Here's a short trailer for Magus Magicus. A "fun and exciting" roguelike video game I made for PICO-8, where you play as Magus, the wizard. Play it here (for free): lzzrhx.itch.io/magus #gamedev #roguelike #pico8

until we return, paradise interred

This one was inspired heavily by the GOAT Simon Stålenhag. Duno how successful of an attempt it was but nevertheless it is available to be ...looked at #blender #b3d #blender3d #3dart

"Spring" The problem with synthoids was that they simply thought too much, overly fixated on optimization. The organics played the long game, dancing patiently since the dawn of time. #pico8 #codeart #tweetcart #tweettweetcart #postcart #postpostcart #generative #sizecoding

The first in a new series of videos following young writers in Gaza. Here, Batool Abu Akleen reads her poem, Judgement Day, from her searingly powerful debut collection. Please watch and share widely. youtube.com/watch?v=mHunLNYShWI&feature=youtu.be

PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...

New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMvw... Alberto Toscano discusses his major new book Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. This free event delved into Toscano’s latest book, highlighting the continued and necessary development of ongoing anti-fascist thought and organization.

A recording of the Long Arc of Fascism panel discussion on "Fascism as Capitalist Counter-Revolution" with Brenna Bhandar, Avery Everhart, Gastón Gordillo and Alberto Toscano, chaired by Naomi Klein (April 19, 2025). www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCK1...

Watch @naomiaklein.bsky.social open the Long Arc of Fascism teach-in by challenging the conventional, narrow understanding of fascism, particularly the idea that it is a uniquely European phenomenon that began in the 1920s or ’30s and was defeated in 1945. @ccms-sfu.bsky.social

"End Times Fascism": Naomi Klein on How Trump, Musk, Far Right "Don't Believe in the Future"

Effective accelerationism is the latest ideology to grip Silicon Valley. It divides tech between the accelerationists and the doomers. This week @parismarx.bsky.social speaks to @xriskology.bsky.social about the threats it poses to us. Listen to the full episode: techwontsave.us/episode/198_...

Curtis Yarvin describes himself as a “dark elf” saving the know-nothing “hobbits” of the US public with an anti-democratic, pro-tech politics. @juliablack.bsky.social joins @parismarx.bsky.social to discuss how tech billionaires are echoing his ideas. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/244_...

Palantir is thriving under Donald Trump, but what does the company really do? This week @carolinehaskins.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss the tech Palantir sells to governments and companies and the ideology that guides its leaders. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/294_...

Palantir is leading the charge to remake military contracting so newer tech companies get far more lucrative arms contracts. This week @sambiddle.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss the tech industry’s effort to become the new military industrial complex. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/279_...

AI companies warn their tech will wipe out huge numbers of jobs. But what are workers finding? This week @bcmerchant.bsky.social is back to chat with @parismarx.com about whether the AI bubble is bursting and how bosses are using AI hype against workers. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/292_...

My new video explains my various grievances about the ambient AI discourse. We often run in loops discussing the same things ("will we lose jobs", "when will AGI happen"), I try to avoid speculations to focus to current and real problems. youtu.be/5GjeJ8kQST4

"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds" The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

Check out @alonso-gd.bsky.social's summary of "The Academic Consensus on Gaza": www.youtube.com/watch?si=jOU... #genocide #genocidestudies

NEW: My longform report on the field of genocide studies is now unpaywalled. What happens when institutions that grew out of the study of the Holocaust—where Israel is often understood as the survivors' state—must grapple with Israel committing genocide? jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide...

