparks Popular Resistance in US
#Trump

Cultural Narratologies: Form and Context in Contemporary Narrative Theory https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/23/cultural-narratologies-form-and-context-in-contemporary-narrative-theory

I also see that misguided narrative in the people who still (but increasingly rarely) dredge up stats about how many Obama- and Biden-era deportations there were, thinking it’s some kind of mic drop, thinking that deportations are the whole of the evil here, an evil we can just tally up with a bean counter.
And to be clear: those deportations •were• inhumane and evil. US treatment of immigrants has been morally intolerable since long before I was born. I need you to know that I know that when I tell you that this is a whole other level.
9/

Comments by heads of Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI and others, many delivered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, reveal a shift of narrative from optimistic inevitability towards recognition of geopolitical tensions, energy scarcity, economic bubbles and the race to make AI truly useful.
https://www.

Big tech leaders opine on the future of AI
Big tech leaders have been opining this week, on the future of AI, taking on the bubble talk, resource constraints and opportunities.

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
BLAKE: Yes.
AVON: Then I agree. [Lets go of Blake]
JENNA: Deactivating.
BLAKE: Vila, Gan, Jenna: we're going for a ram, take out the command ship.
GAN: A ram?!?
BLAKE: I don't see that there's any other hope for us.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/173

Russian TV channel NTV admits it underestimated Zelensky and Ukraine as Kremlin narrative shifts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/russian-tv-channel-ntv-admits.html

How the Raiders’ Week 18 win over the Chiefs shifted the narrative https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/11/how-the-raiders-week-18-win-over-the-chiefs-shifted-the-narrative/

The relevance and dominance of thinly veiled corporate PR publications masking as "tech journalism" is a problem that's hard to fight: Cause the shallow and pro-industry narrative is what gives those publications access (to hardware, tests, interviews, etc.). But holy shit does this all suck.

The US authorities saying that someone was a registered gun owner, when seeding a narrative to justify a killing, surely must be triggering the cognitive dissonance of the ruggedly independent bootlickers by now?

Maybe it’s the combination of this cocktail:
a) personal unresolved trauma moldering for years
b) trauma/mourning for an emotional fictional narrative
c) emotionally sick for the real life timeline?

It’s ridiculously funny how much the Right is convinced that there’s a personality cult around Bill Fucking Clinton.
There wasn’t a personality cult around Bill Fucking Clinton in 1993. There sure as hell isn’t one NOW. Most living Democrats are probably not old enough to have ever voted for him. Millennials definitively didn’t.
I would bet money that Clinton was technically prosecutable. @…

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
In an obvious move to try to manipulate the narrative around the contents of the Epstein files, one of the few prominent figures whose face has NOT been redacted is Bill Clinton—and the Trump administration is signal boosting those images.

Christian Parker's Blueprint: A Bigger, More Physical 26' Cowboys Defense https://insidethestar.com/christian-parkers-blueprint-a-bigger-more-physical-26-cowboys-defense

Q&A with Amazon's Prime Video Europe VP Andrew Bennett on a flurry of global partnership deals, including with free-to-air broadcasters, and other growth plans (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.

Behind Prime Video’s Global Partnership Deal Spree
Europe VP Andrew Bennett shares the logic for Prime's latest pacts in Spain and France, and why HBO Max is doubling down on its partnership.

Key optogenetic advances in retinal prostheses: A comparative narrative review #NeuroTech

As a history enthusiast, I'm often amazed by how historical innovations inspire today's business strategies, especially in digital markets. Even a WWII narrative can shed light on modern tactics. Inspiration knows no bounds! 📚✨

Cultural Narratologies: Form and Context in Contemporary Narrative Theory https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/23/cultural-narratologies-form-and-context-in-contemporary-narrative-theory

All of this is why I get uncomfortable with a certain kind of focus on the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and the mistaken narrative that focus can create.
Don’t get me wrong: we •should• focus on those murders. We should mourn them. Alex was one of the nurses who cared for my father-in-law when he was in intensive care at the VA. My wife remembers how gentle he was, what a good listener. They were my neighbors. Please remember them both.
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Arctic Awakening
(Multi, XP'd on PC via Steam)
Marooned in the Alaskan wilds with a court appointed "therapy bot" Kai is confronted with mysterious facilities and his past as he struggles to survive and be rescued.
This 5 part episodic walking sim/adventure game has some serious Firewatch vibes. Not entirely shocking as it's a Unity FPS perspective game which they tend to look similar. I dig this lower poly "cartoon like" art style tho. Bette…

In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the "doomer narrative" may be winning (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…

A theory of why Mark Carney's speech at Davos mattered: because it countered Trump's attempt to impose a new conventional wisdom, at the place where he knew everyone who mattered would be, by standing up to him and giving a name to concepts that had previously been vague and inchoate. Because the time and place where the king says "you all understand that I'm the King" is precisely where you have the greatest opportunity to reject that narrative.

