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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 22h

I see America is now at the “dissident professors fleeing the regime” stage

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Mel ‘Motorboat’ McGlensey @melmcglensey.bsky.social · 22h

wowowow A Judge Pick! For our super normal show? How kind!

Only 3 more nights to catch the most normal show at Melb Fringe! And it's a different show every night so you can keep comin back for more normal ;)

8:30pm (7:30Sun) Trades Hall. On till the 12th.
www.melbournefringe.com.au/whats-on/eve...

Show poster that says Judges' Pick at the top and Melbourne Fringe Festival at the bottom. In the middle, a tilted square photo of a zoomed in silly face showing teeth and wide open eyes.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 22h

Dude I know October is always like this here in VIC, but I cannot deal with all this wind, like all the time.

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404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot stress how good the writing in Baby Steps is. I’ve described it as if you did Silent Hill characterization in a comedy. Really beautiful, largely improvised, magical realist narrative aimed directly at its audience.

Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 1d

I know I keep talking about it but I just finished Baby Steps. That ending got me choked up. Honestly my favourite game I've played in god knows how long. This feels like a real all-timer for me. Absolutely everything about it just feels so... perfect. I'm properly giddy about it all. ART, MAN

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."

Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Australia is exporting terrible ideas

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

Denmark is planning to ban children under 15 from using social media, following Australia's world-first laws to curb social media use among teenagers.

Denmark to follow Australia in banning social media for children

Denmark is planning to ban children under 15 from using social media, following Australia's world-first laws to curb social media use among teenagers.

www.abc.net.au

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 1d

slop is like the soot of the industrial revolution but we're not even getting good textiles out of the slop production

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 2d

Rank the macerated remains of our university system from 1 to 10

Headline in the Guardian: University of Melbourne rated best in Australia in global rankings report
Times Higher Eduction ranks university as 37th in the world, with five other Australian schools in top 100

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 2d

damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 2d

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 2d

The fact that all sides of a D6 are a set, and that you upgrade a hero all at once (well, aside from items) is so key to everything in the game.

In truth I am super critical of the Math Aesthetics of normative card-based deckbuilders. A function like, say, 30 Choose 5 has bad brainfeel imo.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 2d

Slice & Dice is truly a staggering work of game system design - its Blessing & Curse & Item valuation system is so atomic and allows for such wildly emergent situations.

Also: I'm on record discussing this on our Eggplant ITD series, but I think dice are fundamentally more interesting than cards.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 2d

iOS, it's great on phone. It's become a big travel game for me.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 2d

I am hundreds, probably actually thousands, of hours into Slice & Dice and I am *still* encountering totally novel, exciting situations. For sure my all time fav turn-based roguelike.

(My strong rec on how to play: Cursed Hyper mode w/ 20% wild modifiers on)

tann.itch.io/slice-dice

Slice & Dice by tann

Roguelike dice tactics game

tann.itch.io

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 2d

"The danger was never difference; the danger was the oppression that demanded silence, that forbade questions, until even love could no longer be spoken."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

www.theguardian.com

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 3d

Shoutout to this Submerse d&b mix for getting me thru some intense programming work this week
soundcloud.com/jawadj/subme...

bsky.app/profile/doou...

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 3d

Yikes. The more I see the Bluesky dev/leadership team post, the more I am horrified to be using this platform.

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 4d

In English, the claim they have not mistreated any of the flotilla crew. In Hebrew, they admit to brutalising them. Australian citizens are telling DFAT they are being tortured, DFAT and the government have said nothing. Makes you wonder, does Albo put Israel head of Australians?

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 4d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 7d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 5d

Something that makes me feel negative about living in Australia is I’m just listening to a podcast and suddenly I’m blindsided by an ad beckoning me to gamble on the upcoming horse race that gets its own dedicated public holiday 🤮

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 6d

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others”

Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 6d

“Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.”

Once again, they are truly psychotic.