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https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · Aug 29
This is what I've been working on all summer. It's my first book, called Escape Velocity: Explorations of Digital Culture and its Discontents 2019-2024. It's partially a retrospective of my time doing No Escape but it also features multiple revisions of old work and five entirely new essays.
A black and white photograph taken in-game in Starfield of a heavily armed security guard. Above their face, a screenshot from twitter: "Readers added context: What the fuck? Show this note." At the bottom of the image: Escape Velocity: Explorations of Digital Culture and its Discontents 2019-2024, by Kaile Hultner
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airbudddwyer.bsky.social
[Wesley Willis voice]
scoutprime.bsky.social Scoutprime @scoutprime.bsky.social · 13h
LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
February 7, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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jonbois.bsky.social
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JON REPORTS IT IS “COLD AS BALLS” OUTSIDE Bluesky personality also describes weather as “colder than balls” NEW YORK – Jon Bois (@jonbois.bsky.social) released the following statement Saturday afternoon at approximately 1:30 p.m. local time: “It’s cold as balls outside today. It’s supposed to get even colder, too.” Minutes later, Bois issued a second statement: “It’s colder than balls out there. You really gotta bundle up, because it’s as cold as balls out there.” Media Contact: Jon Bois (operator, @jonbois.bsky.social Bluesky account) ###
February 7, 2026 at 6:37 PM
noescapevg.com
What this whole "Anti-AI is ableism because..." thing sounds like: "I can't stand the thought that something I do won't be perfect from the very beginning and if I am forced to be embarrassed by my lack of skill at something I'll be sad for a while"
February 7, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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I haven't seen much criticism on Mouthwashing, and of the stuff I have seen I have always kinda felt like folks were slightly missing the point on certain aspects of it. But this video is the first one to just sort of clearly lay out that the game is about rape culture

youtu.be/_YA3xvwXBv4?...
Mouthwashing and Men Who Hate Women
YouTube video by Westside Tyler
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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saraalfageeh.bsky.social
Job offer!!
I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July.

This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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michaelklamerus.bsky.social
My latest indie game roundup featuring experimental tabletop and video games, and just other games that I thought were cool

virtualmoose.org/2026/02/06/i...
low res first person view of a piano conversation with people with one saying "Game Over Babe!" another panel saying "After too many letdowns," and a man saying "You are fired!" and a guy saying "where's my taco shop!?" and a final panel with text saying "Fed up with U corp-like power, Clark enlisted in R.A.B.I.T.: Rebels Against Big Tech" low res black and white image of a pinball table isometric view of a guy fighting a green monster in a dungeon
February 6, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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I've played a lot of Harvestella in the past two weeks, and while I'm at that point of the end of the game where you spend a lot of time navigating mazes with really powerful enemies everywhere, I've played enough to review it. Tomorrow: my review of Harvestella at No Escape.
An image of Harvestella's player-character, default name of Ein, staring at a giant glowing red crystal on the distant horizon called a "Seaslight." In the top left corner is an objective reminder to Head to Lethe Village, and in the top right is a minimap.
February 7, 2026 at 1:34 AM
noescapevg.com
Found the guy who's doing that billionaire's march this weekend in SF lmfao

www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
Billionaires march leader ID'd, says effort sincere
Startup founder not billionaire, but supports them.
www.sfexaminer.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:46 PM
noescapevg.com
man you could hold a gun to my head and I wouldn't say something as stupid as "indigenous people were genocided so thoroughly not even their recipes remain" like I couldn't travel between 15 and 100 miles in literally any direction and find some folks cooking off traditional recipes
February 6, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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lilianasegura.bsky.social
Really feeling this today.
lilianasegura.bsky.social Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · Dec 4
I understand why people see this episode as a "mask-off" moment but this is a man who rose to political prominence by demanding Obama's birth certificate. His whole time in public life has been an extended mask-off moment and it is genuinely crazymaking to go through this again and again.
February 6, 2026 at 9:15 PM
noescapevg.com
It's fascinating to watch reps from one union tell a rep from another union that the reason they're not interested in establishing a network of solidarity is that the people union rep B is actively organizing aren't interested in organizing
February 6, 2026 at 9:14 PM
noescapevg.com
I feel like it was completely glossed over that Another Eden is getting the Octopath 0 treatment yesterday

