weekly reel March 19, 2023

Bonjour bonsoir geeks, sur un chouette nouveau-ish Blais.

Sérénades by Jean-Michel Blais (bandcamp.com)

News

John Green: The seduction of despair, and Nature: Negativity drives online news consumption (HN).

The difficulty of living in exponential time.

The so-called “Culture Wars”.

Games

The beauty of Quake. Quake these days is a glorious perpetual stew. Soooooo much delicious new soup made in this old pot, excellent maps, mods, and kickass sourceports.

People Make Games: We entered the world of Microsoft Excel eSports & got our asses beat. Kind of a weird mix between a security CTF and usual eSports.

Jim Stephanie Sterling: Accessibility and “Gamer Pride”.

Shitty tech ℹ️

FTC finalizes order requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to pay 245 million $ for tricking users into making unwanted charges. Fuck yeah, fuck Epic predatoryware.

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