#fundamental global

[reinsurancenews1]

Fundamental Global Is Driving The Acceleration of FG Re As Its Capacity Expands

Fundamental Global Inc., resulting from the merger of FG Financial Group, Inc. and FG Group Holdings Inc., is poised to drive growth in its reinsurance business, FG Reinsurance (FG Re).

Kyle Cerminara, CEO of the newly formed Fundamental Global company, and Tom Heise, CEO of FG Reinsurance, Ltd., foresee substantial expansion in the reinsurance sector.

As previously reported on the merger announcement, the combined entity will possess assets totaling over $110 million and achieve an annual revenue exceeding $65 million. Additionally, expense savings are anticipated to surpass $3 million in the first year post-merger, with further savings targeted in the subsequent 12-24 months.

FG Reinsurance Ltd. (FG Re) operates as a Cayman Island Class B (iii) Insurer, specializing in underwriting opportunistic collateralized and loss-capped reinsurance opportunities. Engaging in the global reinsurance market through the Funds at Lloyd’s approach, FG Re writes traditional reinsurance contracts and industry-loss warranties (ILWs).

Following the merger, concerted efforts will be directed toward expanding the FG Re reinsurance business. Cerminara and Heise conveyed to Reinsurance News their belief in the opportune timing of this strategic move.

Cerminara asserted, “By merging our two companies, we can expedite FG Re’s strategy to align our capital with desirable risk in a challenging reinsurance market.” Heise expressed satisfaction with the transaction, noting the immediate capacity increase that allows for deeper participation in the reinsurance market and brings additional scale to the business.

The increased capacity comes at an advantageous juncture, with reinsurance rates remaining high and capacity constrained in specific market segments. This indicates continued profitability in underwriting opportunities, contingent upon loss activity, and offers avenues for margin and growth for FG Re.

Cerminara further emphasized, “This transaction positively impacts each of our three drivers of profit – underwriting, fee, and investment income. We believe this transaction will create both immediate and long-term value for our shareholders.”

[hussyknee]

Yo, wanna thank you for your support for us. Unfortunately racists are everywhere, and I honestly try and cut that shit out of people, but can't stop everywhere on the internet.

You don't have to thank me, you shouldn't be going through any of this shit in the first place. Lmao if our entire race of people had to stop being problematic in order to deserve help and human rights, we would all be toast. The brainrotted should pretend that other people and places are also like the USA – made up of diverse individuals and communities instead of a hivemind.

Real talk – I fully expected Ukraine politics by and large to shift to the right, because that's literally what happens when there's a war. It's why the Global South is mess – colonization is traumatic and destabilising, which breeds fundamentalist violence and paranoia. The US became hypernationalist af and spent 20 years attacking an entire population because of just one attack. If you call yourself anti-colonial, it's a fucking requirement to understand that people under threat become reactive, militaristic and hypernationalist. It's not human to expect otherwise, and it's fundamental to understanding the creation of the Global South, and the internal violence of minority communities in the Global North. That's why I was pretty disturbed last year by the "Ukraine army has to disavow its white supremacist battalion first" and its counter that the Ukrainian army is unproblematic really. It's so fuckin out of touch with the reality of war. Bro, the country is getting blitzed to hell, people are dying, its all hands on deck, literally anybody that shows up to help is your new best friend, anybody that gets in the way is an enemy. I grew up in a war, we have Aryan supremacists running the country right the fuck now thanks to the Easter Sunday bomb blasts, I have bloody lived this reality my entire life. That doesn't mean my country is only full of Aryan supremacists, it means it's full of their victims, and it means my people, all my people, even the shit ones, need help. If you're only gonna show up for us if we're pure as driven snow, you're an oppressive piece of shit contributing to the colonial power matrix. The right to live free is not contingent on being "deserving", it's intrinsic to being human.

You want racists and fascists to not get a foothold in a country? Then help make it safe to live in.