Davos is a rational ritual
How Europe and Carney disrupted Trump's ceremony of self-anointment

Day Five in the Improv Narrative house, and we're in the format I like most really. A few instructive games in the first half and a couple of longer narrative stories in the second half.
The island game was supposed to teach something about not deliberately getting obstructive.
A scene where your players are told they are on one island and must end up at some point all on the other one the other side of the stage.
Set a scene, make some characters, but nobody said it was supposed to be difficult to get from one island to the other.
Yet barriers are deliberately thrown up, actually imaginary barriers since the whole thing is imaginary after all. Why should there be sharks or a quest for a boat or the sea deep and cold.
You can just wade across. You can just have a boat. You can just levitate yourself over with your hive mind psychic abilities.
Unsure about this.
There must be conflict and peril and challenges which are mastered in a story, you can't set up a hero's quest only to have the hero just happen to have a holy grail in the stationary cupboard. Already got one you see. Use it for storing pens.
Still. Finding the crowbar doesn't have to be a quest. There can just be one in the boot. Don't let things get bogged down in difficulty.
Watched a story about a lazy fellow falling into a life of crime and villainy because of his tardiness and fulfilling his teacher's prophecy that he would indeed end up as a criminal if he didn't buck up his ideas. Good repeated themes of characters making lists of his failures and nice stage-focus work when everyone was on stage at once.
Played a preacher organizing a wedding in a story about friends running a hotel.
Fun to have Reverend Priest finding sin everywhere again. Easy wipe-off sin in this case. We may have come to an end too early. Perhaps not enough obstructions put in the way. 😆
#improv #london #hooplaImpro

You said: “It is simply because the ROI is much higher now because these tools enable a much less lossy compounding of knowledge.”
That is not a good reason. That is towing the narrative that if there is no ROI then there is no reason to do it. We dont know the impact if we had Written The Docs™.
I laude your position & I am grateful. But the words we choose to “justify” the choices of the past are important. “Because we didn’t value our fellow human” is clearer than “accoun…

How pro-Trump influencers and others on social media used misdirection and fabricated content to muddle the evidence of ICE agents killing a man in Minneapolis (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/us/minnesota-shooting-false-posts.html

False Posts and Altered Images Distort Views of Minnesota Shooting
Some social media posts tried to warp the evidence of the killing of a nurse in Minneapolis, including in ways intended to support the Trump administration’s narrative about it.

We initially set out to write a
David-vs.-Goliath narrative
about the town’s response to the
COVID crisis.
But there came a turning point
at which we realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany than COVID-19.
They were about #race and #power.
In the week…

I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.

A few remarks on "AI" usage and the narrative surrounding it. I think it's about the difference between disconnected creating and embodied making.
(Original title: Something from nothing)
https://tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-from-nothing/

Something from nothing
I am not a talented person, I’ve never been called “gifted” or anything like that. Anything I can do, anything I achieved took a lot of work and stubbornness to achieve. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that I’m “selfmade” and that my position in society, my access to resources, etc. had nothing […]

International Congress on Narrative and Aesthetics in Film, Series, TV, and Audiovisual Experimentation https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/11/international-congress-on-narrative-and-aesthetics-…

Just finished "On Starlit Shores" by Bex Glendining. It's a really excellent graphic novel about grief, memory, and a bit of magic. I love the way that it isn't an adventure, and how completely usual the queer relationships in it are. The art is stunning, and the palette is especially excellent and truly harmonizes with the narrative.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Opening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/09/opening-sequences-the-narrative-architecture-of-tv-titles

Good Morning #Canada
I'm sitting my sunroom sipping coffee and contemplating the year that's past, and thinking about #NewYearsResolutions. I've never previously indulged in making promises to myself that I forget about in a few months, but I might make one for 2026. According to Narrative Research, 48% of Canadians made resolutions in 2025, with most setting goals related to health or finances. More than 71% are confident they’ll reach their 2025 goals. Quebec residents are more likely to have made a resolution for 2025, and resolutions are more likely for Canadians age 34 or younger, with the likelihood decreasing with age.
What about you? Please select an option from the survey below, and please boost for additional data collection. I've included a tune to set the mood.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Poll
Do you make New Years Resolutions?
Yes, and I always complete them.
Yes, but I don't remember any.
Maybe, but it's confidential and between me and my bathroom scale.
No, I prefer to enjoy life, one day at a time.
I only make resolutions for other people.

Read "How To Survive In A Science Fiction Universe" by Charles Yu, a novel about a time-machine repair-man getting stuck in a loop during his search for his father.
First person narrated, in a fictional universe in which you can travel in time but you can't change anything about the past.
It was fun and an easy read, lots of interludes about the physics of fictional universes and explanations of acausal items causing their own existence, including the book itself that you read in your hands.
Its nice if you'd like something with experimental narrative form twisting the usual story format.
#reading #books #charlesYu

International Congress on Narrative and Aesthetics in Film, Series, TV, and Audiovisual Experimentation https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/11/international-congress-on-narrative-and-aesthetics-…

A look at French indie game studio Sandfall Interactive, whose critically-acclaimed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold 5M copies with a budget of less than $10M (Zachary Small/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11…

How Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Became a Gaming Tour de Force
Without a blockbuster budget or much experience, the creators of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 astounded the industry with an emotional narrative and old-school design.

