This weekend I helped my sister run a silent disco across downtown Lancaster, PA, and let me tell y'all something: public levity feels really good right now.

The oppositional viewpoint is objectively the more popular one, nothing the regime does is remotely popular. There is still by and large a free press and citizens aren’t getting arrested for thought crime. We’re playing on easy mode, we just need to be bold enough to actually try to push back.

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Or worse still: letting the wolves into the fold, even while they are in the middle of slaughtering the herd, based on nothing more than our vague sense that it would be rude to call them wolves

If you refuse to identify lying, bad faith, and malice, you are its easiest target. You let the wolves into the fold based on nothing more than their periodic insistence that they are, in fact, sheep

So much of the crisis is the fact that liberals are unwilling to describe what's happening, because they're scared to say that their opponents are lying, are operating in bad faith, want evil or harmful policy, and don't share our basic goals about what society should look like

FINALLY.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

He died doing what he loved, promoting hated and violence against those he considered lesser. ⚰️

Well done, Nepal

here we gooooooo

Just lit some incense from Jerusalem, expecting a reasonable amount of smoke, and now the fire department is fighting Templars in the yard.

As a certified hardcore food snob, I sneer at this

He shaped them one by one, not to worship, but to speak. But clay has no memory. Each time they turned to dust, he begged the next to remember a single word: stay. None did. His hands know the shape of loss better than love. #dnd #ttrpg #gaming #mtg

Framed up this gorgeous original from @perplexingruins.bsky.social

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

I'd like to announce that I have been a chatbot all this time.

the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern

Something behind this video wants to kill you

here’s some good news for you: the vast majority of us will live long enough to see him die

"Here, we're out till the streetlights come on." Quiet, clanker, you're nowhere

there is a certain strain of progressive that spends far too much time on the internet and not enough time speaking to normal people who have normal jobs and run businesses and it really fuckin shows sometimes. their sense of perspective and understanding has just been sandblasted away.

Seems like a problem that most every smart liberal and left wing writer, researcher, analyst, and NGO worker I know is unemployed, grossly underpaid, or in a super unstable job, while a bunch of 20 year old Nazis with the talent and expertise of ass hair are getting paid $300K to post on Twitter.

Cognitive Debt is a good phrase I work with people going from self taught to going up a level, and I've met several people who leaned too soon/much on gpt for code. an understanding gap grew until they gave up. like someone doing your algebra homework then you're lost in calc the 200 page study:

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

he's gotta go

[yelling over club music] Do you think we’re ever truly forgiven

My favorite part about the damage that LLM-use seems to inflict on cognition is that all creatives will have to do to stand out as GREAT NOVEL GENIUSES is simply not use AI—i.e. stick to their actual craft and keep their inner light burning in its lantern, the way artists have always done.

Holy fuck, an interview (in THIS economy?!)

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

If you make me design a cozy Bob Ross wargame, I swear to fucking god

Good little homunculus. Do you think it only walks when it’s full of a certain potion, or when it’s empty does it walk around trying to find something to fill it up?

I forgot to post this horrid little cherub when I first took a picture of it, so here he is to darken your feed

Someone hire ya boi

Computer, make me feel joy again

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "Haha," said Gandalf, hitting his weed pen for the eighteenth time in the past hour. “Hahaha. Fuck."

As a game dev, sometimes you find a video of exactly what you contributed (and our portfolios thank you on their knees)

Finally got our Cairn 2E accessories added to the shop after a bit of a delay. Now available on our Etsy shop, link in bio.

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

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I think the next logical question is whether a bird can run DOOM.

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system

Last week I met with a prospective investor to pitch a video game project, and he told me that my tabletop work is a waste of time, that I have no commercial sense, and that my attitude about art sucks—and then he asked me why people put pronouns in their bio. I think it went pretty well!

On the financial absurdity of AI's explosive "growth"

I went to a very thoughtful and insightful lecture last week that, amongst other things, boiled many silicon valley offerings down to the identification and usurping of any middleman from a transaction. And it got me thinking about how GenAI fits into that formula.