francis siefken
@monsuta.bsky.social
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board & card games
improv nordic-larp vr
silence, song, dance
mudra/maitri space awareness
lojong lujong chi-ro
org-mode bulletjournal marimo
llama.cpp rag podman k8s
pytorch rust
interactive-fiction inform7
non-normative
52n5e now
board & card games
improv nordic-larp vr
silence, song, dance
mudra/maitri space awareness
lojong lujong chi-ro
org-mode bulletjournal marimo
llama.cpp rag podman k8s
pytorch rust
interactive-fiction inform7
non-normative
52n5e now
Reposted by francis siefken
33-year-old Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia, who has been held in ICE detention for nearly a year, recently suffered a seizure after “malnutrition and poor conditions,” says her attorney.
February 16, 2026 at 2:34 PM
33-year-old Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia, who has been held in ICE detention for nearly a year, recently suffered a seizure after “malnutrition and poor conditions,” says her attorney.
PDF: Attributing Russian Information Influence Operations: Testing the Information Influence Attribution Framework with real-world case studies
stratcomcoe.org/publications...
stratcomcoe.org/publications...
StratCom | NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence Riga, Latvia
stratcomcoe.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:15 PM
PDF: Attributing Russian Information Influence Operations: Testing the Information Influence Attribution Framework with real-world case studies
stratcomcoe.org/publications...
stratcomcoe.org/publications...
chess
github.com/tsoj/Nalwald
github.com/Yoshie2000/P...
github.com/Bobingstern/...
www.sp-cc.de/index.htm
duck & crazyhouse with fairy-stockfish and
github.com/Yoshie2000/c...
chess-annotator --engine ./fairy-stockfish --variant crazyhouse --summary --classifications --tacpl game.pgn | tee note.pgn
github.com/tsoj/Nalwald
github.com/Yoshie2000/P...
github.com/Bobingstern/...
www.sp-cc.de/index.htm
duck & crazyhouse with fairy-stockfish and
github.com/Yoshie2000/c...
chess-annotator --engine ./fairy-stockfish --variant crazyhouse --summary --classifications --tacpl game.pgn | tee note.pgn
GitHub - tsoj/Nalwald: UCI chess engine written in Nim
UCI chess engine written in Nim. Contribute to tsoj/Nalwald development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:54 PM
chess
github.com/tsoj/Nalwald
github.com/Yoshie2000/P...
github.com/Bobingstern/...
www.sp-cc.de/index.htm
duck & crazyhouse with fairy-stockfish and
github.com/Yoshie2000/c...
chess-annotator --engine ./fairy-stockfish --variant crazyhouse --summary --classifications --tacpl game.pgn | tee note.pgn
github.com/tsoj/Nalwald
github.com/Yoshie2000/P...
github.com/Bobingstern/...
www.sp-cc.de/index.htm
duck & crazyhouse with fairy-stockfish and
github.com/Yoshie2000/c...
chess-annotator --engine ./fairy-stockfish --variant crazyhouse --summary --classifications --tacpl game.pgn | tee note.pgn
Reposted by francis siefken
Novichok didn't finish the job in 2020. So the same Russian lab that created it synthesized something new — a neurotoxin no government had ever weaponized before. Researchers in five countries say Russia killed Navalny with something called epibatidine. meduza.io/en/cards/wha...
What is epibatidine, and how did it kill Navalny? A guide to the frog neurotoxin that five countries say poisoned Russia’s opposition leader. — Meduza
The United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands announced that a substance called epibatidine killed Alexey Navalny, the opposition leader who died in a Russian prison in February…
meduza.io
February 14, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Novichok didn't finish the job in 2020. So the same Russian lab that created it synthesized something new — a neurotoxin no government had ever weaponized before. Researchers in five countries say Russia killed Navalny with something called epibatidine. meduza.io/en/cards/wha...
turso sqlite compatible embeddable database, with wasm ~500 KB overhead turso.tech/blog/beyond-...
Beyond the Single-Writer Limitation with Turso's Concurrent Writes
With multi-core processors and multi-threaded architectures becoming the norm, the old single-writer model that SQLite pioneered has started to show its age in today’s concurrent world.
turso.tech
February 14, 2026 at 6:49 PM
turso sqlite compatible embeddable database, with wasm ~500 KB overhead turso.tech/blog/beyond-...
