I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Dangit, we just sealed that portal and now y'all wanna just open it right back up.

Noodles with egg roll and grilled beef

Home is where you get the full strength nước chấm without needing to ask 😋😘 Luckily in Chicago there are many such places 🥰

💥 SAVE THE DATE: September 28th-29th 2026 💥 This year, we're celebrating our 15th Annual International #Symposium on #Digital #Ethics hosted by The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy. Look out for more announcements soon, including details for the Chicago talks, events, and partnerships. #SIGMA15

I think that anyone who comes into government and wants to make change goes through a period of, like, understanding just how difficult it is to accomplish and just how just what the scope and scale of complexity that you’re dealing with…someone should patent a law that states that the easier a project looks in government, the harder it is to do in reality. The justification being: if it looks really easy and common sense, it means that 20 people have already thought about it and tried it before you, and they’ve all failed because it’s still around…They don’t know what skills are necessary to do this work because I don’t think they understand the complexity of the work. And meanwhile are creating an environment where the people who do know how to do that work either are being forced out by being fired or are not interested in sticking around.

The simpler a potential change appears, the more likely that it has not been implemented because it features deceptive complexity that others have tried and failed to resolve.

From an interview of an IRS employee who worked on Direct File
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

Florence Chee in front of Chicago buildings

"GOOD MORNING, CHICAGO--I'm listening."
#Week14 #profoflife🤓

Young adult happiness is falling. Percent of young people who are pretty or very happy has dropped from 88% to 76% over the last 15 years after having held fairly steady between 1980 and 2010

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Description of book talk for Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play at Georgia Tech picture of Florence Chee

ATLANTA! I'll be coming in HOT April 24th 🔥 #booktalk #game #culture #korea @dm.gatech #paperback #launch www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-g...

Description of book talk for Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play at Georgia Tech picture of Florence Chee

ATLANTA! I'll be coming in HOT April 24th 🔥 #booktalk #game #culture #korea @dm.gatech #paperback #launch www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-g...

A 6-inch sub roll with grill marks. Chocolate and creme drip from the sides, behind a halved Cadbury egg. In the right corner is an image of a foil-wrapped Cadbury Creme Egg

Subway Cadbury Creme Egg Submelt (2023-2023): A 6-inch sub roll, filled with Cadbury Creme Eggs and grill-pressed until toasty golden brown. Was available for free, for one day only, at 4 Subway locations in the UK, with only 500 subs available at each location.

Just imagine what Toronto would taste like 😜

Menu interface for Vancouver beverage

One of my friends in Seoul sent me this picture of a "Vancouver latte" from the Tim Horton's menu there 😅

Book cover for Practicing Digital Ethnography

Concept: Gamer by Florence Chee

Introduction: Digital Ethnography Devin Proctor

Back cover with quotes and endorsements for Practicing Digital Ethnography

NEW BOOK: Practicing Digital Ethnography, wherein Devin Proctor takes on the HERCULEAN task of assembling this compendium that helps us think through the numerous approaches and strategies scholars have employed from past to cutting-edge present. #ethnography #gamer www.routledge.com/Practicing-D...

I just won $1 million on Polymarket for predicting this.

how does that saying go? those who dont know history are doomed to be based and chad or something?

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free

2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

OUT TODAY

oh hell yes, had kalshi getting charged before april on polymarket at +2500

Not every day you get to commemorate the day you met at a computer store 30 years ago with a numerically balanced D30 but here we are 😏

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Helen of Deanna Troi

no cheating, your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist

One of the unfortunate things about everyone feeling compelled to write about surveillance after the Ring Super Bowl ad is how many people resort to the idea that these are “just tools,” as if these technologies are separate from the context in which they were created.

Just blocked an account that was professionally despairmaxxing

States target workplace AI with notice, limits and oversight proposals Bills introduced Thursday in California, New York and Rhode Island would impose new restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence and automated decision systems in the workplace…

“Bills introduced Thursday in California, New York and Rhode Island would impose new restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence and automated decision systems in the workplace, aiming to ensure human oversight of employment decisions.” www.businessinsurance.com/states-targe...

A Dating App Based on Users’ Credit Scores Is Making a Comeback Just ahead of Valentine's Day, Score wants to be more inclusive.

“Bringing a major credit bureau into the dating process raises obvious privacy questions, especially at a time when consumers are already wary about data breaches.”
gizmodo.com/a-dating-app...

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

This.

When plenty of folks in power positions keep publicly saying games are the future of the film industry…the WGA needs to be ALL OVER IT.

Games writing is art involving scripting the equivalent of several-seasons-of-TV’s-worth of dialogue for performers.

NEW BOOK just unboxed! The Game Needs to Change: Towards Sustainable Game Design, edited by Patrick Prax, Dr. Clayton Whittle & Trevin York in which I have a chapter co-authored with Thorsten Busch and Tanja Sihvonen! More details at Routledge:
www.routledge.com/The-Game-Nee...

@fvandervlist.bsky.social and I are pleased to share that our book 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴: 𝘈 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 will be published with Polity in June/Aug 2026!

We are reaching out to colleagues who teach courses where the book might be of interest for an inspection copy:
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