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Day 9: Eniko Fox
Edit: added a store link for Kitsune Tails.
We're back to videogames, and with another author who's on the fediverse: @eniko
Fox has developed a few games, but the one that I've played and love is Kitsune Tails. It's a sapphic romance take on Super Mario Bros. 3, and (critically for a platformer) it's got very crisp controls and runs smoothly. I think one thing a lot of indie platforms devs struggle with is getting those fundamentals right, because on the technical side they require very challenging things like optimization of your code and extremely careful input handling that go beyond the basic skills necessary to put together a game. From following her on Twitter and now the Fediverse, it's clear that Fox is a deeply competent programmer, and her games reflect that. Beyond the fundamentals, Kitsune Tails has a very sweet plot with a very cool twist in the middle, and without spoilers, that twist made both the levels and gameplay very difficult to design, but Fox rose to that challenge and put together a wonderful game. Particularly past the plot twist (but in subtle ways before it) Fox is able to build beyond SMB3 mechanics in ways that gracefully complement the original, and the movement in the game ends up being difficult but extremely satisfying, with an excellent skill/speed response allowing for both slower, easier approaches that work for a range of players and high-skill extremely-fast options for those who want to push themselves.
There have been plenty of people I follow with indie game projects that are kinda meh in the end, and I'll still boost them without much comment if they're decent. Fox' work is actually amazing, which is why if you've followed me for a while you'll know I tend to mention it periodically, and which is why she makes this list of authors I respect.
You can buy Kitsune Tails here: https://eniko.itch.io/kitsunetails
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Day 8 (a bit late): Timnit Gebru
Academic authors are authors too, and there are a bunch of people I deeply respect both in my fields and adjacent.
Gebru is someone I have huge respect for because she stood up for her (mild, completely reasonable) principles to the point of losing her job on Google's AI ethics team (since disbanded entirely), and then went ahead and founded an independent research institute to continue doing AI ethics research.
Why was she fired? Because she insisted on publishing her "Stochastic Parrots" paper after it passed Google internal review only to have extra nonstandard scrutiny applied at the last minute. Why did Google want to suppress her paper (which included an academic co-author)? Because it expressed valid criticisms of the large language models fad, and Google was planning to make money off that fad. Personally, I don't think I'd hire an "AI ethics" team only to then try to suppress their publications, and Google seems to now agree, having scrapped the team (during the initial furor, Timnit's boss also effectively quit to support her).
That "Stochastic Parrots" paper? Indeed, it predicts the core underlying problems with large language models that lead to so many of their user-side harms today. You can read it here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922
Here's the link to the Digital AI Research institute, which Gebru helped found and where she works today AFAIK, doing lots of great work on both user-side and supply-side AI harms:
https://www.dair-institute.org/
Edit: of course I forgot that Timnit is the first person I'm aware of on this list to be on the fediverse: @timnitGebru
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Day 7: Brenda Romero
I hinted yesterday I'd be moving beyond a narrow definition of "author," so of course that means I'm going to include game designers. I'll definitely get back to some more traditional authors before I hit 20, but I wanted to mix things up early.
Brenda Romero is something of a celebrity in the niche culture that is the Game Developers Coherence, I like to imagine. Of course the misogyny there likely means many just pay attention to who her husband is, but she's a terrific designer in her own right, if not prolific.
Content warning: the Holocaust
To me her most outstanding game has always been "Train," which is an exhibition tabletop game in which players collaborate to load and unload cargo and move train cars around a board, with the stated objective of efficiently delivering cargo to meet certain collective goals. However, through both physical cues and in-game reveals, it becomes clear to players that the game they are playing stimulates the Holocaust, and the cargo they're moving is people being brought to extermination camps. The actual goal of the game is for the players to stop playing and walk away, or perhaps to play against the stated objective and gridlock the trains. Romero supervised play at the expos where it was presented, and intervened to stop the game if the players continued too far (in some cases not picking up on the hints offered because they had very little knowledge of the Holocaust as a historical event). I've never played the game myself; just heard Romero give a report about it, but the sheer genius of designing a game meant not to be played to help educate about a system within which defying the rules was the only ethical action earned her instant respect from me. Romero has a whole series of games in this vein about didn't historical events (not necessarily all designed to not be played), although last I checked in most are just at prototyping stages.
I've got other non-man game designers that will appear on this list, but Romero stood out to go first because she's a good example that you don't need to be someone prolific or widely-known to do great work; I'd bet most people have an author or two they respect who is not widely known (and I'll include at least one more from that category on this list).
