Note: We do not use AI. Period. We pay humans to create our games, end-to-end. Adobe recently implemented a feature that quietly injected AI alt text into Umdaar. We've removed it, updated the PDF, and disabled the feature. We apologize for the error, please download the latest PDF. Also: Fuck AI.

Now is a good time to remember that Meta has announced that it is laying off 10% of its workforce, including 2,000 people just today, while going in on a "AI will replace workers" strategy. www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

Best thing about this is what the bunkers look like. Just you and your terrible nuclear family, trapped with each other, forever. No community even if you needed one. No help on the way. Just a grid of soundproof tombs. The perfect American suburb

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

Utah’s new age-verification provisions are now in effect. SB 73 requires sites to age-verify users physically located in Utah regardless of IP address, undermining geoblocking and raising major privacy and enforcement concerns. www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/new-uta...

I love it when an organization tells me what their values are by their primary endorsements. I'm sure the money they lose from my small monthly donation will be made up from big money sources (hence the endorsement). The least I can do is put my money to work against that machine, though.

The Coming Crash We Built Ourselves, Part 1: The Second Rent: https://streets.mn/2026/04/24/the-coming-crash-we-built-ourselves-part-1/ Automotive ownership is already the second-largest household cost for most Minnesotans. Auto debt has hit historic highs. The bubble is about to burst — and we ...

Grasp your Runestone of Light, point your Sword of the Beasts toward the sky, and unleash your battlecry! The hour of Umdaar is nigh!! A Planet of Science, Sorcery, and Super-science - powered by Fate. Check out this FREE PREVIEW before the full release in June! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Last week, Neighbors for More Neighbors provided testimony in support of the Right to Renew Act, which requires landlords to have a valid reason to end a tenancy or refuse to renew a lease, providing essential stability to renters. Check it out now!

By the way: the landlords are now openly admitting this. They have long used eviction case records as leverage to collect alleged sums owed from tenants post-eviction, whether it be rent or something else. This is a big part of what's driving the numerous constitutional challenges to expungement

Friday is a great day to subscribe. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ (Ok, so any day is good, but why wait?)

To all of you out there creating in this capitalist hellscape, in this time of war and inequality, where many are fearing for their lives, I see you And I appreciate you We need art and stories and music and theatre and and and. We need them to escape but to also record the trying times we're in💕

EFF is finally leaving X and here is a blog post about why: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

This afternoon, WI governor Tony Evers strongly VETOED a Republican age-verification bill, AB 105, calling it "an intrusion into the privacy of Wisconsin residents.” A huge victory for FSC and other civil liberties groups who fought this regressive antiporn law!

Shooting for the stars…

Hello from Minneapolis!

It says a lot about capitalism that the train with actual people on it has to wait for the train with freight on it.

NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap. Lawmakers who've done the math want answers. My latest @wired.com:

The data broker industry must be destroyed: www.theverge.com/news/897145/...

90% of evictions in MN are for nonpayment of rent. I did a sample a week ago and found the avg nonpayment eviction in Hennepin County would take $5,122 to stop. Studies (before the high inflation of the past few years) suggest stopping an eviction saves $6,832 in public costs. It just makes sense

For so long Amazon has had a monopoly on selling self-published books. Good to see that @bookshop.org is ready to compete in the space! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

A statement from Sahan Journal, Minnesota Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio, Minnesota Reformer, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association:

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

someone just tried attacking rep ilhan omar at her town hall in north minneapolis, reportedly trying to spray her with something, but was tackled before he could get to her. she returned to speaking

Solidarity forever.

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Remember: Everything they are doing to sex workers and queers— the special designations, the censorship, the taxes, the attacks, the restrictions, the surveillance — they can and will do to you. "Protect the children" gives broad cover for crackdowns on political dissent.

This is why there is no free speech without anonymous speech. This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights. This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm www.politico.com/newsletters/...

There is no way to do this without it becoming a privacy and security nightmare, not just for the wearer but for everyone around them, and the companies just don't care.

I’m also convinced that anybody who says this is “just like the dot com bubble” has not actually read about the dot com bubble. Fiber optic companies weren’t holding up the stock market! Corning and JDS Uniphase were about .7% of the S&P500 at their height and had much smaller revenues than NVIDIA.

I drove down Lake Street today, almost end to end across the city. There was graffiti all over the section between 35W and Hiawatha with FUCK ICE, FUCK 12 on banks, and construction signs and street signs, but not the murals. The art was untouched. I fucking love this city.

January 10, 2026 in Marquette, MI #ICEoutForGood

It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something

If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.

They're going to cover it up.

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

Look for the helpers. Faced with evil, watch for the decent people standing against it.

Minneapolis.

I moved to the Twin Cities as a kid. I lived here, left, and came back. I've bounced around a lot, but this is the place I come back to. I'm lucky. The Cities are filled with people who stand up, work for good in public and in private even in the face of unspeakable harm. They do not stand alone.

We are strangers, you and I, We stand, stranger still In the world beyond, Too far from center To garner any notice. Oddballs and eccentrics, The ones who do not fit. We are stars with pointed tips, Who refuse the hammer Dodging those dulling blows That force the star into a cog. #vss365 #oddball

"The primary explanation is going to be price and affordability.” Via: @whqr.bsky.social

“I talk to people facing eviction every day. t’s not because the tenant doesn’t want to pay their rent, it’s because life has hit them.” Via: @kstptv.bsky.social kstp.com/kstp-news/to... #housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+

these streets are gone now. lost to hwy 94 coming in :(

On keeping hope right now, from @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on stream with @katmabu.bsky.social.

the other thing that strikes me about dreher’s take — and related ones — is that they depend on the conceit that political history began, at most, 10 years ago.

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