2022 - To Read

You won’t find liberation on a platform owned by this or that billionaire.

Eden by @thehintguy. Create a map of the Garden and role-play the animals and human characters that live there. Available through our distro: https://t.co/Gf2HcNZ7Ak pic.twitter.com/33XH2BXbVB— Heart of the Deernicorn (@hotdeernicorn) April 26, 2022

Effective Altruism pic.twitter.com/THjf0KXg0Z— Mr. Talks To You About The Internet At A Party (@SeanRMoorhead) May 6, 2022

A bunch of WRITING FOR GAMES pre orders seem to be arriving today (I think launch is still officially 24th) which is exciting! https://t.co/kFqcWUmL2U— Hannah Nicklin 🌹 (@hannahnicklin) May 13, 2022

Make better forecasts with one weird trick: https://t.co/jjUxIq7fee(Channelling @avantgame @stevenbjohnson @docetist )— Tim Harford (@TimHarford) April 22, 2022

https://t.co/3B4e1T8ba4— Jon Peterson (@docetist) April 30, 2022

I have a new book coming out next month called "Game Wizards." It is a corporate history of TSR up to 1985, detailing the wild ride of D&D and its creators. You can read more about it here: https://t.co/o0Ll4Xvlnv pic.twitter.com/1wuDZKx1cY— Jon Peterson (@docetist) September 12, 2021

The rumors of a paperback edition of "The Elusive Shift" are apparently true. Next thing you know there'll be an audiobook of "Game Wizards" or something... #dnd #rpg pic.twitter.com/OlrHfR7l2l— Jon Peterson (@docetist) March 27, 2022

Just in time for DUNE @ the #Oscars!Henry Cowles & I curated/coedited a series of essays, SCIENCES OF DUNE, @LAReviewofBooks: All-star historians applying science & tech studies to DUNE. Our Intro to the symposium https://t.co/OgqrjMRRhT. Essays at link, w cool illustrations. https://t.co/oc2SDz6ioI— Haris Durrani (@hdernity) March 27, 2022

The Internet promises a kind of immortality. What if your last tweet is the one that defines you for all time?

Here’s something for those who wanted to know a little more about Travis Zadeh’s new book.@richove calls it “remarkable.” Preorder now and discover Qazwini’s wondrous world. pic.twitter.com/mRejDZCbW0— Sharmila Sen (@_sen_sharmila) April 2, 2022

Some “serious #wargame” reading from @BA_Friedman here… pic.twitter.com/zNCdOJvoIk— Mountain Navy 🎲🗺⚔️ (@Mountain_Navy) April 4, 2022

…or on the dedicated Vimeo page below. With contributions from @SarahALang_, @NoisyNarrowBand, @markcmarino, Anne Kaun, @leahhenrickson, @_tshoemaker, and @mkirschenbaum. And with an intro by Markus Krajewski and myself. https://t.co/KY7wzrVSLj— Hannes Bajohr (@hannesbajohr) April 11, 2022

sweet mercy it actually exists! as a thing! in the world! #thelabbook pic.twitter.com/3XNcRBGf5v— Lori Emerson (@loriemerson) April 11, 2022

My piece in the @nytmag today on language-based AI contains excerpts from a number of interactions I had with GPT-3 over the past few months. Here’s a thread with screenshots of the full exchanges, plus a few bonus passages, with some commentary. https://t.co/6wtKTtjz7L— Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) April 17, 2022

The Surrealist practice of automatic writing finds a troubling analogue in a new wave of sophisticated AI text generators.

📢How can #AI improve access to digital #archives? To find out, read my new edited collection on Archives, Access and AI - With fantastic #openaccess chapters by @jfwinters, @melissaterras, @martin_eve, @MarcianoRichard, @pmgooding, @thist_be & others! https://t.co/xGmzLlfD4y pic.twitter.com/Aef0kYo234— Lise Jaillant (@lisejaillant) April 25, 2022

Added this awesome trilogy of books to the library before work. 📗📘📕Check them out here: https://t.co/MFg2T87LRJ@noahwf @Patguy @mitpress @RobinDLaws @ACrannyFrancis @RenZephyr @jmittell @Liebenwalde @whuber @mat_hills @davelavery @kenrolston @SWCarpenter @BibleGeekRMP pic.twitter.com/1iXSZShUpl— The Video Game Library (@TheVGLibrary) April 25, 2022

In 1937, occupied with “proof-reading, folding printed sheets, hounding delinquent clients, [and] writing letters and even introductions to books” in her husband and brother-in-law’s Grabhorn Pr

In The Nature of the Book, his landmark study of the printing industry in early modern London, Adrian Johns delivers a rich recreation of what it would have been like to live and work at the center o

Interesting thread and discussion denaturalizing the notion of “plain” text. Or to cop an excellent book title, “plain text is an oxymoron.” https://t.co/XaPKFeXPeD— Matthew Kirschenbaum (@mkirschenbaum) May 14, 2022

What are the recurring book covers, in series or publishers, that arouse for you involuntary chill/excitement? For me, UofMinnesota "Theory and History of Literature" is still somewhere at the top of the list. pic.twitter.com/hzDTVCFTvV— S. Biareishyk (@s_biar) May 15, 2022

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The European avant-garde Situationist International group engineered radically different situations from which to reflect upon society and culture.

“A dream you dream alone may be a dream, but a dream two people dream together is a reality.”

War is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger. Fixing that is everyone’s business

What are the best tools for thought/HCI reading lists? Two I found:1. Computing History Hub by @mollyfmielkehttps://t.co/qjdVEzuoJC— Moritz Wallawitsch (@MoritzW42) May 5, 2022

Unpopular opinion: ALL software development methodologies have been invented by people who, not having a clue on how software is developed in the real world, decided to make money telling to the ones who actually do the job how to do it. pic.twitter.com/JpFERaqYLF— Mario Fusco 🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@mariofusco) May 7, 2022