@danctheduck.bsky.social can't believe this is 20 years old. just came up at work because I caught someone in the cafe casually reading one of your posts on value chains!
Nintendo’s Genre Innovation Strategy: Thoughts on the Revolution’s new controller
I’m still jet lagged from my recent trip overseas, but I managed to stay awake for the new Nintendo controller announcement. I must say that I’m feeling like an excited Japanese school boy waiting …
lostgarden.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
@danctheduck.bsky.social can't believe this is 20 years old. just came up at work because I caught someone in the cafe casually reading one of your posts on value chains!
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The majority of human discourse seems to break down into “it would be bad if this were true so it’s not true” or “it would be good if this were true so it’s true” with a side of “you caused this bad thing to happen by telling me about it”.
October 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The majority of human discourse seems to break down into “it would be bad if this were true so it’s not true” or “it would be good if this were true so it’s true” with a side of “you caused this bad thing to happen by telling me about it”.
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i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
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Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. America begins to forget at a geometric rate. It loses self-awareness at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
March 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. America begins to forget at a geometric rate. It loses self-awareness at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. [...]
August 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. [...]
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It's got enough room for me & the whole squad ⚔️
July 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
It's got enough room for me & the whole squad ⚔️
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Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first year Fediverse power-user. You just got finished reading about how Bluesky isn’t decentralized — Christine’s blog post probably — and you’re convinced that AT Protocol is a flash in the pan while ActivityPub is the real hope for the web’s future.
May 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first year Fediverse power-user. You just got finished reading about how Bluesky isn’t decentralized — Christine’s blog post probably — and you’re convinced that AT Protocol is a flash in the pan while ActivityPub is the real hope for the web’s future.
Meanwhile in 1993: "Silicon Valley is famed for its boy-wonder millionaires, but for every one of those people there are a couple dozen others making minimum wage and working in pitiful conditions"
Sharing this 1993 @wired.com article on Karen Hossfeld’s ethnographic work about racist, sexist stereotypes in electronics manufacturing for no reason www.wired.com/1993/04/smal...
Small, Foreign, and Female
Silicon Valley is filled with secrets, and Karen Hossfeld plans to reveal one of its dirtiest. A San Francisco State University sociologist, Hossfeld has focused her attention on the forgotten workfor...
www.wired.com
May 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Meanwhile in 1993: "Silicon Valley is famed for its boy-wonder millionaires, but for every one of those people there are a couple dozen others making minimum wage and working in pitiful conditions"
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The through-line of the necropolitics this decade is “I can’t breathe.”
May 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The through-line of the necropolitics this decade is “I can’t breathe.”
Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. America begins to forget at a geometric rate. It loses self-awareness at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
March 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. America begins to forget at a geometric rate. It loses self-awareness at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
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March 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Ever-hungry for new frontiers in personal autonomy and market emancipation, human beings have altered the environment with the unintended result of empowering newly ravenous bears" newrepublic.com/article/1596...
The Town That Went Feral
When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.
newrepublic.com
March 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"Ever-hungry for new frontiers in personal autonomy and market emancipation, human beings have altered the environment with the unintended result of empowering newly ravenous bears" newrepublic.com/article/1596...
"I've discovered his weakness."
"Yes?"
"He cares. He actually cares for these Earth people."
"Like pets?"
"I suppose so."
"Sentimental idiot."
"Yes?"
"He cares. He actually cares for these Earth people."
"Like pets?"
"I suppose so."
"Sentimental idiot."
March 7, 2025 at 3:41 AM
"I've discovered his weakness."
"Yes?"
"He cares. He actually cares for these Earth people."
"Like pets?"
"I suppose so."
"Sentimental idiot."
"Yes?"
"He cares. He actually cares for these Earth people."
"Like pets?"
"I suppose so."
"Sentimental idiot."
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Just realised that "Gene Hackman" is the exact name that Hideo Kojima would give a biochemist
February 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Just realised that "Gene Hackman" is the exact name that Hideo Kojima would give a biochemist
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VRChat presents us with the cyberpunk dystopia of questions like "which is more important, having a dick or a face?"
February 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
VRChat presents us with the cyberpunk dystopia of questions like "which is more important, having a dick or a face?"
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In "Lay epistemology and the Populist's playbook: The roles of epistemological identity and expressive epistemology" in Current Opinion in Psychology from Nov 23, my grad students and argue argue that performances of "lay epistemology" by populist leaders may shape group norms...
November 11, 2024 at 1:52 AM
In "Lay epistemology and the Populist's playbook: The roles of epistemological identity and expressive epistemology" in Current Opinion in Psychology from Nov 23, my grad students and argue argue that performances of "lay epistemology" by populist leaders may shape group norms...
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You're telling me
that Margo Martindale
and Wayne Knight
were once partners
on a team of character actors who moonlit as private investigators
to supplement film/tv income by busting bad guys with their acting skills
and this has never been adapted into the longest-running show on NBC?
that Margo Martindale
and Wayne Knight
were once partners
on a team of character actors who moonlit as private investigators
to supplement film/tv income by busting bad guys with their acting skills
and this has never been adapted into the longest-running show on NBC?
December 29, 2024 at 11:48 PM
You're telling me
that Margo Martindale
and Wayne Knight
were once partners
on a team of character actors who moonlit as private investigators
to supplement film/tv income by busting bad guys with their acting skills
and this has never been adapted into the longest-running show on NBC?
that Margo Martindale
and Wayne Knight
were once partners
on a team of character actors who moonlit as private investigators
to supplement film/tv income by busting bad guys with their acting skills
and this has never been adapted into the longest-running show on NBC?
i hope someone who just played SOMA sees this
you're transported into the last video game you played. don't tell me what it is, i can't hear you anyway. you are now stuck in a virtual world and if the console is turned off you will die. your soul will be stuck in the wires and you will not reach heaven
December 21, 2024 at 6:28 AM
i hope someone who just played SOMA sees this