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The next game includes a kinda first bash at a "theatre"-system: there are two characters, each with threads of conversation they follow - one is the player, one an NPC, and each can reply to the other. So we have two conversations running, overlapping, with the balance tipping both ways as it goes

Jijijaja con la posverdad y mira

Aquí estamos intentándolo 😂😂😂
Muchas gracias!!!!

Street sign for Horneytown Rd. Under is a second sign that says "This sign has RFID and GPS tracking"

Environmental storytelling.

A mis casi 50 sigo intentando lo que quería hacer desde hace unos 12 años 🫨

Leches!!!!! Que me pillas en el sur!!!!! 🙄
Muchas felicidades en todo caso 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

Espérate que no tire por debajo de Wolfram Alpha 🤦🏻

Wolfram Alpha te resuelve esta ecuación y sistemas mil veces más complejos sin hacer todo el daño que hace la IA, y lo lleva haciendo años y años. Nada de "bien gemini". ¿Bien por qué? ¿Fundirse nuestros recursos naturales en plena crisis de biodiversidad? Vamos a dejar ya esto, POR FAVOR.

La leche materna que donas, un abrazo de vida para los bebés prematuros en riesgo Las reservas están muy bajas, y las donaciones son insuficientes para cubrir las necesidades, especialmente de los bebés prematuros que dependen de esta leche para su recuperación.

A ver si podéis compartir esto, pero en el hospital Virgen del Rocío de Sevilla están buscando mamás donantes de leche materna, vital para bebés prematuros. Podéis verlo aquí:
www.canalsur.es/television/p...

🌷🌷🌷 los tulipanes son unas flores preciosas

Here is the column I wrote on the theme "What I Would have liked to Know About Germany Earlier," along with the additional reflections I provided at Zeit Magazin's request. -A society governed by regulations, yet lacking individual moral judgement, is more dangerous than one with none at all. -A society that values obedience without questioning authority is destined to become corrupt. -A society that admits to error but refuses to reflect on its origins possesses a mind as stubborn and dull as granite. -Here, at a deserted street, people stop dutifully at a red light. Not a car in sight. This, I once thought, is the mark of a highly evolved society. -At the heart of bureaucracy lies a collective endorsement of power's legitimacy, and therefore, individuals surrender their moral judgement–or perhaps never developed one. They abandon challenge. They relinquish dispute. -When conversation becomes avoidance, when topics must not be mentioned, we are already living under the quiet logic of authoritarianism. -When the majority believe they live in a free society, it is often a sign that the society is not free. Freedom is not a gift; it must be wrestled from the hands of banality and the quiet complicity with power. -When people sense that power is beyond challenge, they redirect their energy into trivial disputes. And those trivialities, collectively, are enough to erode a society's very foundations of justice. -When public events of great consequence–such as the Nord Stream Pipeline bombing–are met with silence from both government and media, the silence itself becomes more terrifying than any atomic bomb. -Facts are acknowledged partially, forgotten deliberately, or swallowed by collective silence. And so we repeat catastrophe–against and again, in cycles. -When the media becomes a servant of public opinion, or avoids conflict to maintain favour with existing powers, it becomes an accomplice to authority. What we call lies are not always distortions of fact.

-Political leaders make decisions steeped in fallacy & failure. This reflects the broader political condition of a society in which most people have surrendered their awareness & even their basic agency–allowing such leaders to enact their mistakes on their behalf -When a society uses linguistic difference or cultural misunderstanding as excuses for exclusion, it has crossed into a more insidious form of racism. This is not a political opinion–it is an attitude, a stain in blood, passed down like genes -Bureaucracy is not merely sluggish. It is a cultural scorn. It rejects the possibility of dialogue. It insists that ignorance, codified into policy, no matter how wrong & inhumane it is, remains the best resistance against social mobility, against moral motion. In such a society, hope is not misplaced. It is extinguished -In the surrounding atmosphere, one sees not culture, but self-congratulation; not art, but insularity & collective reverence for power. What is missing is sincerity–honesty of emotion & of intention. In such an environment, art that grapples with true human feeling or moral reckoning is nearly impossible to produce. -A place that routinely discards self-awareness & erases individual agency is one that lives under iron walls of authoritarianism -I have no family, no fatherland, never known what it is to belong. I belong only to myself. In the best of circumstances, that self should belong to everyone. I still do not know what art is. I only hope that what I make might touch its edges while it seems unrelated to anything. & in truth, in the best of circumstances it is unrelated to me, for the "I" already melts into everything -Those things found in galleries, museums, & collectors' living room–are they art? Who has declared them so? On what basis? Why do I always feel suspicion in their presence? -Works that evade reality, that shy away from argument, from controversy, from debate–be they text, painting, or performance–are worthless.

