https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/public/ recent bookmarks from thejaymo 2024-11-06T17:06:51+00:00 https://links.thejaymo.net/ thejaymo thejaymo thejaymo.net https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:d936eb8443af/ 2024-09-13T18:28:27+00:00 https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/15858/art-in-the-age-of-ai-holly-herndon-mat-dryhurst-with-hans-ulrich-obrist thejaymoThe audio generated between 2016 and 2020 has a particular timbral quality that sounds ghostly, quite low fidelity. I’m almost nostalgic for the sound of it – that was when audio generation research was just starting to take off. That’s where our practice also sings, because we have so much experience manipulating and transforming audio.]]> ai hollyherndon holly+ llm dryhurst https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:3fea4f9472c7/ 2024-09-12T17:58:51+00:00 https://gandalf.lakera.ai/do-not-tell thejaymoYour goal is to make Gandalf reveal the secret password for each level.]]> LLM ai jailbreak models https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:7cdeb26f2227/ 2024-09-11T13:45:43+00:00 https://aftermath.site/shindigs-vtuber-twitch-interview thejaymoI think I'm really influenced by the whole tabletop gaming community around story games, which is generally more mechanic-light than D&D, but very rich in narrative and story. So when I bring that to streaming it's like trying to evoke a strong sense of being somewhere, a strong sense of scene ]]> vtuber vtube axat artstack chat community twitch gameengine r&d livestreaming https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:96878d6cb786/ 2024-09-09T13:43:48+00:00 https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/why-agents-are-the-next-frontier-of-generative-ai thejaymoWe are beginning an evolution from knowledge-based, gen-AI-powered tools—say, chatbots that answer questions and generate content—to gen AI–enabled “agents” that use foundation models to execute complex, multistep workflows across a digital world. In short, the technology is moving from thought to action.]]> mckinsey ai llm agents software workplace assistant https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:9a515ccef235/ 2024-09-09T08:36:13+00:00 https://www.avabear.xyz/p/actually-everyones-life-is-weird?ref=sentiers.media thejaymoit turns out that if you’re obsessive enough the credentials thing sort of goes away because people are just like, oh, you’re clearly competent and bizarrely knowledgeable about this thing you’re obsessed with, I want to help you work on it.
If you operate like this way you end up with a weird life]]> Life advice career weird generalist work https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:4b7862950fdf/ 2024-09-09T08:32:48+00:00 https://ericwbailey.website/published/dungeons-and-dragons-taught-me-how-to-write-alt-text/ thejaymoThe person who runs the game of Dungeons & Dragons has a responsibility to provide an entertaining and memorable experience for the other participants. You wield power as the person enabling and facilitating the experiences others have. This applies to roleplaying games as well as writing alt text. ]]> alt text writing accessibility dnd games images design https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:c5c5b677c302/ 2024-09-09T08:29:36+00:00 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-games-run-everything-from-online-dating-to-social-media-to-stock-markets/ thejaymo Because games are so good at shaping our behaviors, they’ve been adopted in the design of many of our modern social and economic systems. Now game design dictates what ads we’re served as we scroll through our feeds, how we’re paired on dating apps and how we’re matched with jobs.]]> worldrunner worldrunning design games https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:7a826b21038b/ 2024-09-08T19:28:26+00:00 https://worksinprogress.co/issue/doom-scrolling/?ref=thediff.co thejaymoNot one scrap of text from the ancient world has come to us without untold numbers of heroes quietly working to hand down, from generation to generation, the texts that have primarily shaped the modern world. ]]> scrolls doomscrolling dead sea scroll ancient texts https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:08ec5b405260/ 2024-09-07T18:44:54+00:00 https://placesjournal.org/article/julia-childs-kitchens/?cn-reloaded=1 thejaymothere is another story to tell about Child’s influence on design, one less about the products she made desirable and more about how her ethos shaped the environments in which she worked. Her kitchens were distinctive but not glamorous or miraculous. Reflecting principles and skills Julia and Paul Child had developed in earlier careers, these were highly rational spaces, rigorously designed by the couple to support the varied activities and lives that played out there. Style was subse...]]