Finn Dawson
@antipollution.bsky.social
PhD @ USYD — Games, World-building and Capitalism — he/him
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🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
about to become extremely annoying
October 8, 2025 at 5:35 AM
about to become extremely annoying
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Clifford D Simak sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/simak_... was born on this day, so here's are some of his covers: for 'Time and Again'; the fixup novel 'City'; plus two for omnibus's that include both novels (Artist: Chris Moore, [couldn't identify], Karel Thole and [couldn't identify]):
August 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Clifford D Simak sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/simak_... was born on this day, so here's are some of his covers: for 'Time and Again'; the fixup novel 'City'; plus two for omnibus's that include both novels (Artist: Chris Moore, [couldn't identify], Karel Thole and [couldn't identify]):
Sydney Harbour Bridge today -- have never seen anything like this
August 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Sydney Harbour Bridge today -- have never seen anything like this
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Notes on Cosmic Osmo (1989) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...
July 31, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Notes on Cosmic Osmo (1989) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...
$ilkmoney gotta be the only person in the world rapping about ray-tracing
July 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
$ilkmoney gotta be the only person in the world rapping about ray-tracing
reading the news like
July 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
reading the news like
Doing both these things at the same time is great because i'm now spending all my time thinking about how DS2 imagines circulation and the importance of logistics/transportation labour for it. You literally build highways to make commodities move quicker!
born to play Death Stranding 2
forced to read Capital vol. 2
forced to read Capital vol. 2
July 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Doing both these things at the same time is great because i'm now spending all my time thinking about how DS2 imagines circulation and the importance of logistics/transportation labour for it. You literally build highways to make commodities move quicker!
Just unbelievably cooked, horrific
July 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Just unbelievably cooked, horrific
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I haven't fleshed it out into a full article, but at DiGRA last year I presented this talk which was a Marxist analysis of the tendency of (indie) developers becoming publishers after a big hit. Maybe of interest to the current discourse I'm seeing around publishers
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ey014...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ey014...
July 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I haven't fleshed it out into a full article, but at DiGRA last year I presented this talk which was a Marxist analysis of the tendency of (indie) developers becoming publishers after a big hit. Maybe of interest to the current discourse I'm seeing around publishers
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ey014...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ey014...
Death Stranding 2 semi-accurately captures Australian verbiage until they start referring to bushfires as "wildfires"
June 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Death Stranding 2 semi-accurately captures Australian verbiage until they start referring to bushfires as "wildfires"
born to play Death Stranding 2
forced to read Capital vol. 2
forced to read Capital vol. 2
June 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
born to play Death Stranding 2
forced to read Capital vol. 2
forced to read Capital vol. 2
Reading the first 70% of The Talented Mr. Ripley: 😀
Reading Patricia Highsmith's Wikipedia page when I'm 70% through The Talented Mr. Ripley: 😬
Reading Patricia Highsmith's Wikipedia page when I'm 70% through The Talented Mr. Ripley: 😬
June 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Reading the first 70% of The Talented Mr. Ripley: 😀
Reading Patricia Highsmith's Wikipedia page when I'm 70% through The Talented Mr. Ripley: 😬
Reading Patricia Highsmith's Wikipedia page when I'm 70% through The Talented Mr. Ripley: 😬
Discord is trying to get me to buy orbs and complete quests -- literally who is asking for this shit
May 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Discord is trying to get me to buy orbs and complete quests -- literally who is asking for this shit
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in spite of the decades-long clamoring for the need to look at video games as a serious and consequential art form, we still largely don't do that. instead they're still largely approached as excellent machines for a certain kind of playful addiction. the "play" is more important than anything else
i wrote about video games and addiction
blog.joeyschutz.com/to-kill-a-dr...
blog.joeyschutz.com/to-kill-a-dr...
March 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
in spite of the decades-long clamoring for the need to look at video games as a serious and consequential art form, we still largely don't do that. instead they're still largely approached as excellent machines for a certain kind of playful addiction. the "play" is more important than anything else
Walter Benjamin famously argued that fascism is about the Ghibli-isation of politics
March 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Walter Benjamin famously argued that fascism is about the Ghibli-isation of politics
fuck Windows 11, I'm running the Austin Powers OS
March 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
fuck Windows 11, I'm running the Austin Powers OS
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I guess it's good to know that there is a line for elite conduct somewhere but it is depressing how it's more commonly drawn in response to breaches of etiquette rather than, say, dropping of bombs or withdrawals of food aid
One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy.
“It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”
“It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”
March 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I guess it's good to know that there is a line for elite conduct somewhere but it is depressing how it's more commonly drawn in response to breaches of etiquette rather than, say, dropping of bombs or withdrawals of food aid
fuck roguelikes I'm over here playing dictionarylikes and encyclopedialikes
February 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
fuck roguelikes I'm over here playing dictionarylikes and encyclopedialikes
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Reading Jameson:
February 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Reading Jameson:
Reading Typee - Melville loves descriptions of sucking, rubbing, massaging, ejaculating (prayers, of course). Highly erotic work!
February 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Reading Typee - Melville loves descriptions of sucking, rubbing, massaging, ejaculating (prayers, of course). Highly erotic work!
We love you Adelaide
February 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
We love you Adelaide
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This is so disgusting there aren’t words
February 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is so disgusting there aren’t words
feels like the time to start getting into psychoanalysis
January 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
feels like the time to start getting into psychoanalysis
Dream job is making all of the iRobot robots for AI article header images
January 28, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Dream job is making all of the iRobot robots for AI article header images