I consider mids loud

420 blaze it

NGL this is, indeed, insane to me

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

I can’t wait to finish (the excellent) Resident Evil Requiem so I can go check out Pragmata!

“lol get owned nerd”

Oops!! Mad about the world on a gorgeous, cool, sunny, Sunday morning while I’m off work and start my new job in a week!

they’re gonna run a bunch of candidates who make vague noises about how badly we need ‘change’ that isn’t actually change and all the people who yearn above all else for a return to norms and decorum will be so relieved to vote for them

The Democrats sense that they're gonna cruise to midterm victory by doing nothing and offering nothing and are using it as a freebie to punch left to make sure the voters don't get any ideas.

A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.

I've set out the framework I'm using here in an earlier thread, on VDA, the Arc of Democracy, and the moral-epistemic stacks idea, what follows applies that framework to the Palantir document directly. skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

relatable, i think my first month was also stunned sulking. I hope you find something soon dude.

Congratulations!

(this is actually what Jess is doing right now! 2 year masters in social work, graduating in august!)

adult content lol

My current deck is Kat Black’s Golden Tarot:

www.usgamesinc.com/golden_tarot...

these both look gorgeous!

adorable and evocative!

lol I love that third one!

oooooh beautiful!

perfection

Ok here’s a random one:

I’d love to see your favorite tarot decks! Especially if they have really rich and evocative art that inspires lots of connections and inspiration when you see it.

gonna put that to work in a different format here soon!!

yeah that’s where I’m coming around to!

Hmmmm excellent point!!

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I’d love to hear more! Fighting games are a blind spot for me!

It might be that my high context, in-industry understanding may just be different from the shared mass market understanding; to fans, “live service” may have become a signifier for a largest and most frequently seen monetization models of these kinds of games.

interesting interesting!