Noah Springer
@noahspringer.com
acquisitions editor for dh, new media, game studies, hci, and design at the MIT Press | editor and columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxed https://boxd.it/oHIf
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Noah Springer
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· Jun 9
I made a starter pack of my authors (and some other authors from fields like STS and comm) here @mitpress.bsky.social. Let me know if you want to be added, either because I missed you, or because you have a book you are interested in publishing!
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Just saw someone reposting starter packs, and remembered mine! Check out some @mitpress.bsky.social authors here
Falling asleep to Bad Sant on Xmas Eve as god intended
a man with a beard is wearing a santa claus outfit and making a funny face .
Alt: a man with a beard is wearing a santa claus outfit and making a funny face . Billy Bob Thorton chewing lettuce in Bad Santa when the family interrupts his lunch
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Falling asleep to Bad Sant on Xmas Eve as god intended
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Is Life a Form of Computation?
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social
Is Life a Form of Computation?
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
December 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Is Life a Form of Computation?
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social
Oh right, having the flu sucks
December 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Oh right, having the flu sucks
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If we get 100 new subs by the end of the year we'll be adding at least one Final Romantasy fan fic into the Final Fantasy x Politics issue courtesy of @derekkinsman.com. Make him regret it folks!
Subscribe to Unwinnable before the end of the year and get all the 2025 issues free! That's twelve issues of Unwinnable Monthly AND twelve issues of Exploits for five clams. Feed your brain over the holidays!
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December 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
If we get 100 new subs by the end of the year we'll be adding at least one Final Romantasy fan fic into the Final Fantasy x Politics issue courtesy of @derekkinsman.com. Make him regret it folks!
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We just cooked up a year-end special: Subscribe to Unwinnable before the end of 2025, and you get access to all of our Monthly and Exploits issues from the whole year. This also applies to monthly subscribers who switch to an annual subscription! unwinnable.com/subscribe/
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
We just cooked up a year-end special: Subscribe to Unwinnable before the end of 2025, and you get access to all of our Monthly and Exploits issues from the whole year. This also applies to monthly subscribers who switch to an annual subscription! unwinnable.com/subscribe/
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ICYMI: "[W]hy, if some of my favorite bands from the 1990s (and beyond) are so influenced by Minutemen, had I never listened to them?"
@noahspringer.com explores the connections between his favorite music and Minutemen:
@noahspringer.com explores the connections between his favorite music and Minutemen:
A Lynchpin - Unwinnable
“How,” you may ask yourself, “did Noah, music critic of a sort, make it to almost 40 years and never run across this incredibly influential band?”
unwinnable.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
ICYMI: "[W]hy, if some of my favorite bands from the 1990s (and beyond) are so influenced by Minutemen, had I never listened to them?"
@noahspringer.com explores the connections between his favorite music and Minutemen:
@noahspringer.com explores the connections between his favorite music and Minutemen:
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Subscribe to Unwinnable before the end of the year and get all the 2025 issues free! That's twelve issues of Unwinnable Monthly AND twelve issues of Exploits for five clams. Feed your brain over the holidays!
unwinnable.com/subscribe/
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unwinnable.com/subscribe/
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December 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Subscribe to Unwinnable before the end of the year and get all the 2025 issues free! That's twelve issues of Unwinnable Monthly AND twelve issues of Exploits for five clams. Feed your brain over the holidays!
unwinnable.com/subscribe/
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unwinnable.com/subscribe/
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My confession about not knowing about Minutemen until about two months ago, but learning about how much they rule has been awesome!
"[W]hy, if some of my favorite bands from the 1990s (and beyond) are so influenced by Minutemen, had I never listened to them?"
@noahspringer.com explores the connections between his favorite music and Minutemen:
@noahspringer.com explores the connections between his favorite music and Minutemen:
A Lynchpin - Unwinnable
“How,” you may ask yourself, “did Noah, music critic of a sort, make it to almost 40 years and never run across this incredibly influential band?”
unwinnable.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
My confession about not knowing about Minutemen until about two months ago, but learning about how much they rule has been awesome!
My confession about not knowing about Minutemen until about two months ago, but learning about how much they rule has been awesome!
"[W]hy, if some of my favorite bands from the 1990s (and beyond) are so influenced by Minutemen, had I never listened to them?"
@noahspringer.com explores the connections between his favorite music and Minutemen:
@noahspringer.com explores the connections between his favorite music and Minutemen:
A Lynchpin - Unwinnable
“How,” you may ask yourself, “did Noah, music critic of a sort, make it to almost 40 years and never run across this incredibly influential band?”
unwinnable.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
My confession about not knowing about Minutemen until about two months ago, but learning about how much they rule has been awesome!
Reposted by Noah Springer
"[W]hy, if some of my favorite bands from the 1990s (and beyond) are so influenced by Minutemen, had I never listened to them?"
@noahspringer.com explores the connections between his favorite music and Minutemen:
@noahspringer.com explores the connections between his favorite music and Minutemen:
A Lynchpin - Unwinnable
“How,” you may ask yourself, “did Noah, music critic of a sort, make it to almost 40 years and never run across this incredibly influential band?”
unwinnable.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"[W]hy, if some of my favorite bands from the 1990s (and beyond) are so influenced by Minutemen, had I never listened to them?"
