Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 🕹️ 🔜 NarraScope & NYC

I've created a MOUNTAIN of games, stories, jazzy content for clients. My passion arrow tells me to make those super-pro XP points count. Let's float all boats.

[Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 🕹️ 🔜 NarraScope & NYC @HoppingFun]

I'm going to NARRASCOPE!

June 12-14 in Albany, and then training into New York City for a five-week work-play stint (based in Greenpoint again).

See you in Albany? Or, you can stream the talks online: https://t.co/M0WqGPJPFe

[Narges Mohammadi | نرگس محمدی @nargesfnd]

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed Franco-Iranian artist, filmmaker, and author of the internationally celebrated graphic novel Persepolis who died at the age of 56.

Marjane Satrapi was a fearless voice for feminism, human rights, and freedom. Through her work and public engagement, she consistently advocated for women’s rights, standing in solidarity with the people of Iran and amplifying the message of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement on the global stage.

According to a statement from her family, Marjane Satrapi “died of sadness” a little more than a year after the passing of her husband, Mattias Ripa, a producer, actor, and screenwriter, who died on April 8, 2025.

Marjane Satrapi leaves behind a powerful cultural, artistic, and moral legacy. Her courage will continue to resonate far beyond her lifetime.

Narges Foundation
4 Jun 2026

#MarjanSatrapi

[Francisco González @GrundislavGames]

Hi! I'm Francisco, and I've been a professional indie game developer for 13 years. I make point & click adventures with unique settings, including:

- 1920s Miami
- A post-apocalyptic future with fops
- An alt history 19th century city and wild frontier

(Links in reply)

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

What an incredible season of Long Now Talks! If you missed one, you can find all full-length episodes on YouTube at https://t.co/TyMGhIu0l3

This season we heard from Melody Jue on ocean memory, Nina Miolane and Claire Isabel Webb on the geometry of consciousness, Eric Ries on incorruptibility, Stefan Sagmeister on optimism, Bayo Akomolafe on new time paradigms, and Indy Johar on planetary consciousness.

We'll return this fall with Art & Science at The Bristlecone Preserve, on Sep 29. See all upcoming events at https://t.co/XcqsypFoKr

Thank you to all the Long Now members, you make this programming possible. If you’re not a member, this is your invitation into the world of long-term thinking. Join the community -> https://t.co/OmXPpJVFSy

[Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 🕹️ 🔜 NarraScope & NYC @HoppingFun]

Keep humanizing these human beings, who are doing their best to live their lives, build a family, and be part of a community.

They're not "aliens." They're not "it." They're not "other." WE ARE US. We are all living beings surviving on the same planet, our only planet.

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

Because of your voice on Delaney Hall, the Trump admin just released 18 yr old high school senior whose story I told. They released the pregnant women held inside. These releases show ICE isn’t targeting the violent criminals. ICE is feeling the pressure. Keep raising your voice.

[Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 🕹️ 🔜 NarraScope & NYC @HoppingFun]

I am thinking exactly the same thing.

Been watching 60 Minutes every Sunday since it first aired. It's the longest, most successful news show ever and hugely profitable.

PBS-Frontline already has the new chops, talent, and respect to carry that torch well.

[Paul Jacobs @PaulJacobsMedia]

I truly wish @PBS would hire the team that @60Minutes has fired, including those-soon-to-leave Scott Pelley etc. and create their own version of this iconic program. Ratings would be huge.
Good will would be even larger.

[Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 🕹️ 🔜 NarraScope & NYC @HoppingFun]

NarraScope online registration, very affordable, open till June 10, includes two days of talks for game writers, narrative designers, interaction fiction and electronic literature folks: https://t.co/65OXiWHXXV

Here's that schedule: https://t.co/Arp8DdrrXH

#narrascope

[Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 🕹️ 🔜 NarraScope & NYC @HoppingFun]

I'm going to NARRASCOPE!

June 12-14 in Albany, and then training into New York City for a five-week work-play stint (based in Greenpoint again).

See you in Albany? Or, you can stream the talks online: https://t.co/M0WqGPJPFe

[The Trump-Epstein Reading Room @RedactedReading]

NEW: The Reading Room's Trump-Epstein Timeline, available online and in our pop-up exhibits, spotted in lower Manhattan over the weekend—the work of New Yorkers wanting more people to see it for themselves.