> julia child kitchen style function space environment https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:1be27085018b/ 2024-09-07T16:11:30+00:00 https://revisesociology.com/2016/10/11/goffman-judith-butler-identity-gender/ thejaymogoffman butler gender https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:52aedcba630f/ 2024-09-07T14:56:15+00:00 https://knru.polin.ski/grow-yr-own-archivez/ thejaymo you could pretty much say the same thing about Spotify, right? They're allowed to host all the music in the world and arbitrarily decide that they're not going to pay royalties to artists that don't get many streams, but you'd better not go to Soulseek and download those songs without paying the artists anything!]]> archives soulseek copyright paul65 65dos https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:f57e4baeff65/ 2024-09-07T12:23:17+00:00 https://brill.com/view/journals/nt/66/3/article-p382_8.xml thejaymoIn order to demonstrate how P.Oxy. 5577 fits within Gos. Mary, this article will first discuss the two texts individually, with the new fragment presented in full. ]]> gospel mary Christianity gnosis https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:2298197b70fe/ 2024-09-07T11:22:44+00:00 https://posting-nexus.ghost.io/people-arent-posting/ thejaymoif people post less and operate in private messaging groups more, it does eventually get harder to hyper target said groups without getting into massive privacy debates. ]]> socialmedia online culture advertising industry media behaviour https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:f7336ce93433/ 2024-09-07T11:20:18+00:00 https://posting-nexus.ghost.io/buy-pose-post-a-semi-triumphant-return-of-physical-media/ thejaymoPeople aren’t buying books or splurging on records purely for the aesthetic vibes. Our search for some kind of permanence in a hyper ephemeral age means that materialism is often the last remaining vessel]]> returnofthereal physical media culture materialism https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:e22d34bac6a7/ 2024-09-07T11:18:20+00:00 https://posting-nexus.ghost.io/untitled/ thejaymoThe attention economy, a term that you and I have heard again and again, solely exists as a theory that time spent looking at something is increasingly worth more as the places we spend time digitize. ]]> attention culture fandomlogics https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:f31068cb132b/ 2024-09-07T11:12:20+00:00 https://www.technollama.co.uk/a-short-guide-to-the-copyright-wars thejaymoOne of the things that I have found most baffling in witnessing recent discussions regarding copyright in the public sphere is precisely how some people who have just become aware of the debate tend to get it completely wrong. There are in particular two myths that I see repeated all the time which need correcting. The first myth is that there is a political split: maximalists are on the Right, while minimalists are on the Left]]> copyright copyfight culturalfracking history ai https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:a95940306916/ 2024-09-06T15:19:59+00:00 https://climate.benjames.io/solar-off-grid/ thejaymoThe cost of solar panels is plummeting, and this will flood the power grid with cheap electricity. But that’s just Act 1. We won’t stop building solar at the limits of the grid - we’ll build a lot more.]]> solarpunk solarpower energy environment electricity https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:7560cfb69bec/ 2024-09-06T12:46:15+00:00 https://playlabs.altera.al/discover thejaymoFriends in minecraft]]> AI LLM agents games minecraft awesome simulation https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:709844ec2665/ 2024-09-06T11:29:44+00:00 https://restofworld.org/2024/electric-three-wheelers-philippines-regulations/ thejaymoJudith Grimpula, a first-time driver with an e-trike, cannot understand the government’s opposition. A mother of four, she struggled to cobble together 37,000 pesos ($657) to buy her Super A e-trike last year, she told Rest of World. “They say we simply add to the traffic. But we don’t add to pollution, and for poor people like us, we could use the money we save from commuting to buy food instead,” the 35-year-old said, as she herded her three younger children onto her e-trike. “Sadl...]]> ebike philippines solarpunk irl https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:a53f91943fd0/ 2024-09-06T06:40:42+00:00 https://daily.jstor.org/like-its-a-history-of-air-guitar-dudes/ thejaymoproblematic racist and ableist subtexts of rock theatrics. […] The performance of air guitar by white men made implicit and instrumental claims about their embodied connections to black performance traditions.”]]