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The coronavirus has hastened the post-human era
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Sweden has said an offer of support for Scandinavian Airlines would be dependent on the airline agreeing to tougher emissions goals
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True facts: Cats' killer senses
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Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 15
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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Widespread T-Mobile outages cause issues for wireless customers across the US
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'Facebook doesn't care': Activists say accounts removed despite Mark Zuckerberg's free-speech stance
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Dating apps exposed 845GB of explicit photos, chats, and more
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Lights - How to Sleep When You're On Fire (2020)
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At ninety-nine years old, Al Jaffee says goodbye to Mad Magazine
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Sam Harris - Can we pull back from the brink?
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Australian airline coronavirus (COVID-19) rules: We flew the Sydney-Melbourne route under new hygiene rules
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Tesla Model S Long Range Plus now achieves an EPA-rated 402 mile range thanks to improvements in vehicle efficiency and design
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Let's do a deep dive into the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality together!
The Bundle itch.io's Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality is a collection of indie media content offered up as a fundraiser for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail...
The Bundle
itch.io's Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality is a collection of indie media content offered up as a fundraiser for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail Fund. The minimum purchase is $5 which gains you access to 1637 items from 1304 different creators. The bundle has raised over $5 million dollars so far and is a genuinely incredible show of support and solidarity from the gaming community for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Here is the previous Tildes topic about it, here is a subreddit for it, and here is a community spreadsheet cataloging its contents.
The Content
The bundle is primarily video games, but it also has tabletop games, game assets, books, music, and tools. It is an intimidatingly large amount of content, and much attention has been called to some of the collection's highlights and standout titles: 1 2 3 4 (if you find other lists, let me know and I'll link them here).
I'm thinking it would be neat for us on Tildes to explore and highlight some of its less well-known content. The people who have made their creations available in this bundle have done so generously and in support of a great cause, so this is a way that we can show some appreciation for them by bringing some attention to their work. It is also possible to re-purchase games that you already own on itch.io and add tips to that purchase, so you can also monetarily support any devs you choose should you feel inclined to do so.
The Event
Using whatever selection methods or criteria you like, dive into an item/multiple items from the bundle and then report back here about it. There is a handy website that lets you filter the whole set of items, and it also has a very useful "pick a game" button that selects a game at random from the batch.
However you choose something, let us know what you've chosen, what it was, what your experience was like with it, and whether or not you recommend it. Format your entries however you like but please Bold the Titles of Items so people can scan the thread more easily!
Feel free to submit multiple entries to the topic as you explore the bundle. I'm thinking that with a few of us doing this over a couple of days, we can cover a lot of ground and surface some interesting and easily overlooked content.
Our Selections
I'll keep a table of the highly recommended things we surface here. To select something to be included here, mention in your writeup that it qualifies for "Tildes' Choice" status, and I'll add it to the list!
Title Creator Type Recommender Us Lovely Corpses d Marie Visual novel kfwyre Cardinal Chains Daniel Nora Pure puzzle game kfwyre 25 votes -
Remembering Windows 2000, Microsoft’s forgotten masterpiece
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World Health Organization says new virus outbreak in China needs further testing after 'hypothesis' on cause
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What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit. Previous topics Previous topics are listed in the wiki.
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Star Wars: Squadrons is a $40 dogfighting game with cross-play, single-player, no microtransactions
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Dwarf Fortress Steam version - First look gameplay and dev commentary
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The Apple ARM Mac transition: Re-engine, not re-imagine
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SpaceX launches fifty-eight Starlink satellites on ninth Starlink launch, including three Planet SkySats
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We apologize for publishing Darkseid’s anti-life equation
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Are there any good tools for "one-off" file encryption?
Sorry if this is a silly question, but I keep running into situations where a small CLI or GUI tool that could be handed a single file and hand me back an encrypted version would be useful. I've...
Sorry if this is a silly question, but I keep running into situations where a small CLI or GUI tool that could be handed a single file and hand me back an encrypted version would be useful. I've done some googling, but all I typically turn up is blogspam about random Windows-only tools that seem to be of dubious quality.
Anyone know of a good tool for this type of thing?
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93rd Academy Awards ceremony delayed to April 25, 2021 (originally Feb. 28), with eligibility periods extended
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Day traders might have fun saving Hertz from bankruptcy
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Obscure Indian cyber firm spied on politicians, investors worldwide
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Will the revolution be funded?
