just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

"It's not fair of environmentalists to point out that in addition to being finite resources that are actively destroying the planet, fossil fuels also leave us at the mercy of fragile supply and logistics chains significantly controlled by autocrats in geopolitically chaotic parts of the world."

Good news everyone! Turns out the correct material analysis of the origins of our current predicament, and its solutions, is contained in the very specific mix of podcasts I alone listen to.

move slow and repair things

You can't buy indulgences from trans people that give you Special Permission to enjoy Harry Potter shit. We're not a church, that's not how any of this works. You can *do* whatever you want, but you have to shoulder the ethical burden of enriching a virulent transphobe on your own.

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if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

Chainsaw Man is great. It holds a similar place in my brain to Book of the New Sun, in that it contains many images and thoughts that will live with me forever, and in that it contains many moments in which I found it nearly impossible to tell what was happening in a phenomenological sense.

"Oh i dont have any budgets, that's why i used AI as placeholder voices, images and musics" ❌WRONG❌ Slay The Spire 2, the MOST anticipated roguelike deckbuilder of the year, uses these silly scribbles as placeholder arts, and they are 1000 times more charming than any slop those will ever produce.

The real theme of the modern age is "Nobody Wants This". AI, ICE in airports, ICE in general, the Iran War, data centers sending actual cities wiht people into blackouts -- "nobody" wants this. And yet here we are.

i guess i don't understand how this isn't crime-against-humanity stuff. or does that simply not matter anymore www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Interesting how temp assets shipping never seemed to be a real problem but now suddenly teams using genAI always "forget" to remove those assets. Either you're a liar (likely) or using the slop machine has made you careless and lazy (likely).

Is "are Costco cakes the new Colin the caterpillars?" a recession indicator?

Some say that making a smaller game or simpler game are ways to cut down on dev time. This is also true. But if you're making a game of any size that has any sort of consistent production methodology, a good way to make everything take longer is to change standards and pipelines in production.

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see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Israel's critics should not conflate it with Jews. And synagogues should not say "We stand with Israel," which encourages that conflation. It makes congregants less safe + it's immoral. It's like an Orthodox church after 2022 saying "We stand with Russia" peterbeinart.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse. The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:

These are known patterns. I get really frustrated when I see people using the Industrial Revolution as an argument for this type of AI use being inevitable. These are not the lessons we learn from history. What we do learn are how systems of power produce these exploitative outcomes.

"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world" www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Meredith saying something I’ve spent a lot of the last couple years thinking about:

Yes, it is important to not conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism. However, you are replying to a post about someone ramming a synagogue full of children at daycare with their car, driving into the building and then getting out of the car with a gun. That was not “criticism of Israel”.

it goes on b/c you put a 22-year-old in charge of counterterrorism, moved all your counterterrorism agents to arresting legal immigrants, and told liberal synagogues like the one that was attacked they no longer qualify for security grants, while saying any jew who doesn't support this is a traitor

Speaking as a Jew living in Diaspora, who needs to exist as a minority at a time of rising antisemitism, I would really appreciate it if the Prime Minister of a country where I do not live would not say that attacks on a sovereign country are analogous to attacks on a synagogue.

Me, every day since I played the demo

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I cannot imagine the punishment necessary to properly answer this crime against humanity, but we've got to try

even if the Hague still functioned, even if Nuremberg had gone down how people believe it did, we'll still need some new kind of system to properly perform the level of reckoning that will be necessary once this has been stopped

What to Expect When You're Expecting, addendum: by the time your child is six or seven, many parents find themselves in the role of "Necromancer's Apprentice", primarily concerned with caring for the phylacteries, relics, and arcane instruments of somebody conducting research beyond your ken

Parent horror story: Remembered it was world book day as we arrived in the playground.

Post DOGE I think of redistributive taxation far less in terms of redistribution itself than in terms of taking away social-political nuclear launch codes from people who can’t be trusted with them.

the german word for this is lebensraum

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

There are good kings and bad kings, the difference between the two matters, and you’d much rather live under a good king than a bad king. But ultimately the risk of the bad kings far outweighs the potential upside of a good one. Exact same principle applies here. Too much tail risk.

I've been jamming on the demo the past couple of days, and I think it's a must-play, must-support for anyone who cares about narrative in games. As you'd expect, the writing is passionate, joyful and thoroughly humane - but there's also real delight here in how well story and gameplay fit together.

Video games often have floating platforms, but they don’t explain why the platforms are floating. That’s where game writers come in, to say that platforms are kept aloft by “ghostium” an invisible fog created by the souls of every dead person

i want the jerry horne sandwich

so much cultural and political effort gone towards making a project of pacifism and an end to war seem like a soft, prosaic concern of comfortable people rather than an essential part of the project of justice and human flourishing

Literally so many of the problems in the Middle East stem from over a century of European and US intervention, including the setting the stage for the current Iranian regime, and so many are tied to their decision to seize land to create Israel and the apartheid system it subsequently created.

And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12." Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

Almost certainly true, and another opportunity to remember that Netanyahu would willingly trade away the safety of every Jew on earth to save his own political career and avoid going to prison for his crimes.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Fitting that in America’s final form, the epicenter of evil will be a private golf resort for wealthy pedophiles.

Rich alludes here to the wisdom of the judges at the Nuremburg trial: “To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."