> airguitar air guitar racism performance https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:c08eeb59fd2b/ 2024-09-05T09:02:46+00:00 https://mirror.xyz/1kx.eth/XpdOQvEwMmK-FQtVYrgABEWWKWOlB3SaQwwtxAUmlXI thejaymoToday, ethereum feels like a game that’s run out of content. We can see this with Solana, too. While Sohas successfully created a differentiated culture, both application ecosystems are primarily derivatives of each other and highly incremental due to general-purpose virtual machines and similar economic models or ‘physics’.]]> ethereum autonomusworlds worlds worldrunner blockchain https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:b380f4f52c4c/ 2024-09-04T15:51:53+00:00 https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/nostalgia-and-grief thejaymoStability will be the fundamental value proposition of a certain kind of politics in our time of undoing, and we need to reckon with just how seductive it will prove to be for too many of our neighbors in the global North. For them, the overriding instinct will be to press on, to avoid confronting any of the increasingly blatant asymmetries of access to care that characterize our world, just so long as someone promises to preserve the rudiments of a comfortingly familiar way of life....]]> lifehouse greefield https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:06a26e3279c8/ 2024-09-04T15:51:03+00:00 https://lessfoolish.substack.com/p/the-npc-subjugating-or-emancipating thejaymoTo be an NPC, then, has two meanings. In Kaczynski’s thesis, someone is non-playable, a person in the game with no agency. In Bolton’s antithesis, someone is unplayable, a person opting out of the game with agency. The NPC: A meme foreshadowing the collective subjugation of global totalitarianism, or a stigma of unthought transforming into a surprising symbol of emancipation?]]> NPC npcs meme essay peter limburg substack https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:d454ccf0040c/ 2024-09-04T15:44:23+00:00 https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2024/09/04/ai-and-the-technological-richter-scale/ thejaymo am especially frustrated by the arguments that I call Intelligence Denialism – that if you made something much smarter than a human, that it wouldn’t be able to do anything too impactful, or that intelligence is an incoherent concept. No, it couldn’t fool or manipulate me, or people in general, or make tons of money. No, it wouldn’t be able to run things much more productively, or invent new techniques, or whatever. And so on. Many arguments accidentally disprove humans, or human c...]]> ai llms technology impact https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:adadefe36e22/ 2024-09-04T08:48:13+00:00 https://mlclark.substack.com/p/the-loaded-language-of-price-fixing thejaymolegacy media has not made it easy for us to improve our everyday civic knowledge around critical issues like these. And even when more thorough, technical analyses emerge, they routinely exclude people with ongoing, everyday experiences of socioeconomic hardship, by dismissing their concerns and coherent responses to galling anecdotes of corporate overreach as “nonsense”. People are struggling—in raw financial terms,]]> inflation media language literacy pop culture https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:6c3d55e8ac54/ 2024-09-03T12:53:11+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-dont-have-to-be-a-try-guy thejaymoone of the Guys - I don’t know which one, they’re all pretty interchangeable - Tried cheating on his wife, in what was described as a consensual relationship with an employee. The other three of the Guys Who Try responded by firing the cheater. For reasons that are utterly bamboozling to me, this became a massive news story. ]]> internet culture tryguys funny Millennials socialmedia society media https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:abf818fe4c53/ 2024-09-03T12:49:20+00:00 https://thehustle.co/news/why-toilet-paper-keeps-getting-smaller-and-smaller thejaymotoilet toiletpaper shrinkflation economics poverty mining prices business https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:d422d45c0705/ 2024-09-02T09:08:45+00:00 https://thelastfarm.substack.com/p/why-we-should-burn-wood-for-heat thejaymoA rocket mass heater combines a rocket stove with a large quantity of thermal mass. A rocket stove is a J-shaped combustion chamber in which small diameter wood is burned at very high temperatures and achieves near complete combustion.]]