Matthew Isaac Harvey
@acornapocalypse.bsky.social
Writer, tabletop & Warhammer dork, queer person, imminent PhD (enaction, ecological psych, language, interaction). Yes that's actually Nessie
For context, women make up 15% of the army and 6% of infantry. So small but significant numbers, and presumably rising (although I'm too lazy to check).
Anyway, that isn't the point lmao. Truly the most crazed steam review I've ever seen, and that's a high bar.
Anyway, that isn't the point lmao. Truly the most crazed steam review I've ever seen, and that's a high bar.
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
For context, women make up 15% of the army and 6% of infantry. So small but significant numbers, and presumably rising (although I'm too lazy to check).
Anyway, that isn't the point lmao. Truly the most crazed steam review I've ever seen, and that's a high bar.
Anyway, that isn't the point lmao. Truly the most crazed steam review I've ever seen, and that's a high bar.
I hear you, and I'm sorry about that. And hey, it's not like you were actually being a jerk, and those were perfectly good counterpoints.
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I hear you, and I'm sorry about that. And hey, it's not like you were actually being a jerk, and those were perfectly good counterpoints.
Just to offer the contrasting perspective, I play games for the perfect 30-second loop. Destiny, Borderlands, Diablo, Doom, Souls, etc offer the most complete immersion and flow I experience while gaming. Pure delight.
By contrast, interactive story doesn't grab me like movies/TV/books.
By contrast, interactive story doesn't grab me like movies/TV/books.
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Just to offer the contrasting perspective, I play games for the perfect 30-second loop. Destiny, Borderlands, Diablo, Doom, Souls, etc offer the most complete immersion and flow I experience while gaming. Pure delight.
By contrast, interactive story doesn't grab me like movies/TV/books.
By contrast, interactive story doesn't grab me like movies/TV/books.
Fish magpie people 🤩
Also no, the fish people clearly go fishing for humans
Also no, the fish people clearly go fishing for humans
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Fish magpie people 🤩
Also no, the fish people clearly go fishing for humans
Also no, the fish people clearly go fishing for humans
Are you just going through this thread being dickish to people? Gotta be kinder if you want conversation.
Also: Like everything in Souls, the lack of pause button is part of creating a distinctive emotional atmosphere — it's only like that to allow for invasions and co-op.
Also: Like everything in Souls, the lack of pause button is part of creating a distinctive emotional atmosphere — it's only like that to allow for invasions and co-op.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Are you just going through this thread being dickish to people? Gotta be kinder if you want conversation.
Also: Like everything in Souls, the lack of pause button is part of creating a distinctive emotional atmosphere — it's only like that to allow for invasions and co-op.
Also: Like everything in Souls, the lack of pause button is part of creating a distinctive emotional atmosphere — it's only like that to allow for invasions and co-op.
Man this has got to be the bot with the highest percentage of phenomenal, s-tier tweets despite, y'know, being a bot.
Stunning testament tbh, such a crowd pleaser as a public work of art
Stunning testament tbh, such a crowd pleaser as a public work of art
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Man this has got to be the bot with the highest percentage of phenomenal, s-tier tweets despite, y'know, being a bot.
Stunning testament tbh, such a crowd pleaser as a public work of art
Stunning testament tbh, such a crowd pleaser as a public work of art
Mortgages are such extractive financial instruments that almost any change would improve them.
Require banks to put 80% of all payments toward the principle, starting from day 1.
Require banks to put 80% of all payments toward the principle, starting from day 1.
November 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Mortgages are such extractive financial instruments that almost any change would improve them.
Require banks to put 80% of all payments toward the principle, starting from day 1.
Require banks to put 80% of all payments toward the principle, starting from day 1.
Call this the "richness of the stimulus" argument. No?
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Call this the "richness of the stimulus" argument. No?
Yeah it's hard science in the sense that it's really hard to do, cause cats keep whacking the measuring tape
Impossible science more like 😤 move your dang paws science 😤 those beans are a problem science 😤 but wait, who wants a little treat science 😍 aw look at her science 😭
Impossible science more like 😤 move your dang paws science 😤 those beans are a problem science 😤 but wait, who wants a little treat science 😍 aw look at her science 😭
November 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Yeah it's hard science in the sense that it's really hard to do, cause cats keep whacking the measuring tape
Impossible science more like 😤 move your dang paws science 😤 those beans are a problem science 😤 but wait, who wants a little treat science 😍 aw look at her science 😭
Impossible science more like 😤 move your dang paws science 😤 those beans are a problem science 😤 but wait, who wants a little treat science 😍 aw look at her science 😭
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In our upcoming Technomoral Conversation we will discuss how AI has transformed science for better or worse, what it means for AI to be seen as a scientist & whether AI can truly fulfill its promise for science.
🗓️ Tues 4 Nov 18.00-19.30 GMT
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online
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🗓️ Tues 4 Nov 18.00-19.30 GMT
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online
🎟️ edin.ac/3VSUXUt
Technomoral Conversations: How Will AI Change Science? — Centre for Technomoral Futures
During this Technomoral Conversation, we will hear from Dr Emily Sullivan, Dr Eran Tal, Dr Arfon Smith, and Professor Anna Scaife on the impact of data driven machine learning and AI on science and kn...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In our upcoming Technomoral Conversation we will discuss how AI has transformed science for better or worse, what it means for AI to be seen as a scientist & whether AI can truly fulfill its promise for science.