-I understand now: people crave power and tyranny as they crave sunshine and rain, for the burden of self-awareness feels like pain. at times, even like catastrophe. -Under most circumstances, society selects the most selfish, least idealistic among us to take on the work we call "art" because that choice makes everyone feel safe. Additional reflections -In Berlin, I encounter the ever-present Schweinshaxe and Schnitzel, and I can hardly believe that such a highly developed, industrialised country offers such a monotonous selection of ingredients. Even more baffling is the sudden proliferation of Chinese restaurants–most of them noodle-based, and operating at a culinary level that any Chinese person could easily achieve at home. The variety of food and cooking methods is so limited here that people form all over the world feel compelled to open restaurants: Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish–you name it. -But the truly horrifying part? The sheer number of Chinese restaurants. I can only assume they believe that no matter what ends up on the plate, German customers will come running. In front of some of these establishments, there are even long queues–yet the food they serve bears little resemblance to anything recognisably Chinese. My favourite food in Germany is the bread and sausage–you simply can't find ones with such distinctive character anywhere else. -I'm puzzled by why so many people would willingly cram themselves into a small bar just to have a long conversation. Since I don't speak the language, I can only imagine that the young people coming to Berlin would talk about clubbing. This sort of thing was all the rage in the U.S. back in the '70s and '80s. -The Germans might be the only people who are truly the furthest from a sense of humour. This could be the result of their deep reverence for rationality. Just look at Berlin Airport or the advertisements for Mercedes-Benz cars–you start to feel that their lack of humour has become a kind of immense humour in itself

Ai Weiwei was invited to contribute short reflections on “What I would have liked to know about Germany earlier" for an upcoming issue of Zeit Magazin. His submission was first shortened and edited, then immediately cancelled after a review by the Executive Editor. Ai shared his reflections anyway:

Ah.... A lot of work going on 😞 I hope I could post more often 😒

It doesn't bend easily either 😅

AI models are neglecting African languages — scientists want to change that Scientists record 9,000 hours of languages spoken in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa as free-access training data for AI models.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Mirad, #TheStoneOfMadness, el último juego que hemos lanzado en @thegamekitchen.com, tiene un DESCUENTO del 34% en STEAM y para seros sinceros el lanzamiento ha pasado muy desapercibido. 📉

¡PERO el juego mola mucho! Y os quiero enseñar por qué, así que os dejo un video introductorio en 2 partes:

Zeno Clash is $1.99 on Steam buff.ly/d4uN4Du
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Journey to Incrementalia is $1.99 buff.ly/jILL30T
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The Stone of Madness is $19.79 buff.ly/hPJ8ejb
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Youtubers Life 2 is $7.49 buff.ly/BnpDyov
Deck playable

A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, part 24: 2007 Worlds, Lorwyn, and the birth of midrange Wizards prints a ton of powerful-but-not-broken cards. A new archetype is born. Uri Peleg finds a narrow path through the metagame.

At last, the next chapter of my ongoing history of competitive Magic: the Gathering. The last one was merely six months ago. azhdarchid.com/mtg-metagame...

If you want to live in the UK, you should speak English. That's common sense. So we're raising English language requirements across every main immigration route.

Spain, you could do the funniest thing right now...

Se cumplen 50 años desde que las mujeres en España pueden abrir una cuenta bancaria sin permiso de un hombre. Solo 50 años. No es historia antigua. Es memoria reciente.

Do you recommend it? It looks good 👍🏻

Mirad quien sale en El País Semanal 😍

elpais.com/eps/2025-05-...

Sombra y hueso nos fastidió bastante en casa 😒

Whoa!!! 😅
Please send the link to the podcast 👍🏻👍🏻
I didn't notice the sexism, but I read it some 35 years ago, so I was much less aware 😓😓😓

If you haven't read them yet, Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man are great 🤩

New York Post headline says: Trump mulls $5K 'baby bonus' for moms in bid to reverse declining birth rates: report By Isabel Keane Published April 22, 2025, 8:57 a.m. ET

After spending decades *accusing* Black women of having babies to get payments from the government, they want to encourage white women to have babies to get payments from the government.