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I'm Cal, in Toronto 🇨🇦. Doing tool and #gamedev, #film, #writing. Wrangling chronic illness, so I can get back to acting, circus, martial arts. Tech prefs: #MacOS or #Linux, #UnrealEngine, #Ruby or #RubyMotion. Pronouns: any (not a gendered persona)
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Miyamoto, Itoi, & Iwata on how “passable” is unacceptable feedback, 2011.
Source: Iwata Asks
#MiyamotoQuote, #ItoiQuote, #IwataQuote
www.hyruleinterviews.com/8f65dbbe83ce...
Source: Iwata Asks
#MiyamotoQuote, #ItoiQuote, #IwataQuote
www.hyruleinterviews.com/8f65dbbe83ce...
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Miyamoto, Itoi, & Iwata on how “passable” is unacceptable feedback, 2011.
Source: Iwata Asks
#MiyamotoQuote, #ItoiQuote, #IwataQuote
www.hyruleinterviews.com/8f65dbbe83ce...
Source: Iwata Asks
#MiyamotoQuote, #ItoiQuote, #IwataQuote
www.hyruleinterviews.com/8f65dbbe83ce...
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I say iPads, but really it’s the software: I think the last fifteen years of consumer software design has basically been asbestos for the mind. A bunch of “best practices” for commercial objectives are basically fucking poison.
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I say iPads, but really it’s the software: I think the last fifteen years of consumer software design has basically been asbestos for the mind. A bunch of “best practices” for commercial objectives are basically fucking poison.
So's you know, Crave streamer in Canada is something like half price until Dec 1 for a year annual sub (goes to full price the second year). Seems a large catalogue, incl many (all?) HBO shows. But the big thing is you pay, you watch -- no constant upselling like Netflix, Prime! Such a relief!
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
So's you know, Crave streamer in Canada is something like half price until Dec 1 for a year annual sub (goes to full price the second year). Seems a large catalogue, incl many (all?) HBO shows. But the big thing is you pay, you watch -- no constant upselling like Netflix, Prime! Such a relief!
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Academic paper finds that worst case predictions are accurate over a five year period, but can't oversee the full scope of bad outcomes over a ten year span. An interesting conclusion found studying the effects of the largest own goal in recent history, Brexit.
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Academic paper finds that worst case predictions are accurate over a five year period, but can't oversee the full scope of bad outcomes over a ten year span. An interesting conclusion found studying the effects of the largest own goal in recent history, Brexit.
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
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the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
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I think scientists are trained for this work - not in the theory but in its analysis and application. And we're trained to learn new things.
We have the ability to look for logic & debunk unsupported claims.
But like any group, we exist as a spectrum, not a single entity. Better and worse ones
We have the ability to look for logic & debunk unsupported claims.
But like any group, we exist as a spectrum, not a single entity. Better and worse ones
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I think scientists are trained for this work - not in the theory but in its analysis and application. And we're trained to learn new things.
We have the ability to look for logic & debunk unsupported claims.
But like any group, we exist as a spectrum, not a single entity. Better and worse ones
We have the ability to look for logic & debunk unsupported claims.
But like any group, we exist as a spectrum, not a single entity. Better and worse ones
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If they ever get around to building this thing, it should be bulldozed on Day 1 of a new administration. No messing around, no hemming and hawing about procedure or costs. Order heavy equipment in and start knocking it down immediately, as surely as an overthrown tyrant's statues would be torn down.
Even the architect Trump hired to build his massive addition to the White House objects to the president's vision. The two have argued about the size of the 90,000-sq-foot project that would dwarf the mansion. @jonathanreports.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If they ever get around to building this thing, it should be bulldozed on Day 1 of a new administration. No messing around, no hemming and hawing about procedure or costs. Order heavy equipment in and start knocking it down immediately, as surely as an overthrown tyrant's statues would be torn down.
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Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
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When Josh & I were first trying to get our paper in which we argue that just war theorists and associated people should probably consider harm to animals as well as harm to humans, one reviewer questioned our project because "soldiers don't ride on horseback anymore", so no animals were being harmed
ITV‘s Good Morning Britain just concluded with a story about Russia using pigeons with brain implants to spy. Presenters & panelists fell about laughing. Because there’s nothing so hilarious as pictures of birds with holes cut in their skulls & implants glued on. ha ha ha metro.co.uk/2025/11/27/p...
Putin's scientists are creating spy pigeons controlled by brain implants
The researchers say the pigeons can be steered 'at will'.
metro.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
When Josh & I were first trying to get our paper in which we argue that just war theorists and associated people should probably consider harm to animals as well as harm to humans, one reviewer questioned our project because "soldiers don't ride on horseback anymore", so no animals were being harmed
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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Earlier this month, the ITK denounced the federal government for not renewing funding to eliminate the disease in Inuit
TB outbreak hits Labrador weeks after ITK decried funding loss
Health officials in Newfoundland and Labrador have declared an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) within the...
www.aptnnews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Earlier this month, the ITK denounced the federal government for not renewing funding to eliminate the disease in Inuit
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Murder is the right word.
