Jeremy Antley

(Ian Malcolm voice) “Gambling, uh, finds a way.”

I want to see more engagement with material costs of AI. Reminds me of the old phrase, “Amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics.” It’s great that Claude can produce 99% of your code. Was that worth doubling utility prices? Tax breaks for data centers? Absurd use of fresh water?

The focus of these pieces is always the material output of AI which needs to be seriously grappled with in terms of its impact and end use. But zero of these pieces ever come close to the material realities comprising AI; environmental costs, community costs where data centers are built, etc.

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I wrote a little bit about 1490 DOOM and how I think skirmish war games are the answer to a whole lot of problems in the world.

I work in Family Law and can tell you the Slopalanche of pro se parties submitting 40-page Declarations has already begun and is yet another tactic a party can use to drain the financial resources of another party that has representation. You still have to review and respond to it and it’s a chore.

Rayroads Game Design: Amabel HollandHex Number: 93Duration: 120 minutesPlayers: 3-4MSRP: $50.00 Your world is dying. Soon, the last of its resources will be extracted from its husk, and it will no longer be ab...

guess what nerds

it's time for space trains

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All jokes aside, I think it was maybe the third track of ‘Getting Killed’ when I came to the realization that Cameron Winter’s singing-style was a lot like Bromberg’s and then everything clicked with me with the band.

I would have gotten into Geese so much faster if someone had told me the lead singer is David Bromberg.

I hear the Miniature Counterfeiters' Guild is accepting new applicants, if you're looking to make a little coin

A little surprised Trump hasn’t labeled ICE the sword and the shield of the USA by now.

“The quality of a card’s likeness becomes the gateway through which epistemological valuations and concerns can be enacted both in the encoding and decoding process. [Haunted Screen and Rick Grimes] are clones that players look at and ask, “is this real?”” drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9A...

“The Power of the Powerless” by Vaclav Havel It’s a famous work of viral samizdat, and I thought it might be handy to have in my Medium feed. Got this version direct from the Havel…

*You can't lose interest in historical developments just because everything seems rigidly and relentlessly enshittified

*This is what Havel is talking about here

*A lot of people click this essay, it's rare for people to read all of it

*I read it rather often.

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This is one of the great pieces of writing from a past that feels relevant now. People keenly feel the absence of ‘living in truth’ and it would behoove us to understand why that is the case and how we begin to move the other direction. Havel, and many other Soviet dissidents, have wisdom to share.

I promise I won’t keep posting my essay re: Magic cards and mimetic aesthetics. But the ‘discourse’ is popping off about the TMNT set and I think the question about *why* these cards are generating such affective responses is worth examining and has broader linkages to media consumption in general.

“For a Magic card, the mimetic aesthetic both solidifies denotative meaning and facilitates that meaning’s access to the deeper, richer connotative meaning. It is the access point through which gamespace takes hold. It is what makes a card a clone.” drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9A...

a screenshot of the game Amberspire with no interface

soon

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“…players were able to tap into a broad range of complaints that were only tangentially related to the card directly but, due to is presence as an encoded/decoded message, signaled the influence of politics, social relations, and ideology in its creation.” drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9A...

Now I don’t think that’s necessarily true! As I talk about in my essay, Magic has always borrowed from cultural touchstones for its own material. But the likeness, the need to make definite connections between an IPs presence and its Magic form, is rife with potential friction in interpretation.

It’s been a steady boil and there are some IPs that folks truly dislike. This card, to me, is generating a reaction bc it’s a bit on the nose. If this were TMNT fan art, people would love it! Put it in a Magic frame, however, and now it’s a tacit admission of one forms ‘submission’ to the other.

“The quality of a card’s likeness becomes the gateway through which epistemological valuations and concerns can be enacted both in the encoding and decoding process. [Haunted Screen and Rick Grimes] are clones that players look at and ask, “is this real?”” drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9A...

Running Traveller - Part 1: Prep Wherein I prepare to run a game of Traveller

I'm running a game of Traveller and I'll be blogging about it: blog.enceledean.com/running-trav...

resistance is fütile

Certainly feels like we are edging ever closer to John Brown territory.

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YouTube video by Castle Archon Wargame Counter Clipping and Rounding

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Ambassador Kosh from Babylon 5 uttering, “And so it begins…”