Katie Duffy

IQ tests are absolute bunk. Many types were designed to be as racist as possible and the rest are "flawed" at best. I do incredibly well on IQ tests, but they're just bunk.

Also, IQ is absolutely NOT "50% genetic" and this advert is creepy eugenics. Sheesh the internet is evil today.

Inside an ICE Defense Training on Fortnite A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.

A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.

i can’t say this enough, if all of us don’t have rights in all of the states in the US than none of us have rights in the US

we’re all just one paycheck or DV incident or accident away from the zip code where we can’t access healthcare or use a bathroom or live inside (or outside) legally

This song is the absolute bane of my holiday season, and I say this as a staunch defender of weirdo holiday songs like Jethro Tull’s “Ring Out, Solstice Bells.” McCartney should have titled his ditty “Guaranteed Holiday Royalty Checks” and been done with it.

Just back from the Blind Guardian show. What a night. What a band. No matter what size the venue, this is a group that never, ever phones it in. Support acts Seven Temple and Ensiferum were great too. I am so glad we went to see these legends again, even with the weather on the drive home.

YouTube video by Let's Be Superheroes! Native Land and the UAINE - Let's Be Superheroes!

The holiday season is upon us, heroes!

Don't miss out on the premiere of the next Let's Be Superheroes tonight at 9:30pm ET, where @demisemme.bsky.social will lead our new adventure to Native Land Digital and the United American Indians of New England!

youtu.be/Y7rbZqrRJmI

We’re doing it ALL OVER again. #2000s #millenial

We are hoping to finally buy a couch, so please feel free to share and/or pick up this bundle. It’d be nice to sit comfortably for the first time in…five years? Six?

This all came about because @youngmrduffy.bsky.social and I were talking about my mom’s amazing baking skills. I made a joke about “get pie or die trying,” and my genius husband said, “Yes! Our next game!” Less than 24 hours later, he published this masterpiece.

Decided instead of promoting my own crap today I’d like to help others instead. Feel free to share your newsletters and independent gigs or even some story you wrote and I’ll repost some

🎶Say your prayers, little one
Don't forget, my son
To include everyone
I tuck you in, warm within, keep you free from sin
'Til the Sandman, he comes🎶

Generative A.I., the thing that drives our whole economy right now, is a perfect metaphor for the abject failure of imagination on the part of the powerful. Generative A.I. has no imagination and offers no new insights. It's a mere predictive engine that uses statistics to find the most likely next thing. What's the next word in a sequence, the next pixel in a picture? This is the opposite of imagination, which is so often about finding the least likely thing, the startling incongruity. I worry that so many of us are outsourcing our imaginations and our whole creative selves to these stochastic parrots.

Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.

buttondown.com/charliejane/...

For every carefree, "Don't stress, things always work themselves out!" person there is at least one extremely anxious, detail-oriented, forward-thinking loved one or coworker who has spent years behind the scenes making sure things work out

YouTube video by Eddy Burback ChatGPT made me delusional

Eddie Burback didnt just make the worst accidental IP decision for ink, he somehow did notsee the significance... 😬🤣😬😱

This video is very good & everyone critical of or curious about AI should watch it.
youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q

Read this thread and the responses to it. It’s eye-opening, to say the least.

Did you know the midbrain of honeybees pulls on memory and perception to support behavioral choice?

"Each animal is surrounded by its own bubble of significance, its own world full of colors and tones we shall never perceive. To enter it is impossible, yet it exists as fully as our own." - Jakob von Uexküll

More at bit.ly/world-revisited

#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Billionaires, while building their own luxury bunkers for “apocalypse insurance," are funding groups telling Dems to forget about climate action. We just published a memo laying out why that'd be a huge political mistake. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/this-data-...

And, also, if you run a business that regularly purchases shipping supplies: ULINE is run by some of the worst people on Earth. Get your boxes and tape elsewhere.

Never trust what should be a public good to the market.

This is like @hookland.bsky.social brought to life in our world, only without the wit and spooky charm. It’s just complete and utter horror, a hideous mutation of what we’re supposed to cherish about the winter season. And the sad part is that people will defend it in the name of “progress.”

This. Also, my annual watch of @desertbus.org proves that Dr. Forester and TV’s Frank were onto something when they isolated a group of friends and subjected them to bad media for long stretches of time. It makes for an incredible viewing experience/psychological experiment.

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

Folks, a famous author isn't ever going to contact you out of the blue to offer you literary services. It's always a scam. Also, speaking as an at least semifamous author, you wouldn't want any services we did offer, we're just barely handling our own shit, much less anyone else's.

Right wing agitators attacked the police in Mexico City amid an otherwise peaceful anti corruption protest, paid influencers rushed in to grab footage of the incident which ended quickly, and online troll farms from the US are amplifying it in order foment further civil unrest and/or civil war.

Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo

This bundle sounds incredible cool, and it’s a damn shame that no one is buying it. Check out this collection of speculative fiction that is relevant to these times! itch.io/b/3348/burn-...

Donation Drive!

The Flesh and Blood Ready to Play Bundle donated by Pegasus Games could be yours!

$7.20/multiples thereof for the next 39 minutes!

desertbus.org/donate

#DB2025 #FleshandBlood #CardGame

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.

DAY ONE OF DAWN GUARD AND WE HIT $12 MIL LIFETIME!!! Thank you so much for your contribution to our work, we appreciate each and every one of you for getting us here! Now let's keep going to $13 million!