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Day 15 (belated): Darcie Little Badger
An Indigenous author of YA fiction, Little Badger writes warm characters with deep hearts, and of course offers a fantasy world that feels refreshingly different to anyone steeped mainly in fantasy of the Tolkien lineage. Would be nice if works like hers weren't rare and didn't seem exotic, but that's not the world we live in.
I greatly enjoyed "A Snake Falls to Earth" and need to remember to grab more from her soon, although my current library crop is sitting at something like 8 books to do through first.
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Day 14: Zoulfa Katouh
Her book "As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow" was gripping, devastating, and beautiful (CW for Syrian civil war, war crimes, death of family/kids). It's also somehow a halal romance, it has an incredible twist, and it engages deeply with trauma, fear, and surrounding compulsions.
I've read several graphic novels recently that focused on the plight of refugees, but none have gone as deep into the horrors of war, nor have they navigated the complexities of the choice to flee from a cause you believe in so well. Reading this book after the fall of Assad certainly feels different, even though the ultimate outcome in Syria still seems like it is in flux and a second dictatorship seems possible. It also serves as a grim look at what might be ahead for the US given current events.
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Day 13: Patricia C. Wrede
If you know me you know I'm not exactly a fan of monarchy-praise, even (or perhaps especially) in "fairy tales" and adjacent writing, but even though Wrede's Princess Cimorene doesn't quite completely get away from that, I still love the character and her adventures in "Dealing With Dragons" and the sequels. It's honestly pretty cool that Wrede started out writing a trope-flipping fairy-tale adventure-comedy with a male teen prince protagonist, and then decided it was much more fun to focus on a princess who takes the trope-flipping to the next level and completely abandons most of the trappings of a fairy tale in order to both have fun with what's left of the genre and develop a story centered on wholesome friendship (with a dragon) and practical solutions to improbable problems.
I read these books as a kid, and then again as an adult, and then again out loud with my wife, and I'll be reading them again before long with our kids. I'm still on the lookout for more kids books with even better politics, but Wrede's work is definitely part of a solid childhood reading foundation from my perspective.
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Day 12: Laura Zimmerman
We're back to a YA author here, and Zimmerman has been floating in my list of people to include since the start. I've read "My Eyes are Up Here" about dealing with misogyny and just general logistics while having very large breasts in high school. It's both engaging & educational, but also very well written in terms of the pacing, comedic moments, and turns of phrase. That led me to check out "Just Do This One Thing For Me" which is extremely dark, *incredibly hilarious*, and so thick with dramatic irony it had me constantly amused. It's also really touching at times, and a beautiful ode to the bonds of siblinghood that made me cry as well as laugh. I won't spoil the plot at all, but it's one of the best YA books I've ever read.
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Day 11: Bee Johnson
As promised, back to printed books, and since I hadn't yet done any authors of picture or board books, here's one. It looks like Johnson is primarily an illustrator and has only written a single kids' book, but it's a magnificent one: "What Can A Mess Make?"
Naturally, the illustrations are rich and evocative, but it's also got one of my favorite formats (just a few lines per page, with consistent meter and rhymes throughout) and has the incredibly charming theme of two sisters who are constantly making messes, except it highlights the fun (and other emotions) they get out of their messy play, reminding parents cleaning up messes that there's a benefit to letting your kids make the mess in the first place, which is an idea that's stuck with me as I clean up my own kids' messes. This book checks *all* of my boxes for a good picture book (which is kinda hard).
P.S. at this point, I think I've exhausted the range of "author" definitions I wanted to include in my list, and I've now got the unenviable task of balancing between genres and trying to hit some of my favorite authors before we get to 20. We'll see how that goes...
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Day 10: Stacey Mason
Another academic, but this time one of my compatriots; we overlapped at UC Santa Cruz as advisees of Michael Mates, and even collaborated on a Twitch stream called ScholarsPlay for a bit, although we never coauthored any papers. We did chat about our research, and I had many good discussions with her about agency in interactive fiction, a topic we both published on. Her paper "On Games and Links: Extending the Vocabulary of Agency and Immersion in Interactive Narratives" (https://www.academia.edu/download/35908580/Mason_ICIDS.pdf) has a nice dive into this subject, and she also wrote "On Links: Exercises in Style" (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3342220.3343665) which deals with link poetics, a topic that helped me a lot in thinking about choice poetics.
