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In a society where “engagement” is a literal performance metric for how “valuable” something is, it becomes increasingly important to cultivate conscious disengagement as an active behavioral choice. There are times to push back, but there are also times to withhold the fuel source of flames.

It's definitely not an everyday thing, but it happens often enough that it makes me smile. Occasionally, in my software engineering work, some really esoteric bit of knowledge from my audio engineering days will come in super handy in a very specific way. Today's edition was with Core Audio on MacOS

Shout out to @momfriend64.northsky.social for putting this wildly personal niche game on my radar.

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

@erykdonovan.bsky.social is world class!

This a post for possibly like 3 people, but: VKB Sim is a pretty cool game accessory company, and I'm saying this a solid year after I've been using them. They have somehow nailed price/performance ratio + modular design + impressive functionality at a really reasonable cost. #elitedangerous

I need to take responsibility for the fact that I slept on Elite Dangerous, even while it sat available in my Steam backlog. This game is fucking amazing.

If only the dear U.S. Carmakers could step foot out of the hellish United States that they lobbied for all these years, and see how things *could* be if they weren't paying off members of congress for infrastructure decisions that benefit only them, and not society at large.

We can, and should, hold onto localized hope. Especially for things that are directly within our sphere of influence and our community. We should also be very clear eyed about the consequences of all of the different crumbling systems that we are watching. Small hope with large despair is hard.

Ah yes...the 'ole "I really don't like when people smarter than me tell me it's possible to look at behaviors in someone and see trends, so instead I choose to think that this terrible behavior came out of nowhere and actually I'm the first to even see it" shtick.

This is a no-spoiler zone, but just confirming that the villains in Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West are so, incredibly accurate in their character portrayal and motivations that it feels a bit like prophecy. #HZD #HFW

I’m becoming more convinced that being an adult is deeply internalizing that: 1) people will not change until *they* want to 2) most people don’t change 3) but celebrate fully with the few that do, and never let go of that optimism in spite of 1 and 2

Meanwhile, in countries with functional government:

I am a big proponent of #opensource #selfhosting #linux and all of the things that decrease dependence on big tech, and increase personal autonomy and privacy. There are a shit ton of amazing #FOSS tools out there. That said, Thunderbird's search function is an absolute steaming pile of garbage.

So, I have no reason to be gleeful at the moment. But, tentatively, it would be a small consolation if the short term failure of the American experiment did the 'ole reverse psychology on the rest of the world moving towards renewables over the long haul.

One of the weird side effects of having grown up in far-right-adjacent Evangelicalism in the 90's is that I sometimes forget that for most people, these ideas are shocking. I remember being no older than 14, and being at Bible studies where these ideas were routine, and all heads in the room nodded.

One of my favorite things right now is being a longtime fan of the Flashbulb, and then learning that @bennjordan.bsky.social turned into a crazy-good independent journalist and is doing some excellent reporting on very important issues.

*long, exasperated sigh and rubs eyebrows and eye twitches and grabs a shot of something hard and burnable*

Not that this is the first time that fascists laughably have zero cultural awareness, but For All Mankind has already done this plot line way fucking better.

More of this.

There is *no path forward* to something better in the United States that doesn't involve acknowledging, reckoning with, and dismantling the right's astoundingly successful, decades-long propaganda takeover of American media. Unequivocally. Until that changes, we are fucked. Full stop.

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

My current coping mechanism is reading any news about this regime voiced like a gauche 80’s low budget supervillain: “Rules?! Mwahahah! We don’t need rules, or love, or peace! Why, those are the tools of weaklings! *twists mustache* We’re going to show our power & bomb a school full of children!”

"What if...and hear me out here...we pay you $1 million dollars to stop your chemotherapy now (even though there's a good chance that you can fully recover) and instead you just start smoking again. Side note, as part of the deal: we'll also need you to start working at Philip Morris International."

“If I had to accurately observe my own actions, and their impact on others, I would crumble under the weight of it. In fact, my genius is just avoiding that problem altogether.”

Y'know, there are many legitimate points in time where one could argue that America started it's steep decline. That said, if "Newt Gingrich gets elected" isn't in your top 5 choices, you gotta do some reading on the sheer magnitude of malicious dipshittery that he normalized in the Republicans.

Yeah, honestly having my formative years during the ‘90’s RTS golden era makes the current regime feel that much more clueless.

To be honest, i don't know what the balance of "staying informed" vs. "doom spiraling" is. My ratio is probably way off. But yeah. #windenergy #renewables youtu.be/wBC_bug5DIQ?...

Honestly? At this point, maybe renewables in the U.S. should do guerrilla advertising, like "Fuck clean energy and the climate!! All we're tryin' a do is lower your power bill so you can own the libs!" I wouldn't be mad. You gotta play the hand you've been dealt.

This is the kind of shit that shows how coordinated the campaign is behind the scenes from the fossil fuel industry.

I still don’t know if I have a properly unpacked opinion on my time in the game industry, but I do still keep in touch with friends there, and this just tracks so well with everything else that’s happening. apple.news/A9ARw_TXzSKG...