Buddy Toledo
@jessefuchs.bsky.social
eminent snoopyologist @nyugamecenter.bsky.social
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Buddy Toledo
@jessefuchs.bsky.social
· Feb 6
finally began work on my magnum opus of critical détournement, “1,000 Snoopy Butts”
@itschristmastown.bsky.social it’s an ugly arcade, a bug arcade
“The only good bug is a dead bug”
1997 SEGA Pinball Starship Troopers pinball machine with a Color DMD.
The game is pretty uncommon to see on location. No official production numbers exist but I’ve seen estimates of 1,500 units online.
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#starshiptroopers #sega #pinball #arcade #90s
1997 SEGA Pinball Starship Troopers pinball machine with a Color DMD.
The game is pretty uncommon to see on location. No official production numbers exist but I’ve seen estimates of 1,500 units online.
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#starshiptroopers #sega #pinball #arcade #90s
January 9, 2026 at 2:23 PM
@itschristmastown.bsky.social it’s an ugly arcade, a bug arcade
at this point I lack the temerity for hard psychedelics, so if this doesn’t fix or at least defrag me I’m out of ideas
January 9, 2026 at 1:23 PM
at this point I lack the temerity for hard psychedelics, so if this doesn’t fix or at least defrag me I’m out of ideas
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New podcast: Rescue on Fractalus!
Leon, Chris O’Regan, Chris Worthington and Jesse clamber aboard their Valkyrie-class rescue ships to see if, 40 years on, there’s anything worthy of note that remains.
Beware of Jaggis in disguise.
Available now from your podcast provider/RSS feed/Spotify.
Leon, Chris O’Regan, Chris Worthington and Jesse clamber aboard their Valkyrie-class rescue ships to see if, 40 years on, there’s anything worthy of note that remains.
Beware of Jaggis in disguise.
Available now from your podcast provider/RSS feed/Spotify.
Rescue on Fractalus! - The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast
One of the first games out of Lucasfilm's freshly-formed games studio, Rescue on Fractalus! was - if nothing else - a technical tour de force in its day.
caneandrinse.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
New podcast: Rescue on Fractalus!
Leon, Chris O’Regan, Chris Worthington and Jesse clamber aboard their Valkyrie-class rescue ships to see if, 40 years on, there’s anything worthy of note that remains.
Beware of Jaggis in disguise.
Available now from your podcast provider/RSS feed/Spotify.
Leon, Chris O’Regan, Chris Worthington and Jesse clamber aboard their Valkyrie-class rescue ships to see if, 40 years on, there’s anything worthy of note that remains.
Beware of Jaggis in disguise.
Available now from your podcast provider/RSS feed/Spotify.
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it’s so funny that they tried to turn him into Horst Wessel and have an American Reichstag Fire and instead he ended up like fucking Harambe the monkey where it’s all memes about him dying lol lmao
January 7, 2026 at 12:00 PM
it’s so funny that they tried to turn him into Horst Wessel and have an American Reichstag Fire and instead he ended up like fucking Harambe the monkey where it’s all memes about him dying lol lmao
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The ideal post is like a Magic Eye, hard to decipher, makes you assume a stupid expression while looking at it, possibly nothing or a dolphin
January 7, 2026 at 3:56 AM
The ideal post is like a Magic Eye, hard to decipher, makes you assume a stupid expression while looking at it, possibly nothing or a dolphin
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"is this the game you want to be playing?" is the perfect question to ask yourself. holy shit thank you for putting this into my brain, excellent episode
I needed to start the new year with this conversation with the remarkable philosopher C. Thi Nguyen (@add-hawk.bsky.social) about scoring systems; outsourcing values; and the game that you — and me — shouldn't be playing: youtu.be/7AdbePyGS2M?...
Why Data Doesn't Always Win, with a Philosopher of Art | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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January 6, 2026 at 7:11 PM
"is this the game you want to be playing?" is the perfect question to ask yourself. holy shit thank you for putting this into my brain, excellent episode
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For Epiphany, this glorious 1966 illustration of the Three Kings by the great Eyvind Earle (1916 - 2000), best remembered for his enormous contribution to Disney Animation's visual style during the 1950s, particularly Sleeping Beauty (1959).
January 6, 2026 at 6:45 PM
For Epiphany, this glorious 1966 illustration of the Three Kings by the great Eyvind Earle (1916 - 2000), best remembered for his enormous contribution to Disney Animation's visual style during the 1950s, particularly Sleeping Beauty (1959).
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join us 2/19 for our first ever lecture series event, featuring @ellaguro.bsky.social: "What Doth Videogame? A personal history of art and life in the age of collapse."
following the talk will be a listening party for liz's new album, Saint Elizabeth!
rsvp here: www.eventbrite.com/e/boshis-lec...
following the talk will be a listening party for liz's new album, Saint Elizabeth!
rsvp here: www.eventbrite.com/e/boshis-lec...
January 6, 2026 at 3:26 PM
join us 2/19 for our first ever lecture series event, featuring @ellaguro.bsky.social: "What Doth Videogame? A personal history of art and life in the age of collapse."
following the talk will be a listening party for liz's new album, Saint Elizabeth!
rsvp here: www.eventbrite.com/e/boshis-lec...
following the talk will be a listening party for liz's new album, Saint Elizabeth!
rsvp here: www.eventbrite.com/e/boshis-lec...
@adambonin.bsky.social Cleaning my apartment, and…do you have any recollection why I would have gotten this? ‘Cause I sure don’t.
January 5, 2026 at 4:31 PM
@adambonin.bsky.social Cleaning my apartment, and…do you have any recollection why I would have gotten this? ‘Cause I sure don’t.
