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on the other hand... I've inquiries in my e-mail sent in 2012. We can finally read this.

Fuck off, Arcade

Just found a video on youtube, 210k views, 84 comments. All conspicuously written by AI because of obvious contextual errors about what's actually in the video.

That the game industry is a joke and a lesser art (in its mainstream face) is perfectly proven by the treatment in reviews of latest Kojima game. It was never about "art", and always about the star system. Druckmann and Kojima are after popularity. All ego. And one giant collective cultural problem

"What Trump said" is not relevant to anyone, ever, neither to make fun of, nor to take seriously. It's just noise.

It was time to strategize 10 years ago. Now it's time to die.

Why Jon Fosse is not a major writer. I don't think he pays the kind of attention to structure that is necessary to make a persuasive whole, even (or especially) when that whole represents a damaged or ruined world. open.substack.com/pub/jameselk...

looks like Warframe now has at least double the number of player of Destiny 2. Despite they both have significant problems, Bungie dug the hole they now find themselves in. They don't deserve second chances, Marathon is over. The motivations are in the past, not in the present.

So the second book in the final arc of @msagara.bsky.social/ Michelle West's monumental Essalieyan metaseries is out today. (also on kobo plus for rental if you use it). I really think that it is one of *the* masterworks of big political epic fantasy, and it's hugely underread.

Finished The White Lotus season 3. Money wins. That's all.

It constantly blows my mind that we have elected someone so gobsmackingly uncomprehending of the gravity and responsibility of his office that he does not grasp how insanely dangerous it is to fire off comments like this on a whim.

#animation #art #mecha

Michelle West latest book in the series, The Wild Road, is actually out on Patreon. 258k words, bringing the total cycle to 4 millions and 90k (without counting the "optional" introductory duology). I got to update the wordcount page: loopingworld.com/2009/03/06/w...

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

Every single instance of escalation is coming from law enforcement, not the citizens of Los Angeles.

Just a reminder that Musk is a much, MUCH bigger threat than Trump. On one hand, Musk is self-destructive, so he could be gone in a day. But until it happens, he will keep being a major threat, especially when he seems down and people go back at underestimating.

I forgot I pre-ordered this, but it just arrived. www.goodreads.com/book/show/96...

If you want to to stop being compared to Nazis, stop sounding and acting like Nazis. "Making communities safer" is exactly what Nazis said they were doing too.

p-values supposedly measure the correlation between interventions and outcomes. But what happens when a measure becomes a target?

Every article about the inevitability of AGI

We had fun making this one but sadly it’s evergreen (& much worse than 2017)

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

defund the police

when people worship exoterism without being able to think critically

also, peaceful protests are useless when the other side only understand strength as violence as language

hours later, no community notes. The video is from several years ago. X is still a weapon of propaganda.

the most absurd thing of the Musk deal is how he accused his son of giving him a black eye. Even his kids are exploited to tell lies.

I saw an asshole. Not gonna apologize.

“What if, only days or hours from now, the president and Mr. Musk reconcile? It will be like Mr. Trump’s tariffs all over again: now they’re high, now they’re lower, now they’re postponed. The story must change so the show can go on.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/t...

they are all on the same side

I can't stress enough how wrong and disingenuous the most recent wave of COVID revisionism is. The *only period* when Democratic counties had higher death rates was April-May 2020. From June 2020 onwards, Republican laxity and denialism were the most powerful force driving deaths.

Ontario’s large #measles outbreak claims the life of a child. If you let measles spread, preventable harms will happen. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Sadly (because it won't happen) the best strategy right now would be ignoring them. This world seems to be in love with very long and unnecessary detours. Certainly not "teleological."

ugg the ff tactics remaster does /not/ understand how much of the beauty of the original rides on the textural particulars at all at all.

I wrote about Musk & Trump breakup back in December. It seems my goal is to write everything beforehand, so that nothing is left to say then. cesspit.net/drupal/node/...

Those dems are far more toxic than Trump in the White House. Opportunists are always more dangerous and disruptive.

this upscaled AI shit can only be executed by someone who despises the game

seems like people forgot that the money and talent that was previously invested in the gaming space is now moved to AI