@noahspringer.com explores the connections between his favorite music and Minutemen:
@noahspringer.com explores the connections between his favorite music and Minutemen:
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In "Time by Design," @dawnaballard.bsky.social applies her expertise in chronemics—the study of time as it is bound to human communication—to illustrate how effective individuals, teams, and organizations routinely communicate slow to go fast. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255270...
December 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
In "Time by Design," @dawnaballard.bsky.social applies her expertise in chronemics—the study of time as it is bound to human communication—to illustrate how effective individuals, teams, and organizations routinely communicate slow to go fast. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255270...
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In "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay," Daniel Gardner demonstrates how a series of interfaces and other elements on the edges of gameplay are more central to gaming than we realize. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255358...
December 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
In "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay," Daniel Gardner demonstrates how a series of interfaces and other elements on the edges of gameplay are more central to gaming than we realize. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255358...
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I spoke to CHAIM GINGOLD about his book "Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine" ( @mitpress.bsky.social ) on my podcast #GameStudies. Please click here to listen, like & share:
➡️ newbooksnetwork.com/building-sim...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I spoke to CHAIM GINGOLD about his book "Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine" ( @mitpress.bsky.social ) on my podcast #GameStudies. Please click here to listen, like & share:
➡️ newbooksnetwork.com/building-sim...
//cc @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
➡️ newbooksnetwork.com/building-sim...
//cc @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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If animals think instinctively and humans reason logically, how did we evolve to gain this capacity? French cognitive scientists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber called this evolutionary puzzle "the enigma of reason."
December 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
If animals think instinctively and humans reason logically, how did we evolve to gain this capacity? French cognitive scientists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber called this evolutionary puzzle "the enigma of reason."
Me, Sunday morning, 30 years ago, thinking I’m sneaky in church
images of Trump dozing during today's cabinet meeting
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty & Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty & Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Me, Sunday morning, 30 years ago, thinking I’m sneaky in church
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Our Forerunners series of print and digital publications are all under 30K words and booksellers and educators love them.
manifold.umn.edu/projects/pro...
manifold.umn.edu/projects/pro...
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Our Forerunners series of print and digital publications are all under 30K words and booksellers and educators love them.
manifold.umn.edu/projects/pro...
manifold.umn.edu/projects/pro...
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
@ibogost.com feels like something you’ve noticed too!
Was at car dealership today. Noticed something funny. The normal cars had door poppers and overwhelming screens. The $120,000 car had physical door handles and tons of buttons.
May be obvious but I speculated years ago this would happen. Electronics cheaper than craftsmanship, because it is.
May be obvious but I speculated years ago this would happen. Electronics cheaper than craftsmanship, because it is.
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
@ibogost.com feels like something you’ve noticed too!
Greetings from @mitpress.bsky.social
at SuperComputing 2025! This one’s a little outside my normal purview, but it’s in STL, so it was only a 30 minute drive. If you happen to be at #SC25, stop by booth 6352 and say hi!
at SuperComputing 2025! This one’s a little outside my normal purview, but it’s in STL, so it was only a 30 minute drive. If you happen to be at #SC25, stop by booth 6352 and say hi!
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Greetings from @mitpress.bsky.social
at SuperComputing 2025! This one’s a little outside my normal purview, but it’s in STL, so it was only a 30 minute drive. If you happen to be at #SC25, stop by booth 6352 and say hi!
at SuperComputing 2025! This one’s a little outside my normal purview, but it’s in STL, so it was only a 30 minute drive. If you happen to be at #SC25, stop by booth 6352 and say hi!
Implication that Muggsy Bogues will be forgotten to history? I’d never accept that erasure
He's the sports jersey pope now. 1000 years from now historians will be going through the Vatican archives trying to figure out who the Charlotte Hornets were.
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Implication that Muggsy Bogues will be forgotten to history? I’d never accept that erasure
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From the transformation of higher education in the age of generative AI to how animals and smart machines measure up to human intelligence, get a great deal on MIT Press ebooks focused on AI via @humblebundle.com. Purchases support Sandy Hook Promise: www.humblebundle.com/books/human-...
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
From the transformation of higher education in the age of generative AI to how animals and smart machines measure up to human intelligence, get a great deal on MIT Press ebooks focused on AI via @humblebundle.com. Purchases support Sandy Hook Promise: www.humblebundle.com/books/human-...
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This mood is just - really strong right now.
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
This mood is just - really strong right now.
Dear premium TV shows: please stop pushing your official podcast on me. I will listen to a podcast about your show like I’m supposed to: 5 years later and three hours devoted to each episode with hosts who I have chosen over a squad of other lesser options
November 14, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Dear premium TV shows: please stop pushing your official podcast on me. I will listen to a podcast about your show like I’m supposed to: 5 years later and three hours devoted to each episode with hosts who I have chosen over a squad of other lesser options
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We have a cover! Coming soon and OA too! Based on the Rethinking Sexualities project with the always brilliant, always beautiful, always kind @susannapaasonen.bsky.social and @jenmadelene.bsky.social
Steered through the editorial process with ease and competence by @noahspringer.com at MIT Press
Steered through the editorial process with ease and competence by @noahspringer.com at MIT Press
November 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
We have a cover! Coming soon and OA too! Based on the Rethinking Sexualities project with the always brilliant, always beautiful, always kind @susannapaasonen.bsky.social and @jenmadelene.bsky.social
Steered through the editorial process with ease and competence by @noahspringer.com at MIT Press
Steered through the editorial process with ease and competence by @noahspringer.com at MIT Press