Chimera Squad taught us two things:
1. that XCOM really does need an UI update, and
2. you could get away with doing a character-driven television series in that universe, should you set your mind to it
*touches earpiece*
the US... did that to themselves, somehow?
I can't tell the audience that
they'll think I finally went around the bend
Iran really got a good showing. They've already demolished half the white house
it is indeed a matter for the birds
this email could have been an email
Per Aspera plays with this very dynamic
misson objective 1: introduce oxygen into the martian atmosphere
mission objective 2: everything is on fire, reduce oxygen or introduce more nitrogen
they are selling universal knowledge and a childlike sense of wonder for 2€ at the used bookstore
I'm gonna get a label for favving too many posts
tfw someone says your name, and it has to percolate through several layers of cognition before you dimly go
hey
it me
tired: we represent carbon as red and oxygen as blue in video games since these are the colors that signify "warning" and "safe"
wired: oxygen really is bloo, like you wouldn't believe
And thanks @longersky.com , now that I feel like I’ve Explained The Joke I have an excuse to change it.
"stop being such a specific kind of millennial"
no
the call to arms was never true
truly, when they speak of friends met along the way, these are the friends
they pull out
so many stops
also, yes, chatbots should fall under swedish labor laws. when they get ill during vacation, they should be able to call in sick and get those vacation days reclassified as sickdays
A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.
A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”
Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…
ALTERNATE TAKE
so you know how you can send bees using the postal system? well,
it gave you lemon-lime
[mandatory followup that a chatbot's assertion can never be used as evidence of a concrete state of things, unless the concrete state of things is that the chatbot shared confidential information, whereupon the assertion becomes a speech act, thus being both assertion and evidence bundled into one]
Fun fact: this is a violation of swedish labor laws, that explicitly state that employees must be given access to the tools and resources necessary to perform their assigned tasks
Bonus fun facts: this should concern everyone who thinks the chatbots are sentient. equal protection for equal work!
It also features Gil Scott-Heron, and does double duty as a primer on why the state of Florida has seen it fit to ban sociology as a discipline from its universities
...as posts do
I did a lil' writ on the recent moon mission, and on why it's common to feel that the mission represents a continuation of something humanity used to do but no longer does. What happened to the old motto, for all mankind?
discursiveanomalies.com/2026/04/15/a...
the key to seeing them as not mutually exclusive is to frame it as an order of operations kind of thing
if you have money and a bill, you pay it first, and then you do not have the money, such that the second sentiment does not apply
it's amazing how something can go from being the worst possible of/in a setting, to being a
"oh yeah, I remember those, I was there, helo fellow traveller"
kind of thing
I approve of the hero origin story
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