How do you write a PhD application?

If I already knew all the stuff I need for the literature review, I wouldn't need to do the PhD.

River generation progress: fixed the "aqueducts" and weird mountain cutoffs, added occasional sand river banks. Still got a ton of issues to solve, though 😅

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

It feels grim seeing the words "Starmer will lead Labour into the next election". He's already overseen an erosion of rights for trans people. The prospect of living well into my next decade under a Starmer government is detestable.

If you work in games and want food for thought, there's no food tastier or more nutritious than the Kaleidoscope podcast right now.

Every episode has been an absolute banger so far, brilliant thoughtful discussions with great guests. Kudos @jon.inkle.co and @sagarberoshi.bsky.social !

Great lighting!

Wyld Stallyns prompted some feelings for sure.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

Absolutely excellent. Favorite movie I've seen in a while. Extremely funny and also just hit me personally in just the right way to make me cry

Honestly if you just want a good comedy movie that also gets weird as shit sometimes, watch People's Joker lol

Any explanations why? I'm probably a million years out of date, but wouldn't an alternative to the dollar go up when there's uncertainty around the dollar?

I think it's going to be weird watching the police unions interact with the teleoperators who nominally pilot these things around city centres.

Space Hulk.

You'd plan your moves for each terminator, then sit back and watch as each of their screens went fuzzy in turn.

The full book is longer, but on the Soviet states:

"had they united to default simultaneously on their Western loans (which in 1981 stood at over $90 billion) — they might well have brought down the world financial system"

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Tangwntially - there is a great line in the book "What Was Socialism and What Comes Next" that argues USSR could have defaulted on loans in 1970 and plunged the West into crisis, and the fact that they refinanced instead led to Soviet downfall via submission to capitalism.

Palantir is its own agnotology machine. Do not engage with their discourse, which throws spaghetti at the wall of media: every strand introduces a new kind of doubt. You try to consume & debate it but in the end all you are is tangled in spaghetti and covered with marinara.

A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

I think its crazy that the past decade has been "theres a shit ton of rich, crazy, and pedophillic millionaire criminals running our government, they also SPECIFICALLY told me to tell everyone they hate trans people.

And everyone went "ya know what? Yeah, fuck trans people" while ignoring crime.

I know it was an aside, but the state looting related to the Berlin Wall - do you mean in Russia? I have often wondered about capital flows around the fall of the Berlin Wall, especially regarding European investment in London, Canary Wharf, etc. But generally the pre 2007 long boom.

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

"The casting couch", but it's me tricking Tim Curry into playing an ageing Shakespeare on screen.

What’s interesting here is they say “culture” when they mean “people” but they think that this maintains a veneer of deniability about what they’re really saying. In any case it’s true that the “culture” of the tech billionaires is morally and intellectually depraved rot bsky.app/profile/elio...

While I'm in the casting room, I've got a part for Tom Hardy as Bishop Bancroft in my Thomas Nashe biopic. Bancroft was handy with the quarterstaff, and also created the Martin Marprelate controversy - hiring young satirists like Nashe to defend the established church from Puritan attacks.

I would love to see Tim Curry playing an ageing Shakespeare. Please get this post to 7 billion likes to make this happen.

It is self-sustaining, paranoid-methodical, and auto-poietic. I.e. it governs based on tech interests. The tech supports it's governance.

Please look at the prevalence of "institutional capture" as a mission objective. There are various programs pushing certain types of young managerial types into governance jobs to create an underlying network that can be activated to initialize tech. "Tech governance" is the name of the game.

I meant "moral-epistemic stacks".

This is a really nice matching up to show how Palantir's mission statement works to instigate a "simulated" verification/deliberation/accountability framework.

The linked "VDA stacks" explanation is essential reading.

My one question is the desirability of a single, shared world model.