Benjamin Reinhart

YouTube video by Benn Jordan You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism

Benn is a great communicator about vast and complex phenomena.

There's a fun new RPG in development from Tanya Floaker. I've backed and played several of their games and can't stop recommending them to everyone!

YouTube video by Benn Jordan The Really Dark Truth About Bots

If you're here you probably already understand what this video is about, at least on some intuitive level. Still, Benn Jordan does an excellent job of researching the extent to which X and automation are involved in social engineering maladaptive political outcomes.

My Steam Deck has basically become my wife's BG3 machine for the last year. We eventually bought it on Xbox too just so that she can switch when I need to play something on Steam.

The mantra in the game industry for the last year was "Survive 'till '25" because people assumed that as inflation leveled off then interest rates would eventually drop and that would help studios form and grow. Unfortunately, the next administration is already undermining most of those assumptions.

That sounds intriguing. I'm going to try to remember to play this when I get home from the holidays.

I don't post much on social media anymore but not because I'm less engaged. Given that we live in a time when the powers that be are increasingly hostile to accountability, I suspect that I am more strategically effective as an advocate and activist when I'm not revealing everything I think or do.

Roger Corman, Hollywood mentor and king of the B-movie, dies aged 98 Corman made over 400 movies including cult classics Death Race 2000, Piranha and The Little Shop of Horrors and launched the careers of Scorsese and De Niro

The end of an era and a heck of a run!