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Murder is the right word.
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There was a long long time when many many powerful people refused to stand up to Joe McCarthy. And then McCarthy got weak, and people found their spines.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
There was a long long time when many many powerful people refused to stand up to Joe McCarthy. And then McCarthy got weak, and people found their spines.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
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Hollywood is allergic to this sort of advice, but I agree with the thinking that good marketing will both attract your target audience and push away the people who are NOT your audience.
Being clear about what the game is AND ISN'T is one way to do exactly this.
Being clear about what the game is AND ISN'T is one way to do exactly this.
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Hollywood is allergic to this sort of advice, but I agree with the thinking that good marketing will both attract your target audience and push away the people who are NOT your audience.
Being clear about what the game is AND ISN'T is one way to do exactly this.
Being clear about what the game is AND ISN'T is one way to do exactly this.
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A lawyer representing First Nations in a 2019 lawsuit against the federal government says his clients may take legal action to force Ottawa to reintroduce legislation to give them clean drinking water.
Further court action by First Nations could be coming as they grow impatient with the federal government over safe water legislation. Indigenous Services Canada has promised to reintroduce it in the fall session which ends in less than two weeks.
www.aptnnews.ca?p=280372
www.aptnnews.ca?p=280372
First Nations considering court action to get feds to move on clean water
A lawyer in a 2019 lawsuit against Ottawa says his clients are considering legal action to force it to get moving on cleaning drinking water.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A lawyer representing First Nations in a 2019 lawsuit against the federal government says his clients may take legal action to force Ottawa to reintroduce legislation to give them clean drinking water.
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Alberta just opened the door to two-tier healthcare.
This is what that actually means.
New CHW piece by Dr. Paul Parks:
This is what that actually means.
New CHW piece by Dr. Paul Parks:
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Alberta just opened the door to two-tier healthcare.
This is what that actually means.
New CHW piece by Dr. Paul Parks:
This is what that actually means.
New CHW piece by Dr. Paul Parks:
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...and now PhysicsFS and SDL_sound (and more to come) are bridged to the wiki! wiki.icculus.org
physfs: docs: Fix up deprecated APIs to use signature that wikiheaders expects.
physfs: docs: Fix up deprecated APIs to use signature that wikiheaders expects.
github.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
...and now PhysicsFS and SDL_sound (and more to come) are bridged to the wiki! wiki.icculus.org
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People see the scars. But they see you, too, and you aren't the scars. You aren't ugly. You aren't evil. You are Therru, and beautiful. You are Therru who can work, and walk, and run, and dance, beautifully, in a red dress.
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
People see the scars. But they see you, too, and you aren't the scars. You aren't ugly. You aren't evil. You are Therru, and beautiful. You are Therru who can work, and walk, and run, and dance, beautifully, in a red dress.
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Hidden, a TikTok-like platform operated by sex workers, is launching as OnlyFans is implementing background checks for performers and expanding beyond adult content. www.wired.com/story/sex-wo...
Sex Workers Built an ‘Anti-OnlyFans’ to Take Control of Their Profits
Hidden, a TikTok-like platform operated by sex workers, is launching as OnlyFans is implementing background checks for performers and expanding beyond adult content.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Hidden, a TikTok-like platform operated by sex workers, is launching as OnlyFans is implementing background checks for performers and expanding beyond adult content. www.wired.com/story/sex-wo...
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It’s not a bias. It’s a transaction. Tens of millions of Ukrainian lives and the remnants of American respectability in exchange for an increase in the private fortunes of a few people.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Thursday defended President Trump’s special envoy against accusations of pro-Kremlin bias.
Putin Defends Witkoff Against Accusations of Pro-Russia Bias
The Russian leader called the U.S. special envoy “an intelligent man” who is properly representing his country in peace negotiations.
nyti.ms
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It’s not a bias. It’s a transaction. Tens of millions of Ukrainian lives and the remnants of American respectability in exchange for an increase in the private fortunes of a few people.
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I just subscribed to The Onion because our dumbass President just announced a White Nationalist Ethnostate and all of my "serious" news apps are giving me push notifications about edible dining table centerpieces and fart walks.
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I just subscribed to The Onion because our dumbass President just announced a White Nationalist Ethnostate and all of my "serious" news apps are giving me push notifications about edible dining table centerpieces and fart walks.
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Me buying a copy of The Onion when I was 18: "let's see what those rascals are up to now."
Me subscribing to The Onion now: "It is my duty as a patriot to see what those rascals are up to now."
Me subscribing to The Onion now: "It is my duty as a patriot to see what those rascals are up to now."
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Me buying a copy of The Onion when I was 18: "let's see what those rascals are up to now."
Me subscribing to The Onion now: "It is my duty as a patriot to see what those rascals are up to now."
Me subscribing to The Onion now: "It is my duty as a patriot to see what those rascals are up to now."
