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If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

Writing is thinking.

It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

i dunno how you captured my feelings toward octopath traveler in one single perfect sentence, but thanks for that in addition to the beautiful piece on silksong

YouTube video by Technology Connections You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

Let's do this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

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At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.

As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.

Here's what happened:

you can just read a fantasy book. you don't have to watch a "video essay" on what to know about the lore before going in.

many video games want to refine their design so that you naturally figure out how to experience them without realizing there was a tutorial

board games just want you to read the manual

art museums just put a little paragraph next to each piece explaining what to think about it

Between his last book, and his various articles and talks I've gone through, I've heard Nguyen give this explanation several times already. But honestly I find it exciting each and every time.

one piece mentioned :D

Deeply excited to read the new book by @add-hawk.bsky.social.

His last book, on the philosophy of games, was incredible. But what lingered in my head the most was how game-like structures, in society and my own mind, affected my life. Very glad he picked that direction to write about next.

ok you can draw whatever you want i support you but i think it looks stupid

stop drawing women with both defined abs and large breasts at the same time

i think that snacks that are loaded with msg taste like the culinary equivalent of hearing your roommate blast imagine dragons at full volume

of all the imminent social consequences of widespread AI use, this one may be the most long-term harmful of all

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

FWIW for those who might not be aware, the PC version does let you turn the ugly ass filter off. Still, it was a terrible idea in the first place and idk why AGDQ left it on.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

this kind of thing is why the game is still so special. i've seen people call it dated, say modern games do everything it did but more and better. but this kind of naturalism and trust in the player is still rare.

truly shocked that some people thought there was ever a chance of making this place non-toxic. did you not hang out on Twitter prior to Musk? this kind of platform is fundamentally poisoned, as is all social media and nearly every kind of online community

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

If you read nothing else this new year, let it be this piece. A former New York Times editor laid out how they're anti trans coverage was directed from the top by AG Sulzberger, Joe Kahn, and Carolyn Ryan. This was a purposeful effort to target trans people.

transnews.network/p/a-directiv...

ironically, i had to wait for the algorithm to feed me this video to find it. but hey, as he said in the video, there are genuine benefits — we just shouldn't give our thinking ability away.

YouTube video by Technology Connections Algorithms are breaking how we think

i've been thinking a lot lately about how algorithms take away our thinking ability (lots of good papers and talks from C. Thi Nguyen on this). i've also been getting really into Technology Connections' videos lately. turns out he has a video on exactly that topic.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

fuck it. 2026 new year's resolution. play earthbound and ffvi and ffvii.

goat is back

with another video i can't watch because i haven't actually played the game yet 😭

skye's analysis is always incredible

chatgpt is not a free personal butler. it's a personal butler who actually follows the orders of a big tech corporation. it will tell you what they want you to think or buy. and their intentions are laundered through algorithms to avoid accountability.

is that a good thing to have in your life?

but most importantly for the issue of ads, it's not even really about AI/LLMs as a technology. it has the same issue that already exists with so many other technologies and services that are fed to us:

it is dependent on and controlled by a centralized entity.