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To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

Gurgeh is notable as a protagonist who does not care about this at first, and the drone spends some time trying to change that; Excession also features some Culture citizens who are just along for the ride and not invested in any political mission, but most of the rest are very committed

It’s worth noting here that within the Culture this question is explicitly contested and debated, and that almost all Culture characters we spend much time with are extreme radicals on this topic by virtue of continuing to belong to Special Circumstances

story game is a genre like indie pop is a genre, which is to say, it’s mostly an aesthetic and nothing is actually implied about the storyness and/or indieness of the game and/or pop

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friday soapbox: as a designer, if you want something to be a skillful action for players, and you want growth in this skill to be very deep/meaningful, then you need to also let players be bad at it. sometimes horrendously bad. players hate this pain, and designers often want to mitigate it away.

when I read this discussion I also think hard about the fact that we spent a decade at the zero lower bound. Those conditions are probably not coming back, although arguably we’re giving it a shot

salmon is best cooked steamed

this is exactly how I understand all of yglesias’s recent social media posts

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

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Last night, for @newnaratif.bsky.social , I ran a workshop about what we need to think about, when we tell stories of the environment. Did some conceptual & ideological framing.

The point of this slide is simple: there is no such thing as a land without people.

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something weird I've noticed over the past couple of years: college students used to be adults, but are now children. it's strange. I'm even seeing grad students, who used to be adults, now be children. whereas people who used to be old, like postdocs, are now normal? maybe TikTok is to blame.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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one of the interesting thing i have seen in the platner discourse is a refusal to confront a thing on its own terms. to his pundit supporters, platner isn’t a novice candidate with perhaps questionable judgment to be evaluated on his ability to win, but a symbol to wield against rivals

Periodically over ~25 years I’ve seen concern erupt over one variety of structured, playful interaction or another, questioning whether some kinds of “gameplay” might be inherently flawed (regardless of context or ends). Even after much thought I’ve never found these critiques cogent or accurate

Six percent of *all children* in the United States—all people in America under 18—are US citizens with at least one parent who is an unauthorized immigrant.

Mass deportation is a vast military action against *millions of US citizens*.

cars should be illegal

More fun on reddit.

My fellow game designers do not like this answer.

I wonder why.

I can’t stop interpreting this as House MD and I think it has a surprising amount of explanatory power

so the idea is the inversion of the magic circle. to talk about this i have to define what the magic circle is so please be kind to me and my cursory definition. when you play a game, you enter a space where certain rules apply and others are suspended. it is not a wall, it is a soft demarcation.

I think this is a pretty lukewarm take but it’s instructive:

ME2 has the better narrative design; ME1 has the better writing.

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