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This entirely spoils the experience of first playing The Beginner’s Guide and assumes you’re familiar with the basic plot.

It’s been eight months since what I’ve jokingly called my Homestuck Divorce.

There’s a coordinated effort to use the “child safety” euphemism to cripple the internet with identity verification mandates.

This is an addendum to OS-Level Age Attestation is the Good One, where I talk about the potential of legal standards for age attestation as an alternative to age verification.

This has been a wild weekend for the fields of tech policy and AI safety.

Interloper is an unfiction ARG series for source nerds.

Fandom is the most important thing in the modern media industry.

When I was a kid I learned about Lindenmeyer Systems and the fun tree patterns they create.

Here’s an advertisement I got from a game company named Rogue Duck Interactive.

Recently we’ve seen sweeping attempts to censor the internet.

This is the originally-published report, including the relevant logs and blow-by-blow narrative.

Shortly after the publication of this article the Homestuck Independent Creative Union changed their name to “Furthest Ring Studios”: Furthest Ring Studios@furthest0studio We are Furthest Ring Studios.

Deltarune came out!

SUPERHOT VR released in 2017.

AI is a huge subject, so it’s hard to boil my thoughts down into any single digestible take.

This spoils Murder Drones!

This was originally published 2020-07-07 as a reward for sponsors of Befriendus A Domain-Specific Compression Algorithm — as I later found out this is called — is a compression algorithm that uses the specific nature of the target data as a way to efficie…

Did you know there are still people who think the MCU’s Thanos is a deep character with interesting motivations?

Bluesky has very quickly become a serious social media platform.

I keep seeing people make this error, especially in social media discourse.

This was originally something I was going to talk about in Corporations have Rejected Copyright, back when that series was going to just be one long post (really!).

Part 2: Growth, Waste, and Externalities The AI tools are efficient according to the numbers, but unfortunately that doesn’t mean there isn’t a power problem.

Recent tech trends have followed a pattern of being huge society-disrupting systems that people don’t actually want.

or, the many people who said movies like Coyote v.