THIS WEDNESDAY NOV 12TH 8:30AM ET: Feminist AI - Frameworks, Practices, Refusals Join us for what promises to be a great transnational feminist dialogue around feminist approaches to AI. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret. Editor says court cases against city continue #ksleg

Just got the best ending, using this to re-up my overall recommendation for this game! Distract yourself from the horrors!

A goddamn work of art. Two Beard awards in a row, looks like.

Happy chewing out John Fetterman day! (Washington office phone line didn’t connect but the PHL one did.)

The Seance at Blake Manor is so good. I can’t even quibble with all the little flaws because the overall game is masterful. Mild spoiler: also there is a v. cute queer femme couple.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Paging the Becket Fund. The Becket Fund to Broadview. ...hmm.

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

😈😈😈

"Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities" the-decenter.ghost.io/the-body-as-... by Afsaneh Rigot

Our Immigration and Data Security teams worked together this week to understand how immigration-linked data grabs and shoddy facial recognition apps are laying the groundwork for a surveillance state. unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...

💔 Orr. Not unexpected. Still fucked up.

When I wore this shirt to Blackhat, a woman stopped me to tell me it was "aggressive." That could be you!

Just for context, it was an international scandal when YouTube erased documentation of Syrian government war crimes. Now it's just the Intercept and tech outlets who care. apnews.com/article/d9f1...

hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn

This is chilling. "Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact, Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime. Rather, the Trump administration is alleging he’s 'glorifying terrorism' via social media posts."

BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

also I collected Mira Nair’s papers, including her handwritten notebooks for all films, at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard, FREE and open to the public. Much good work to be done. Finding aid here: hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories...

Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.

Happy election day, everyone, but specifically NYC. Please enjoy this unhinged flyer I picked up off the ground in Staten Island two weeks ago.

no. NO!!!!

Not me tearing up over a...political ad?

More people need to post lore drops about public figures in slide format

Related story of the terror being inflicted on our neighbors. A(nother) great piece from @willbunch.bsky.social. If you're looking for a decent newspaper to subscribe to, I think the @inquirer.com fits that bill well. share.inquirer.com/1eYJHS

Some personal news... (On Stalker, in case folks are curious.)

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Posted without comment.

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

I'll be over here sorting my chats into the "kiki" and "bouba" folders.

Oh no, I'm going to have an existential crisis as I try and figure out whether people go in the "work" or "friends" folders.

"ICE Kidnapped My Neighbor in Broad Daylight. The Aftermath Left Me Reeling." by Freddy Martinez truthout.org/articles/ice...

New photos out in AZ Luminaria and The Margin.

HELLO me + @mcforelle.bsky.social + @carolinejack.bsky.social are co-editing a collected volume on TECH/MONEY! do you want yell about technology but also about finance and business models and stuff? do you have sooo many receipts? we want your proposals! find the CFP here: oddletters.com/tech-money/

I play video games to live in a fantasy world where tasks are measurable, accomplishable, and rewarded. @rcmacleod.bsky.social nails it. aftermath.site/power-wash-s...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/

If you are in Philadelphia, you should come to the panel we are doing tonight on the state of the NJ governor's race! Open to the public: www.penandpencil.org/content.aspx...

The NBA media is not set up to cover a gambling scandal: defector.com/the-nba-medi...

Wow. "Months after law firms made deals with President Trump to ward off punitive executive orders, the ethics committee of the District of Columbia Bar is warning that such arrangements may require firms to drop or obtain waivers from all clients who have interests at odds with the government."

Ahhahaha

who is your halloween familiar this year?

I think about this at least twice a week.

Online censorship is one of the many levers of state power right-wingers have been pulling to try and snuff out queer and trans existence. But instead of fighting back, some Democrats are helping them at the controls. Read the full #OpEd from @fightforthefuture.org

Thanks to a bunch of wealthy fascists and fascist enablers, *2 million* Pennsylvania residents are officially losing their SNAP benefits next month. That includes 500,000 Philadelphians—1 in 3 residents. The GOP fiddles while our people starve www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

Congrats to JayCee Cooper and to the team at Gender Justice, who argued her case at the Minnesota State Supreme Court last year!

I really wish there were widely offered law school courses in government operations law: budgets, appropriations, and financial controls; appointment, hiring, and the civil service; procurement and contracting; ethics and anti-corruption laws; lobbying; and suing the government.

I had the opportunity to read a draft of this report and it’s absolutely fascinating!