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Dragon Age 2 evangelist | he/him | over 30, still useless |
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good news everyone
January 4, 2026 at 11:34 PM
good news everyone
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I wrote about reporters’ refusal to use “act of war,” “invasion” or “coup” when covering Trump’s brazen attacks on Venezuela, instead echoing WH-approved euphemisms, and the broader trend of our press dutifully giving Trump’s lawlessness the vague whiff of international legitimacy when it has none.
By framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.
The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War
By framing the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.
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January 4, 2026 at 11:17 PM
I wrote about reporters’ refusal to use “act of war,” “invasion” or “coup” when covering Trump’s brazen attacks on Venezuela, instead echoing WH-approved euphemisms, and the broader trend of our press dutifully giving Trump’s lawlessness the vague whiff of international legitimacy when it has none.
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even if you are completely powerless, keeping hope alive is valuable, no matter what. please keep living. please keep caring. please keep believing that we can make things better.
January 4, 2026 at 1:21 AM
even if you are completely powerless, keeping hope alive is valuable, no matter what. please keep living. please keep caring. please keep believing that we can make things better.
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One thing people forget is that the US supports plenty of dictators right now, it has supported dictators in the past, and it has installed its own dictators in other countries through regime change operations.
The US doesn't care that Maduro was a dictator or bad, they care he opposed them.
The US doesn't care that Maduro was a dictator or bad, they care he opposed them.
it really doesn't matter whether maduro was "bad"
January 3, 2026 at 9:15 PM
One thing people forget is that the US supports plenty of dictators right now, it has supported dictators in the past, and it has installed its own dictators in other countries through regime change operations.
The US doesn't care that Maduro was a dictator or bad, they care he opposed them.
The US doesn't care that Maduro was a dictator or bad, they care he opposed them.
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A lot of people are going to preface tu-tutting tweets with variants on the theme of "Maduro was no angel" and it's very important to have the moral clarity to understand that these people are the lowest form of coward imaginable
January 3, 2026 at 12:37 PM
A lot of people are going to preface tu-tutting tweets with variants on the theme of "Maduro was no angel" and it's very important to have the moral clarity to understand that these people are the lowest form of coward imaginable
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An administration driven by greed, cruelty, and frankly a sort of empty-hearted boredom. The death of innocents so they can beat their chests and line their already fat wallets.
Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.
Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.
BREAKING: Venezuela’s government has accused the US of launching attacks on civilian and military installations across several states, rejecting what it described as a "military aggression," according to an official statement.
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January 3, 2026 at 8:41 AM
An administration driven by greed, cruelty, and frankly a sort of empty-hearted boredom. The death of innocents so they can beat their chests and line their already fat wallets.
Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.
Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.
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I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.
cnb.cx
January 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
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Got so many RPGs to play. Thinking bout going hermit mode
December 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Got so many RPGs to play. Thinking bout going hermit mode
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do NOT download this. do not share it, do not use it, do not seed it and whatever you do do not listen to it. spotify's music quality is fucking ass
A pirate activist group reportedly scraped and uploaded Spotify’s entire music catalog online ✳️
• Included 86M audio files — now circulating in bulk torrents totaling ~300 terabytes
• Spotify confirmed they are investigating the incident
(via billboard)
• Included 86M audio files — now circulating in bulk torrents totaling ~300 terabytes
• Spotify confirmed they are investigating the incident
(via billboard)
December 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
do NOT download this. do not share it, do not use it, do not seed it and whatever you do do not listen to it. spotify's music quality is fucking ass
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It's that time of the year again
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
It's that time of the year again
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Like man, my career only exists in the way that it does now because a production designer was googling "realistic pokemon" and found me. If he could have just had a machine spit that out, I never would have gotten a job. This is a major issue hitting artist discoverability.
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Like man, my career only exists in the way that it does now because a production designer was googling "realistic pokemon" and found me. If he could have just had a machine spit that out, I never would have gotten a job. This is a major issue hitting artist discoverability.
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The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
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a very revealing story about how the execs at these AI companies think about their products, and their users www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.
www.404media.co
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
a very revealing story about how the execs at these AI companies think about their products, and their users www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
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Everyone is more or less okay with it” dude you make people emigrate to work there because you don’t do remote work, they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it
sigh
December 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Everyone is more or less okay with it” dude you make people emigrate to work there because you don’t do remote work, they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it
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FWIW, Larian isn't alone in this sort of thing. The application-to-hiring gauntlet should not take six months, but a number of studios do this because they know there's a pool of candidates that will jump through the endless hoops and swim the oceans of stress to get to the finish line.
Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.
I know this because they tried to recruit me and I strongly considered it but they’re also a “do an unpaid writing test where you have to also make it playable” company so that’s not something I vibe with
December 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
FWIW, Larian isn't alone in this sort of thing. The application-to-hiring gauntlet should not take six months, but a number of studios do this because they know there's a pool of candidates that will jump through the endless hoops and swim the oceans of stress to get to the finish line.
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Early Access and the way they managed their community across all their updates helped humanize that team in ways that only helped Baldur’s Gate 3, weird for the studio to be so willing to throw all that goodwill away.
I think it's nice when concept art shows the evolution of people's creative processes instead of a prompt, but what do I know
December 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Early Access and the way they managed their community across all their updates helped humanize that team in ways that only helped Baldur’s Gate 3, weird for the studio to be so willing to throw all that goodwill away.
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Playing the original Final Fantasy rn and like immediately there's a castle.
You know.
Like they have in France?
You know.
Like they have in France?
December 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Playing the original Final Fantasy rn and like immediately there's a castle.
You know.
Like they have in France?
You know.
Like they have in France?
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There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for
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The power to build unbelievably complicated new forms of technology, only for the grand pitch from its architects to be "I'm lazy, incurious, and profoundly weird. Please join me."
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The power to build unbelievably complicated new forms of technology, only for the grand pitch from its architects to be "I'm lazy, incurious, and profoundly weird. Please join me."
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Gavin Newsom is a Republican and supporting him for president means you are, too
Culturally normal is a dog whistle.
Gavin Newsom Urges Democrats to Be ‘More Culturally Normal’
YouTube video by The New York Times
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Gavin Newsom is a Republican and supporting him for president means you are, too