🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR: Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility. Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...

about to become extremely annoying

Clifford D Simak sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/simak_... was born on this day, so here's are some of his covers: for 'Time and Again'; the fixup novel 'City'; plus two for omnibus's that include both novels (Artist: Chris Moore, [couldn't identify], Karel Thole and [couldn't identify]):

Sydney Harbour Bridge today -- have never seen anything like this

Notes on Cosmic Osmo (1989) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...

$ilkmoney gotta be the only person in the world rapping about ray-tracing

reading the news like

Doing both these things at the same time is great because i'm now spending all my time thinking about how DS2 imagines circulation and the importance of logistics/transportation labour for it. You literally build highways to make commodities move quicker!

Just unbelievably cooked, horrific

I haven't fleshed it out into a full article, but at DiGRA last year I presented this talk which was a Marxist analysis of the tendency of (indie) developers becoming publishers after a big hit. Maybe of interest to the current discourse I'm seeing around publishers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ey014...

Death Stranding 2 semi-accurately captures Australian verbiage until they start referring to bushfires as "wildfires"

born to play Death Stranding 2 forced to read Capital vol. 2

Reading the first 70% of The Talented Mr. Ripley: 😀 Reading Patricia Highsmith's Wikipedia page when I'm 70% through The Talented Mr. Ripley: 😬

Discord is trying to get me to buy orbs and complete quests -- literally who is asking for this shit

in spite of the decades-long clamoring for the need to look at video games as a serious and consequential art form, we still largely don't do that. instead they're still largely approached as excellent machines for a certain kind of playful addiction. the "play" is more important than anything else

Walter Benjamin famously argued that fascism is about the Ghibli-isation of politics

fuck Windows 11, I'm running the Austin Powers OS

I guess it's good to know that there is a line for elite conduct somewhere but it is depressing how it's more commonly drawn in response to breaches of etiquette rather than, say, dropping of bombs or withdrawals of food aid

fuck roguelikes I'm over here playing dictionarylikes and encyclopedialikes

Reading Jameson:

Reading Typee - Melville loves descriptions of sucking, rubbing, massaging, ejaculating (prayers, of course). Highly erotic work!

We love you Adelaide

This is so disgusting there aren’t words

feels like the time to start getting into psychoanalysis

Dream job is making all of the iRobot robots for AI article header images

Best drink of all time

1.5 million point combo

Interesting how streaming decision paralysis has led me back to older mediums -- have been listening to nothing but radio for the past few weeks so I don't have to worry about choosing what to listen to (and I won't let the algorithm do it for me!)

Made not cherry but banoffee pie to rewatch Fire Walk With Me

Björk describing Pärt's compositions as Pinocchio and the Cricket is so sick www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfqE...

Spent most of my day watching the NFL and the UFC and feel like I mainlined American fascism

At 100 years old, legendary saxophonist and Sun Ra leader Marshall Allen is releasing his debut solo album

Cradle Mt. In Tasmania

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Reading about Rosetti's Wombat

Giving the Lemonade Monster Rehab ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Surprisingly subtle Arnold Palmer-esque taste with a good mouth feel and a nicer buzz than a regular Monster. This can was imported so it was $8AUD, but I could see myself grabbing it regularly if it was cheaper. (I wish there was a Letterboxd for drinks)

read some Berger by the beach

reading Brautigan at the pool

joinreboot.org/p/mr-beast-s... incredible work

Thoughts on R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 (1998), Spinoza, and peregrines maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...

Lots of clarity today

culture is looking worse by the day

critics & theorists! the CTWG journal, V1 is live as a free PDF on our site! It’s a year’s worth of work—special thanks to the authors (Mac, Sam, J.E. Morain, Esther, Zach) & the ed crew (Anatarah, Re, Jefferson, & last but not least J.E. Morain the V1 Czar). Have at it ya’ll!

might just pivot every chapter in my thesis to be about Caves of Qud -- I don't want to stop writing about it!

inching closer to my long-awaited Lost rewatch

no better album for taking me straight to my mind palace

Got a dealer trying to sell me viagra through the app I use to organise Padel games

had a dream I was stuck on a newly-built 50 lane highway

Third day in the "pain dimension" (marking papers all written with ChatGPT)

Where can I get a pdf and who wants to play???