Opening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/09/opening-sequences-the-narrative-architecture-of-tv-titles

Opening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/09/opening-sequences-the-narrative-architecture-of-tv-titles

Have you ever considered how profoundly music impacts our emotions? 🎶 In my view, classic movie soundtracks are unparalleled in evoking powerful feelings and breathing life into stories. They whisk us away, enhancing our connection to the narrative. I'm fascinated by those scores that strike a deep chord. Which soundtracks transport you to another realm? Share your favorites! #MovieSoundtracks #MusicMagic #EmotionalJourney

Everyone Is Overlooking This About Klint Kubiak and the Raiders’ DC Move https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/gm-report/everyone-las-vegas-overlooking-rob-leonard-klint-kubiak-dc-move

Reading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form (Marathon Reading and Symposium, Tampere, Finland, 22-26 May 2026) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/13/reading-the-faerie-queene-…

Reading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form (Marathon Reading and Symposium, Tampere, Finland, 22-26 May 2026) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/13/reading-the-faerie-queene-…

Im Kampf gegen die falschen Narrative der KI-Firmen sollten wir und als Uni zurückbesinnen was nur wir bieten können: Lernen im sozialen Kontext, Lernen von Mensch zu Mensch, Lernen für soziale Wesen die eine Gesellschaft gestalten.
Natürlich kann dieses Lernen auch digital passieren, es geht mehr darum, wer den Prozess strukturiert und wie.
Dazu passend ein paar aktuelle News einer Absolventin der #OvGU ( sie war auch 1* in meiner #Mathe Vorlesung ;) ) :
https://www.unimagazin.ovgu.de/Beiträge/2026/Februar/Den Informatik_Unterricht in Schulen erleichtern-p-2277.html

Overshadowed: Re-Examining Consent in Divine “Virgin Birth” Narratives from Luke to Xena
https://ift.tt/vqGQkb3
By Princess O’Nika Auguste The Christmas season centres the story of the Virgin Mary, a narrative of…
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Overshadowed: Re-Examining Consent in Divine “Virgin Birth” Narratives from Luke to Xena
By Princess O’Nika Auguste The Christmas season centres the story of the Virgin Mary, a narrative of divine mystery and grace. Yet when we examine this sacred trope across scripture and …

Overshadowed: Re-Examining Consent in Divine “Virgin Birth” Narratives from Luke to Xena
https://ift.tt/YIvcTCR
By Princess O’Nika Auguste The Christmas season centres the story of the Virgin Mary, a narrative of…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Overshadowed: Re-Examining Consent in Divine “Virgin Birth” Narratives from Luke to Xena
By Princess O’Nika Auguste The Christmas season centres the story of the Virgin Mary, a narrative of divine mystery and grace. Yet when we examine this sacred trope across scripture and …

Half way through the Hoopla Improv Story narrative course and we actually attempt a couple of 20 minute stories.
One pretty confused one about a voyage to find unicorns which ended up about time-travellers due to mixups.
And one about the child of a missing astronaut seeking his father by joining a space mission.
Edits are what made the main difference here. Shouting "Cut to the jail" left half the players thinking they were in a flashback and the other half thinking they were in the consequences of the previous scene. Thus one ending up being a time-traveler.
A more coherent edit might have been "Flashback to jail", and these more coherent edits are key to what made the second story less chaotic and more whole. "Cut to the training test" or "Flashback to school where a teacher is impressed with the protagonist"
I like a game with a narrator. The narrator can give the story structure and theme and act as a director of the action. But we can do that without a narrator if the edits are well thought out and shouted clearly enough to keep the actors on the same track.
Mind you, the chaos is the funny bit usually.
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Apparently last week's improv class, which I missed, did indeed talk about a story spine, a template I first heard from a Pixar story course:
Once upon a time there was... And every day they would.. Until one day... And because of that... (repeat 'because' till end)...
And this week was concentrating mostly on the first bits: Playing out some scenes introducing characters, setting up their normal routine.
The nature of improv can be tricky here. Things spiral out of control quite fast. Things start happening immediately, without time to build that normal routine which you then break.
Take for instance the scene tonight at an airport. Lady rushes in: "Get me on a place as far away from here as possible, right now".
Its a great offer, but hardly a normal routine for a person. Can you really have a person whose daily routine is to fly to the furthest place they can get to immediately?
Perhaps a flashback to their normal routine then? Or perhaps make the staff the protagonist and their daily routine is to deal with crazy customers.
Character is key in the early scenes of a narrative really. Get the audience to identify with a protagonist. Who are these people, how do they know each other and what's their normal life like?
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