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So.... Apparently, unless you have an Apple device, it's impossible to edit playlist orders for Spotify...

So.... Apparently, unless you have an Apple device, it's impossible to edit playlist orders for Spotify, via the Web, or Android?.... cancels subscription

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Reshared post from David Brin:

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Joel Garreau writes about our latest strategic worry – “weaponized narrative” seeks to undermine an opponent’s civilization, identity, and will by generating complexity, confusion, and political and social schisms. It can be used tactically, as part of explicit military or geopolitical conflict; or strategically, as a way to reduce, neutralize, and defeat a civilization, state, or organization. Done well, it limits or even eliminates the need for armed force to achieve political and military aims. http://ift.tt/2j0WUtp “Far from being simply a U.S. or U.K. phenomenon, shifts to “post-factualism” can be seen in Poland, Hungary, Turkey, France, and the Philippines, among other democracies. Russia, whose own political culture is deeply post-factual and indeed post-modern, is now ably constructing ironic, highly cynical, weaponized narratives that were effective in the Ukrainian invasion, and are now destabilizing the Baltic states and the U.S. election process.” Garreau continues: “By offering cheap passage through a complex world, weaponized narrative furnishes emotional certainty at the cost of rational understanding. The emotionally satisfying decision to accept a weaponized narrative — to believe, to have faith — inoculates cultures, institutions, and individuals against counterarguments and inconvenient facts.” 

And the U.S. is in the unaccustomed position of being seriously behind its adversaries.

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I do wonder if I am the only person on the planet who remembers how, in the 60s and early 70s, there were economists hand wringing a worry that seems alien. At then present rates, if all the pension plans were fully vested, then by 2010 the workers would - through those plans - "own the means of production." They would own the factories and have the largest share of stock equity. Then came wave after wave of refusal to vest the pension funds... and the 'problem' is now entirely forgotten! I can't even get economists my age, like John Mauldin, to remember this. They get uncomfortable and change the subject.

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Reshared post from The Daily WTF:

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“The data was left in a publicly available database that wasn't protected by a password”

Publicly accessible database wasn’t even protected by a password.

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Reshared post from John Scalzi:

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So, the folks at Tor want to give you enough of my books that you can do a construction project with them: http://ift.tt/2mPzg5j (US/Canada only, I'm afraid. Yes, I know, everyone else. Sorry)

Maybe you already have enough John Scalzi books to build a book fort—and if you do, why aren’t you showing us pictures of said fort?!? If you don’t have a full-fort collection, well, no…

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Next RPG hack project is gonna be one of these.

Next RPG hack project is gonna be one of these. 

Album: 3/2/17

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Thanks to +Darwin Woodka and +Tom Perrine doing their best to stuff me at Thanksgiving last year, I've...

Thanks to +Darwin Woodka and +Tom Perrine doing their best to stuff me at Thanksgiving last year, I've lost 20 lbs since Dec 1. All it took was a fit bit, a phone app, a scale, a white board, and patience. >.>

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I actually can't decide if it'd be more awesome if Kurt Russel is Ego, or if this is a giant fake-out...

I actually can't decide if it'd be more awesome if Kurt Russel is Ego, or if this is a giant fake-out and he isn't. 

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Are Fate settings/hacks a thing anyone actually still wants to play, and if so: Post-apocalyptic hunter...

Are Fate settings/hacks a thing anyone actually still wants to play, and if so: Post-apocalyptic hunter-gatherer tribes and dinosaurs but the dinosaurs are robots or Park rangers fighting poachers in Africa with trained animal sidekicks but the animals are robots ?

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Reshared post from Paul Beakley:

