Just listened to a very interesting talk on Linux & IBM, excavating the corporate underwriting of #FOSS development, by Davide Carpano at UCSD Science Studies. This is a published companion piece, "Chromium as a tool of logistical power: A material political economy of open-source"
Coupe géologique sous la place Bellecour à #Lyon pour le croisement des lignes A et D du #métro.
A l'arrière de cette maquette de la Société d'Economie Mixte du Métropolitain de l'Agglomération Lyonnaise (SEMALY), on aperçoit celles des rames du métro des lignes A et D (MPL75 et MPL85).
Ces maquettes sont exposées #ArchivesDeLyon dans l'exposition Comm(e) une ville.
Good games give me the same feeling as reading a good fictional novel: I get transported into the universe, following the character or whatever action is unfolding.
More generally, games give the player a goal to achieve, whether that’s winning over others, cooperating with others, completing a campaign, collecting a bunch of goodies (or all the goodies), relaxing and enjoying scenery, crafting min-maxed playthroughs, or trying over and over again to beat a level.
Being focused on this goal can help keep your mind off of whatever is troubling you in the present.
Luke and aftermath are awesome but that really is not the read I got from that story.
Yes, the ai almost gets the kid killed. But it also helps two kids who otherwise would not have the courage get together. And the outcome is to use the ai as a tool for what it is good for, not the control your entire life. They stop using it to communicate with each other but do use it for date ideas.
Which is how the LAD games handle most things. Moderation and caution are good but also take a chance. And don’t force your diaper fetish on others.
Also, if we are factoring in the whole LAD megaverse, it likely intentionally endangered the kid so that Joryu would save him and strengthen the bond between the boy and girl.
Good Morning Mastodon! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading Mad Sisters of Esi by Tasha Mehta for some beautiful weird fiction. What are you reading at the moment?
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I just found @neilhimself god damn Gaiman here on #Mastodon and apparently he's had an account for more than a year?? Can someone confirm that it's the real Neil and explain to me what he's doing away from #Tumblr 😂👌
1/2 Enraged Israeli spokes people are a very common sight on Western TV these days, but this exchange between Sky's Kay Burley and Israel's Eylon Levy seem to set a new low.
Speaking to Levy about Israel's decision to handover 150 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 50 Israeli children and babies, Burley said she had spoken “to a hostage negotiator” about the discrepancy in the numbers. He made the comparison between the 50 hostages that Hamas has promised to release as opposed to the 150 prisoners that are Palestinians and Israel has said that it will release, [...] Does Israel not think that Palestinian lives are valued as highly as Israeli lives?"
#BanalityOfEvil [repost] “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story”
About the Palestinian children Israel sent to jail. An edited extract from “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story”, which was recently published by Allen Lane.
“In her work as a doctor with #UNRWA, the UN relief and works agency for Palestinian refugees, Huda saw things that made her afraid for her sons. She had witnessed a soldier shoot a boy who threw a stone at a tank. The soldiers stopped her from going to help him as he fell to the ground. At home in Sawahre, listening to the nightly news of West Bank killings and closures, she had trouble sleeping. She knew Hadi was out throwing stones.”