The Bluesky Bubble
This is a relapse, not a fix.
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Ian Bogost
Ian Bogost is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is the Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is also a computer-science and engineering professor. Bogost is the author of 10 books, most recently Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games. Bogost is also an award-winning game designer whose work has been played by millions of people and has been held in collections internationally, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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