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Space Wurm vs Moonicorn Setup/Session 0 We didn't have time to do anything other than prep, which is fine because prep took an awful lot of time. Super interesting and fun, though! The playbooks we settled on, besides the eponymous titles, are The Lover and The Other. Space Wurm's Space Tyrant move put him in charge of the Imperial Throne and the Secret Police -- pretty conventional choices, and that's fine for our first attempt. Much more surprising were the crossed-out choices: Aliens and Cybernetics. And that moved us directly out of maybe-sci-fi in the Jupiter Ascending and Fifth Element vein, and directly into something out of Heavy Metal. The materials presented for the various fronts ask good questions! It's a little blurry and you have to not be literal-minded, I think, in evaluating what to do with the questions. Okay so for example, for each of the fronts that aren't under Space Wurm's command, you're supposed to attach a PC, who gets some narrative bennies at setup as well as getting more say in how those fronts get spooled out. We didn't have enough players to pick up all three remaining fronts (Interstellar Travel, Religion, and The Spice), so I settled on me making all the answers for The Spice, with The Other taking Religion -- an obvious choice, really -- and The Lover taking Interstellar Travel. But Space Wurm's elements still need to get worked out, right? They all start with "ask the player in charge about X" questions, usually five to eight of them. Those questions don't make sense for Space Wurm to answer, really, because it's things like "how have the secret police impacted your life?" and such. So I turned those over to everyone else, Moonicorn included, so they could all tell Space Wurm how terrible his reign has been. Excellent solution, worked great, easy to settle on but not RAW. Whatevs. Because we have no aliens and no cybernetics, virtually all the regular scifi/space fantasy touchstones are absent from our setting. Which is great, true planetary romance. There is interstellar travel, but no spaceships -- they went with Teleportation as the method, and tied it back into the religion front, with a small posthuman priesthood/community/whatever in monopolistic control over interstellar travel. I really liked that my players worked hard to reincorporate and blend and merge ideas wherever possible. That involved me bouncing around a lot to keep the pot stirred. First we'd settle on the various ratings of things in, say, interstellar travel (monopolistic control over routes and mail delivery, etc.), then jump to the secret police (terrible surveillance tech, which makes sense because there are no computers), then over to The Spice to talk about what all it does (enhances biological life, bends time and space yeah no shit). Good process, and I'd recommend folks do something similar rather than grinding through one entire front's worth of questions and details. The moves and, well, nearly everything else about the game look hilarious, thought-provoking, frustrating and confusing. The Other's look was like... reflecting the stars, bubbles, inhuman and winter or something. Aaaaalllrighty then. Space Wurm's player dredged out the least lyrical choices: black hearted, burning eyes, vice-like grip, royal. At least this gave us stuff to talk about and interpret, which was fun. The moves...well, I'm hoping the magic of having many various brains thinking about how to use them works out for us. Space Wurm's Ceremony move (When you devise a ceremonial activity in order to change the nature of a social group you have authority over), as one small example, is provocative but we're not really sure how to put it to work. It'll be fine and fun to figure something out. Many of the moves are similarly open-ended and bwuh? Now to wait two weeks until we get to play in earnest. Hoping our flaky-for-now fifth player will consider dropping in, but hell if I know how to explain the weaponized psychedelia we've come up with.

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I AM EXCITE. Today is the start of Women's History month, and the first two Image variant covers! http...

I AM EXCITE. Today is the start of Women's History month, and the first two Image variant covers! http://ift.tt/2k9Wzs0 I already pull some of these but I ordered an extra copy of each of them. 

The publisher will donate all of the proceeds from their March variant covers to the non-profit women's health organization.

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Reshared post from Tom Perrine:

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Guess who I met at our offices today...

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That face when you're like "Ugh, I need an answer to a highly specific question about the meta nature...

That face when you're like "Ugh, I need an answer to a highly specific question about the meta nature of this particular tiny RPG thing" So you google it, and of course, +Jason Corley answered it in a forum post 10 years ago. 

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"When people blame themselves for believing that Obama was going to be a much more transformational ...

"When people blame themselves for believing that Obama was going to be a much more transformational president, I want to say, it’s not you! You weren’t imagining it! The campaign was telling you that your voices mattered more than those of corporate interests and wealthy donors."

New Media was dead, but a corpse called “Digital” rose to take its place. It was bloodless, technocratic, and made of big data.

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Three more days until our kickstarter ends for New MexiCon 2017! Join us April 21-23rd for New Mexico's only small press indie game convention! Our 2017 New MexiCon PDF bundle is pretty sweet, too! Check out our kickstarter at: http://ift.tt/2mjugXd

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Hey +Paul Beakley, When you said "Space Wurm Vs. Moonicorn has Space Gods!" I thought of this, from...

Hey +Paul Beakley, When you said "Space Wurm Vs. Moonicorn has Space Gods!" I thought of this, from Nextwave. http://ift.tt/2lmJNH4

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