Lorenz provides an incredibly cogent breakdown of just how quickly modern harassment campaigns are fed by conspiracies and spread across social media by bad faith actors.

Alexandra is among the people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer’s death. She described the online mob that got her fired as “state-sponsored censorship."

Ghost of Yotei is a masterpiece. It ruled over my waking and sleeping moments for a week. There's so much love and attention poured into this game, so much artistry on display, so I tried to do the same with my review for @rollingstone.com. www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

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I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

I feel bad for the generation of people handing over their ability to act creatively to AI… i don’t think they realize that creativity is a muscle, and when you don’t use it-

Bonkers that this isn’t just a given, but here we are…

This letter to The Economist makes a decent point. The case for robo taxis probably feels overwhelming in a country where the urban design means you're utterly screwed without a car. It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

The fact that Sinclair and Nextstar own so many local news broadcasters across this country should be illegal in and of itself, let alone a merger. Local news isn’t local if it isn’t locally owned.

free speech but only if it doesnt huwt my feewies 🥺👉🏻👈🏻

Meta spent billions on AI so Mark Zuckerberg could look like a dipshit in front of millions of people: aftermath.site/meta-display-a...

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., talks about the cancel culture that has followed Charlie Kirk's assassination and what it means for free speech.

Gonna be honest…not enthralled to be living through a rehash of the McCarthy era.

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I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

But don’t call them Nazis.

A man who will, no doubt, keep his job after explicitly calling for the murder of unhoused people on broadcast television.

382 lovely indie games for $8! All proceeds support UNRWA USA’s humanitarian aid in Palestine. ♥️🖤🤍💚

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

ICYMI: Charlie Kirk's death is a tragedy. No debate about that. But he was also a controversial figure. Media can't be afraid to say so. www.azcentral.com/story/entert...

NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

I do not mean to diminish the memory of any of the almost 3000 individuals who were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks with this post. That said, we should be aware that the number of Americans killed by guns annually amounts to roughly FIFTEEN 9/11s www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Your last saved pic is your philosophy.

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Seconds into this video about construction of a fusion reactor in eastern Washington, and I can’t help but notice an uncanny resemblance… youtu.be/o8VZsksGXcY

This is the dorkiest, most mall-cop-coded shit

It took me a sec to realize there wasn’t a Garry’s Mod Monkey Island game I’d somehow forgotten about

Every DOT's Traffic Projection vs. Every DOT's Vision Zero Projection

Tonight, we got results that were even better than we hoped, and it’s likely to only get better. Seattle, you showed up! It’s clear that voters want change. This is your city. Join the campaign, and let’s get this done!

Mesh2Motion (@scottpetrovic.bsky.social) is an open-source alternative to Mixamo that allows you to rig humanoid and four-legged characters! mesh2motion.org

Post Options, the mail/copy store across the street from my house, partially burned in a fire two days ago. If you’ve been there, you know that it is owned and operated by the sweetest couple imaginable. I hope you’ll consider donating to help them recover. www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...

Dude on airplane: “Hey, I see you’re using ChatGPT. If you don’t mind me asking, what do you use it for?” Guy using ChatGPT: “Oh, I use it for everything! Work, finances, you name it! I just plug in — like — my budget and it tells me how to save money…like it told me to buy less coffee!”

“You’ve already felt Wilson’s impact if you or your kid have zipped around the city with a subsidized Orca card… If you’ve had your move-in or late fees capped for your rental apartment, you’ve also benefited from her work.” @thestranger.com www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...

Hot off the presses: The Urbanist's primary election endorsements. Ballots arrive in mailboxes as soon as tomorrow. www.theurbanist.org/2025/07/16/2...

Two new tracks from the #GhostofYotei original score by Toma Otowa are now available on streaming services: ghostofyotei.lnk.to/theyoteisix ghostofyotei.lnk.to/atsustheme

Thank you to everyone who tuned in! Hope you enjoyed diving into gameplay with us and getting a first look at Atsu's weapons! ⚔️ Which was your favorite? If you missed it, you can still watch it here in 4K: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgM6...

Stop using AI for placeholder assets. Use sketches. Use lorem ipsum. Use bright pink materials. Use programmer art for fucks sake, literally anything else. If your studio is using AI even for temp, even if they think they've covered their tracks, SPEAK UP because people WILL FIND IT

As someone who has been on the business end of nationwide injunctions that I thought were improper, I find the question of what rules we should adopt for them to be genuinely hard. But yesterday's decision deserves massive criticism, for at least two reasons. (Thread.)

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

@stephentotilo.bsky.social has really been knocking it out of the park with what he’s been up to at Game File.

HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too. This isn't over, but this is a huge win. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...