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We can’t let the market decide what we remember and forget Emily Friedman and Evan Torner on why gaming histories matter.

This is a great discussion with @friede.bsky.social and @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social about RPG history, and particularly the online element of it. You need to be supporting @rascal.news with your dollars -- nowhere else on the internet is publishing stuff like this. www.rascal.news/we-cant-let-...

I can’t stop laughing at “NEW JEFSET”

Best cct?

There are… there are side windows. THERE ARE SIDE WINDOWS RIGHT THERE!!

Breakingviews - Seven & i standalone revamp enters pivotal phase CEO Stephen Dacus offered few new details on how to revive growth after rival Couche Tarde's failed $46 bln takeover. Doubling down on previous pledges, like faster store openings and listing its North American unit, can reassure shareholders. But they will demand results soon.

Seven & i standalone revamp enters pivotal phase - @hudsonlockett.bsky.social - reut.rs/3HhFJES

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

It’s, uh, not great: texashuntlodge.com/hunt-package...

I find most LLM use cases wanting but it can be a genuinely massive help to ESL writers who need to polish text before getting a first pair of proper (read: human) eyes on a draft. So long as you limit changes to grammar/spelling, track edits and reread to ensure factual content remains unmolested.

I’ve genuinely attempted to read this several times but find my gaze slipping off and away from the excerpt, as if someone sprayed down the text with half a can of Pam. My eyes simply cannot find purchase.

Breakingviews - Nintendo can flex its pricing power with Switch 2 The $110 bln Kyoto-based company kept guidance unchanged despite record sales of 6 mln for its most expensive video-game console. Caution makes sense given higher US tariffs, but the early success suggests it can charge even more without scaring off Super Mario and Zelda fans.

My latest @breakingviews.reuters.com: Nintendo fans carped & moaned about high pricing for Switch 2 and Mario Kart World, then snapped up both without compunction. That gives the $110 bln games maker a green light for hiking prices to offset US tariffs. Free to read: www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

Vulgar Display of Power Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity. About what it means to be a human, about how to care for one another and the world […]

OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power.

https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.

"Jishan County spent nearly US$320,000 to build new public toilets, but kept the doors locked, forcing villagers to continue using old, dirty pit latrines. The local government argued that open access would require excessive operating fees and that villagers’ poor hygiene would exacerbate the costs"

About That Japan Deal Arithmetic has a well-known globalist bias

An instant post about that Japan deal. It's basically a joke
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/about-that...

Good morning everybody, turns out you were looking for a Sanskrit adaptation of Black Sabbath’s Iron Man.

The sum total of anything I *might* describe as harassment across 15 years of working under my real name for a prominent (in its niche) rights-focused China website is <drumroll> two emails. It's wild how racist and misogynist the targeting of this stuff is.

evergreen headline

They're designed by a Hong Kong-Belgian guy, based on Nordic folktales and have been around for about 10 years. Chinese group Pop Mart started selling them in 2019, often via the profoundly scammy blind box format. They took off globally in 2024 because a Blackpink member had one as a keychain

I also don't see why this "stunning moment of self reflection" would absolve ChatGPT, even if we take this framing at face value. If it really was an entity capable of taking responsibility and apologizing for the abuse of a real human being, we'd surely hold it legally liable for those actions

Stop Pretending Chatbots Have Feelings: Media's Dangerous AI Anthropomorphism Problem When AI causes harm, headlines blame the bot instead of the billion-dollar companies that built them. This anthropomorphic coverage is tech journalism at its worst.

Today's newsletter: The Wall Street Journal says ChatGPT had a "stunning moment of self reflection." NBC says Grok "issued an apology." This lazy language isn't just bad writing — it's helping tech companies dodge responsibility for real harm. www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...

16. The Article was published in The Wall Street Journal as an exclusive.' However, since publication, Defendants have widely disseminated it to hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

WSJ claimed the Trump–Epstein article was an “exclusive.” But what if I told you they fully intended to show it to people? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"[ICE] has arrested around a thousand toddlers since September 2023." Hell of a lede, gobsmacking charts.

This a long read & deserves to be savored. I especially love that the authors are enthusiastic users of AI, which "makes it easy to forget that the impact of AI on science as an institution, rather than individual scientists, is a different question that demands a different kind of analysis."

James stop feeding them ideas

When the line between financial and political blurs I see no reason it can’t be both.

What the Afghan ‘super-injunction’ tells us about the UK [FREE TO READ] Parliament and regulators are shrugging off a decision that freed the government from accountability

After idk a decade keeping track of super injunctions, I thought there were none left and happily scolded paranoid people on Twitter not to be so tin hatty. But the very thing that made them so dangerous WAS HAPPENING. Read @davidallengreen.bsky.social for pinpoint clarity on why it matters

Tedious to point this out, but:

- When a tongue-tied Biden said "President of Mexico" instead of "Prez of Egypt," it was a several day story.

-Hours after Trump says whoever appointed J Powell made a big mistake (it was him), the episode appears not to merit a story on any national-media sites.

Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Is Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

Billionaires are convinced AI is on the verge of making new scientific discoveries because they don't understand how AI chatbots work.

Folks are ragging on the "screen not facing user" aspect of this AI slop job advert, but I would *also* like to draw your attention to the "features the iconic white earphones of Microsoft's rival Apple" aspect, as well as the "this color isn't even Xbox green" aspect. A masterclass in bad branding.

The anime aesthetic, or a bad anime aesthetic?