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"I don't understand why you, a game writer, don't appreciate the value of making an economy out of an increasingly leveraged series of gambles and grifts that benefit amoral sociopaths!"
Seanan McGuire"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."
TIL "general population - fascists = LiBeRaL bUbBLe"
Now You Know The More You Know PSAALT: Now You Know The More You Know PSAstatic.klipy.com
Thanks to some recent high profile agent containment failures, I've made the difficult decision to release something I've been working on a bit early. The CUSTODY framework helps standardize nomenclature around agentic risk and provides pillars for containment. www.custody-framework.org
CUSTODY — A Containment Framework for Autonomous AgentsSeven pillars for containing autonomous agents. Classify by capability, contain below the agent, and let nothing outlive the assignment.www.custody-framework.org
the joke's on (almost) everyone. turns out studying epistemology WAS important
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The VergeBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
This was a sorta fun one: "When is signed... not signed?" textslashplain.com/2026/08/03/a...
Authenticode and UACWhen a user attempts to run a file with elevated privilege, Windows will show a User Account Control elevation prompt that asks whether the user trusts the file to run. For a regular file, the user…textslashplain.com
Hey! Do you care about comics, the rights of working creatives, or just want to take 30 seconds and zero dollars to do a good deed for the day instead of just doomscrolling? Well this petition is looking like it could use some more names!
Jimmy Presler 🐴Sign this petition to show your support for keeping Senior Editors in the Dark Horse Workers Union. actionnetwork.org/petitions/dh...
If you would like to vote for the Dragon Awards this year, follow the link above and you can get yourself set up. Anyone can vote, and voting is without cost. Vote for whichever finalist (in any/every category) you think deserves it!
Thinking about making this chart an auto-reply from my work email so you understand why I can't respond
Josh SternbergThere are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Your reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.
Also contains a pretty misleading statement; the UGLE absolutely has not begun to allow women, it's just supported, a bit, the recruiting efforts of mason-adjacent female secret societies. (Weirdly, the requirement to be a whole bodied free male only applies at the time of initiation...
One of the less publicised impacts of climate change is on the canal network. For the second year in a row large parts of the network have been closed/have restricted working because of low water levels, affecting tourism and the canalside businesses that depend on it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
West Midlands canal users worried by drought threatCanals across the region have seen closures and falling water levels because of the hot weather.www.bbc.co.uk
And frankly I encourage you to shred your Harry Potter books, your Orson Scott Card books, your collections of books by bigots who use their money to make the world materially worse for other people, that they not be used to suck in new fans who might spend money that flows to bad causes.
Information asymmetry ‘lemon problem’ - unable to tell at a glance *which* goods are high quality, consumers assume they are all relatively low quality and thus only pay for cheap ones
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
I think about this a lot and for me the *extremely* simplified answer to this is that some people approach art to think and some approach it to feel, and if you're mostly in the latter category there's a lot about the text that will go right by you (or you'll just ignore) as you bathe in the vibe
Keira PerkinsIt is wild to me how many people will love a book, a show, a song - anything creative really - and fundamentally misunderstand the thing they adore. What I’m saying is that I would like to give Suzanne Collins a hug.
Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time ever
Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time everMore of Germany's electricity came from wind and solar power than from fossil fuels for the first time ever in 2025, according to Carbon Brief's ...www.intellinews.com
lol the experience of tech between men and women is so damn stark sometimes can you imagine doing this
danielroeI stream my location to my pds 🤷
A skill muscle we don't have to flex as often anymore is that of "how do I get along with neighbors I don't agree with on certain points and often find annoying" while ALSO establishing our OWN boundary for "this is a person so vile/potentially abusive that I can't be in the same room with them."
CBS reports US officials telling them there are no new negotiations planned with Iran despite what Trump is publicly claiming. We seem to be reaching the point where some in the administration are considering throwing Trump under the bus.
