Cale
@caleplut.com
Used to write music and play piano, now tech policy & strategy for B.C. Government out of Vancouver.
PhD, MFA in Interactive & Generative music for games
Bikes, baking, and bad posts
Personal account - opinions and X-COM jokes not official policy
PhD, MFA in Interactive & Generative music for games
Bikes, baking, and bad posts
Personal account - opinions and X-COM jokes not official policy
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In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987–2025).
In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987-2025) - Historical Materialism
‘Our subjective horizon is the optimism of the intellect; our objective, structuring condition is pessimism of the will. Without optimism of the intellect, we have the party without the people. Withou...
www.historicalmaterialism.org
December 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987–2025).
I'm finally playing Phantom Brigade and this game slaps
December 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I'm finally playing Phantom Brigade and this game slaps
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Look how far we have drifted from the true path.
A mini-bus built at the FSO factory in 1978. It was used to give tours around the factory. #weirdcarbs
December 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Look how far we have drifted from the true path.
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I dislike that Time Magazine has chosen to conflate CEOs with the people who actually got their hands dirty making the technology work.
I’m incensed that Fei Fei Li is half off the page. I’m sure she is too gracious to say it.
I’m incensed that Fei Fei Li is half off the page. I’m sure she is too gracious to say it.
December 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I dislike that Time Magazine has chosen to conflate CEOs with the people who actually got their hands dirty making the technology work.
I’m incensed that Fei Fei Li is half off the page. I’m sure she is too gracious to say it.
I’m incensed that Fei Fei Li is half off the page. I’m sure she is too gracious to say it.
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when i wish ill upon the game awards as an institution this man is excluded. he brings more into the world than that entire street fighter movie will
December 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
when i wish ill upon the game awards as an institution this man is excluded. he brings more into the world than that entire street fighter movie will
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Valve HQ:
"AAA game about murdering a lot of Muslims and destroying their homes" "ship it"
"solo game in which you fight the IDF" "ban the savages"
"indie game that criticizes Western power dynamics with a horse metaphor" "unacceptable"
"This review hates Muslims" "ahh smell that thats freedom"
"AAA game about murdering a lot of Muslims and destroying their homes" "ship it"
"solo game in which you fight the IDF" "ban the savages"
"indie game that criticizes Western power dynamics with a horse metaphor" "unacceptable"
"This review hates Muslims" "ahh smell that thats freedom"
Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam
This is where we're at now.
This is where we're at now.
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Valve HQ:
"AAA game about murdering a lot of Muslims and destroying their homes" "ship it"
"solo game in which you fight the IDF" "ban the savages"
"indie game that criticizes Western power dynamics with a horse metaphor" "unacceptable"
"This review hates Muslims" "ahh smell that thats freedom"
"AAA game about murdering a lot of Muslims and destroying their homes" "ship it"
"solo game in which you fight the IDF" "ban the savages"
"indie game that criticizes Western power dynamics with a horse metaphor" "unacceptable"
"This review hates Muslims" "ahh smell that thats freedom"
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Watch Vancouver’s hardest-working shared bike 🚲
travel 17,300+ km in a minute & 19 seconds #bikevancouver #bikeyvr #cycling #dataviz
Read more about bike #1079 here! vancouversun.com/news/meet-va...
travel 17,300+ km in a minute & 19 seconds #bikevancouver #bikeyvr #cycling #dataviz
Read more about bike #1079 here! vancouversun.com/news/meet-va...
December 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Watch Vancouver’s hardest-working shared bike 🚲
travel 17,300+ km in a minute & 19 seconds #bikevancouver #bikeyvr #cycling #dataviz
Read more about bike #1079 here! vancouversun.com/news/meet-va...
travel 17,300+ km in a minute & 19 seconds #bikevancouver #bikeyvr #cycling #dataviz
Read more about bike #1079 here! vancouversun.com/news/meet-va...
Fun fact: The Government of British Columbia has its own font
December 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Fun fact: The Government of British Columbia has its own font
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was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil.
Full post:
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...
Full post:
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...
Please, don't automate science!
I was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans a...
togelius.blogspot.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil.
Full post:
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...
Full post:
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...
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I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment.
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
I Hope You Get To Live Your Entire Life As A Human
I thought this was going to be a review of my time with Santa Ragione's Horses, the controversial art game recently banned from Steam and the Epic Store. To some extent, this will be that but after...
transgamerthoughts.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment.
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
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Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
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If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
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In Segway's defense, small electric mobility devices *have* been a game changer for cities.
It just turned out that a precondition for *a lot* of people was not looking like a total goober while riding one.
It just turned out that a precondition for *a lot* of people was not looking like a total goober while riding one.
December 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
In Segway's defense, small electric mobility devices *have* been a game changer for cities.
It just turned out that a precondition for *a lot* of people was not looking like a total goober while riding one.
It just turned out that a precondition for *a lot* of people was not looking like a total goober while riding one.
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This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
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Delighted to share that I've just been named a 2025 BAFTA Breakthrough, alongside such luminaries as the director of K-Pop Demon Hunters and the star of Sinners!
www.bafta.org/stories/brea...
www.bafta.org/stories/brea...
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Delighted to share that I've just been named a 2025 BAFTA Breakthrough, alongside such luminaries as the director of K-Pop Demon Hunters and the star of Sinners!
www.bafta.org/stories/brea...
www.bafta.org/stories/brea...
Today is a good day because I get to use so many of the good transportations.
Bike to train in the morning
Bike share to a meeting
Bike share to SkyTrain to bike to home
What more could anyone ask for? Two different types of trains!
Bike to train in the morning
Bike share to a meeting
Bike share to SkyTrain to bike to home
What more could anyone ask for? Two different types of trains!
December 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Today is a good day because I get to use so many of the good transportations.
Bike to train in the morning
Bike share to a meeting
Bike share to SkyTrain to bike to home
What more could anyone ask for? Two different types of trains!
Bike to train in the morning
Bike share to a meeting
Bike share to SkyTrain to bike to home
What more could anyone ask for? Two different types of trains!
Now I've gotten used to cars running through crosswalks, blowing through red lights, and failing to see all the high vis and lights that I have, but the driver who plowed through a red light at a crosswalk to almost hit me was a new one
December 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Now I've gotten used to cars running through crosswalks, blowing through red lights, and failing to see all the high vis and lights that I have, but the driver who plowed through a red light at a crosswalk to almost hit me was a new one
Giving my dog anxiety by comparing her to the show dogs again
November 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Giving my dog anxiety by comparing her to the show dogs again
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top notch mascottin'
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
top notch mascottin'
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places: