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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 1h

"A little weasel" he says of the guy who could probably lift him off the ground with one hand and toss him.

Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 3h

From Canada to Iran to farmers to now this, they really seem to struggle with the idea that other people might react negatively to the things they do.

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🦇Bram Stoker’s Grantula🦇 @grantthethief.bsky.social · 4h

Oh, you don’t like AI cause isn’t ethical or cheap or safe? Well, have you considered that it’s supported by all the most annoying and evil people on earth?

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 4h

...reportedly shouting, "Do you have enough women now?"

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 4h

Working on an episode about the Anabaptist kingdom of Münster that lasted about two years and my favorite detail has to be when there was a brief coup in response to the legalization of polygamy. A guy with four wives was put in stocks where a crowd of women pelted him with stones and feces...

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 5h

That's what I assumed. It's something I think about a lot (especially in the context of the French Revolution) so you just gave me an excuse to spew my thoughts out, haha.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 5h

I just say this because I do worry about people overcorrecting against an overly material theory of the far-right and radicalization by ignoring a very real economic factor (especially given the popularity of a certain pundit on this website who loves denying that the material is ever a factor).

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 5h

And it's never completely ungrounded either, like the "Grub Street" radicals of the French Revolution were well-off (or started so) and enjoyed family support but they really were being crowded out of opportunities. Same with the middle-class young men in the Middle East who joined ISIS.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 5h

I can kind of agree with the overall point, but I think it's not that simple. Over and over in history young men (and quite often women) become radicalized who come from comfortable economic backgrounds but feel deprived of a good future or see their families and communities fall into poverty.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 6h

Things are bad but today I learned that George Costanza's epic rant, "I know you're there, laughing and lying!", was reportedly something the girlfriend of the writer's friend shouted at an apartment building while drunk.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 8h

I'd be down with it if they go all out and make his archenemy a descendant of Oppenheimer.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 9h

Now saying something good about MOULIN ROUGE...hm, I can see why the film is considered great when the garish, empty visuals and inept editing and visual storytelling distract so well from all the vapid, trite cliches and the flat, lifeless characters? Does that count as nice?

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 9h

Frankly I think even most totalitarian regimes would have the sense to balk at the public execution of a man in a wheelchair regardless of his crimes.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 9h

I can respect that position! It's the people who insist "Oh I'm against 'AI', but it really does write very well, I just can't cite any specific examples" who make me wary.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 10h

"You AI luddites don't research the topic enough" That may be so, but it's really not something to brag about when you're dealing with an industry that gets its press releases uncritically repeated by the media and where "serious whistleblowers" turn out to be members of a literal cult.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 10h

I can't say I'm fond of the trend of so-called "AI" "moderates" on his hellsite who claim they're also against "AI" because of the industry's excesses and problems but also think the problem with "AI" critics is we don't talk about how great "AI" is enough.

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 10h

I would think a person working at the same company for 30-40 years and then getting to retire was something genuinely from a fairytale if it weren’t in living memory

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 22h

Is it too much to ask for a man who will take care of me and discipline me when necessary?

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I, uh, don't know how to say this, but we've seen ideologies and political formations like this before.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"Answer Me" is actually one of my favorite episodes of "Tales from The Darkside", but you're not the only person who's made me realize I'm in the minority here, ha.

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Michelle Ma @michellema.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Two neighbors live less than 2,000 feet apart. One pays up to $500/month for electricity. The other averages $130. One has investor-owned National Grid. The other by a municipal utility. @popovichn.bsky.social and I dug into America’s widening power bill divide: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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One Home’s Power Bill Is $500. A Half-Mile Away, It’s 70% Lower

The stark difference reflects a growing national divide between investor-owned utilities and public power providers

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 14/10/2026

Heat safety on the job isn’t a benefit, it’s the bare minimum. No one should have to choose between their paycheck and their health. That's why working people across the country are fighting to win heat protections in the workplace. You can too.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yeah, seeing stuff like this is a not insignificant part of why I've been radicalized from being a "two-state solutioner" to believing there has to be a multiethnic one state called Palestine where Israel used to be.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

they all know the bottom is falling out and instead of trying to prevent that they are ripping out the copper wiring

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I'm just straight-up muting any account I see that shares "AI" images unless it's to explicitly criticize them. This isn't even just because of my own anti-"AI" militancy, I'm at the point where just seeing those hideous, piss-colored images immediately make me nauseous.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

At the same time it looks like the tech industry and the media are cannibalizing themselves.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I didn't think I'd ever see fascism as a bipartisan project.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I'm not really sure but I think in elementary school on some level I recognized something was up when I realized even the kids who usually bullied the other kids were instead looking out for me.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Pretty much what I would expect in a country that screams in enraged terror for a week about the very idea that Zionism may be racist, while entirely failing to ask whether the project itself is at all racist, despite the genocide, massive destruction, land seizure and ethnic cleansing

This is incredible.
And not in a good way at all
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Sally Rooney's books will no longer be published in UK over her support for Palestine Action
Faber blames UK antiterrorism legislation for decision to stop distributing bestselling autho...

