JK
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· Apr 28
Arizona Public Service killed my mother
www.APSKilledMyMom.com
I put together a proper website
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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.
Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com
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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.
Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com
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AND:
90% of the people I have talked personal gaming histories with absolutely have deep, fond memories of "playing the promise" of (D&D / Vampire / etc), and also either drifting the rules VAST distances or getting annoyed at the rules failure to fulfill that promise.
90% of the people I have talked personal gaming histories with absolutely have deep, fond memories of "playing the promise" of (D&D / Vampire / etc), and also either drifting the rules VAST distances or getting annoyed at the rules failure to fulfill that promise.
I am circling around a thing today, and I swear I'm gonna catch it. Lunging again:
Groups play some mix of the text of the game and their own view of the *promise* of the game, and the further you are into playing the promise, the less the details of the text matter.
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Groups play some mix of the text of the game and their own view of the *promise* of the game, and the further you are into playing the promise, the less the details of the text matter.
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February 15, 2026 at 9:05 PM
AND:
90% of the people I have talked personal gaming histories with absolutely have deep, fond memories of "playing the promise" of (D&D / Vampire / etc), and also either drifting the rules VAST distances or getting annoyed at the rules failure to fulfill that promise.
90% of the people I have talked personal gaming histories with absolutely have deep, fond memories of "playing the promise" of (D&D / Vampire / etc), and also either drifting the rules VAST distances or getting annoyed at the rules failure to fulfill that promise.
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I don't think I should have to care about someone named Clavicular, I just don't think that's something that should concern me as a political writer. It should not have to matter to me
February 15, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I don't think I should have to care about someone named Clavicular, I just don't think that's something that should concern me as a political writer. It should not have to matter to me
Goddammit, Donut.
A friend recommended the audiobook, and I’m now midway through the first ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’. It turns out to be the good version of ‘Ready Player One’ — massively contrived geekiness, but with a point, interrogating the tropes even more than it revels in them.
A friend recommended the audiobook, and I’m now midway through the first ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’. It turns out to be the good version of ‘Ready Player One’ — massively contrived geekiness, but with a point, interrogating the tropes even more than it revels in them.
February 15, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Goddammit, Donut.
A friend recommended the audiobook, and I’m now midway through the first ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’. It turns out to be the good version of ‘Ready Player One’ — massively contrived geekiness, but with a point, interrogating the tropes even more than it revels in them.
A friend recommended the audiobook, and I’m now midway through the first ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’. It turns out to be the good version of ‘Ready Player One’ — massively contrived geekiness, but with a point, interrogating the tropes even more than it revels in them.
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The English Scots and Irish with their long history of getting along as one people
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The English Scots and Irish with their long history of getting along as one people
Thread about financial instability, administrative burden, and many other costs-of-being-poor that extend to almost everyone
Going from what I thought was middle class (every American thinks they're middle class lol, but middle class isn't a number, it's an ability to afford basic needs like housing, healthcare, food, transport, comfortably without going into debt) to what is ACTUALLY middle class has been wild wake up
February 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Thread about financial instability, administrative burden, and many other costs-of-being-poor that extend to almost everyone
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4e annoys because it doesn't pretend that it's fighting-adventure rules are anything else and expects you to use rules as written. By not lying about itself, it fucks up the normal D&D process of pretending that it's good for other things, which pretence is *self-fulfilling* via quiet rulings.
February 15, 2026 at 5:09 AM
4e annoys because it doesn't pretend that it's fighting-adventure rules are anything else and expects you to use rules as written. By not lying about itself, it fucks up the normal D&D process of pretending that it's good for other things, which pretence is *self-fulfilling* via quiet rulings.
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Star Wars is characterized by a millennia-long stagnant (only innovation is in weapons) galactic political economy fraught with oppression, lawlessness (think of the crime syndicates), and inequality. A major theme is hope in spite of this time-cyclical world.
Still waiting for @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com’s inevitable magnum opus “Star Wars Liberalism” piece at @liberalcurrents.com
July 3, 2023 at 9:26 PM
Star Wars is characterized by a millennia-long stagnant (only innovation is in weapons) galactic political economy fraught with oppression, lawlessness (think of the crime syndicates), and inequality. A major theme is hope in spite of this time-cyclical world.
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February 15, 2026 at 3:43 AM
It is very unnerving to see lefties making bad rhetorical moves with antisemitism which they would disdain as failures at Social Justice 101 in any other domain
Misogyny exists in leftist spaces. Antiblackness exists in leftist spaces. LOTS of pushback when pointing out that antisemitism, too, exists in leftist spaces. Which is itself interesting.
