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Alex Monea Feb 19, 2025

Any friends putting together panels for @AoIR 2025 and need an extra person?

Alex Monea Feb 5, 2025

I might be biased though. Nick Taylor was my teacher in grad school and his approach to graduate student mentorship is still one that I aspire to every day. I think his deep, earnest, and empathic engagement comes through in the book and will make a similar impact on readers.

Alex Monea Feb 5, 2025

Excited to teach Nick Taylor’s The Grounds of Gaming this spring. The book is amazing - highlighting how spaces of play and material infrastructures shape gaming, exclude others, and reify patriarchy, colonialism, capitalism, and White supremacy. Get a copy now! #videogames #gamestudies

Alex Monea Feb 5, 2025

TechCrunch Feb 4, 2025

Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website https://tcrn.ch/4jMOfdi

Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch

Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. The company

TechCrunch

Alex Monea Jan 14, 2025

I feel like this is the archetype and pinnacle of experiences we all have every so often with digital files. I cringe while reading and feel this man's pain, like a familiar old wound is stinging. https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-landfill-excavation-james-howells-judge-ruling/

Judge Ends One Man’s 11-Year Quest to Recover $765 Million in Bitcoin by Digging Up a Landfill

A UK judge ruled against James Howells, who has been trying to get a hard drive with private keys to a cryptocurrency fortune out of a landfill for over a decade.

WIRED

Alex Monea Jan 8, 2025

Violet Blue Jan 8, 2025

"For those of us observing this spectacle in a sort-of state of self-aware, displaced horror reserved for those moments when life and sci-fi dystopia cross shadows, it has never been more clear that Facebook's ideas about organizing society are wholly broken." Me, 2014: https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-unethical-untrustworthy-and-now-downright-harmful/

Facebook: Unethical, untrustworthy, and now downright harmful

News of Facebook experimenting on its users' emotional states has rattled everyone. Worse, the tool used to perform the experiments is so flawed there's no way of knowing if users were harmed.

ZDNET

Alex Monea Jan 8, 2025

Has @AoIR released any updates on the policy for adopting official policies? I haven't seen anything since we were all requested to leave feedback on the draft document and am wondering when the next version might be announced and/or be put into effect.

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Alex Monea Jan 8, 2025

@taylorlorenz The good news from Meta just keeps rolling in. Now users can say LGBTQ+ identity is a "mental illness" on the platform again. https://www.wired.com/story/meta-immigration-gender-policies-change/

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’

Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.

WIRED

Alex Monea Jan 7, 2025

New year, same old Meta. Great article from @taylorlorenz. Always ambivalent about seeing the research from by book The Digital Closet (bit.ly/digitalcloset) continue to hold true. #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #censorship #queerbooks https://www.usermag.co/p/instagram-blocked-teens-from-searching

Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months

Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content"

User Mag

Alex Monea Nov 23, 2024

I have a student that wants to do an MA in Women's and Gender Studies in either Ireland or the UK. Anyone have recommendations for MA programs to look into?