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

At least in the sense that he was putting the animal in danger of being killed just for killing a human no matter the circumstances. But thankfully (according to the article at least) it seems that the tiger isn't going to be euthanized.

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Frank&Stein @brandtandstein.com · 14/10/2026

This isn’t it, folks. There’s no way to use generative AI without supporting wholesale theft, supporting billionaires and hedge funds over creators, and supporting every piece of misinformation and shoddy regurgitation from the software. This isn’t it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The most indebted corporations in America right now are, at their core, computer virus companies. They think the computer viruses are their girlfriends, so they think this absolves them of guilt. Let's find out!

www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org

Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices

Anthropic's latest research adds to the growing safety concerns around AI from the ability for models to carry out cyberattacks to the technology going rogue.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The thing I miss most about Robot Chicken is the fictional feminist voice of our era, Bitch Puddin', voiced by Katee Sackhoff (probably best known as Starbuck from BATTLESTAR GALACTICA). www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pfM...

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Robot Chicken | 🎃 Psycho B**ch Pudding | Adult Swim UK 🇬🇧

YouTube video by Adult Swim Europe

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Inspiring to see someone with my basic body type but is more out of shape than even I am.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I think that's enough for one session. Still no orb or key or any clue what the puzzle in the hallway means, but at least the map is filling out nicely.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

And I had enough left over to get a Heater Shield for Sheppard at Boltac's Trading Post.

A stern old man wewith a grey beard and wearing a helmet and a leather vest stands at a store counter surrounding by weapons, pieces of armor, and trinkets.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

By the skin of my teeth! I've been much less lucky playing WIZARDRY other times. Luckily I also had more than enough gold to get a (costly) treatment at the Temple of Cant.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I had a run-in with an unidentified ghostly monster. It attacked the samurai Seth and left him paralyzed. Plus Shume and Veronica are badly hurt. Will they make it out alive?

The character screen shows that Seth is paralyzed.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Another obstacle: a locked door.

A door has a rather ominous iron bar running through it with a lock in the middle. A text book reads, "THE DOOR IS LOCKED."

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Even with the chain mail the Trolls were tough, dealing five damage in one attack to my fighter Sheppard, but he gave as good as he got. I also had to share this because I do really like the monster designs in this version, which are not faithful to the original and are Japanese originals.

A green-screened troll is on the screen with a text box reading "Sheppard charges at a troll and hits once for 4 damage."

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A few of the party members also gained a level when I stayed at the inn. (Yes, you can lose attribute points in one area, which can be a pain, but it's not as big a deal as you might think and tends to still work in favor of the character's chosen class.)

A text box at the inn reads, "YOU LEARNED NEW SPELLS! DUNN GAINED I.Q., PIETY, LOST VITALITY, GAINED AGILITY, LUCK, 2 HIT POINTS."

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

At least with the money I saved by sleeping with the lice in the barn, I was able to buy Chain Armor from Bartoc's Trading Post for Sheppard and Seth.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Honestly, as much as you like to think of your brave heroes getting at least a Motel 6-standard room after risking their lives inside hell on earth, this is practically required for these games.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Oh, life hack for this game and WIZARDRY I-III. The inn is expensive, especially when you're starting out, so it's worth it to just sleep in the stables, which are free. It won't restore your HP, but it *he money will* restore your MP, so you can use up your magic to heal everyone. Rinse and repeat.

A woman stands at a desk with the text boxes reading "ADVENTURERS' INN. WELCOME EVERYONE, WE HAVE: THE STABLES (FREE), A COT (60 GP/WEEK), ECONOMY ROOMS (500 GP/WEEK), MERCHANT SUITES (1200 GP/WEEK), THE ROYAL SUITES (3000 GP/WEEK)

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

While I'm talking about the SNES version, I was wrong. The SNES version is pretty much modeled after the original, so it's similar to this one. I just honestly blanked on the weird puzzle, which I still haven't figured out yet.

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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I...*think* we'll be seeing animated NPCs in this version of WIZARDRY V (they were definitely in the SNES version). But for the most part in WIZARDRY I-V NPCs were just a text box or several that would trigger once you stepped on a square, like here. Anyway, there's our objective for floor one!

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