February 15, 2026 at 2:02 AM
It is very unnerving to see lefties making bad rhetorical moves with antisemitism which they would disdain as failures at Social Justice 101 in any other domain
Having read a lot of white nationalist nonsense about the horrors of immigration, I find myself thinking of their contention that immigration is bad because brown people do not understand Western “high trust society”
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Having read a lot of white nationalist nonsense about the horrors of immigration, I find myself thinking of their contention that immigration is bad because brown people do not understand Western “high trust society”
It’s almost as if “AI” has been inserted into a credibility-washing process which already existed
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 12:32 AM
It’s almost as if “AI” has been inserted into a credibility-washing process which already existed
An exaggeration, but not by much
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The broad cross racial, cross age, cross class appeal of RFK junior is why Ds lost. And I am going to post this every single time I see somebody post ‘thanks Dearborn.’
February 14, 2026 at 8:46 PM
An exaggeration, but not by much
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I may say more later but part of what some of us need to understand is that the right has built an entirely distinct civic society, with its own hierarchy and (mostly networked) cultural institutions. That includes celebrity.
“The convergence of influencer culture and venture capital is part of a broader shift reshaping America’s institutions.”
Jake Paul may have gotten his jaw broken on Netflix, but he and his $65 million fortune are laughing their way into Silicon Valley boardrooms | Fortune
“We’re going to do amazing things in 2026,” said Steve Han, a partner at Paul's Anti Fund, told Fortune. “And then hopefully we'll show it over YouTube.”
fortune.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I may say more later but part of what some of us need to understand is that the right has built an entirely distinct civic society, with its own hierarchy and (mostly networked) cultural institutions. That includes celebrity.
A good observation which explains much of why anti-Stancil-ism and anti-anti-Stancil-ism are at war in my heart
It occurs to me that Stancil’s lack of familiarity with organizing traditions is a thread running through a lot of seemingly disparate elements of his lore.
February 14, 2026 at 6:23 PM
A good observation which explains much of why anti-Stancil-ism and anti-anti-Stancil-ism are at war in my heart
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I remember when we were 12-18 months out from AI white collar job automation, 12-18 months ago.
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.
Microsoft AI CEO predicts 'most, if not all' white-collar tasks will be automated by AI within 18 months
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.
www.businessinsider.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:21 AM
I remember when we were 12-18 months out from AI white collar job automation, 12-18 months ago.
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GCU A Perfect Storm of Risk Factors
February 14, 2026 at 5:17 PM
GCU A Perfect Storm of Risk Factors
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Would it not in that case
Be simpler for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
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— Bertolt Brecht
Would it not in that case
Be simpler for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
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— Bertolt Brecht
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Would it not in that case
Be simpler for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
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— Bertolt Brecht
Would it not in that case
Be simpler for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
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— Bertolt Brecht
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It seems like doublethink is the most obvious explanation for what’s happening: The models seem to hold two contradictory beliefs without noticing the difference.
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It seems like doublethink is the most obvious explanation for what’s happening: The models seem to hold two contradictory beliefs without noticing the difference.
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February 14, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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It seems like doublethink is the most obvious explanation for what’s happening: The models seem to hold two contradictory beliefs without noticing the difference.
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It seems like doublethink is the most obvious explanation for what’s happening: The models seem to hold two contradictory beliefs without noticing the difference.
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got in an argument with this khaki wearing guy who had his pristine f150 parked all the way across a sidewalk (?) and in the course of the argument i asked ‘do you do a lot of backcountry driving in that thing’ and it upset him so bad he had to lock himself in his truck lmao
February 14, 2026 at 4:38 PM
got in an argument with this khaki wearing guy who had his pristine f150 parked all the way across a sidewalk (?) and in the course of the argument i asked ‘do you do a lot of backcountry driving in that thing’ and it upset him so bad he had to lock himself in his truck lmao
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
There’s a bit in ‘The West Wing’ where President Bartlett is doing a photo op thing with some little kids. One of them asks him “what is the best part of being President?” and he replies “I’m doing it right now”.
Mamdani evidently loves every part of the job.
Mamdani evidently loves every part of the job.
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
February 14, 2026 at 4:48 PM
There’s a bit in ‘The West Wing’ where President Bartlett is doing a photo op thing with some little kids. One of them asks him “what is the best part of being President?” and he replies “I’m doing it right now”.
Mamdani evidently loves every part of the job.
Mamdani evidently loves every part of the job.
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We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 AM
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