‘State-funded cultural institutions have long penalised intellectuals of Global South ancestry who show sympathy for Palestinians; the authorities are now disciplining even Jewish writers, artists and activists.’ Pankaj Mishra on Germany’s culture war: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Kan universitetene stå imot Trumps nye offensiv? I en uke hvor amerikansk venstreside terrorstemples må vi spørre: hvor langt på den autoritære veien har USA nå kommet? Lenker 👇

‘What we saw in the last US election was the rise of this very individualistic politics and this idea that a real man doesn't need a social safety net, that he is the agent of his own destiny.’ Emily Witt (@embits.bsky.social) on the manosphere, on the podcast: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

important game dev advice #gaming #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiegame #gamedeveloper #indiegamedeveloper

My game "Replicube": Code, Logic, and Math never looked so TASTY🍉 25% off on Steam right now to celebrate back to school! s.team/a/3401490

inu no osanpo, arcade (2001) '..a dog walking simulation. players "walk" a virtual dog by walking on a treadmill & control the pet with a leash attached to a plastic dog in front of the player. the game was only released in japan.' archive.org/details/arca... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inu_no_...

NEW Decoding: Phosphor! mini.gmshaders.com/p/decoding-p... Deconstructing my Phosphor shaders, the math and logic behind them

'All across Europe, knights and nobles transformed themselves from feudal warriors to military entrepreneurs.' A sneek peek of Chapter 4: Götz von Berlichingen and the Military Revolution from the audiobook "The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World" by Patrick Wyman

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, started spewing antisemitic conspiracy theories this week. It’s not the first time something like this has happened — and a reminder that LLMs aren’t truth-telling machines but aggregators of undifferentiated online scribblings.

'They returned home in rival groups, by different routes, telling conflicting stories of exactly what had happened in the months following the shipwreck – accusing one another of mutiny, murder and betrayal.' Seagull Soup by Fara Dabhoiwala

‘The German Peasants’ War was an expression of a novel political sensibility and has informed every major European insurrection since; it can’t be understood without considering the rebels’ inner lives as well as their material circumstances.’ Malcolm Gaskill: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

'People walk around San Francisco in Make America Great Again hats. Major CEOs endorse Trump. JD Vance is a hit among the crypto whales. So what? It's part, perhaps, of a cultural change in Silicon Valley: a swing decisively to the right [...]'

In the latest episode of the podcast, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social joins Thomas Jones to discuss the relationship between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon. Listen here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

The internet isn’t dead, but as it’s flooded with AI-generated spam, it feels like we’re in the zombie internet. This week @jasonkoebler.bsky.social joins @parismarx.bsky.social to discuss the state of Facebook and how it’s been taken over by AI trash. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/227_...

AI Slop Is Breaking the Internet as We Know It (404 Media Live at SXSW) 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-b...

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right argues @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

‘OpenAI hides its models’ reasoning from users, perhaps because the content would reveal the extent to which it has infringed the intellectual property of the writers and publishers whose material its models are trained on.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Billions for ICE to roundup our neighbors and co-workers, while working-class people are kicked off baseline programs like Medicare. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley oligarchs will continue to demand more money and energy for the AI bubble. itsgoingdown.org/good-night-t...

'If humanitarians can be attacked on the high seas at European shores without consequences, a new watermark on the Western establishment’s creeping abandonment of its professed norms will have been reached.' Israel Acts With Impunity, Europe Does Nothing by Nathan Akehurst

‘92 per cent of housing has been destroyed, 81 per cent of the road network and 88 per cent of commerce and industry. Last year, the UN found Israel to be using starvation as a weapon of war.’ Selma Dabbagh on the renewal of Israel’s strikes on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

How Trump and Musk built their own reality

‘A necessary consensus about the Shoah’s universal salience has been endangered by the increasingly visible ideological pressures brought to bear on its memory.’ Pankaj Mishra’s 28 February Winter Lecture, ‘The Shoah after Gaza’, is online now.

Dragon Quest II - Famicom box artwork,

SegaSonic: Hedgehog Ecology (Notebook) / Promotional material / Sega / 1996

r4: ridge racer type 4 / psx namco, 1998

A new week already! Here's what I'll have on repeat today and beyond. Sending everyone positive vibes. ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

Grog the Frog on an average day 🐸✨