Mason's PhD dissertation is "Responsiveness in Narrative Systems" (https://escholarship.org/content/qt9gq229h4/qt9gq229h4_noSplash_0f6fea7be9ac69924fe21d8dab3e7a60.pdf) which in part explains details of her "Lume" procedural storytelling system (not LLM-based). This is extra impressive to me specifically, since I *proposed* a story-generating system as part of my plan for my PhD, but didn't actually deliver one...
There are a number of non-man scholars of interactive storytelling I could include here, and I think I'll try to fit in at least one more before we get to 20, but for tomorrow I think I'll return to the realm of books printed on paper.
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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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@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."
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匹克开始停发薪资了
#薪资 匹克公司近期开始停发薪资，导致员工面临经济压力。此举引发了员工的不满和担忧，许多人质疑公司的财务状况和管理决策。随着薪资的停发，员工的生活保障受到严重影响，部分员工甚至表示无法维持基本生活开支。这一情况反映出企业在经济困难时期对员工权益的忽……（来自小红书23/08/01）
阅读全文: https://at.laborinfocn6.com/articles/url?lk=https%3A//www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/68ecb63800000000070327d0%3Fxsec_source%3Dapp_share%26xsec_token%3DCBDwgIW2CSUcL0HnZHhdkuFOVAOIY5DBDXWbLfg4eqkMI%253D%26author_share%3D1%26shareRedId%3DODlGQ0Q1PEw2NzUyOTgwNjg6OTlGSzw7%26share_id%3D964631b08531442bbd467c6f32c94539
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匹克开始停发薪资了
#薪资 匹克公司近期开始停发薪资，导致员工面临经济压力。此举引发了员工的不满和担忧，许多人质疑公司的财务状况和管理决策。随着薪资的停发，员工的生活保障受到严重影响，部分员工甚至表示无法维持基本生活开支。这一情况反映出企业在经济困难时期对员工权益的忽……（来自小红书23/08/01）
阅读全文: https://at.laborinfocn6.com/articles/url?lk=https%3A//www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/68ecb63800000000070327d0%3Fxsec_source%3Dapp_share%26xsec_token%3DCBDwgIW2CSUcL0HnZHhdkuFOVAOIY5DBDXWbLfg4eqkMI%253D%26author_share%3D1%26shareRedId%3DODlGQ0Q1PEw2NzUyOTgwNjg6OTlGSzw7%26share_id%3D964631b08531442bbd467c6f32c94539
原链接: https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/68ecb63800000000070327d0?xsec_source=app_share&xsec_token=CBDwgIW2CSUcL0HnZHhdkuFOVAOIY5DBDXWbLfg4eqkMI%3D&author_share=1&shareRedId=ODlGQ0Q1PEw2NzUyOTgwNjg6OTlGSzw7&share_id=964631b08531442bbd467c6f32c94539
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匹克开始停发薪资了
#薪资 匹克公司近期开始停发薪资，导致员工面临经济压力。此举引发了员工的不满和担忧，许多人质疑公司的财务状况和管理决策。随着薪资的停发，员工的生活保障受到严重影响，部分员工甚至表示无法维持基本生活开支。这一情况反映出企业在经济困难时期对员工权益的忽……（来自小红书23/08/01）
阅读全文: https://at.laborinfocn6.com/articles/url?lk=https%3A//www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/68ecb63800000000070327d0%3Fxsec_source%3Dapp_share%26xsec_token%3DCBDwgIW2CSUcL0HnZHhdkuFOVAOIY5DBDXWbLfg4eqkMI%253D%26author_share%3D1%26shareRedId%3DODlGQ0Q1PEw2NzUyOTgwNjg6OTlGSzw7%26share_id%3D964631b08531442bbd467c6f32c94539
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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>#Autoritarimus-Studie: Ernüchterndes Demokratiebild in Ost und West<
#Menschenbild
#PartikularerAutoritarismus
#Rechtsruck #PolitischeKommunikation
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>#Autoritarimus-Studie: Ernüchterndes Demokratiebild in Ost und West<
#Menschenbild
#PartikularerAutoritarismus
#Rechtsruck #PolitischeKommunikation
#Radikalisierung