My next rpg is FERAL BLOOD DOLL. Play as a dual-personality sexworker fighting cops and feds in an underground city beneath the present-day US.

The broadcasters here will do what the social platforms never had the courage to do - loudly state that they can make whatever programming decisions they want and the gov should stay out of it. This is because they are not also defense contractors :(

Silksong::Tears of The Kingdom as Hollow Knight::Breath of the Wild. Both sequels are undeniable improvements on their predecessors, but they introduce too much economic complexity to allow them to reach their predecessor's elegance.

“Popper posited that if intolerant ideologies are allowed unchecked expression, they could exploit open society values to erode or destroy tolerance itself through authoritarian or oppressive practices.”

I never understood dimes square. Dimes is curcle

There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry. [gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...

I've said it before and I'll say it again. One great way to analyze your favorite movies and decode what makes them tick is to watch them with the sound OFF, no subtitles. Play favorite music (without lyrics) as a soundtrack.

A photograph cannot inspire an antiwar movement if the antiwar movement has been spirited away in the night to a facility in Louisiana. www.theverge.com/features/761...

Newgrounds 30th Anniversary

Philip Roth more than once made the point that every neurosis or even psychosis the antisemite imagined of “the Jew” is manifested in the paranoid state apparatus of Israel; it was in the American diaspora that, for a time, we became sane

👉 If you're just now getting into BATMAN ROCK 🔊 Here's a great place to start... Thread 🎵🦇👇

The politics of fear don’t work against a candidate who isn’t scared: defector.com/the-politics...

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The reason everyone is so rudderless and angry is because he gave a perfect answer to a question they were never going to stop asking a Muslim candidate

"What concerns me about AI has very little to do with the technology in and of itself. I’m concerned about the kind of antisocial behaviors that AI will enable."

"there is no way to pretend that this intense lack of openness or curiosity towards more deeply engaging with art and culture is not directly tied into the many social failures we are experiencing currently."

Feel like shit I need her back. Need a place to buy a tweety bird leather jacket.

I'd say the obvious question is whether Biden, Harris, et al. regret being unflinchingly supportive of Israel and hostile toward voters whose primary concern was Gaza - but that's just me. I didn't hit myself in the head with a hammer 10 times before writing a piece for a neocon website.

They should end White Lotus while they're ahead, or at least breaking even defector.com/white-lotus-...

How disruptive is too disruptive for a protest? It probably depends on the urgency of the issue at hand.

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signal is awesome. it's a ridiculously usable and normal messager with journalism-quality encryption. it's open source, the most paranoid nerds in the world go over it regularly. signal makes *particular* promises. make sure you know what it does and does not promise. but it *keeps* those promises.

"As one Jesuit quoted by MacCulloch puts it, Christianity is in danger of being seen as ‘an uncontained movement of reaction and resentment, furious at the freedoms and liberations of the modern age’."

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“In general, all the shots were giving ‘pharmaceutical commercial,’” says Agnew. They lack the fundamental weirdness you might expect from a system trained on videos scraped from the wilds of the internet.”

"In their attempt to escape girlhood, youth today are graciously accepting their own exploitation…as long as it comes in feminist packaging."

“Unfortunately, some of those in a position to spearhead the resistance are, as of now, not up to the job. The legacy media will not be able to defend the values on which its existence depends so long as it maintains its delusional conceit of providing “balance.””

Correct me if this is ignorant but it’s weird that dispensaries just give product away, right? Like how can it be quality if you’re just giving it away?

The only thing keeping me going is the knowledge that my boy has met the love of his life

I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day

To survive Trump, let alone defeat him, the Democrats have to acknowledge the calamity all around us, accept the new media environment we're in — where voters are not citizens, nor consumers, but media/business outlets unto themselves — and redefine what socialist governance looks like within that.

"Zionism is the national self-determination movement of the Jewish people, as well as a force for ethnic cleansing, racial apartheid, and genocide, which makes it just like every other national self-determination movement." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-banality...

Seeing a lot of this today

13 nominations for Emilia Perez and not a SINGLE nom for Challengers? The Oscars are horse shit

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The ADL was a farce long before it made excuses for Elon Musk: defector.com/the-adl-was-...

Learn to share!

To say that he was my favorite filmmaker would be an understatement. It’s no exaggeration that for me personally, the fact that I got to be alive for 35 years on this planet while David Lynch walked the earth and made art is only akin to sharing oxygen with a literal prophet (1/15)

what I (somewhat fumblingly) told a group of students last year is that you are trying to “glimpse your own cryptid.” what appears to people later as a solid aesthetic vision just begins as that personal glitch between trees.

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ

Handing over our social lives to Facebook was the biggest mistake of the 21st century (so far)

Penelope Walton Rogers reckoned that Early Medieval women spent 65% of their time on textile production. It was *constant*—happening even as they cooked, gathered, watched children, ate, talked... Endless as a river.

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2024 A video countdown vimeo.com/1046284152

I don't agree with all of it but I appreciated this critique of Anora and Baker's body of work. "Thus we find the contradiction at the heart of Baker’s work: the Sex Worker cannot be evil, yet the world’s evil must be encapsulated by the Sex Worker."