Dave Parisi

And to the extent that they've gone after academics, it's also been those with the least institutional support. A TA at the University of Oklahoma lost her job for being trans: I haven't heard about that happening to any full professors at Yale.

pro tip for AI enthusiasts who want people to stop being mean to them: maybe stop talking about how it's going to take everybody's jobs all the time

(and if you really do believe that, then 1. consider how that'll come off to the people whose jobs will be lost and 2. become a UBI stan)

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Lisa Gitelman on the MLA Handbook 😍

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Keeping in mind the corruption of not only Silicon Valley, but capitalism in general, protecting consensus reality is exactly the problem. We shouldn't be trying to be maintaining it we should be trying to dismantle it.

Does anyone know serious studies trying to estimate PS2 piracy rates?

Stuff like NES is tough due to bootleg consoles, but anyone playing God of War 1 back then needed an actual PS2. Comparing PS2 flagship game/console ownership rate with non-pirataleable consoles should be at least interesting...

The man is in a complete fog, which means the rest of us are, too.

I have no idea what comes next or even who to look to for meaningful insight into what they do next

The answer is because Democratic leadership has the collective political smarts of precisely one medium-sized clam.

Q: You just suggested Iran got a Tomahawk & bombed its own school. But you're the only person in your govt saying this. Even your defense secretary wouldn't say that. Why are you the only person saying this?

TRUMP: I just don't know enough about it. It's something I was told is under investigation.

The industry keeps pushing the realism framing for controller haptics, but it doesn't seem to resonate with players. I'll be discussing this a bit at scms in a couple of weeks framed as "a new banality of virtual touch," building on an argument Tom Boellstorff made around VR more generally

Been struggling with the question of how much these small hardware changes matter at the macro level, but the narrative--graphics tech has hit its limit, we're pivoting to new forms of sensory engagement--depends on convincing players that incremental changes are building to something bigger.

GOP Congressman Says ‘Muslims Don’t Belong In American Society’ Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee also called it “a lie” that diverse groups of people can respectfully engage with each other.

"Muslims don't belong in American society," says Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) www.huffpost.com/entry/andy-o...

Haptic Heavens: How the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Redefine Gaming Immersion | MKAU Gaming In 2026, the environment of interactive entertainment is no longer determined by visual fidelity or even raw processing power. Rather, the most extreme edge

Lots going on under the hood with Joy Con 2 controllers, nice write-up on granular changes to haptics:
"As hardware makers expand the frontiers of portable and hybrid console design, the industry is undergoing a paradigm shift in high-fidelity tactile feedback."
www.mkaugaming.com/haptic-heave...

“Fairness” to Republicans always means workers getting screwed.

Real irony that this is all happening nearly six years to the day from when it really started to hit home that COVID was way worse than Trump was saying it was.

The sole promise of using LLM's in war is that no human will face a firing squad for the atrocities the machine commits.

ICE deports family, including deaf boy who wasn’t given his assistive devices California state superintendent says mother and sons arrested during ICE check-in and deported to Colombia

When the world finally brings this cult to trial, I hope we don’t give it a humane death

"software is easy, hardware is hard, robots are really, really, really fucking hard" is such an important truism these days.

“It doesn't feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US Stories of border issues lead to pervasive travel fears across the worldwide industry.

“It used to be bad; now my white friends are being treated like I used to be.” @ramiismail.com on why he’s a no to GDC. “a lot of folks in the US do not want us to exist” arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/...

Shoppers at the fish market in Delft, 1650, by Egbert van der Poel. He was born on this day in 1621.

I don't see how conference organizers can expect anyone to travel from outside the US at this point.

The constituency of Americans who see DEI as detrimental to the country is vanishingly small, the sort of constituency that can easily be ignored if politicians want to ignore it.

This is absolutely hilarious and deserves a Veep-style TV adaptation.

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January 6 succeeded the moment Mitch McConnell voted to acquit Trump.

“the cost of gas doubling is a small price to pay” is an incredibly funny thing to say as the head of a political movement that in many ways is still built on a nationwide psychosis triggered by having to go about four weeks without a haircut six years ago.

My students are always surprised when I tell them Nietzsche will help them better understand technology, and yet...

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman