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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
gospel means "good news" and boy is this gospel
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Like have we all really just been using the same gritty ass PDF of that article every time we wanted to talk about it? So that if you don't actually have the whole issue in front of you, you miss the computer image because it was on the front page fold??
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And he's probably right. I hate it here
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Are we for real that we've never talked about this image of Pam Hart in the Spacewar issue of rolling Stone? Video game history is so unbelievably unserious
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
great tear down. "But fundamentally, the failure here is moral more than anything else." open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...
open.substack.com
Paramount Stock CRUSHED After Merger with Warner Discovery Closes
It’s not a happy ending, as billionaire David Ellison gives himself and his team huge raises, while planning big layoffs. But the really bad sign is he just fired the hitmakers from Warner Brothers.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We absolutely should be horrified by reports of planned public executions and see them as an overt re-embrace of spectacle lynchings--while also understanding that the story of the "modern" death penalty in this country is inextricable from that history, rooted in racial violence & white supremacy.
theintercept.com
Alabama’s Lynching Memorial and the Legacy of Racial Terror in the South
At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, the historical link between lynching and the death penalty is hard to miss.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
just placed a delivery order on Chowhound that got me at $25 credit on Polymarket, god I hate this
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they gotta fire this man I mean u Chris DeMarco
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
t-minus 30 minutes friends!
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These are absolutely horrible. All the incidents with descriptions are terrifying and heartbreaking. I just keep thinking: what if this happened to me? What if this happened to someone I love? Why is this happening to anyone? (I'm a naturalized citizen.)
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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
streamer cutie patooties unlocked
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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 03/10/2026
"Polarization is [...] less the disease than democracy’s immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic movement. Suppressing that response in the name of civility would only strengthen the movement and imperil pluralistic self-government." bsky.app/profile/dann...
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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"I haven't seen AI create anything fun. It can replicate, for sure, but I haven't seen anything fun come from AI yet," said a senior-level attendee at the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit. "You can make crap quicker," quipped another. bit.ly/4yrkVQq
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Junji Beefo @effinslowbeef.com · 03/10/2026
Well that's my weekend sorted
Fuck's Quest II and Control Resonant in my steam shopping cart
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ghosty @ghostytheeghost.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
MHA choosing to go after *checks notes* a’ja wilson’s mother is certainly a choice
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Jenn Hatfield @jennhatfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICYMI: The Washington Mystics strove to stay joyful through the ups and downs of a full #WNBA season. But that goal gets harder in the playoffs, when a loss can be season-ending. Read my story @theixsports.bsky.social about how Washington's season ended and the emotions around it:
theixsports.com
Washington Mystics' playoffs disappointment won’t define them | The IX Basketball
All season, the Washington Mystics wanted to stay joyful through the ups and downs. But on Wednesday, their season ended and sadness hit.
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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
It is such a shame that cool people (I'm assuming unknowingly) keep showing up for that racist Jesse Petrilla's YouTube channel.
Jesse Petrilla's famous guests on his YouTube channel, such as John Romero, Ron Gilbert, and Dave Grossman, and a few awful things he's done such as putting up an effigy of Bin Laden in front of a mosque, suing to reopen schools during Covid, and putting up a billboard "Sharia Law Threatens America."
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Space Quest Historian @spacequesthistorian.com · 02/10/2026
I got an email from this guy yesterday. He's going to be at PRGE, probably networking and fishing for more interviews. My plea to any developers or industry people he approaches: Please don't accept his requests. Please don't enable hate. Everyone else, please be civil. Preferably just ignore.
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jesse Petrilla (Islamophobe right-wing grifter) keeps showing up in retro game spaces with a How Do You Do Fellow Kids energy and trying to ingratiate himself. This should be an easy one to say no to
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is gonna be a blast! Mark your calendars for another fun, public, and 100% FREE ROMchip game history event!
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I work at the newspaper and just wrote The Great Awokening is over, I’m both 79 and 12 years old and make 260,000 dollars a year from a man who sent Katy Perry into space on a rocket ship. As you can see, everyone else is the problem.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Probably, though the specific essay I was thinking of comes from an edited volume. It's footnoted in the Wikipedia page on the hacker conference
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal
Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's one of those books that I continually pick up and then put down and pick up and put down-- long ass books are the death of me 😭😭 so I can't assess the entire thing but I'll say that I generally respect the work
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Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do I need to restart the timer?
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
lmao it's everywhere!!!
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyway.... I have too many other demands on my time to be able to write a good op-ed /rebuttal, but I will absolutely come on your tech podcast and break this down
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In this sense, Levy is not a reliable narrator because he can't account for his own role in producing the historical set of affairs that he seems so distressed by. I think we've seen a similar version of this historical anxiety in Swisher's work (ie, a late stage clumsy disavowal)
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I believe Brand was actually borrowing from woz for the latter half, or kind of interpreting something woz was saying
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like I think you would have to have an incredibly weak political education to look at what these guys are up to and think this is where a utopian politics was possible. Fred Turner has written about how that conference sets up the libertarian politics of everything that follows.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Several people in the comments have referred to the "information wants to be free" guys. There's no trace of that phrase prior to Stewart Brand saying it in 1984, at an invite-only, almost entirely male exclusive conference inspired by Levy's book HACKERS.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still getting mad about this every time I remember that Levy also LITERALLY INVENTED the idea of the "hacker" as a technoclass with a collective meaningful ideology, rather than, let's say, a bunch of guys doing a programmer's version of shitposting
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Being a tech writer doesn't make you a good historian, and it doesn't make you good at thinking historically. What I think goes uninterrogated here is the way in which both these guys' (but Levy in particular) fame and success was bound up in platforming all these dudes.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you!!! Hope you like it 💖
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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Laine, as always, is right on the money. companies flocked to SV because the military industrial complex had already gathered all the engineers, technology, and money there. A bunch of dudes in garages didn't build the infrastructure that made SV such a brilliant lab for developing new technology.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Levy cites Markoff explicitly to backup parts of his analysis/claims. Markoff and Levy are fairly hand-in-glove in this regard
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
😂😂😂😂
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh damn
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is such an unbelievably, historically unserious bad take from Steven Levy, the light from bad takes would take a million billion years to reach it. www.wired.com/story/war-br...
wired.com
War Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon Valley
Some say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well put. It's especially odd to me that folks have taken the vapid non-politics of the technocounterculture as meaningful, when like... actual radical political practice was happening all around them. Thinking that Jobs is a radical when Mario Savio is more or less his contemporary is so silly
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎶 every day we bustlin 🎶
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cookie speedrun happening on @bigbadgameathon.bsky.social
twitch.tv
BigBadGameAThon - Live on Twitch
Big Bad Game-a-thon 2026! Cookie's Bustle by mooware | Streaming cookie's bustle for 292 viewers.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Doing capitalism that doesn't necessarily look like capitalism is still capitalism bro
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That's fun though!!
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I appreciate this w/r/t the conversation we had this year about the early Us game industry not thinking of themselves as workers, and that doing coke and reading Mad Magazine ≠ countercultural politics
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oooh, would Love to see some historical work on some of these lesser-known figures
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
lol @daveparisi.bsky.social just text me "20 minutes and still going!" time to log off 😭😭
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Okay apparently I'm not done 😭 But I feel like the insistence on these men's (always, always, men's) idealism is standing in for a lot. What is "idealism" in the absence of an articulated politics? What is "idealism" amidst a failure to critique one's own position of power? It's bullshit.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The turn to Markoff tells u all u need to know
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