Free Streaming One Little Pill (documentary film)
YouTube video by Options Save Lives
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:05 AM
~10 Ukrainian drone operators acted as a simulated adversary against NATO battle group in Estonia Hedgehog 2025 drills .
In half a day, team simulated destruction of 17 armored vehicles and conducted 30 additional strikes, neutralizing 2 entire NATO battalions due to visible columns and tents
In half a day, team simulated destruction of 17 armored vehicles and conducted 30 additional strikes, neutralizing 2 entire NATO battalions due to visible columns and tents
February 14, 2026 at 9:49 AM
~10 Ukrainian drone operators acted as a simulated adversary against NATO battle group in Estonia Hedgehog 2025 drills .
In half a day, team simulated destruction of 17 armored vehicles and conducted 30 additional strikes, neutralizing 2 entire NATO battalions due to visible columns and tents
In half a day, team simulated destruction of 17 armored vehicles and conducted 30 additional strikes, neutralizing 2 entire NATO battalions due to visible columns and tents
Designer Preview: Race for the Galaxy: Xeno Invasion | BoardGameGeek News
boardgamegeek.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:06 AM
the rftg log can be analysed by an llm each round.
Early game trading (getting 4 cards at a time) fueled red's ability to play devs like Terraforming Robots & Galactic Bazaar.
Using Contact Specialist military without actually needing a high military strength.
Consume-x2 to drain the VP pool 1/2
Early game trading (getting 4 cards at a time) fueled red's ability to play devs like Terraforming Robots & Galactic Bazaar.
Using Contact Specialist military without actually needing a high military strength.
Consume-x2 to drain the VP pool 1/2
February 13, 2026 at 7:24 AM
the rftg log can be analysed by an llm each round.
Early game trading (getting 4 cards at a time) fueled red's ability to play devs like Terraforming Robots & Galactic Bazaar.
Using Contact Specialist military without actually needing a high military strength.
Consume-x2 to drain the VP pool 1/2
Early game trading (getting 4 cards at a time) fueled red's ability to play devs like Terraforming Robots & Galactic Bazaar.
Using Contact Specialist military without actually needing a high military strength.
Consume-x2 to drain the VP pool 1/2
Reposted by francis siefken
“Without the cultivated, meaning-laden, embodied intuition of the human scientist who is instinctively driven to ask questions about the nature of the world, AI systems remain rudderless when they enter the realms of uncertainty.”
— @conorfeehly.bsky.social
#ai #science #scientificdiscoveries
— @conorfeehly.bsky.social
#ai #science #scientificdiscoveries
Why Human Intuition Is Still Science’s Greatest Tool In The Age Of AI | NOEMA
Our sense for aesthetics, meaning and embodiment give us a vital advantage over our technological creations.
www.noemamag.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:15 PM
“Without the cultivated, meaning-laden, embodied intuition of the human scientist who is instinctively driven to ask questions about the nature of the world, AI systems remain rudderless when they enter the realms of uncertainty.”
— @conorfeehly.bsky.social
#ai #science #scientificdiscoveries
— @conorfeehly.bsky.social
#ai #science #scientificdiscoveries
Reposted by francis siefken
Missing the mark: Why Putin’s “wonder weapons” only make Russia less secure
By expanding the bounds of what is permissible in the nuclear realm, Moscow is giving its American adversary the green light to test weapons of a similar class.
By expanding the bounds of what is permissible in the nuclear realm, Moscow is giving its American adversary the green light to test weapons of a similar class.
Missing the mark: Why Putin’s “wonder weapons” only make Russia less secure
When the New START Treaty between Russia and the U.S. expired on Feb. 5, it marked the first time since the 1970s that no mechanism for limiting the nuclear arsenals of Moscow and Washington was in pl...
theins.press
February 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Missing the mark: Why Putin’s “wonder weapons” only make Russia less secure
By expanding the bounds of what is permissible in the nuclear realm, Moscow is giving its American adversary the green light to test weapons of a similar class.
