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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I have accidentally killed 3,000 people because I forgot to click build on a length of sewer line around 10 meters long.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Nobody who can't play this video game should be anywhere near government

Workers and Resources screenshot showing the management screens for a factory complex and a logistics truck.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Pretty much every Megaman Battle Network game starts with a sequence of "this is what happens when your oven gets cyberhacked". This is some real 20XX news.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To allow programmers to be sloppier about resource allocation. To allow more low level trackers that can collect and return user data for money (which you consent to by agreeing to the terms and conditions).

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But at least separate those criticisms from the grief of Israelis and Jews the world over for one day so that they can, on some other day soon, be able to mourn the family and neighbors of those who had harmed them.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There are many days to criticize the way that Israel has prosecuted its war. There are many statements to make regarding its reckless disregard for Palestinian life. It is important to make them because that conduct also impedes peace. (I am writing this davka on October 8th- not 7th)

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(Palestinian grief is also not contingent on Jewish and Israeli grief. Death can be mourned without equivocating. If that mourning cannot be processed it will fester and it will harden.)

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The grievers will look for revenge. They will transmute their grief into rage, against the family and neighbors of those that harmed them. Look at who shouts the loudest in Jewish spaces. Look at how it easy has been for Israeli leaders to abdicate responsibility by stoking anger.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And every contingent statement reinforces the feeling that their own grief isn't important and isn't taken seriously without equivocation. That they are not given the space to grieve.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jewish and Israeli grief is not contingent on Palestinian grief. Death can be mourned without equivocating. If that mourning cannot be processed it will fester and it will harden.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Let Israelis and Jews around the world grieve for a moment for themselves. Give the people who were killed, violently and senselessly, their memory. Give those that mourn them comfort without in that very same moment pulling them away from the memory of their own loved ones.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But it does not mean that all grief and mourning must be equally distributed at all times.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Palestinians who have been killed in the war were the family and neighbors of those that committed unspeakable acts. This is the simple reality of having family and neighbors. They do not deserve to die for it.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They should be omitted to allow Jews and Israelis the space to mourn, without in the same breath drawing a line to the families and neighbors of those that hurt them.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not because Palestinian lives are not worth mourning. Not because it is acceptable for Israel to act with a reckless disregard for civilian casualties in its invasion. Not because the Palestinian or the Israeli cause is more just.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I saw many statements from politicians about October 7th that in addition to mourning the Jews and Israelis who were killed, also lamented the Palestinians who have been killed since then. I wanted to put some thoughts together as to why I found the statements hollow.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Friend Computer: Troubleshooter, that's a treason star.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The first season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is on Criterion but not this list.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ironically, Pentiment was greenlit because xbox was willing to spend on more off beat and prestige games because they wanted to round out gamepass's offerings. All of *gestures what is going on at xbox* is a repudiation of that model.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why not educate the public into understanding how the engineering expenditures make safer streets? Why should people be so detached from the policies that affect them?

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I love that the easiest way to destroy the balance of Morrowind, fortifying intelligence, has an entire book/ poem where the punchline has a stupid alchemist accidentally fortifying their intelligence: en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowi...

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One issue I find when playing in the immersive sim genre is that I find my play-style pretty early and spend the rest of the game refining it. Mooncrash forced me to appreciate a bunch of different playstyles in a tight but also open space.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For sure. Most notably for me was the question about traffic circles. I call small residential ones roundabouts and large (collector or arterial) sized ones circles, e.g. Livingston Circle or Flemington Circle. But I knew the question really was "are you from NJ?", so I picked the result I wanted.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

5. I don't really have a conclusion here. Each of these points could have been a 20 skeet thread if I didn't have work and wanted to spend a day chasing down sources. Find what works for your figurative patch of marginal African farmland and never stop turning it over in your mind.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

4. The AI boosters are the highest of modernists- a few AI systems that do all of the work without consideration of local developed knowledge. Burn down your industry and replace it with a generic LLM. Throw out the labor force which spent its entire life developing metis.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

3. Scott was an anarchist with peasant leanings. A cousin of the Tory anarchists. When he says that change should occur slowly and in frame that works for the people that it affects, that implies a certain small c conservatism.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

2. Scott (grudgingly) admits that there were tremendous modernist infrastructure projects that did transform life. Also that high modernists did build more than a few systems that did mostly work albeit with flaws and drawbacks.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

1. cont. In the realm of SSDI, The Dictionary of Occupational Titles was last modified in 2024 after ~50 years and had included long obsolete jobs eyeglass frame polisher and nut sorter- without any interaction with the reality of the job market.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

1. Of course social security is high modernism. It reduces people to a number then takes gives everyone a benefit without an examination of their particular circumstances.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

But there is a larger problem where laws are immediately effective once passed. This also afflicts e.g. minority rights, social welfare and military laws. There is no ongoing minority suppression despite de jure equality or the rise of co-operative farms in an otherwise capitalist system.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If the capitalists & PB can't or don't properly rebel in the course of passing these laws then their will has been beaten so thoroughly that they have tacitly acquiesced without further violence.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It is a shame that the finest example of Redoran architecture outside of Vvardenfell is reduced to conversations about "dead malls".

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I would have thought more people want to be this absolute *freak* from the Secret Project video for the Virtual World (in SMAC). www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJlP...

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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Virtual World

YouTube video by matsku84

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Eh, I think in this instance the adversary system is working properly. If a litigant hires a dumbass to write a shitty expert report with chatgpt and judge finds the prompts are discoverable, then when the jury returns an award of $61.5 million then there is nothing else for the judge to do.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A family friend of mine had a contentious divorce in the early 90s. Her ex went deadbeat never paid the ordered child support but the awards were on the record. She *just* started getting monthly checks as her ex started taking social security.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Finally, if you or someone you know is facing a landlord tenant issue you should seek out counsel. If money is tight I recommend looking into your local Legal Services org. If for whatever reason you don't qualify and need a private tenant side attorney... Hello. (This is attorney advertising)

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The overwhelming majority of residential tenants in NJ are protected by the Anti-Eviction Act N.J.S.A. 2a:18-61.1. Protected tenants can only be evicted for one of the causes set out in the act. Notably the end of a lease term is *not* a cause for eviction.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I have been out of law school for too long to really have opinions on the exam structure. I will note that law school grades exist to separate the student population into the "gets a big law interview" and "doesn't" (That cut off / percentage depends on school rank). Everything else does not matter.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

ToI blogs seem to have little to no editorial oversight. There have been some very profound blogs and there have been blogs that simply repeat tired canards (including some reprehensible stuff). Being published on ToI blogs is not itself an indication of *anything* else and I don't read into it.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There is a reason that corporate defections (preventing or protecting depending on the employer) are a central cyberpunk plot.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Putting aside that very little of it makes any sense, Xbox's supposed push for centralization could have transitioned that team to being Xbox's in house tech team that develops & optimizes engines that the rest of Xbox uses.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Someone at the FBI is getting a really nice mattress after the civil asset forfeiture process plays out.

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Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Eh, you are only at 16.5 bad boy. You can probably take em in a few years without spiking to 25.

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