Ian
@brocktoon.bsky.social
Wrote a lot professionally. Write a little now. Adjunct. Doctor of Communication.
https://stuckness.ghost.io/what-this-is-who-i-am-who-i-am-is-what-i-am-is-who-i-am-context-collapse/
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Up on the newsletter: the time I got day drunk and tried to buy the rights to the Mitchell score because a bad MMO promised to let you play a cop with your own theme song.
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The time I tried and failed to buy the Mitchell film score
In 2008, I tried to buy the film score to the legendary in some circles (mostly MST3K fans) Joe Don Baker film Mitchell. I was not successful.
A new MMO called All Points Bulletin was in beta. It was...
stuckness.ghost.io
February 16, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Up on the newsletter: the time I got day drunk and tried to buy the rights to the Mitchell score because a bad MMO promised to let you play a cop with your own theme song.
stuckness.ghost.io/the-time-i-t...
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This is happening at a far faster pace than we anticipated in the episode. Extremely grim, very enraging
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
February 16, 2026 at 11:32 PM
This is happening at a far faster pace than we anticipated in the episode. Extremely grim, very enraging
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
I just discovered that Larry Brown, composer of the Mitchell score, has a website which didn't exist in 2008 near as I can tell. I have emailed him.
February 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
I just discovered that Larry Brown, composer of the Mitchell score, has a website which didn't exist in 2008 near as I can tell. I have emailed him.
In Mitchell they opt for what sounds like a 1970s corporate onboarding video song and it is legit the best song in the movie.
it's not a chase scene without the wakka-jo-wakkas
February 16, 2026 at 11:43 PM
In Mitchell they opt for what sounds like a 1970s corporate onboarding video song and it is legit the best song in the movie.
I am telling you with my full chest: the Mitchell score is a dense text
Damn that’s a lot of 70s score components in a tight bundle.
February 16, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I am telling you with my full chest: the Mitchell score is a dense text
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piggyback off the new mst3k kickstarter to crowdfund an entertainment attorney to track this down imo
February 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM
piggyback off the new mst3k kickstarter to crowdfund an entertainment attorney to track this down imo
Up on the newsletter: the time I got day drunk and tried to buy the rights to the Mitchell score because a bad MMO promised to let you play a cop with your own theme song.
stuckness.ghost.io/the-time-i-t...
stuckness.ghost.io/the-time-i-t...
The time I tried and failed to buy the Mitchell film score
In 2008, I tried to buy the film score to the legendary in some circles (mostly MST3K fans) Joe Don Baker film Mitchell. I was not successful.
A new MMO called All Points Bulletin was in beta. It was...
stuckness.ghost.io
February 16, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Up on the newsletter: the time I got day drunk and tried to buy the rights to the Mitchell score because a bad MMO promised to let you play a cop with your own theme song.
stuckness.ghost.io/the-time-i-t...
stuckness.ghost.io/the-time-i-t...
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the impossible number of games that release on Steam every day has been discourse for years
why would anybody want to play a game nobody could be bothered to make
why would anybody want to play a game nobody could be bothered to make
Unity says its AI tech will soon be able to 'prompt full casual games into existence'
Unity says its AI tech will soon be able to 'prompt full casual games into existence'
Company CEO Matt Bromberg claims AI will empower non-coders and seasoned developers alike.
www.gamedeveloper.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:27 PM
the impossible number of games that release on Steam every day has been discourse for years
why would anybody want to play a game nobody could be bothered to make
why would anybody want to play a game nobody could be bothered to make
When Microsoft Gamepass went live a lot of friends, some of whom really should've known better, were really excited. Also Google Stadia. The proximate problem was fewer funds to fewer game devs. The more ephemeral problem, not immediately apparent, was that it was prelude to more subscriptions
February 16, 2026 at 10:51 PM
When Microsoft Gamepass went live a lot of friends, some of whom really should've known better, were really excited. Also Google Stadia. The proximate problem was fewer funds to fewer game devs. The more ephemeral problem, not immediately apparent, was that it was prelude to more subscriptions
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“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines
-NYT ethical guidelines
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:48 PM
“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines
-NYT ethical guidelines
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It is absolutely a choice.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:58 PM
It is absolutely a choice.
As one does during a Warhammer weekend, we actually just hung out on the porch smoking and talking about philosophy. And this sort of thing came up, that all of this is an attempt to rectify the language as prison problem and the subject/object divide.
Humans often say: It's hard to find the words for it. So when comparing "us" with AI and LLMs, we need to start to acknowledge: language is just a small communicative layer in human experience; actually, it is a bottleneck. So no LLM could ever cover the entirety of being human.
February 16, 2026 at 1:57 PM
As one does during a Warhammer weekend, we actually just hung out on the porch smoking and talking about philosophy. And this sort of thing came up, that all of this is an attempt to rectify the language as prison problem and the subject/object divide.
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Kepa voluntarily goes off after being subbed in a cup match. That's character development.
February 15, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Kepa voluntarily goes off after being subbed in a cup match. That's character development.
ALERT: ARSENAL PLAYED SOME ONE-TWOS
February 15, 2026 at 5:02 PM
ALERT: ARSENAL PLAYED SOME ONE-TWOS
Arsenal should be beating Wigan but this is an ass beating.
February 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Arsenal should be beating Wigan but this is an ass beating.
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Most of them come from the computer industry, but we’ve been deeply acculturated into holding tech to a lower standard, and accepting “user error” vs bad design. It’s dogma of the tech industry: endless special pleading for failures we as a society did not previously accept from any other industry.
February 14, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Most of them come from the computer industry, but we’ve been deeply acculturated into holding tech to a lower standard, and accepting “user error” vs bad design. It’s dogma of the tech industry: endless special pleading for failures we as a society did not previously accept from any other industry.
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Watching pro AI people in Reddit discussions about slop PRs (code edit submissions to open source public software projects) complaining "What's the problem just review the PRs, if they're good merge them" really underlines a lot of the problematic way that AI boosters devalue respect for labour.
February 14, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Watching pro AI people in Reddit discussions about slop PRs (code edit submissions to open source public software projects) complaining "What's the problem just review the PRs, if they're good merge them" really underlines a lot of the problematic way that AI boosters devalue respect for labour.
Kind of want to learn curling.
February 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Kind of want to learn curling.
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Asleep on my lap I can't move
February 14, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Asleep on my lap I can't move
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"We have, in any case, become `just anyone' today."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
February 14, 2026 at 1:25 AM
"We have, in any case, become `just anyone' today."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
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Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?
February 13, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?