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G41p...
Another Eden Begins Announcement Trailer
YouTube video by WRIGHT FLYER STUDIOS
www.youtube.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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markatoto.com
the kingdom hearts fandom is starving, man. they're just making whatever the fuck up. please feed them they're so fucking hungry
February 6, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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rcmacleod.bsky.social
It's taken me all day to figure out what to say about today's WaPo layoffs, an unnecessary upending of the careers of hundreds of journalists, the paper itself, and the way millions of readers understand our current world
aftermath.site/washington-p...
An outlet with the talent the Post has on hand, with the resources Bezos is able to pour into it, should not be doing layoffs of this scope and scale. Not just because, essentially, it doesn’t need to, but because any decision-maker who’s risen to the position of calling these shots should be smart enough to look at the paper and recognize that the value of the thing they have comes from its abundance: the various desks and experts and coverage areas that all work together to make the paper what it is. A lesser paper is not going to win more subscribers or bring the company more money. A narrow focus on a particular conception of politics, at a time when Trump and his ilk are using every avenue possible–the arts, the environment, healthcare, sports, and more–to foster their agenda will not serve readers or stand up to power. It’s just going to make the Post’s coverage worse, and its staff more overworked and unhappy, and the paper less relevant to readers who need a robust free press. Maybe this is what Bezos wants. It’s certainly what Trump and his administration want. Not just a worse paper, but a worse environment for journalism as a whole, with fewer jobs, less coverage to draw from, a shorter horizon to picture as young journalists imagine what their careers could be. Immiseration is one of the ruling class’ most powerful tools these days, and that feels like the only logic today’s layoffs have. They make the public less informed, and silence current and would-be journalists without the need for lawsuits and insults. Today’s cuts feel like a PR move as much as a corporate one, a reminder of the power of the rich, who can make worse so many lives without having to do anything, without even having to acknowledge it.
February 4, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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noescapevg.com
I want to be able to read a book and know that someone agonized over word choice on a particular page for an afternoon, and to be able to appreciate that turn of phrase. I want to listen to music that friends made, in a studio or a bedroom or down in the fucking creek.
February 6, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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noescapevg.com
I don't want art to be efficient. I don't want to simply have more Content to Consume. I want to be locked in dialogue with a writer, a narrative designer, an artist, a level designer, with people who spent time making shit and having things go right and wrong in the process of making that shit
February 6, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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“I do not want to see communities flooded with the most selfish assholes who can only talk about their own works. We are not their chatbots, so we are in the right to say no to their requests for validation and legitimacy.”
February 6, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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noescapevg.com
Great new piece from @highimpactsex.bsky.social on IFComp’s rule change banning AI works:

mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...
Mimidoshima
LLM Slop Will Make Us Antisocial - Ruminations on IFComp 2025
mimidoshima.neocities.org
February 6, 2026 at 11:07 AM
noescapevg.com
Great new piece from @highimpactsex.bsky.social on IFComp’s rule change banning AI works:

mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...
Mimidoshima
LLM Slop Will Make Us Antisocial - Ruminations on IFComp 2025
mimidoshima.neocities.org
February 6, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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scjre.al
WELP.

I rushed to get clarification from my building manager on this, they're holding the file until next Friday but they said I need to be paid up IN FULL by then or else it's game over.

I'm going to figure out a game plan by then but til then I'm gonna need to cash in some shitterluck tokens now
February 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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jakesteinberg.substack.com
truly feels like the BDS Xbox movement in games press circles specifically has experienced little to no motion in the past 10 months.

Really disappointing and discouraging. Idk why everyone shared that YouTube video if business as usual reemerges the second it needs to.
February 4, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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rmac.bsky.social
While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.

I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
rmac.bsky.social Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2d
Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships.

We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Mingled With Silicon Valley Start-Ups
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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emma-briant.co.uk
Oh. My. God. Chomsky talking about the 'hysteria' that has developed about the abuse of women and giving Epstein advice on how to handle the media. In 2019. The Media studies discipline and much of the left should reflect on the power given to this one flawed man to shape generations of thought.
emily.gorcen.ski Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 7d
Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky
From: Matthew Hiltzik < To: J <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Thoughts from Chomsky Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:34:06 +0000 I think that is wise Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:19 PM, J < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: Ive watched the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public. It's painful to say, but I think the best way to proceed is to ignore it. I've had plenty of experience, though of course not on this scale. A google search will bring up tons of hysterical accusations of all sorts, even groups devoted to vilifying me. I pay no attention, unless I'm approached for a comment on a specific matter. It's a nuisance, but it's the best way. The same conclusions from experiences of others, in some cases close friends. What the vultures dearly want is a public response, which then provides a public opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts -- which are impossible to answer (how do you prove that you are not a neo-Nazi who wants to kill the Jews, or a rapist, or whatever charge comes along?). That's particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder. For virtually everyone who sees any of this, the reaction will be "where there's smoke there's fire, maybe raging fire" (whatever the facts, which few will even think of investigating). In general, it's best I think not to react unless directly questioned, particularly in the current mood -- which, I presume, will fade away, even if not in time to prevent much torture and distress.
January 31, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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I gotta finish Harvestella today because it's hitting the languishing point for me, I think
February 5, 2026 at 3:44 PM
noescapevg.com
"why do you have to post and repost messages about the BDS boycott every time there's a new game announcement or set of trailers"

because there's this weird phenomenon of active forgetting that Microsoft is a tech partner of one of the most heinous crimes against humanity happening on earth today
February 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM