EDMalachai
@edmalachai.bsky.social
RPG nerd, general debauchery, lover of those who punch Nazis. He/Him
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WGAE confirms all union members of Polygon were fired as part of the sale to Valnet.
May 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
WGAE confirms all union members of Polygon were fired as part of the sale to Valnet.
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February 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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the point of this is that it is stupid as fuck. and every Republican will still vote for it. the rank stupidity is a flex, an exultation of their absolute power over the party.
Of all the dumbfuckery you’ll see today, none of it will come even close to this.
February 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
the point of this is that it is stupid as fuck. and every Republican will still vote for it. the rank stupidity is a flex, an exultation of their absolute power over the party.
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Tech has stopped being about helping YOU do things - it's now a means for management consultants to use software to penetrate/monetize every aspect of our lives, all while expressing growth to the markets. This is the growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy.
www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
![Technology has, in many ways, stopped being about "using technology to help people do things," or at the very least "help the user do something that they want to do." Software has, as Marc Andreessen said it would in 2011, eaten the world, and has done so in the nakedly-cynical and usurious way that he wanted it to, prioritizing the invasion of our lives through prioritizing growth - and the collection of as much data as possible on the user — over any particular utility or purpose. Andreessen and his ilk saw (and see) software not as a thing that provides value, but as a means for the tech industry to penetrate and "disrupt" as many industries as possible, pushing legacy providers to "transform themselves into software companies" rather than using software to make their products better, describing Pixar — the studio that made movies like Toy Story and Inside Out that was acquired by Disney in 2006 — as a software company rather than a company that makes something using software.
I realize this sounds like semantics, but let me put it another way: software has, for the tech industry, become far more about extracting economic value than it has in providing it. When the tech industry becomes focused on penetrating markets (to quote Andreessen, "software companies....[taking] over large swathes of the economy") there's little consideration of whether said software is prioritizing the solution to a problem.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreibl6gxgkyia3qs3bowropqrlhy2wgtd3edgxcves7mwns47ngprvq@jpeg)
February 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Tech has stopped being about helping YOU do things - it's now a means for management consultants to use software to penetrate/monetize every aspect of our lives, all while expressing growth to the markets. This is the growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy.
www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
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literally just ethnic cleansing www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Live briefing: Trump says Palestinians displaced under U.S. proposal would not return
President Donald Trump said to think of Gaza “as a big real estate site,” adding that he may allow other states in the Middle East to help develop parts of it.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
literally just ethnic cleansing www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Googles response basically being “it’s not making things up, it’s just incapable of telling facts from made up bullshit” would have destroyed a product in the days before the economy was propped up by a thin framework of scams lashed together with investment capital
February 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Googles response basically being “it’s not making things up, it’s just incapable of telling facts from made up bullshit” would have destroyed a product in the days before the economy was propped up by a thin framework of scams lashed together with investment capital
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This is genuinely an important article. The two main lessons from Hungary appear to be:
DO NOT WAIT
DO NOT UNDERREACT
Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window.
www.vox.com/politics/398...
DO NOT WAIT
DO NOT UNDERREACT
Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window.
www.vox.com/politics/398...
February 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is genuinely an important article. The two main lessons from Hungary appear to be:
DO NOT WAIT
DO NOT UNDERREACT
Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window.
www.vox.com/politics/398...
DO NOT WAIT
DO NOT UNDERREACT
Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window.
www.vox.com/politics/398...
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yeah i’m not flying for a while.
February 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
yeah i’m not flying for a while.
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there is little need to map out the ideology as it is personally imagined, its weirdness or inconsistencies or hypocrisies; the material point is to create so much misery and fear that they can present themselves, with their hordes of plundered resources, as the only viable path forward
February 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
there is little need to map out the ideology as it is personally imagined, its weirdness or inconsistencies or hypocrisies; the material point is to create so much misery and fear that they can present themselves, with their hordes of plundered resources, as the only viable path forward
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Bravo to Sen. Alsobrooks for her question.
“We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule as Whites because their immune system is better than ours.” — RFK Jr
This is the deadlier version of the racist myth that Black people feel less pain, leading to denied pain meds.
“We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule as Whites because their immune system is better than ours.” — RFK Jr
This is the deadlier version of the racist myth that Black people feel less pain, leading to denied pain meds.
January 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Bravo to Sen. Alsobrooks for her question.
“We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule as Whites because their immune system is better than ours.” — RFK Jr
This is the deadlier version of the racist myth that Black people feel less pain, leading to denied pain meds.
“We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule as Whites because their immune system is better than ours.” — RFK Jr
This is the deadlier version of the racist myth that Black people feel less pain, leading to denied pain meds.
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Don’t quit your hobbies even if you never make any money with them. The joy you get from writing songs because they’re inside you is worth experiencing even if you never get onstage.