[cruelsister-moved2]

i love when ppls political stances become sooo far removed from the reality of taking human life i really think we should recentre this in the conversation. like my stance on the war in ukraine is inseparable from the fact i am almost always opposed to the murder of human beings. a lot of people who think of themselves as super liberal are actually quite radical in how bloodthirsty they are if you actually make that connection, which i feel like a lot of them don’t because they have almost completely mentally severed the connection between war and human beings dying so they just see the righteous anthropomorphised form of Ukraine fighting against the condemnable anthropomorphised form of Russia and the possible death of the imagined national body outweighs the reality of like hundreds of thousands of actual human bodies being destroyed. anyway good morning

[6ebe]

Sorry but that interview of Pierre saying he struggles to talk to normal people abt normal life struggles bc of his elite lifestyle. Like we all know that that’s how elites function but it’s funny to see one openly acknowledge it. Like yes. Those with privilege will do anything to avoid being reminded of that fact by crafter smaller and smaller in-groups and curating spaces sanitised from everyday life so they’re not made to feel uncomfortable.. lol

[mariesoliver]

I feel like the icj ruling specifically undermines the credibility of international law and its intitutions. The icj stated out loud that south africa's case accusing israel of genocide was legally sound (with overwhelming evidence) yet their measures are so weak... not even a call for a ceasefire... by their own standards they can't deny genocidal acts are happening but they do not have the political will or care to actually do something about it

[lifeunchartedjourney]

"Resilience Amidst Turmoil: Upholding Justice and Safety in Gaza and Palestine"

In the midst of the current events in Gaza and Palestine, the resilience of the Palestinian people stands as a testament to their enduring spirit. The international community must prioritize efforts to bring about a just and lasting resolution.

[tomrawlingtimereadplanetearth]

[hussyknee]

Kind of insane how much y'all hate queer, disabled, mentally ill adults. Especially Black and brown ones.

All this "adults who like X are creepy/ gross/disgusting" is just an excuse to hurt the most systemically vulnerable people and shame them into compliance. Shaming doesn't work on comfortable white people with stable jobs and social lives and the money to buy luxury items– they can just log off and go to a fondue party. So you just go for the people with the least socio-economic protection who depend on online communities and congratulate yourselves on your "activism" and social conscience. Even when your collateral includes people from the same minorities you're "defending".

Western leftism operates on conditional humanity and respectability politics. "We'll give a fuck about you...as long as you behave only in ways we find palatable." When we point out that punitive forms of social control always take us out first and in larger numbers, we're given to understand in no uncertain terms that we are in fact acceptable collateral in your personal social justice hero quests to "punch Nazis", "fuck the US government" and "eat the rich". All just a bunch of hyperindividualistic neoliberals resentful of being robbed of white privilege rooting around the social justice closet for cudgels that suit you.

[jcmarchi]

Master CUDA: For Machine Learning Engineers

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Master CUDA: For Machine Learning Engineers

CUDA for Machine Learning: Practical Applications

Structure of a CUDA C/C++ application, where the host (CPU) code manages the execution of parallel code on the device (GPU).

Now that we’ve covered the basics, let’s explore how CUDA can be applied to common machine learning tasks.

Matrix Multiplication

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental operation in many machine learning algorithms, particularly in neural networks. CUDA can significantly accelerate this operation. Here’s a simple implementation:

__global__ void matrixMulKernel(float *A, float *B, float *C, int N) int row = blockIdx.y * blockDim.y + threadIdx.y; int col = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; float sum = 0.0f; if (row < N && col < N) for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) sum += A[row * N + i] * B[i * N + col]; C[row * N + col] = sum; // Host function to set up and launch the kernel void matrixMul(float *A, float *B, float *C, int N) dim3 threadsPerBlock(16, 16); dim3 numBlocks((N + threadsPerBlock.x - 1) / threadsPerBlock.x, (N + threadsPerBlock.y - 1) / threadsPerBlock.y); matrixMulKernelnumBlocks, threadsPerBlock(A, B, C, N);

This implementation divides the output matrix into blocks, with each thread computing one element of the result. While this basic version is already faster than a CPU implementation for large matrices, there’s room for optimization using shared memory and other techniques.

