most everyone who's written about this from a philosophy of mind perspective has also argued a definition of consciousness alongside it. tech guys post things like this without having "done the reading" so to speak because they believe other fields are beneath them. www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...

Absolutely haunted by how I, at a party last month, used the phrase "egg head" when taking to a bald guy and involuntarily glanced up at his shiny dome.

FLAIL IS LAUNCHING AND SO WE MUST CELEBRATE. Game jam incoming. Create an adventure module, new classes maybe, a cool bestiary, a hack of some sort, alternative tables, new spells, religions, guilds, whatever really. itch.io/jam/swings-h...

CHORD is coming March 24, two player miniature capture the flag skirmish game played on a piano keyboard that generates ambient music while you play. My first skirmish game release! Pay what you want on itch and a few scrappy diy zines in my bag at adepticon.

There are many devils in the dank, latent realm of LLMs. But the reinforcement-learning-human-feedback devil is one of the worst, most craven and conniving of these devils.

Get some dank fantasy goodness. bit.ly/dankfantasyb...

Another wave of SHRINES shipped this morning to backers

I know I'm ready for fatherhood because, sometime in the last year, my sneezes got way fuckin louder

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

To Slay the Great Regurgitator

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians. We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

I remember boxing yours up! It felt personal and gratifying to recognize your name.

Belief is a reward for inquiry, the former never lasting because the latter never ends. Them's the fuckin breaks if you care about the truth.

I just got my backer copy of @jamespianka.bsky.social & @badbucket.bsky.social's Shrines in the mail today, and what a GORGEOUS #TTRPG book it is! Can't wait to start reading it tonight 🎲

A zombie pathogen spread by hurtful jokes

Adding an essay-only PDF to the Shrines digital files

Real talk: if the environment is anything close to what yesterday’s special election implies in November, there need to be people working very hard on a serious agenda for a substantial Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, focused on voting rights, democracy, and court reform.

(extraordinarily laudatory)

I'm rereading House of Leaves, but this time my wife's copy from before we met. She left little notes in the margins. I think they're cute; they make me love her. But given the book, they're just another layer—and that scares me.

Peak dungeon design

Teaser: Plus One is launching a line of adult games to support creators who are getting deplatformed/don't have a place to put their sexy shit. Currently, we are calling it Plus One XXXP. If you pitch us a game for this we have one specific ask: BRING YOUR HORNY SHIT FORWARD! #TextNotSubtext

these images will just keep giving inspiration and serving as documentary proof of just how weak this administration is

This just arrived a few days ago! Thanks so much to Empty Mountain and @jamespianka.bsky.social for making such a cool book to add to my TTRPG shelf! It’s really awesome.

Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.

Adulthood is just deciding who to pay first

at this point baudrillard’s on a run like the ‘95 bulls

First day at VOID Interactive as a Senior Narrative Designer

My job as a husband is to follow my wife around like "I can't believe I'm a sentient golem of strawberry jam that tricked you into marriage. That is so wild."

WHY - dashare.zone ADMIN

I just spat onto 2025's casket, and it sizzled like a griddle.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

@lollardfish.bsky.social plugging yo shiiit www.reddit.com/r/osr/commen...

'you can't just not play any game that uses AI in any way at all' Fuckin' watch me, bitch

The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law. It has no legitimacy whatsoever.

Got kicked out of the liberry again cuz a couple people complained about my therapy goose Insane Willie.

On the one hand, I know how paralytic and reclusive mental health crises can be. On the other, it fucking hurts when a friend ghosts you.

Curse the Steam Winter Sale. Curse it to heck in these meager times.

I think the “good times make weak men” thing is not entirely wrong, they’ve just time-shifted it one cycle too far. These are the good times; they are the weak men

As a digital professional, I would abandon computers entirely before abdicating virtue or meaning to the AI data-bilge or allowing those who do to commandeer my life.

One thing I think is interesting about the people saying ‘generative AI is here to stay’ is that they are kinda ignoring that the current version of it is relatively cheap (or free) for the end user purely because the companies behind it a burning cash to make it so.

I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill

It is very plain who views creativity as a process of discovery and who views creativity as a checkbox to be endured en route to a product.

The goal of organizing is not to convince your opponent. The goal of organizing is to defeat your opponent.

trapping the phantom and neutering him before releasing him back into the opera