M. Blind

M. Blind

@mdotblind.bsky.social

foundling raised by a feral tribe of sarcastic suburbanites || Hyperfocus for hire · Gamesmith, wordwright, rules wrangler · Fan of scifi & fantasy, lover of books, former bookseller || Interpuctgames.com, personal blog at rocketbomber.com || 52. He/him.

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M. Blind
@mdotblind.bsky.social

Fire is great. We couldn't have built civilization without it. Capitalism is great. We couldn't have built civilization without it. but free market capitalism isn't the solution to everything, just like we don't light everything on fire just because it burns.

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IGN
@ign.com

After a three-year hiatus, Netflix’s French heist series Lupin returns for Part 4 with a soap opera bent, and it’s all the better for it. https://bit.ly/4yKxeXy

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David M. Perry
@lollardfish.bsky.social

I love that the qualifications include “A favorite bookstore, and a current library card.” I look forward to pitching whoever gets this :)

Molly Odintz@mollsotov.bsky.social

lithub.com/lit-hub-is-h... Hey literary friends, come work with meeeeeee

lithub.comLit Hub is Hiring a Senior Editor For a New VerticalLiterary Hub is hiring a Senior Editor to help develop and manage a new site launching in Spring 2027. The vertical will cover the full range of books published each year, fiction and nonfiction, i…

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Baldur Bjarnason
@baldurbjarnason.com

Why is “congrats! your software updated without you asking, so now your core workflows are now very, very broken. Aren’t you grateful?” such a routine event these days? And why dont developers and vendors care? Ugh. (Anyway. Rhetorical questions. No reply needed.)

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ashley fairbanks
@ziibiing.com

it feels coo coo bonkers to look at data in this typeface

Dj@djsoke.bsky.social

Three more days in Texas as well! I'll keep including 2022 ofc but I don't think it's a particularly helpful baseline right now, bc if turnout followed the 2022 path, every single one of these counties would exceed 2024's total turnout

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🗽LOLGOP🗽
@lolgop.bsky.social

Why no Democratic politicians are screaming about this is beyond me! Hope I'm just missing it.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social

Just a reminder that Trump is intent on punishing Comey because Comey is the guy who stopped him from paying off his quid pro quo to Russia and collecting all his "deals." And all the "deals" are happening right now, and no one connects it to 2016's sell-out of the century.

youtube.comSpeedrun on Trump's Russian corruptionYouTube video by emptywheel

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Rosemary Pennington
@rompenni.bsky.social

Really important opinion piece in the @nytimes.com "While by some measures, members of the middle class now earn more than those of prior generations, the Brookings Institution recently found that one-third of the American middle class still can’t afford essentials."

nytimes.comOpinion | What America Is Living Without (Gift Article)Winter coats, steaks, college tuition: More and more Americans are giving up on the lives they thought they would have.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀
@thespaceshipper.com

Replying to @thespaceshipper.com

The current TV project:

The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com

[Ongoing thread] New Stargate show (second attempt) "Jac Schaeffer (WandaVision, Agatha All Along) is developing a new Stargate TV series for Amazon MGM Studios, Variety has learned exclusively from sources. According to sources, a writers’ room is expected to open in the near future."

variety.com‘WandaVision’ Creator Jac Schaeffer to Develop ‘Stargate’ Series at Amazon (EXCLUSIVE)Jac Schaeffer is developing a new "Stargate" TV series for Amazon MGM Studios, Variety has learned exclusively from sources.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀
@thespaceshipper.com

Replying to @thespaceshipper.com

The previous TV project:

The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com

[Ongoing thread] New Stargate TV show We knew it was coming! "Amazon MGM Studios has greenlighted another series based on popular MGM IP, giving a series order to Stargate for Prime Video. The new installment in the classic sci-fi franchise comes from Martin Gero, a Stargate veteran and...."

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Mobius
@enneadgames.com

Freaking love this film and the shows that came from it

The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com

Roland Emmerich's Stargate was released 32 years ago today. This film spawned an entire TV universe, from 1997 to 2011, and several TV series projects have been proposed in recent months, but none have convinced Amazon's executives... for now.

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Benne W. Holwerda
@benneholwerda.bsky.social

Busses, bike lanes, and public transport?

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com

The chaos of drop-off has made schools less welcoming and less accessible—but there are ways to fill the transportation gap, Kendra Hurley wrote in 2024: theatln.tc/3KXslaNw 🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Getty.

