Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys

@shaneivey.bsky.social

Tabletop RPGs, some fiction, a bunch of awards. Arc Dream Publishing: Delta Green and The Black Company. I will show you fear in a handful of dice. Black Company newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/theblackcompanyrpg/join

PRINTER QUEST. We need a couple more quotes from printers on a thorny job, the Delta Green slipcase set. It's tricky to source because (a) it has a large slipcase that requires debossing, and (b) the books include material that cannot be printed in China. We've used Standart Impressa in Lithuania...

I can only imagine. How can you do ANY retelling of the Iliad that doesn't tone down the sexual violence? The core conflict is the rage of Achilles at his leader Agamemnon for taking his favorite captured sex slave. The whole war is to seize against her will the wife who fled Agamemnon's brother.

Jennifer Kretchmer@dreamwisp.bsky.social · last wk.

While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

I'm trying to find specifics on how far signals carried reliably in premodern battle. Drums, horns, flags. Not just "how far can you hear a trumpet" but effective use in combat conditions. Does anyone have sources? The Internet has failed me absolutely today. Or else I no longer know how to use it.

Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.

Table of Contents
Preface
List of Maps

PART I: THE MYTH OF SPARTA
Introduction

PART II: THE REALITY OF SPARTA
I. Cuckold Kings and Wolves' Work: Behind the Spartan Mirage
II. Archaic Sparta at War: Early Losses, Foreign Roots
III. The Greco-Persian War: The Thermopylae Speed Bump
IV. The Peloponnesian Wars: Floundering at Sea, Surrendering on Land
V. Masters of Greece? Sparta Squanders its Hegemony
VI. The Boeotian War: What Cannot Bend Must Break
VII. The End of Sparta: Irreformable and Irrelevant
VIII. Conclusion: The Bronze Lie

PART III: TANGLING MYTH AND REALITY
IX. The “Moron Label”: The Spartans and the Political Far Right
Appendix A. Historiography and Objectivity
Appendix B. The Fundamentals of Ancient Battle

Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Excuse the fuck me? They are using AI to put Black prisoners in conditions of greater torture in Canada? Does AI do anything that's not violently antiblack? @hypervisible.blacksky.app

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.