It’s cruel solace but I hope this incident lays bare the barbarism of the whole endeavor to those still in need of convincing. We need leaders with the courage to put an end to this for good before they get to try again, and they will try again.
US death row inmate Christa Pike awake and speaking after failed execution
A medical expert advising her legal team says the murderer of Colleen Slemmer is communicating in a "basic way".
bbc.com
On Jacob Geller, on being both a public figure and a person, and on various levels of haunting of houses: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A Story of One Small Haunting
A Story of One Small Haunting On October 28, 2019, I released a video essay called “A Very Halloween Special Episode.” It’s not a good title. I was a little over two years into my video essay making ...
docs.google.com
I now frequently hear “I’m anti-carceral but” and then they go on to describe a leper colony. There’s a range of views on restorative justice, but if the end state doesn’t ultimately involve being in community with people who have done terrible things, that’s retributive justice with nicer branding.
Desperately wish as a society we took sexual violence seriously enough for there to be space for conversations about what rehabilitation looks like and what is and isn’t expected but it feels like because there are no systemic consequences we’re left to apply them ourselves and foreclose those paths
I support a good number of independent sites and they’re all great but honestly Mothership’s hit rate is the highest and it’s not close. They hit the ground running and haven’t missed. Nearly every post is the best thing I’ve read in games that day and among the best in culture writing period.
Maddy Myers 🏳️🌈@midimyers.com · last wk.if you aren't already supporting @mothership.blog, you should be. support women and queer people in video game criticism and journalism. we deserve to exist in these spaces but, at least in the case of mothership, we can only exist and pay our writers and introduce you to new writers if YOU help us.
if you aren't already supporting @mothership.blog, you should be. support women and queer people in video game criticism and journalism. we deserve to exist in these spaces but, at least in the case of mothership, we can only exist and pay our writers and introduce you to new writers if YOU help us.
I’m someone who tends toward a belief in the fundamental goodness of people, but there are some weeks where that is nearly impossible to cling to. Just absolute assaults on the human spirit
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Every time the state puts someone to death it makes me feel ill for days, and the circumstances of this case are as upsetting as any. In that context, the sentence “former journalist who now creates true crime coloring books” made me momentarily blind with rage.
Probably a more “modern” list than the majority of these, but they’re all games that left me with a different understanding of what games could be after I played them.
Jaws Slayer 🎃@jesawyer.bsky.social · 2w agosure why not
“transplant” discourse is great because you get to see how easily people can swaddle their insular, reactionary beliefs with left-coded language
Gremliny Nussboo@emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 3w agoI truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel
This article and thread are excellent examples of how “be the change you want to see” can fall woefully short without any coercive mechanism. Everything might well be better if everyone chose this way, but it’s ultimately a prisoners dilemma where too many people take the other side for it to work.
Micah@rincewind.run · 3w agoman this is a rough read and - though as a white couple we are obviously in a different position - speaks strongly to something we are going through right now with our kids and it is heartbreaking
The people with a thousand excuses in response to this are *phenomenal* block candidates if you want your feed to start looking marginally less insane.
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3w agoBluesky is the most learned group ever assembled of smart, funny people who will read a headline and then talk for two days about only the headline
everyone complaining about paywalls, one of the most easily manipulated barriers to knowledge ever created, desperately needs to consider taking some personal responsibility for their poor media habits
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3w agoBluesky is the most learned group ever assembled of smart, funny people who will read a headline and then talk for two days about only the headline
Bluesky is the most learned group ever assembled of smart, funny people who will read a headline and then talk for two days about only the headline
This has long been what I’ve called the catch-22 of AI workflows. AI can be useful with a diligent human alongside, but most diligent humans don’t see tremendous benefit from AI because they already did real work. Conversely, the people most enticed by it are least inclined to use it responsibly.
Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 3w agoInstead of workslop, now we have warslop. Some dipshit analyst asked a chatbot "what's on this ship" and it said "nuclear materials" and then put that in a report that he also made with AI, and sent it off. Possibly the best example of how a "human in the loop" just human-washes the generated text
I thought surely this had to be a pre-existing promotion that was being discovered with comically unfortunate timing. Nope, literally no web presence before today, and the rules say start date of 9/14. Even if it was, deciding to follow through *now* is genuinely insane.
lowtax speedrun enjoyer@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 4w agooh my god
In my experience people love "man behind the curtain" narratives - Project 2025, Epstein, data centers, Flock. Everyone's a conspiracy theorist now so all you need to do is present the truth like it's a secret you're letting them in on
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 4w agoThe fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.
I think every concert I’ve been to in the last couple years has included varying specificities of “fuck ICE” and “free Palestine” at some point during the proceedings, so I wonder what the threshold for the giant blow up is. Being an artist someone’s grandparents may have heard of?
HuffPost@huffpost.com · 4w agoThe singer was set to perform at eight more shows.
"the gays were really polite and normal about it" no see what's happening here is that being gay feels normal to you now, so their activism seems reasonable in hindsight. trans activism feels egregious because you think trans people are grotesque
Seeing increasing amounts of people misidentifying human art as AI while simultaneously not recognizing AI art, and boy, does it suck. Everyone seems to have decided art I don’t like = AI, art I do like = real, and I don’t think they realize the very gross things that inadvertently justifies.
If a claude.MD is sufficient to relegate something to vibe-coded slop to avoid, I’ve got terrible (or great, depending on your perspective) news about how much software you can still use. It does not include the phone you’re currently reading this on, or any major web framework, for starters.
PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸@b0tster.yeag.gay · last mo.🚨🚨🚨BLUESKY 38 IS AI SLOP🚨🚨🚨 PLEASE DO NOT PARTICIPATE sorry to ruin everyones fun 💔💔💔
It’s been said many times but nonetheless bears repeating: absolutely no amnesty. We have no future as a nation unless every one of these people face dire consequences.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last mo.We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
What thing are we making illegal? The pervert glasses are functionally identical to people already doing the same shit with their phones; they clearly know they’re being filmed. We’ve got a gargantuan cultural problem that Zuck et al aren’t helping with but also cant save us via convenient scapegoat
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2mo agoMake illegal now thank you
I think the popular conception of a boycott has been completely disconnected from unions at this point. People think of boycotts as morality tests, as "voting with your wallet," not as coordinated efforts to affect change in an industry or system.
I’m a broken record on this but I truly don’t know what to do about so many of the people on “my side” demonstrably not caring to verify what they’re saying or whether their understanding of a situation is accurate anymore. Feels like that used to be a point of distinction and it just isn’t now.
If I had to describe the heart and soul of Bluesky it would the following: a guy who didn’t actually read Emily Wilson’s review of Nolan’s Odyssey movie defending it against a guy who didn’t actually watch Nolan’s Odyssey movie
This Odyssey discourse is driving me mad, not because of the movie or the review, but because NOBODY FUCKING READS ANYTHING. I am seeing entire discussions on here between people who clearly just vibed what they imagine it said, and then opining at length about it. We’re so beyond cooked it’s unreal
Almost everyone the general public now thinks of as a “STEM guy” is actually a business guy who makes his money exploiting actual STEM guys. The cosplay is a deliberate attempt to conflate them with people who are actually useful.
Michael Scott Balch, PhD@uqprofessional.bsky.social · 3mo agoThere's this narrative running around that society was ruined by people who are good at math and bad at everything else. And I cannot emphasize enough that, no, these people are also bad at math. Elon Musk is not an engineer.