The grassroots demand for the truth is growing because the magnitude of the evidence is impossible to ignore.

Get a closer look at the timeline here: https://t.co/mrgnC6qAk7

[ProPublica @propublica]

ProPublica has no paywall because we believe investigative journalism is a public service. But free to read doesn’t mean free to produce. Our work is deeply researched, time-intensive and funded by readers.

Keep the truth accessible to all. Join us: https://t.co/YRn9zU8ElM

[Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 🕹️ 🔜 NarraScope & NYC @HoppingFun]

@IFTFoundation The workshops require registration and sign-in. https://t.co/M0WqGPJPFe

[Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 🕹️ 🔜 NarraScope & NYC @HoppingFun]

Royal Flush Game Jam! Starts May 31, an online creative preamble to NarraScope (June 12-14 in Albany)!

The time has come,' the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax —
Of cabbages — and kings

#narrascope #gamejam

https://t.co/VNPPwCcYKE

[Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 🕹️ 🔜 NarraScope & NYC @HoppingFun]

Open to all, it's 100% virtual and free, and there are a series of workshops starting MAY 31 to help newbies master a range of tools and learn the craft. @IFTFoundation (a nonprofit) Education Committee organizing. #narrascope

https://t.co/sTVUtK33eF

[Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 🕹️ 🔜 NarraScope & NYC @HoppingFun]

Royal Flush Game Jam! Starts May 31, an online creative preamble to NarraScope (June 12-14 in Albany)!

The time has come,' the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax —
Of cabbages — and kings

#narrascope #gamejam

https://t.co/VNPPwCcYKE

[New York City Kopp @NYCkopp]

Manhattanhenge is back 🌇

Tonight: May 27 — 8:13 PM
Tomorrow: May 28 — 8:14 PM

That moment when the sunset lines up perfectly w/Manhattan’s street grid.

🗽 Tip: You can still catch it a few days before & after too, if the sun isn’t perfectly centered, it’s still beautiful. 🧡

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week.

As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that.

First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence.

And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous.

In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event.

Here's the bottom line:

Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world!

But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it.

That’s the opportunity this reporting missed.

https://t.co/vYfPDKcWWf

[Senator Andy Kim @SenatorAndyKim]

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. Instead of engaging with me and others about the poor conditions, ICE sent in an armored vehicle and a line of armed agents that only poured gasoline on the fire. Civilians were tackled and restrained, and agents fired pepper balls and spray into the crowd. This is more of the same lawlessness we’ve seen elsewhere around the country. 

Our country deserves accountability. Our country deserves the humane treatment of every person here. In fact, our Constitution demands this. What I witnessed and experienced today was shameful. Delaney Hall is a failure; it’s this administration’s failure. The only way to make this right for our communities is to shut it down and make sure the failures we’ve seen never happen again.

[Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 🕹️ 🔜 NarraScope & NYC @HoppingFun]

The scariest part, to me, is the absence of guardrails—a president who is eager to deregulate everything and to solicit and accept pay-to-play deals.

He is also utterly heedless and mindless of safeguarding our future, our planet, our society.

[Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 🕹️ 🔜 NarraScope & NYC @HoppingFun]

ALL 5 HAVE COME TRUE:
1. Hallucinations are an unsolvable problem. They fool users AND devs, with confidence.
2. AI models absorb bias and amplify it in hiring, healthcare, lending, criminal justice.
3. Environmental costs are now larger in scale than small nations. ->

[Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 🕹️ 🔜 NarraScope & NYC @HoppingFun]

4. Audits of training data remain impossible— AI devs can't know everything that's in the data sets, including child porn.
5. AIs are training on AIs data, a feedback loop that centralizes power in hands of giant co's. "Model collapse" ensues.
#AI Please DO READ the full post.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[IGDA NYC @IGDANYC]

June 2: NYC Indie Game Dev Social

NEW DAY: First Tuesday of the month
NEW PLACE: RSVP (required) for outdoor locale in Madison Sq area

Limited capacity, so if you can't make it, please open your slot for someone else.

#NYMakesGames #NYC #events

https://t.co/GcNJaWT9SZ