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Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!

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EARTH FILLED WITH BLOOD is me doing my best to make some Canadian NEAR DARK so hope you check it out. June 2027.

Little Ghosts Books@littleghostsbooks.bsky.social

🩸 COVER REVEAL 🩸 Earth Filled With Blood @afsulli.bsky.social is out June 2027 from Gallery Books ! @cookemcdermid.bsky.social Across Canada, ancient blood-drinking creatures have survived for generations by hiding in plain sight… Preorder here: bit.ly/EarthFilledW... πŸ–€πŸ‘»πŸ“š

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Avi Lewis, leader of Canada's federal NDP, comments on the Bioware closure.

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A billionaire, conservative media moguls and a long list of controversial public figures are lining up behind Toronto mayoral hopeful Brad Bradford. We've compiled a non-comprehensive list:

thegrindmag.caAn Non-comprehensive List of Brad Bradford’s EndorsementsA billionaire, conservative media moguls and public figures with a history of sharing Islamophobic statements are lining up behind Toronto mayoral hopeful Brad Bradford…

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This shit is so cool. They took away being able to afford computers for this shit.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

Business Insider confirms it: Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team said they β€œdidn’t have a clear forecasted path” to installing them. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-220-b...

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People using AI to reverse engineer games to then turn around and publish clones is straight up theft. Why is anyone pretending otherwise? The only thing genAI is good at making is fucking talentless thieves. Prosecute the lot of them. Sue them to hell.

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Repeated infections being a β€œfact of life” is a framing designed to make you think something is naturally inevitable rather than the expected result of a series of public health decisions designed with something other than your health and safety at the forefront.

Billy Hanlon@bhanlon15.bsky.social

NYT: 'How Bad Is Another Case of Covid?' β€œEvery time there’s a wave, there’s another wave that’s going to follow with patients developing new onset long Covid,” said Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale University www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/w...

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reading gene wolfe and getting some pretty confused ideas about how big a woman’s face should be

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Here's how I was pitching the application of theory to my #gamedesign students this week (using a memorable quotation I learned from @lucasrizoli.com) Got thoughts on using theory in game dev/ed/crit? ⬇ Fill in the survey below!

Dr Florence Smith Nicholls@florencesn.bsky.social

What do you think theory is good for in game development, education and criticism? Take part in our research group's survey here: res58.itu.dk/limesurvey/I...

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Construction trucks leaving Bloor and Islington area after being successfully deterred from starting work on removing bike lanes in Toronto by a large protest.

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I posted my History of Games keynote: - A materialist reexamination of the canonical game crises from a developer's POV - Thoughts on the ongoing game industry restructuring - Indiepocalypse, AAApocalypse, deprofessionalization, games at the knitting stage www.molleindustria.org/HistoryOfGam...

molleindustria.orgA History of Games Through Mass ExtinctionsA transcript of Paolo Pedercini’s History of Games Conference keynote (2026).

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seeing hacker news posts about margaret hamilton (rip), and forgive me, but i this is how it feels

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If you are a Toronto restaurant contemplating AI food imagery, I will photograph your food for you, and process the photos for the low cost of just letting me have the food for free, if it stops you.

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THE NEW CURSE OF RESTHAVEN DEMO IS LIVE! Just in time for Next Fest, you can now play the first full time loop and get a massive taste of what awaits you on the island. And YES, your save carries over when the full game launches October 29. Check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/3796150/...

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get in loser we’re hating leaf blowers

Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social

if I were ever lucky enough to perform an I Don't Think So Honey it would be, without a doubt, about leaf blowers WHY CAN'T ONE SINGLE STRETCH OF SIDEWALK OR GRASS IN THIS CITY HAVE A SINGLE LEAF ON IT????? YOUR STENCH AND VOLUME IS UNTENABLE I am IRATE

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Mac Users Reclaim Storage With New Apple Intelligence Removal Tool

macrumors.comMac Users Reclaim Storage With New Apple Intelligence Removal ToolA new open-source tool is making waves in the Mac community by helping users reclaim valuable storage space taken up by Apple's AI models. Called "RemoveMacAI," the tool disables Apple Intelligence on macOS 27, removes its downloaded models, and prevents them from being downloaded again. In macOS 27, Apple removed the toggle to disable Apple Intelligence wholesale, and simply disabling individual features doesn't remove the models from your Mac's drive. As explained by the developer, RemoveMacAI gets around this by using a configuration profile to switch off Apple's own asset management service and remove the models. It then configures the system so attempts to download the removed models are redirected to a closed local port, preventing them from immediately coming back. And it does all this without disabling System Integrity Protection (SIP) or manually deleting files from protected system locations, unlike some older tools have. The tool can reclaim roughly 10GB+ of space depending on which models are present on your Mac, though some users are reporting cases where Apple Intelligence models are taking up a lot more space. With the Apple models gone, you lose all Siri-related AI features, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, ChatGPT integration, summaries, smart replies, inline predictions, Photos Clean Up, Spatial Photos, and Xcode predictive completion. Even so, plenty of users appear happy to make the sacrifice to free up space, especially on non-upgradeable Macs with 256GB of storage. The profile reportedly persists across updates. And if you're wondering, dictation still works. The project has attracted hundreds of GitHub stars since its release last week, and there's lots of discussion on Reddit and Hacker News about the need for such a tool. Just be aware that MacRumors isn't endorsing RemoveMacAI, and anyone using it does so at their own risk. The developer has mentioned one caveat, and it's that some of the configuration-profile restriction keys that the tool relies on were deprecated by Apple in macOS 26.4. While they still work in macOS 27.0.1, a future version could always change that. Something to keep in mind.Tag: Apple Intelligence This article, "Mac Users Reclaim Storage With New Apple Intelligence Removal Tool" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

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Majuular's whole series of Ultima videos is top-notch work, and I highly recommend them to anyone who cares about video game history but particularly to younger folks who care about games and game history but grew up after Ultima's heyday and don't know much about the RPG landscape of the era.

Konstantinos Dimopoulos@konstantinosd.bsky.social

I most certainly did not click play on this four-and-a-half video on Ultima Online: youtu.be/35SKawn2SDI?...

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If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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IT’S HAPPENING. Curse of Resthaven arrives October 29 on PC, Mac, PS5 and Xbox. Two days before Halloween felt like the appropriate time to unleash the curse. And there’s more: we're giving you a bit longer to play the current demo and earn your bonus gold + skill points…

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Cannot express enough the speed at which I would turn the game off, put down the controller and immediately sell the console.

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social

Microsoft has patented an "ad-credit" system to display adverts and announcements during PC and Xbox game sessions without disrupting gameplay www.gamesindustry.biz/microsoft-fi...