It is Juneteenth. I feel it is pretty important to remind everyone that the Juneteenth flag colors are Red, White and Blue ON PURPOSE.
The corporate marketing that uses only African Freedom and Pan-African Liberation colors feels like erasure.
So let's talk about Black African diaspora flags
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RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.
Keep Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove
Key results & takeaways from Maine's ranked choice voting primaries:
👥Turnout reached record highs
🤝Candidates embraced RCV like never before, w/ cross-endorsements in both parties' primaries
🗳️Candidates won w/ majority support, instead of just 25% of the vote
Cassie aka Lamia
Unreal Engine 6 incorporating Gen AI tools may give most publishers the ability to void a development contract. Video Game IP lawyer @haleyfax.bsky.social explains the clear issues on the new episode of The MinnMax Show. youtu.be/lOL3vaHTU9U
This is one of the critical bits of Qud's presentation for me. There's an equalizing—and reinforcing—effect in the mutual arcanity of Qud's prose and its simulational mechanics. Qud's language is as inscrutable as its physics; as a result, they share the same gravity when navigating its world.
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James Youngman
Hellraiser. Doug Bradley is still Pinhead. Everybody else? Muppets.
FairVote
anyone who says they use LLMs for research I do not take seriously
of all uses, that's probably the *worst* thing you can use it for. it *reliably* mixes false information in with true information - exactly what misinformation campaigns do, except you're *opting in* to misinformation. bizarre.
April 16th is our Emancipation Day in DC. It's seriously taken as a citywide celebration. Yes, contrary to myths about DC not being the south, it was slave territory where many were enslaved, & Lincoln only freed them during the Civil War to save face.
