Incredible stuff. I guess it’s hard for Bill, what with him staying on the left and everyone else moving.

I just learned a bunch of things about Dan Ariely and I’m really glad I like my job. I’m also grateful for my job. Young scholars are working so hard to get academic jobs, and every R1 seems to randomly tolerate people who make career-ending mistakes every few years.

I think this meme is basically true to the story thus far. Which is bananas. #RAM #Gaming #AI

This is called a community college and if we funded them properly we wouldn't need private individuals to offer these kinds of services.

all the kinds of modern Indie Games: -"roguelike" (slot machine) -feelings -unlock/tech tree simulator -"god we hope northernlion plays this" -crunchy first person shooter -morrowind built by a single lunatic

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“Hmm, I’m looking to make a heavily gendered snotty comment about a female captain; maybe I should invoke a different female captain for cover!” Whether it’s actresses who play captains, or it’s lawyers or doctors or moms or writers or athletes, I can assure you: Women know this trick, dude.

Faunts - Mass Effect

This week's @vgim.bsky.social, sponsored by k-ID, was a simple one. I interviewed @mackeza.bsky.social to discuss Super Nintendo, her outstanding book about the Big N. And it was, unsurprisingly, a great chat. Read the piece here: videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/why-ninten...

Looking forward to someone at CBP starting a war with Mexico in order to protect our precious bodily fluids.

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

"If the government may simply seize *someone* without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize *anyone*." Perhaps the most fundamental check against tyranny. And it is gravely threatened.

There’s no war. The US wasn’t attacked, and isn’t under imminent threat. Congress didn’t authorize it. Treaties don’t allow it. Drugs aren’t armaments. Drug traffickers aren’t terrorists. Even with all that, we don’t know these were all drug traffickers. And even if they were, they’re low level.

Bill Kristol has declared himself anti-anti-Bad Bunny and that is a pretty solid bit.

honestly respect for the ad that’s just like “pokemon are cool.” they are cool

Okay that Ring ad really freaked me out.

I want all writers to be into writing as much like themselves as possible. I hate to see someone say writing's so good they wish they'd written it. You couldn't have, you're you, & they're them. That's the spirit of plagiarism behind AI. Believe in your capacity to create beauty unique to you.

Everyone needs to realize that what you and I think of when we hear the word "yogurt" probably means something much different to a guy who cut off a whales head with a chainsaw and buried a dead bear in Central Park

Liverpool sat back instead of pushing for a second and this is the kind of thing that will cost Slot his job.

It is wild to me how many American Catholics pretend it’s a different religion entirely.

I've made some changes to my modern China class this semester and talked a little about my process. youtu.be/_BlG2fCPCbM

The Steam Machine has been delayed because stupid little babies can't stop using AI to write their emails: aftermath.site/steam-machine-...

Today the NYT described Trump’s decision to pretend he will get $1 billion from Harvard after it emerged they wouldn’t pay $200 million as part of his “mercurial negotiation style.” As opposed to unserious behavior at best, unhinged behavior at worst. This guy makes Nixon look emotionally centered.

Doing this so you can IPO and be forced to report out exactly how much money X is losing every quarter is very funny www.theverge.com/tech/872619/...

Me, watching Manchester United go on a winning streak with a former player as interim manager.

Life finds a way

“hundreds” youtu.be/Imyqnop6grY?...

Catherine O'Hara, what a talent. And how much joy she brought to so many of us.

My latest co-authored article with Megan Condis was just published in Games: Research and Practice. And it's open access! Check out "Rad Dudes, Rude ‘Tude, and the Family, Too: How Nintendo and Sega Advertisements Shaped the Image of Gaming in the 1990s."

I’m still unclear as to how rhetoric forced a group of thugs to hold a man down and shoot him in the back several times. Or as to how it forced a thug to shoot a woman in the face as she tried to drive away.

the Tesla stock in your S&P500 index fund now directly supports this bullshit too, to the tune of $2b in the recently-closed XAI round

No sleep 'til Brooklyn No sleep 'til Brooklyn

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen has been put in charge of Minnesota ICE.

An incompetent, craven fool given far too much power acted in ways that incompetent, craven fools act when given too much power. I am proud of the people who have refused to be silent. I hope this continues. It should continue. Bovino was a murderous oaf, but he was following clear directions.

This is the GM firing an assistant coach and hoping that will be the end of the questions, except with fascism.

They see this as simply a PR problem.

I really enjoyed the chance to talk with Ross about this fascinating X-Files episode. Often podcast conversations focus on a book of mine or something I already know really well, which I always appreciate, but this chance for a deep l-dive into something new reminded me of why we do what we do. 🗃️

FYI, this one's fake www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Hello! Are you in the UK/Canada/Aus/NZ? Did you discover RPGs through any of the paperback-book games released in the mid-1980s (Fighting Fantasy RPG, Advanced FF, Maelstrom, Dragon Warriors, Tunnels & Trolls)? Can I ask you a couple of questions for an article? Please get in touch.

But even if he did “attack” agents, which he did not, they had successfully subdued him. Like, if he had approached them waving a gun and they got him on the ground, pinned and incapacitated, what they did would still count as murder!

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

I’d travel back in time to tell 2001 me that I’m regularly reposting Bill Kristol, to see his reaction, but the I’d have to explain what “reposting” is and after that I probably have to tell him about 2026 in general, so… It’s just as well we don’t have the technology.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

i'll take Douthat on free speech seriously the minute the federal death squads in America are gone

He managed to be wrong about every fact about Canada (it’s not aging rapidly!!) and Germany (Merkel was bad for some reasons, the listed ones weren’t why). And it’s just an odious piece that somehow equates AI development as an equivalent challenge as military rearmament

Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.