uh holy SHIT?

@raiganburns.bsky.social was kind enough to gift me a copy of Cinco Paus for Christmas and i fired it up today and good lord this is a writhing snake pit of mechanics

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

i'm kind of lazy can yall link me to every definition of games that has been published anywhere with citation? ty i will also accept forum posts etc, give me your favourites that you find inspirational, the ones you hate, all of them, as long as there's any legitimacy/seriousness about it

Putting this in context: This joke was made at a time when a previously eradicated measles is making a comeback. This joke was made when there is a big influenza outbreak worldwide. This joke was made when every month new research shows us preventing is infinitely better than treating sickness

“Buy our home security package named after someone who was utterly destroyed by a back door break-in he didn’t see coming because he was focused solely on the front door.”

By accepting gifts from billionaires in the hundreds of thousands of dollars while ruling on decisions that directly affect their benefactors, the corrupt SCOTUS has become virtually indistinguishable from their corporate donors. They lost whatever moral and legal authority they had long ago.

2025 was brutal for games media, but I'm seeing some glimmers of hope as worker-owned sites like @aftermath.site, @rascal.news, and @giantbomb.bsky.social have carved out vital spaces in the games community. Earlier this year, I made a huge Indie Games Media starter pack for y'all. Let's celebrate.

Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times

It makes perfect sense that the idea of the Crusades appeals today to the exact kind of loud, adolescent-brained, self-aggrandizing, just-rich-enough-to-cause-problems idiot that the actual Crusades were designed to siphon out of the body politic like the snake venom they were, and are.

oh this looks like it could be fun

What is the actual plan for this? AI magically starts producing new industries that don’t exist in the next three months? The unemployed who have never done construction work start doing construction work? Nothing is pointing in this direction, except for elite spending on tennis seats and gambling.

It’s wild we’re still talking about masks. I still mask up in grocery stores, elevators, public bathrooms, and public transit cuz I don’t like being sick and I don’t want to get my kid sick and it doesn’t have to be more complicated than not liking being sick. It’s weird anyone would question that.

Reminder that The Guardian has a financial partnership with openAI so they have a vested interest in trying to paint this shit in a positive light. You can't trust a single thing they say about it whatsoever

‘AI “friends” are to companionship what pornography is to sexual intimacy. Both are solipsism masquerading as interaction. That, surely, is the root of AI companions’ creepiness.’ www.ft.com/content/f365...

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

"‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock Intl Criminal Court judge out of daily life. Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards or access everyday services (Uber, Alexa, Ticketmaster...) in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

It’s sort of crazy that humans went to the moon when only two out of every five seem to be sapient

We could make it a strict liability crime/tort if your image generator is used to generate CSAM of a real person What‘s that you say, this would effectively outlaw image generators? Feature, not a bug

jon stewart hosting a show with a guest never-trumper conservative grifter from the bulwark to guffaw about masking. libs have completely lost the plot

This is a really good and condensed summary of when & why genAI/slopAI/LLM outputs etc should not be used in teaching. And it's by someone in CS/programming to anticipate the usual techblowhard anti-humanities responses.

It has happened before. It will happen again. (The interesting debate might be over exactly what mode of capitalism different places are practicing right now).

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

He should not have come back. It’s been ugly and unseemly and wildly inadequate to the moment.

Conway explains economic physics.

"Attention hacking" makes it sound like they are winning the game rather than rigging it - Republicans bought up and control the biggest platforms and audiences. There are machines that literally determine what stories people see and conservatives own the machines.

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Adding to the choir of those singing the praises, you probably already saw this post swing by your feed by now. Just coming in to say that I just watched this and it was extremely well put together. You should watch it too if you have not already.

1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia. 2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.

Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.

Living with Windows has always been a calculus of how useful it is professionally vs. the amount of unbearable shit you gotta disable with a script and I think we reached a tipping point where it’s majority unbearable shit.

speed king / psx konami computer entertainment tokyo, 1996

De-Google in the new year, folks - do it in increments if need be.

They say revenge is a dish best served up cold, and they say revenge is sweet. So basically, revenge is ice cream.

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They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

A brunch of liberals, specifically Jon Stewart, Jon Favrou, & Tim Miller, threw a temper tantrum on one of their WFH podcast, because masks & people like Judah Friedlander who made masking a healthy habit like brushing teeth, terrifies & shames them

shit like this is the core of the damage the social internet has done to us we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same

"Every journalist at CBS News now knows that if you spend months working on a segment that makes the Trump administration look bad, it might get killed at the last second by someone who’s never worked in TV news & who reports directly to a billionaire with business before the administration."

i think before you go pitching stuff like this (or e.g. the "bicameral mind" thing), you gotta convince me that great apes and cats don't have the same sorts of feelings that i do

The assumption that these people can be reasoned with is responsible for the dire situation we are in. This is not an education problem, this is a mental health problem. About 70 million people in your country are clinically insane in a way that would have had them committed in previous decades.

This video is so good, a true new standard. As someone who's tired of "game history" as people parroting trivia on Nintendo in the US, it's so refreshing to see how a tired topic can still be interesting when it's properly researched & contextualized. And also reminds us why any of this matters :)

If we don’t get grotesque lying under control, we will never have a decent government that serves us. Or a decent media. Or a decent society.

A) They’re not going to do this. B) If you’re not going to buy into the social contract then don’t expect to be protected by it. This is something past elites at least slightly acknowledged. If today’s elite think they can live apart from the social contract, well, good luck to them I guess.

Bernie is spot on with this. Most people have no idea what these data centers impact. It is HUGE and negative all around (with exception to the oligarchs wallets) All of you who needed to “research” at election time, THIS is what you need to research right now.