A paywalled article about how to avoid persecution by the US police state is pretty on the nose.

I was vaguely aware of some of the early games criticism (critical games theory basically) at the time because I was following a lot of the discourse around ‘are games art?’ debate. It was a super niche corner of the internet mostly of leftish libs trying to do some critical analysis of games and gamer culture. The whole GG thing amplified this tiny niche ala Streisand Effect but with a lot more misogyny. That’s the basic contours from my memory at least.

If the GG escalation had not happened, we might not have developed “we add another gender every time you complain” for another few decades.

Day and night are always happening concurrently. This is one of those truths that the deep state doesn’t want you to know.

meanwhile the ‘peasants’ of the Ohio River Valley (JD Vance’s childhood home) keep getting flooded

Smart TVs should never be connected to a network.

MSTVDDA: Make Smart TVs Dumb Displays Again

Germany officially launched its first permanent foreign troop deployment since World War II on Tuesday — a 5,000-strong armored brigade in Lithuania

I wonder how it went last time. Sending tanks East. What do you call that? TankEast? NATO are TankEast.