Ruud Jacobs
@ruudxiv.bsky.social
Communication science, media psychology, and game studies at the University of Twente. He/him
I suggest we bring this attitude to our doings in 2026.
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I suggest we bring this attitude to our doings in 2026.
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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⏰ Final call! The deadline for #ICA26 is just a few hours away—don’t miss your chance to submit! Make sure your submissions are in before time runs out.
👉 Submit now and be part of it! www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA26-...
👉 Submit now and be part of it! www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA26-...
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
⏰ Final call! The deadline for #ICA26 is just a few hours away—don’t miss your chance to submit! Make sure your submissions are in before time runs out.
👉 Submit now and be part of it! www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA26-...
👉 Submit now and be part of it! www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA26-...
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"go to TikTok. See for yourself."
![Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake:
“They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreickzwdynkak7r4lur6afktglm3gontqsq5r5c7jeewyecyd4dczla@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 AM
"go to TikTok. See for yourself."
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Imagine organisations took all the developer years they currently pour into AI assistants and used them to make their services more stable, accessible, performant, sustainable. The uplift in CSAT etc would be massive and long-term in comparison. The opportunity costs of AI are staggering.
October 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Imagine organisations took all the developer years they currently pour into AI assistants and used them to make their services more stable, accessible, performant, sustainable. The uplift in CSAT etc would be massive and long-term in comparison. The opportunity costs of AI are staggering.
When the carpet matches the drapes; dog edition.
October 4, 2025 at 6:13 AM
When the carpet matches the drapes; dog edition.
Me and doing academia after the third journal reject in four months' time:
a boy is swinging a bat at a ball on a tee
Alt: A boy is swinging a bat at a ball on a tee, misses by a wide margin. The weight of the bat sets him into a twirl. At the end of the twirl the bat weakly taps the ball off the tee, presumably having it land just off-screen.
media.tenor.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Me and doing academia after the third journal reject in four months' time:
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We are very proud that the keynote will be held by current ICA Game Studies Chair Ruud S. Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social: “Uncharted or The Last of Us? Interrogating the Unrealized Potential of Serious Games.”
Hope to see you all in Palma!
Hope to see you all in Palma!
September 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We are very proud that the keynote will be held by current ICA Game Studies Chair Ruud S. Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social: “Uncharted or The Last of Us? Interrogating the Unrealized Potential of Serious Games.”
Hope to see you all in Palma!
Hope to see you all in Palma!
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gotta bump this back up on my TL again because it’s 40% near its goal…
If you like culture crit, backrooms, liminal spaces, and horror… this is up your alley!
it’s a wonderful collection of essays on the topic.
I wrote the chapter about games!
If you like culture crit, backrooms, liminal spaces, and horror… this is up your alley!
it’s a wonderful collection of essays on the topic.
I wrote the chapter about games!
the crowdfund campaign for Darkest Margins is here!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/darkest-ma...
“DARKEST MARGINS is a collection of 24 essays from genre writers exploring expressions of liminality and liminal spaces in the horror genre, across cinema, literature, television, art and video games.”
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/darkest-ma...
“DARKEST MARGINS is a collection of 24 essays from genre writers exploring expressions of liminality and liminal spaces in the horror genre, across cinema, literature, television, art and video games.”
DARKEST MARGINS
The aim is to raise funds for the 1st print run of DARKEST MARGINS: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 6:45 AM
gotta bump this back up on my TL again because it’s 40% near its goal…
If you like culture crit, backrooms, liminal spaces, and horror… this is up your alley!
it’s a wonderful collection of essays on the topic.
I wrote the chapter about games!
If you like culture crit, backrooms, liminal spaces, and horror… this is up your alley!
it’s a wonderful collection of essays on the topic.
I wrote the chapter about games!
In a beautiful merger of Dead Internet with people's intense love of quoting famous authors, today's image search turned up this wonderfully juxtaposed gem.
September 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In a beautiful merger of Dead Internet with people's intense love of quoting famous authors, today's image search turned up this wonderfully juxtaposed gem.
Recently found out this is not something we can opt out of for any of the major publishers.
The thing is, I know them doing this will not make my future work less valuable, but I also know people in positions of power in academia will think it does.
The thing is, I know them doing this will not make my future work less valuable, but I also know people in positions of power in academia will think it does.
Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.
September 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Recently found out this is not something we can opt out of for any of the major publishers.
The thing is, I know them doing this will not make my future work less valuable, but I also know people in positions of power in academia will think it does.
The thing is, I know them doing this will not make my future work less valuable, but I also know people in positions of power in academia will think it does.
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"Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.”
walzr.com/IMG_0001
this is beautiful 🥲
walzr.com/IMG_0001
this is beautiful 🥲
IMG_0001
walzr.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.”
walzr.com/IMG_0001
this is beautiful 🥲
walzr.com/IMG_0001
this is beautiful 🥲
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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i like how self-conscious they are about how wildly outdated their book is
“Sure your house is burning down, but we wrote a whole book about its leaking faucet.”
July 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
i like how self-conscious they are about how wildly outdated their book is
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NOTHIN BETTER THAN LIVE TV
July 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
NOTHIN BETTER THAN LIVE TV
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Might be a good time to remind folks of the No ICE in California itch bundle raising funds for the immigrant defenders law center (or you can donate to them directly) itch.io/b/3110/no-ic...
July 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Might be a good time to remind folks of the No ICE in California itch bundle raising funds for the immigrant defenders law center (or you can donate to them directly) itch.io/b/3110/no-ic...
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people keep "warning" us that windows 10 will stop getting updates in a few months. but secretly, the prospect of No More Windows Updates floods your heart with happiness
you know this. they know this. we all feel an obligation to pretend we care care about Vulnerabilities but we know we're lying
you know this. they know this. we all feel an obligation to pretend we care care about Vulnerabilities but we know we're lying
July 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
people keep "warning" us that windows 10 will stop getting updates in a few months. but secretly, the prospect of No More Windows Updates floods your heart with happiness
you know this. they know this. we all feel an obligation to pretend we care care about Vulnerabilities but we know we're lying
you know this. they know this. we all feel an obligation to pretend we care care about Vulnerabilities but we know we're lying
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People freaking out when chat gpt says it’s alive
June 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
People freaking out when chat gpt says it’s alive
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I got to talk to Ross on my Stream a while back about the Stop Killing Games initiative, and it's a shame the traction has stopped, so even if I'm a relatively tiny streamer, let's see if we can't give this another push?
If you're in an EU citizen, it'll take 2 mins:
www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
If you're in an EU citizen, it'll take 2 mins:
www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
June 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I got to talk to Ross on my Stream a while back about the Stop Killing Games initiative, and it's a shame the traction has stopped, so even if I'm a relatively tiny streamer, let's see if we can't give this another push?
If you're in an EU citizen, it'll take 2 mins:
www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
If you're in an EU citizen, it'll take 2 mins:
www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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generating a large amount of dull bullshit is a solved problem. we've had that down since the dawn of time. the challenge is making anything at all that doesn't suck shit
June 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
generating a large amount of dull bullshit is a solved problem. we've had that down since the dawn of time. the challenge is making anything at all that doesn't suck shit
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I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants
May 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants