Charles Wotton😷💉🚲
@charleswotton.bsky.social
EAP, applied linguistics, pedagogy, UofT, learning to trust my students, maps of imaginary places. Luddite pedagogy and the right to refuse AI. Settler. He / Him.
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Of course I would say this, but we need to talk about the moral & ideological case for play & leisure more than ever. So much political discourse - especially from the super-rich - assumes we ought to construct society around forcing citizens to spend most of their one, unrepeatable life working.
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Of course I would say this, but we need to talk about the moral & ideological case for play & leisure more than ever. So much political discourse - especially from the super-rich - assumes we ought to construct society around forcing citizens to spend most of their one, unrepeatable life working.
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Here's a reminder that I have a full asset pack, completely free for use! Featuring over 90 frames and borders!
Find it here: https://k-ramstack.itch.io/frame-asset-pack
Find it here: https://k-ramstack.itch.io/frame-asset-pack
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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New article on larp, activism and deliberation in this collection, out in December!
Education and Analog Role-Playing Games: Theory and Pedagogy, Volume 1
Education and Analog Role-Playing Games: Theory and Pedagogy brings together scholars and educators who explore the educational potential of analog role-playing games (tabletop role-playing games and ...
www.routledge.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
New article on larp, activism and deliberation in this collection, out in December!
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I’ve had over 25 years experience of making it easier to chat about sex and relationships, here are some of my top tips. (for parents, relatives, partners... )
www.bishuk.com/relationship...
www.bishuk.com/relationship...
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I’ve had over 25 years experience of making it easier to chat about sex and relationships, here are some of my top tips. (for parents, relatives, partners... )
www.bishuk.com/relationship...
www.bishuk.com/relationship...
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Now it's Stark Holborn's "Murder She Modularized: Authored Narrative in a Procgen World"
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Now it's Stark Holborn's "Murder She Modularized: Authored Narrative in a Procgen World"
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Share - help him get the word out. It shouldn’t be this hard to be an artist, but here we are.
I'm not going back to Substack. I will continue to post my newsletters from Ghost. But I did have to get back in there, just to post this and let people who thought I'd vanished know about this utter nightmare: substack.com/home/post/p-...
An Explanation (Which I Would Be Very Grateful If You Took The Time To Read)
What follows is a minor modern horror story.
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Share - help him get the word out. It shouldn’t be this hard to be an artist, but here we are.
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And if you reeeeally want to go in, watch her keynote at the 3rd Annual Civics of Technology annual meeting—a virtual convening I also highly recommend: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2024conference *scroll down for link
2024 Conference — Civics of Technology
www.civicsoftechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
And if you reeeeally want to go in, watch her keynote at the 3rd Annual Civics of Technology annual meeting—a virtual convening I also highly recommend: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2024conference *scroll down for link
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
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“Luke learns design” month, (cheat) day #21:
Star Trek 1971!
In 1971 a high school kid wrote a game on punch tape about hunting Klingons. In 1972 he rewrote it in HP BASIC, and it became briefly the most distributed software of all time. The code is still available.
So I ported it! Check it out!
Star Trek 1971!
In 1971 a high school kid wrote a game on punch tape about hunting Klingons. In 1972 he rewrote it in HP BASIC, and it became briefly the most distributed software of all time. The code is still available.
So I ported it! Check it out!
Star Trek 1971 - Web Remake
Star Trek 1971 - web remake
dr.eamer.dev
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
“Luke learns design” month, (cheat) day #21:
Star Trek 1971!
In 1971 a high school kid wrote a game on punch tape about hunting Klingons. In 1972 he rewrote it in HP BASIC, and it became briefly the most distributed software of all time. The code is still available.
So I ported it! Check it out!
Star Trek 1971!
In 1971 a high school kid wrote a game on punch tape about hunting Klingons. In 1972 he rewrote it in HP BASIC, and it became briefly the most distributed software of all time. The code is still available.
So I ported it! Check it out!
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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
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Oh. This is why fren shaped
Sometimes you see a story and you know exactly who else needs to see it. Hey @timcushing.bsky.social and @jmiers230.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets
City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals
www.scientificamerican.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Oh. This is why fren shaped
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Museums should stop displaying their collections as if patrons will view them, and start designing them for robbers who will be stealing them.