Convolution Operations

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) rely heavily on convolution operations. CUDA can dramatically speed up these computations. Here’s a simplified 2D convolution kernel:

__global__ void convolution2DKernel(float *input, float *kernel, float *output, int inputWidth, int inputHeight, int kernelWidth, int kernelHeight) int x = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; int y = blockIdx.y * blockDim.y + threadIdx.y; if (x < inputWidth && y < inputHeight) float sum = 0.0f; for (int ky = 0; ky < kernelHeight; ky++) for (int kx = 0; kx < kernelWidth; kx++) int inputX = x + kx - kernelWidth / 2; int inputY = y + ky - kernelHeight / 2; if (inputX >= 0 && inputX < inputWidth && inputY >= 0 && inputY < inputHeight) sum += input[inputY * inputWidth + inputX] * kernel[ky * kernelWidth + kx]; output[y * inputWidth + x] = sum;

This kernel performs a 2D convolution, with each thread computing one output pixel. In practice, more sophisticated implementations would use shared memory to reduce global memory accesses and optimize for various kernel sizes.

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)

SGD is a cornerstone optimization algorithm in machine learning. CUDA can parallelize the computation of gradients across multiple data points. Here’s a simplified example for linear regression:

__global__ void sgdKernel(float *X, float *y, float *weights, float learningRate, int n, int d) int i = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; if (i < n) float prediction = 0.0f; for (int j = 0; j < d; j++) prediction += X[i * d + j] * weights[j]; float error = prediction - y[i]; for (int j = 0; j < d; j++) atomicAdd(&weights[j], -learningRate * error * X[i * d + j]); void sgd(float *X, float *y, float *weights, float learningRate, int n, int d, int iterations) int threadsPerBlock = 256; int numBlocks = (n + threadsPerBlock - 1) / threadsPerBlock; for (int iter = 0; iter < iterations; iter++) sgdKernel<<<numBlocks, threadsPerBlock>>>(X, y, weights, learningRate, n, d);

This implementation updates the weights in parallel for each data point. The atomicAdd function is used to handle concurrent updates to the weights safely.

Optimizing CUDA for Machine Learning

While the above examples demonstrate the basics of using CUDA for machine learning tasks, there are several optimization techniques that can further enhance performance:

Coalesced Memory Access

GPUs achieve peak performance when threads in a warp access contiguous memory locations. Ensure your data structures and access patterns promote coalesced memory access.

Shared Memory Usage

Shared memory is much faster than global memory. Use it to cache frequently accessed data within a thread block.

Understanding the memory hierarchy with CUDA

This diagram illustrates the architecture of a multi-processor system with shared memory. Each processor has its own cache, allowing for fast access to frequently used data. The processors communicate via a shared bus, which connects them to a larger shared memory space.

For example, in matrix multiplication:

__global__ void matrixMulSharedKernel(float *A, float *B, float *C, int N) __shared__ float sharedA[TILE_SIZE][TILE_SIZE]; __shared__ float sharedB[TILE_SIZE][TILE_SIZE]; int bx = blockIdx.x; int by = blockIdx.y; int tx = threadIdx.x; int ty = threadIdx.y; int row = by * TILE_SIZE + ty; int col = bx * TILE_SIZE + tx; float sum = 0.0f; for (int tile = 0; tile < (N + TILE_SIZE - 1) / TILE_SIZE; tile++) if (row < N && tile * TILE_SIZE + tx < N) sharedA[ty][tx] = A[row * N + tile * TILE_SIZE + tx]; else sharedA[ty][tx] = 0.0f; if (col < N && tile * TILE_SIZE + ty < N) sharedB[ty][tx] = B[(tile * TILE_SIZE + ty) * N + col]; else sharedB[ty][tx] = 0.0f; __syncthreads(); for (int k = 0; k < TILE_SIZE; k++) sum += sharedA[ty][k] * sharedB[k][tx]; __syncthreads(); if (row < N && col < N) C[row * N + col] = sum;

This optimized version uses shared memory to reduce global memory accesses, significantly improving performance for large matrices.

Asynchronous Operations

CUDA supports asynchronous operations, allowing you to overlap computation with data transfer. This is particularly useful in machine learning pipelines where you can prepare the next batch of data while the current batch is being processed.

cudaStream_t stream1, stream2; cudaStreamCreate(&stream1); cudaStreamCreate(&stream2); // Asynchronous memory transfers and kernel launches cudaMemcpyAsync(d_data1, h_data1, size, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice, stream1); myKernel<<<grid, block, 0, stream1>>>(d_data1, ...); cudaMemcpyAsync(d_data2, h_data2, size, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice, stream2); myKernel<<<grid, block, 0, stream2>>>(d_data2, ...); cudaStreamSynchronize(stream1); cudaStreamSynchronize(stream2);

Tensor Cores

For machine learning workloads, NVIDIA’s Tensor Cores (available in newer GPU architectures) can provide significant speedups for matrix multiply and convolution operations. Libraries like cuDNN and cuBLAS automatically leverage Tensor Cores when available.

