Dom Ford
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Postdoc at @UiB. PhD from @ITUkbh 'Mytholudics'. Editor @Eludamos. SSBU Mewtwo 0-2er (Arcyte).
Copenhagen and Bremen
Joined February 2009
📖My book is out!📖 My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available. In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth. @degruyter_brill
https://t.co/MyHcnsy941
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Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an...
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Smash Denmark is happy to present, the SSBU season 10 Power Rankings! Here is your top 10 Danish Ultimate players! some new faces, some returning players & a lot of work this season. Thanks to all the Ult players for giving it their all & good luck into the next season! 🎊🇩🇰🎊
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Recently, I was interviewed about my book for @NewBooksNetwork by Jana Byars! If you want to hear me talk about games and myth for about an hour, please check it out.
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historian somehow number two on this list, unlike other academic professions. they think the job of historian is just regurgitate memorized facts all crawlable on web sources or something
Here top 40 professions that will be replaced by AI first and the last, published by Microsoft
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There have been many already written.
There is be a thesis to be written on the autocannibalism of pop culture. The evolution of pop culture from “new things based on old things” (“Star Wars”) to “new takes on old things” (Tim Burton’s “Batman”) to “new versions of old things that look just like the old things.”
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Grok 4 feels like Artificial General Intelligence to me. It is clearly not just constructing statistically likely connections, but is drawing fairly deep insights on problems it hasn’t seen before, in ways I haven’t seen elsewhere. Here’s an example:
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printing out a word document that says “i am a person” and then being like omg my printer is sentient now
everyone sounds so insane pretending AI is self aware like i just cannot believe how dumb everyone got so quickly
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Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: https://t.co/MAwVBrHOzH
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Yvette Cooper would have prosecuted the suffragettes as terrorists
Does Yvette Cooper know the Suffragettes, whose rosette she is wearing here, planted bombs in St Paul’s cathedral, and went after Winston Churchill with a whip? And were completely on the right side of history? Asking for @Pal_action..
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Teachers didn't know which essays used AI, but they could feel something was wrong. "Soulless." "Empty with regard to content." "Close to perfect language while failing to give personal insights." The human brain can detect cognitive debt even when it can't name it.
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Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.
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Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.
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CALL FOR ARTICLES - Via Panoramica: a Journal of Anglo-American Studies Thematic issue: From the Victorian Era to the American Experiment: Mythic Foundational Narratives in Video Games 🎮👾🕹️ We accept contributions until August 31th! ✨
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Very cool how every piece of digital technology is now purposively designed to breed illiteracy
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“When I first walked into the Oval Office he said ‘God, you’re a good-looking fellow aren’t you’…” Lord Mandelson, the UK’s Ambassador to the US, discusses his relationship with Donald Trump, adding that the President is a “people person, he takes people as they are at face
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VALHALLA V concluded last weekend. Thanks so much to everyone at the @ValhallaSeries team for hosting the event! Here is the performance of every Dane for 1v1's at Melee, ULT & RoA2 during VALHALLA V. Well played Denmark! 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰
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So, if you or someone you know is interesting in games and myth, I hope this book helps. And don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions for me - I'm very happy to hear from people about this! https://t.co/MyHcnsy941
degruyterbrill.com
Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an...
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But I'm very happy to see this out in the world now. It's been a long time in the making, starting officially in 2019 with my PhD but based on ideas I'd been turning over since at least 2015. There are lots of people to thank, but you can read the acknowledgements for that.
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