John Ferrara 🇺🇦

Author, Playful Design: How Games can Achieve Great Things in the World.

[John Ferrara 🇺🇦 @PlayfulDesign]

Trump Vance et al scapegoating and slandering Haitians mirrors how despots you've heard of scapegoated and slandered other minority groups. These are legal migrants who work in Ohio's factories, pay taxes, and spend money in stores. They deserve exactly none of these lies.

[John Ferrara 🇺🇦 @PlayfulDesign]

@jbarro The sincerity, the depth of feeling, the investment. Honest to God I don't know that I've seen anyone better. I've vastly underestimated Kamala Harris and I'm sorry for it.

[John Ferrara 🇺🇦 @PlayfulDesign]

@emptywheel @joshtpm No, the Times photo shows the second bullet. You can tell because DT's right hand is rising in reaction to the graze. His ear was hit by the first bullet, which the Times investigation makes very clear. This isn't hard and it's time to put the conspiracy theories to rest.

[John Ferrara 🇺🇦 @PlayfulDesign]

@LaurenWern Whitmer-Shapiro offers the most advantages

[John Ferrara 🇺🇦 @PlayfulDesign]

@LaurenWern We're not at sentencing yet. Before then he'll meet with his parole officer, and if he shows contrition or remorse it'll go into the report to the judge, who'll weigh aggravating factors like whether or not the defendant encouraged people to harass his daughter on social media.

[John Ferrara 🇺🇦 @PlayfulDesign]

@hollykrieger Welcome back to @numberphile !!

[John Ferrara 🇺🇦 @PlayfulDesign]

This one’s for you Steve

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics & sheet music), and given away all rights to them. The site will only be up for a limited time. This is a very niche tweet that will make a small segment of people very happy. https://t.co/sowetybPhT

[John Ferrara 🇺🇦 @PlayfulDesign]

And when you feel your life ain't worth living, you've got to stand up and take a look around you.
Then you look up, way to the sky. And when your deepest thoughts are broken, keep on dreaming boy, because when you stop dreaming it's time to die.

[Orion Spacecraft @NASA_Orion]

We're back after a 1.4 million mile journey around the Moon.

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

Splashdown.

The @NASA_Orion spacecraft successfully completed a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at 12:40pm ET (17:40 UTC) as the final major milestone of the #Artemis I mission. https://t.co/9lQMzsZhHh

[Steve Silberman @stevesilberman]

I'd be fascinated to read a piece by an #autistic writer on how myths and projections around "savants" helped enable Twitter's owner, who is self-diagnosed, to conceal the fact that he's just a bumbling billionaire asshole with asshole friends and utterly banal far-right beliefs.

[John Ferrara 🇺🇦 @PlayfulDesign]

@BoserHoes @LibertyMutual @USAA_help I don’t even see why premiums should go up for filing claims. Aren’t claims baked into the risk pool that you’re buying into? If they’re going to claw back payments through future premium increases, then what were your previous premiums going toward in the first place?

[John Ferrara 🇺🇦 @PlayfulDesign]

@BoserHoes @LibertyMutual @USAA_help You dare to ask them for what you’re contractually entitled to and they will 100% get every bit of it back and then some.

[John Ferrara 🇺🇦 @PlayfulDesign]

Wow. Look at this beautiful place.

[NASA @NASA]

This is a live view of the Earth from a distance of 15,000 miles away.

The @NASA_Orion spacecraft is mere hours away from arriving home. #Artemis

[John Ferrara 🇺🇦 @PlayfulDesign]

Really outstanding. NASA is the best in the world at what they do and it’s not even close.

[NASA @NASA]

Splashdown.

After traveling 1.4 million miles through space, orbiting the Moon, and collecting data that will prepare us to send astronauts on future #Artemis missions, the @NASA_Orion spacecraft is home.

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

“TWITTER FILES”: The true story of that time Elon Musk bought a company, weaponized internal company documents including the names of uninvolved private citizens, then used that company’s platform to publicize and win over public support for a targeted harassment campaign.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

MUSK: libs have the woke mind virus
NYT ...
MUSK: I'm literally urging you to vote Republican
NYT ...
MUSK: *high-fives every far right account on Twitter*
NYT: ...
MUSK: I support Ron DeSantis
NYT ...
MUSK: *reinstates a slew of Nazis*
NYT: It's unclear what he stands for

[Royal Institution (now on Bluesky) @Ri_Science]

Orcas have 'best friends' 💕 They spend more time interacting with specific individuals in their pod, and tend to choose those of the same sex and age.

These mammals are also known as killer whales, but they actually belong to the dolphin family.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Dozens of active-duty Black military personnel were believed to have been killed on or near U.S. bases during the World War II era because of their race, but their stories were largely papered over. Now, the Army has corrected the record for one of them. https://t.co/DqNpbp67Uc