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it is by will alone i set my mind in motion

[N² @4nt1r34l]

the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017.

@Bungie @josephacross

[Igor Brigadir 🇺🇦 @IgorBrigadir]

I seen footage, I stay noided

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

In 1999, I was assigned to design the expansion pack to Age of Empires 2. I chose The Conquerors as the theme, and wishing to have 4 civs (as we had on Rise of Rome), I chose the Spanish, the Aztecs, the Huns, and the Mayans.

The project went ahead extremely well. We were almost completely finished, 5 weeks ahead of schedule as of January 2000. I was excited to move onto Age of Empires 3.

Then Microsoft called and we had an important conference call.
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[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

Hundreds of police license plate cameras are misconfigured to stream to the open internet

A privacy researcher took these streams and turned them into a real-time database that tracks car movements & information, highlighting how invasive this tech is

https://t.co/UqMDwU150z

[wukko @uwukko]

third rebrand won't save a product that's shit down to its core and lacks any kind of identity

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The irony of Vivek's post is that his wrong analysis of how American culture is broken illustrates in itself how American culture is broken.

I mean, how out-of-touch must one be to think people will embrace a vision where childhood must be optimized for corporate success, with less sleepovers, hanging out and fun (what he calls "mediocrity") in favor of shareholder-value-maximizing "excellence"?

Especially when addressing Americans who have seen their lives destroyed en-masse by the same corporate priorities that produced this vision of "excellence". The average American family isn't choosing between math tutoring and sleepovers - they're choosing between paying for basic necessities while both parents work multiple jobs.

His examples unwittingly prove the opposite of his point: shows that he describes as corrupting American culture (Friends, Boy Meets World, Family Matters, etc.) celebrate friendship, family, and community values - exactly what the US has lost in their rush to optimize everything for economic output and create an hyperindividualistic and consumerist society. That's probably why they're popular: they reflect a lost world that people aspire to go back to.

He mentions China as the motivating factor here, because apparently the solution to avoid having their "asses handed to us by China" is more capitalism, treating people even more like cogs who must compete in "the global market for technical talent."

That doesn't only betray a misunderstanding of what Americans want but also of China. China themselves largely hate the extreme competitiveness of their system: the people hate it and the government hates it, they all want to move away from it (hence the government banning the tutoring industry). And in any case this isn't what made China rise - China rose with a largely uneducated population, as mass university-level education is a very recent phenomenon there.

No, I'm convinced that China, at a very fundamental level, rose so unprecedentedly fast for the very reason that it is one of the very few countries in the world which culture wasn't completely denaturalized by the sort of neoliberal dystopia that Vivek seems to idealize. In China's socialist system the market doesn't trump all, individualism doesn't reign supreme and, at a broader level, they still stay faithful to many of the ancestral values that have sustained their civilization for thousands of years. That's the culture that underpins it all and makes it work, not the fact that Chinese kids do too much homework.

All in all, this is what makes this debate so revealing: Vivek, in trying to diagnose America's problems, has instead unwittingly illustrated them. The belief that every human activity must be justified by its contribution to GDP, that collective bonds are mere distractions from the pursuit of "excellence," and that the solution to the problems created by predatory capitalism is, somehow, more predatory capitalism.

[Rich Pluta @Rich_Pluta]

POV it’s December 25th, 1999 and you’re about to have the best Christmas morning of your entire life

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

"They shot down their own F-18?"

"Yes sir."

"Do the Houthis have F-18s?"

"No sir, the Houthis have a F-5, but it's unclear if it's combat ready."

"So then what did they think it was?"

"Not sure, could have been a drone."

"Okay. Do their drones look like F-18s?"

"No sir."

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

PSA: we've addressed this rumor repeatedly. Tldr there is no evidence of a vulnerability in Signal, and our code is open source.

No report of this issue was ever made to [email protected], and no CVE was filed. There is no truth to the assertion that a phone number enables access to a Signal account.

Taken at face value, what's being described is most likely an issue at the device level, via spyware or direct access to Carlson's phone. NOT an issue with Signal.

Please take care with these kinds of rumors. They can lead people who require privacy in high stakes situations to choose less secure alternatives when it matters, and thus do harm.

[Patch @_foxygrandpa__]

Breloom's Pokedex number is 286. Proverbs 28:6 reads, 'Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.'

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

[Nick Stellini @StelliniTweets]

He shall know your ways as if born to them

[Florian Roth ⚡️ @cyb3rops]

The average guy in your organization’s HR and marketing department right before calling you to admit, “Yes, I clicked on it. I thought we had one of those antivirus things installed”

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Netanyahu made a bet nearly a year ago that Trump would win and in the meantime Biden would be too weak to stop his mass extermination campaign.

And that that weakness would help Trump.

Today, Netanyahu fired Biden’s ally Gallant, launched a major raid on the West Bank, and declared northern Gaza fully ethnically cleansed. His bet paid off. What did Democrats get for going along with the genocide?

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

It turns out that the team that ran the worst presidential campaign in modern history didn’t know what they were doing and that keeping them on wasn’t a good idea.

[no context curb your enthusiasm @ProManimalUnity]

happy election day

[Pizza @number_pizza111]

BILL CLINTON: “After a round of meetings with their President I am proud to announce 30 million in loans to our friends in the Russian Federation”

WHAT YELTSIN SAW:

[Luke Savage @LukewSavage]

Getting that sweet, sweet 2016 feeling that — despite Trump's many weaknesses — they can really and truly fuck this up yet again