Interests, unordered: Boardgames (heavy, 18xx, RPGs), Philosophy (ethics, mind), Math (combinatorics, teaching), BLM, Justice. I'm Biologically Fabulous!
Owensboro, KY
Joined June 2015
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The future is a William Gibson novel, except most of the technology doesn't work very well. Like, not just the scrappy runners' rigs, but the mega-corps spend millions of neo-yen trying to put AI on the blockchain. Well, at least until the future becomes The Parable of the Sower.
I'm closing my Twitter tabs and can be found on Twitter 2.0 going forward. If nothing serious changes here, the next time I post it will be because my account is hacked and I am a bot (or the singularity has come and I am, literally, a bot).
Twitter is a tough place to hold a serious conversation with people of differing views, because it seems to be where nuance has gone to die*. This makes it a tough place for academics for a two-fold reason. First, often we try to communicate nuance. Second, we are not immune.
I turned off the audio book I was listening to while doing "rote administrative maintenance" on my courses in order to focus on... something important. I just realized I was commenting on Facebook, I no longer remember what the important thing is/was or whether I did it.
PSA: my "create thread" button seems to be broken. Instead of adding a tweet to my thread, it obliterated the full tweet I had composed and started me anew. Thanks Musk!
We should encourage students at institutions of higher ed in the US to do less. That way we can encourage them to do more things. (The irony is apparent to me.)
I spent much of today playing Railways of the Lost Atlas, an 18XX game with so much variable setup that you could run a diesel and never get to all of it. That is an 18XX joke in apology for my horrible failure to take any pictures! I will share my thoughts, sans photos, below.
I could probably go 20 tweets deeper sharing my thoughts, but I don't think anyone wants that. In summary, it is an interesting exploration of a new idea and I like the game's philosophy of introducing new people to 18XX, but I think they would be better served just playing 1861.
@Sweater_Mike, @grandtrunkgames,, @afryergames,
I don't know if any of you are still on this site, but I would welcome your more informed and nuanced thoughts... on why I'm wrong ;-)
So, today I learned that people can make "lists" of related accounts to follow. I also learned that you can see what lists you are on. Finally, I learned that most of the lists I am on are focused on board games. 1/2
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