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I have learned a lot of programming languages and techniques over the last 40 years or so, but it’s become almost impossible to learn how to make things with computers,

This is a good summary of what's been going on in games and campaigning this year. As someone who has been watching/participating in this space for almost 20 years now,

Sorry if this has been covered, but are Transformers existentially dualist, or do they have a preferred or “natural” state (are they robot sive vehicle, or robot vel vehicle)? Or

Thesis: There has never been a video-game console with a good name. I like how the replies are just bare names of game consoles, as if that makes the argument.

Since long before COVID, I've been talking with PhD students about the doctoral degree as a giant risk-management exercise. The upside of landing a good academic job is very up

Not sure how to explain this, but ALF was quite popular. In 1988, a Burger King promotion offered a series of ALF cardboard records and hand puppets. There was an

As the K-12 school year bears down, seemingly impossible, it’s notable how quickly everyone has essentially admitted that the hundred-year history of compulsory school in America was mostly a subsidized

I have spoken to and hear from a lot of Georgia Tech faculty over the last week. Many, especially those untenured or ineligible for tenure, are afraid to say anything.

Too many of you are doing too little. You gnash teeth over the erosion of tenure but then you never put it to use. Even now, with a virus that

The cult of leadership thrived on processing charisma into followers—to march off a cliff. The leaders, of course, always parachute to their own safety. Anyone who calls themself a “leader”

It’s interesting to me that the journalistic concept of “fact checking” got attached to social-media services.The thing that fact checking does has almost nothing to do with how social media