may I ask whether this is the sort of bitters by which he blows back the life into a half-drowned man?
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He contrived that the hidden house should be everywhere coextensive with the public one. making @screen.garden
I wrote a line in the sand for myself on LLMs, building on @unormal.bsky.social’s idea of channel fraud: kevinbarrett.org/on-llms
Kevin Barrett - On LLMs
My current feelings on large language models, channel fraud, and the rare cases where their use is appropriate.
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The removal of the apex predator will collapse the Maryland I-95 ecosystem
Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Nissan Altima is being discontinued after 2026 The popular sedan will be discontinued after nearly three decades on the market
"The month of July," as if July belongs to everyone equally. Some of us are managing seasonal trauma anniversaries and can't perform bookish leisure on command.
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
my grand theory of the early 21c is that we accidentally invented a perpetual motion device—the internet—and then we couldn’t help ourselves and ran it faster and faster until it broke. now we’re repeating the motions it used to describe. but it is dead and is never coming back.
it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo."Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"
Solstice bike ride after a day of bleak feeling; passing huge sprawling cookouts in the park, cigar smoke and frying oil, deer crashing through brush, kids in the river’s eddying pools. Derailleur plying the chain like a rosary.
Ranged Touch is now live with Prepare to Give, a Dark Souls 3 marathon to raise funds for the Brigid Alliance, which provides financial and logistical support to those who need to travel to seek abortion care. Please come watch and donate!!! Twitch.tv/rangedtouch
cmrn knzlmn@ckunzelman.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn ONE HOUR we are raising money for abortion access by supporting The Brigid Alliance in PREPARE TO GIVE, a Dark Souls 3 marathon where if you donate $2500 an hour Danni can never level up! www.twitch.tv/rangedtouch/
KIM KITSURAGI - “Harry... it explains *everything*. The running around. The jumping. The *shot-put*. Your inexplicable facial hair...”
"thinking of your art as mere content devalues it" buddy I could not possible value it more highly. What actually devalues art is working really hard but not being able to pay your bills
for all its faults no game more thoroughly changed my relationship to storytelling and gaming in general. what a gorgeous tangle of a thing to have existed
Destiny 2@destinythegame.bungie.net · 3mo agoOn June 9, 2026, we will be releasing our final live service content update for Destiny 2, Monument of Triumph, available to all players. 📰 For full details: bung.ie/d2_may_21_2026
We’re live. Two years ago, we released a plan. Today, our collectively owned music platform is open. Explore. Support artists directly. Join the co-op. It’s only the beginning. Sincerely Ours, Subvert
Apparently our 5 year old, trying to impress our neighbor’s son today, picked up a book I had left on our outdoor couch—‘Infinity to Dine’ (!)—and pretended to read from it, saying with a cadence of contrived uncertainty: “The deepest, darkest cave is your love.”
Angels Appearing before the Shepherds, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910
Good morning. I profiled Amy Wallace, the only sibling of David Foster Wallace. I don't think you need to know much about David (or his work) to understand how his sister saw him — and how he loved her.
lindsey adler@lindseyadler.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is the longest story I have ever written. It is also the most meaningful. It will go out in The Small Bow's newsletter tomorrow. You can read it here now: www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-t...
A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!
Pippin could be staged as the story of deprogramming a blackpilled incel. Should it? No. But it _could_
“Shakespeare is a roguelite” has Arno Schmidt going sickos dot jpeg #titaniumcourt
I hate doing this but Caves of Qud
lincoln carpenter@lincolnhello.bsky.social · 3mo agoLate drop of a big story tonight—the research team that jailbroke AI safety standards with weaponized poems have published their Adversarial Humanities Benchmark, broadening their research through cyberpunk attack-fiction and ADVERSARIAL HERMENEUTICS:
On a more personal note, some thoughts on why I am working on this: crawshaw.io/blog/buildin...
Science needs to study how no matter what direction I’m biking it is always into the wind.
Listening in to the live Artemis II feed. I love the way they talk about everything (jargon, acronyms, plaing English) . Like a bit ago, an astronaut was talking emotionally about how beautiful the views were of the approaching moon, and Houston's CapCom person responded plainly “Copy. Moon joy.”
REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
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happy #realis day to those who celebrate (everyone) www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
kickstarter.com
The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.