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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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Staunch liberal, hopeful Georgist, moderate intuitionist. Hoping to one day pass on an even better world than the one I inherited. Retweet =/= Endorsement
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ICE is gross. In a lawsuit over inhumane detention conditions on floor 6 of ICE building in San Francisco resulted in a preliminary injunction. So ICE moved detainees to floor 5, claiming that skirts the injunction. Judge says, no way.

www.courthousenews.com/judge-rips-t...
January 2, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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People who think Kurosawa is “homework cinema” need to be slapped around a bit.
so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"
January 2, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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And lastly: More Dune (1992) propaganda. azhdarchid.com/designing-fo...
Thematic expression in game design, or: Why Dune (1992) rules
Games like Dune (1992) and Pirates (1987) are hardly ever made any more. What sets them apart?
azhdarchid.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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I've been thinking a lot about genre lately, and about mapping out "genre landscapes" like the emerging movement of knowledge-driven games. azhdarchid.com/against-metr...
Against 'Metroidbrania': a Landscape of Knowledge Games
What are knowledge games? How do we relate them to each other? What sub-genres exist – and which ones might be implied?
azhdarchid.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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“knowledge game” is a better term but here’s @brunodias.bsky.social working through both the genre and pointing you to recommendations
January 3, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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there was a weirdly snide take about how Mystery Games Are Boring but this is actually a bigger thing! dismissal of the mobile audience & leaving them to the worst actors in this space; lowkey proliferation of farming sims; no one can make a non-sweaty extraction shooter until Arc; etc
I feel like you had a few games in mind when you wrote this. Which?
January 3, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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anyway I think the exposure of this fault line makes some people uncomfortable: that there are game-shaped things out there that aren’t for them. but this isn’t going back in the bottle. the Industry is fractured & as soon as everyone — CEOs, devs, gamers, journalists — get that, the better.
January 3, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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no one wants to hear this but the place to advertise them is Instagram: there are dozens of ads for “solve this mystery” analog boxes that seem to have a market. if you can get a fraction of that audience to cross over into digital then ???
January 3, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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I think mystery games are good actually
January 3, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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they get partial credit because up until fairly recently Linux was pretty user-hostile and inconsistent with well-known issues that just got shrugged at, it’s only because of years of effort to start putting their own house in order that it’s become a realistic alternative to Windows
January 2, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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the only thing more frustrating than realizing all the 90s linux guys were right is the knowledge that they realize it too.
January 2, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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People have no idea how contagious measles is or how explosively outbreaks can spread. Very dangerous.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...
January 3, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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Tonight's EPIC #FridayNightZillow kicks off with a $29.995M megamansion in Alpine, Utah that is absolutely *STUFFED* with eye-candy, including this SECRET TUNNEL to a hidden Hobbit House! 8BR, 16BAs, 30K SF & "resort-quality" amenities. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
January 3, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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Since I love procgen / high systemic story generator games, I decided to finally pick up Rim World. But I did not like it, which did not make any sense. So I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why and made a little graph.
January 2, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner points out two Supreme Court decisions, INS v. Lopez-Mendoza (1984) and Egbert v. Boule (2022), that ensure ICE and deportation officers will not be held to the civil liberties standards to which other law enforcers can sometimes be held.
January 3, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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figuring out cadence on this one seems pretty important because he's not gonna tell us when he flunks
Another cognitive exam…
January 2, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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The WHCA just collectively, consensually gave up on doing their jobs huh?
These are ALL WH pool reports from today.
January 3, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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January 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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January 2, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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It's probably helpful to remember that for any group, the people on social media who are the most loud and vigorous representations of that group are probably not actually fairly representative of that group
January 3, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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Well you can tell by the way I use my walk
I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk.
January 2, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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This is fake. Not a real Politico article. Not something that’s being considered. Someone with *320K followers* should be exercising more caution before posting whatever someone sends them
"It's completely unacceptable to see fat generals. It's a bad look and it's not who we are. [Whatever your rank or uniform] you need to meet height and weight standards and pass you PT test."

--Pete Hegseth, Sep 30, 2025
January 2, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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A Japanese artist made the print DHS lifted to spread anti-immigrant hate. Can't make this up.
January 2, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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A good start
January 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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pg seems to have this kind of revelation every few months for... years? And then... does nothing and goes back to doing the same things he was doing before and hyping up the same people he was before.

I remember when he quit Twitter for Mastodon. For like a week.
Paul Graham has been having a several months long “Are we the baddies?” moment on X.

Here he concedes that people have had their fears come to pass when it comes to tech billionaires misusing their wealth to capture political power.
January 3, 2026 at 12:17 AM