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Theatre PhD. Independent games and media scholar. QA Analyst. Marxist-Leninist.
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WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…” A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...

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I am Israa, a journalist from Gaza. The war has taken my family, my home, my work, and my only means of living. Still, I refuse to give up. I am fighting to rebuild my life and continue my mission. Your support can make all the difference. Please share and donate. 💙 Donate here: gofund.me/2b2f55f6

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"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

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Three months ago, Zohran Mamdani confronted Trump's “border czar” Tom Homan — as most Democrats simply twiddled their thumbs after Mahmoud Khalil was taken. "How many more New Yorkers will you detain?!" "Do you believe in the First Amendment?!" Today, Khalil is freed.

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People outside the games industry don't grasp that this is absolutely unheard of. Workers don't get royalties, and we definitely don't get performance bonuses. When we make a hit game we sometimes just get laid off

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Doordash for bears is the best description of this stupidity ever. Yes let's take a probabilistic tool and have it do stuff when you need deterministic results. What could possibly go wrong?

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Please help my sweet and kind friend, he needs us <3

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❤️ Issam shouldn’t have to over exert himself at the aid centers where you have to run from being shot at just for his family to eat

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We’re gonna leave the games industry better than we found it 😤 Introducing DNA CODEX: The GameDev Library 🧬 📚 ongoing, always growing, digital archive for all 💸 COMMUNITY-FUNDED and freely accessible 🫡 curated + maintained by DnA Creative (us!) dnacreative.notion.site/codex

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A man shouted Britain First as he shot an MP dead and Britain First are not proscribed.

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Untitled (Women Fighting), by Léonard Defrance, late 18th c, 📸 by Michael Conroy

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Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

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o Michel Temer Guiadó de Orleans e Bragança iraniano não existe e não pode te machucar

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Austin’s only and oldest queer and feminist bookstore was vandalized this weekend. Someone threw a hunk of concrete at the Pride flag painted on their front window, smashing it and damaging the inside of the building. This would be an amazing time to show them some love. Ebookwoman.com

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I am informed that a second goat has figured out where we keep the hay

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Imo stories like this need to do extra due diligence to ward off ppl accusing the developers of scamming. This was one of the top funded kickstarters of 2024 and what they raised was absolutely *nothing* vs the costs of development.

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PUBLICATION DAY! _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

i'm developing a heuristic for interpreting republican governance

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

recalling when I worked at the flight school and a wayward turtle walked onto the runway and a pilot said so, then a guy in a golf cart went out there, moved the turtle, and radioed "the turtle has been revectored", a phrase that has been seared into my brain for life

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

AI naïvity: When we presented a detailed study about the Danish game industry last month, a young audience member asked us why we hadn't just asked ChatGPT? He apparently thought that AIs knew "everything", and didn't see any reason why you would gather new data. That is a problem.

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