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Day 6: Kamome Shirahama
Before I wander much father afield, I'd be remiss not to include at least one Mangaka (I've got 8 on my planning list; if you think Manga is pushing it just wait until you see what the next few days have in store).
I'm currently following "Witch Hat Atelier," and it's absolutely amazing in several dimensions: first class world-building, deep philosophical themes, nuanced + diverse cast, tightly-constructed interwoven plots, deep mysteries that keep everything churning and show up in unexpected places, absolutely stellar art both in terms of in-panel depictions and page layouts (some are Watchmen-quality), especially if you are sartorially inclined, and general kindness of its core messages. This is a series I wish every programmer would read, because it includes excellent advice about software design in multiple ways (did I mention there's an intricate and logical magic system within which the main character innovates in legible-to-the-reader-as-innovation ways?). Also, I bet I would have enjoyed this just a much as a 10-year-old as I'm enjoying it in my 30's, which is something that takes well-honed skill to pull off.
Shirahama is a master of her craft, and I'm honestly kinda surprised to see Witch Hat is only her second series. Definitely thinking how I can get my hands on her earlier work in English.
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Day 5: Robin Wall Kimmerer
I'm taking these liberty of changing my hashtag and expanding the intent of this list to include all non-men, although Kimerer is a woman so I'll get to more gender diversity later... I've also started planning this out more and realized that I may continue a bit beyond 20...
In any case, Robin Wall Kimmerer is an Indigenous academic biologist and excellent non-fiction author whose work touches on Potawotomi philosophy, colonialism (including in academic spaces), and ideas for a better future. Anyone interested in ecology, conservation, or decolonization in North America will probably be impressed by her work and the rich connections she weaves between academic ecology and Indigenous knowledge offer a critical opportunity to expand your understanding of the world if like me you were raised deeply enmeshed in "Western" scientific tradition. I suppose a little background in skepticism helped prepare me to respect her writing, but I don't think that's essential.
I've only read "Braiding Sweetgrass," but "Gathering Moss" and her more recent "The Serviceberry" are high on my to-read list, despite my predilection for fiction. Kimmerer incorporates a backbone of fascinating anecdotes into "Braiding Sweetgrass" that makes it surprisingly easy reading for a work that's philosophical at its core. She also pulls off an impressive braided organization to the whole thing, weaving together disparate knowledges in a way that lets you see both their contradictions and their connections.
The one criticism I've seen of her work is that it's not sufficiently connected to other Indigenous philosophers & writers, and that it's perhaps too comfortable of a read for colonizers, and that seems valid to me, even though (perhaps because I am a colonizer) I still find her book important.
An excellent author in any case, and one doing concrete ideological work towards a better world.
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Day 19 (a bit late): Alice Oseman
As I said I've got 14 authors to fit into two days. Probably just going to extend to 30? But Oseman gets this spot as an absolute legend of queer fiction in both novel & graphic novel form, and an excellent example of the many truths queer writers have to share with non-queer people that can make everyone's lives better. Her writing is very kind, despite in many instances dealing with some dark stuff.
I started out on Heartstopper, which is just so lovely and fun to read, and then made my way through several of her novels. The one I'll highlight here which I think it's her greatest triumph is "Loveless", which is semi-autobiographical and was at least my first (but no longer only) experience with the "platonic romance" sub-genre. It not only helped me work through some crufty internal doubts about aro/ace identities that I'd never really examined, but in the process helped improve my understanding of friendship, period. Heck, it's probably a nice novel for anyone questioning any sort of identity or dealing with loneliness, and it's just super-enjoyable as a story regardless of the philosophical value.
To cheat a bit more here on my author count, I recently read "Dear Wendy" by Ann Zhao, which shouts out "Loveless" and offers a more expository exploration of aro/ace identities, but "Loveless" is a book with more heart and better writing overall, including the neat plotting and great pacing. I think there are also parallels with Becky Albertalli's work, though I think I like Oseman slightly more. Certainly both excel at writing queer romance (and romance-adjacent) stuff with happy endings (#OwnVoices wins again with all three authors).
In any case, Oseman is excellent and if you're not up for reading a novel, Heartstopper is a graphic novel series that's easy to jump into and very kind to its adorable main characters.
I think I've now decided to continue to 30, which is a relief, so I'm tagging this (and the next post that rounds out 20) two ways.