M. Blind
@mdotblind.bsky.social

There was exactly one poll [down-ballot, outside of a few 'headline' races, there just isn't the same kind of polling] so I know the trend for GA's 3rd is R+5 this year, down from R+18. That's in line with national trends. I still want this suit rack to lose. badly. +5 isn't insurmountable, but

M. Blind@mdotblind.bsky.social

US congresscritter for the GA 3rd congressional district is literally an empty suit with an R next to his name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_J... and I need this fucking... apparatchik to LOSE. So very badly. there's no pre-election polling so I just don't know. GA 3rd was an R+18 district.

en.wikipedia.orgBrian Jack - Wikipedia
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M. Blind
@mdotblind.bsky.social

"how in the hell did you end up down there?" I actually grew up here. Not sure why/how/when I caught the Socialism but I did leave suburban hell to go to college and college for me was Tech, which has its campus _in_ Atlanta proper, and managed to stay away for 20 years but now [*sigh*] I'm back

M. Blind
@mdotblind.bsky.social

There was exactly one poll [down-ballot, outside of a few 'headline' races, there just isn't the same kind of polling] so I know the trend for GA's 3rd is R+5 this year, down from R+18. That's in line with national trends. I still want this suit rack to lose. badly. +5 isn't insurmountable, but

M. Blind@mdotblind.bsky.social

US congresscritter for the GA 3rd congressional district is literally an empty suit with an R next to his name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_J... and I need this fucking... apparatchik to LOSE. So very badly. there's no pre-election polling so I just don't know. GA 3rd was an R+18 district.

en.wikipedia.orgBrian Jack - Wikipedia
M. Blind
@mdotblind.bsky.social

early voting in GA is up from '24 [voters are motivated] but it does very much come down to the people who live in the district. We've been trending ever-so-slightly more blue every election (zoomers replacing boomers) but I still don't know if there are enough physical, actual D votes to tip it.

M. Blind
@mdotblind.bsky.social

"maybe the other side stays home" and maybe. but this chunk of GA is about half outer-ATL-suburb/exurb shading into rural and the other half is small-town rural GA counties. It's all very 'Republican' coded. At least some of those R's will have to wake up & vote D for the seat to flip.

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deck.blue
@deck.blue

PLEASE don't forget this and try actively to follow it, "don't feed the trolls" has been a thing for a while and we weren't following it as we should have been

RADINSKY 🏳️‍⚧️🪬@thisisradinsky.bsky.social

We, internationally, need to do exactly what the Brazilians did and lead by example with: 1) Block all far right figures/accounts 2) Never share a far right account even to dunk on them 3) Never reply to a far right account even to dunk on them Completely cut their algorithmic advantage

M. Blind
@mdotblind.bsky.social

see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvvG... Hank Green in conversation with Grant Sanderson [3 Blue 1 Brown], specifically about AI and advanced Maths 1 hr 1 min

youtube.comAI is Proving Things No One Understands*YouTube video by Hank Green
M. Blind@mdotblind.bsky.social

Same with math proofs: A math proof is like 100 pages of a very smart person going step-by-excruciating-step to prove something from first principles showing ALL the work. I can't do it but I can see how AI could read every public proof and get a very good grasp of that particular branch of maths

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M. Blind
@mdotblind.bsky.social

Anthropic is announcing an IPO because they had six good months [after a Super Bowl ad and becoming oddly popular with programmers for writing code] and other than having a good six months of sales, nothing fundamental has changed. Depending on how you feel about AI, that's good. or bad.

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Tits McGee
@scientits.bsky.social

Stop it When did we agree that the first few days of a theatrical run decided whether a film was great or not? People watch the vast majority of films for the first time on TV, physical media or now, streaming - the cinema experience is a tiny percent of the impact and lifespan of a film

GeekTyrant@geektyrant.com

LAIKA's WILDWOOD is a Box Office Bomb and Audiences Are Failing Great Movies

geektyrant.comLAIKA's WILDWOOD is a Box Office Bomb and Audiences Are Failing Great MoviesThis is heartbreaking. LAIKA's Wildwood is one of the best movies of 2026, an absolutely incredible achievement in stop-motion animation, and audiences aren't showing up to support it. I was in awe of...

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kottke.org
@kottke.org

According to a recent survey, Americans are divided on whether empathy is a good thing. 83% of the religiously unaffiliated agreed that empathy is "a foundational moral value that helps build a healthy society” while only 42% of white evangelicals did. [kottke.org]

kottke.orgThe American Divide on EmpathyPRRI’s 2026 American Values Survey reveals some, uh, interesting views on whether Americans think empathy is a good thing or not. Those respondents unaffiliated with a religion were much more inclined to think that

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Micah
@rincewind.run

honestly this just makes me nostalgic for the obama years, I kinda miss everyone constantly losing their minds over the stupidest bullshit imaginable rather than committing 47 front pages worth of crimes on a daily basis

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social

Day 4

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SJ Thompson 🍁🇨🇦
@sjsthompson.bsky.social

"A report from the research firm Gartner predicted that 80 percent of “neoclouds,” the companies that provide data and computing power for A.I. firms, could be forced out of business." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/t...

nytimes.comWhat’s Riding on Anthropic Going Public? Nearly Everything. (Gift Article)Anthropic sits atop a pyramid of business partners and suppliers, making it a barometer of the broader economy. Its initial public offering will have widespread implications.