🗓️ Tues 4 Nov 18.00-19.30 GMT
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online
🎟️ edin.ac/3VSUXUt
🗓️ Tues 4 Nov 18.00-19.30 GMT
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online
🎟️ edin.ac/3VSUXUt
There should be about 3-5 ways to play. That's the max. High risk, low risk, fast, slow, silly.
October 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
There should be about 3-5 ways to play. That's the max. High risk, low risk, fast, slow, silly.
Taxes on middle class families would rise from like 30% to 40%. Taxes on finance executives would go from 37% (and de facto more like 2%, thanks to loopholes) to like 90%.
So yes to broad-based taxes. But also, half of American wealth belongs to about 4,000 people. Let's get it back in circulation.
So yes to broad-based taxes. But also, half of American wealth belongs to about 4,000 people. Let's get it back in circulation.
October 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Taxes on middle class families would rise from like 30% to 40%. Taxes on finance executives would go from 37% (and de facto more like 2%, thanks to loopholes) to like 90%.
So yes to broad-based taxes. But also, half of American wealth belongs to about 4,000 people. Let's get it back in circulation.
So yes to broad-based taxes. But also, half of American wealth belongs to about 4,000 people. Let's get it back in circulation.
Sure, but taxes on the middle class in Scandinavia aren't all that much higher than here in the US.
Whereas taxes on the rich are astronomically higher, and many more people count as rich, and a much smaller percentage of wealth is locked up by the rich.
Whereas taxes on the rich are astronomically higher, and many more people count as rich, and a much smaller percentage of wealth is locked up by the rich.
October 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Sure, but taxes on the middle class in Scandinavia aren't all that much higher than here in the US.
Whereas taxes on the rich are astronomically higher, and many more people count as rich, and a much smaller percentage of wealth is locked up by the rich.
Whereas taxes on the rich are astronomically higher, and many more people count as rich, and a much smaller percentage of wealth is locked up by the rich.
It really feels like the only answer is to start dismantling disinformation networks. Fox, OAN, Sinclair.
There have to be ways to do that without trampling on free speech. The problem isn't that weird evil liars are on the air, it's that they're reaching audiences of 150 million.
There have to be ways to do that without trampling on free speech. The problem isn't that weird evil liars are on the air, it's that they're reaching audiences of 150 million.
October 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It really feels like the only answer is to start dismantling disinformation networks. Fox, OAN, Sinclair.
There have to be ways to do that without trampling on free speech. The problem isn't that weird evil liars are on the air, it's that they're reaching audiences of 150 million.
There have to be ways to do that without trampling on free speech. The problem isn't that weird evil liars are on the air, it's that they're reaching audiences of 150 million.
Any conversation about Dems winning should start and end with Murdoch, the Sinclair Smiths, and social media algorithms.
Messaging doesn't matter when no one sees it, and policy doesn't matter when truth can't reach its audience.
Like worrying about branding on water bottles during a drought.
Messaging doesn't matter when no one sees it, and policy doesn't matter when truth can't reach its audience.
Like worrying about branding on water bottles during a drought.
October 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Any conversation about Dems winning should start and end with Murdoch, the Sinclair Smiths, and social media algorithms.
Messaging doesn't matter when no one sees it, and policy doesn't matter when truth can't reach its audience.
Like worrying about branding on water bottles during a drought.
Messaging doesn't matter when no one sees it, and policy doesn't matter when truth can't reach its audience.
Like worrying about branding on water bottles during a drought.
David Graeber talks about small-c communism, the everyday shared commitment to making it in this world, that has always operated at the level of families, neighborhoods, communities.
That's one part of it!
That's one part of it!
October 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
David Graeber talks about small-c communism, the everyday shared commitment to making it in this world, that has always operated at the level of families, neighborhoods, communities.
That's one part of it!
That's one part of it!
How about David Wengrow? He and Graeber did Dawn of Everything, which is sort of the anti-Sapiens, in that it's all nuance and context and strong scholarly threads, vs. Sapiens' blunt totalizing summary.
October 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
How about David Wengrow? He and Graeber did Dawn of Everything, which is sort of the anti-Sapiens, in that it's all nuance and context and strong scholarly threads, vs. Sapiens' blunt totalizing summary.
Bring back "scientific parlour magic"
More seriously: Wonderful article, just overflowing with positivity — so many of the books it describes talk about the delight not just of finding things out (80 years pre-Feynman) but of making stuff with science.
More seriously: Wonderful article, just overflowing with positivity — so many of the books it describes talk about the delight not just of finding things out (80 years pre-Feynman) but of making stuff with science.
October 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Bring back "scientific parlour magic"
More seriously: Wonderful article, just overflowing with positivity — so many of the books it describes talk about the delight not just of finding things out (80 years pre-Feynman) but of making stuff with science.
More seriously: Wonderful article, just overflowing with positivity — so many of the books it describes talk about the delight not just of finding things out (80 years pre-Feynman) but of making stuff with science.
This is a really good thread
October 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is a really good thread