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Lead Narrative Designer at @flyos-games.bsky.social, writer on the Witcher TTRPG by R. Talsorian Games, AP streamer (twitch.tv/wanderingdm). Pan. Disabled. Opinions my own. Excerpt of my portfolio can be found here: https://wanderingdm.carrd.co

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aaaaand we're LIVE!

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06.03.2026 01:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us tonight at 8:30pm ET (new time!) as we head back to the Continent for Witcher: Iron Judgement. The players have a plan to free Vergen, let's see how it goes...

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@werewolffeels.bsky.social
@yutsai.bsky.social
@ariventures.bsky.social
@hannahmation.bsky.social

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06.03.2026 00:26 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money

05.03.2026 13:03 πŸ‘ 2367 πŸ” 638 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 3
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captain america says i understood that reference ALT: captain america says i understood that reference
05.03.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me, daily.

Like learning 6 months into a dev cycle that I had responsibilities I didn't know I had when I was explicitely told during our last project that these weren't my responsibilities.

I can't read minds.

04.03.2026 23:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you're wearing Meta glasses then, per the article, "much of the footage being recorded by the glasses is being sent to offshore contractors for data labeling, a widely-used preprocessing step in training new AI models in which human contractors are asked to review and annotate footage."

04.03.2026 02:24 πŸ‘ 123 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Sometimes the fight for workers' rights involves a little rebellion.

#solidarity #toronto #gwu

03.03.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

03.03.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 1432 πŸ” 794 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 163

If you ever wanna share your thoughts outside of GDC (can't afford it, studio funds are tight) I'd love to hear them

03.03.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I ran haunted west and produced APs with Chris and I can tell you, both games a incredible

HW replaced deadlands for me. It's my go to dark country game
Also, i learnt way more about the west in HW than in school, so binus points there

03.03.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art The highest court in the US declined to review a case about copyrighting artwork created with the help of AI.

And BOOM goes the dynamite. To all the AI Bros who have slid into my mentions to tell me that you CAN in fact copyright AI materials, the Supreme Court has told you to go suck rocks. A prompt is not authorship. And if there is no author, there is no valid copyright.

www.engadget.com/ai/the-supre...

02.03.2026 23:53 πŸ‘ 2189 πŸ” 750 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 69
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When Putin needed pretext for creating "The Red Web", Russia's authoritarian system of online censorship that effectively bans LGBTQ speech, he did it through the EXACT same moral panic about social media and kids that liberals and many leftists are spreading today.

02.03.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 1139 πŸ” 458 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 15

Would that make their bodyguards garde-mangers?

02.03.2026 21:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed β€” and potentially overturned β€” by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

28.02.2026 04:00 πŸ‘ 1049 πŸ” 576 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 27

WE'RE LIVE!

A lil late, but it's time for some (fake?) necromancy.

twitch.tv/wanderingdm

27.02.2026 01:11 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us tonight at 8pm ET as we head back to the Continent for Witcher: Iron Judgement where we dabble in a little necromancy, as a treat.

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@werewolffeels.bsky.social @yutsai.bsky.social
@ariventures.bsky.social and @hannahmation.bsky.social

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27.02.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

26.02.2026 10:53 πŸ‘ 6341 πŸ” 2727 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 37

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

25.02.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 22502 πŸ” 8133 πŸ’¬ 102 πŸ“Œ 68
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Channel OtherDoc - Draw Steel Now seeking players for a short weekly campaign! (Spring 2026) Greetings! Jim Ryan here. Starting in late March, I'll be hosting a short campaign of Draw Steel, an action-oriented fantasy RPG by MCD...

Signups are open for a short streamed campaign of Draw Steel, a heroic fantasy RPG by MCDM Productions. Our GM will be @likethejeans.bsky.social! We'll be playing Tuesday evenings starting in late March. Signups end Wednesday, February 25th!

forms.gle/NcdAt9Roykk9...

18.02.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5

Gotcha. If you have another go later in the year I might have time to throw my hat in the ring

25.02.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How many weeks do you want to run this for? Would love to join, but my schedule is so wonky 😭

24.02.2026 23:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just a reminder while this is a victory, it's not over yet until Discord completely gives up on the age verification nonsense. Don't resubcribe to Nitro immediately.

24.02.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 9957 πŸ” 5262 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access β€’ Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

19.02.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 6410 πŸ” 3195 πŸ’¬ 159 πŸ“Œ 399

PokΓ©mon has released a 30th anniversary logo for every single PokΓ©mon. Quote this with your favorite! www.serebii.net/pokemon30/#a...

YOU CAN'T MAKE ME CHOOSE BETWEEN MY BABIES!

24.02.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Let's see if Space Combat is as disastrous as our volleyball match from last session

23.02.2026 01:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The QoL were sorely needed. But then look at w2 vs w1. I tried replaying W1 and oof yeah, it shows it was a different time game design-wise

23.02.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

#ShareGoodNewsToo

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

19.02.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 574 πŸ” 205 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 89

as much as they flooded the market with them, I kinda miss splatbooks devoted to 1 specific thing

21.02.2026 04:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Indigenous leaders sue Quebec to halt forestry permits on ancestral lands – Intercontinental Cry After years of protests and blockades, a group of Atikamekw elders and chiefs have filed a lawsuit seeking to cancel forestry permits across a vast stretch of n

After years of protests and blockades, a group of Atikamekw elders and chiefs have filed a lawsuit seeking to cancel forestry permits across a vast stretch of northern Quebec. icmagazine.org/indigenous-l...

20.02.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We're live! twitch.tv/wanderingdm

20.02.2026 01:07 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0