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#LGBTQ related #Wikipedia article created 1 hour ago
Rachel Dawson (author)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dawson_%28author%29
Rachel Dawson is a lesbian author based in Cardiff. Her debut novel, Neon Roses, was published in 2020 -
#LGBTQ related #Wikipedia article created 1 hour ago
Rachel Dawson (author)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dawson_%28author%29
Rachel Dawson is a lesbian author based in Cardiff. Her debut novel, Neon Roses, was published in 2020 -
#LGBTQ related #Wikipedia article created 1 hour ago
Rachel Dawson (author)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dawson_%28author%29
Rachel Dawson is a lesbian author based in Cardiff. Her debut novel, Neon Roses, was published in 2020 -
Donna Haraway
Manifesto Cyborg
#millelibri #libri #LibriSegreti #Libri #books #bookstodon #femminismo #haraway #nonbinary
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I was just hit by this:
SHAME DESERVES STUDY AS HIERARCHY'S ENFORCER.
Paper: Attaching #shame to hierarchy and #hierarchy to some versions of #attachment
Abstract: #AttachmentTheory sees individual autonomy as childrearing practices’ appropriate goal. But many people in the world do not share attachment theorists’ validation of autonomy. They instead believe that they should train their children into behavior appropriate to hierarchical ... "
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RE: https://pdx.social/@kenjen/116466693065651278
For Android users on #Obtainium, this link adds #Holos in one tap, with updates pulled from the custom #FDroid repo:
https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/redirect?r=obtainium://app/%7B%22id%22%3A%22social.holos.app%22%2C%22url%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Ffdroid.fedilab.app%22%2C%22author%22%3A%22Fedilab%20Apps%22%2C%22name%22%3A%22Holos%22%2C%22preferredApkIndex%22%3A0%2C%22additionalSettings%22%3A%22%7B%5C%22appIdOrName%5C%22%3A%5C%22Holos%5C%22%2C%5C%22pickHighestVersionCode%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22trySelectingSuggestedVersionCode%5C%22%3Atrue%2C%5C%22trackOnly%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22versionExtractionRegEx%5C%22%3A%5C%22%5C%22%2C%5C%22matchGroupToUse%5C%22%3A%5C%22%5C%22%2C%5C%22versionDetection%5C%22%3Atrue%2C%5C%22releaseDateAsVersion%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22useVersionCodeAsOSVersion%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22apkFilterRegEx%5C%22%3A%5C%22%5C%22%2C%5C%22invertAPKFilter%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22autoApkFilterByArch%5C%22%3Atrue%2C%5C%22appName%5C%22%3A%5C%22%5C%22%2C%5C%22appAuthor%5C%22%3A%5C%22%5C%22%2C%5C%22shizukuPretendToBeGooglePlay%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22allowInsecure%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22exemptFromBackgroundUpdates%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22skipUpdateNotifications%5C%22%3Afalse%2C%5C%22about%5C%22%3A%5C%22%5C%22%2C%5C%22refreshBeforeDownload%5C%22%3Afalse%7D%22%2C%22overrideSource%22%3A%22FDroidRepo%22%7DThanks @kenjen for sharing.
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The many literary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft – author of novels, travel writing and children’s books
Wollstonecraft’s literary career was dedicated to questioning power, society and the roles assigned to women.
by Aditi Upmanyu
Mary Wollstonecraft at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84 -
There's a researcher, Jiang Yuancheng, who's doing a great work finding CPython crashes and memory leaks: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20author%3AYuanchengJiang
They've come up with a very clever idea for a new way of fuzzing, made a fine tool out of it, and are reaping great results.
Fuzzing can be a diminishing returns endeavor: you only have so many bugs to find. Their approach has shown itself to cover different areas and kinds of issues well, as shown by their track record.
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#Fusil works by generating source files with random calls, using interesting arguments, then monitoring their execution and output. It usually finds crashes resulting from the processing of invalid objects and unexpected call patterns.
Fusil was created by @vstinner.
Features added by me include running generated code in parallel threads, testing class instances in addition to classes and functions, and using new interesting objects/values as inputs.
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Five years ago, I received a 100$ regression bounty pretty much by accident for reporting a regression in #hledger [1] (what an amazing concept and stability commitment!). I decided to spread that back as issue bounties to feed into the community [2]. Those often sat there for years, humans take time.
That was before the slop era.
Now, AI bountyhunters want it, so I changed my terms to 100% human work [3].
[1] https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/1638#issuecomment-892386220
[2] https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues?q=bounty%20author%3Anobodyinperson
[3] https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues?q=bounty%20human%20author%3Anobodyinperson -
#Replications are an important yet neglected part of ensuring #scientific #progress .🐌
So here is a call for more #love for replications! 🌏 🌎 🌍Maybe you want to replicate an educational finding or publishing a replication you have in your #FileDrawer ?
