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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 14h

Precisely. Banning young people from social media just so ill-informed boomers can get over their made-up moral panic simply ends up harming the most vulnerable, for whom social media are a critical lifeline. 👇👇👇

LGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teens

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

www.abc.net.au

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 15h

I'm obsessed with the recording slang term "good tape" — which meant high-quality audio but with podcasting morphed into good, emotionally resonant content. Beautiful metonymy. We should adapt this to simulation design for when something funny & emergent happens, "that's good vec"

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 14h

Youth-focused anti-bullying organisation Project Rockit are saying the impact of the social media age ban on young people will be harsh - focus should be on the corporations pushing algorithms, not on young people

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 1d

Uh oh, Melissa woke up sick so we have to cancel tonight's final show at Fringe :-(

(Now I'm stuck inside, couldn't attend anything today, boo)

Hoping to reschedule the show for next Sunday, stay tuned...

Lots of illness going around, keep rapid testing yourselves folks!

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 1d

Respect to anyone who took time out of MIGW or Fringe to attend this week's demonstration
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 1d

Massive crowd in Melbourne/Naarm today (in case you thought this movement was going to be placated with more colonisation). Until the occupation ends. Until Western war criminals and their enablers face justice. Until Palestine is free.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 1d

I feel the same way about a lot of early 21st century internet culture, especially YouTube thumbnail aesthetics - culture with a certain frictionless "velocity", prefiguring (and maybe even reinforcing the expectations for) slop

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 1d

V interesting Alix Rule and David Levine talk reflecting back on their influential "International Art English" piece in context of 2025, positing that IAE can be seen as prefiguring genAI and the aesthetics of authority
www.youtube.com/live/TM8Lb7T...

Triple Canopy Symposium 2025 (Day 2) // Live at Roulette

YouTube video by Roulette Intermedium

www.youtube.com

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1d

Love this talk by (the always fun and brilliant) Dennis Yi Tenen — ca. 3hr:22min > 3:16 in the livestream of this Triple Canopy symposium — about the purported "AI translation" of an English/Russian/Ukrainian conversation between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Lex Friedman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8L...

Video screenshot - four people on a stage, screen behind depicting Zelenskyy and Friedman with text reading "This is complete bullsh*t"

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d

This whole series has been great, and genuinely moving, despite (or because of) being polished campaign video.

It is so rare to see those techniques—with that *surety*—used to say things like this, from positions like this, with a platform like this. No hedging, here.

Makes me want to do the work

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 3d

I see America is now at the “dissident professors fleeing the regime” stage

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Mel ‘Motorboat’ McGlensey @melmcglensey.bsky.social · 3d

wowowow A Judge Pick! For our super normal show? How kind!

Only 3 more nights to catch the most normal show at Melb Fringe! And it's a different show every night so you can keep comin back for more normal ;)

8:30pm (7:30Sun) Trades Hall. On till the 12th.
www.melbournefringe.com.au/whats-on/eve...

Show poster that says Judges' Pick at the top and Melbourne Fringe Festival at the bottom. In the middle, a tilted square photo of a zoomed in silly face showing teeth and wide open eyes.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 3d

Dude I know October is always like this here in VIC, but I cannot deal with all this wind, like all the time.

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404 Media @404media.co · 3d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot stress how good the writing in Baby Steps is. I’ve described it as if you did Silent Hill characterization in a comedy. Really beautiful, largely improvised, magical realist narrative aimed directly at its audience.

Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 4d

I know I keep talking about it but I just finished Baby Steps. That ending got me choked up. Honestly my favourite game I've played in god knows how long. This feels like a real all-timer for me. Absolutely everything about it just feels so... perfect. I'm properly giddy about it all. ART, MAN

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5d

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."

Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 4d

Australia is exporting terrible ideas

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 4d

Denmark is planning to ban children under 15 from using social media, following Australia's world-first laws to curb social media use among teenagers.

Denmark to follow Australia in banning social media for children

Denmark is planning to ban children under 15 from using social media, following Australia's world-first laws to curb social media use among teenagers.

www.abc.net.au

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 4d

slop is like the soot of the industrial revolution but we're not even getting good textiles out of the slop production

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 4d

Rank the macerated remains of our university system from 1 to 10

Headline in the Guardian: University of Melbourne rated best in Australia in global rankings report
Times Higher Eduction ranks university as 37th in the world, with five other Australian schools in top 100

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 4d

damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 4d

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 5d

The fact that all sides of a D6 are a set, and that you upgrade a hero all at once (well, aside from items) is so key to everything in the game.

In truth I am super critical of the Math Aesthetics of normative card-based deckbuilders. A function like, say, 30 Choose 5 has bad brainfeel imo.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 5d

Slice & Dice is truly a staggering work of game system design - its Blessing & Curse & Item valuation system is so atomic and allows for such wildly emergent situations.

Also: I'm on record discussing this on our Eggplant ITD series, but I think dice are fundamentally more interesting than cards.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 5d

iOS, it's great on phone. It's become a big travel game for me.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 5d

I am hundreds, probably actually thousands, of hours into Slice & Dice and I am *still* encountering totally novel, exciting situations. For sure my all time fav turn-based roguelike.

(My strong rec on how to play: Cursed Hyper mode w/ 20% wild modifiers on)

tann.itch.io/slice-dice

Slice & Dice by tann

Roguelike dice tactics game

tann.itch.io

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