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Miranda Osthoff
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Did you read the paper, which pretty clearly says they were given API credits to do the study?

iceberg.mit.edu/report.pdf
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Me when my players prefer D&D and maps over OSRs and locations they can travel to because it’s “more choice-driven”
The Pepe Silvia meme
November 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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This sounds wonderful!
Also no one asked, but I kept saying this to myself while reading through it:
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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I want them to not use AI and not spend time on things that aren't worth it and to not compete with AAA studios
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Sadly Democrats need to listen to what people want: progressive policies. Even if more people had voted, slightly more non-voters polled leaned toward Trump.
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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It goes on to cite people who oppose the kind of purity you are mad about:
"The belief that this enormous, existential problem could have been fixed if all of us had just tweaked our consumptive habits is not only preposterous; it’s dangerous … It’s victim blaming, plain and simple. Heglar and others have taken a strong stance against environmental purity—the idea that you can’t care about or advocate for systems-level change if you aren’t first changing your own habits. But not everyone agrees that individual actions should be completely deemphasized in the climate conversation. Kimberly Nicholas, a climate scientist and author of the popular book Under the Sky We Make, has argued that wealthy people living in wealthy countries—and globally, “wealthy” is a lower bar than you might think—do have a responsibility to slash their outsize carbon emissions. And particularly for those of us living in democracies, personal action isn’t just about the choices we make as consumers. “There’s still an ongoing tension between personal and system change, or individual and collective action,” Nicholas said. “It’s really hard to get that right—to get the right balance there that acknowledges the role and the importance of both, and to talk about and study and describe both in a way that motivates people to take high-impact actions.” Goldwert saw that tension play out in her maligned climate communications study. In the experiment, participants reviewed 21 individual climate actions (like eating less meat) and five systemic actions (like voting) and rated their commitments to taking each action. Two test groups then received clarifying information about the relative impact of the 21 individual actions—one group was asked to estimate their ranking before learning how they actually ranked, the other group received the information straight-up. But participants didn’t receive any data about the carbon-mitigation potential of the five collective actions, which would be far more difficult to quantify.
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The literal point of the article is that we need to find ways of talking around the individual harm people do, because it makes them closed off/defensive about how they contribute to climate change, which is what you're seemingly doing
From the article: "The study set out to understand how to shift behavior by communicating climate truths. Instead, its media coverage revealed a troubling psychological trade-off: When climate-related messaging strikes a nerve, it may actually turn people off from the work of shifting societal norms. It’s an instinct I understand on some level. I love Loki, and my knee-jerk reaction is to defend the very personal choice of sharing one’s life with a dog. I also sympathize with redirecting the blame toward the biggest polluters: billionaires and fossil fuel companies (not Bon-Bon, the pet Chihuahua in question). But is it irresponsible to shrug off any conversation about the environmental impact of our pets—something far more within our control than, say, the overthrow of capitalism? Is there a way to have a frank discussion about the climate impact of our personal lives without it going to the dogs?"
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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They are also planning on changing rules so that any hospital/clinic that provides gender care for minors (or maybe anyone) would not qualify their employees for loan forgiveness
A Newsweek excerpt: That said, the occupations not deemed professional among the health care space include nursing, physician assistants, physical therapists and audiologists, according to the education news outlet Inside Higher Ed. Per the outlet, other professions not included are architects, accountants, educators, and social workers—which sector representatives pushed to be included in the list, given that they are high-demand occupations. It has also been reported that engineering, a business master's, counseling or therapy, and speech pathology will not be considered "professional" either.
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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The two spidermen pointing at each other by a cop van meme
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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IDK about that

