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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 20h

I again repeat my stance that DHS must be dismantled

Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 21h

They still have to have money and a working government to do that though! Blackwater isn't going to just front Donald Trump his own private ICE, no matter what the owners think.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23h

This is huge. Komeito (a Buddhist-backed political party) has long been a crucial part of the governing LDP coalition, carefully managing their differences over military rearmament and social spending. This leaves the LDP short of a majority in both chambers.

The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 1d

BREAKING: Komeito said Friday it plans to leave the ruling camp, parting ways with the LDP and new President Sanae Takaichi after the LDP failed to accept the party’s proposal on political donations.

Komeito announces split with LDP, clouding Takaichi's bid for PM

Komeito’s decision to end the 26-year partnership with the LDP means the ruling party will need to court opposition parties to vote Takaichi in as prime minister.

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Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 23h

I don't know, seems like the Governor of Maine, who has been a politician since 1980, might be interested in becoming a US senator of her own accord, and not because Chuck Schumer is making her do it.

Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting perspective on the EA acquisition.

thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/bonu...

Spare Some Apathy For EA - Bonus Hit Points

Nathan Brown has been thinking a lot about the EA acquisition deal. His advice? Forget about it. Give yourself a little apathy, as a treat.

thisweekinvideogames.com

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Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing this reminded me that organized Tennis just ... gave up on Peng Shuai, and by extension women's (or players!) rights in China, because "it was expensive". It's no wonder they're still not protecting the players, they already said they don't care.

Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 1d

When tennis becomes a metaphor for all life on Earth.
www.wsj.com/sports/tenni...

‘Do You Want a Player to Die?’ Tennis Feels the Heat Over Extreme Conditions

Sweltering temperatures in China have pushed the sport’s stars to the limit, leaving them cramping, throwing up on court and sweating through four pairs of sneakers

www.wsj.com

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Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 1d

Trump never recovered or moved on from those last 2 weeks of the first term - he's still holed up in the right wing media cocoon and abdicating responsibility for almost everything. The main difference today is all the sweatiest losers in America joined up with him, seizing the main chance.

Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me, I want an app that has push notifications for one and only one future event.

Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 1d

I always think of the SNL "wait, did I get him" sketch from May 2017. People want that look at the camera moment.

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Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 1d

I'm excited for this one.

Devolver Digital @devolverdigital.com · 2d

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Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 2d

Just like numerous examples with guns, you can turn the tools against the oppressor, but what you can't do is put the genie back into the bottle. You figure out how to turn it to your own ends or someone else will.

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Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 2d

Once guns were invented, you lived in a gun world. Doesn't mean guns are good or bad but SOMEBODY was gonna use them and you did, in fact, have to adapt to the fact that you lived in a world with guns. And, you know, we know something about those dynamics from history.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

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Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 2d

"She had a garden hose but she did not drink from it and did not allow her kids to drink from it and this was the difference, less in lost things than in knowledge become suspicious and alert." - Don DeLillo, Underworld

Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 2d

There are meaningful discussions to be had about what kind of thing Gen AI is good for in games (textures on background objects 50 pixels wide) and what it should never be used for (narrative and character design). But it can't start with the premise that it's all evil.

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Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly using Gen AI for backgrounds and textures seems like an obvious method for smaller teams to make bigger and better worlds. Making this some kind of litmus test is asking for 3D games to be more expensive to make, which in turn means more centralization at the likes of EA.

Gene Park @gene.meme · 2d

A programmer for Expedition 33 did indeed use generative AI art early as placeholder textures that they missed removing at launch.

This isn’t in my piece, as it wasn’t a good fit and isn’t new information. but it’s worth clarifying

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

‘Expedition 33’ will get a free update as French studio takes victory lap

After selling 5 million copies, breakout hit “Clair Obscur: Expedition 33” is getting new content and a music tour, its small team of developers says.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, this was great.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

If you are looking for an unusual, tense, and oddly beautiful horror movie this Halloween, I highly recommend A Dark Song, should it have escaped your notice before.

Woman facing a doorway with arcane symbols with title A Dark Song and accolades including Outstanding abd An Utterly Unique Film.

Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 2d

Not the main thing but holy shit that White House website is obnoxious. There are bad parodies of Geocities that have more taste and subtlety.

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Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 3d

Seemed likely these parts of the country would hollow out to be replaced by robot-operated farms owned by 2-3 global Ag "Majors" eventually anyway, but there was hope for alternative models, and it would take time to wreck it all. The Trump era turned all the knobs to maximum.

Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 3d

The big new potential sources of income for farmers are renewable energy and various manufacturing projects that depend on immigration and overseas investment. Y'all know about the tariff impact ; and the logic of Capital + Technology was already brutal for "family farms".

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Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 3d

I'm convinced one of the historical verdicts on the Trump era will be the permanent decline of rural America as we know it. You've got the US Taliban crushing women's health across rural america and MAGA budgets wrecking the clinics and hospitals, and those clinics won't come back once they're gone.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 4d

Seriously fuck the Myanmar Junta, attacking a vigil during a festival (and not for the 1st time) in Bon To Village, killing 32 & injuring 50.

The Junta needs to be removed root & branch from Myanmar & the people's of Myanmar desperately need help as the attacks escalate & even more get displaced.

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Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 4d

My best advice for those Mad Online is to get yourself a good DRPG (or even a Persona/SMT), put something like this on, and thank me later.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Af...

slowerpace 音楽 – GUILT 罪悪感

YouTube video by slowerpace 音楽

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 5d

the words every girl wants to hear

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Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 4d

Played Crow Country(2024) as a kind of Halloween appetizer and enjoyed it - it does manage a lovely echo of the classic survival horror subgenre, gets a creepy vibe across despite the lo-fi aesthetic, and the gameplay was just challenging enough - much like Alan Wake 2 in that sense.

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Attract Mode @theetceteras.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes, when Bluesky is forcing you to go touch grass they are doing you a favor ...

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