I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

As always, the West will dismantle itself for Israel's genocide. Now the UK is openly replacing impartial judges days before important Palestine cases wrap up, without any explanation or clarification. Any pretense of fairness in the legal system is gone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.

Santa Ragione are a well-known studio, covered by a great many mainstream outlets. Their latest game will not be releasing on Steam for... reasons? Steam won't tell them why, won't tell them what needs fixing, and won't communicate in general. Every other store will carry it. Just not Steam.

For @404media.co this morning: a group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild. And I got to see it. www.404media.co/ice-defense-...

Finalist is a new way to mix your music with simple controls. It can be as straight forward as picking a preset, with lots of ways to tweak it as well. Also, you own it. Infinite mixes, no subscriptions, no credits. go.timexile.com/48us60k

Geologic Core Sample xkcd.com/3171/

There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening. I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again." HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡

In case you missed it earlier, I've written a Blog about "Evil Game Design" and what it might mean. Here's an excerpt, that I personally quite like:

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

feds in st. paul today

Bearproof trash can problem but with the Turing test

C'mon, UK. Ugh.

business driving away previously brand loyal customers at an unprecedented rate offers to help university be more like them

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

"you make stuff by making stuff. ...planning docs and diagrams and verbal questioning are absolutely important and necessary ... essential to a lot of good and focused work.... They exist, however, to facilitate the part where you make stuff, rather than to cogitate on the act of creation" 💯

Starting January 1st, California will mandate that any use of AI-altered real estate photos in listings be disclosed, and that a link to the unaltered image be included. It will be a criminal offense to fail to make this disclosure.

a lot of interesting tidbits in this story about rep. lauren underwood’s visit to the broadview ice jail. as always, take everything dhs says with a grain of salt. but it sounds like the feds’ terror in chicago is far from over. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot. Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.

Sunsonic 986-II - Famicom with a built-in CRT.

"Antifa materials" is intended to sound sinister but the government is talking about ESSAYS. If you read literature the regime disapproves of, you might be a terrorist, too.

I wrote for @theintercept.com about how prosecuting transportation of these pamphlets is a danger to all writers, journalists, and Americans. Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.

“all of us have to be worried. It’s not just about our immigrant and working-class community. It’s about everyone’s constitutional rights being dismantled and that is bringing about a new generation and intersectional identities to unite in a way that is so urgent www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Truly remarkable reporting here from @unraveledpress.com using public records requests, on-the-ground video footage, and social-media sleuthing to unmask this ICE goon: Timothy Donahue. unraveledpress.com/identified-f...

"as though we're preparing for a hurricane" New Orleans.

It's really hard to defend government, vital services, or city councils using Facebook as their primary *or only* channel of communication with the people those institutions purport to serve.

NYC showed up in the same way! I honestly never saw one *not* defaced

In the 50s, when Virginia slims were marketed as a healthy cigarette, they had an ad: “Flavor you never thought you’d get from any filtered cigarette”. My mom , on a date, pointed to a defaced billboard where “flavor” was replaced with “cancer” He told her, “I did that!” Reader, she married him.

Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced. Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.

wild considering most sex workers I know have had at least one of their accounts yeeted for the crime of existing

Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today! …Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :) Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen. blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.* The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.

Only someone this wealthy would so flippantly suggest you uproot your life, sell your house, pull your kids out of school, quit your job, request a transfer — all to save 50 basis points on CPI. 🤡

When you didn't study for your high school civics test and you're trying to BS the teacher

in the USA if you're a citizen and honk your car horn to warn people about the president's secret masked kidnappers in their unmarked cars they change the license plates on daily they'll smash your car window with the barrel of their loaded firearm, that's my suggestion for thanksgiving family talk

For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.

This is really comprehensive and good.

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Search in settings screens is an often overlooked quality of life feature in games If your setting screen requires scrolling and/or is across several tabs consider adding search to it!

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

between this and the recent study about the success of adversarial poetry attacks on LLMs it’s a good week to be an arts & humanities proponent in a STEM technodystopia lithub.com/can-adversar...

On the patently unlawful boat strikes It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes. WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals: 1) CIA General Counsel 2) NSC Legal Adviser 3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer 🧵

A lot of people are going to say “they killed off Morpheus in The Matrix Online”, but the important bit is they killed him off *in a live event with paid human GMs live-roleplaying*

Judge hits pause on IRS sharing taxpayer information with ICE www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm... via @nbcnews

Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people