www.newyorker.com/science/elem...
From the article: “The e-mails of the celebrated programmer Linus Torvalds land like thunderbolts from on high onto public lists, full of invective, insults, and demeaning language. "Please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place," he wrote in one. "Guys, this is not a dick-sucking contest," he observed in another. "SHUT THE FUCK UP!" he began in a third. Torvalds has publicly posted thousands of scathing messages targeting programmers who submit what he deems flawed code to the Linux computer-operating-system kernel, which he brought to life more than twenty-five years ago and now administers as a collaborative, open-source project. Today, the Linux kernel is famous, running the enormous computers of Google, PayPal, Amazon, and eBay, and the two billion mobile phones using the Android operating system. Torvalds, though, retains final say over each precious line of code, just as he did when he first started working on the system as a graduate student at the University of Helsinki. For years, he has been known as Linux's "benevolent dictator for life."”
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Same vibe
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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And while I love a looot of work by Gibson—one of two white men to win in the past decade (no one look at the miserable 2015 winner)—The Gernsback Continuum has lines that always raise the hairs in my neck.
I willed myself to see the mileage meter, the pale road dust on the black plastic dashboard, the overflowing ashtray. "Amphetamine psychosis," I said. I opened my eyes. The dash was still there, the dust, the crushed filtertips. Very carefully, without moving my head, I turned the headlights on. And saw them. They were blond. They were standing beside their car, an aluminum avocado with a central shark-fin rudder jutting up from its spine and smooth black tires like a child's toy. He had his arm around her waist and was gesturing toward the city. They were both in white: loose clothing, bare legs, spotless white sun shoes. Neither of them seemed aware of the beams of my headlights. He was saying something wise and strong, and she was nodding, and suddenly I was frightened, frightened in an entirely different way. Sanity had ceased to be an issue; I knew, somehow, that the city behind me was Tucson a dream Tucson thrown up out of the collective yearning of an era. That it was real, entirely real. But the couple in front of me lived in it, and they frightened me. They were the children of Dialta Downes's '80- that-wasn't; they were Heirs to the Dream. They were white, blond, and they probably had blue eyes. They were American. Dialta had said that the Future had come to America finally passed first, but had finally passed it by. But not here, in the heart of the Dream. Here, we'd gone on and on, in a dream logic that knew nothing of pollution, the finite bounds of fossil fuel, or foreign wars it was possible to lose. They were smug, happy, and utterly content with themselves and their world. And in the Dream, it was their world. Behind me, the illuminated city: Searchlights swept the sky for the sheer joy of it. I imagined them thronging the plazas of white marble, orderly and alert, their bright eyes shining with enthusiasm for their floodlit avenues and silver cars. It had all the sinister fruitiness of Hitler Youth propaganda.
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Lmao.
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Oh no haha
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Me when the pope doesn’t like AI and thinks art should be uncomfortable
November 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I too live in Minneapolis
A photo of northern lights in red and a little green over some homes, taken in Northeast Minneapolis
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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This was true with Trump also, the white woman majority voting for him are older
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Only if you consider white women to be the same no matter where they live, their education status, lmao whether *they are trans, which I am* at which point they are fractious in a way Boomers simply are not
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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It is absolutely also older white people voting to change nothing.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Yeah seems real unlikely

www.the-numbers.com/market/
November 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Like, every single housing advocate knows this, the problem remains “there is no affordable housing”
From the previous article: “"It's not uncommon for people with significant mental illness to try to use substances to manage any number of symptoms that they have," says Jill Wiedemann-West, CEO of People Incorporated, one of Minnesota's largest nonprofit treatment and service providers. "We basically assume that there's physical health comorbidity, there's mental health comorbidity, there's substance use comorbidity ... and also a level of trauma." This "wraparound, whole-person approach, combined with high-level housing management, has become the gold standard.”
October 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Lawl.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...
POLITICO Many Biden aides say they're speaking out now because, under President Donald Trump, the situation in Gaza has grown far more dire, with famine taking hold. Unlike Biden or other modern presidents, Trump has seemingly no limit on how far he'll take his executive power. But, perhaps because Israel retains widespread GOP support, Trump has been largely hands-off on the Gaza conflict. The Biden aides hope to push Trump to do more to end the war, even if it means drawing attention to their own missteps. Some skeptics see another reason for the Biden aides' new outspokenness: That these are people who want to protect their job prospects in a Democratic Party where support for Israel is falling.
October 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM