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NYC friends! My final work-play stay of the year is Oct 30-Nov 9. I'll be herding creative cats at a gathering or two to cross-pollinate my circles: games, publishing, media, journalism, etc., and fitting in as many events as I can (eg, NYC Indie Games meetup) Career: www.hoppingfun.com/events.htm

I interviewed Rusty Schweickart after he launched his asteroid defense initiative, named for the tiny home world of The Little Prince. B612 Foundation: b612foundation.org He was generous with his time and his enthusiasm for this critical mission made a lasting impact on me. #asteroids #neos

The NYC Indie Games meetup is NOV 4 at Wonderville in Brooklyn, on the outdoor patio in the back.

Alex Pretti's father calls out ICE for executing his son and the Trump administration for lying about him after. "It is not right."

The Sharpie president: Barry Blitt, for the New Yorker, captures the threat, the danger, the utter lawlessness of 2.0 based on 1.0, spot on. Latest issue.

I signed up! (Nov 5) I'll be in NYC Oct 30-Nov 9 for my third and final work-play stay of the year. Hoovering up the Big City, as best I can, before returning to my creator cave. I always appreciate and learn from the Thurday lectures, Thursday game play tests at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social. TY

Thank you, scientists! It's an ongoing battle between the smartest apes on the planet and invisible, ever-emerging, ever-mutating micro-enemies.

We’ve got a great lineup of speakers today!

She has been covering the Ukraine war for years, relentlessly portraying the toll, sometimes pushing back on narratives fired up by the Trump admin and its acolytes. Her name is Shelby Wilder. And she’s a full time correspondent for .. Newsmax. My column in CJR www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

187 is slang for homicide, the killing of a human being by another human being (from Section 187 of the California Penal Code). "So yes, Proposition 187 was always exactly what it sounded like. A threat. A warning." Republicans are now spreading this policy of deliberate cruelty nation-wide.

Scraping the barrel, finding new lows, throwing out the baby with the bathwater... So many red lines crossed here: a legal asylum seeker detained by masked, unidentified ICE agents as she finalized paperwork for an already resolved $12.08 charge by a vindictive ex-employer. WEEKS locked up. #ice

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Mid-October. Or, as fly agaric mushrooms prefer to call it, “party season”.

For people who like good video game books! www.twitch.tv/nyugamecenter

Capsule reviews from the 64th New York Film Festival! Great thread. Saved and will revisit when the films begin to spread their wings.

Oh HELLO, to a creative cadre, seeing so many familiar names and a fresh, welcome swarm of shiny new ones! YEP, I'm a writer (all the media), narrative designer (games) and storyteller (forever). Still at it, gleefully so. (This "find your tribe" feature is one of the best aspects here on BSKY.)

Oh HELLO, to a creative cadre, seeing so many familiar names and a fresh, welcome swarm of shiny new ones! YEP, I'm a writer (all the media), narrative designer (games) and storyteller (forever). Still at it, gleefully so. (This "find your tribe" feature is one of the best aspects here on BSKY.)

Andrii Aleksandrin, epidemiologist in Ukraine, on the lack of transparency and dearth of data and info, and possible cover story ("broken glass tube"—they're plastic, now). A pattern and a holdover from Soviet times, he says. @counteroffensive.skystack.xyz

Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

WHOA, 3D animated time lapse model of Manhattan development from the beginning of the Lenape presence through 2026. (There's a similar one for Paris, starting with a Celtic settlement.) #nyc #newyork

"I’ve concluded that instead of teaching students to read and write, I should be teaching them how to prompt AI better." How long until "AI engineer" is a title, then a degree, then an entry-level position? Jk/

The OG "software engineer" (she coined the term), Margaret Hamilton, age 90, sent the Apollo astronauts on the way via 8k computer systems. RIP and in all the women engineers who were inspired. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

NYC friends, the excellent graphic novelist Gareth Hinds ("The Odyssey") will be in town Oct 10, for a craft talk at Dutch Baby Bakery (UWS)! Also: Poe, Beowulf, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, you get the drift. garethhinds.com #nycc #graphicnovels #theodyssey

NYC friends, the excellent graphic novelist Gareth Hinds ("The Odyssey") will be in town Oct 10, for a craft talk at Dutch Baby Bakery (UWS)! Also: Poe, Beowulf, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, you get the drift. garethhinds.com #nycc #graphicnovels #theodyssey

Frank divulges more about his new tower defense + word game here: franklantz.substack.com/p/towers-of-... "It has that special mix of smart and dumb that we are known for and by “we” I mean people who make video games." #NYMakesGames

From hit video game to tabletop, this successful crowdfund is approaching $700K with 3 days left. There's a slick "how to play" video, bundles upon bundles, gift merch. It's incredible how crowdfunding has transformed this industry since Kickstarter launch in 2009. #crowdfund #tabletopgames

This is getting a lot of quotes, so I feel I should correct this a bit (sorry @anildash.com!) “AI” was 100% born toxic! The first AI workshop was born from the field of “automata studies”, and…1/ (Pictured: the folks who convened for the first workshop. Notice anything notable here?)

New York game friends, Oct 16 deadline to apply for $3K in funding to host a Game Design Days event (Nov 20-Dec 2). The events lead up to @nyugamecenter.bsky.social's No Quarter exhibition. Info/application: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Last year's events at the link, for ideas and reference.

New Bellingcat challenges are up on the website. This month, Bellingcat’s investigative technologist @msramalho.bsky.social has designed some puzzles that test your online archiving skills, taking you deeper into the internet of the past. challenge.bellingcat.com?utm_source=b...

AP Thomson explains how to make the 2026 surreal indie strategy hit "Titanium Court," step-by-step. Following this talk's conclusion, the audience should have all the necessary information they need to make Titanium Court (2026), however cursed such knowledge might be @apthomson.bsky.social

NEW YORK GAMES WEEK LOADING NYC... ██████████ 100% Kick off NYGW with the Games Week Live digital showcase. linktr.ee/GamesWeekLive

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

We're excited to share that the 2026 A2CAF: Small + Indie Press will take place on Saturday, October 3 from 11 AM–5 PM at the Downtown Library! Venture into the world of small press comics publishing with AADL this fall and watch aadl.org/a2cafsip as we get closer for additional info!