goose
@goose.haus
they/them, game dev (programmer) by trade, https://goose.haus
this is a good article and i agree with the conceit that water isn't the central issue. what's frustrating is that POWER is. data centers weren't built yesterday and LLM data centers aren't FUNDAMENTALLY different from existing data centers in terms of consumption and e-waste. there is a fantastic
new from me: are data centers going to wipe out water supplies? how much water does ChatGPT really use? and what's going on with that big correction in Empire of AI?
i went long on the conversation around AI and water, and how it's actually about what we want resources to be used for:
i went long on the conversation around AI and water, and how it's actually about what we want resources to be used for:
You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think.
www.wired.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
this is a good article and i agree with the conceit that water isn't the central issue. what's frustrating is that POWER is. data centers weren't built yesterday and LLM data centers aren't FUNDAMENTALLY different from existing data centers in terms of consumption and e-waste. there is a fantastic
i think you should play Elsinore
Best Indie Game of all time but you cannot say Hollow Knight or Stardew Valley
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
i think you should play Elsinore
also they tried to pay workers in socks, in a town where a lot of people make socks
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
also they tried to pay workers in socks, in a town where a lot of people make socks
Lily's latest is both comprehensive and stylish, it grabs the thread of surveillance and tugs, bringing the rest of modern culture with it
Hidden cameras. Surveillance networks. Paranoid delusions.
My new video is about the feeling that you're being watched.
youtu.be/gStjfje6Mq4
My new video is about the feeling that you're being watched.
youtu.be/gStjfje6Mq4
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Lily's latest is both comprehensive and stylish, it grabs the thread of surveillance and tugs, bringing the rest of modern culture with it
i'm gonna reread it, and i invite you to check it out
Jason (and you) should read my piece the California Problem that talks in detail about my feelings on the past, present and future of videogames as an art form ellaguro.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-...
October 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
i'm gonna reread it, and i invite you to check it out
"The problem with the clown concept," one [radical clown] later explained at a DAN meeting, "turned out to be that most Americans do not think of clowns as funny. They think of them as scary. On the other hand, most Americans think the idea of someone beating up a clown is very funny."
It's @ingforart.bsky.social's theory of Antifascist Clowns.
Fash street thugs want to fight to show toughness, but clowns are a step too far. If they win against the clown, the best they can say is they beat up a clown. But if they lose? Even if it's a %1 chance... there's no coming back from that
Fash street thugs want to fight to show toughness, but clowns are a step too far. If they win against the clown, the best they can say is they beat up a clown. But if they lose? Even if it's a %1 chance... there's no coming back from that
The best part of how Portland is handling this is they’re not only protesting, but also angering the goose steppers by not taking them seriously.
Pretty genius. Because even ICE & the national guard don’t want to be displayed as that asshole fighting people in cute costumes.
Pretty genius. Because even ICE & the national guard don’t want to be displayed as that asshole fighting people in cute costumes.
October 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"The problem with the clown concept," one [radical clown] later explained at a DAN meeting, "turned out to be that most Americans do not think of clowns as funny. They think of them as scary. On the other hand, most Americans think the idea of someone beating up a clown is very funny."
i think that approaching a work on its own terms is vital in the sense that i want to have a feel for what i think a work is trying to tell me, i think my taste is going to dictate how i receive the work on that basis i.e "i get it, i just don't like it"
Re: Critical discourse du jour: I'm torn, because on one hand I think having strong personal taste (and being able to defend it eloquently) is core to being a critic, but on the other I think you need to be able to approach games on their own terms is also supremely important for critics.
October 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
i think that approaching a work on its own terms is vital in the sense that i want to have a feel for what i think a work is trying to tell me, i think my taste is going to dictate how i receive the work on that basis i.e "i get it, i just don't like it"
tolstoyposting is back!
As a Christian Anarchist, this gives me the idea to show up to the protest with a giant sign that says "No Kings" and have in very tiny parentheses (except Christ)
god help me I'm back on my bullshit (logged into nextdoor)
October 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
tolstoyposting is back!
i think "isn't for me" is probably more of an expression for "i recognize craft in this thing but i don't have a meaningful reaction to it" for me, but maybe the criticism of politeness still makes sense in that context. maybe "i don't have a reaction to it" ALSO warrants further thought?
