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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, but I live in a world where the most recent big tech innovations have ended up going a lot more poorly than we hoped. If you can do this to criminals, what stops them from deploying it more broadly? You can’t lock up everybody— you could, theoretically, give everybody a dystopian minder droid.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 9h

Castille, yeah! Good luck eating Aragon before the French though.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 9h

Optimus Crime.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 9h

To be honest, since they jacked the province count up by an order of magnitude and the buildings per province up by an order of magnitude, I’m deeply unclear that thr gameplay *works* without heavy automation.

What nation are you playing as?

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah. What you’re going to want to do is *fully* automate your economy for your first run or two. There will still be plenty to do with the Econ game once you have some gold up and running, but it’s absolutely overwhelming to try to understand it all at once.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 14h

Richy rich thinks he’s better than you because he was born with that silver spoon.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 17h

This is goofy.
You can a) show that he miraculously survived and washed up onshore, like an old cliffhanger serial

b) not acknowledge it, a time-honored Bond approach to canon that audiences broadly accept.

c) have the old 007 replaced by a new one— more or less fanon for decades.

Easy.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 1d

Er… yes? Obviously the leader of a party in a legislative body is responsible for wrangling party members to vote as a bloc. That’s one of the core functions of the job.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t see how we can stand united when the party leadership can’t or won’t hold the tune they got the rest of us to sing?

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 1d

What possible good is a predetermined vote going to accomplish?

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! This is absolute political malpractice!
Even *given* the cowardice, the messaging should be better than ‘we are weak, they are strong, we dare not resist’

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 2d

That’d guarantee a January shutdown without SNAP cuts and RIFs (covered for the year where other funding runs out Jan 30th). Seems unlikely— about the only way to kick that door back open.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 2d

Unlabeled Ai use should be a felony.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 2d

And he lost the vote. As leadership, that is a catastrophic failure.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 2d

CNN is owned by Warner Brothers, a publicly traded corporation. Neither its CEO nor that of its parent are billionaires. Situation is different than NYT/LAT/WaPo/FOX/WSJ/CBS.

The information space IS unfairly tilted, but let’s not let narrative start manufacturing facts.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 2d

You can’t just abstract ‘better paying’ from the ability to purchase things!

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately the only means to capture it are sitting at those gates.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 2d

It could be— if he was responsive to progressive voices in a way that alienated the independents he needed to win.

But, uh, sure doesn’t look like that happened?

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 3d

No longer shall we be caught between the moon and New York City!

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 3d

That’s why they smile at ten feet. It’s like a snake’s rattle, a warning not to approach any closer. This is good game design— a tell well in advance of the impact radius.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 3d

On the other side of all this we ought to, among many other things, substantially restrict the border search exception zone and with it CBP jurisdiction.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 3d

Sadly, no one watched Skeleton Crew which was very much in this vein.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 3d

It would have been worth it for canonizing the “TOS Era” as an in-universe term alone.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 3d

I think it has been.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 3d

They love it as worked example that oppression can work in the modern developed world.

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