Those of you who still insist on drawing a distinction between ICE and police should be aware that the police are not drawing that distinction.

Very helpful.

The audio essay is now available on YouTube! Does this officially make me a YouTuber? I certainly hope not. #bg3 #baldursgate3 #emperor

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

Tesla’s Robotaxi is crashing roughly once every 40,000 miles so far in Austin, and that's with a human safety supervisor in vehicle. For comparison, the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles. electrek.co/2025/12/15/t...

Now that the rose tinted glasses are finally coming off I feel more comfortable saying there have been cracks for a while in Larian’s image as a progressive forward thinking company. I wrote about queerness and monstrosity in BG3, and it’s more reactionary than you might think.

the enthusiasm for generative AI would not have been possible without prior decades of capitalist conditioning to view works of art as products, rather than acts of culture and shared human life

Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games

Larian lost a lot of good will today but there have been issues simmering for a while I think, especially with some of their writing. If you’re interested in illithids and the Emperor (or on the fence about them) I do a thorough analysis of Larian’s writing around BG3’s central theme of monstrosity.

Cheers! Celebrating finishing my Emperor project.

I take a deep look at the Emperor and monstrosity in Baldur’s Gate 3, and I do so with a little help from one of the greatest monsters in fiction: Frankenstein’s creation. This is also available as an audio series on Apple Podcasts. Link in 🧵 #bg3 #emperor #frankenstein #baldursgate3 #larian

“Baldur’s Gate III and the Queer Politics of Monstrosity” Would you become a monster if it would save the world? The audio series and essay are now complete. The essay is available on Medium @littlemonday

“Baldur’s Gate III and the Queer Politics of Monstrosity” is now available as a written essay on Medium. #bg3 #baldursgate3

The final two episodes are out now on Apple Podcasts! Part 5 - Would You Become a Monster if it Would Save the World? And… Conclusion - The Battle of Purposes #baldursgate3 #bg3 #podcast #frankenstein

“The Dark Power of Monstrous Identity” Part 4 is out now! #bg3 #baldursgate3 #frankenstein

Baldur’s Gate III and the Queer Politics of Monstrosity Part 3 is out! It’s the longest episode of the series, and the episode where we connect the dots of the Emperor’s monstrosity. I hope you enjoy! #bg3 #baldursgate3 #frankenstein

"Monstrosity Always Unites Monstrous Form With Monstrous Meaning" - Jack Halberstam Part 1 is out on Apple Podcasts. #bg3 #frankenstein #podcast

I’ve been neglecting my laundry while I finish this project. I have a pile I haven’t folded. Another pile in the dryer that is obviously not folded. My cat has claimed the former pile as her laundry throne, so it will probably never get folded.

The introductory episode is out! #bg3 #baldursgate3 #frankenstein

I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.

Make sure to follow the limited series on Apple Podcasts. The first episode will be out this week. #bg3 #baldursgate3 #podcast

My teaser trailer! #bg3 #baldursgate3 #podcast

Baldur’s Gate 3 and the Queer Politics of Monstrosity. To become a monster or not is the central conflict of the game. So, I decided to ask: what is a monster? I spent a very long time on this project and it’s coming out in a few days as a podcast, then as an essay. #bg3 #baldursgate

The tiny menace who jumped on my keyboard and nearly closed my project before I had saved it.

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

If you’d like to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, you can do so for free at Project Gutenberg. (And as always, your local library). Here’s the original 1818 publication. #frankenstein

Just called both my senators and asked them to call for Schumer’s resignation. Also broke down over some hot chocolate at a cafe.

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader

not to be vengeful but i want all of us to remember this exact feeling the next time anyone pops off with some apologia for weak willed self serving democrats as if any of these fuckers deserve the benefit of the doubt

The cheapest plan available to me (a Georgian) is over $1,000 a month. Healthcare is no longer an option for me. I will ration the medication I take for as long as I can and then I will wait to die.

Schumer needs to resign. Likely he needs to be forced to resign. If America is ever going to be a functional democracy, failure can’t be institutionally protected. Leaders that fuck up like this and delude themselves into thinking they deserve to hold power are a cancer that needs to be excised.

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

I just finished watching Frankenstein, and I’m more than a little destroyed. Beautiful film. Having spent the last year in the depths of the novel, this film built off of the novel so well and in ways that really engaged its themes. I can’t stop thinking about Elizabeth.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

A gin and tonic is exactly what this day requires. My cat kept photobombing, so I tried to pose her instead.

The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line. 1/

Spookified a bottle of spiced cider for my friend’s Halloween birthday party.

I don’t even have the words for this. I hope we learn the names and faces of each and every one of these Nazis.

Middlebury College should know how to vet speakers for their qualifications. Wu and Sapir had no business being given the platform they had. Rest in peace Lia.

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

I believe that we are many, And I believe that they are few.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

These Project 2025 videos were intended to train a second Trump administration’s political appointees "to be ready on day one." Last August, ProPublica & @documented.net obtained 14 hours of the videos, which covered everything from passing new regulations to rooting out left-wing language:

And we can do even BETTER!!! If you already cancelled yours, tell a friend 😎 #cancelDisney #cancelHulu #jimmykimmel

The real reason it takes so long to write anything. (Blurred the writing that I’m currently marking up with my pen).

30,000 words later… ☺️