This always relevant post by @ramiismail.com.

Insider Gaming@insider-gaming.com · 2h ago

Halo Studios Hit by Layoffs After Campaign Evolved Launch insider-gaming.com/halo-studios...

Magnolia finds the Songbirds under the geas of Love's court, attending to each of the family's needs. Trimming the living garden, making the children laugh, and freeing uncle's ex lover from the Agony Parade. It's the first big expansion/adventure for Songbirds and it's in early access right now!

Perez Hilton live-streamed himself engaging in self-harm and clips of it are now circulating on social media.

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 7mo ago

Maybe turn off video autoplay today: Settings > Content and media > Autoplay videos and GIFs Toggle off.

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Adding some context to this: Rascal's membership peaked in January this year at around 2500 subscribers. This was due to our 1$ sale in December where around 300 people signed up. But ever since then, it's been a steady decline... (1/x) bsky.app/profile/rasc...

Rascal News (@rascal.news)

State of the Rascal: August 2026 https://www.rascal.news/state-of-the-rascal-august-2026/

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so many computer companies have forgotten why we computer

Worth posting in context as it is bang on topic.

< dozens of people tell me "you can just tell it to turn that behavior off!" > Yeah that's really not the point of my complaint. I'm not asking for suggestions on how to make the system more pleasant for me to use; I'm pointing out that it has dark patterns built in that make it harmful by default.

a dungeon game is grimdark dungeon crawling focused on body horror and the consequences of violence. It's a super fast system with loads of free tools online, and it's pay what you want. More here: https://dungeon.loottheroom.uk

If you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …

shock! terror! bafflement! it's a new episode of DEAD LETTERS, this time about PENDRAGON (6e)! join us as we discuss Le Morte d'Arthur, historiographical lenses, gay knights, Crusader Kings, rules-as-psychology, and over-the-shoulder play! open.spotify.com/episode/7sg0...

22: Pendragon 6th Edition

Dead Letters · Episode

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Google+ and forums was probably the ideal form of communication, ngl

I wish I had read Clayton's introductory advice 7 years ago. And there are some great posts again this month. Check out the pieces by Valeria Loves and To Be Resolved. Plus, incidental companion pieces about play by Murkdice and myself.

Clayton@explorersdesign.bsky.social · 4d ago

Woke up hungover after winning gold at The Ennies for Best Kiss. Anyway, here’s this month’s Explorateur. Only the freshest links from July. Two really fun reviews. My new favorite podcast. And three thoughts on layout from me in the upfront. www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

historically i've been a bit anti people running jams for their own games cos it feels like leveraging a community to do marketing. thankfully, i don't make any money off violence, so that wasn't a concern. seeing people push themselves to write stuff outside of their usual wheelhouse has been....

Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.

Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

On the Northern Line from ctl London while both Piccadilly & Central lines are down & could not support this more.

As Europe burns, Shell has banked £7.4 billion in just three months. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.

I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

Applications now open for Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships at @sfiscience.bsky.social! apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/complex...

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

Am late to promoting this but here’s a piece on the joy to be found in the bountiful array of online education that is now available. Featuring a cameo appearance from me in the comments section, promoting my favourite: the Yale MOOC (do we even call them that anymore?!) www.ft.com/content/f946...

The best way to spend the summer? Studying St Augustine

Or medieval magic, Mesopotamian demons or K-pop — the online courses opening up a whole world of art, history, philosophy and, yes, teen idols

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"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism "CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion. — Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) from March 30

"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism

"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.

karlbode.com

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

Destroy all his works.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last wk.

“Teens sue Musk's xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them *** Two of the teenagers behind the lawsuit are under the age of 18…” 3/16/26 … 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

For me the big hypocrisy is the political reaction here to what he says. Imagine if like an extremist Islamist preacher was beamed into a violent pro Iranian regime march in central London, and called for the dissolution of parliament and senior ministers traitors!

One of the many faintly surreal elements of all this is that you have the richest man in the world investing considerable time posting about the urgency of a cleansing race war and then just like operating his businesses as normal

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.

Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12