Challenges and Considerations

While CUDA offers tremendous benefits for machine learning, it’s important to be aware of potential challenges:

Memory Management: GPU memory is limited compared to system memory. Efficient memory management is crucial, especially when working with large datasets or models.

Data Transfer Overhead: Transferring data between CPU and GPU can be a bottleneck. Minimize transfers and use asynchronous operations when possible.

Precision: GPUs traditionally excel at single-precision (FP32) computations. While support for double-precision (FP64) has improved, it’s often slower. Many machine learning tasks can work well with lower precision (e.g., FP16), which modern GPUs handle very efficiently.

Code Complexity: Writing efficient CUDA code can be more complex than CPU code. Leveraging libraries like cuDNN, cuBLAS, and frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch can help abstract away some of this complexity.

As machine learning models grow in size and complexity, a single GPU may no longer be sufficient to handle the workload. CUDA makes it possible to scale your application across multiple GPUs, either within a single node or across a cluster.

CUDA Programming Structure

To effectively utilize CUDA, it’s essential to understand its programming structure, which involves writing kernels (functions that run on the GPU) and managing memory between the host (CPU) and device (GPU).

Host vs. Device Memory

In CUDA, memory is managed separately for the host and device. The following are the primary functions used for memory management:

cudaMalloc: Allocates memory on the device.

cudaMemcpy: Copies data between host and device.

cudaFree: Frees memory on the device.

Example: Summing Two Arrays

Let’s look at an example that sums two arrays using CUDA:

__global__ void sumArraysOnGPU(float *A, float *B, float *C, int N) int idx = threadIdx.x + blockIdx.x * blockDim.x; if (idx < N) C[idx] = A[idx] + B[idx]; int main() int N = 1024; size_t bytes = N * sizeof(float); float *h_A, *h_B, *h_C; h_A = (float*)malloc(bytes); h_B = (float*)malloc(bytes); h_C = (float*)malloc(bytes); float *d_A, *d_B, *d_C; cudaMalloc(&d_A, bytes); cudaMalloc(&d_B, bytes); cudaMalloc(&d_C, bytes); cudaMemcpy(d_A, h_A, bytes, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice); cudaMemcpy(d_B, h_B, bytes, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice); int blockSize = 256; int gridSize = (N + blockSize - 1) / blockSize; sumArraysOnGPU<<<gridSize, blockSize>>>(d_A, d_B, d_C, N); cudaMemcpy(h_C, d_C, bytes, cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost); cudaFree(d_A); cudaFree(d_B); cudaFree(d_C); free(h_A); free(h_B); free(h_C); return 0;

In this example, memory is allocated on both the host and device, data is transferred to the device, and the kernel is launched to perform the computation.

Conclusion

CUDA is a powerful tool for machine learning engineers looking to accelerate their models and handle larger datasets. By understanding the CUDA memory model, optimizing memory access, and leveraging multiple GPUs, you can significantly enhance the performance of your machine learning applications.

[digitechnology]

Accounting and Audit

Blockchain's transparent and immutable ledger promises a trans formative shift in accounting practices. With blockchain, financial records become easily accessible for auditing purposes, enhancing compliance and operational efficiency.

Borrowing and Lending

Blockchain significantly enhances credit assessments and mitigates the risk of bad loans. By enabling secure sharing of verified customer data among banks, it streamlines processes like syndicated lending, reducing redundancy and accelerating transactions.

Trade Finance

The digitisation of trade finance through blockchain can replace outdated, paper-based systems. This modernisation enables faster, more secure, and transparent global transactions, fundamentally transforming traditional trade finance methods.

Trading and Settlements

Blockchain's decentralised framework is poised to revolutionise trading and settlements. By removing the need for central clearinghouses, blockchain technology facilitates quicker, more accurate transactions with reduced errors.

