Dr. Michael Nagenborg
@mnagenborg.bsky.social
Roleplaying nerd with a bad taste in movies and a day job in a Philosophy department. My more professional posts: https://bsky.app/profile/mnagenborg.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy
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Excited to announce a trial run of [Untitled Games Event], a new Amsterdam-based space for experimental games and playable arts 👾
This will be a monthly 'book club' of sorts for games and conversations about play, inspired by @molleindustria.org + others' LikeLike.
Help us spread the word!
This will be a monthly 'book club' of sorts for games and conversations about play, inspired by @molleindustria.org + others' LikeLike.
Help us spread the word!
![A poster for [Untitled Games Event] on Sunday the 18th, in Amsterdam!
Sunday 18 Jan 2026
5-7PM
Tussen de Bogen 46
1013JB Amsterdam
(canal side through the gate)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fa7s4oiqp5wrpa6mpygojl3t/bafkreifrvbe5dqv2owd27qn6ezzehg5rsig7wujhijvcick63wok66dpra@jpeg)
January 15, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Excited to announce a trial run of [Untitled Games Event], a new Amsterdam-based space for experimental games and playable arts 👾
This will be a monthly 'book club' of sorts for games and conversations about play, inspired by @molleindustria.org + others' LikeLike.
Help us spread the word!
This will be a monthly 'book club' of sorts for games and conversations about play, inspired by @molleindustria.org + others' LikeLike.
Help us spread the word!
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"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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Today, higher education in NL takes to the streets once again to fight against budget cuts and for science, education, critical thinking and solidarity.
🟥 #WOinActie 🟥
🟥 #WOinActie 🟥
Morgen de grote HO staking! Tot op de Dam!
Tomorrow the big HE strike! See you at Dam square!
woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/12/prog...
Tomorrow the big HE strike! See you at Dam square!
woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/12/prog...
Programma Stakingsactie 9 december / Programme Strike Action 9 December
WOinActie is een beweging van studenten en medewerkers en maakt zich sterk voor de universiteit en haar toekomst.
woinactie.blogspot.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Today, higher education in NL takes to the streets once again to fight against budget cuts and for science, education, critical thinking and solidarity.
🟥 #WOinActie 🟥
🟥 #WOinActie 🟥
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Angry Academics in Amsterdam, hoping the next government may put a stop to the systematic destruction of higher education in the Netherlands.
#WOinActie
#WOinActie
December 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Angry Academics in Amsterdam, hoping the next government may put a stop to the systematic destruction of higher education in the Netherlands.
#WOinActie
#WOinActie
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Action group 0.7: ‘To @d66.nl, if you break your promise to retract the budget cuts, you will lose the votes of students and academics forever.’
December 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Action group 0.7: ‘To @d66.nl, if you break your promise to retract the budget cuts, you will lose the votes of students and academics forever.’
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sfeerimpressie van de Dam bij de Nationale Hogeronderwijsstaking. #WOinActie @aob.nl
December 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
sfeerimpressie van de Dam bij de Nationale Hogeronderwijsstaking. #WOinActie @aob.nl
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I’ve never actually heard Ted talk
December 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I’ve never actually heard Ted talk
Today is a good day to remind the incoming Dutch government about the necessity to provide adequate funding for Higher Education. I wish everyone save travel to #Amsterdam ! www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o... #CabinetDemolishesHigherEducation
Kabinet sloopt hoger onderwijs - 9 december landelijke stakingsdag
Verzet je tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs. Sluit je aan bij de strijd: 9 december landelijke hoger onderwijsstaking.
www.fnv.nl
December 9, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Today is a good day to remind the incoming Dutch government about the necessity to provide adequate funding for Higher Education. I wish everyone save travel to #Amsterdam ! www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o... #CabinetDemolishesHigherEducation
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A must read about #AI and higher education!
David Graeber wrote about the rise of “bullshit jobs”—work sustained not by necessity or meaning but by institutional inertia. Universities now risk creating their academic twin: bullshit degrees. AI threatens to professionalize the art of meaningless activity.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 AM
A must read about #AI and higher education!
This is a good start if the day. (1) I am on my way to the Dutch DiGRA Symposium 2025 in Utrecht: gameresearch.nl/2025/05/dutc...
Dutch DiGRA Symposium 2025: Futures for Game and Play Research. | Center for Game Research
Programme, sign-up sheet, and abstracts now available!
This year the Dutch DiGRA is hosted by Utrecht University. The programme is filled with research about the future of game studies, gamification...
gameresearch.nl
November 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM
This is a good start if the day. (1) I am on my way to the Dutch DiGRA Symposium 2025 in Utrecht: gameresearch.nl/2025/05/dutc...
Has been a while since I have been presenting a Philofilm. If you are in Enschede tomorrow, come and join me for discussing old guys and transhumanism.
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Has been a while since I have been presenting a Philofilm. If you are in Enschede tomorrow, come and join me for discussing old guys and transhumanism.
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If you've ever wondered how pig-butchering or love scams begin, here's how.
Made all the more timely by that recent Reuters report published yesterday on how Meta's internal research estimated that its platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the US.
Made all the more timely by that recent Reuters report published yesterday on how Meta's internal research estimated that its platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the US.
‘Are you single, old man?’: Scam artistry has never been easier
Going down the rabbit hole of online scams and exploitation, one finds an audience eager to believe the lies. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
If you've ever wondered how pig-butchering or love scams begin, here's how.
Made all the more timely by that recent Reuters report published yesterday on how Meta's internal research estimated that its platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the US.
