Stephen Fortune

"If madness is the truth of knowledge, it is because knowledge is absurd, and instead of addressing itself to the great book of experience, loses its way in the dust of books and in idle debate; learning becomes madness through the very excess of false learning." Foucault

real glad we got this hellhole instead of well funded local journalism

man the intelligent right wing accounts I have began following in the last while make the next few months look very terrifying

@Aella_Girl in addition to all the other good answers casual sex skews towards thrills rather than the erotic (caveat, context dependent) and intimacy (because innate guardedness around someone unfamiliar)

why is casual sex bad so often

There are Fast & Furious parables now?? I’m not *mad* about it, just... wow.

re-watched Groundhog Day and struck by its prescient account and estimate of the amount of time actually required to unlearn toxic masculinity and be deserving of a loving partnership

@FiraxisGames but is it planned to permit Epic Game PC players play with Mac/Linux players (who are on Steam)?

@stephenfortune We had to turn off PC and Mac/Linux crossplay with the last update due to a desync issue; this hotfix turns them back on.

The crossplay/desync hotfix is now live! PC and Mac/Linux Civilization VI players should now be able to play together.

Oankali habitus when smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…

@CivGame will this enable Epic games players to play with Mac users like they can through Steam?

Sharing a follow up on a previous desync issue between PC and Mac/Linux: tomorrow morning at 10am PT, we're pushing out a hotfix for Civilization VI that will re-enable crossplay between PC and Mac/Linux. We appreciate your patience while we worked with our partners at Aspyr.

Gender reveal parties have caused more damage than all the BLM protests combined.

me: *on one knee* will u marry me her: OMG ye– me: no worries if not lol her: i will absolutely marry yo– me: like seriously so sorry for the inconvenience

Irish media in a tizzy over detailed logging of people's meals like everyone has not been lifelogging what they eat by force of instagram habit

I think it's very 2020-is-just-the-start energy that 'imagine' is the most availed of shorthand for dismissing someone or something

David Graeber made Debt into a 12 part radio series you can listen to here. RIP comrade bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05…

Choose death

RIP @davidgraeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years is an eye opening tome

user experience design done right

advance the doom counter by one

It's not a coincidence that a huge number of people in NHS, especially mental health, require mental health treatment themselves. If you want to see improved MH services you need to resist privatisation and the first step to that is listening, and supporting workers, to organise

The digital equivalent of “smile more”? Voice tone emotion analysis feedback. “Each morning, you’ll get a breakdown of your tonal patterns with tips on how to sound warmer, even when you’re having a teeth-gritting meeting with your boss.” 1/* engadget.com/amazon-halo-fi…