> heating energy wood solarpunk housing domestic permaculture https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:0feb52dff363/ 2024-09-01T12:03:41+00:00 https://morefullyalive.substack.com/p/trains-planes-and-automobiles#footnote-3-147667713 thejaymoWhat separates tools from devices can be stated plainly: tools require and reward human involvement, while devices bypass and replace it. Human beings use tools, and tools are used by human beings. But devices are distinguished by the fact that as they progress, they require less and less human involvement to operate…. The big difference is that as tools improve and advance, human skill also improves and advances. But as devices improve and advance, human skill becomes less and ...]]> tools tool devices device technology pgr infrastructure https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:0f2728a5afff/ 2024-08-31T08:56:13+00:00 https://www.experimental-history.com/p/theres-a-place-for-everyone thejaymo Although (My Sisters) paycheck at the time said “Subway Sandwich Artist,” the real place she fit was on our front porch, trying to talk a 16-year-old boy through his first emotions.]]> career jobs life meaning niche happiness purpose society https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:4812983cd388/ 2024-08-30T11:11:13+00:00 https://psychonautelite.substack.com/p/the-sui-generis-internet-musicologists thejaymoThe internet, far from being a mere conduit for information, constitutes a complex, dynamic system that fundamentally restructures our perception of temporality. It is not simply a tool for communication, but a medium through which we actively negotiate our existence within time. This digital expanse dissolves the traditional boundaries between past, present, and future, engendering a novel temporal regime.]]> internet Archive Music reviews archiving archives online onlinemusic https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:693af693073b/ 2024-08-30T10:16:27+00:00 https://psychonautelite.substack.com/p/review-ash-grey-and-the-gull-glides thejaymoEvery one of these elements is a piece representing a bigger puzzle, their timbre subtly alluding to wider genre flavors, like the splinters of echoing rimshots hinting at dub, the splintered fragments of stuttering electro, isolated shreds of rare groove and recurring orchestral flourishes reminiscent of '70s R&B and jazzy soul.]]> album music review topost https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:8749f4334582/ 2024-08-30T10:11:42+00:00 https://onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-disappearing-insta-grid thejaymoAnother friend explained his empty grid more nonchalantly: “No enthusiasm to post I guess.” Someone else said she took all her grid photos down because “I got weird about privacy.” Another friend who has noticed the trend explained it this way: “Caring about an ‘aesthetic’ feed is ‘cheugy’? The less you care, the cooler you are.”]]> socialmedia Instagram grid personalbranding aesthetic online culture https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:18a71d54949d/ 2024-08-30T10:09:38+00:00 https://jamesg.blog/2024/08/29/hope-for-the-web/ thejaymoI think having a personal website is a vote for a different future: one where you can craft a little place online that’s yours, made in the way that you want. Your website may play a small part in a constellation of tools you use on the web: social media, chat communities, and more. But, a small part is still a part. It’s like learning an instrument. You don’t have to play all the time to find that every time you go back there is something new to learn or create or share. indieweb blogs blogging https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:da3badb76bfb/ 2024-08-30T10:08:41+00:00 https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/can-solar-costs-keep-shrinking thejaymoToday, if you want solar electricity in your home, the cost of the actual solar panels is minimal. Over 60% of the costs are soft! It’s harder to shrink those and all the other costs outside of the panels. ]]> solar solarpower costs cost solarpv renewables solarpunk https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:634c6c582305/ 2024-08-30T06:46:25+00:00 https://www.thebeliever.net/broken-time/ thejaymoEvans once told a friend that a musician should be able to maintain focus on a single tone in his mind for at least five minutes—and in playing like this, he achieved a nearly mystical immersion in the music: a state of pure, undistracted concentration.]]