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An army of volunteers is taking on vaccine disinformation online
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An oral history of Gremlins 2: The New Batch
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I am a mother of a trans teen and here’s what you’re getting wrong about them
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LGBTQ+ rights in Poland are in danger
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Jurassic Park dinosaurs illustrated with modern science
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US FDA pulls emergency use authorization of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19
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The great cheese emergency
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Helping or harming? The effect of trigger warnings on individuals with trauma histories.
Publication: Helping or Harming? The Effect of Trigger Warnings on Individuals with Trauma Histories. Pre-print version (for people, like me, who don't have access to the published version):...
Publication: Helping or Harming? The Effect of Trigger Warnings on Individuals with Trauma Histories.
Pre-print version (for people, like me, who don't have access to the published version): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334380654_Helping_or_Harming_The_Effect_of_Trigger_Warnings_on_Individuals_with_Trauma_Histories
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George Floyd protest - Police brutality videos on Twitter
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Don't ask to ask, just ask
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Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
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Norway should add a number of restrictions to the kinds of weapons its $1 trillion wealth fund is allowed to invest in, a government-appointed commission said
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YMS: Kimba the White Lion
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Facebook and Google refuse to pay revenue to Australian media
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New York’s Gender and Family Project advises parents how to support their children’s gender expression
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Protest music of the Bush era
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‘Duel’ Is David vs. Goliath on the Highway to Hell
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What blogs/newsletters do you subscribe to and why?
Back in the day I was a hardcore Google Reader (RIP) user, and following that I continued to use https://feedly.com/ for many years, but eventually I found myself falling behind on all my feeds...
Back in the day I was a hardcore Google Reader (RIP) user, and following that I continued to use https://feedly.com/ for many years, but eventually I found myself falling behind on all my feeds and stopped checking it.
Recently, I signed for Inoreader and I've started reading more blogs again. It also has the nice feature of letting you subscribe to email newsletters too, which is quite nice since I find them annoying to deal with in my email inbox but convenient in the feed reader.
I'm wondering what blogs and newsletters folks on Tildes subscribe to.
Here are a few of my favorites:
Blogs:
- bellingcat: Independent investigative journalism often based on online "open source intelligence." e.g. The Boogaloo Movement is Not What You Think
- BLDGBLOG: Geoff Manaugh's blog about everything related to the space we inhabit, both built and natural. e.g. Underground Cathedrals of Radiation and Zones of Irreversible Strain
- Flowing Data: Nathan Yau's blog about data visualization. e.g. Racial Divide
- Idle Words: The blog of Maciej Cegłowski, creator of the Pinboard bookmarking service. Covers tech and lots of unrelated topics. e.g. Superintelligence: The Idea that Eats Smart People
Newsletters:
- BIG by Matt Stoller: A newsletter about economics and in particular the economics of monopolies and disruptive startups. e.g. The Slow Death of Hollywood
- Data is Plural: A weekly newsletter of fun/weird datasets.
- Normcore Tech: Vicki Boykis' newsletter about tech and tech-related things. e.g. The Reign of Big Recsys
- Uses This: Brief interviews with all sorts of creators about what tools they use to do what they do.
This is just a slice. I can share my entire list if people are interested. But I'm curious about what feeds others enjoy, on anything from film and furniture to "movie-set" urbanism. What are you reading?
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The US federal government will now allow health care providers to deny care to anyone they perceive as trans or gay
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Mermaids writes an open letter to JK Rowling
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Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge game from The Simpsons is now playable in browser
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How do we support Black Philosophers in our field?
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What are some examples of "unrelated siblings"?
This question isn't about people so much as it is about anything else. It's hard to explain outright, so I'll use an example: A few months ago I read Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven. I just...
This question isn't about people so much as it is about anything else. It's hard to explain outright, so I'll use an example:
A few months ago I read Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven. I just finished with Ling Ma's Severance. The two books are completely unrelated but feel very, very close to one another. There are a lot of topical similarities: both portray a global pandemic, a lead female character, and narrative shifts between pre- and post-societal collapse, etc. However, more than that, both feel very tonally similar. I couldn't read Severance without constantly thinking of and comparing it to Station Eleven, and I think I liked both books better together than I did either of them on their own. Even though they're clearly different and written by different people, they very much feel like they come from the same family -- like they're unrelated siblings.
I'm curious as to what other examples people can come up with, in whatever category you consider: media, historical events, languages, etc. Anything goes as long as they have a familial resemblance.
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