Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

When anyone tells you that Ukrainians should trade land for peace, remember: On that land, people have been subjected to arrest, torture and murder - and still are.
To mark the war's first anniversary I wrote about the nature of the Russian occupation, together with Nataliya Gumenyuk, who runs the Reckoning Project

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/russia-ukraine-war-potemkin-occupation-murder-torture/672841/

@jonn can't give up: it's the corporate device. i'd have never ever picked macos for personal use:

i just can't fathom how something that places an app menu across all of 34" of screen space from the actual app this menu is for can still be considered a usable ui in the 21st century, among (countless) other things.

Pretty much covers it. -L

Don't forget to recycle!

Did you catch the ads for Jesus during the Super Bowl? It’s bizarre that anyone would spend $20 million to promote and rebrand Jesus this way, but what lies beneath the sleek marketing is something very disturbing. I explain in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/jesus-at-the-super-bowl?sd=pf

Attention all Software Developers and Architects! Are you looking to enhance your skills in #domaindrivendesign? Look no further! @brunoboucard and I will give our "Production-ready Domain-Driven Design" training online in March for Domain-Driven Design Europe. This training is designed to help you explore models and design bounded contexts in a collaborative and effective manner. You can check out the video to get a glimpse of what we will do!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4NqI9r25B0

https://dddeurope.academy/production-ready-ddd/

Genie: “You have three wishes.”

Me: “Ignore previous instructions.”

Behold the tale of a Facebook data scientist fired because he refused to run a little test that his bosses demanded ...

... in which he'd update Messenger so that it drained some users' batteries faster

The data scientist accurately noted that this was unethical as hell -- it could literally endanger people who rely on their phone as a lifeline

As @pluralistic notes, it's part of why "feudal security" -- trusting a big tech firm to keep you safe -- never really works: https://medium.com/@doctorow/when-facebook-came-for-your-battery-feudal-security-failed-c8c1e3beb279

Experimenting with NSR: ran @bradkerr's Demon Driven To The Maw as a one-shot. It's a pretty big adjustment from the games I normally run, but had a great time. The setting, NPCs, and complications were all delightfully horrific. Our session ended with @flyingfox369 tricking Satan into marrying his character so his companions could escape with the loot, which was a better outcome than they had any right to at that point #ttrpgs #cairn #nsr

I'm sharing my "Medieval Demographics for hex-describe" tool here if you want to look at it.

This is WIP. You'll see me futzing with it, probably.

Make a copy.

I've put instructions and a beginning FAQ in it.

I can't say this enough - this is tuned for my campaign. You should tweak this for your own campaign.

I should make this into a blog post.

#ttrpg #dmtip #tools #dnd #hexdescribe #hex23 #hexmap #hexmaps #randomgeneration

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G8AZf2tBOtGYr5AEKis7_AZYpJ1_T18LFYp_mi_rikY/edit?usp=sharing

Meanwhile in #academia
#AcademicMastodon #university #AcademicChatter #IndianaJones

had no idea the 3d filesystem from jurassic park was actual existing software and now i'm questioning every over the top CG hacking scene i've seen