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Don’t quit your hobbies even if you never make any money with them. The joy you get from writing songs because they’re inside you is worth experiencing even if you never get onstage.
@iwriteok.bsky.social Posting here as a sort of Hail Mary. I'm wanting to write a research report on The Business Plot, and was wondering if you could point me in the right direction in regards to sourcing I could use to get my college professor to sign off on allowing it as a subject.
January 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
@iwriteok.bsky.social Posting here as a sort of Hail Mary. I'm wanting to write a research report on The Business Plot, and was wondering if you could point me in the right direction in regards to sourcing I could use to get my college professor to sign off on allowing it as a subject.
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Hey, it only took Trump 9 days to announce his first concentration camp of the new administration.
Trump announces an executive order authorizing a 30,000 capacity migrant detention center in Guantanamo.
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."
January 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Hey, it only took Trump 9 days to announce his first concentration camp of the new administration.
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welp I was part of the layoffs at Phoenix Labs today, if you’re looking for a concept artist for your cool project please get in touch! ✨
ArtStation: www.artstation.com/thatkimparker
Portfolio site: kimberlyparker.ca
ArtStation: www.artstation.com/thatkimparker
Portfolio site: kimberlyparker.ca
Kimberly Parker
Concept Artist at Phoenix Labs
www.artstation.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
welp I was part of the layoffs at Phoenix Labs today, if you’re looking for a concept artist for your cool project please get in touch! ✨
ArtStation: www.artstation.com/thatkimparker
Portfolio site: kimberlyparker.ca
ArtStation: www.artstation.com/thatkimparker
Portfolio site: kimberlyparker.ca
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me 15 minutes after the edible hits
January 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
me 15 minutes after the edible hits
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SUBSTACK and NEWSLETTER WRITERS: please check your subscribers for the email addresses
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These are email addresses that your colleagues can use to report you or track you for DEI activity. (via @jessicavalenti.bsky.social)
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These are email addresses that your colleagues can use to report you or track you for DEI activity. (via @jessicavalenti.bsky.social)
January 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
SUBSTACK and NEWSLETTER WRITERS: please check your subscribers for the email addresses
[email protected] a
[email protected].
These are email addresses that your colleagues can use to report you or track you for DEI activity. (via @jessicavalenti.bsky.social)
[email protected] a
[email protected].
These are email addresses that your colleagues can use to report you or track you for DEI activity. (via @jessicavalenti.bsky.social)
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Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge).
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
January 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge).
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
An RPG from one of my favorite creators?? Y'all should check this out. Austin Walker and co are on a whole other level
An Ashcan release of Realis, the TTRPG that I've been working on (and off and on) for the last four years is now available for preorder! thecalcutec.itch.io/realis
Realis (Ashcan Edition) by Austin Walker
A TTRPG of moon-hopping adventure, arcane discovery, fatal conflict, & meditations on the changing nature of the self.
thecalcutec.itch.io
January 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
An RPG from one of my favorite creators?? Y'all should check this out. Austin Walker and co are on a whole other level
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Being a bonfire of hope for others often means you get consumed while they get warmth.
Make sure you know where to get your own fuel.
Make sure you know where to get your own fuel.
January 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Being a bonfire of hope for others often means you get consumed while they get warmth.
Make sure you know where to get your own fuel.
Make sure you know where to get your own fuel.
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Your mental health is paramount. Protect it. Remove yourself from negative stimulus if you're having trouble coping. It's completely reasonable to be outraged, freaked out, and anxious, but take a break. Take care of yourself.
January 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Your mental health is paramount. Protect it. Remove yourself from negative stimulus if you're having trouble coping. It's completely reasonable to be outraged, freaked out, and anxious, but take a break. Take care of yourself.
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average liberal: hohoho, methinks president cheeto is in for a rude surprise when these orders hit the courts 😏
average judge: i love hitler
average judge: i love hitler
January 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
average liberal: hohoho, methinks president cheeto is in for a rude surprise when these orders hit the courts 😏
average judge: i love hitler
average judge: i love hitler
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it's pretty funny that the end result of longtermism is the wholesale destruction of scientific progress
January 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
it's pretty funny that the end result of longtermism is the wholesale destruction of scientific progress
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Google auto opted in *every* paying Google Workspace user to Gemini. Also adding a nice increase in price, even though no one opted into it.
You cannot turn off / opt out.
Except... if you open a support ticket.
Only then does Google enable the setting to turn it off!
I did:
You cannot turn off / opt out.
Except... if you open a support ticket.
Only then does Google enable the setting to turn it off!
I did:
January 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Google auto opted in *every* paying Google Workspace user to Gemini. Also adding a nice increase in price, even though no one opted into it.
You cannot turn off / opt out.
Except... if you open a support ticket.
Only then does Google enable the setting to turn it off!
I did:
You cannot turn off / opt out.
Except... if you open a support ticket.
Only then does Google enable the setting to turn it off!
I did: