Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jaranta@scholar.social
Post-doc at JYU & CoeGameCult. Specialized in philosophy, game studies and digital culture.
Joined Mar 2018
Do I need to use this microphone?
Yes. Use it. The answer is always yes. Everyone does not have a perfect hearing. We have microphones for a reason.
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An old blog post of mine that still stands up
> The risks and harms of 3rd party tech platforms in academia
https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2018/06/11/risks-and-harms-of-tech-in-academia/
This is a great essay on Aeon about consciousness and the problems of materialism.
https://aeon.co/essays/materialism-alone-cannot-explain-the-riddle-of-consciousness
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For #OAWeek, we dive into the fight between academic publisher, Elsevier, and the researchers who are calling foul over their resistance to open access. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/dont-let-science-publisher-elsevier-hold-knowledge-ransom
Presentation in Helsinki about play
Next Monday, I will be presenting as part of the Schoooooool With Many Holes in the Over Realism Conference about the transformative potential of play. It's free, if you happen to be in Helsinki.
game studies presentation
We're having our project's seminar today and this means starting the day with sandwiches while listening to a keynote about food in Dwarf Fortress. #GameStudies
software gripe
I hate Adobe Digital Editions with a passion. The only way to read digital books from the university is to use ADE, but it simply doesn't work even in the best of circumstances. I wonder what the IT support would think if I asked for software to rip DRM off books?
Book on non/posthuman things available for download
The book claims to be open access to me, but only when I look at it from out university network.
I'm not sure if this is a technical glitch or some Taylor & Francis bullshit, but I'll look into it.
In the mean time, if you want a copy, tell me and I'll send it to you.
Book on non/posthuman things available for download
The book "Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture," including my chapter on imagining alien experiences in videogames, is openly available for a limited time. If non/posthuman perspectives is your thing, go download it.
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* SQL injection baby
* AI-adversarial genome editing
* AGPL in your DNA to make it Google resistant
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A CRISPR baby but the only change is that there is an SQL injection attack coded in to the genome so that if it is ever sequenced, it drops all the tables in the company database
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Unfinished Swan, Untitled Goose, Christmas Duck: A Brief Ludology of Anatidae
forgetting
I started preparing a presentation for tomorrow and found a presentation on that same topic I already prepared earlier. Last week I started writing an abstract and found one I wrote in 2014 that I had no memory of.
I don't know, more sleep?
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Folks into interactive #narrative #research, have a look at this game. It came out today, I haven't tried it yet, but seems very promising. [trigger warning: suicide, grief, loss]
I'm sure I've read this argument in some game studies article.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/anything-2
I set out to clean my to-read list.
Goal: -100
Current total: +1
Sarcastic, complaining
Ah yes, travel expense claims. My favourite thing to do with my time.
Nature has some very good infographics on the climate crisis.
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-019-02711-4/index.html
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Snark about AI researchers again; Strong language
AI researchers: Actually, Asimov's three laws do not provide a good basis for artificial intelligence in real life; I have constructed the following proof—
Anyone who has any capacity to do media analysis at all: Oh god, that's what you thought the point of Asimov's writing was? Oh god fuck we're doomed
AI researchers: You studied Literature? Lol I'll have fries with that
Post-doc at JYU & CoeGameCult. Specialized in philosophy, game studies and digital culture.
Joined Mar 2018
