Category: Events
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Campfire Learn Together: Who’s Paying for It?
When people think of the cloud, they think of the beautiful blue sky and it’s actually much more physical than that. — Steph Speirs, in Can the AI Power Problem Lead to a Cleaner Future? (with Steph Speirs) That is possible. We just haven’t demanded it. — Steph Speirs, in Can the AI Power Problem…
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Campfire Learn Together: The Production of Docile Bodies
For our Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish Explained | How Modern Power Controls Us, an explainer from the political theory channel PolScience. It walks through Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, the book Michel Foucault published…
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Infodumplings: Halloween Hootenanny in the Haunted House
This week Infodumplings meets in The Haunted House on Stimpunks.World for a spooky show-and-tell. We dress our avatars for the season, bring our chimeras to the house, and walk through it with the lights down. Then the floor is yours: show us your haunted thing, and tell us what it is and whose. For community…
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Campfire Learn Together: Cogens and Being Ratchetdemic
For our Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing two talks by Christopher Emdin: Teaching & Being Ratchetdemic, given at TEDxBerkeley, and his keynote at BMEC 2024, a convening of Black educators held by the Center for Black Educator Development.
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Infodumplings: Every Chimera Is Whole
This week Infodumplings meets in The Events Room on Stimpunks.World, and we are talking about chimeras: one creature made out of more than one animal. We get everybody signed up, watch a short video, and make chimeras together. Then the floor is yours: introduce us to your chimera. What is it made of, what is…
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Campfire Learn Together: How to Make a Fascist — Austerity + Resentment
For our Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing How to Make a Fascist, a video essay from the history and philosophy channel Then & Now.
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Infodumplings: Just Enough Truck
A community member asked for this one, and it is a very good rabbit hole: kei trucks, the tiny Japanese work pickups that have been turning up on American farms, job sites, and gas station lots. Then the floor is yours: if a kei truck turned up in your driveway tomorrow, what would you build…
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Campfire Learn Together: The Job Still to Be Done
For our Sunday, October 11, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing two conversations from the THIRTEEN archive: Maya Angelou talking with Bill Moyers in 1973 about being a Black woman in America, and Maya Angelou talking with James Baldwin in 1975.
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Campfire Learn Together: We’ve Killed Kid’s Hobbies
For our Sunday, September 13, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing We’ve Killed Kid’s Hobbies, a video essay by Reptarus On Ice about what happens to a child’s interest the moment an adult can see a return in it.
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Campfire Learn Together: The Subtle Art of Normalising Dystopia
For our Sunday, September 6, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing The Subtle Art of Normalising Dystopia, Campbell Walker’s documentary about the death of ownership — how it happened, who took it, and why nobody shouted. The film’s thesis is one sentence long and it is about…
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Infodumplings: Take a Whiff
This week Norah and Ryan are co-hosting a scent night. Ryan has a Scentbird subscription and a queue of little vials to work through. Norah is bringing some of her favorites. Neither of us is a perfumer, and that is rather the point — this is two people who like smelling things, sitting in a…
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Campfire Learn Together: Unlearning Toward Hope with Jason Arday
“What we are bereft of is care.” For our Sunday, August 30, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we are mourning and celebrating Professor Jason Arday with two of his own talks — one on neurodiversity, race, and belonging, and one on what happens to a good word after an institution gets hold of it. We are…