you know what they say: give the internet a stock portfolio to trade on and two weeks later it'll be #GME

LinkedIn auto-opted everyone in, so you can turn that off in your settings. 🙃

Reminder! 🗓️ Applications for the Tenure-track Assistant or Tenured Associate/Full Professor in Games position are due this Saturday, Oct 5, 2024 by 11:59pm (Pacific Time). 👾

Hey folks, I'm reviving this list, lmk how I can help

recent experiments in accumulation

©UDDLY ©LUB (aidan strong) "an accumulation of impossible returns" Free - Windows: warpdoor.com/2025/02/15/cud…

just went to a GDC meetup and had a stranger walk up, insult someone else’s outfit and then rant about the AAA internship scene

Congratulations to Vinny Roca (pickpanpuck productions), creator of Slot Waste, for winning Best Student Game at the 2025 IGF Awards Independent Games Festival! Slot Waste turns labor into a grotesque endless cycle of alienation and transformation. Play it here!: pickpanpuck.itch.io/slotwaste

i made a space for melancholic people to sit together slowedandtogether.com

After 253 days, The Internet's Portfolio has officially closed📈 The portfolio finished up 2.56%, outperforming the NASDAQ for the same time period. It will remain archived at TheInternetsPortfolio.com

watched the minecraft movie and saw a kid get kicked out of theatre for throwing his popcorn bucket when the chicken jockey came out

High school students: enroll now in the UCLA Game Lab Summer Institute. Explore game-making as art. No experience needed. Earn college credit and make original games! Taught by UCLA Game Lab alumni. Spots are limited—apply today. For more info visit: summer.ucla.edu/program/game-l…

made an mmo about mmos and the install page looks like malware rookery.online

Several UCLA Game Lab residents + researchers are presenting at DIGRA 2025 this week in Malta! Catch talks + workshops from Vinny Roca, Michael Luo, Eddo Stern, Danny Snelson, Wiley Wiggins, Aidan Strong & Elliot B. Yu. Full schedule: digraconference2025.org

You’re invited to UNCOMMON INGRESS, an exhibit by the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA 2026 cohort. 📍 New Wight Gallery, UCLA 🗓 Opening: Thurs Oct 16, 5–8 PM | Runs Oct 16–23 🍷 Free + open to the public, with food & drinks. 👁️ uncommoningress.cargo.site

made a chrome extension that integrates the wayback machine into your browser makes it easy to see sneaky changes that have been made to websites (eg. any CDC site over the past 10 months) chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bmabepf…

Open this week @ The Bendix Building!

My mid-residency show LAYERS UPON LAYERS, opens in two weeks! Through decimation, and recreation, players create towering spires across a simulated landscape. Strata lines formed from memory, unfaltering spires built on the ruins of the last 🪏 dma.ucla.edu/events/layers-…