Saw a post today that advised writers to stop writing as if a human will read it and start writing for an LLM that will be summarising.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Museums should stop displaying their collections as if patrons will view them, and start designing them for robbers who will be stealing them.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
Trans Day of Remembrance vigil in Toronto
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Trans Day of Remembrance vigil in Toronto
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Hey! Know if there is any kind of pan-university organizing campaign against the willynilly adoption of this stuff?
bsky.app/profile/jons...
bsky.app/profile/jons...
Is there a national organization organizing and supporting faculty at universities cross the US working to resist and fight back against university admin efforts to impose AI into pedagogy and research?
It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.
It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Hey! Know if there is any kind of pan-university organizing campaign against the willynilly adoption of this stuff?
bsky.app/profile/jons...
bsky.app/profile/jons...
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At this point the Charter is effectively dead. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News
The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.
www.cbc.ca
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
At this point the Charter is effectively dead. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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If you're in Toronto between now and Feb, go check out the fantasy and scifi map display at the Merril Collection (3rd Floor of the Lillian H Smith branch on College)
I love these old maps and they have a couple by Phillipe Druillet, one of my fav artists.
#osr #fantasyart #fantasymap #tpl
I love these old maps and they have a couple by Phillipe Druillet, one of my fav artists.
#osr #fantasyart #fantasymap #tpl
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If you're in Toronto between now and Feb, go check out the fantasy and scifi map display at the Merril Collection (3rd Floor of the Lillian H Smith branch on College)
I love these old maps and they have a couple by Phillipe Druillet, one of my fav artists.
#osr #fantasyart #fantasymap #tpl
I love these old maps and they have a couple by Phillipe Druillet, one of my fav artists.
#osr #fantasyart #fantasymap #tpl
I don't believe in ghosts, but I AM afraid of ghosts
do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
November 19, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I don't believe in ghosts, but I AM afraid of ghosts
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So…
The federal budget passed.
No election triggered.
Now we need to think about how we can support each other to get through the harder times ahead.
Times are already tough.
It’s going to get worse.
When you can’t see the light, perhaps you were meant to be the light.
The federal budget passed.
No election triggered.
Now we need to think about how we can support each other to get through the harder times ahead.
Times are already tough.
It’s going to get worse.
When you can’t see the light, perhaps you were meant to be the light.
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
So…
The federal budget passed.
No election triggered.
Now we need to think about how we can support each other to get through the harder times ahead.
Times are already tough.
It’s going to get worse.
When you can’t see the light, perhaps you were meant to be the light.
The federal budget passed.
No election triggered.
Now we need to think about how we can support each other to get through the harder times ahead.
Times are already tough.
It’s going to get worse.
When you can’t see the light, perhaps you were meant to be the light.
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The myth that only uneducated people can be racist is doing us all serious harm.
Almost everyone with a high level of racial resentment tended to vote for Trump in the 2024 election, regardless of educational attainment. Conversely, those with a low racial resentment score tended to support Harris, whether they had a college degree or not.
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The myth that only uneducated people can be racist is doing us all serious harm.
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
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“journalism shouldn’t merely chronicle innovation; it should interrogate it.”
— Courtney Radsch @openmarkets.bsky.social
@knibbs.bsky.social @melissahei.bsky.social @katie-drummond.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @mollycrabapple.bsky.social @nitasha.bsky.social @kashhill.bsky.social
— Courtney Radsch @openmarkets.bsky.social
@knibbs.bsky.social @melissahei.bsky.social @katie-drummond.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @mollycrabapple.bsky.social @nitasha.bsky.social @kashhill.bsky.social
We should all be Luddites | Brookings
Courtney Radsch discusses rehabilitating the idea of Luddites as people concerned with the control and impact of technology.
www.brookings.edu
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“journalism shouldn’t merely chronicle innovation; it should interrogate it.”
— Courtney Radsch @openmarkets.bsky.social
@knibbs.bsky.social @melissahei.bsky.social @katie-drummond.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @mollycrabapple.bsky.social @nitasha.bsky.social @kashhill.bsky.social
— Courtney Radsch @openmarkets.bsky.social
@knibbs.bsky.social @melissahei.bsky.social @katie-drummond.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @mollycrabapple.bsky.social @nitasha.bsky.social @kashhill.bsky.social