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GREAT news we have added a new column to the chessboard and a new piece that can move any direction within a 4-square area called The Drunk
January 5, 2026 at 6:08 AM
GREAT news we have added a new column to the chessboard and a new piece that can move any direction within a 4-square area called The Drunk
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RIP Loren Carpenter (1947-2025), who I just learned passed away on December 21 at the age of 78. He worked for the Lucasfilm Computer Graphics Division (where he helped create the Genesis effect for Star Trek 2, and Rescue on Fractalus!). He co-created RenderMan and was chief scientist of Pixar. 🤯
January 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
RIP Loren Carpenter (1947-2025), who I just learned passed away on December 21 at the age of 78. He worked for the Lucasfilm Computer Graphics Division (where he helped create the Genesis effect for Star Trek 2, and Rescue on Fractalus!). He co-created RenderMan and was chief scientist of Pixar. 🤯
I am organizing my bookshelves right now and, given my demographic life expectancy, there’s a pretty good argument against me ever needing to acquire another book again
I think a big issue with content slop evolving in general is that I am already in a place where I’m not going to get caught up with every game in my Steam library and every movie and tv show I have on various watch later lists. Like who the fuck is going to pay real life money for an AI movie
January 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I am organizing my bookshelves right now and, given my demographic life expectancy, there’s a pretty good argument against me ever needing to acquire another book again
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This is a very good statement by TNN.
We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times.
Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.
Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.
January 5, 2026 at 12:46 PM
This is a very good statement by TNN.
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Day 5
Donner Party - Donner Party (1988)
This indie/post punk album is so rare that the person who submitted it (thanks again @jessefuchs.bsky.social) sent me a dropbox with all the tracks on it. And what a treat!
Wonderfully ahead of its time, jangly, funny, dark.
Loved it
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Donner Party - Donner Party (1988)
This indie/post punk album is so rare that the person who submitted it (thanks again @jessefuchs.bsky.social) sent me a dropbox with all the tracks on it. And what a treat!
Wonderfully ahead of its time, jangly, funny, dark.
Loved it
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
January 5, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Day 5
Donner Party - Donner Party (1988)
This indie/post punk album is so rare that the person who submitted it (thanks again @jessefuchs.bsky.social) sent me a dropbox with all the tracks on it. And what a treat!
Wonderfully ahead of its time, jangly, funny, dark.
Loved it
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Donner Party - Donner Party (1988)
This indie/post punk album is so rare that the person who submitted it (thanks again @jessefuchs.bsky.social) sent me a dropbox with all the tracks on it. And what a treat!
Wonderfully ahead of its time, jangly, funny, dark.
Loved it
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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It’s like, people with schizophrenia become fixated on a tv show or celebrity or, you know, whatever, because they become convinced that someone is trying to communicate with them. Now we have a computer program that says “I am trying to communicate with you, Colin!”
January 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
It’s like, people with schizophrenia become fixated on a tv show or celebrity or, you know, whatever, because they become convinced that someone is trying to communicate with them. Now we have a computer program that says “I am trying to communicate with you, Colin!”
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I also think this is very hard to address without totally nerfing them because these very same people happen to be extremely talented at shaping the LLM output into whatever they want to believe the computer is telling them.
January 4, 2026 at 6:17 PM
I also think this is very hard to address without totally nerfing them because these very same people happen to be extremely talented at shaping the LLM output into whatever they want to believe the computer is telling them.
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I don’t think that ChatGPT is turning people into murderers or inducing psychosis per se but I do think that LLMs have straightforward non-mystical properties which make them very attractive and potentially dangerous in some ways for people with obsessive or psychotic tendencies.
January 4, 2026 at 6:15 PM
I don’t think that ChatGPT is turning people into murderers or inducing psychosis per se but I do think that LLMs have straightforward non-mystical properties which make them very attractive and potentially dangerous in some ways for people with obsessive or psychotic tendencies.
look, I’m not a big Omega Point guy or anything, but this seems a little unfair
January 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM
look, I’m not a big Omega Point guy or anything, but this seems a little unfair
luckily, our country has a great track record when it comes to regulating arguably-more-harmful-than-useful devices that regularly seem to induce psychosis in their users, so all 50 states will surely introduce some sort of LLM-usage licensing requirement by, I dunno, 2080
January 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
luckily, our country has a great track record when it comes to regulating arguably-more-harmful-than-useful devices that regularly seem to induce psychosis in their users, so all 50 states will surely introduce some sort of LLM-usage licensing requirement by, I dunno, 2080
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Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*
January 3, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*
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It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
This feels like an opportune time to admit that I watched The Wizard Of Oz for the first time yesterday. It was very good.
January 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
This feels like an opportune time to admit that I watched The Wizard Of Oz for the first time yesterday. It was very good.
uh, good morning, rise and grind let’s get that bread
The Man Don't Give a Fuck (2016 Remaster)
YouTube video by Super Furry Animals - Topic
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January 3, 2026 at 1:14 PM
uh, good morning, rise and grind let’s get that bread
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We also have an inappropriate metaphor for human intelligence, where a similar model occurs. If memory serves me well, Gerald Edelman called this the "homunculus" theory of consciousness. (See "Bright Air, Brilliant fire.") We need to discard the homunculus theory of human intelligence; that will >
Because the unspoken belief is that there is a little omniscient man inside the computer who has an exact 1:1 up to date replica of the universe in there with him, and even non-technical people should be able to see how that is completely impossible
January 2, 2026 at 4:45 PM
We also have an inappropriate metaphor for human intelligence, where a similar model occurs. If memory serves me well, Gerald Edelman called this the "homunculus" theory of consciousness. (See "Bright Air, Brilliant fire.") We need to discard the homunculus theory of human intelligence; that will >