By expanding the bounds of what is permissible in the nuclear realm, Moscow is giving its American adversary the green light to test weapons of a similar class.
code pink critics:
www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/blog/visitin...
ngo-monitor.org/ngos/codepink/
jewishonliner.org/p/codepinks-...
fashbusters.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/d...
ode pink responds:
www.codepink.org/terrorist_wh...
www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/blog/visitin...
ngo-monitor.org/ngos/codepink/
jewishonliner.org/p/codepinks-...
fashbusters.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/d...
ode pink responds:
www.codepink.org/terrorist_wh...
Visiting the Ayatollahs: 2. Code Pink
Despite being the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism and a major human rights abuser, the Islamic Republic receives unexpected rhetorical and in-person support from various Western sources. Part two...
www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:07 AM
computational democracy, polis and 'community notes'
pol.is/home2
compdemocracy.org
github.com/compdemocrac...
related:
bridgingdictionary.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_...
lobste.rs/about#invita...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.techpolicy.press/community-no...
pol.is/home2
compdemocracy.org
github.com/compdemocrac...
related:
bridgingdictionary.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_...
lobste.rs/about#invita...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.techpolicy.press/community-no...
Polis
pol.is
February 13, 2026 at 6:56 AM
computational democracy, polis and 'community notes'
pol.is/home2
compdemocracy.org
github.com/compdemocrac...
related:
bridgingdictionary.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_...
lobste.rs/about#invita...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.techpolicy.press/community-no...
pol.is/home2
compdemocracy.org
github.com/compdemocrac...
related:
bridgingdictionary.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_...
lobste.rs/about#invita...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.techpolicy.press/community-no...
dune war for arrakis www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEsr...
Dune War for Arrakis Review
YouTube video by MarcoOmnigamer
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:26 PM
dune war for arrakis www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEsr...
Kinfire Delve - tactical boss battler
boardgamegeek.com/thread/35271...
Vantage - explore a massive panoramic world
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42...
Earthborn Rangers - deep deck-building, a living world
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34...
boardgamegeek.com/thread/35271...
Vantage - explore a massive panoramic world
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42...
Earthborn Rangers - deep deck-building, a living world
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34...
Vantage
Explore an entire planet's open world from first-person perspectives.
boardgamegeek.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Kinfire Delve - tactical boss battler
boardgamegeek.com/thread/35271...
Vantage - explore a massive panoramic world
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42...
Earthborn Rangers - deep deck-building, a living world
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34...
boardgamegeek.com/thread/35271...
Vantage - explore a massive panoramic world
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42...
Earthborn Rangers - deep deck-building, a living world
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34...
ville susi: ludusoma worlds, celebrating playfulness and mindfulness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjeS...
v2.kompassi.eu/ropecon2025/...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjeS...
v2.kompassi.eu/ropecon2025/...
Ropecon 2025: Ludusoma Worlds – Play Goes Meditation
YouTube video by Ropecon
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:46 PM
ville susi: ludusoma worlds, celebrating playfulness and mindfulness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjeS...
v2.kompassi.eu/ropecon2025/...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjeS...
v2.kompassi.eu/ropecon2025/...
kevin wilson @kevinwilson42.bsky.social - designer of boardgames like Android, Arkham Horror 2nd ed, X-Files, Batman: Animated Series Adventures, Doom, Wiz-War, Warcraft etc
cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/post...
boardgamegeek.com/thread/31629...
videogamegeek.com/boardgamepod...
youtu.be/LLDI8kQF4ZE
cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/post...
boardgamegeek.com/thread/31629...
videogamegeek.com/boardgamepod...
youtu.be/LLDI8kQF4ZE
This game is amazing! | Android
I don't usually jump in on discussions about my games other than answering rules questions, but I should probably say some stuff here, as twitter is not a great place for a nuanced discussion.
One of...
boardgamegeek.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:49 PM
kevin wilson @kevinwilson42.bsky.social - designer of boardgames like Android, Arkham Horror 2nd ed, X-Files, Batman: Animated Series Adventures, Doom, Wiz-War, Warcraft etc
cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/post...
boardgamegeek.com/thread/31629...
videogamegeek.com/boardgamepod...
youtu.be/LLDI8kQF4ZE
cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/post...
boardgamegeek.com/thread/31629...
videogamegeek.com/boardgamepod...
youtu.be/LLDI8kQF4ZE
