A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

An absolutely baffling time to be an historian of apocalyptic thought. Like my man is just straight up doing Antichrist stuff and I am meant to be normal???

Let me get this straight: he called off global economic Armageddon right before the stock markets opened and announced a moratorium on blowing up the world economy, valid until the markets close on Friday night? Is that what happened, here

If you’re a Quest user PLEASE log out of Meta Horizon Worlds before June 15 or you’ll be trapped in there forever

Chance is up on Steam now and in the board games festival. Give it a wishlist! Also check out the trailer...

Please understand: just like Macron, these people will be just fine in a Sensible Centrists vs Fascists set up. There are jobs and influence for them in that system. There is no place for them in a Left vs Right one: in that country, they’re all back working in PR, lobbying and the law. Unacceptable

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

hot tip: every Brecht poem hits insane right now

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

this is what happens when the regime, at the highest levels, sends the express message that it will defend any and all excesses

Can you design game progression and also help with level design and other modes of design too? We would like to see an application from you, especially if you like games that encourage people to play together

This is really bad; Grok is now going into is third day of regularly producing nonconsensual deepfake pornography and nobody is doing anything about it. The "Mechahitler" and "white genocide" episodes were stopped much more quickly. I suppose this tells us all about relative priorities.

Dundee’s Games Cluster in the Spotlight as GAME-ER Research Project Seeks Local Expertise Everyone knows Dundee is the beating heart of Scotland's games ecosystem, but how many studios are based in the city? Researchers from Abertay University are calling upon the collective knowledge of the Dundee games community to help verify a comprehensive map of the city's renowned games cluster. The request comes as part of GAME-ER, a major European research project dedicated to understanding the dynamics of local and regional video game ecosystems.

The EU GAME-ER project at Abertay University is looking for local expertise to help verify its map of Dundee's game development community

sam altman tweet: i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now

These guys are simply not smart.

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement:

"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"

Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

It’s hard to look around—at Blair pitching a luxury resort to be built on the Gaza killing fields or Keir Starmer responding to anti-Asian hate by affirming his affinity for the perpetrators—and not conclude that the elite’s real problem with Corbyn was that he wasn’t sufficiently Islamophobic.

I think George Osborne openly musing to the air that the security services probably wouldn’t have tolerated Labour winning in 2017, because of our relationship with America, is quite helpful and I’d like to hear more.

Sensationally, it appears the grown ups have been put back in charge of the grown ups who were previously put back in charge

I missed this when it happened and anyone who has ever used an analog synth is going to embarrass themselves laughing at this. Thank u Greg www.tumblr.com/decanting-ce...

the last two news stories i saw, one after another, were israel bombing nasser hospital in gaza and then this one. genuinely ashamed of the UK right now

Compare the amount of coverage of a thousand or so fascist "protestors" has received with the tens and hundreds of thousands of left wing protestors over the years (austerity, Gaza, Iraq, BLM etc)

Some are painted as "legitimate concerns", others as noise or naive demands

Ask yourself why

(returning to work after a week of vacation and i don't remember how to do emails anymore): greetings, to my colleagues in officemongering

Still one of the best most important books of this century. Just saw fantastic in its clarity of analysis, and virtually unassailable in the breadth of its evidence from history and anthropology.

Labour MP: legitimate concerns

as someone who likes to see the best in people the number of fuckers falling for the computer saying "while i'm just a chatbot... i think you're really special! ;)" is testing me

Abertay’s ‘Play For Good’ To Showcase the Power of Games at RSE Curious Festival The transformative power of video games to address real-world challenges will be on full display this September, as Abertay University's Applied Games Lab presents its Play for Good exhibition as part of the prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh's Curious festival of knowledge. This is a significant and welcome inclusion, demonstrating the growing recognition of games as a powerful tool for social and cultural impact.

The 'Play For Good' exhibition from Abertays Games Lab is a major part of the RSE's 2025 Curious festival in September 2025.

#GIGF25 is in full swing! With talks and games a plenty. Thanks to everyone who showed us support <3

#festival #indiegames #convention #scotland #glasgow

Tweet by Bristol post reporter

400 counter protestors vs 15 fascists in Bristol

And yet it is the latter who are painted as expressing the "legitimate grievances" of "the people" by the mainstream media and politicians

This leads to emboldening and mainstreaming and it is a top down effect

European Gaming Emissions, and how we address them I was asked earlier this week by Joost Raessens (Utrecht University Professor, and coordinator of STRATEGIES: Sustainable Transition for Europe’s Game Industries a major Horizon-funded research projec...

I have done almost zero promo/sharing of the work I've done this year, so let's correct that with a thread of stuff I've written, worked on, helped with, etc.

I started the year with a post about European gaming emissions & what we can do about them.
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Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT "For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."

Man Gave Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT

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