Here is the chance: #ZBF #ZeitschriftFürBildungsforschung offers replications as #new type of paper (above and beyond using #RegisteredReport for replications):
https://link.springer.com/journal/35834/submission-guidelines#Instructions%20for%20Authors_Replications -
#Replications are an important yet neglected part of ensuring #scientific #progress .🐌
So here is a call for more #love for replications! 🌏 🌎 🌍Maybe you want to replicate an educational finding or publishing a replication you have in your #FileDrawer ?
Here is the chance: #ZBF #ZeitschriftFürBildungsforschung offers replications as #new type of paper (above and beyond using #RegisteredReport for replications):
https://link.springer.com/journal/35834/submission-guidelines#Instructions%20for%20Authors_Replications -
#Replications are an important yet neglected part of ensuring #scientific #progress .🐌
So here is a call for more #love for replications! 🌏 🌎 🌍Maybe you want to replicate an educational finding or publishing a replication you have in your #FileDrawer ?
Here is the chance: #ZBF #ZeitschriftFürBildungsforschung offers replications as #new type of paper (above and beyond using #RegisteredReport for replications):
https://link.springer.com/journal/35834/submission-guidelines#Instructions%20for%20Authors_Replications -
Ich muss mal den @AnthroBlogger aus dem Kontext reißen, weil mir gerade auffällt, dass genau dieser Punkt mich am meisten stört. Es ist kein persönliches Ding. Ich komme klar und habe meine Leute. Aber die Sache, die ich gut finde, ist nachhaltig beschädigt. Das ist extrem ärgerlich und unnötig.
#gwup #skeptiker
https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fanthroblogger.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lstabwtgts2i&viewtype=tree -
#Audit of #Vodozemac, a native #Rust reference implementation of #Matrix #E2EE
Paper
https://matrix.org/media/Least%20Authority%20-%20Matrix%20vodozemac%20Final%20Audit%20Report.pdf -
Bell Hooks
Il femminismo è per tutti. Una politica appassionata.
#millelibri #libri #LibriSegreti #Libri #books #bookstodon #femminismo #bellhooks #femminismopertutti
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La guerra capitalista
Emiliano Brancaccio, Raffaele Giammetti, Stefano Lucarelli, Roberto Scazzieri
#millelibri #libri #LibriSegreti #LibriEDintorni #libripendolari #books #mastobooks #guerra #economia #brancaccio
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Millesuoni. Deleuze, Guattari e la musica elettronica
Roberto Paci Dalò
#millelibri #libri #LibriSegreti #Libri #books #bookstodon #deleuze #elettronica
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L'ape e l'architetto
Giovanni Ciccotti, Marcello Cini, Michelangelo de Maria, Giovanni Jona-Lasinio
#millelibri #libri #LibriSegreti #LibriEDintorni #libripendolari #books #mastobooks
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Paul B. Preciado
Manifesto Controsessuale#millelibri #libri #LibriSegreti #LibriEDintorni #libripendolari
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Autisme-diagnose blijkt soms hoogbegaafdheid te zijn
#hoogbegaafd #misdiagnose
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trouw.nl%2Fopinie%2Fautisme-diagnose-blijkt-soms-hoogbegaafdheid-te-zijn%7Ebf101404%2F -
Autisme-diagnose blijkt soms hoogbegaafdheid te zijn
#hoogbegaafd #misdiagnose
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trouw.nl%2Fopinie%2Fautisme-diagnose-blijkt-soms-hoogbegaafdheid-te-zijn%7Ebf101404%2F -
@skeuomorphology let me know about https://indoorco2map.com and so my next recording gets uploaded! (A lovely little cafe, which must be rather drafty I think!)
https://mastodon.social/@skeuomorphology/115310359503174582
https://indoorco2map.com/?lat=53.24710&lng=-4.10932&zoom=8.52
(Along with a couple of minor GitHub issues logged! 🤓 https://github.com/AurelWu/IndoorCO2AppMAUI/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20author%3Ada5nsy)
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"This report is an investigation by the Reactionary International and the Transnational Institute, and is accompanied by a series of essays on fascism as part of the State of Power report.
The New Authoritarian Wave
Far right and authoritarian forces have capitalised on global economic insecurity and political alienation to win elections. This map traces their electoral success, showing where far-right parties lead governments, shape ruling coalitions or are positioned to take power. It also tracks the main hubs and actors of transnational far right organising, represented here by the locations of transnational conferences and highlighting the key foundations and political networks that circulate funding, ideas and strategy. This has helped transform national movements into a coordinated global current."