Fundraising

Blockchain introduces innovative fundraising options, including Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and Security Token Offerings (STOs). These methods offer startups new ways to raise capital, expanding beyond traditional banking avenues.

Adopting blockchain across these banking functions can lead to a more efficient, transparent, and technologically advanced financial ecosystem.

[trader-sg112]

Mastering Currency Futures Trading: A Comprehensive Guide

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Understanding Currency Futures Trading

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Regulated Exchanges: Traded on regulated exchanges just like the CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange), overseas cash futures offer an ordinary looking for and promoting surroundings.

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Strategies for Successful Currency Futures Trading

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Leverage Management

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[ujaglobaladvisory]

Right To Health In India: Constitutional Perspective

“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services…”

Article 25 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights

Health is an essential prerequisite for human beings and plays a vital role in national development. The right to health is an essential right, without which one cannot exercise its basic human rights.

WHO has given a widely acceptable definition of “health” in the preamble of its constitution; according to the World Health Organization[1], “health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease.”

Through this definition, WHO has helped to move health thinking beyond a limited, biomedical, and pathology-based perspective to the more positive domain of “well-being.”. Also, by explicitly including the mental and social dimensions of wellbeing, WHO has fundamentally stretched the scope of health and, by extension, the role and responsibility of health professionals and their relationship to the larger society.

The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India; it aims to secure social, economic, and political justice. The Constitution of India does not categorically provide for the right to health as a fundamental right. The state is required under the Constitution to take action to enhance the quality of healthcare available to the public. The Directive Principles of State Policy are an expansion and elaboration of the preamble. Nonetheless, the state’s fundamental law protects individual liberties and advances the welfare of the country.

It is the duty of the state to provide an effective mechanism for the welfare of the public at large.

In spite of various health schemes and policies, the condition of healthcare is deteriorating beyond our control. The framers of the Indian Constitution have rightly mentioned various provisions regarding the health of the public. Additionally, the Supreme Court of India plays a vital role in safeguarding the general public’s health through a variety of rulings. The current issue shall be managed by the efficient application of laws passed in accordance with constitutional provisions. The fundamental right to health is not officially recognized by the Indian Constitution. However, a fundamental right to life and personal liberty is guaranteed under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. In this article, “life” refers to a humane life, not just a life of survival or animal existence. Its definition is far broader and covers things like the right to a better standard of living, the workplace and leisure areas being hygienic, and more.

The Indian Constitution contains a number of provisions that address public health in general. To safeguard the general public’s health, the Indian Constitution’s founding fathers correctly included the Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP).

Everyone has the right to the best possible level of physical and mental health, which includes access to all medical services, hygienic surroundings, enough food, appropriate housing, safe working conditions, and a clean environment. This is known as the human right to health. As a result, access to the provision of healthcare must be guaranteed without prejudice.

“Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19–22 June 1946; signed on 22 July 1947 by the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100), and entered into force on 7 April 7, 1948″

Right To Health Under Fundamental Rights

Right to Health an integral part of right to life which is fundamental for all human beings under Article 21 of the Constitution. The Supreme Court has given identification to right to Health vide different techniques of interpretation. Right to Health is also one of the rights, which is implied under right to life and personal liberty as guaranteed by the Constitution of India.

Article 21-Protection of Life and Personal Liberty

Article 25 and Article 26

Article 51- A

Article 243-W

Article 23

Right To Health In International Human Rights Law

International human rights treaties recognizing the right to health:

The 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: art. 5 (e) (iv)

The 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: art. 12

The 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: arts. 11 (1) (f), 12 and 14 (2) (b)

The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child: art. 24

The 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families: arts. 28, 43 (e) and 45 ©

The 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: art. 25

Conclusion

The severe weaknesses in India’s healthcare system have been made clear by the pandemic.

The lack of legislation that upholds a fundamental right to health is a major contributing factor to India’s poor public health. In order to help India deal with the issues, it is necessary to establish the right to health as a fundamental right and to put it into practice within the parameters of legal mechanisms and the human rights principles of solidarity, proportionality, and transparency. Thus, it is imperative that the values of openness, proportionality, and solidarity be applied in the implementation of the right to health.