100% this, a critical eye, in a lot of cases, comes from taking a gut feeling about a work and putting words to it. leaving it at "it just isn't for me" means you're not exercising that critical muscle out of a misguided politeness.
respectfully: no. develop your own taste, absolutely, but own it. it's fine to think that popular thing is bad. it's fine to not have an opinion too, but i see statements like this one all the time and i just want to push back a bit: there's nothing wrong with having the courage of your convictions.
October 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
i think "isn't for me" is probably more of an expression for "i recognize craft in this thing but i don't have a meaningful reaction to it" for me, but maybe the criticism of politeness still makes sense in that context. maybe "i don't have a reaction to it" ALSO warrants further thought?
i have used this album on road trips twice and have not been thrown out of the vehicle yet
Remembering a conversation I once had with the late great Bryant Frazer:
Me: "You know what the best Blondie cover is?"
Him: "Is it the Alvin and the Chipmunks version of Call Me at half-speed?"
It was.
Me: "You know what the best Blondie cover is?"
Him: "Is it the Alvin and the Chipmunks version of Call Me at half-speed?"
It was.
September 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
i have used this album on road trips twice and have not been thrown out of the vehicle yet
ugh this is so incredibly cool
excited to announce the fourth issue of New Session, the world's premiere telnet-based literary magazine
"Upheaval"
submissions are open today, and close November 7th, for a December release
read the guidelines and theme here: anewsession.com/issue4
"Upheaval"
submissions are open today, and close November 7th, for a December release
read the guidelines and theme here: anewsession.com/issue4
September 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
ugh this is so incredibly cool
there's also a long and proud tradition of divination being fused with artistic practice but imo divination is compelling when it increases or shifts the space of artistic decision-making or when it provokes response from the artist. the system is ALSO usually the product of artistic decision!
the act of curation is an artistic practice so at a minimum, I could be convinced that a human curating a set of prompt generated images is "art", but also, it's art that sucks
August 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
there's also a long and proud tradition of divination being fused with artistic practice but imo divination is compelling when it increases or shifts the space of artistic decision-making or when it provokes response from the artist. the system is ALSO usually the product of artistic decision!
this is a direct consequence of big ball bowling achieving cultural cache over candlepin. big ball perpetuated the illusion of an ordered and boring universe, candlepin embodies the spark of chaos that allows us to see ourselves and others anew as we regularly witness the improbable
bowling is one of those activities many people do for dates with a shared goal of the relationship going well enough they will never need to go bowling again
Everyone kinda likes bowling, but not that much.
August 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
this is a direct consequence of big ball bowling achieving cultural cache over candlepin. big ball perpetuated the illusion of an ordered and boring universe, candlepin embodies the spark of chaos that allows us to see ourselves and others anew as we regularly witness the improbable
i think there's a lot that's just fundamentally backwards in the piece's argument. the right wing patriarchal self help grift is a bait and switch that replaces confidence, community and self improvement by resentment and domination, the goal isn't to reverse that bait and switch, but to pre-empt it
The left is completely silent on the subject of men getting laid - which, generally speaking, they are v.interested in doing and will continue to be interested in regardless of whether progressives want to talk about it. So the stage has been left entirely clear for the far-right.
August 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
i think there's a lot that's just fundamentally backwards in the piece's argument. the right wing patriarchal self help grift is a bait and switch that replaces confidence, community and self improvement by resentment and domination, the goal isn't to reverse that bait and switch, but to pre-empt it
the Liberal overton window ranges from "well we can't/won't address your conditions but we can make you 'safer'" to "we can't/won't address your material conditions but can harm people you don't like" and these are two rhetorical approaches for the same program
The collapse and complicity of such institutions is inevitable because liberalism created a situation where there's pretty much only one locus of power or capacity in society: the state.
Liberals got your institutional monopoly on violence, and this is the only possible result.
Liberals got your institutional monopoly on violence, and this is the only possible result.
