I've read so many articles in the past year from developers talking about how much more productive LLMs have made them at work. You know what I can't recall a single one of them mentioning? Getting a raise because of it.

If @bungie.net is serious about weekend modes for @marathonthegame.bungie.net, I think they need to be vocal for their support of the 4 day work week as a labor right. In this essay I will…

There really is no bottom to cis people's hate for us

Okay the twitch streams of Cryo Archive look so good, I think it’s got the juice

i'm just gonna leave this here, i'm sure it'll be useful

Donkey Kong game where it’s revealed the “Kong” in his name is an allusion to the fact he is actually Kǒngzǐ, aka Confucius

A thing happened to this me this morning that would have been a complete non-issue in a past life, but instead my day is functionally ruined, and I’m just so angry and sad and filled with grief at how small my world is and how broken my body is.

That is the thought I am holding close as I process that Dolores Huerta was raped by Cesar Chavez and held the secret for 60 years for the “good of the movement”. Let us reject that our social movements require a lack of dignity of some for the good of all.

I find it uproariously funny that, in context of arguing that the idea of contemplative introspection about the nature of your being is a modern Woke mind virus that didn’t exist prior to the 20th century, Marc Andreessen is so close and yet so far from reinventing Buddhism from first principles

“You’re not just becoming disabled,” said Elle Seibert, 31, who has dealt with debilitating fatigue and cardiac symptoms since 2020. “You’re realizing how easily society at large and people in your life will abandon you when you cannot offer them things.” www.latimes.com/science/stor...

guy who does buddhism slightly wrong and ends up in nevada after he dies

Ah we can finally say that @jfg.land and I had the real priviledge of working on narrative preproduction for several years on @marathonthegame.bungie.net ; it has an incredible narrative team, and a very special game that takes its narrative very seriously, in a fresh way that honors its unique past

I would suggest this is a more valuable Steam chart, from SteamDB. Releases dramatically grow each year but the number of new games getting more than 500 user reviews does not. steamdb.info/stats/releas...

Oh look, the 🇺🇸 military concludes over 40% of COVID infections lead to Long COVID, among a population sample that is all adults, & on average in better physical condition & younger than the national/global population. www.amjmedsci.org/article/S000...

I’m so goddamn tired and in pain.

We have got to win clean indoor air.

The biggest barrier for me was realizing that western secular “mindfulness” is an extremely small subset of what exists out there, and if doing your little annoying daily exercises isn’t life-changing for you, there *are* little annoying daily exercises that can be if you explore enough.

Man, a bunch of my symptoms are getting worse for no obvious reason, and it’s terrifying to be like “is this the crash that permanently takes me from housebound to bedbound” I’m trying to stay positive, and keep my nervous system focused on the impermanence of suffering, but it’s so goddamn hard.

it's ✨covid brain damage ✨ either literal — covid infections — or psychological. pathological risk-taking and self-destructive behaviors can be a symptom of repressed trauma. and extreme cognitive dissonance ("this is wrong, against my values, but i'm doing it anyway") is self-induced trauma.

South Park is also quite nice, and a 10-15min walk from Moscone. It’s where we’ve held Roguelike Celebration meetups in the past. There’s a Blue Bottle right on the park if you need caffeine (and there used to be an awesome Italian cafe a block away, but I think it’s closed?)

Back in February I missed the six-year anniversary of the mysterious viral illness that kicked off my current life. It feels foreign to think of a time in my life when the vast majority of my thoughts didn’t concern my health. Or I could, say, prepare my own meals and exist outside my apartment.

I can’t say whether or not it will be a good year for the GDC Festival of Gaming™️, but it’s already clear it’s going to be a great year for the drama

Happy women's day if you're a woman if you're not there's always next year

Pretending that whenever an AI person uses the phrase “permanent underclass” they instead said “bottom”

not right now pokemon go i'm in public

A core point of several contemplative traditions is “consciousness both does and doesn’t exist, it’s both real and an illusion, but it also doesn’t really matter except insofar as understanding that paradox is a useful stepping stone”. “Is Claude conscious” is genuinely an uninteresting question.

There are answers to this but they lie in the realm of mysticism/mindfulness/consciousness/meditation, and this isn’t a case where that’s an inferior path to a scientific one because we know from studying the brain that these describe unique material states in the brain

What I mean by this is that LLM consciousness debates look really interesting and novel but that is only because there has been no good reason for the average person to ask themselves about machine consciousness, but the issues are less complex than people imagine they must be

*saying affirmations in the mirror* I am a big horse. I am a beautiful horse with powerful legs. I am fifteen hands tall. No one can catch me because of my powerful horse legs and wild nature. I have all the apples I want

Man, I’m going on a week of walking up feeling like all my muscles are sore and there’s poison coursing through my veins, and I would like to get off this PEM ride.

Not quite ready to launch, but if you're a decentralized identity and/or AT proto nerd, you might want to take an early peek at this freeq.at

If you're in the game industry and use LinkedIn, please do me a favor and share my post about Sentona Games screwing me out of money I'm owed. Thank you

Me to Paul Newman’s family at the funeral: may his memory be a dressing

a wedding ring is a kink item

a single paragraph guide to taking pleasure in both the games you play and the material you put into the world. via @meredithgran.com meredithgran.com/perfect-tide...

are you a indie game developer of color? will you be in the sf bay area for GDC? do you want to demo your game? bubblesort and @gdocexpo.com are co-hosting a showcase of games at the bubblesort shop! apply here to show your game! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We'll be at GDC! (Some of us, and probably some of you?) Come hang out, say hi, and chat about roguelikes & procedural generation. # In Yerba Buena Gardens (North corner). > At 12:30 PM, Thursday, March 12. % With coffee, various hot teas, bagels & spreads.

My primary practice may be Daoist rather than Buddhist, but I’ve nonetheless enjoyed pulling on this thread of how most English Buddhist teachings I’ve been exposed to are misguided by way of mistranslation. neuroticgradientdescent.blogspot.com/2020/01/mist...

My primary practice may be Daoist rather than Buddhist, but I’ve nonetheless enjoyed pulling on this thread of how most English Buddhist teachings I’ve been exposed to are misguided by way of mistranslation. neuroticgradientdescent.blogspot.com/2020/01/mist...

I seem to consistently feel shitty whenever local airborne VOC levels rise, which fucking sucks because it’s been happening a lot this season, and unlike filtering out particulate matter it’s not something you can just build or buy an air purifier and you’re done.

hey this is legitimately terrifying and if you're not paying attention to this you need to be right now

I don’t know if this is remotely useful advice for someone just trying to do MBSR for stress relief, but it resonates a lot for where I am and the states I’m playing with. “Meditation” is a state, you don’t “practice” it as much as create the conditions for it to arise. youtu.be/005zV6UYYgA?...

I really like this, and I also appreciate that the positive outcomes of getting students engaged in designing their own pedagogy is largely unrelated to technology or genAI

I love when you’re meditating and go so deep that you start seeing bright flashes of light. It can mean different things in different traditions, but my understanding of the neuroscience is you’ve cut off your consciousness from sensory input so hard that it’s akin to a sensory deprivation tank.

THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO

I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my mind castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge

Since stumbling into some wildly blissful meditative states some weeks back, I've been trying to learn how non-Daoist traditions conceptualize such states. I think this is a really thoughtful piece, no matter what your meditation practice looks like. jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/what-is-me...