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Dr. Emily Friedman@friede.bsky.social |
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Storyteller about storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
Associate Professor of English.
Words at Polygon, LA Review of Books, & more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performances)
www.ecfriedman.com
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Chuck Tingle
@chucktingle.bsky.social
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proving love sometimes means takin a risk. i mean EXISTING is just about the biggest risk there is. but dang what a reward to sit here for a moment and breathe the air and see the stars. what an adventure
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bijan
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all the culture you liked from decades past was made possible by cheap rent and artists' pay keeping up with what things cost
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Laura Seay
@texasinafrica.bsky.social
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Arkansas, y'all.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
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Solidarity! 🫂
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Sticky Doodler
@stickydoodler.bsky.social
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If you were waiting for the perfect moment to create that lyric game based on Wingspan, this is it!
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Sharang Biswas
@sharangbiswas.bsky.social
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Jeff Stormer’s PARTY OF ONE podcast—where he highlights RPGs that can be played 1-on-1— is very cool! He draws attention to so many neat, indie games!
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
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Fletcher Durant
@fletcherdurant.bsky.social
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Future histories are going to be written by people sorting through the unprocessed mass of data recovered from LLM data centers as archives are defunded and destroyed by climate change.
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Steve Ammidown
@stegan.bsky.social
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A joyous #JenkinsJuly to all those who celebrate! To kick it off, I’m happy to announce that our podcast, Black Romace Has A History, is live and this season we’re focused on that fateful summer of 1994, The Summer of Black Love! Subscribe! Show notes and more: blackromancehistory.com
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Eileen Clancy
@clancyny.bsky.social
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Monday, July 8th 2024 – Data Workers‘ Inquiry
Link to register: data-workers.org
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥
@lainenooney.bsky.social
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Surprised (though maybe shouldn't be?) by how many AI pitch submissions weve been receiving for the ROMchip pitch call. What is less surprising is how deeply bad they are. Train on internet clickbait, ChatGPT and other genAI text generators really verge toward mediocrity of both concept & writing.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
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Dr. Friedman, w/ critical distance:
the new Streaming Category notably shifts towards fiction: 3 Actual Plays, 1 scripted series, & 1 nonfiction/interview show. The prior category was dominated by nonfiction.
No Chill Em:
LET'S GO @partywebseries.bsky.social WDE Geneva!!!
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
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(The funny thing about people meeting me traveling, especially in masked spaces like BigBad, means that the fact that I have a full-on scent wardrobe leftover from my Smell Professor days is an even deeper lore cut than that my hair has been short more of my life than otherwise)
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Emily M. Bender
@emilymbender.bsky.social
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TFW you get to have a conversation with Prof. @safiyanoble.bsky.social and it's recorded so other people can enjoy too!!
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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holy shit I just realised that the US election is on Guy Fawkes Day
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
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Indeed!
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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It is stupid o’clock in the morning GMT and I am still seeing tweets from the last minutes-to-hour from my UK peeps… bless.
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Mx. Tiffany Leigh
@tiffanyleigh.bsky.social
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Poem: "No Explosions" by Naomi Shihab Nye To enjoy fireworks you would have to have lived a different kind of life.
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Seth Trueger
@mdaware.org
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incidentally I am an emergency physician and I use a walker
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
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(For those curious about the old Smell Professor days, I tend to wear woody/gourmands when teaching, stuff with green spines to the composition for power, & my bespoke fragrance is built around blackcurrant. I own some of the great diva florals but far more sparingly, for many reasons)
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
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I continue to tidy and organize and found an envelope of perfume samples among some papers and oh no @alyssaharad.bsky.social I had forgotten how much I love tuberose (in this case, Nasomatto Narcotic Venus)
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Dr. Rachel Schine
@rachelschine.bsky.social
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I’m home sick on the fourth so it is now the start of ~*syllabus refresh*~ season. If you’re in your curricular girl era and want to swap ideas for fun rewards/snacks/readings, by all means.
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Daniel Radosh
@radosh.bsky.social
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And I’ll add for the millionth time that one of the reasons the times said it didn’t need a public editor anymore was because it was now responsive to readers on social media — and then immediately began categorically dismissing any criticism on social media
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bri watson 🐝
@brimwats.bsky.social
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want to know more about the Queer Metadata Collective and our recommendations? Devon Murphy, Adrian Williams, Chloe Misorski and I will be speaking about "Queering Metadata" as part of SJSU iSchool’s Symposium Celebration of Pride Month. #critcat #qmdc #critlib #metadata #critarch 📚 📜
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Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
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On this July 4, please pause to remember that one of the colonists’ complaints in the Declaration was that the Crown was paying its judges.
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Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio
@isasaxonists.bsky.social
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✨️Introducing "Griffin's Glory✨️
This is a limited stock cotton run inspired by a medieval mythical griffin, so you can add this glorious organic yarn to your stashes. These always go fast, so dont wait too long. 10% is still going to Gazan Relief. 🧶 www.republicofyarnia.com/product-page...
