My dear sweet friend Nadya is launching a new game with Aconite soon! Please consider checking it out and signing up to be notified when the Kickstarter goes live. It's otherworldly and gorgeous and strange and deserves your attention! www.kickstarter.com/projects/aco...
Coming soon: Slime in the Ice Machine: It's Your Inheritance, Kid
Kick open the doors to the greatest bars in the cosmos (and the worst) to unravel surreal mysteries in this PC/Mac/Xbox game.
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www.kickstarter.com/projects/aco... SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE is coming soon to Kickstarter; I strongly suspect this is a game for Some Of U. It is written by my dear friend and Instar copublisher Miracle Jones and it is about bars, Texas, and doing real journalism from the ground up <3
Coming soon: Slime in the Ice Machine: It's Your Inheritance, Kid
Kick open the doors to the greatest bars in the cosmos (and the worst) to unravel surreal mysteries in this PC/Mac/Xbox game.
kickstarter.com
I’m not sure whether this is just a psychological difference or AI bros fundamentally don’t understand the nature of an artistic experience, but: I don’t want a personalised film/book/podcast. I want to see/read/hear the same one as everyone else, so I can read reviews or discuss it with my friends
Beijing’s bicycle comeback might be one of the world's most significant urban cycling revivals. After decades of decline, its mode share has climbed back to almost 30%, supported by over 3,200 kilometres of infrastructure, extensive bike-sharing systems, and an ambitious program of street redesign.🧵
it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)
lines down@linesdown.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe growth of solar energy in Pakistan
in a presidency defined by living metaphors, burning down D.C. during a poorly-planned fireworks show could take the cake
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2mo agoFireworks are always set off by the pool. The fencing happens every year. What is different is that last year was less than 8,000 fireworks and this year is supposed to be 851,000.
The difference between this attitude and the abject fear driving the centrist Dems who have done nothing (besides largely capitulate to Trump and whinge about not having power) and have nothing to offer is so, so stark.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoKARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.
Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite
Remember when those grade school kids begged Dianne Feinstein to do something about climate change and she said condescendingly "we know what we're doing" and then fell over and died
Oh I suppose I should like post something. I rode a 1000km ride a couple weeks ago! (in 70 hours!) I didn’t think that I personally had it in me to do such long brevets but uh. It happened! And I‘m now feeling hopeful about riding Paris Brest Paris next year :)
For Pride I ask you to look at what I think is one of the most powerful pieces of queer art. Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers) By John Boskovich
Streetsblog reset its Mamdani Meter to zero on Wednesday after seeing the mayor's cowardly Eastern Queens greenway plan. Plus the news. buff.ly/y9W47jZ
Thursday's Headlines: Reset the Meter Edition - Streetsblog New York City
Streetsblog reset its Mamdani Meter to zero after seeing the mayor's cowardly Eastern Queens greenway plan. Plus the news.
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Gender-affirming care for minors is not a bad thing. It’s been so needlessly demonized and the position has been so thoroughly capitulated to that I think people forget it’s actually a good thing. A Grammy award winning artist had gender affirming surgery at 16. It’s a great thing!
They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.
The Economist@economist.com · 3mo agoThe next generation of illiberal leftism is gaining ground. It is time to fight back econ.st/3RPYFPV
Here we are again. We thought @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social would be different. But unfortunately on the issue of Queens' Next Subway, he isn't budging. Fortunately, it's not over yet. City Council is holding their FINAL public hearing on the budget on JUNE 10th @ 9:30am @ City Hall.
The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...
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The_Lady_Red@theladyred.bsky.social · 4mo agoA PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.
We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration
Nash@radiodeadair.com · 4mo agoSurprising no one, things did not in fact go according to plan.
Fucking terrible idea, we need to do everything we can to undermine the idea that people shouldn't pay taxes. Taxes are not a punishment, taxes are how we contribute to the collective welfare of society.
Forbes@forbes.com · 4mo ago“We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington,” the Amazon chairman said.
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.
"there is something you can do. she loved Pokémon. she named herself after a character. i’m going to be leaving a Pokémon stuffed animal at her memorial. if you could just encourage others to do the same. or to donate Pokémon stuffed animals to shelters and such"
normal sara@sarasocial.bsky.social · 4mo agomy heart aches for that girl so much
Mayor Mamdani’s decision to build a park over part of an unused rail line in Queens could make it impossible, or at least very difficult, to build a transit line for the same route — at least according to the depressing trajectories of similar efforts in Maryland and Georgia.
Maryland, Georgia Offer Cautionary Tales As Mamdani Advances QueensWay - Streetsblog New York City
It's not easy to bring transit back after a rail-to-trail conversion. Just ask Maryland and Georgia.
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