Joshua McVey @Joshuamcvey@qoto.org

In 2023, you are NOT a “progressive” if you have no ability to

1. Distinguish between classism & racism
2. Discuss the unique challenges that exist with both, particularly when they intersect
3. Understand that by elevating classism as the foundation of systemic oppression, you’re erasing the lived experiences of those IMPACTED by racism and are maintaining the status quo of white supremacy

If you’re facing a daunting task, break it up into a large number of smaller daunting tasks so you can more easily become overwhelmed.

The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist, my new book with @themitpress is out now! This is my attempt to intervene in how we talk and think about gamemaking as not just an entertainment industry but as a cultural field, built up from complex tensions between commercial and creative pressures and identities.

It's open access, and you can read it here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5572/The-Videogame-Industry-Does-Not-ExistWhy-We-Should

I wrote a long thread on Twitter with a bunch of excerpts which I won't reproduce here, but it's there if you're interested: https://twitter.com/BRKeogh/status/1648452116749643778

#gamestudies #mediastudies #culturalindustries #culturalproduction #commodon #gamedev

#SparrowSolitaire is a tile-matching puzzle game similar to Shanghai that Mac Vogelsang and I made!

We’ve just released update 1.1 with a few small fixes and a bunch of new content (we couldn’t help ourselves). #screenshotsaturday

Here’s what’s in the update! #thread

Is the Dewey Decimal System still a thing? Is 000 still the best category? That was the aisle I always hung out in because you could find books on programming and UFOs and ghosts, the three best things in life

@mogwai_poet I've always thought the 200 section was a great illustration of how classification systems are not neutral. Its topic is Religion and it subdivides like:
210: Philosophy and theory of religion
220: The Bible
230: Christianity
240: Christian practice and observance
250: Christian orders
260: Social and ecclesiastical theory
270: History of Christianity
280: Christian denominations
290: Other religions

#NASA's #Curiosity rover got a major software upgrade, the first one since 2016. 180 changes:
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9378/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-gets-a-major-software-upgrade/

Big changes:
• Thinking while driving: similar to #Perseverance's AutoNav, albeit without the dedicated hardware
• Less steering, depending on rocks under the wheels: a previously rejected "nice to have" feature, now implemented.
• Easier software patches
• More efficient and accurate robotic arm and masthead pointing.

Image by JPL-Caltech/MSSS

#MSR #Solarocks #Space

Animated Drawings

Link: https://fairanimateddrawings.com/site/home
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561203

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic:
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SUPER-FUN-PAK COMIX, feat. Percival Dunwoody, Doug, Axnon Duul of #starwars, and MORE!
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Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member @ed_mundy and new member Tonto Svensen.

READ IT RIGHT HERE👇👇👇

"Even if the court ruled in favor of the city, these public records have long since escaped the LAPD’s grasp."

That was the goal. When we got our hands on the files, I spread them out in a way that makes even a successful removal order completely irrelevant. https://theintercept.com/2023/04/11/los-angeles-lawsuit-lapd-headshots/

Tech industry, please hire more writers. I can happily read docs for 3h and get much more out of them than watching a video for 3h. And while I'm watching the video, I'm making copious notes so that I don't have to watch the video *again* later to refresh my memory. If it was written down in the first place with good indexing I wouldn't have to do that. Video is such a crap way to document things.

good morning

@glassbottommeg Slap an Aspect Ratio Fitter on your UI panel, set it to Fit In Parent with an aspect ratio of 16/9, and call it a day

Cool CSS trick in a recent Kevin Powell (not on Mastodon? weird??)

https://codepen.io/chriscoyier/pen/OJBLjmO?editors=1100

Have you ever been like "I need to send this thing BELOW the other thing, and `z-index: -1` works for that, but it can send the thing TOO LOW (beneath other backgrounds), so can't do it. Well, `isolation: isolate;` it and that solves that issue!

Mastodon Wish List

What’s missing?

What would make your experience here on Mastodon more interesting, more fulfilling?

What’s missing that would make the time you spend here seem more worthwhile?

❓​Sports news
❓​Financial news
❓​Local events
❓​Book reviews

What would make *your* experience here even better?

#MastodonWishList

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Hi there! 🙂 I'm a freelance music composer. Need some tunes for your next project? Look no further! I've got plenty of experience in all sorts of styles and I'm easy to work with. Let's chat and make some music magic happen!

Here's a link to my reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNBlyUsgsEI

You can check out more of my music here: https://soundcloud.com/lashman

Boosts also appreciated

#GameDev #IndieDev #Composer #VGM #GameAudio #GameMusic #Filmmaking

Hardworking Twitter engineers scrubbing the Elon parameters I have some bad news for you about how git works

To put today’s news in perspective, Trump is the first WWE Hall of Famer to be indicted on campaign finance charges

E3 Has Been Canceled

Link: https://www.ign.com/articles/e3-has-been-canceled
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35378997