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Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

BioWare made worlds and characters people loved. I don't mean that lightly, we *loved* these characters and these worlds. EA Sports will never make anything anybody loves. Their AI slop cannot make anything anybody loves. Enjoy the ashes, you absolute ghouls.

And here's EA with their comment:

Diminish an anime Neon Genesis Evan

At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

Dropped my ballot today. I know nine questions feels like a marathon (Progressive Mass has a good guide) Vote NO on 3.

Hey Financial Times, how do those boots taste?

Have one of these, highly recommend

FYI for my Massachusetts people: This is the way to vote on all of our (sometimes intentionally confusing) ballot measures this year. I'm also a No on 6, since I suspect it will get in the way of raising new revenues for environmental protection, rather than boost that protection sustainably.

This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1859. John Brown and a group of followers invade the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today WV) to start a war and end slavery. Let's talk about this key moment in American labor history!

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

With as little hyperbole as possible, this man is a serial killer. His design, as Will Graham would put it, is to use policy and public health to kill people and cause as much harm and suffering as possible.

Tiny stupid baby cannot deal with consequences for lying.

@jasperfforde.bsky.social I completely missed your event at the Harvard Bookstore last night, but I managed to get a signed copy from them today. I’ve been delightedly reading these since Lost in a Good Book was published and I can’t wait to get home to start this one!

Mac users on mac OS 27 - we can get our disk space back and remove Apple AI! Somebody has made a tool: www.macrumors.com/2026/10/05/a...

Francis says Rahm Emanuel can fuck right off with his centrist bullshit.

This makes me wonder what the tech bro thinks a shelf full of books is. Do they think it’s a trophy cabinet? Do they not look at those books and remember the worlds they explored? When their friends (if they have friends) come over do they not share their experiences reading them?

“The assault of this young student, and the way we protected the men who raped her, will be a defining moment in my journey now that you’ve all found out about it.”

It seems very silly, but I learned about Japanese internment by watching the film “Snow Falling on Cedars” when I was too old to be learning about this disgusting stain on our history for the first time. We are no better today than we were then, except now we don’t even let them play baseball.

playing big walk solo

Heck yeah.

Fraternities exist to shelter and perpetuate revolting behaviors and reward the perpetrators of horrific violence with access to the halls of power where they too will shelter and perpetuate the system that made them. Shut them down.

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I love my Disconnected Wife @4shley.bsky.social, which is why I carried her around for the first 15 minutes of Big Walk this evening while she figured out an issue with her headphones.

From experience, nothing improves a working environment like an open-ended period of instability and dread.

Pass.

MA has 9 statewide ballot questions this year. Be an informed voter! #mapoli www.progressivemass.com/2026ballot/

Who is this “we”, James? Not one single person will remember you.

SCP-LLM Object Class: Euclid Special Containment Procedures: SCP-LLM is stored on a single hard drive in a computer with no networking capability. This computer should be kept powered off. Under no circumstances should anyone with an MBA be allowed to interact with SCP-LLM or view its output.

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

This makes me sad. It is a miracle we got six total seasons of a Daredevil TV show, but they could have done more and they are cowards for not doing more. They could have relaunched the street level characters with this show, built out Luke, Danny, Misty, Colleen... But no, we can't have nice things

Reason number one million I won't buy Jeph Loeb books ever again.

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

i don't care if the danged chat bots are "thinking." that's not my problem. stop putting them in my computers

Y’all know what’s coming right? decorativegourdseason.com

I've said it before, I hope Phil Eng never has to buy a drink in this city again.

The evidence continues to be overwhelming that we have been living in two completely separate, but entirely overlapping realities for the past 80 years.

Oh my god @kirkhamilton.com and Sam Parrish are doing a podcast about one of my favorite book series, The Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold. They're doing SEVENTEEN episodes on this series, which I've been reading since I was a teenager. I love them so much, and you will too!

People know him as Ash, but I knew him first as Brisco County Jr. a show that was ahead of its time, about being ahead of your time. I can’t recommend it enough.