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ביורוקרט של כוח לעובדים ושחקן תפקידים. ציוציי מטעמי בלבד אם לא צוין אחרת
A worker's union bureaucrat by day 📂📋🖇️ a ttrpg player and podcaster by night 🎲
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eladhen.bsky.social
מה אפשר לומר? תודה מתי.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSm7z7L4f-M
February 8, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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ehronlime.bsky.social
Hey hey I'm making another zine! A4 2B D6 will be similar to eraserflag (A5, 36ish pages) but specifically focused on RPGs this time. We're looking for pitches from other Malaysians writers, designers, and artists who love RPGs, so if that's you, please submit a pitch here: forms.gle/Zf4G8LQjayxW...
A poster for A4 2B D6 - a Malaysian RPG magazine. It reads "A4 2B D6 represents the main things you use to play RPGs - paper, pencil, and dice. However, it's missing one crucial piece - your voice. Find out how to pitch your piece below." and includes a QR code to a Google Form.
February 7, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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astrokatie.com
GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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lackingceremony.bsky.social
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.

Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
scumbelievable.bsky.social Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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edzitron.com
With this in mind: if you work for coreweave, nebius or another neocloud and have information about costs, please ping me at ezitron.76.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5d
I just want the hourly cost of running these h100/b200/gb200 GPUs so bad. I know it sucks. I know in my gut it is not profitable to run this crap. Those numbers are the key to the whole bubble
February 5, 2026 at 4:00 AM
eladhen.bsky.social
why oh why can't any open source client support bidirectional writing standards?
a screenshot of the writing of this post in the "flare" client. the text is aligned right to left instead of left to right, because the app can't imagine a user writing in a language that isn't his system language.
February 4, 2026 at 7:40 AM
eladhen.bsky.social
Neoliberalism was one big bait and switch.
January 30, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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gilibug.bsky.social
As with all its applications, AI takes away the process, leaving you only with results. Even if people think the results are good (they seldom really are), the process is valuable. Learning, development, experimentation, innovation & change come about through process, not by skipping to results.
January 27, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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lackingceremony.bsky.social
The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live!

The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!

store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...
The Quiet Year (box set)
The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every a...
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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friede.bsky.social
I own four copies. I’ve facilitated it for a dozen 8-9 year olds, my niece at age 4, dozens of students, & my new game group this Friday.

A staple.
lackingceremony.bsky.social Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 14d
The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live!

The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!

store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...
The Quiet Year (box set)
The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every a...
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:57 PM
eladhen.bsky.social
מנסה לפרסם במקביל למסטודון ובלוסקי
January 23, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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edzitron.com
8m subscribers? Wow that’s pathetic and right there with Microsoft 365 copilot which had 8 million active licenses in August 2025. This should be seen as an abject failure! All that capex and all that opex and all that noise and for what? Acquihires and $10bn+ in future impairments?
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · 21d
Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from 35B in March 2025 to 85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise hit 8M subscribers (Erin Woo/The Information)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
January 20, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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theguardian.com
Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’
Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’
His blunt, brash scepticism has made the podcaster and writer something of a cult figure. But as concern over large language models builds, he’s no longer the outsider he once was
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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gilibug.bsky.social
קח את בנך, את יחידך, השרה קלות באתוס לאומי וחרדות נטישה,
January 17, 2026 at 8:18 AM
eladhen.bsky.social
anyone saying LLMs will certainly continue into the future long-term, I think overestimates the certainty of a long term on current civilization path.
January 10, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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gilibug.bsky.social
רגע אחרי שקראתי בפייסבוק פוסט המצדיק ומצדיע להחלטה של הוצאה לאור בצרפת לפטר את כל המתרגמים האנושיים ולהחליף אותם בתרגום מכונה, צצה לי פרסומת לבובת כובד סנסורית, שמדמה חיבוק עמוק. זה נראה לי המשך ישיר של אותו קו מחשבה. כמה זמן יכולים ההורים לחסוך, אם במקום לחבק את ילדיהם יקנו להם בובת חיבוק סנסורית.
January 6, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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edzitron.com
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti....
Silicon Valley didn’t birth the next big tech firm. It incubated yet another hyperscaler-level parasite, except instead of just spending money on hyperscaler services (and raising money to do so), both Anthropic and OpenAI actively drain the venture capital system as well, as they both burn billions of dollars. By creating something that’s incredibly expensive to run, they naturally create startups more-dependent on the venture capital system, and the venture capital system has no idea what to do other than say “just grow, baby!” Both OpenAI and Anthropic’s models might be getting cheaper on a per-million-token basis, but use more tokens, increasing the cost of inference, which in turn increases the costs of startups doing business, which in turn means OpenAI, Anthropic, and all connected startups lose more money, which increases the burn on venture capital. This is a doom-spiral, one that can only be reversed through the most magical and aggressive turnaround we will have seen in history, and it will have to happen next year, without fail. It won’t.
January 7, 2026 at 7:26 AM
eladhen.bsky.social
just deleted my shitter account. haven't entered the place in month.
And I'm really loath of investing anything here knowing full well the enshitification is comming this way, even if it's momentarily deleyed.

