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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

“New Zoo Revue,” but the characters start to exhibit the behaviors of the animals. Charlie the owl eats Freddie Frog, and Henrietta Hippo mauls Doug, Emma Jo, and Mr. Dingle for getting too close to her territory.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/07/2026

Onthisday in 1789, the Bastille was stormed in Paris, a key turning point of the French Revolution. 3.5 years later Louis XVI was executed by guillotine. We look at the deluge of prints that emerged depicting his death publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8221146...

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"Roujin Z" will be screened in 35mm for four days at Cinema City (July 17>20, Tachikawa/Tokyo). Directed in 1991 by Hiroyuki Kitakubo (who will host a Q&A there on July 20). Story by Katsuhiro Otomo. Character designs by Hisashi Eguchi. ccnews.cinemacity.co.jp/roujinz_35mm/

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Walking around the neighborhood, I admire a neighbor’s yard that is filled with hibiscus flowers, each a different color: pink, red, yellow. Me? I don’t have room for that many, so I just have this one, which is all the colors.

A hibiscus bloom: blood-red in the center, pink around that, fire-engine red past that, bleeding into yellow tips so that the transitions looks almost orange.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If this is you, come on. Are you that impatient? GTFOH with that AI nonsense.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

it is something i hit on a lot, that of the many, many bad reasons all the internet regulation stuff is aimed at kids instead of actual companies, CEOs, the ones actually doing harm - is it's cuz kids don't have any political power and can't do shit about it. they're a 'no cost' target here.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Explore @mondyboy74.bsky.social’s review of Justin Feinstein: “AI doesn’t need to achieve sentience to irrevocably change our lives… YOUR BEHAVIOR WILL BE MONITORED makes that point loud and clear.”

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Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein: Review by Ian Mond - Locus

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

There are a couple of books on dissent through quiet mockery. One is free online: "PRANKSTERS VS AUTOCRATS:" d119vjm4apzmdm.cloudfront.net/open-access/...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/06/2026

I think they're perfectly aware that they are convincing more people to read *Careless People* (you should read it, it's genuinely excellent): us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 35/

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Careless People

#1 New York Times BestsellerA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AN...

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Do they (and the producers!) not know that the noun is ‘San Francisco Bay’ because they’re outsiders who’ve never spent any time here, or because it’s (both performer and producer) a machine that is mimicking human speech without cognition or intelligence of any kind?

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’m continually amused by the pasttime “Is that AI, or just a stranger?” where you wonder why basic things are mispronounced in commercial advertisements. Today it’s someone talking about job prospects in “the San Francisco BAY area,” like there’s other, alternative San Francisco areas.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The silliness is in the characters’ reactions to the central revelation of the film: ALL the characters immediately jump to a nonsensical religious experience of awe, reverence, and/or worship. There’s no presentation of any other reactions, which rings false with what we are presented in the film.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The script is both REALLY well-crafted & a little silly at the same time. It’s a bit like an alternative take on “Escape to Witch Mountain,” with *such* deft in media res writing. Spielberg makes it feel effortless, but the longer I think about it, the more impressed with the story structure I am!

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Just watched “Disclosure Day:” it’s classic Spielberg, with tight action sequences, endearing character moments, and outstanding performances! The CGI hurts it, though, and detracts from the ending, to the point where initial reactions were negative, despite my family’s enjoying all but the end.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026

But what we're *actually* doing is defunding cancer research (especially any research into "systemic" cancer because studying systemic things is "woke") to free up fiscal space so we can build data-centers and make Musk into a trillionaire. 21/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026

The true risk is: "an AI salesman will exploit your boss's infinite horniness for replacing mouthy workers with pliable machines to sell him a chatbot that *can't* do your job, and then your boss will fire you and replace you with that inept, defective chatbot." 17/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026

Spacex is just a continuation of the logic of crypto, in which something is valuable because some people think other people will pay more for it in the future, and *not* because it does useful things: johnquiggin.com/2018/02/09/b... 8/

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Bitcoin kills the efficient market hypothesis (now with full article)

I have a piece in the New York Times looking at the implications for the bitcoin bubble for economic theory and, in particular, for the (Strong) Efficient (Financial) Markets Hypothesis (EMH) which…

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026

I would add that post-2020 Musk created the world's hungriest money-furnace, an automated child-porn production tool called "XAI": crookedtimber.org/2026/06/15/o... 4/

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One big grift — Crooked Timber

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Meanwhile, the soulknife’s player has been told the serpent is a beast, but he STILL wastes a psionic die and a turn trying to MENTALLY INTIMIDATE the animal via Psychic Whispers. This fails, because it doesn’t/can’t understand language.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The barbaruid’s player - who knows that each bite delivers 4d12+7 damage, which could do enough damage to instantly kill his PC - STILL does not have his character try to escape…for TWO ROUNDS!!! His attacks miss for two rounds (he survives the first through Rage/ extreme luck, leaving him at 3 HP).

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Everyone else also attacked (except for the soulknife, who climbed onto the sea serpent and clung to its back). They did a bunch of damage, and the sea serpent retreated back into the ocean. Victory! …except the barbaruid is still in its mouth and the soulknife on its back, so they go with it.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The barbaruid went into Rage, but instead of using the ADV that gave him to escape, he used it to *attack,* which is about the only thing he could choose that doesn’t have ADV, instead just adding 2 to damage…IF he hits! What’s worse, the attacks he makes are with DISADV because he’s Restrained!

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Example: a sea serpent has appeared (uses the stats of a tyrannosaur, but it can swim 40’). It randomly picked a target (the barbaruid) and bit him, which Grappled/Restrained him and took 3/5ths of his HP. Nobody - not even the barbaruid himself! - made an attempt to free the PC from the grapple!

