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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is there any sort of support for time shifted participants? The event will run from 1am to 10am for people in Asia, hehe...

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Eu fiquei surpreso com a velocidade das filas. Chegei em Ariake as 10:20, 10:40 ja tinha votado. Bem diferente de 2018, aquele ano foram quase 4 horas de fila...

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 25/09/2026

At a certain point you just have to call it election interference from the US.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Welcome to the parasite swarm!

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

According to the blog post, desk reject rates in TMLR used to be 6% in 2023, and are over 50% now 😬

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/09/2026

lol Ed Sheeran's band quit

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is a rough translation of the original, the English version must be something else!

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Something something "computer human interface conference" something something "wooden cutlery at a smith's house" :P

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...

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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

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jonny (leachate composite form) @jo.nny.rip · 05/09/2026

The day I believe "coding is solved" is the day they open source Claude code because they are proud of how excellently the AI has written it instead of accidentally leaking it and revealing how it is the largest dumpster fire I have ever seen

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dilma Rousseff is a left-wing icon who fought the dictatorship in the 70s, was arrested & tortured, then became our 1st female president and reached 79% approval rate, being re-elected before the 2016 right-wing coup. All Americans saw were false corruption charges. You're not immune to propaganda

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Esse tipo de coisa me da orgulho de ser brasileiro, lol...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10/08/2026

Major Chinese tech companies recently shut down their popular AI companion services to comply with new regulations that ban the platforms from manipulating emotions or replacing social interactions. Some users are upset, uninstalling apps in protest or trying to train new ones.

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Chinese users of AI companions bereft after government tightens regulations

Li Linlin cried for days after losing her virtual boyfriend. She exchanged about 700,000 words with him over two years and never got to say goodbye when he was eliminated by ByteDance, the developer of TikTok.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Everything is a moral panic except when it affects them very personally.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Really sad to see that the main arguments of supposedly "reasonable" pro-ai people can be summed up as "fuck you, got mine". Very american.

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SaKo @sako.works · 04/08/2026

calibration process #pico8 #dailycarts

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Nei, not Rei. Argh. My memory...

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today's working day is brought to you by this "No commentary Phantasy Star II" playlist on the second monitor. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Time to work while Rei saves the world.

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Phantasy Star II - YouTube

Playing through Phantasy Star II - my first RPG ver.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Ai eu fico pensando como ficaria hoje essa questao do "Metajogo"... O que seria isso hoje? Talvez os ARGs que alguns jogos tem?

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A questao de dicas, tem tambem a questao de que os jogos da epoca tinham varios materiais paralelos que davam essas dicas (manuais, mapas, etc). O U5 eu joguei nos anos 2000 em emulador, mas lembro do Starflight (Genesis, 90s), outro jogo que quase nao dava pra jogar sem as dicas do manual.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Nossa, ultima 5 eh um jogo que merece um remaster bem feito...

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Interesting developments! I was sure this is where Belkar was going to bite it. Haley didn't make her exit yet, though...

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Tinha tb aqueles jogos de browser, que vc gastava turno montando seu exercito, e depois esperava um dia para os outros usuarios te atacarem. Assincrono. Tinha um punhado desses na epoca, e eu jogaga pra caramba, mas nao lembro os nomes agora.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Quando eu era pequeno, la em barbacena... Eu era um fan de Ultima (que conheci via os CDs gratis da SB) e de MUDs. Quando fiquei sabendo que ultima online, fiquei louco pra jogar. Ate saber que precisaria de cartao pra pagar em dolar. Todo mes. kkk Ai fui montar minha barraca no Ragnarok online.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Scroll of Taiwu is a great example of this... One of the most important "indie" games of the last decade, it changed what Steam meant as a market and created an entire new genre, selling 3.4M copies and spawning countless successors. Anglosphere media had nothing to say about it, zero curiosity.

Screenshot of Scroll of Taiwu's metacritic page, with zero reviews

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

US government just approved the request of Californian tech bros to launch a giant mirror in space. An incredibly bad idea for all sorts of reasons, as the post below explains: mastodon.social/@sundogplane...

