Strangely Loopy

I was recently reminded of a period in Agora Nomic where the in-game meaning of "person", among other things, was only implicitly defined by vague reference to "legal definitions" and such. Agora does have rules for adjudicating rules disputes, so naturally they were used: "Zefram is a pineapple." (Dismissed as irrelevant; nothing in the rules depended on the answer.) Ah, but you can make some things relevant by creating a situation that depends on them. If Zefram and Goethe agreed to a partnership, including terms for wielding power of attorney, would it count as a corporate person? "The Pineapple Partnership is a person." (Allegedly called by the Pineapple Partnership. Allegedly judged true by Goethe, who totally didn't have a conflict of interest.) Well, not everyone bought that, so to make sure the question was formally raised at least once: "The Pineapple Partnership is a person." (Called by me. Judged true by checks notes ...

Mandelbrot memes Murder, You Wrote (26 Oct, Tasmania, interactive mystery)

AVJam (29 Sep, Berlin, reactive audio et al) Rone - L(OO)PING (four bonus tracks) Tripping up people speaking by echoing their words back at them with a 0.1 second delay

  Music That Listens to Itself "The underlying idea is to produce music that, so to speak, listens to itself. This would be music that employs techniques to revisit itself — repurposes itself — as it proceeds. From reverb to echo to tape loops to granular synthesis to accessing a buffer, various techniques serve such a compositional and performance purpose. Consider a means to achieve this result."  

In celebration of its 30th birthday, Agora Nomic is currently holding a tournament involving a short-term copy of itself . The contestants can potentially achieve a win in the main game by achieving secret goals in the copy, such as achieving wins there, getting rules added or removed, or getting part of the rules into a stuck state. Anyone can become a player in the copy by subscribing to its mailing list and sending a message saying "I become a player", even if they're not (yet) a player in the original. There has been unofficial discussion of assigning contest goals to those who join during this stage.

Yup.