Sure, the cool cats are here, like they were in twitter and google+... 🤷‍♂️
January 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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lamemage.com
Every now and then I see someone asking for recommendations of a GMless game to play.

Well a bunch of us made a list, complete with explanations of why we thought each game was great, so you can decide for yourself.

Don't see your favorite? Add it!

www.reddit.com/r/gmless/com...
From the gmless community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the gmless community
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January 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
eladhen.bsky.social
Evergreen, it sadly seems...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHhZF66C1Dc
January 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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carberry.deals
Lying to Americans to manufacture consent --> manufacturing consent by simply appearing to manufacture consent --> consent pre-manufactured. No need to do anything
michaelgkagan.bsky.social Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · Jan 3
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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aavoigt.bsky.social
Lastly, from Avery Alder. I'd just been personally curious about how she felt about the Quiet Year being used as worldbuilding, and I think she has a very gracious response.
The Quiet Year, I think in large part because it showed up in both Friends at the Table and The Adventure Zone as a tool for laying the groundwork for a campaign that would then occur in a different system… because of that a lot of people were first introduced to the Quiet Year as a tool for setting up your D&D campaign or setting up your campaign in a different system. And at first that really felt wrong to me or off to me, because The Quiet Year… My sensibility was that it was designed to be self contained, it was designed to be fleeting and ephemeral. It was designed to end on an ambiguous and never defined note. And all those things felt really integral to my play experience. And the idea that those things will be not integral and not even present for other people's play experience gave me this strong like oh no you're playing it wrong impression initially. Until I pulled back and reexamined that a little bit and i realized like there's no such thing as playing roleplaying games wrong. And if there is I built a career on playing roleplaying games wrong.
December 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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malwarejake.bsky.social
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
In 2026, countries that want to win the trade war have a unique historical possibility: They could repeal their “anticircumvention” laws, which make it illegal—a felony, in many cases—to modify devices and services without permission from their manufacturers. Over the past two decades, the office of the US Trade Representative–which is responsible for developing and coordinating US international trade, commodity, and direct investment policy—has pressured most of the world into adopting these laws, hamstringing foreign startups that might compete with Apple (by providing a jailbreaking kit that installs a third-party app store), or Google (by blocking tracking on Android devices), or Amazon (by converting Kindle and Audible files to formats that work on rival apps), or John Deere (by disabling the systems that block third-party repairs), or the Big Three automakers (by decoding the encrypted error messages mechanics need to service our cars). The rents that these digital locks help American companies extract run to hundreds of billions of dollars every single year. The world’s governments agreed to protect this racket in exchange for tariff-free access to American markets. Now that the US has reneged on its side of the bargain, these laws serve no useful purpose.
December 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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aavoigt.bsky.social
Regular reminder that I am trying to build a corps of new Youtubers to cover indie RPGs. If you have any desire to do this, please let me know and I will give you what little knowledge I posses.
December 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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edzitron.com
Based on modeling out its last three quarters of sales, NVIDIA appears to have shipped around 4GW of IT load - yet I cannot find compelling evidence that even 1GW has come online. I believe there are millions of GPUs in warehouses, waiting to be installed.
