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a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it . ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .

My head trying to reconcile the difference between the nation-state and the state-nation, amidst a rising tide of fascism globally, just to not feel guilty liking the Olympics and the World Cup.

Oh god. That guy’s hair.

Yay?

A lot of work from younger artists is great in being bombastic, or romantic, or revolutionary. So needed.

But also, it’s Thursday. What do I do with my Thursday?

I want to find art and commentary on how in modern life we are funneled toward banality.

I guess I could just watch Severance again.

A really weird thing about being right in the middle of your forties and very online is that I struggle to find art that is about my life moment—the unique blend of vicarious accomplishment raising healthy children with the specter of unrealized life goals slipping through your fingers.

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Algorithmic recommendation has ruined discovery in media.

This reproduction of MTV is a breath of fresh air. If you’re my generation (GenX), try turning it on and just letting it roll. You may find yourself teleported to your childhood living room floor, in the glow of a CRT.

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Listen, it’s really hard to catch a ball if someone touches you just before or right as you are about to catch it.

I know it’s unlikely, but I hope both these teams lose.

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Mox called the hook and ladder.

How many y’all out here wishing Josh Allen would throw the ball more? I don’t know, maybe, like, 9 times. Somewhere in the neighborhood of exactly at least 9 more times.

I’m no United fan, but you gotta love seeing Haaland being “humbled.”

YouTube video by PBS Sara Bareilles and Rufus Wainwright Perform "She Used to Be Mine" | Next at the Kennedy Center

Dare you not to cry.

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I Made a Video Game of “The Artist Is Present.” Marina Abramović Couldn’t Sit Through It. What seemed at first like a simple game about waiting turned into a study in design focused on time, endurance, and audience experience.

I’m just gonna leave this here and then go back to reading GAMESNETWORK posts. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/i-made-a-vid...

Dude, if Indie Singer kitchen tour is back, that’s the greatest present ever.

Budget cuts come for us all. My contract with Amtrak is not being renewed and it's up tomorrow.

I'll have more time to work on the Map Center but until it's fully off the ground, I'm a GIS analyst with 12 years of experience in ESRI, open source, education and cartography.
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The Red Sox play like a team that loves one another, and the Yankees play like they don’t know each other’s first names.

So, no. Jack Nicholson’s Colonel Nathan Jessep was not, in fact, the protagonist in A Few Good Men.

Real ones know.

What a magnum opus! Just reading the chapter titles (and authors) was exciting and felt like I was strolling through my own lived history: GamesNetwork?! Video or Digital? Ludology v. Narratology? Disciplinarity? Can’t wait to dive in.

There’s fundamentally only two philosophies of education.

There’s the people who feel school is a means to an end, that end is employment, and if there’s other ways to get to that end, then great, why bother.

And there are people, like me, who would give anything to be a student again, forever.

Baseball people love to use numeracy as a kind of ethical veil, as if the most important thing the sport can aspire to is a comparative objectivity flying in the face of any real scientific method. We can compare Ruth and Bonds on numbers, but that is not science that somehow got ruined by steroids.

Also, the pitchers were juiced. So, yeah.

If anyone says “but steroids” you demonstrate a retrograde attitude toward sports that is, frankly, ahistorical for the sake of conservatism and pearl clutching. Everyone is always looking for an edge, and there is no magic elixir that can make someone an exceptional athlete.

I’ve said it before on other platforms, but not yet here: Barry Bonds is incontrovertibly the greatest baseball player ever. We can check back in at the end of Shohei’s career, he’s well on track to surpass him, but Bonds was easily the most unique combination of skills since his godfather Mays.

a man with a beard is standing next to a woman with the words `` there can be only one '' . ALT: a man with a beard is standing next to a woman with the words `` there can be only one '' .

Whaaaaaaaaaa?!?

Wild. I just got served an ad on socials for it. Any good?

Lacorsa Grand Prix Game - Racing Board Game Rev up your engines and get ready for high-speed tabletop racing! This game is the ultimate adrenaline rush for 2-6 players who crave authentic competition.

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I’m downloading QGIS. What has become of me?