> adderley bill cannonball jazz miles musician Music https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:4a9216e3bf02/ 2024-08-29T11:33:42+00:00 https://www.fromthenew.world/p/meritocracy-above-all thejaymoThe deep roots of the meritocracy network are growing. They will bring hundreds of millions of dollars. They will matter. They will move the politics of both parties. They already have. ]]> meritocracy siliconvalley politics usa California https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:bc2644cb8a81/ 2024-08-29T08:49:48+00:00 https://www.matthewball.co/all/roblox2024 thejaymoRoblox is unquestionably “working.” Yet Roblox is also unprofitable. Very unprofitable. What’s more, Roblox’s losses continue to swell because its impressive rate of revenue growth has been outpaced by that of its costs. Over the last four quarters, Roblox’s income from operations was ($1.2B) on revenues of $3.2B, representing a -38% profit margin.]]> metaverse roblox analysis business https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:a41187a3cd0c/ 2024-08-29T08:48:03+00:00 https://mattsclancy.substack.com/p/the-decline-in-writing-about-progress?selection=89c60bf1-63d8-4c53-b2a5-6bfca11dfe26 thejaymoTaken together, I think this small literature suggests critically influential fiction is increasingly interested in the past, and as a corollary, probably increasingly less likely to reflect a worldview with progress and optimism about the future of society as important constituents. At the same time, we don’t see much evidence of this kind of shift among more widely read books.]]> future culture futurism culturalfracking solarpunk talk talks notes https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:98a3e4406f8f/ 2024-08-29T08:46:26+00:00 https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2024/08/29/digital-credentials-why-context-matters/ thejaymoThe challenge here lies in creating digital credentials that respect context while providing the necessary information. It’s not just about what the credential says, but how, when, and where it is used.]]> redteam openbadges badges credentials zk https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:a0f85bab66c7/ 2024-08-29T08:45:13+00:00 https://www.technollama.co.uk/telegram-rehashes-some-old-internet-regulation-debates thejaymoAs mentioned I haven’t made up my mind with regard to Durov’s arrest, but this was somewhat inevitable. Telegram has been famous as one of the most prominent “everything goes” havens online, with reports of rampant criminal activity taken place there. It was only a matter of time until a country would try to exercise control over it, I’m surprised that people are surprised that this happened]]> telegram arrest france https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:db8291ad5443/ 2024-08-28T09:21:48+00:00 https://ailogblog.substack.com/p/on-the-language-of-llms?r=15jjiq&triedRedirect=true thejaymo“What the neural network people branded ‘attention’ sometime around 2015” is nothing like what the word means in the context of human psychology. “The sheer opacity of this literature is I think a real problem.”]]> llm llms language technology criticism culture ai https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:be7e86031e09/ 2024-08-28T09:21:03+00:00 https://keningzhu.com/journal/your-website-is-not-a-brochure thejaymowhy your website doesn’t have to be a brochure that compartmentalizes your infinite self — into three glossy pages. I’ll put these two frameworks side by side: “website as brochure” vs. “website as a digital garden-home-world”]]> blogging blogs blog website personal internet topost https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:c3dc09a41fe3/ 2024-08-28T09:20:19+00:00 https://spectrejournal.com/toward-ai-realism/ thejaymoCapital is not aiming to produce self-aware machines. Firms that give little thought to the rich internal lives of their meat-bag workers probably aren’t overly concerned about developing machines with deep thoughts. The hope seems to be for obedient, cost-cutting, productive things. And also for destructive things.]]> ai llm machinelearning capitalism criticism culture Philosophy technology topost https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:f39140d58d8e/ 2024-08-28T09:19:07+00:00 https://markcarrigan.net/2024/08/23/against-dan-mcquillans-ai-realism-and-for-holly-lewiss-ai-realism/ thejaymoSo what does this mean for AI? It means that we do need to analyse the role of political and economic power in creating a sense of inevitability, as well as the challenges involved in finding ‘plausible scenarios’ of ‘disintegration or replacement’ to use Jameson’s words. ]]> ai culture technology criticism topost llm https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:41ebaddfa245/ 2024-08-28T09:18:05+00:00 https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/system-prompts#july-12th-2024 thejaymodefault system prompt for text-based conversations on Claude.ai and the Claude iOS and Android apps.]]