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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 9h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 12h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 8h

Visa and Mastercard have the opportunity to do something really funny.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 12h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 19h

"Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, born #OTD 1890

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Donald Trump: 'What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening'

In a wide-ranging, free-flowing speech to a veterans association, the US president, Donald Trump, criticised the media for its reaction to his trade tariffs policy.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 19h

Always looking for articulate, accessible work like this—perfect for my game studies classes!

Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · Mar 11

It’s finally here! Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning takes a look at how board games make persuasive arguments, how they might move us emotionally, and how the ways we talk about the form might hinder its development.

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Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning

YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland

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Brett Rolfe @brettrolfe.bsky.social · 1d

Love this so much! So many educational games completely ignore the way board games can create meaning... and how this potential can be used to achieve powerful learning outcomes.

Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · Mar 11

It’s finally here! Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning takes a look at how board games make persuasive arguments, how they might move us emotionally, and how the ways we talk about the form might hinder its development.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4z...

Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning

YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland

www.youtube.com

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.

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Dennis K Jr @dkjrhi.bsky.social · 1d

“This is, simply put, bullshit.” - @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

www.lawdork.com/p/barrett-tu...

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kavanaugh stop

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

This is Israel's defense minister. Just to be clear: Israel interprets the deal allowing continueing the violence even after the freeing of the hostages.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

And theatre. Theatre artists have been early adopters and inventors of tech for centuries.

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 1d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to the Israeli parliament today, gloating about U.S. weapons supplied to Israel over the past two years:

"You obviously used them very well."

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Guardian headline: "Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead"

The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims"

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

When those midterms roll in, whew! The whole vibe rolls over!

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 2d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 1d

Folks on the TTRPG “beat” are few & far-flung. The weird shape of the hobby, industry, & communities can be hard to grapple with.

What heartens me today is seeing Rob’s legacy of care. I heard right before my D&D game, & I (just a little satellite, quite new) heard from so many in our shared loss.

Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 2d

Oh God, no.

We never got a chance to meet, but I am so grateful to have written alongside him in these kinds of spaces, & to have been encouraged by him. I don’t have the words, truly.

Rob did so much for the coverage of TTRPGs & games, and I don’t know what we will do without him.

Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 2d

Gutted to hear about the passing of @robowieland.bsky.social today.
He wrote games, wrote about games, and was a smart, passionate advocate for the TTRPG hobby. Gone too young.

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Steven E Schend @seschend.bsky.social · 1d

Just when I think the corruption is bad, they find new cellars in which it’s alive and even worse than expected.

Shame on Wells Fargo—now a codefendant in the inevitable corruption & treason trials in the near future…

Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 7d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 7d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

Well, in my neighborhood, we’re more of an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs 🧵

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 1d

Read this thoughtful portrait of Sofonisba Anguissola by filmmaker and author Howard Burton on @worldhistory.org

🗃️ #arthistory #art #skystorians #womenartists #artherstory

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Sofonisba Anguissola: The Founder of Feminist Art

Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532-1625) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cremona who achieved considerable fame during her lifetime as the first widely-known female artist. She was invited by the.....

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 2d

Just rewatched. It rules.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 2d

Gutted to hear about the passing of @robowieland.bsky.social today.
He wrote games, wrote about games, and was a smart, passionate advocate for the TTRPG hobby. Gone too young.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 2d

Motion to replace with “chat up the ticket takers and ask how things are looking.”

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 2d

a close up of a man 's face in the rain .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face in the rain .

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 2d

My favorite moment in ‘Event Horizon’ is when Sam Neill says, “We got this one transmission from the lost ship” and it’s literally the shrieks of the damned.

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