When I teach people this game (and Labyrinth) I always point out that for as dense as it is, they have the luxury of a rulebook; the rulebook was blank for the decision makers of the time.

This is up there with Tom Hanks in Black Jeopardy as one of the most succinct political climate critiques in parody history.

But they can't. Legacy media has learned the lesson of social media: engagement, not quality, means survival. No one earns grants, donations, clicks, and subscriptions by telling you the obviously true thing for several months in a row.

Yeah, I uh, I didn't remember that last line being in there, haha

Lots of people are about to radically change their view of how the economy is doing

We must not delude ourselves in this moment. Multiracial democracy in the United States is less than 60 years old. It has always been contested, often violently so. It has always been fragile. Since this nation's inception large swaths of white Americans -- including white women

Since putting them up on the wall when I left active duty I'm 2016, I'm taking down my decorations and awards from my military service. I was proud of my service, but I feel ashamed to have defended democracy only to see it vote itself away. Maybe they'll go back up one day.

This was my fear during the Afghanistan withdrawal. When people say they want a politician with beliefs who'll do the right thing even if it's unpopular, they don't vote for them. Biden did the right thing five different times just to lose. We'll never see that again.

Replacing a programmer with an LLM is like replacing your 747 with a DIY biplane. It's possible, but it's going to fail in a way you won't know how to fix at the worst possible time.

Building better rail infrastructure at every level is something I would absolutely love if trump did it, but here's the thing with Nazis and trains,

Really interesting result of Twitter's thumbnail compression here: when you see this tweet on your timeline, a lot of the lines appear green; when you expand the tweet, there are fewer; and when you expand the image itself, you discover that there are no green lines at all

It's his day

STEM bros will shit on humanities students and then immediately demonstrate why humanities education is important.

Almost everyone in every government is unelected. Using "unelected" as a pejorative or criticism is a thing stupid people say to sound smart to other stupid people.

Assembled the planet breaker and then did the thing. #arcs Leder Games Cole Wehrle

To get sufficient levels of totally rad, one must accept a certain level of unhinged.

Elon Musk is perhaps the greatest example possible of why STEM education is dangerous without humanities. This sounds like a great idea if you're a middle schooler, but is obviously absurd if you've sat through the first two weeks of a single poli sci class.

I think it's time for me to be done with games. I've let myself become too passionate about them, they've come to be too much of my self-identity, and it's time to grow up, put the games down, and spend my time on more serious things.

Done here. Headed to bluesky. Sayonara.