thank you for these class 1.2 meat products facts

sometimes changes in vocabulary and ways of theorizing about gender/sexuality leave older people in a position where they’re struggling a little to understand younger generations, But sometimes those changes give older people more clarity about themselves as well

there's enough population overlap between transit nerds and people with several sex toys that i think there could be a solid little market for it

that was a very weird and moving moment! probably not a very common one, and being as clueless as i'd been is hard to reproduce with any consistency. but it is a great example of how interactivity can be artistically important in games with relatively little systems complexity.

i went into _Journey_ totally blind, did not know it had multi-player/online elements, and kinda abruptly burst into surprised tears at credits: i saw player handles listed and realized that i had interacted at points with real people and not the handful of proc-gen helper NPCs i'd assumed.

we are in one of those recurring Years Of Stupidity where the managers in many industries get a bee in their bonnet about workforce and put non-domain experts at the helm of automation, and yeah that gets people killed. but the problem is, that, not the concept of automation itself.

Also, ICYMI, my zine The Mitzvah of Anti-Zionism is now available as a free PDF.

The hegemony people are trying to preserve by portraying police and soldiers as victims of Trump is the very hegemony they’re trading in to target vulnerable people.