Kyle Orland
@kyleor.land
Senior Gaming Editor, Ars Technica / The guy who LITERALLY wrote the book on Minesweeper -- https://bossfightbooks.com/products/minesweeper-by-kyle-orland
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Kyle Orland
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· Oct 17
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My @bossfightbooks.bsky.social book on Minesweeper covers a game that was pre-installed on 4 billion Windows computers but has had very little previous scholarly attention.
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Oh so he just can’t control his caucus, got it
SCOOP: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
Scoop: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
"We let him know what we were doing," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Oh so he just can’t control his caucus, got it
I've said it before, but the 5-10 minutes when Zoom is "converting meeting recording" after a lengthy interview are some of the most harrowing of my working life.
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I've said it before, but the 5-10 minutes when Zoom is "converting meeting recording" after a lengthy interview are some of the most harrowing of my working life.
I know this chart is wrong because a circa 2000 CRT TV is way more expensive and harder to find today...
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I know this chart is wrong because a circa 2000 CRT TV is way more expensive and harder to find today...
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like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure
Most concise summary of the last 1.5 months of politics
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Most concise summary of the last 1.5 months of politics
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To repeat: Maybe electing a life-long criminal to an office where he can pardon other criminals wasn't such a good idea.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
To repeat: Maybe electing a life-long criminal to an office where he can pardon other criminals wasn't such a good idea.
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the wealthy oligarchs want to control all flow of information to create narratives and beliefs they want to instill into populations, no better illustrated by comparing how elon musks ‘grokipedia’ talks about hitler compared to ‘wikipedia’
November 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the wealthy oligarchs want to control all flow of information to create narratives and beliefs they want to instill into populations, no better illustrated by comparing how elon musks ‘grokipedia’ talks about hitler compared to ‘wikipedia’
Gotta spend money to lose money...
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Gotta spend money to lose money...
Getting the GOP to reject this is what winning the politics of the shutdown looks like
SCHUMER is on the floor now making this offer to end the shutdown:
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Getting the GOP to reject this is what winning the politics of the shutdown looks like
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Y'all crazy if you're thinking about spending $300 to watch trailers.
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Y'all crazy if you're thinking about spending $300 to watch trailers.
This is one of those situations where I think you actually can cover it better sitting in a hotel room then meeting people at parties/events surrounding
I asked about Game Awards press tickets in October. Got an email yesterday encouraging me to buy my own, as there were no spares.
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is one of those situations where I think you actually can cover it better sitting in a hotel room then meeting people at parties/events surrounding
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
COVID broke the US consumer in ways we have yet to recover from
November 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
COVID broke the US consumer in ways we have yet to recover from
Dat CRT glow
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Dat CRT glow
This is what happens when the money people read too much sci-fi
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This is what happens when the money people read too much sci-fi
This is what got us a million public works named after Carnegie in Pittsburgh. There's just no analogue today
I really think they understand the very old idea of death as the great equalizer and rather than take away any perspective from that they just treat it like any other obstacle and go "right, well that's gotta go"
A really big difference between our current class of oligarchs (Theil and Musk great examples) and the last few generations is how much contempt they now have for the future. If they have children or meaningful family relations, they are not loving ones. Mostly, they eschew other human beings.
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This is what got us a million public works named after Carnegie in Pittsburgh. There's just no analogue today
This is true of all art forms now. Oversupply means there has to be a discernible *reason* you are reviewing *this thing* and not 1,000 others
My ears were glued to Wesley Morris and Kelefa Sanneh on the nice-ification of music criticism. This is a thing I think about a lot lately with TV criticism, although the reasons/dynamics are different. Maybe inside baseball, but you follow a critic on social media! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zerX...
Music Reviewers Used to Be Cranky. What Happened?
YouTube video by Cannonball with Wesley Morris
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is true of all art forms now. Oversupply means there has to be a discernible *reason* you are reviewing *this thing* and not 1,000 others
This is why Trumpism isn't working the same way when Trump is not on the ballot
The key factor that everyone seems to always forget is that Trump was the host of what was once the highest rated show on network TV - a purportedly non-fiction show that portrayed him as a hyper-savvy and hyper-successful businessman.
Trump has gotten huge numbers of infrequent voters to the polls, twice. He's deeply unpopular but has mobilized a large, unprecedented coalition of Americans motivated by some combination of ignorance, avarice, and cruelty. It is hard to describe what he has as something other than charisma
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This is why Trumpism isn't working the same way when Trump is not on the ballot
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Trump is having the government take active stakes in the commanding heights of the economy. Zohran Mamdani is proposing free buses, universal child care, and higher taxes for billionaires. Which one of these is the socialist again?
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Trump is having the government take active stakes in the commanding heights of the economy. Zohran Mamdani is proposing free buses, universal child care, and higher taxes for billionaires. Which one of these is the socialist again?
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We've got 31 game devs who are keen to get to work, @rockstargames.com.
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
We've got 31 game devs who are keen to get to work, @rockstargames.com.
You can't spell "calipers" without AI...
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
You can't spell "calipers" without AI...
At this year's rate of "a six month delay every six months" GTA6 will literally never come out
BREAKING: Rockstar has delayed Grand Theft Auto VI again, pushing the highly anticipated game from May to November 19, 2026. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026
The release date for the game had previously slipped to May 2026 from fall 2025
www.bloomberg.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
At this year's rate of "a six month delay every six months" GTA6 will literally never come out
So did we all settled on a genre name for "Vampire Survivors"-style games, or is it still up in the air?
November 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
So did we all settled on a genre name for "Vampire Survivors"-style games, or is it still up in the air?
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I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee.
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee.
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them