a lot of falsehoods are getting repeated about b) by people who rightly believe a), and it doesn't help credibility.

It's also bleakly funny that even in 2022 I thought it was laying it on awful thick about tech bro douches, but if anything Norton's character is way too aware of other people as a concept and is at least attempting to fake an interesting inner life.

The way that Sektori’s strike attack reloads when you dash into a token and the way that strike chain functions as a multiplier for the separate kill chain is one of the beautiful things I’ve seen in a game in years. It’s mechanically perfect.

Tip if you’re playing Sektori: don’t ignore the guys that travel on a line!

i went through a whole character arc about sektori over like half an hour last night

I got so stoned at a Mets game once I compared the Jumbotron to the top screen of a Nintendo DS bc it had “a bunch of useful contextual information” and the field to the bottom screen bc “it’s where the game is actually played”

Thinking a lot about how when Schreier's exposé on R* working conditions came out, several mid-level devs I used to respect came out with very defensive "well *I've* never worked 90 hour weeks" as though it negated the fact that many contract and QA devs demonstrably were.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Yes please do that. Give him as much airtime as possible on any topic he wants (especially the age of consent)

Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club." They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.

tfw you’re fucking the lasagna man for lasagna

Really enjoying Where Winds Meet

"...prediction markets, if they’re liquid and transparent, capture, in a way, all of the world’s information and every signal." Many people really believe this, and not just about prediction markets, but markets in general. And that means everything has to be reduced to the market or sloughed off.

There's a lot to say about the Roblox CEO interview, and the right place to start is definitely his answers on children's safety, because that's kind of the fire that is hottest and closest. However, I have to also say, the polymarket stuff is real 'summation of our neoliberal dumpster fire' shit.

This is governing by viral video, basically. Some guy took his shoes off on a flight and used his toes to swipe the touchscreen on the in-flight entertainment, it got a million views on TikTok and a news segment on Fox and Duffy is like, "I can work with this."

This is what Duffy wants to distract you from with his "don't wear pajamas on flights" nonsense. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Duffy is a completely unserious person who is focusing on this because he has undone all the Airline Passenger Rights enacted under Biden and Buttigieg and he doesn't want people to focus on that. Ironic, of course, because if you're delayed you're going to want some comfy clothes and shoes.

Is the problem the economic "messaging" or the economic "outcomes"

I find it really insane when people try to pit minorities in the US against immigrants when its the exact same violence coming for both.

I ran into an advocate who told me that the 9 men detained from Canal Street last month struggled to find legal representation. Historically, Black immigrants experience disproportionately *more* removals than any other group. Anti-Black racism fuels US immigration in *every* way.

This is horrible news. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

Not beating the “America invades countries to grab their oil” allegations

Abolishing ICE is only the beginning. Have you looked at your local cops? .. According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.

Masked mercenaries are only able to kidnap people off our streets at random today because Democrats refused to defund ICE when they had the chance. The same goes for the epidemic of police violence. The movement against ICE should revitalize anti-police organizing. crimethinc.com/antipolice2025

me: oh well idk i'd like to run for office someday but i need more experience, and also to run deep oppo on myself the shamwow guy: www.kxan.com/news/your-lo...

He's a Republican. And there's also this.

One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

The U.S. State Department is repeating a white nationalist conspiracy theory. On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.” That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.

We have gotten so used to Great Replacement becoming normalized that most people hardly noticed that a racist, antisemitic, xenophobic conspiracy theory popularized by mass shooters and 4chan trolls is now government policy.

The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.

Snitching to corporate and getting 30 people fired is not mandatory — rats have to make that choice for themselves.

Charlie Cox says nominations for his 'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' role should go to Gustave’s motion capture artist "There's an amazing french actor named Maxence Cazorla who did almost all of the motion capture for that role ... so any nomination or any credit I get, I really have to give to him"

here's my thing with this: it's objectively true, there is vastly more good star trek than star wars but I still like the star wars universe as a sandbox more than star trek

anyway, let's have more of this they are weak and they are beatable and that needs to be the message from every corner of the opposition

good work guys you picked a fight in which Dems can stand up out of their permanent defensive crouch and go “our guy is a fucking astronaut and you’re an alcoholic tv host”

I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.

👀 Alex Vitale is a sociologist who wrote a very good book called The End of Policing.

After putting the game back in beta and promising to stay heads down until next year, the Splitgate 2 devs announced they’re ending the beta for a December relaunch, and my meaningless conspiracy theory is that they’re doing this so they can relaunch their game at another Geoff Keighley gaming show

Since the start of this year, some 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE, according to government data — the highest number since recordkeeping began a decade ago. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

I'm immensely sick of the figure heads of game dev companies being silent about the harassment of game devs. This is how this nonsense becomes "the norm" and it should have never been accepted as such in the first place.

Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’

Spoke to a number of devs about how, in the face of CEOs claiming gen-AI is the future, their declaration of being genAI free is making waves.

NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis. In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals." futurism.com/artificial-i...

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

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🚨 Starting a new thread here because I think there may still be more attempts to delay ranked-choice voting in D.C. It is currently set to be implemented for next June's primary, but some back and forth today makes me think two councilmembers could try to derail that.

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

in addition to all of his experience, in 2011 someone tried to assassinate kelly's wife, former congresswoman gabby giffords. no way he's cowing to these ass clowns.