Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Ugh. in this comment, don't love it. Have a windowd system like that as well though 020
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Does the sociological structure at play strong enough to where the "faith" can withstand a period of "bad stewardship" in the same manner as a church can, does it tend to schism in a church like way, or is it simply not of the same material and could disintegrate? And how is it linked to propaganda? 000
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Eh, I'm just leaving curiosity notes for myself now. Could 'MAGA posturing' as a religious-adjacent in-group signaling in rural areas be a result of the decentralization of mainstream religion? And regardless of the origin was it formulated intentionally or accidentally or bit-of-both? 100
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When and how did it become a marker of common social capital, in rural areas especially, to claim fealty to Republicans generally and Trump specifically? If we view the MAGA movement not as a shift of motivations and arguments but as a sociological construction, well, I'm not sure how to address it. 100
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Related: In 2024, somehow for my federal house representative slot the "democratic" candidate was actually to the right of the Republican candidate. There was an "actual democrat" that people could write in who ended up with 2.5% of the vote. ballotpedia.org/Georgia's_11...ballotpedia.orgGeorgia's 11th Congressional District election, 2024Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics 010
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Were I more conspiratorial, I'd think that a bunch of die-hard republicans were voting for KLB in the primaries because they can. I can tell you from personal experience that voting oppositionally in the primaries is not at all weird in this state. 110
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have rarely felt so disconnected from the political moment as when KLB won the Primary outright, no runoff, greater than 50% of the vote. I was sorta glad the state democrats didn't have to beat each other up for several more weeks of runoffs, but who exactly is jazzed about her candidacy? 151
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I had butter chicken poutine when I was up in Vernon, BC. It was amazing. I think fun poutine variants is a business opportunity. 030
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think at some point I got yelled at (can't remember by whom) for using it in a non-antisemetic context. I prefer the more open definition, it's a useful word. 010
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's a spectrum, but you're certainly right that the distinction is one that truly does not matter. 010
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also, does "pogroms" always imply anti-semetic violence? Was that your intent? 110
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don't agree with the statement exactly, but i'd guess a fifth of the population feels broadly that way, either because they're in a bubble or stupid. There's another chunk who aren't cool with it but would go along, and another group who are indifferent to the money and just want pogroms. 320
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There's also the burden of working to make the lives of most people better, which includes the lives of people who will stop at nothing to make the life of everyone you care about much worse, even if it screws themselves over. 020
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Make artificial scarcity of Mass Market Goods Unacceptable again. 020
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Truly, we live in a golden age of sketchy energy drinks. Yet, sadly if predictably, my body does tolerate them well anymore in my middle age. I'm not happy about that, but I would do well to accept it. 030
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It would be fun to game out rules, then ways to break them, then rules that result from that. It's hard to imagine something that would work well. The problem is still one of artificial demand and artificial scarcity. The idea of "rule twister" games sounds fun to me, which might be weird. 110
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Now I'm imagining fighting anime-girl variants of foodborne viruses and poisons, and if you loop it twice without continuing you get the True Last Boss, which obviously is RFK Jr, though I hesitate to imagine how that plays out. 110
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 25/09/2026That a store is making the excess value off of a moral trap is, sadly, not worth it. 010
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Scalpers, while awful, are just an insult on top of the higher order injury of the collectable value structure. 020
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Related: the only acceptable way to play a CCG is printing your own proxy deck. Maybe buy a few packs and print the difference. But paying more than face value for a printed card is a failing 230
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I love the idea of a government mandated "all previously existing rarities" magic box. 010
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Collectable random stuff might be impossible to avoid at some level, but has a similar moral component. I had went through a random-stupid-collectable phase earlier in life, and when I first encountered MtG around 1995/6 I knew it was the-same-but-worse and led down a dark road. 120
Reposted by Paulie THenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 22/09/2026www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go... what it says on the packageprogrammablemutter.comMachine god metaphors eat your brainThere are other ways of thinking about AI 610829
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In some tiny way this makes me feel old. Whadaya mean I can't just show up and buy a ticket? Why does everything feel either totally abandoned or crazy popular and overcrowded? 110
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I've an old college friend I still keep in touch with, he's a misanthrope libertarian who still thinks that Twitter is a reasonable thing. Quite a few of his takes are bad, and he keeps 'accidentally' spouting right wing talking points. Short version: I think you've got it about right. 130
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 14/09/2026static.klipy.comJumanji: Robin Williams 'What Year Is It?'ALT: Jumanji: Robin Williams 'What Year Is It?' 000
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 14/09/2026in the mid-90's, he was, almost by accident, at the forefront of the US video game music scene, which was trying haphazardly to steal some of the thunder from the japanese game music scene at the time. It was sometimes charming in it's naivete, even if quite cringe in retrospect. 100
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We should all endeavor to listen as well and respond as earnestly as an an LLM's words suggest it does, though I won't presume cognition on the part of LLMs . I just didn't realize that it could become a mind-hacking tool. 010
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Related: "AI psychosis" is just proof that some percentage of people will lose their minds if basically listened to well and consistently responded to with affirmation regardless of what they say. 130
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The more I hear about AGI, the more I think that I have long been overestimating the magic of human cognition. 110
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Jokes aside, excited for festbier season again. It's very nearly the only time I drink beer anymore. 010
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The nature of fandom is generational, like everything. The enthusiasm ebbs and flows along with the ages of the fanbase. 030
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 06/09/2026At DragonCon this year, it feels like there's a changing of the guard. A lot of panels that are normally pretty packed are less than half full, where other things almost crash the convention. Time marches on, indeed. 150
Reposted by Paulie TScoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 04/09/2026I don't love how basically all the money in social media content creation right now is right wing.theatlantic.comInside a Conservative Operation to Hijack Your Social-Media FeedA service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social-media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support. 18215
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Nice. At one point I made my own chiptune vsts to chase certain sounds, and Max is fun. 030
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It does feel to me like GTA6 could be remembered as the high water mark of AAA video gaming before various crises cause the industry to regress for a generation. 020
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Fully metastasized American Exceptionalism is a hell of a drug. 010
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's not cheating if the dice, on their own accord, resent being watched. 010
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Indeed, our ability to predict both is decreasing, though for differing reasons 030
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The more I think about "runaway climate change as political metaphor" the better it gets. 140
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I have this feeling that, from this point in time forward, politics and weather are going to parallel each other: Continually getting more heated, more difficult to predict, and more frequently violent. 140
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I don't know if it's been said as such, but: Before your 20's you build your foundation. In your 20's and 30's you build your reputation. in your 40's and 50's you build your fortune. In your 60's and 70's you build your legacy. In your 80's you coast as best you can until the wheels fall off. 050
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I get confused as to how sad I should be when someone past the age of 80 passes. It's great to remember their legacies and celebrate them, and normal to be a bit sad they're not around. But living past 80 is mostly luck, partially genetic and partially circumstantial. 170
Paulie T @pht.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Depends on level of historical. Minimally, Mary Lou Retton in the '84 Olympics. Step up: the Challenger disaster shown in class in '86. Above that either the Tienanmen square protests in the summer of '89 or the fall of the Berlin wall later that year. Both were pretty inescapable, even as a child. 030