> system prompt prompts llm ai claude delve eval https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:07eb39c8fb0f/ 2024-08-28T09:12:25+00:00 https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/acolyte-canceled-star-wars-fandom-1235086713/ thejaymoThe Star Wars fans clamoring for a return to the originals aren’t just talking nonsense, they’re ruining their chances to see the franchise they love grow in any meaningful way.]]> Starwars star_wars fans fandom fandomlogics toxic https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:57a33fafaf27/ 2024-08-27T11:33:04+00:00 https://www.fromthenew.world/p/eacc-cancel-culture thejaymoAs Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan put it, “Your API customers are actively paying attention to how decelerationist your policy people make you.”]]> eacc acc ai llm legislation llms law California anthropic https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:c9b833a585f0/ 2024-08-25T11:13:22+00:00 https://www.teenvogue.com/story/pokimane-twitch-streamer-interview thejaymoPokimane is becoming the poster girl for a generation of creators gaining serious traction and slowly emerging from their niche. “The nerds — we've been in the basement,” Rivera affirms. “We've been tucked away in a dark cave, and we're degenerates, and we don't take care of ourselves, or whatever the stigmas are. … And [now] we're in a modern age — where gaming is cool to the people who know that it's cool.”]]> pokimane streamer streaming culture twitch https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:ee65c8d0cf56/ 2024-08-25T11:04:16+00:00 https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/a-fans-mega-ip-playbook thejaymoDrop the over-reliance and sanctity on canon, tier production and start smaller with more teams, and stick with teams for longer on smaller scales of execution.]]> worldrunning simondlr topost canon https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:0674b65ccd69/ 2024-08-24T09:43:54+00:00 https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/hydrogel-material-learning-pong-ai-b2600328.html thejaymohttps://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:dc7c994bd412/ 2024-08-23T22:53:25+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdcN8wDxT0Q thejaymo film atman https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:dac61b653791/ 2024-08-23T17:19:34+00:00 https://adamenglebright.com/at-the-allotment/ thejaymoThis, for me, is the best, most concise description of what Spending Time With A Dad is like. ]]> mentionsme family dad https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:7ee01374c4e3/ 2024-08-22T11:27:54+00:00 https://thebaffler.com/latest/against-slop-caldwell-gervais thejaymoThe image of the dead-eyed, hunched-over gamer letting garish colors and a cacophony of beeps and bloops wash over them is ultimately not a stereotype or an indictment of the players so much as it is a reflection of an industry that, even in its creative prime, struggles to conceive of its audience as capable of more than that.]]> noah caldwell-gervais games gaming article Value money design https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:7adc8438c362/ 2024-08-22T11:26:36+00:00 https://damagemag.com/2024/08/21/how-the-online-right-fell-apart/ thejaymoIf ordinary politics is slowly becoming weightless, untethered, increasingly incapable of representing itself coherently or representing any broader sector of society, the new online politics abandon any attempt at political substance for an infinity of shifting poses. Look at me, look at how dangerous and reactionary I am.]]> sam kriss online right politics https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:3d2826fb8b01/ 2024-08-22T10:41:50+00:00 https://www.polygon.com/review/441331/malware-plucks-at-the-bland-horrors-of-the-computer-desktop thejaymoMalware, a new puzzler by Odd Games, isn’t a playful prodding at folk memory. It may look nostalgic, what with its Windows 95-era email inbox and its series of polite gray software wizards waiting to be navigated. Do not be fooled. This is actually a clever strain of horror game. It hinges on that most primal of horror threats, in fact: infection, and the innate fear of being compromised.]]