▪️Producer of prosocial #videogames
▪️Mgr of teen dating violence prevention org
▪️Background in #Law & #Technology
▪️#Atlanta w/ #dog (RIP)
▪️Occasional #actor
▪️#PTSD #ADHD #GenX
🎮 Empowering youth w/ trauma-informed #games
Game Themes:
- risk & protective factors for youth violence
- IPV / consent / healthy relationships
🧡 Seeking my group
Let's be grateful to the "monkey selfie" which clarified the requirement (US) that copyright can be granted only if the work is authored by a human.
While we're at it:
▪️AI does not "hallucinate"
▪️AI is not self-aware
Although you might decide to assign value to AI -- don't pretend it can have Values.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260414-the-monkey-selfie-that-predicted-the-ai-age
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social @Npars01@mstdn.social
How about we spend 1% of our salaries on teaching our kids about #CriticalThinking and #consent to rid future generations of these fraudster #tech bros?
Epstein and Thiel had more in common than their hatred of women and love of cryptocurrency.
"[T]he two exchanged more than 2,000 messages over the years and met on multiple occasions. Epstein would ultimately invest some $40 million in venture capital funds managed by Valar Ventures, a firm cofounded by Thiel."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/peter-thiel-jeffrey-epstein-democracy/
Agreed: my intention isn't to oversimplify the problems or ignore systemic issues.
This slide offers an overview of just some of the Theories of Change we apply through trauma-informed digital games created for young people.
We cannot ignore cultural norms - or impacts at community & relationship levels. (And some of the games are intentionally designed to shift those norms among adolescents.)
We know that these are only steps in the right direction, not a panacea.
But: taking these steps will help future generations begin at a point further down the path than we are today.
(P.S. The theme for this year's games is: Toxic attitudes & beliefs - including Toxic Masculinity - which will address some of this more directly. More info is at https://toxify.org)
🧡 Introducing the Jennifer's Angels Podcast.
How can young people foster and develop healthy relationships and positive self-image?
Join a rotating crew of co-hosting young people and co-host Aaron as they interview role models from all walks of life and learn postive strategies.
The intro episode is up!
📻 https://rss.com/podcasts/jennifers-angels/
Presented by @stopTDV@games.ngo
#podcast #teens #prevention #nonprofit #publichealth #health #relationships #resilience
🧡 Open Worlds Play, a game for young people about social connectedness, is a featured PBS resource.
We're excited to share information about our good friends at Hope Givers, a show for young people, focusing on resilience. Now in its third season, Hope Givers explores topics that are important to adolescents. You don't want to miss this show.
🎮 We are honored Open Worlds Play is a featured resource for this Emmy Award-winning show!
🌐 https://www.gpb.org/education/hope-givers/season-3
@gamingagainstv@games.ngo @stopTDV@games.ngo @connected@games.ngo #indiegame #game #connectedness #WellBeing
📣 DEADLINE TONIGHT:
Mar 23 at Midnight (EDT)
🧡 [de]Toxify Our Teens
💰 $10K USD in Cash Prizes
All Finalists receive critiques
Winners own their games
Our 19th Annual Challenge
▪️ Finalists notified Mar 28
▪️ Games due July 28 2026
❌ No Violence
❌ No AI
👉🏽 Rules, resources, register
https://toxify.org
#gamedev #games #indiegame #gamejam #toxic #prevention #publichealth #media #socialmedia #bigtech #tech #nonprofit #education #sociology #community #manosphere #toxicity @CindyWeinstein@zirk.us @GIbiz@mastodon.social
@pluralistic@mamot.fr @gamingagainstv@games.ngo @stopTDV@games.ngo
Jennifer's Angels Podcast is live!
📻 'Angels Get Started: Dr. Elizabeth Richeson'
Join the Angels as they talk with Dr. Richeson, a clinical psychologist (and Jennifer's grandmother) about teen dating violence prevention.
🌐 https://rss.com/podcasts/jennifers-angels/2762552/
#podcast #prevention #publichealth #psychology #relationships @stopTDV@games.ngo @stopTDV@mastodon.social
Looksmaxxing: misogynistic incel ideology going mainstream
Antisocial AI smartphone apps used as gateway to toxic manosphere:
(1) Quantification
Incels believe everybody has a “sexual market value” & these apps assign numerical scores based on obscure AI calculations.
