Cat Manning
@catacalypto.bsky.social
narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.
"Wake up, babe! New Cage chord just dropped!" Always happy for a chance to share this from @themountaingoats.bsky.social -- one of my favorite pieces of music writing ever.
There are Other Forces at Work, by John Darnielle
John Cage comes to Halberstadt
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angela hudson jones@angelahudsonjones.bsky.social · 5h ago
While the SCREEN Act failed in the committee, KOSA did move forward. Contact your senators immediately demanding it be opposed, and keep the pressure up until it comes to a vote in the Senate
Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 6h agoThe Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...
Art-making is a long term puzzle game where you try to match human beings with the weird stuff in your inventory, so they give you new inventory items.
This seems bad…is potentially disrupting water services bad? Cyberattacks on water systems expand to 12 states as South Dakota, Georgia announce incidents Welcome back to our hell @jgreig.bsky.social!
Cyberattacks on water systems expand to 12 states as South Dakota, Georgia announce incidents
Water utilities in at least 12 states have reported cyberattacks on their operational technology, as the scope of a campaign allegedly linked to Iranian hackers continues to grow.
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how come no game featuring women wearing impossibly tight clothing has ever deployed the genuine medically valid excuse "I have a weak heart~ so I have to wear custom-fitted compression clothing 24/7 or else my blood pools in my veins and causes me to swell up~"
Meta has made it repeatedly clear that one of their growth strategies is sexualizing kids. Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership team deserve to face personal liability for this, and the company deserves sanctions up to and including corporate dissolution
WIRED@wired.com · 7h agoOver the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.
[unprompted and with no intention of offering a follow-up of any kind] get ready for mlb mayhem
The BEST ROGUELIKE AWARD goes to Caves of Qud. "It's a recent one, but you know, evolution happens. Rich, beautiful writing, [...] a roguelike that is actually like Rogue" 💚 in the acceptance speech, @jfg.land & @unormal.bsky.social say DF is a "north star in the community" 💚
I have no desire to hold public office & am entirely unelectable besides. my recreational habits in 1986 alone disqualify me. but I'm running for president anyway & my entire platform is "when you need your health care provider, you get a live operator every time." I will win in a landslide
remember when twitter had that thing where it would say "do you want to read the article before you make your dipshit comment on it you fucking moron?"
I told you all to buy it when you could, but you didn't believe me. Now look. You have to wait a month. This is your own fault.
LittlePuss Press@littlepuss.net · 6h agoYOU NERDS BOUGHT TOO MANY BOOKS Now we have to print more! @blipstress.bsky.social's PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID has officially sold through it's first print run 💃 We're getting more to the printers as we speak but for now if you buy direct from us you can expect to wait until early Sep to get your copy
this is legitimately a huge problem that i don’t know how they will resolve, either from an executive or legislative standpoint, and it’s going to be the case across a lot more than just defense
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7h agoI fundamentally do not know how to square the politics whereby Democrats will essentially have to tell the American people that because they (the voters) made an extremely stupid decision, they need to lower their expectations substantially for the foreseeable future, but here we are.
This is worth amplifying (also this podcast is rad), that Roman slavery was, y'know, slavery. In fact, all slavery is horrifying, but the broader 'Mediterranean' slavery tradition (which is also, by the by, the ancestor of Atlantic slavery) is one of the *more extreme* such traditions.
Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · last wk.Next time someone tries to tell you that Roman slavery was different or better than other forms of slavery, tell them to listen to last week’s episode of @thisguysucked.com and/or buy Emma’s book.
If u don’t have real life friends u should try it. They r ppl u sorta like socialize with. U can do an activity or eat food or just be in each others presence. It’s kinda freeform in that way. Or I guess u can keep getting mad at computer ppl instead. Whatever u want
I don't actually see any evidence of this? As far as I can tell most academics response to the Wilson piece (those who have seen it at all) was "huh, fair enough - I liked the film tho". I'm guessing this isn't registering because low key calm responses aren't flashy or memorable.
Robert Borden Stan Account@bordenstan.bsky.social · yesterdayIf the academy gets pulled into coming out swinging against the biggest adaptation of Homer in probably a couple generations off the back of one prominent scholar deciding to be Reviewer 2 to Nolan's work, it will say, IMO, pretty damning things about academia's ability to foster public engagement.
SOME LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION IS DESIRABLE AND EVEN COMEDIC
it’s crazy how so much of the right wing cultural push is just ‘let’s all pretend we never learned how bad/complex all this stuff is and go back to the way things were when we were ignorant’ ngl I get why it’s powerful messaging but it really is the death of knowledge/growth/expertise
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9h agoI'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
BOURDAIN (voiceover): I found myself surrounded by discarded objects. An empty soda can, a dead battery. Life becomes death. But death can become life. The simmering pot with its spicy aroma in front of me is proof. BOURDAIN: What's in this dish? ME: Pikmin BOURDAIN: Pikmin. Oh man that's good.
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Perez Hilton live-streamed himself engaging in self-harm and clips of it are now circulating on social media.
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 7mo agoMaybe turn off video autoplay today: Settings > Content and media > Autoplay videos and GIFs Toggle off.
There were around 50–70 million people total in 500 BCE, so something around 10% of the entire human population alive at the time the Odyssey was written have now seen Christopher Nolan's version.
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · yesterdayI mean, the Odyssey has $2 million in pre-sales in *China* so I’m gonna say this is true
Someone is interpreting “post vet visit recovery” as “monopolizing personal space”
[wine & paint night] Wife: wtf is that Me: Rihanna fighting Godzilla in machu picchu Wife: Drunk Guy Behind Me: that's fuckin rad
Yes. We do not study the past with a view to feelgood vibes. Sometimes we encounter events and people that do that, but it is not the *purpose* of serious or just basically honest study.
Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller)@armchairclassicist.bsky.social · yesterdayTruth. #History