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
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I am in two episodes as Amelie.
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Colleen Theisen
@librarycolleen.bsky.social
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Instead of "Reading Room Rules" I love how Smith College's Special Collections uses "Community Agreements" which establishes a partnership from the start rather than a "Don't you dare." I really recommend reading through this! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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What gives me hope are the normal people trying to save things. People running for school board against moms for liberty freaks, college kids protesting, local newsrooms investigating corruption etc. They inspire but also make me pissed off at the powerful people/institutions that won’t defend them
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
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My own life is made more complex by different kinds of acquaintance/friendship/collaborations, & the best I can say is that I trust, I have compassion, I fact check, & there are absolutely some things that put you beyond the pale (especially in terms of entrusting my students).
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Sigrid Ellis
@sigridellis.bsky.social
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Tend your garden. Care for your kids, your elders. Give what you can. Help where and when you can. Shelter who you can. I will not lie and say it will be okay. But if we do nothing, it will be worse. Be the helper, and do not despair.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
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My mentoring conversations continue to be “it is OK to have people whose work you like who it would disappoint you to find out they suck. But if it would shatter your entire world because you put them on a pedestal, that’s a problem for your scholarship & your mental health.”
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Gretchen Leigh
@famiconsumer.com
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This is one of the coolest things we've done in a while.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
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It is often called a “cozy” game, but few games more efficiently & thoughtfully think about what it means to live in community, with all the messiness that really entails. It’s as prickly and tricky as it is potentially warm & comforting.
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Shaily Patel
@vox-magica.bsky.social
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if you feel like you need to do something, find the folks who’re doing the work and give them money. that also counts as doing something.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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It’s messy & unwieldy & gorgeous, & now it’s full chonky glory has pride of place in my collection — and I might get another copy just for my classroom.
possumcreekgames.com/pages/yazeba...
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
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It has been a gift to share it with students & friends since its ashcan days, to play it on My First Dungeon, & to play it with new friends, in the basement, in the dark, & feel a frisson of my own capabilities I rarely experience.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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Look, there will be time ahead for lingering, loving photos of my copy of Yazeba’s. But this feels honest: it is as much a joy when I am tired and sore as when I am full of energy and enthusiasm.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
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Wordsworth was an ass, but I owe the fucker for
“…feelings too
Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps,
As have no slight or trivial influence
On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered, acts
Of kindness & of love.”
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45527/...
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Alisa Bokulich
@alisabokulich.bsky.social
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Lisa Jardine Grant of Royal Society offers funding for: Extended research trips for UK & overseas-based researchers to use Royal Society's rich historical collections & related London collections (up to £8,000 available for travel & subsistence) & more. Deadline 10 October 2024, 3pm. #histsci #HPS 🗃️
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🤖 AP Breaking News (unofficial)
@ap-bot.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, anti-settlement watchdog says.
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction)
@ecfjournal.bsky.social
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ECF July 2024 is now up at UTP Journals:
utpjournals.press/toc/ecf/36/3
Read all the abstracts at that link. Subscribe to the e-version!
On Project MUSE soon. Stay tuned for that link.
Get your read on!
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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Dan Arndt
@danarndtwrites.bsky.social
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Listen, if there's ever a chance you can interview @jdragsky.bsky.social about game design and writing, do it.
www.thefandomentals.com/yazebas-bed-...
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Colleen Theisen
@librarycolleen.bsky.social
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UCLA Special Collections has an original illustration as their home page image. I've never seen that before, but I love it and now I am fully converted to Special Collections commissioning original artwork, especially with the sudden appearance of AI art. 📜 www.library.ucla.edu/visit/locati...
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
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My very first professional conference in the US was Aphra Behn. The first conference I ever ran was for the Behn & Burney Societies. So this week my heart is in Canterbury, where so many people I love & respect are celebrating Aphra in a major, major way.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
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Yeah, we had a horrifying experience with an eminent writer in trying to avoid a repeat of. We are, I hope, in the final stretch — fingers crossed! And replicable now that this workflow is in place, I’m hoping.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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Yeah, I’m doing all this rigamarole to shift the disbursement responsibilities to an outside 501(c)3 entity that pays travel/etc up front, ahead of time. Several international grads & freelancers who can’t be asked to carry costs for half a year!
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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Right now what keeps me going is the small things I can do for others, which hopefully build on each other. At the very least, they keep me from despair, which in my faith tradition is a grave moral condition.
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Lauren Bryant-Monk
@starvingsoubrette.bsky.social
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The best way I've found to help stave off the despair of the world we live in is to find ways to get involved in local organizing. There is a food bank or a native plant gardeners group or an English conversation group at your library that would love your support and you'll meet people who care too
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