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If you start seeing furry Dick Tracy goons stepping out from behind your cat's legs, it'll be time to crack a window and check the batteries in your carbon monoxide detector.

Reaping years and years of the NDP standing for nothing more than "Liberals in orange, rather than red."

May well be the last person who does this: I stopped going to the theatre because of other people's damned phones.

Interesting how much LLM discourse is a rerun of early internet hopium--"The information superhighway! A democratizing tool that will lead to less drudgery, fight inequality, and create a more informed and rational citizenry!"--without any reference to, uh, how that worked out.

For the later crowd - I wrote about the mechanical and moral decay of the FIFA/EA FC series, the consolidation of the footy sim genre, and how it all mirrors trends in wider sport.

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"Living the dream."
"Living a dream."
"Living dream."

an illustration of an anglerfish from wiki commons with the lure labeled UX and the tooth hole part labeled business model

This is why the business model is a core of the design. If you haven't figured out how to make money in a way that benefits everyone involved, over time, it's always going to be this.

How metrics took control of our lives YouTube video by The New Society

Metrics are "applied exactly & precisely, with no variation… to cheapen labour by making us no longer dependent on specialized, sensitive experts [thereby to] construct a fungibility of workers—but to do that, the rules can only target things that everybody can see."

Holy crap Ford. You’re not the mayor of Toronto. Just fuck off and leave the place alone already.

A black and white line drawing. The image shows a giant snake with a swastika for an eye. The snake is being killed by two medieval style knights, there are three downward facing arrows piercing the snakes neck. The caption reads: Teamwork.

Always a good day to make new friends

This post gets it EXACTLY right. At the end of the day, we DON'T KNOW how consciousness works! Therefore ANYTHING might be conscious, and in fact, LIKELY IS. All things have experienced the world in their own way and humanity is merely one throat frayed to bleeding by the wordless scream of history!

Picture of a Community Chest card from Monopoly: "Bank Error in Your Favor. Collect ??"

Book of Records is full of airy, philosophical maxims that resolve and dissolve, over and over, until you move on and keep reading.

Not if you want it to be delivered. 🙁

100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money? Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say

Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”

Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth

Even if *capital* is successful beyond its boosters' wildest dreams, there's still the inherent contradiction of a machine that kills off the people it needs to steal from.

Be glad that trans people want equality

And not revenge.

From "The Book of Records" by Madeline Thien (2025): 'Mai, Isaac, Miriam, Esther and Pai had died more than three years ago, but it felt like three seconds and three centuries. Baruch was stuck in mourning. He no longer existed for Gabriel and Rifka. "But what is mourning?" he asked the music. "Mourning is the painful letting go of a certain and once credible future." Clara Maria had lifted her hands and the clavichord was playing itself.'

Screenshot from "The Witcher 3" in which Geralt is smirking and giving a thumbs up.

Feels stupid to intimidate myself out of doing something I want and enjoy—yet it's an effort to get myself out from under that feeling every time I have it.

Can't watch NCG's video until I've played Avowed.
Can't play Avowed until I've finished Pillars of Eternity 2.
Can't play Pillars 2 until I've played Pillars of Eternity (1).

Someone who is good at CRPGs please help me budget this my family is dying

Petition to make Steam numbers private for a month and see how The Culture changes

Public spaces treated like private spaces.
Phone too big.
Empathy too small.

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

This may well be a description of how some execs expect to be treated.

The Shockmaster

Hell yeah i love Book of the New Sun

Going forward to execute on actionables to get back with impactful learnings.

Amberspire, our dice driven science fantasy city builder, will release MAY 6!

Roll dice, grow a city, forge alliances, interact with an ecology, and read a history of the future.

PC, Mac, Steam Deck - May 6!

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