The complete #METATOPIA Panel, Seminar & Workshop is now posted!

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normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

Oh this is a GOOD interview and starts off STRONG

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

If you hate your users, it's okay to just quit.

GOOD NEWS! the PAX Together Demo Days Program has found funding and is returning to PAX Unplugged 2025!

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EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!

reactormag.com/reading-rain...

"fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist, Thiel said"

what the fuck

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

Some modifications that I think makes it more reasonable. You don't have infinite maneuvers, you have 12, and they're tiered in different points and usage amounts.

For more than a year I’ve spoken with Scattered Spider “caller” Noah Urban from a Florida jail. I wanted to know how they chose victims, their methods and how Noah became entangled in a virtually and physically violent world.

We’re publishing his story today: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Basically going through every larp I've played in the last 5 years and finding a list of generic effects. "Duration" and "Range" are defaulted, everything can be modified. I'm liking this so far.

I'm drafting up some new larp rules. This is the same larp where I've rewritten combat rules a dozen times now, and this one seems like a possible winner. I've got the non-combat rules down pretty solid (items, exploring, research, etc etc) and combat isn't a big focus, but this is a good balance.

is this good

The reaction to Kirk’s death by liberals truly shows how incapable they are of understanding that structural violence in the form of harassment, promoting laws, spewing hateful rhetoric, and making hit list very literally KILLS PEOPLE, and in high numbers. Kirk was a killer of hundreds to thousands

"Jezebel paid Etsy witches to hex Charlie Kirk and then he got shot in Utah" is an insane sentence

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc.

www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...

CEO during huddle: this is a safe space
Man I hate: *snickers*
Me: I can make it an unsafe space

Gen Z in Nepal burned down the parliament, burned down the homes of government officials, forced the prime minister to resign, and paraded the finance minister through the streets nearly naked.

The Golden Cobra Challenge 2025 is NOW LIVE!

Get your gamesss in by October 13th!

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obviously what Trump wants to do is horrifying but Republicans losing the NRA over trans people is genuinely one of the funniest possible political outcomes

Relevant.

What we RRALLY should be doing is having hot swappable batteries. Pull into a gas station, the battery is removed and replaced with another one, and you drive off while the old battery charges for someone in an hour. (Issues with verifying battery integrity, weight of batteries, etc, but not bad)