Made all the more timely by that recent Reuters report published yesterday on how Meta's internal research estimated that its platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the US.
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This is horrifying and awful. TV has been a beacon of excellent and accessible political journalism for at least a decade now.
To unceremoniously fire every black woman and trans person in your organization is just fucking gross and Conde Nast should be ashamed.
To unceremoniously fire every black woman and trans person in your organization is just fucking gross and Conde Nast should be ashamed.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This is horrifying and awful. TV has been a beacon of excellent and accessible political journalism for at least a decade now.
To unceremoniously fire every black woman and trans person in your organization is just fucking gross and Conde Nast should be ashamed.
To unceremoniously fire every black woman and trans person in your organization is just fucking gross and Conde Nast should be ashamed.
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The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
It‘s that time of the year! Please invite your brilliant Bachelor students to get informed about our amazing international MSc programme Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society! I am also happy to take your questions.
Register now for the Online Master Open Day - November 19 - and find out about how to join our Philosophy of Science, Technology & Society MSc program:
www.utwente.nl/en/education...
www.utwente.nl/en/education...
October 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
It‘s that time of the year! Please invite your brilliant Bachelor students to get informed about our amazing international MSc programme Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society! I am also happy to take your questions.
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“Will we, as scientists, no longer respect sources, where ideas come from? A university should value and prioritise intellectual property.”
#NihilismAndTechnology
#NihilismAndTechnology
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be you rule 🖤
@apache.be you rule 🖤
October 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
“Will we, as scientists, no longer respect sources, where ideas come from? A university should value and prioritise intellectual property.”
#NihilismAndTechnology
#NihilismAndTechnology
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RIP Soo Catwoman www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/f...
Soo Catwoman, ‘the Female Face of Punk,’ Is Dead at 70
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
RIP Soo Catwoman www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/f...
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My campus is prettier than your campus...
October 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My campus is prettier than your campus...
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Hello, #AcademicSky! We are the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at KU Leuven. Our senior and junior researchers focus on #logic, #epistemology & #philsci. We’re here to share our work and connect with logicians and philosophers of science worldwide—help us spread the word! #philsky
September 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Hello, #AcademicSky! We are the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at KU Leuven. Our senior and junior researchers focus on #logic, #epistemology & #philsci. We’re here to share our work and connect with logicians and philosophers of science worldwide—help us spread the word! #philsky
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Wow, these guys have been doing WORK. This looks amazing.
Ludwig and El-Hani:
"The humbling experience of doing philosophy in fishing communities far away from the philosophical armchair puts a spotlight on many limitations of academic philosophy. ...
Ludwig and El-Hani:
"The humbling experience of doing philosophy in fishing communities far away from the philosophical armchair puts a spotlight on many limitations of academic philosophy. ...
“Transformative Transdisciplinarity. An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy” is out with Oxford University Press! I’m actually pretty proud of this book. It’s Open Access, so feel free to share fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
September 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Wow, these guys have been doing WORK. This looks amazing.
Ludwig and El-Hani:
"The humbling experience of doing philosophy in fishing communities far away from the philosophical armchair puts a spotlight on many limitations of academic philosophy. ...
Ludwig and El-Hani:
"The humbling experience of doing philosophy in fishing communities far away from the philosophical armchair puts a spotlight on many limitations of academic philosophy. ...
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My players’ exploration after a full weekend of playing. World map purchased. Rumors collected. 24 hexes visited.
September 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
My players’ exploration after a full weekend of playing. World map purchased. Rumors collected. 24 hexes visited.
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Good news! We finally finished the Feat For A Sphinx and the digital release is live! It was a great saga but we prevailed! Luna was able to finish the layout and everything is golden.
Prints will be available in zine stores after we do the KS fulfilment. evlyn.itch.io/a-feast-for-...
#morkborg
Prints will be available in zine stores after we do the KS fulfilment. evlyn.itch.io/a-feast-for-...
#morkborg
evlyn.itch.io
August 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Good news! We finally finished the Feat For A Sphinx and the digital release is live! It was a great saga but we prevailed! Luna was able to finish the layout and everything is golden.
Prints will be available in zine stores after we do the KS fulfilment. evlyn.itch.io/a-feast-for-...
#morkborg
Prints will be available in zine stores after we do the KS fulfilment. evlyn.itch.io/a-feast-for-...
#morkborg
On my way to #Utwente to welcome the new students of our #MSc #Philosophy of #Science , #Technolog and #Society ( #PSTS ). Yes, we start early here in the Netherlands! @philtech.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
On my way to #Utwente to welcome the new students of our #MSc #Philosophy of #Science , #Technolog and #Society ( #PSTS ). Yes, we start early here in the Netherlands! @philtech.bsky.social
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what's really interesting here (discussed in the piece), is that computer-assisted/post-editing translation has been around for decades but it seems that the hype or convenience or narrative of new LLMs is what's really killing the industry now as opposed to Google Translate 10 years ago
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
what's really interesting here (discussed in the piece), is that computer-assisted/post-editing translation has been around for decades but it seems that the hype or convenience or narrative of new LLMs is what's really killing the industry now as opposed to Google Translate 10 years ago
While by and large I like #AlienEarth , I am somewhat dissatisfied with the xenomorphs. The teeth look too metallic and the overall design is too clean. Is that just me?
August 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
While by and large I like #AlienEarth , I am somewhat dissatisfied with the xenomorphs. The teeth look too metallic and the overall design is too clean. Is that just me?