Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

TEST: Crossposting from Mastodon to Twitter (using moa.party).

U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-is-denying-passports-to-americans-along-the-border-throwing-their-citizenship-into-question/2018/08/29/1d630e84-a0da-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html

"almost all of them Hispanic, living in a heavily Democratic sliver of Texas"

I've had a couple of blind students in the past. You might think, "great this stuff is all online, so it'll be easy to access!". Turns out ... not so much. https://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/accesscsforall

People in the Pacific Northwest: are you ready for the big quake? https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/Preparedness/Prepare/Pages/PrepareForEarthquake.aspx

I'm assuming this is an operating system.

Interesting study from 2015: playing multiplayer video games increases civic engagement. https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article-pdf/20/4/381/19492375/jjcmcom0381.pdf

What's wrong with this plant? Top hypotheses are "not enough water" and "too much water".

Mastodon, meet Violet. (She is much smaller than you think.) #dog

"Very often, when a game simply isn't fun to play, it is the core mechanic that is to blame." -Salen & Zimmerman, Rules of Play

The new students show up to our legendarily beautiful campus tomorrow. These moles have unfortunate timing.

I saw a van with a Mastodon sticker, but since they also had Slayer and Black Sabbath stickers, I don't think they were talking about us.

Overheard: "OMG, no wonder it hurts. She stabbed me three times!"

Greetings!

My two current interdisciplinary research projects involve using deep learning to analyze photographs of clouds and building a video game to teach people about the looming Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake. Previously I've done work on computer Go and computer science education.

In my spare time I play board games and fire dance (Samoan fireknife and staff). I have a dog of unknown provenance who resembles a miniature German Shepherd.

#introduction