When we said, "No one is free until we are all free," we weren't kidding around. There are no exceptions.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Vibe coding is alluring because so few people understand what the real challenge of software development is. They think getting something to 90% working is 90% of the work. They don’t understand that’s the easy part — maybe 1%, if we’re being generous. 🧵 [1/7]

Always loved that Arby's/coal fact, and the coal industry has shrunk a lot since then. The piece also noted more people work in museums than in coal..... (and Mr. Weinstein is responding to yet more coal-industry welfare in the name of jobs.)

Me calling my Congressional representatives.

@magodesky.bsky.social on “Until Then” and why the Fifth World may have some similarities to some classic cozy games, but we’re not really comfortable calling it “cozy.”

“As I think about what to call this kind of game that I enjoy, the word I keep coming back to is not cozy, but earnest.” www.patreon.com/posts/139505...

If you're cis, trans people are your coalmine canary for a collection of civil liberties. BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state? PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history? EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?

MAGA is an almost perfect distillation of what "palingenetic ultranationalism" means. The only way to not count MAGA as fascist is to misunderstand what fascism is or if you're just lying in service of fascism. Every shred of decency or morality demands resistance to fascism. Anti-fascism. Antifa.

"We've let some of the worst game designers to ever live design the most important game that any of us will ever play."

We are fighting for the freedom to have time to build, to create, to love, and to live lives not of just survival, but of fulfillment and joy.

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea — instead of acting to defend the activists, researchers, and organizers facing persecution.

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

In tonight's office hours on the Fifth World Discord (starting at 9 PM Eastern), we'll be talking about where tension comes from in an ecotopian story, or anything else you'd like to drop in and chat with us about. discord.gg/wYtyGf5Q5s

I’m a published academic now. #rewilding #rewild #culturalrewilding #humanrewilding #huntergathererresearch #rewildportland #anthropology

Behind every successful launch, there are 100 interesting failures. We must stop thinking of failure as an end of something, and learn to see it as a natural part of progress. The first incarnation of a new idea may die, but the best ideas will find new lives.

"Almost 2/3s of all prison leavers are re-arrested and more than half returned to prison within 36 months of their release… The answer, we at the CLF believe, is universal basic income… From a prison abolitionist perspective, UBI has enormous potential as a tool for dismantling oppressive systems."

In tonight's office hours on the Scarlet Banner Discord (starting at 9 PM Eastern), we'll be talking about elves who grow up to become trees, or anything else you'd like to drop in and chat with us about. discord.gg/TqkXPj2D2q

the lesson of the kimmel thing is that a corporation that previously caved to trump was forced by its audience to defy him. they're afraid of him but they're more afraid of you.

But in an anarchist society how would we make sure people always had to listen disproportionately to the absolute worst ideas from the worst people all the time???

In tonight's office hours on the Ruins & Revolutions Discord (starting at 9 PM Eastern), we'll be working on API authentication — or perhaps talking about game design systems, or anything else you'd like to drop in and chat with us about. discord.gg/dVszekR4cH

Anyway, that’s why I’m now vehemently in favor of UBI. Because if even makes societies more “productive,” if GDP is the only thing politicians can bring themselves to care about.

There has to be at least a few TTRPG blog posts out there (if not a more extensive literature) about random tables to populate the world vs random tables to determine what the outcome of your action is. Got any links, references, or recommendations for me?

I am ANTIFA.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

a big reason the Disney thing is important is that in the most visible fight the administration has picked, a fight they celebrated winning, ended up as a loss. it's embarrassing and demoralizing. it also shows non-political folks that the pendulum can swing back. that emboldens all of us to fight.

We don’t recognize people running the game as fellow game designers, so we keep design discussions out of the text, and that means that the people doing most of the game design (at the table) can only guess at what the tools in the toolbox are designed to do. www.patreon.com/posts/138979...

@senfoonglim.bsky.social helped me distill the whole thesis of my documentary into a 35 second sound bite. So, thanks, Sen! And thank you, @ludologypod.bsky.social for this wonderful chat!

The #NoMouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls? nomouse.org

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

If you’ve ever run a game, you are a game designer. If you’ve ever run a game that players liked, you’re a good game designer. www.patreon.com/posts/138979...

This was fantastic. We say “touch grass” like a curse on someone, when really the digital realm has become a place to separate us from the sensual (and I’d argue the emotional) connection we have with the world around us and those closest to us

Finally unpacking what I mean by a “game design system.”

This is a great piece, shows not only how games are an intrinsic part of our cultures but also how you can use them to tell wider stories. Excellent stuff

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".

Wikipedia is what the internet was meant to be and one of the few online places that hasn’t got worse. It’s a miracle

Parasocial identification with leaders is a fundamental element of fascism. Ordinary people who can barely pay their bills live and die vicariously through them. The function of their Nuremberg rallies is to convey that the life of one sycophant is worth more than all of our lives combined.

Never, ever use an LLM for anything where being correct or accurate matters.

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

Toxicology principle that needs to be mainstream: The dose makes the poison. That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde. A single pear contains 120 times MORE formaldehyde than what might be in a vaccine. 1/

Charlie Kirk spent every day of his life making the world an uglier, more hateful, more violent place.

Every billionaire, and most multimillionaires, are nothing more than dragons sitting on their hoards. Brave knights know what to do to free The People from their tyranny.

FBI caught fascist Border Czar Tom Homan taking a $50K bribe ON CAMERA to funnel tax payer funded Govt contracts to his friends. Bondi & Patel knew & likely Trump knew—& killed the investigation Being undocumented is a civil offense. Taking bribes is a felony. So when does Homan go to El Salvador?🤔