July 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
the Liberal overton window ranges from "well we can't/won't address your conditions but we can make you 'safer'" to "we can't/won't address your material conditions but can harm people you don't like" and these are two rhetorical approaches for the same program
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I forget whether I shared the full video I commissioned from @onispumoni.bsky.social but here it is, very important work
July 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I forget whether I shared the full video I commissioned from @onispumoni.bsky.social but here it is, very important work
okay i ran it back, better the second time
July 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
okay i ran it back, better the second time
garlic scape puree and mozzarella
July 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
garlic scape puree and mozzarella
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I am EXTREMELY proud to officially launch New Session's third issue: Adaptations
you can read it on telnet at: `telnet issue3.anewsession.com` or on web at: web.issue3.anewsession.com
you can read it on telnet at: `telnet issue3.anewsession.com` or on web at: web.issue3.anewsession.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I am EXTREMELY proud to officially launch New Session's third issue: Adaptations
you can read it on telnet at: `telnet issue3.anewsession.com` or on web at: web.issue3.anewsession.com
you can read it on telnet at: `telnet issue3.anewsession.com` or on web at: web.issue3.anewsession.com
"i don't believe that personal morality should be grounded on hope that is calculated on the probability that things will work out the way you want them to work out ... we need people who are grounded in the belief in a single humanity, that battles are fought regardless of the calculation that /1
definitely the most annoying thing about this current era is the defeatism. so many people love to argue why there's no point like that's not a suicidal view. now is exactly the right time to be setting things into motion - you have nothing to lose, and people are looking for anything to grasp onto
May 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"i don't believe that personal morality should be grounded on hope that is calculated on the probability that things will work out the way you want them to work out ... we need people who are grounded in the belief in a single humanity, that battles are fought regardless of the calculation that /1
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We're proud to announce ✨The Mod Update✨
store.steampowered.com/news/app/301...
🐈MOD MUSEUM: a tour behind the scenes of Skin Deep
🐈MOD HANDBOOK: a guide on how to get started modding
🐈WORKSHOP UPLOADER: a tool to upload mods to Steam Workshop
Very happy to keep the mod tradition going! 🙌
store.steampowered.com/news/app/301...
🐈MOD MUSEUM: a tour behind the scenes of Skin Deep
🐈MOD HANDBOOK: a guide on how to get started modding
🐈WORKSHOP UPLOADER: a tool to upload mods to Steam Workshop
Very happy to keep the mod tradition going! 🙌
May 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We're proud to announce ✨The Mod Update✨
store.steampowered.com/news/app/301...
🐈MOD MUSEUM: a tour behind the scenes of Skin Deep
🐈MOD HANDBOOK: a guide on how to get started modding
🐈WORKSHOP UPLOADER: a tool to upload mods to Steam Workshop
Very happy to keep the mod tradition going! 🙌
store.steampowered.com/news/app/301...
🐈MOD MUSEUM: a tour behind the scenes of Skin Deep
🐈MOD HANDBOOK: a guide on how to get started modding
🐈WORKSHOP UPLOADER: a tool to upload mods to Steam Workshop
Very happy to keep the mod tradition going! 🙌
a sharp critique and, to me, a clear call for PKP to do the bare minimum to hold to its stated principles and refuse contracts from Israeli universities
It brings me no joy to share this, but here's an open letter to the leadership of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) on what is to me a very serious issue with it's autonomy and political scope. (Note: I've worked for and with PKP for decades).
ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-...
ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-...
An Open Letter to the Leadership of the Public Knowledge Project | Notion
Hey. My name is Mike Nason, Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian at the University of New Brunswick and the Open Scholarly Infrastructure Advisor with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). I owe a si...
ahemnason.notion.site
May 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
a sharp critique and, to me, a clear call for PKP to do the bare minimum to hold to its stated principles and refuse contracts from Israeli universities
no scab software
I am once again begging you, if u must stream music, to consider any of the competitors from the chart below that pay artists better than Spotify.
"According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting so-called 'ghost artists' so it can avoid paying its piddling royalties to real artists":
"According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting so-called 'ghost artists' so it can avoid paying its piddling royalties to real artists":
May 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
no scab software
i feel like "minister of artificial intelligence" is the kind of underhand pitch that writers of alternative papers in the 60s would spend their whole lives training for
May 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
i feel like "minister of artificial intelligence" is the kind of underhand pitch that writers of alternative papers in the 60s would spend their whole lives training for
kill gameplay
The End of Gameplay is out RIGHT NOW!
My masterpiece.
A pixel art adventure through my mind, broken by kill gameplay 🔪
love, droqen
store.steampowered.com/app/3120040/...
My masterpiece.
A pixel art adventure through my mind, broken by kill gameplay 🔪
love, droqen
store.steampowered.com/app/3120040/...
May 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
kill gameplay