materialcontext
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MA History. Current Accounting graduate student. Mostly here to follow ancient and monetary history. Seoul. 🏴
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damn. wouldn't it be crazy if organic intelligence were to build systems of sufficient complexity that, at some critical bottleneck or regression of baseline stability and collective intelligence, resulted in a series of system crashes and cascades where aforementioned life couldn't stop the loop
March 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
damn. wouldn't it be crazy if organic intelligence were to build systems of sufficient complexity that, at some critical bottleneck or regression of baseline stability and collective intelligence, resulted in a series of system crashes and cascades where aforementioned life couldn't stop the loop
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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
April 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
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Perhaps the Gamers are alright
March 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Perhaps the Gamers are alright
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Self-deportation is what the colonizationists wanted free black people to do in the 19th century. And white Americans tried to make life so difficult for free black people that they would choose to leave. But most free black people rejected that option because the US was their country, too.
March 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Self-deportation is what the colonizationists wanted free black people to do in the 19th century. And white Americans tried to make life so difficult for free black people that they would choose to leave. But most free black people rejected that option because the US was their country, too.
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What is a core game loop?
That's the topic of today's Skeleton Code Machine. What are they? Why are they good for players? And when do they become a "compulsion loop"... something a bit more complicated.
Read it here: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/core-game-... #ttrpg #boardgame
That's the topic of today's Skeleton Code Machine. What are they? Why are they good for players? And when do they become a "compulsion loop"... something a bit more complicated.
Read it here: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/core-game-... #ttrpg #boardgame
What is a core game loop?
Exploring the concept of a "core game loop" in tabletop board games and roleplaying games, why it benefits players, and how it can become a compulsion loop.
www.skeletoncodemachine.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
What is a core game loop?
That's the topic of today's Skeleton Code Machine. What are they? Why are they good for players? And when do they become a "compulsion loop"... something a bit more complicated.
Read it here: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/core-game-... #ttrpg #boardgame
That's the topic of today's Skeleton Code Machine. What are they? Why are they good for players? And when do they become a "compulsion loop"... something a bit more complicated.
Read it here: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/core-game-... #ttrpg #boardgame
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as you get older you realize that sex is like, whatever, but the intimacy and human connection you get from sharing yourself with a loving partner is also like, whatever
March 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
as you get older you realize that sex is like, whatever, but the intimacy and human connection you get from sharing yourself with a loving partner is also like, whatever
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They’re saying we require more vespene gas, they’re saying we require more pylons, and folks we’re going to be getting them in a very big way and we’re going to be doing it very soon
March 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
They’re saying we require more vespene gas, they’re saying we require more pylons, and folks we’re going to be getting them in a very big way and we’re going to be doing it very soon
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Hey if you're suddenly an unemployed CIA field operative and you're feeling like you got a raw deal, DM me I have a couple ideas I want to run by you
February 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Hey if you're suddenly an unemployed CIA field operative and you're feeling like you got a raw deal, DM me I have a couple ideas I want to run by you
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What Elon is doing is straight up illegal. He has no authority to go through line by line and shut off funding to organizations he dislikes. He's intentionally trying to destroy civil society.
February 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
What Elon is doing is straight up illegal. He has no authority to go through line by line and shut off funding to organizations he dislikes. He's intentionally trying to destroy civil society.
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the NYT needle but for the mandate of heaven, or lack thereof
February 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
the NYT needle but for the mandate of heaven, or lack thereof
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my little brother was one of the fatal fentanyl overdoses that is being used to justify tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and I can't think of a more cynical and disrespectful exploitation of a tragedy that has touched almost every family in this country
January 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
my little brother was one of the fatal fentanyl overdoses that is being used to justify tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and I can't think of a more cynical and disrespectful exploitation of a tragedy that has touched almost every family in this country
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one of my strongest held beliefs is that we will not fix any of our most serious problems unless we are willing to hold a Nuremberg for social media executives, funders and engineers
February 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
one of my strongest held beliefs is that we will not fix any of our most serious problems unless we are willing to hold a Nuremberg for social media executives, funders and engineers
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I don't get the sense that U.S. journalists have a good sense of who to talk to when basic government functions are being ripped out. Gutting the administrative state is not a standard beat. A short thread with some starter suggestions for who to read/talk to. Please - people add more in replies!
February 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I don't get the sense that U.S. journalists have a good sense of who to talk to when basic government functions are being ripped out. Gutting the administrative state is not a standard beat. A short thread with some starter suggestions for who to read/talk to. Please - people add more in replies!
This is what Trump wants to take from you.
I just had some kimchi in Kyoto made by a kaiseki chef that tasted almost exactly like Cool Ranch Doritos and I am radically rethinking everything/getting all kinds of weird ideas
January 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This is what Trump wants to take from you.
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Those doomsday clock guys need to either do it or pipe down
January 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Those doomsday clock guys need to either do it or pipe down
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until things get sorted out, all law school constitutional law classes should be replaced with a psychoanalyst lecture about the death drive
January 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
until things get sorted out, all law school constitutional law classes should be replaced with a psychoanalyst lecture about the death drive
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I will posting this forever if I have to
January 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I will posting this forever if I have to
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The X-Men movies really captured the "fight for a world that hates and fears them" but fell short on the other X-Men story tropes like "scientist makes mutant dinosaurs" or "Cyclops's family is fucked up" or "professor X wants space pussy"
January 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The X-Men movies really captured the "fight for a world that hates and fears them" but fell short on the other X-Men story tropes like "scientist makes mutant dinosaurs" or "Cyclops's family is fucked up" or "professor X wants space pussy"
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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nvdia should make chips i can eat, bullshit 3.5 trillion dollar company and they can't even figure out the potato
January 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
nvdia should make chips i can eat, bullshit 3.5 trillion dollar company and they can't even figure out the potato
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I don’t think I can do the palace intrigue this time around guys. I’ve got two kids now. My brain is too full of My Little Pony characters to remember the name and motivation of every racist crypto baron in Trump’s cabinet
January 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I don’t think I can do the palace intrigue this time around guys. I’ve got two kids now. My brain is too full of My Little Pony characters to remember the name and motivation of every racist crypto baron in Trump’s cabinet