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@damsteele.bsky.social

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Paul F. Tompkins
@pftompkins.bsky.social

Replying to @pftompkins.bsky.social

What was he supposed to do? It was a horseshit question. Was he supposed to be somber and serious to reassure us all that he’s not a sleeper agent? He very calmly and politely handed that idiot his ass because that idiot was acting in bad faith. We need more of that, not less

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Ben Collins
@bencollins.bsky.social

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Mike Lund
@lowbacca.bsky.social

More games need personality matrices where it'll just get a feeling of what you're like then take care of dialogue for you rather than constant dialogue choices. Makes the rest of a more relaxing experience for me to focus on the gameplay aspects and storyline. And it's on sale now, too

Yahtzee Croshaw@yahtzeecroshaw.bsky.social

My game Starstruck Vagabond's on sale again for 50% off in the Autumn steam sale! store.steampowered.com/app/2448930/...

store.steampowered.comSave 50% on Starstruck Vagabond on SteamA space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy. Fortunately, there's always someone who needs cargo delivered.

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dr. rich traditions, JD
@helldude.bsky.social

Replying to @helldude.bsky.social

i don't see any rational case for allowing billionaires and now trillionaires to exist, especially fundamentally free of taxation. why are we letting these people tie up all assets while carrying them around on our backs. no

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garth marenghi's chart place
@tef.bsky.social

Replying to @tef.bsky.social

MANAGEMENT: We're going to eliminate skilled worker roles and replace them with lower paid jobs supervising the machine. Although productivity and quality will suffer, it'll be worth it to ensure you're that little bit more disposable. PROGRAMMER: Good thing i'm an expert on talking to the machine

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Ben Collins
@bencollins.bsky.social

Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.

Dangeresque
@damsteele.bsky.social

A Gen Z kid was asking me how to catch the bus. They didn’t get it until I explained ”It’s kind of like a frame rule in Super Mario Bros” #speedrunning

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Sridhar Ramesh
@radishharmers.bsky.social

It's ugly and rotten-hearted to speak ill of the dead if they were a powerful politician who pushed constantly for war and misery. It's perfectly fine to speak ill of the dead if they were some nobody immigrant who was near a cop.

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David Gleich
@dgleich.bsky.social

Replying to @charbds.bsky.social

The future of programming is going to look like plumbing and electrical work. Lots of people can do the basics (with ai… leveraging huge libraries and vast infrastructure). Still lots of room for expertise. (Standards bodies.. certification…)

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Mike Drucker
@mikedrucker.bsky.social

Speaking of not using AI to write, it’s the one year anniversary of my book, Good Game, No Rematch! If you’re in the market for a goofy book about video games completely written by a human being, it’s still available, baby!

amazon.comGood Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games―A Comedian's Memoir of Gaming and Comedy, From Nintendo to The Tonight ShowAmazon.com: Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games―A Comedian's Memoir of Gaming and Comedy, From Nintendo to The Tonight Show: 9781335012692: Drucker, Mike: Books

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Michael DeForge
@michaeldeforge.bsky.social

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

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Bad Faith Times
@dennycarter.badfaithtimes.com.ap.brid.gy

If the left doesn't take anti-social behavior seriously, voters will turn to the right for solutions

