Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

@jayb33.bsky.social you wouldn't happen to be the Justen Brown who wrote For Gold & Glory would you?

Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it

authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...

Share with the vulnerable you know:

humanrightsfirst.org/library/huma...

I can think of thousands of reasons why I wouldn't want some random AI chat bot to have access to my entire college career and all of my job prospects. I can think of literally no good reason to do this ever.

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

Folks in the gaming space: does anyone know how to get in contact with Justen Brown, the copyright holder for the 2e retroclone, For Gold & Glory?

For folks who have wholly moved to blue books for student essays, how has it worked for you? I presume it would be held in-class.

Long time, no post. So, what have I been up to? Researching TTRPGs, drafting my own game, and learning about book layout and design with InDesign.

Oof, talk about bringing a horror film to life.

Kansas babysitter finds man hiding under kid's bed www.npr.org/2025/03/28/n...

Ich get unhorsed
But Ich mount up agayne
Ich am nevir goinge to lose thys joust

Game Studies folks take note: www.gamedeveloper.com/production/v...

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

For folks who have taught Bram Stoker's Dracula to undergraduates, how did it go? I'm mostly concerned about length. Our composition classes at my uni have themes, and I was thinking of having mine focus on monsters, using Cohen's "Monster Theory" as a theoretical text.

America's loneliness problem has a cure: Leave your house, put down your phone www.npr.org/2025/01/29/n...

VERY good news from @bookshop-org.bsky.social!!

Really interesting discovery at the Newberry Library, where one of their Nahuatl-language manuscripts turns out to have been made using by far the largest known example of a pre-Columbian Mesoamerica paper technology known as maguey paper: www.newberry.org/news/analysi... #paperhistory

This is the good stuff. www.newberry.org/calendar/eme...