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@lcsrz.bsky.social

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𝚅𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚙𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚐𝚊𝚐𝚎, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚐𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜. 𝚂𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑, 𝙾𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚘.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 10h

I am hundreds, probably actually thousands, of hours into Slice & Dice and I am *still* encountering totally novel, exciting situations. For sure my all time fav turn-based roguelike.

(My strong rec on how to play: Cursed Hyper mode w/ 20% wild modifiers on)

tann.itch.io/slice-dice

Slice & Dice by tann

Roguelike dice tactics game

tann.itch.io

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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 9h

GLADIATOR III

𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 10h

Mmm, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ☕️

Britney Spears in "Oops, I Did It Again!"

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 1d

I have a book on Assassin’s Creed coming out and I would like to be on your podcast / show / stream to promote it!

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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 1d

"While working Canadians are paying higher rates than their ultra-wealthy fellow citizens, and while wealth inequality has exploded to historic levels, the government is currently considering a so-called 'austerity budget' that is almost certain to make these problems worse."

Canada's exploding wealth inequality requires tax changes

Our current tax code is not asking the wealthy to reinvest in our economy, and that failure is weakening services and programs working Canadians may use to get ahead.

www.hilltimes.com

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michael @modality.bsky.social · Jul 29

AI is two projects. The first is willfully degrading definitions to create a void of meaning (any algorithm is AI). The second is projecting propaganda into that void (AI can replace labor, is sentient).

This creates a space where you can claim "the Pac-Man ghosts are sentient" to sell products.

Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · Jul 29

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation.
After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the itch.io link to the Antler River TTRPG zine: "100% of the proceeds of Antler River will be donated to the Homelessness Program of the Elgin-Middlesex United Way."

philanthropistpeacock.itch.io/antler-river...

Antler River RPG Trade: 8 Points to Buck Up Your Games! by PhilanthropistPeacockPublicactions

Six articles & two games, fighting homelessness in London, Ontario, Canada

philanthropistpeacock.itch.io

𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 1d

"Antler River RPG Trade, a zine that caters to role-playing enthusiasts [in London, Ontario]… Proceeds from the zine goes to the fight against homelessness."

Dungeons & Donations: Londoners launch role-playing zine to raise money for charity | CBC News

A group of Londoners has launched a pay-what-you-can zine that caters to role-playing game enthusiasts and pays its donations into a charity that helps those experiencing homelessness.

www.cbc.ca

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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 1d

Hesitant to order books from the States to Canada after I had to pay 100% border-clearing fees for the latest ones.

Imagine that: me, hesitant to order books. I thought it'd never happen…

𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 2d

Sick of computer asking to see my papers.

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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 5d

"Ooh, he's a medium boxer-briefs guy too, hon! Even the grey ones, like you have!"

𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 5d

“What sea is it you have plunged more than once to the bottom of, alerted, full of adrenalin, but caught really… in this steel pot, softening to devitaminized mush inside the soup-stock of your own words, your waste submarine breath?”

From Gravity's Rainbow (1973): “Now what sea is this you have crossed, exactly, and what sea is it you have plunged more than once to the bottom of, alerted, full of adrenalin, but caught really, buffaloed under the epistemologies of these threats that paranoid you so down and out, caught in this steel pot, softening to devitaminized mush inside the soup-stock of your own words, your waste submarine breath? It took the Dreyfus Affair to get the Zionists out and doing, finally: what will drive you out of your soup-kettle? Has it already happened? Was it tonight’s attack and deliverance? Will you go to the Heath, and begin your settlement, and wait there for your Director to come?”

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Alder Cheems @aldercheems.bsky.social · 5d

That's right.

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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 5d

lawn sign design for Scarborough Loves Palestine/Scarborough For Palestine neighbourhood group

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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 6d

had coffee 😞

coffee_dad: older man with an awkward smile, holding a coffee mug

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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 6d

The Chatelaine Thecla "was taller even than I had expected, nearly too tall to stand upright in the cell […] She picked up a leek, and then as if she did not know what else to do with it dropped it down her throat like a mountebank swallowing a viper."

Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 6d

So a thing quietly happening in the background for awhile now is rich parents dosing their kids with growth hormone.

I think it's hilarious we're gonna have a generation of seven foot three ogres who claim a working class background and get mad when you ask how they paid for that trip to Europe.

𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 6d

"Pressures of startup culture leave little time for such existential musings […] the team is eager to bring their product to market before voice-box plushies sour parents on the entire concept of AI for kids […]

"'Post-launch, we’ll probably bring on an AI ethics person to our team,' he said."

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 7d

Close-up of Eggbug (Cohost mascot) crying, with two hearts of sympathy for their sadness hovering around them.

𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 7d

Hard cutting back on caffeine—but Tim's or McD's being the only options on the way to work makes it easier to avoid coffee.

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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 8d

From Eddington (2025), Sheriff Joe Cross in a white cowboy hat demanding that his deputy post a video to social media: "Just don't make me think. Post it."

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 8d

"We've got a captured population. There are only two of those, BTW, students and prisoners. And frankly, the student data is richer, more diverse, [..] in ways that make it more valuable." -- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

In fact, they are only one market. In addition to their use in product
development, the data digital platforms collect are sold off in a dense and well-developed
marketplace of advertisers, data brokers and investors. The same platform that delivers
curricular materials to students also harvests, for example, those students’ usage patterns,
performance data, and engagement metrics. All of these are valuable assets that platform
owners can leverage to enhance their own products, reinforce their market advantages, or
monetize through third-party data sharing, often without the knowledge or consent of stu -
dents, families, or educators. Such dynamics distinguish today’s platforms from traditional
ed tech tools like graphing calculators or overhead projectors, which served a single purpose
once purchased and which were unambiguously under the control of the schools that pur -
chased them.

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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 9d

“'Severian,' she said. 'It can't be.' Hanging over the city like a flying mountain in a dream was an enormous building… I tried to speak, to deny the miracle even as I saw it; but before I could frame a syllable, the building had vanished like a bubble in a fountain…”

glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 9d

St John's church, Glastonbury peering out of the mist. Photograph taken this morning from Glastonbury Tor on Michaelmas day.

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jamesedsmith.bsky.social @jamesedsmith.bsky.social · 9d

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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 12d

Full books
Weighty books
Ample books
Avoirdupois books
Zaftig books

𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 13d

Puppet Lando? Is this about his Facebook account being hacked?