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So, NVIDIA sold around $43 billion of data center GPUs in its last quarter. I'm going to guess on the breakdown of that revenue, and the subsequent power it requires. And yes, it’s a guess, but the pricing is based on actual figures paid by end users. 20% GB300 (72 GPU racks, around 142KW power draw) Unit Cost: $4.5m Amount sold: around 1912 units Total Power Draw: around 270MW of IT load. 10% B300 (8-GPU pods, around 14KW power draw) Unit Price: $440,000 Amount Sold: around 9,779 units Total Power Draw: around 137MW of IT load. 30% GB200 (72 GPU racks, around 120KW power draw) Unit Cost: $3m Amount Sold: around 4,302 units Total Power Draw: around 516MW of IT load. 25% B200 (8-GPU pods, around 14KW power draw) Unit Price: $371,000 Amount Sold: around 28,994 units Total Power Draw: around 405MW of IT load. 15% H200 (8-GPU pods, around 10KW power draw) Unit Price: $285,000 Amount Sold: around 22,646 units Power Draw: around 226MW of IT load. These are, of course, estimations, but they work out to around 1.55GW of GPUs shipped Q3 FY26. Q2 FY26 was the first one where the GB300s started shipping en masse, so I'm comfortable doing the same breakdown, which, on compute revenues of $33.844bn gets us to 1.22GW. Q1 FY26 ( $34.155bn) likely didn't include many GB300s or B300s at all (GB300s started shipping en masse in mid–July) so I'm going to draw those down to 1% and 5% respectively (I am assuming preorders took place), leave GB200s at 30%, bump B200s to 40% and bump H200s to 24%, bringing us to 1.27GW. This amounts to around 4GW of IT load sold in the last three quarters. As I discussed in the Hater's Guide To NVIDIA, NVIDIA claims to have shipped 6 million GPUs, but even with the whacky maths of "each Blackwell GPU is actually two GPUs because each Blackwell has two dies," the power requirements don't lie. 4GW of IT load requires around 5.2GW of power, and I flat out cannot find even a quarter of that in construction, let alone energized and in existence. You see, even "small" data centers are expensive and power intensive in ways that you may not understand. CoreWeave's Cheyenne, Wyoming data center, which is being built by Related Digital, is meant to have 302MW of capacity (though CoreWeave only appears to have contracted for 88MW), and the construction alone will cost $1.2 billion. It broke ground in October 2025. If we assume that 302MW refers to IT load, that would be around 2517 GB200 racks, or around $7.55 billion. If we assume that the goal is to only spin up 88MW of capacity, that would bring it down to around 733 GB200 racks, or $2.2 billion. In any case, this means that this 302MW data center will cost over $7.5 billion in GPUs alone. It will very likely take until the end of 2026 for the first building to be done, with DataCenterDynamics saying it's "unclear" what amount of IT capacity will be available at that time. CoreWeave's Lancaster, Pennsylvania data center will have an initial capacity of 100MW and will allegedly be finished in the "summer of 2027." It "hopes to break ground" in the Summer of 2026. It is referred to as a "$6 billion" data center. At a 100MW capacity, that's around 833 GB200 racks, or $2.5 billion. At 300MW, we're looking at 2500 GB200 racks, or $7.5 billion in GPUs. In both cases: It takes over a year to build a smaller data center in the 80MW to 100MW range — and it likely takes longer, especially when you consider things like supply chain shortages, labor shortages, permitting, and actually contracting power from a utility provider, or building your own power infrastructure. GPUs are far and away the largest cost related to the building. Yet something else stands out: NVIDIA's GPU sales are remarkably concentrated, and take, in many cases, years to even begin generating revenue. Let's break it down: If we assume NVIDIA sold around 1.5GW of IT Load in a quarter, that's 15 100MW data centers. A critique of my work is that these could be previous data centers getting retrofitted, so let's be generous and assume that around half (8) of those are new, so about 750MW of new capacity. It seems like 100MW — or even 50MW! — of capacity is still very expensive to build. Let me give you an example. The first 50MW phase of Applied Digital's "Polaris Forge 1 AI Factory" in North Dakota (for CoreWeave, of course) opened in October, 2025, and (according to Data Center Dynamics) "began life as a crypto and HPC development," and broke ground in September 2022. It notes that another 50MW is going to be available by the end of year, though I have seen no proof that this is the case. Even in the best-case, luckiest-possible scenario, it takes over a year to make it possible to energize and sell 50MW of compute capacity, also known as 416 GB200 racks. There is no god damn way in Hell that the world is funding and building 750MW of new capacity every single quarter. That is not fucking possible. In fact, I can't find any consistent explanation for how many data centers are actually being built or brought online.
December 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM