Ash McAllan

How does this work as we approach a population of ten billion?

Or is the assumption that industrialisation, mechanisation, and automation can efficiently perform the atomic and repetition so that the laborer needn't perform those and can instead perform high order labor which they are not alienated from?

Or is it a requirement for those efficiencies to be achieved that labor must be atomized into repeatable meaningless tasks which alienates the laborer from the product?

Is it possible for the efficiency benefits of economies of scale to be realized without the alienation of workers from their labor?

For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.

Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.

I can't get over how shit that Neo soft cloth covered robot looks. I get what they were trying to do, but they did it so BADLY.

That's fuckin awesome. Hell yeah 🤘

This is the shit that always makes my day. It's so awesome to hear about people enjoying and wreaking havoc in Inverrouge. Keep ripping it up y'all ❤️

ALL you have to do is just not use it, tell these companies you aren't using it, and make fun of people who do. We need a mass collective effort to make genAI extremely uncool, lame, embarrassing, cringe. Everyone needs to react to it with a MOUNTAIN of hostility until they run out of steam.

Also, not for nothing, but dismantling capitalism will be virtually impossible if this weird AI coup they are attempting works. Reality will be so destabilized and impossible to agree on we will fracture into dust.

You've really got to fight this, everywhere and time you see it. It's vital.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Caves of Qud - Steam Awards 2025

🍄 LIVE AND DRINK 💧

Just about 12 hours left to nominate us for some Steam Awards, all of which we're eligible for due to releasing less than a year ago

This thread is dope and has a bunch of amazing games you should check out

Hell we have a wiki with a bunch of community supplements! Check it out at dungeonpunk.xyz !

dungeonpunk by acegiak a punk fantasy zine rpg

acegiak.itch.io/dungeonpunk

If you need something super affordable for your gamer friends: print a few copies of dungeonpunk!

Maybe bundle it with some nice D6s? Now you're ready for some fantasy adventuring!

Hack it, mod it, homebrew and house rule it. That's what it's made for.

Extremely attractive, unfortunately rare.

Sorry, just want to make sure everyone saw Buddo.

Extreme demand avoidance (EDA/PDA) Christopher Gillberg provides an overview of Extreme Demand Avoidance/Pathological Demand Avoidance (EDA/PDA). Definition, background, research, prevalence, comorbidity, interventions, and treatment a...

www.gu.se/en/gnc/extre...

PDA academics: "hey this acronym we use has another common meaning so let's change it to something else"

CBT therapists: *spits tea* "you can do that?!"

Shant. You'll just have to ensure my searing beauty. ❤️

Fuck yeah

Reminder that lesbians have a more positive view of trans people than trans people do

newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.

What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.

Yeah, we need the status symbol to be "well *I* pay for the living costs of a *collection* of only the *weirdest* artists" again

Creatives shouldn't have to bind their art inside the constraints of product in order to survive and be recognized.

Once again it's the collapse into consumer post-capitalism that fucks it

City of Red Waters - Blades in the Dark Setting - Evil Hat Take your Blades in the Dark TTRPG adventures to a new setting - a complex and dynamic colonial city called Inverrogue - with City of Red Waters.

@evilhat.bsky.social have a sale in everything in their catalog celebrating their 20th anniversary, including City Of Red Waters, my blood-soaked colonial alternate setting for Blades In The Dark
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Huge congrats to EH team on 20 years!🎉

Ten years apart 🏳️‍⚧️

It's kinda wild to me the first one isn't pre-transition. I've been living authentically for a third of my life. Wtf that's amazing.

Hello Cowards, by Veronica Lacuna 10 track album

did someone say veronica? music? album? release? the? veronicalacuna.bandcamp.com/album/hello-...