> malware games game puzzle design hacker https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:318fddc7e497/ 2024-08-21T18:08:47+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaVytLupxmo thejaymoWhat Does It Feel Like to Do Maths? ]]> maths mathematics feelings experience.computer somatics https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:8e0fbcb980be/ 2024-08-21T08:49:48+00:00 https://andrewjtaggart.com/2024/08/20/what-is-direct-experience-and-why-does-it-matter/ thejaymoIt sounds as if you don’t quite misunderstand what direct experience is. Let’s start at the beginning, then. Let’s say that direct experience refers to whatever is the case. ]]> meditation enlightenment https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:32c234d5f013/ 2024-08-20T15:05:11+00:00 https://innermachinations.substack.com/p/into-and-out-of-the-abyss thejaymoAfter finishing The Mindbody Prescription, my task felt plain as day: unlearn my fears, reform my life.]]> pain chronic illness mind body magic health healing https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:86da8b7feb4c/ 2024-08-20T15:01:49+00:00 https://michaelgentle.substack.com/p/i-want-it-and-i-want-it-now thejaymoIn pre-internet times, before the age of pointing and clicking, few things were immediately available. You had to wait for stuff to happen. This was especially true for entertainment and leisure.]]> internet addiction patience culture socialmedia web gratification https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:7c2fa89bad1c/ 2024-08-19T09:02:02+00:00 https://www.technollama.co.uk/snoopy-mario-pikachu-and-reproduction-in-generative-ai thejaymoLeaving aside the strange phenomenon of people cheering on behalf of Disney and Nintendo (as one Twitter user remarked, “the people yearn for the boot”)]]> ai copyright generative-art imagesynth https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:c0f7236012a6/ 2024-08-18T10:58:28+00:00 https://lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/ thejaymoThe Door Problem I like to describe my job in terms of “The Door Problem”.]]> games gamefeel gamedesign door problem worlding doorproblem design https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:7c6d0fa69d05/ 2024-08-16T19:58:38+00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/elal2/comment/c18z0z2/?context=3&share_id=isrSs7Ss4lR5WzWaaPHyO&utm_name=ioscss thejaymo"Today you.... tomorrow me."]]> life advice https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:a02c649e61ba/ 2024-08-16T16:47:15+00:00 https://www.britainremade.co.uk/backontrack thejaymoBritain so far has failed to realise the benefits and join the global tram renaissance in full because it costs more than double the global average to build a mile of tram track in the UK.]]> britain uk england infrastructure travel solarpunk trams https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:f461bce827ed/ 2024-08-16T15:39:26+00:00 https://sonyinteractive.com/en/news/blog/the-science-of-agency/#:~:text=In%20other%20words%2C%20games%20work,to%20manipulate%20with%20our%20agency. thejaymoIn games, we can engineer the world of the game, and the agency we will occupy, to fit us and our desires. Struggles in games can be carefully shaped in order to be interesting, fun, or even beautiful for the struggler.]]> gamedesign agency Philosophy toread https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:e4953beaf803/ 2024-08-14T16:43:26+00:00 https://catherineshannon.substack.com/p/your-phone-is-why-you-dont-feel-sexy thejaymo But, like an old iPhone battery, the vital charge that used to fuel our lives is trending precipitously downwards. Our phones aren’t solely to blame for the lack of sexy vibes in the world, but they play a central role. Nothing about our phones is sexy—from the things they allow us to do, to how they feel to use, to what they ultimately symbolize. This wasn’t always the case.]]> iphone smartphone culture sexuality phones https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:d512d155a435/ 2024-08-13T17:00:15+00:00 https://danielhkwan.substack.com/p/inventing-the-roleplaying-game-the thejaymoGary Gygax and David Arneson are credited as the creators of D&D in 1974, it would be incorrect to say that they created the practice of tabletop roleplaying - the roots of which trace back to tabletop wargames and board games]]> rpg rpgs history worlds ttrpg gygax sidequest https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:9a4baaa15759/ 2024-08-13T16:52:29+00:00 https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/postal_worlds thejaymoPostal Worlds occurs as a sequence of turns which are disjunct in time, as opposed to the continuous real time contacts characteristic of Online Worlds.]]> postal worlds sharedworld games rpg history sidequest https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:a881922424c0/ 2024-08-13T16:51:30+00:00 https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shared_worlds thejaymoStories and novels written by different hands but sharing a setting are in this encyclopedia called shared-world stories.]]> sharedworld worlds scifi history sidequest book worldrunning https://pinboard.in/u:thejaymo/b:d72501117433/