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Joshua A.C. Newman
@Joshua A.C. Newman

:condemned: he/they.
Teacher, graphic, book, & game designer, hacker, cyclist, experimental "musician".
Founder of the Indie Bazaar.
A liquid engineer, like you.
#ttrpg #indierpg #modularsynth #synthdiy #experimentalmusic #alteducation #retrocomputing

Creator of Shock:Social Science Fiction, Mobile Frame Zero, The BLOODY-HANDED NAME of BRONZE, and other games.

Process: the Oblique Easel art computer

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Relays (1)
  • wss://relay.ditto.pub – read & write

Recent Notes

Jessamyn · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq4hzswq093vflrfum94adp4tydk09wftzynkkqls95c78aqjsp2ssthwdzu I loved Neil, got along with Mark just fine, and respected Steve but we had some confl...
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@nprofile1q... Weisler is a bit of a dick. Sometimes a lot of a bit. He was one of my first professors there, and he was surprisingly averse to creative solutions from firstyears — solutions he embraced a year later without credit.

As Dean of CCS, he did some real harm to the pedagogy of the school before unceremoniously disappearing.
Jessamyn · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq4hzswq093vflrfum94adp4tydk09wftzynkkqls95c78aqjsp2ssthwdzu mine was all about semantics and how people mentally interpreted the singular 'they' p...
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@nprofile1q...
I worked with all three of them! Stilling gave me my kindest evaluation of my Hampshire career, which was basically “You worked really hard, and 90s neuroscience sure has a lot of unknowns.”

(I had many other supportive evals that weren’t “You worked hard, but this isn’t the field for you.”)
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Jessamyn · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq4hzswq093vflrfum94adp4tydk09wftzynkkqls95c78aqjsp2ssthwdzu I loved Neil, got along with Mark just fine, and respected Steve but we had some conflicts. Having all those mustache/beardo men on my committee about singular they pronouns was wild. I ...
Jessamyn · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq4hzswq093vflrfum94adp4tydk09wftzynkkqls95c78aqjsp2ssthwdzu mine was all about semantics and how people mentally interpreted the singular 'they' pronoun. Steve Weisler was my chair and I also had Neil Stillings and Mark Feinstein on my committee.
Joshua A.C. Newman · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq3vvfm5djl3y7y8rjnyw2wg4qyjx6hnkc44cn0rdw06agwc8kktvqd5zejv My DivIII was a graphic novel about minds and artificial evolution.