badfaithtimes.comWe Live In A Society (Really)> Today's BFT newsletter was written by Nick, a fella I met on Bluesky who had what I thought was a good take that could make an even better BFT blog post. You can follow Nick on Bluesky. I was going to begin this blog by revisiting the toxic discourse around a 2023 tweet about smoking on the train by Mindy Isser, a left-leaning Philadelphia organizer who posts mostly about the labor movement. Isser's innocuous post set off a cascade of increasingly wild-eyed replies and devolved into a days-long social media war in which no prisoners were taken. It turns out almost three years to the day after this legendarily controversial post, Isser was embroiled in an almost identical debate about antisocial behavior in public spaces. The response to both posts elicited the same arguments: Isser is too soft, she hates the unhoused, she should move out of the city if she wants to avoid people masturbating on public transit. Isser then gets accused of being the “headphone police,” which produced this perfect “how did we end up here?” moment: What. This kind of discourse catches fire on Bluesky every so often (as it did on Twitter, and apparently still does on the X platform) and I think it’s worth addressing. The controversy du jour was spun up around a post discussing an unhoused man throwing a rock into a post office window. I don’t want to re-litigate that post, which, to be clear, ended with pleas for more government-funded shelters and better mental health services (the original post has since been deleted but here’s the screen grab that was my introduction to the issue). I’m more interested in this response: _Did you talk to him? Did he say he had no reason? No. More likely this is just an assumption. or worse, complete bullshit made up to generate public distrust of the houseless.”_ In The Absence Of Earnestness, Fascism ThrivesWoke 2 is going to be fueled by virtue signaling. And that’s OK.Bad Faith TimesDenny Carter I’m fascinated by the desire to ask the guy why he threw a rock through the post office window, the question implying the existence of one or even a handful of good reasons to do so. While they might not accept the particulars of the permission structure, people making this argument – knowingly or not – are in agreement with the American right on the praxis (do whatever the fuck you want and have zero consideration for anyone else). The right says this is OK and even laudable because you’re in charge, this is your life, your country, and you have a god-given right to behave in any way you want to behave. The “public urination is fine” left is saying it’s OK because you aren’t in charge, life is unfair, and human beings have no agency. * * * The right is built on the idea that everything is atomized and individualized; success or failure, it’s all about you and your hard work (or cranial dimensions). The left rejects this framing by suggesting social problems are systemic—that there are intertwining systems built into society to benefit the few at the expense of the many. The idea that these systems affect entire populations and supersede or suppress individual traits and actions is what produces the demands for a robust social safety net and a path for comfort and stability for all. This is a good thing. But thanks to the nuance-flattening properties of social media, a small quorum of terminally online leftists have internalized systemic thinking to the degree of no longer believing in individual agency. Their working assumption appears to be that everything is a logical reaction to an oppressive force. It’s not dissimilar to the overextension of therapy-thought that has convinced online self-care dead-enders that you’re never the asshole and never need to take responsibility. This is how you end up with a multiple-day pile-on dissecting whether it's "ableist" to give homemade chili to your neighbor. It would be difficult to exaggerate how much this sort of discourse alienates what we might call political normies: Folks who vote but who don't spent six or eight or ten hours a day engaging in the minutia of inside-baseball political culture. Making excuses for someone throwing rocks through a window or pissing all over a bus or a subway car or blasting their music for everyone to hear is a huge turnoff for people like this, who will hear these justifications and turn to someone – anyone – who will solve the problem of rock throwing and bus pissing. Often that means empowering Republicans whose solution is to simply imprison the people in question. Ezra Klein Is Mourning The End Of The CivilacrumKlein wants a simulation of politics without conflict. Ascendant fascism won’t allow that.Bad Faith TimesAndy Elrick It all comes from the same place of outsourcing responsibility to others. Using the concept of systemic oppression to excuse shitty, anti-social behavior, I'd argue, is infantilizing and insulting to people on the ground trying to build the liberal-left project that might get a chance to thrive post-Trump. I’m reminded of my friend Tim’s _post_ : > _“a lot of young leftists correctly realize the carceral state is bad but lack the creativity or stamina to engage with real solutions so sort of accidentally end up with ‘uh, the crime is good’ and then wonder why that makes people upset.”_ Tim is arguing in the context of anti-carceral leftism but the same attitude plays out in the discussions of American class and power dynamics more generally. The argument goes that anti-social behavior is merely a symptom of a bigger problem and worrying about it is but a distraction from solving the bigger problem of mass poverty and mental health, or worse, a way to further oppress marginalized people. But if focusing on the behavior at the expense of trying to solve the bigger issues is missing the forest for the trees, then ignoring anti-social behavior in favor of large-scale societal changes is effectively denial that individual trees exist at all. I'm not arguing that this represents a large faction of the American left, nor is it anything elected officials or organizers are claiming. It's little more than discourse about social media posts on a dying breed of text-based social media apps. But I think it's important for anyone interested in growing the coalition to be precise about these things, especially in an era when journalists and political tastemakers are as online as anyone, and any random poster can be platformed by right-wing media outlets as spokespeople for the Democratic Party. “We live in a society” – and its cousin phrase, “A better world is possible” – is often lobbed at the right as a criticism of its selfish worldview and inability to empathize with those in need. But it also suggests there is some sort of baseline social respect worth protecting; that the better, more equal world people are building together should make room for everyone. That, yes, people living on the street or in extreme poverty deserve mental health care and economic stability, but also that kids and women and the elderly should feel safe in public. These ideas are not inherently at odds; claiming so is effectively ceding the public masturbation/urination issue to the right wing, and we all know how they would prefer to solve it. _Follow Nick on Bluesky at_ @nickhasthoughts.com_._

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derek guy
@dieworkwear.bsky.social

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

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Sean Marotta
@smmarotta.bsky.social

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

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Mekka Okereke
@mekka.mekka-tech.com

If I said that some of your favorite VCs lacked the ability to introspect, and that they spent close to zero time thinking about how their actions had negative impacts on the world? You'd probably say that I was being unfair, by practically calling them psychopaths. They say this about themselves!

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

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Greg Pak
@gregpak.net

"If you draw a moral line mere days into this war, you won’t have to do years of soul-searching to figure out what was obvious from the start."

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

New — My case for why it’s not enough to call this “Trump’s war” when violence abroad implicates us all, and how we don’t need hindsight to know that unequivocally opposing this war will be the correct (and only morally defensible) choice:

thehandbasket.coWhy now is the time to be loudly anti-warWe don't need the clarity of hindsight to know war in Iran—or anywhere—will end in physical, moral and financial ruin.

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Zach Weinersmith
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social

Why hasn't Disney used the Muppets to duplicate what Warner Bros. did with Lego movies? We could be 10 episodes deep into Muppet Star Wars, Muppet Marvel, Muppet Indiana Jones. Hell, Muppet Avatar would make more sense than the actual series.

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SwampLizard
@swamplizard.bsky.social

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social

Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com "In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this." Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social

wired.comPalantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.

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chevalier d'ely
@ely.fyi

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.