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Prof. Sam Lawler (@sundogplanets@mastodon.social)

Want some reminders of how fucking terrible this idea is? https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/true-cost-solar-power-night-reflect-orbital/ https://theconversation.com/a-us-startup-plans-to-del...

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 09/07/2026

Israel's genocide means joy cannot be allowed to exist in Gaza, and thus they surgically murder anyone who creates joy in the death camp that they made out of Gaza.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Ozone Layer, exhaust controls in cars, asbestos, sometimes we manage to grab some wins in the regulation space. I don't think it is good strategy to get blackpilled on the climate costs front.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Meh, US corpos controlling the narrative is old news, Bezos is just the current face of it. This is a song that has been playing for a looooooong time. But I think it is still worth tilting at this particular windmill. Sometimes we wrestle little victories, specially when it gets undeniably bad.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Welp... I for one welcome our post-eco collapse overlords.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

But that means we're still on our way to destruction, make our time, ha ha ha ha :-/

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My objection was that I thought you were saying "the climate complaints are a trap, AI corps will get around that problem eventually", which I find really hard to believe. But if you're saying "AI corps will control the narrative around climate complains", then I guess I agree, "well duh" (...)

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

But that's whats happening right now, no? The papers around me, none of them are talking about the eco problems. You mentioned the post, but that's like a tiny little leaf in the wind, no government are consideriny serious eco-related regulations. But then the discussion we're having changes(...)

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Corporations have the power to reduce their externalities, therefore they will do it at some point, just because they can" just sounds kinda ahistorical. Unless by "practical" you mean it would give them concrete, short term benefits, but then you'd have to explain that one more, sounds unlikely.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Greenwashing is a thing, sure. But greenwashing, and making it actually green are very different things. I don't quite buy the "practical" argument, though -- last time I've seen something like that was back in the "Ozone Layer Hole" days, and that was industry being dragged by regulations.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Brian, this is a weird take, even assuming you're correct on everything else. Capital holders (billionaires and related corps) have been able to do "green" things for decades now, in different stages, and yet haven't unless dragged by govs. Why would it be different now? (specially with weaker govs)

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Also, copy pasting code from a forum and package programming may suck, but it does not consume as much energy/water as a small country to create a quick and dirty prototype.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I like to say that I'll be happy to give "AI" a fair shot after it all crumbles to dust and I can pick through the ruins for the truly fun stuff.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I'm enjoying seeing people post their favorite physical games - I'm honestly jealous. Back then, those did not exist in Brazil unless you were VERY wealthy. We just had CD cases full of pirate discs. Super cheap, but no box, no manual... some were just regular CD-Rs... I have no attachment to them.

Photo of a CD case with 3 Final Fantasy VII CDs and a Resident Evil 3 CD, all pirate (photo not mine)

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Tiani Pixel @tianipixel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🥳 Mina the Hollower + UNSIGHTED 🥳 Looking for pixel art, top-down, Zelda-likes/Metroidvanias with challenging combat and puzzles? Look no further!! If you already have one of the games, this is a perfect opportunity to gift a friend and support the devs :) store.steampowered.com/bundle/76343...

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Yeah, games (and console games in particular) have been expensive for us ever since the beginning. Web and Piracy! Bring back the clone wars...

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Panic @panic.com · 01/07/2026

🇪🇨 Good luck to Ecuador's soccer team in tonight's game against Mexico—a rivalry that happened before in 2002, as depicted in the game despelote (on sale on Steam right now.) ¡Sí se puede! ⚽️ despelote.game

Key art from the game: line drawing of everyday characters over a collage of a Quito street, with the words ¡VAMOS ECUADOR! over it

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"we asked our writers" - jornaleco nem pra entrevistar especialista no assunto vale, kkk.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Oh I remember that case, and how people on media were wringing their hands about buying any Chinese foodstuffs for weeks after that...

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This, but ALSO strict Japanese laws regarding layoffs. Regulation works sometimes.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This game seems really amazing - I specially like the idea of generational gameplay. Do you think this game could appeal to Crusader Kings sickos?

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

But Mike, when you win on the lottery, you actually get the money...

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The cop stumbling to jump the fence in the end is a nice touch.

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Old Man Syms @oldmansyms.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Amazing thread! Any chance you'll put it as a blog post out there somewhere?

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