Finally got this to the table tonight! Aaand @tappytoeclaws.bsky.social certainly has my number because she got the theme 1st try (with just the info that artists were important): the deck is 100% artists who've done Netrunner cards! Thanks for the game @cmassive13.bsky.social and of course Jerry!

Odsy Wrenn@odsy.ink · 10mo ago

Having spent years failing to successfully figure out the theme of @specialbeamcannon.bsky.social's Princess Lucrezia theme deck, I have decided to make my own. I'm not sure how esoteric my theme is, but every card *and token* fits. Sideboard is alt versions that fit. moxfield.com/decks/rqaA53...

Don't quote me on this in like 10 years but I think one of the defining issues of the 2020s is "a better world is actually very easy to achieve, the powers that be are just not interested in achieving it."

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

Is this the best card game ever? Maybe. I'd certainly argue so but there's a lot of choices Is this the best card game if you're the sort of person who goes "but what if I coded up a tool to do this cool thing for my card game"? Yes, absolutely

It turns out multiple separate people had made software that scans the page for tournament results to help determine like which identities got played the most and who might make it to the top cut and so using all of them ppl have reconstructed stuff and are desperately continuing to do so

Update: the downside of netrunner being full of open source weirdos is sometimes the team behind your tournament software is one person in Germany (who we all love and appreciate) who is asleep the upside is your players include a bunch of coders now working desperately to fix things in wild ways

JuniperTheory is gay@bimbo.city · 4d ago

i spent all morning depserately struggling with the NSG stream to make it work and not be bad quality or incomplete or stuff i finally get it working suddenly, over the mic: hey we accidentally deleted the entire tournament the funniest nightmare ever

What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.

Remember when it came out that Jeffrey Epstein and his billionaire rapist pals had deliberately manufactured modern movement transphobia to make us easier to exploit sexually and no one but us cared?

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 3mo ago

all of contemporary transphobia feels so manufactured and fake and it's hard to explain how and why to people who haven't felt it happen at them but like people used to not like Really Care; there were shitty people but like no one built their life around being transphobic

Up to 6 years across 2 or 3 phones. cc: @dixonij.bsky.social @caraid.bsky.social

Lyght, Prydful Tyrranax@indominus-lux.bsky.social · 4d ago

No cheating, post your lock screen YOURE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS, MATE 🚆💀🎸

Aw crap I forgot to pick up issue #3 last week 😖

Caitlin Yarsky@caitlinyarsky.bsky.social · 4d ago

My cover for the last issue of Magic the Gathering, Untold Stories: Jace written by @michaelwconrad.bsky.social for Dark Horse- preorder nowww! #darkhorse #magicthegathering

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

i know everyone has been dying for my take on emily wilson's review of nolan's odyssey and so here it is. it should be an embarrassment to whoever edited it. when a writer files copy like that, you should know how controversial it will be and go above and beyond to help them shore up their take.

The anti-data center movement is like "I don't want to pay more money for a thing that will not benefit me at all and will actively make my life measurably worse in a bunch of ways" and the pro-data center movement is like "We want it to be illegal for you to not like us."

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

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Stop uploading things to LLMs. ANY THINGS. ANY LLMs.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

One thing I never did was a post-mortem of Sir. Perhaps this is as good a time and place as any to talk about some of that. It started in 2010 when Channel 4 had some money to spend on making educational games. For some reason they asked me. ->thread

Jim Rossignol@rossignol.bsky.social · 2w ago

In surprising computer game news: Sir, You Are Being Hunted finally made it to console, just fourteen years after release on PC. It's out now on Switch, PS5, and Xbox. (And Steam and GoG, of course.)

"A replication attempt with a sample from a more diverse population that was over 10 times larger than the original study showed only half the effect of the original study. The replication suggested that economic background, rather than willpower, explained the other half."

Anna Phylaxis@quatoria.bsky.social · 2w ago

Y’all talking about the 50k now vs a 50% chance at one million need to do some reading on this experiment. Children from deprived backgrounds will choose immediate gratification over the promise of larger future rewards because we have learned that future promises are unreliable.

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Seen some talk of unethical fiction, so here’s my take

This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.

'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC News

Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.

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A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

“Obama was opposed to gay marriage, give it time, don’t seek perfection on trans issues from Dems.” Yeah, but gay marriage was a new right LGBT people were seeking. Sports, bathrooms, and IDs are something trans people have had for decades. Going BACKWARDS Is the opposite of the Obama comparison.

"A.i." is a tool pushed by racist, fascist billionaires for racist, fascist purposes.

The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 3w ago

Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.

A new example of Meta shithousery. This is a post of mine on Instagram (left). Click the dots top right and this advisory note appears (right). I never use ai, never will. Why would they do this? Who benefits? Are they just trying to make viewers think everything is genAI so they just accept it?

Betteridge's Law says "No" ya disingenuous pricks

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Could AI be conscious?

Why, yes, I *am* running a tournament in a week, why do you ask? You don't just casually read tournament regs at one a.m.?

Odsy Wrenn@odsy.ink · 3w ago

Ha! I have had both Magic players and Riftbound players question my choice to only go up to 5 on my dice before adding a second, but I am vindicated by the Netrunner OPP! Seriously, folks, it's *so* much more readable. There's already so much arithmetic, don't stretch the bounds of subitization.

Ha! I have had both Magic players and Riftbound players question my choice to only go up to 5 on my dice before adding a second, but I am vindicated by the Netrunner OPP! Seriously, folks, it's *so* much more readable. There's already so much arithmetic, don't stretch the bounds of subitization.

Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.”

Maybe prefollow and if you want to check it out ar gencon 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kes...

it's always funny how, for ages, these same chuds always valued art based on labour involved, ie if someone taped a banana to a wall or just painted a large canvas red, it was "lazy" and "anyone can just do that" and now that AI lets them larp as creators it's "none of that matters, only intention"

Wendy Xu@wendyxu.bsky.social · 3w ago

me: i must practice the dharma also me:

Happy birthday, @mrbevers.bsky.social! Cheers!