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Despite my frequent reminders to USE these many mechanical benefits, the players just don’t. It says something about humanity that players consistently ignore benefits they’re given while simultaneously making bad choices and doubling down on them rather than learning to make better choices.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

There are 6 PCs in the party: a sorceradin, a barbaruid, a soulknife rogue, an artificer, a druid, and a fighter. In addition to the Legacy Card abilities, the dragon orb abilities, and Inspiration, I’ve implemented Achievements that the players/PCs can unlock for single-use special abilities.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I’m running another group through the “Secrets of the Greenwold” D&D5e Dungeon in a Box campaign by America’s DM, @adventuringlife.bsky.social We’re on part 6, “Sailing the Harpy Coast,” a series of aquatic adventures for L5 PCs. As always when I run this, I roll to randomly select encounters.

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ceej @ceej.online · 28/02/2026

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It should be illegal for polymarket to have bets on wars and other important stuff. You should have to bet on events like a big cardboard box filled with loose turtles & strawberries and you have to predict which strawberries each turtle will eat

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/05/2026

Consequently, cryptocurrency has become a scam magnet of unprecedented and unstoppable power, and hardly a day goes by without people being ripped off in the most ghastly ways imaginable: www.web3isgoinggreat.com 23/

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Web3 is Going Just Great

A timeline recording only some of the many disasters happening in crypto, decentralized finance, NFTs, and other blockchain-based projects.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A sad aside: the days in which one could buy a wrench for just $5 are a distant memory for even geezers like me.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

They got the indictment against Raul Castro in Miami a month ago, and proceeded to starve the country of resources until people had nothing to eat and no power. I hate these people with the fire of a thousand suns.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 20/05/2026

Years ago I saw an ad showing a DJ with headphones grooving at a turntable with no record on it. People rightfully tore into it for gesturing at the vague shape of an activity without respecting it enough to represent it accurately. This is that ignorance & incuriosity at scale, error as intention.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

MacFarlane: I'm filling a notebook with misinformation spreading about January 6th today. The idea that these cases were wrongful, no case was overturned, not a one on appeal. And lots of people appealed. They had a 100% success rate for juries at trial.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

MacFarlane: I can tell you in the courtroom, watching those cases, there was so much unapologetic boasting about future pardons or future glory from the defendants, even to their own detriment. They knew this day was coming.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

It was a political hire. We know that because Bari Weiss had not a single dip of experience in broadcast news when she took over as editor-in-chief at CBS. Now there's some early signs from "senior leadership" at Paramount that they know this. Or some do. Maybe. A bit... puck.news/cbs-news-res...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Blanche: I am the Acting Attorney General! The fact that I used to be President Trump’s lawyer is just a fact. DON’T SAY THE PRESIDENT’S FORMER LAWYER WILL DO SOMETHING—SAY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL DO SOMETHING!

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Come visit these creatives at the 2026 Locus Awards! Free to attend from 12-5PM at the Hotel Shattuck in Berkeley, CA. Check out vendors @pegasusbooks & #batmoonstudios and learn about #MAYA w/ #AnandGandhi plus @baycon.org @wfc2026 & @laworldcon. all w/ @baybookfest

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Scott MacFarlane slams the legacy media over its handling of January 6 coverage: They allowed the space and the void for Trump to step in and try to rewrite it, to craft a different narrative, to flat-out lie.

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Chris B 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Once again repeating my stance that if you generate AI images of me and I meet you in person I will punch you in the fucking throat

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

None of the Frieren posts on social media - mostly cosplay and fan art - prepared me for the reality of the show as an intensely wistful and philosophical take on life as a Tolkien-like elf in a predominantly human world.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I have a handful of podcasts I really enjoy. But I have to admit I’m getting aggravated at the growing number of them that are accepting money from obviously AI-generated and/or AI-read ad copy. I never want to hear those. **Podcasters should know better than to condone AI-generated audio.**

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I *fully* have the bug now, however. When my daughter isn’t available, I’m struggling to not start a single-player game of BG. I DID install Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition, but so far I haven’t touched it. Instead, I’m writing about all of it here.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

But coordinating three people’s schedules is harder than it is for two, so we have had multiple times in the last few days where it’s just my daughter and I. So we started a separate game of BG, playing through the Black Pits scenario!

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Some time in the intervening years, there was a sale for the Enhanced Editions of the Infinity engine games, and I bought BG again. A few days ago, our schedules aligned, and I started a 3P campaign with my now-adult kids in BG:EE. Daughter & I love revisiting it, and my son is loving his 1st time.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Then an error happened, corrupting our save. We said we’d try going back to an earlier save to continue, but were dispirited enough that we set BG aside for a while. By the time we finally returned to the game after a year, a Windows update had changed compatibility, making it completely unplayable.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Five or six years ago, I bought BG for my kids to play. My son wasn’t available at the same times, but my daughter and I started a multiplayer campaign. We got further than I ever had lone - actually reaching the city of Baldur’s Gate!

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Probably ten years ago, I bought BG on good old games so that I could install it more easily. I did, but didn’t really have time to play it, as my kids were old enough that I was teaching them actual tabletop role-playing games. The podcast followed.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A year or two later, my wife and I played Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance together all the way through on the PS2. We liked it so much that we did the same with BG:DA 2 after it was released.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A thread about BG and me In the 90s I played a bit of Baldur’s Gate, really enjoyed it, then got distracted by other games. In 2001 or 2002, I bought a copy of BG to play during a business trip; I got a bit further before the trip ended.

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Spaceseeker19 @spaceseeker19.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

A deckbuilder is a type of tabletop game where players start with identical decks of cards, and each player modifies their deck during the course of the game, BUILDING it through PLAY. “Deckbuilder” can also include video games that emulate this kind of gameplay.

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