Someone has documented the entire source code for Elite and explained how every line works, plus included deep dives into various functionality. Covers all main versions like BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and NES. You can also play online in browser. elite.bbcelite.com
I’m a huge fan of Assassin’s Creed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla. They are all brilliant.
Bought AC Shadows at a big discount, and I’m glad to say it doesn’t fall short of its predecessors.
I’m playing with Japanese dialogue & English subtitles. Really adds to the sense of immersion.
So good and underappreciated.
Netflix recommends me The Passion of The Christ because I liked Casino Royale.
Recommendation algorithms can fuck right off.
"Chernobyl" (the miniseries) is absolutely brilliant. Perfect casting and acting. Gripping and quite harrowing considering how close everything got to a disaster of unmeasurable proportions, so much beyond the horrible disaster that actually took place.
Add some blue cheese to that and you have an absolute winner!
Back in the #Finnish #Archipelago for a long weekend.
Solitude, quietness, nature. A sense of place that, at least for now, resists the flow of time.
A better place, in the worst of times.
So, the USA starts an illegal war of aggression, makes a mess of it and then demands that other countries clean up the mess they made. When they decline because it's not their war, USA gets butthurt and threatens to leave NATO.
Good riddance. Under this USA administration NATO is better without it.
Happy birthday!
Final post in the Channel and the Estuary post
"The channel deals in propositions. The estuary deals in felt sense. Metaphor is the navigational instrument of the zone between the technology by which the unresolved can be held long enough to become knowledge."
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Fourth post in the channel and the estuary series:
"Colonial history is systematic dredging. Not metaphorically: structurally. The removal of language. The suppression of indigenous legal systems. The replacement of communal land tenure with individual title."
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Second post in the 'Channel and the Estuary' series: "The dangerous water was also the interesting water. This is the thing the channel cannot tell you, because the channel has no sign that says: here is what you are not seeing"
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When I played AC Odyssey (a brilliant, incredible game), I struggled with the naval battles and really disliked them. I just decided to switch to easy for those bits and carried on enjoying the game.
So good! And with a brilliant score by Tangerine Dream.
Introductory post to a five-part series, The Channel and the Estuary, on anthro-complexity, sensemaking: It argues that digitalisation, in its current form, is systematically removing those conditions
This explains why I am using the gangster theme for the series
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First full post in the Gangster series - the Channel & the Esuary - on the dangers of digitisation. thecynefin.co/the-channel-...
This one time I was frantically looking for my phone while actually speaking on it.
The first three posts in this series have been prosecutorial. In this final post in the series, I look at the counter culture of Just William, Good Omens, Granny Weatherwax/Tiffany, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Great, contrasting the meta-muggle wth the Wayshaper.
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Picking up from my earlier 'Flowers' post, what happens when the stories are kept but the grammar is changed? The full argument, including why Dumbledore had to die and what that reveals about a much older tradition and the modern age, is at the link below.
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Old wool, new fleece, the second post looking at the cybernetic residue. This is a substantial post covering HSD, OODA, Abductive Inference/Frison and the need to understand the epistemic landscape
Boyd would have moved on from OODA and rejected Frison.
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Did you know that the author is here in Bluesky? @christiegolden.bsky.social
Defining anthro-complexity vs Cybernetics (inc. HSD), the aim is to rewild Boyd's OODA loop. This first post sets the scene; tomorrow's, 'Old wool, new fleece' argues that Friston's cathedral is the kind of closed formal system Boyd built his epistemology to escape.
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Final post in the anthro-complexity series, looking at socio-technical systems, Ingold's meshwork, and, critically, the accountability for complex systems interventions. "Its emergent" is an alibi for a lack of discipline. thecynefin.co/anthro-compl...
Third post in the 'What is Anthro-complexity' series of five
Posts four and five in the series may be controversial so I am reviewing the text carefully before publishing this evening and tomorrow morning
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Neverending Story.
Split image showing the construction progress of a large observatory dome. The left side is labeled “2024”, the right side “2026”. A person in a helmet and safety vest stands in front
Our Extremely Large Telescope is already 70% complete!
But what would you see if you walked inside it today? The latest #ChasingStarlight episode takes you there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IUeLqC-xpo
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The first of three posts, which will lead to a definition of anthro-complexity. In many ways the culmination of a lot of new thinking I have been doing over the last four months. thecynefin.co/anthro-compl...
We need new seasons of The Orville.
It was the best Star Trek since DS9. The less said about these new ”Star Trek”shows the better.
Lemmings, and Worms. Sooo many hours! 😅