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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I bawled my eyes out the night before this event. This clip is a story I have kept bottled up inside me for over 30 years. And in hindsight it was the greatest moment of my life. The moment where I gave myself permission to take the grand daddy of of creative risks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgP1...

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Shadowfist the CCG's Origin Was Crazier Than You Think

YouTube video by Talk Coded by Jose Garcia

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The core mechanics of Shadowfist was inspired by a movie called Bury Me High. In this movie two factions were fighting over a Feng Shui site. The conceit of the movie is that whoever had an ancestor buried inside this Feng Shui site would be granted powerful auspicious benefits. 1/

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Thank you so much for the shout out good sir. I've been talking to lots of people over the past 16 hours, and its inspiring. It really makes me think what gaming is about. It isn't what I thought it was when I was 25.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

in the "ancient niche fandom" category i was super excited to learn that @joseggarcia.bsky.social on here is the same Jose Garcia who auteured Shadowfist back in the day. Shadowfist was part of the early TCG explosion after M:tG's success; unlike most of those games it was both original and good.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Interesting shift, when people mention the EU now they often say "The EU and the UK" This is giving off "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" vibes.

Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A lot of people have frame the Spanish Prime Minister's recent bold statements as "owning the right" but there's a larger context at play. And yes, he's also owning the right.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Trump 2.0 is hitting the world like Covid.

Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

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I talk to a lot of Americans (and I don't pester them about it) but its striking they don't and can't imagine that their nation's standing wrt the Rest of the World is changing.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Europe currently has naval and marine resources deployed to Greenland to deter and defend against Trump's stated ambitions (which worked). Now, Trump is asking Europe to send naval assets to support him in the Iran War. This is Caligula shit.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Woke Hoth is the new Iraq right down to the blame game when things go off the rails.

It's 2032 and the spirit of the USA-Europe alliance is kept alive by a commemorative line of Hallmark get well soon cards

The ethical, moral and governance questions about AI are being decided in healthcare and the life sciences.

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Steeling myself against hostile mentions when America wakes up.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Trump appoints his golf cart with a built in chatbot as ambassador where half its output is inexplicably all caps. Teenagers get it to divulge state secrets through a prompt injection they heard about on TikTok.

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The tide might turn. I recently signed a contract to do marketing for an AI services firm. The contract stipulates that I'm not to use AI in any of my writing.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

If you get or already have cancer the people working to save your life are using every "AI" technology (yes even the evil ones). Knowing this virtually no patient boycotts treatment. There is robust debate about this techs role in healthcare. Where is "Boycott AI" in that debate?

Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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The funny thing about Oracle is that most people who work in tech don't understand what Oracle does save for the fact they have best in class sales training.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Russia has Trump as an ally. But Trump is largely useless. What they've done is galvanize their real rival, the EU, and unshackled them from America's restraint.

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 09/12/2025

Never was a truer word said

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The UK thinks that it's the European country the USA respects most but right now big pharma is putting the screws to the UK because of the IRA (passed under Biden) and being now outside of the EU they are vulnerable. With friends like that you don't need enemas

Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Cross country road trips in Spain are surreal. The interior is empty but not isn't wilderness either. An empty place curated by an unseen human presence. A walled graveyard, well maintained but with no sign of human habitation for over 20 km in any direction. Stuff like that constantly.

Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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What folks need to realize about "peace talks" is that this is all theater for Washington. Ukraine knows that Russia has no intention of stopping the war, and the Russians know the Ukrainians know that. So this is just all a performance for Trump, hoping he blames the other for the lack of peace.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

RIP carbon dating.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The "AI bubble" (actually a hyperscaling data centre model) has popped. It may not lead to a market crash but I can't see investor confidence recovering.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The UK wants the EU to treat them as equals. But the EU is composed of 27 member states. By demanding equal status with the EU in toto the UK is demanding it be treated as the most important country in Europe over and above the interests of EU member states.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

It basically skins bacteria alive and has a very simple molecular structure. Pencillin needs to get into a bacteria and jam a organelle inside the bacteria like gum in a lock. Powerful but also evolutionarily tenuous. Interesting source, nothing kills bacteria better than other bacteria.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Most things called AI now weren't called AI back in 2022.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Theranos scale frauds happen 6x a year in health tech. It's such a regular occurrence that it doesn't even make the news.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

While everyone is fretting about GenAI machine learning and NLP have taken the lead like the turtle overtaking the hare.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Every once in a while I check in on an old friend's Twitter feed, he's a good weather vane for the conspiracy MAGA crowd. He's pivoted to politicaly neutral conspiracy theories and doesn't mention Trump anymore. Trump is losing his grip on hardcore MAGA.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

AI coding tools are having a massive effect on the outsourced offshore software engineering market. Firms are often just to add finnishing touches to something made on lovable. Not sure how people plan on maintaining this code. It's all a bit fake it until you make it.

Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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There is an interesting thing about solar that most people don't realize. Panels are so cheap now that the highest cost by far is the installation which is local labour. So money spent on solar boosts the local economy and improves a nationals transfers of payments in its favour.

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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Spain is thriving now because 1898, and then 1975, left it as the big Western state with the fewest illusions about its place in the world. That's why, today, it's the European player with the most globally open and realistic foreign policy.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I met someone via LinkedIn (I work in digital health) and had a zoom meeting with her. This was earlier in the year. She was convinced ChatGpt was a god and that she had made several incredible scientific discoveries because it told her so. She seemed like a good person recently turned mad.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

You wouldn't see them making such threats or exerting such pressure on a EU member state. Baby it's cold outside.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

People treat public health as a "cost" but it is the ultimate revenue generator for government. Save someone's life today and you can tax them for the rest of their life.