(2) Gamification
Users scores are tied to specific ranks users are promised the ability to “ascend” to a higher rank.
(3) Reframing
These apps target young men struggling with self-confidence, making false promises of a "recipe for ascension".
#toxic #incel #misogyny #tiktok #apps #tech #AI #sociology #toxicmasculinity @toxify@games.ngo
@davidnjoku@mastodon.world @toxify@games.ngo @gamingagainstv@games.ngo @stopTDV@games.ngo
Agreed. Our #nonprofit program is trying to do something about these #toxic messages & impacts. If you know folks who makes games please share this with them.
☀️This is a trauma-informed game design challenge. It will help young people. We reach teens where there are at -- to engage & empower them.
$10k in cash prizes.
Register by Mar 23.
NO violence or AI in the games.
Available for #media interviews.
A sad situation that is more common than most realize.
Worth watching for more context:
'The Burning Bed', a powerful video based on the story of Francine Hughes, portrayed by Farrah Fawcett.
https://thecinemaholic.com/is-the-burning-bed-based-on-a-true-story/
Before Twitter became so terrible, our org used to live tweet whenever 'Gaslight' was showing on TCM.
Here are a few of the graphics.
My somewhat-loud-voice:
🗣️ it's very frustrating most nonprofit orgs continue to use #Facebook / #Twitter / #Instagram for outreach!
I am aware of only a few nonprofit orgs on Mastodon. And I have had ZERO success trying to convince any to use Mastodon.
❓ Although #Mastodon shows much love for prosocial *causes* there's not nearly as much for *orgs* doing that work. Why?
Last week, I was honored to speak to the 2026 cohort of Project TIDAL about how trauma-informed video games can be used to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality caused by intimate partner violence (#IPV).
The thoughtful questions and insights from the early career researchers was very encouraging!
It has been an honor for our nonprofit org @stopTDV@games.ngo to share our work and our trauma-informed games for the past two years through this #NIH funded project.
Congratulations to Emory University and the amazing project PIs on their outstanding efforts!
#publichealth #prevention #trauma #videogames #education #nonprofit @gamingagainstv@games.ngo
People with the least political knowledge tend to be the most overconfident in their grasp of facts
Meta & YouTube are designed to addict.
The bad actors and their companies are finally facing a reasonable degree of accountability.
This is the case that, years from now, law students will learn was the moment when things changed.
#BigTech #Meta #Facebook #Google #YouTube #SocialMedia #accountability #law
Thank you; that sounds like a likely reason.
Our biggest concern is that Apple had approved us to accept in-game donations using Apple Pay in the free games we have in the App Store.
We were going to integrate that functionality in the new version of our games. Unfortunately, Stripe is the processor.
Hopefully we can sort something out. Thanks again for your response.
🚾 The use of QR-code-as-menu is bad for several reasons:
🚫Don't create burdens for your customer.
🚫Don't use tools that put customers at risk or require they vet your lazy use of a gimmick.
🚫Don't allow tech dorx to mine customer data with a "virtual menu" hosted on quikmenu.ai.biz.xyz.blah
- - - - -
🏆🏆🏆 Here is a good use of a QR code:
When attending a play, a theatre hands you a small, printed, business-card-size show program with logo and basic details about the show.
Scanning the QR code on the card opens a full size show program. 🎶🎭🎨
✔️The show's program is hosted on the theatre's website.
✔️The full URL is printed alongside the QR code.
✔️The URL remains active as long as the theatre exists.
✔️Patrons may download a PDF of the full program.
🔸You trust the source.
🔸The physical card is a souvenir.
🔸Save $$$ / environment by not printing large full color programs.
🔸Can add much more info to the bios of cast / crew - even clips of them performing should they choose - for future casting opptys.
🔸Theatre can still feature sponsors of their org and also include static NON-tracking links to their advertisers.
🧡 Users WIN | Theatres WIN | Environment WIN
![[de]Toxify - 2026 Game Design Challenge to Address Toxicity in our Communities](https://toxify.org/images/detoxify-games_1200x600.png)