Mark Sample

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Teaching and researching digital culture at Davidson College
Websitewww.samplereality.com
Itch.iosamplereality.itch.io
It seems like making a game right now when so much is at stake is a waste of time, but I made a game, and it's about right now, or at least one slice of it. Here's Content Moderator Sim: https://samplereality.itch.io/content-moderator-sim
Newest update to my Infinite Catalog of Crushed Dreams has a separate rule for health care professionals, in honor of my brother, a firefighter/EMT who hasn't seen his kids in weeks, due to self-quarantining. https://fugitivetexts.net/pandemicdreams/
The Infinite Catalog of Crushed Dreams

I made an infinite catalog of dreams crushed by the coronavirus: https://fugitivetexts.net/pandemicdreams/
"But the supermarket did not change, except for the better. It was well-stocked, musical and bright. This was the key, it seemed to us. Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip." - Don DeLillo in his masterpiece about disasters, _White Noise_
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There's a 50/50 chance that the latest @biodiversitypix post will look like the cover of a Jeff Vandermeer novel.
The Biodiversity Library has tens of thousands of beautiful illustrations. Now @biodiversitypix shares a random image from the collection, several times a day.
@inkdroid Oh, cool, I like the idea of that workshop. Will it be a local thing?

"In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure, and the police take the place of pirates."

- Foucault, "Of Other Spaces"

Mastodon remains stuck in the mirror stage of social networking, where nearly every post is about Mastodon itself.