In an age of fascism, Theodor Adorno wrote, "culture has also relinquished the salt of truth." But, I propose in this latest piece, "sometimes the salt of truth are nitrates in processed turkey, compressed in a hero, and hurled at a jackbooted agent of the state." buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Three-year-old ported @necrosoftgames.com ‘s “Oh, Deer!” to our house. He shouts the countdown, “red, orange, yellow, GREEN!” and pushes his toy stroller in circles and runs over shoes on the way to Granny’s house

Lies of P update: still very good

The regular pop tart box assumes you will eat one package of two pop tarts. The super stuffed pop tart box assumes you will see the five single-wrapped super stuffed pop tarts and consider eating all five

I love this episode of To the White Sea. Melissa Tuckman brings a ton of research to the trio and makes a dense text (the speech clips in Meal Ticket) accessible and interesting, beyond just the performance. audioboom.com/posts/835879...

Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore github.com/DrCatHicks/l...

Every Trackmania game I try is just perfect. They nailed it. How do they keep doing it. Even the live service one is good

5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree:

Every time I use the freeze miser it makes a fun ice sculpture. This time it’s mixed media. I call it “we used to jump in piles of leaves and drink from the garden hose”

Me when I get a follow notification from a bot

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