It is the need of the hour that the govt. should now focus on amendments to the current legislation and laws of India. The present health care services should be reviewed, and accordingly, new ones should be made with the involvement of the people.

Therefore, the importance of recognizing the right to health cannot be overstated. While it’s not explicitly stated in the Constitution, the World Health Organization considers health a fundamental human right. This implies that every individual, regardless of background, deserves access to the highest attainable standard of health. Despite the Supreme Court of India affirming the right to healthcare through various judgments, the state has not fully acknowledged its significance. The court’s broader interpretation of Article 21 has equated the right to health with the right to life, affirming its status as a fundamental right

[tuulikki]

The thing is that the portrayal of Neanderthals as having been inherently grotesque and alien to H. sapiens is something we will never have proof of. But we do have proof that, in different locations and in different populations across time, we all found eachother desirable. We saw eachother and wanted to touch. And the offspring were held by their mothers and raised and had their own offspring in turn.

When you look for the first proof that H. sapiens found Neanderthals repulsive, you have to wait until the Victorian era, when the white masters of empires were busy portraying Neanderthals as stupid, brutish, and (of course) dark-skinned.

In more modern times, we’ve had people arguing that instead of seeing Neanderthals as Benighted Savages, they should instead be seen as Noble Savages, (allegedly) cruelly destroyed and driven from their lands by H. sapiens. Which one of their two you believe says more about your modern political views than it does about ancient H. sapiens.

And, whether we construct Neanderthals as Savage or Noble Savage, the fundamental assumption we project into the unfathomably distant past is still that H. sapiens saw Neanderthals as an Other, with the language we use being almost explicitly that of modern racial dynamics.

But we have no proof of any of that. We have no proof of hostilities. We know we co-existed and we had sex. That’s it.

Humans obviously have sex with some humans and kill others. We also know that, when small groups of humans occupy vast spaces with infrequent contact with others, unique cultures will always form, some more hospitable, some more neophobic/xenophobic. But many cultures of small settlements placed among huge unpeopled landscapes place supreme emphasis on hospitality to strangers. Plus, we fucking love other social animals, as evidenced by how we befriended wolves.

I’m a humourless weirdo and a wet blanket about popular constructions of Neanderthals as “monstrous”, and I freely admit it. But that’s because it’s tied up in legacies of imperialism. Not only that, but it also privileges one culture (yours, mine, modernity’s) as being most human by implicitly assuming we can project it onto people in the past. Since you don’t pretend that all global cultures share exact same values as you do, it doesn’t take more than a few moments’ reflection to realise you can’t do that to the past.

[formerlyyknown]

i’ve been anti-ai for years and years but i don’t know if i have it in the written record. and this is still late ik because everyday it becomes more and more glaringly obvious that this is gonna fuck us up but i’d like to officially have record that i called it. im not saying it’s necessarily gonna be full apocalypse but mark my words dawg within the next decade labour, the structure of society, the notion of “reality” or “shared truth”, intellectual and cultural institutions as we know them will all collapse. our options at this point are full societal collapse (realistically not super likely. or at least i think if it happens it will be in ways we don’t recognize and won’t be like a low budget doomsday movie like some suggest) (but i mean i don’t think that’s totally out of the question) or the complete overhaul and restructuring of our most fundamental institutions. nothing is ever going to be the same very very soon. and i’ve BEEN saying this since i was 13 but i would like you all to know this so i can gloat about it in the future. thanks!

[mahoushojoe]

people in the global south: hey isnt it so fucked up how america basically dictates world geopolitics and can directly fund and endorse our murder and displacement no matter who is in charge and how the system fundamentally prevents people from changing that and that americans who feign allyship make no effort to change that?

some annoying fucking white person with hufflepuff in their bio: so you're telling me you want me to vote for trump right. is that what you want. you want me to vote for the orange man. you're a russian bot aren't you

[probablybadrpgideas]

Tips on making your horror game genuinely scary.

Put in a ghoul.

Remember to utilize fundamental human fears, like the fear there might be a ghoul around. Put in a second ghoul.

Undermine the player's sense of safety by introducing something dangerous to areas previously considered safe, such as a third ghoul (in a ghoul-proof room or the like).

Draw on modern social anxieties, such as political radicalization or global warming. You can easily personify these things as, say, a fourth ghoul.

Create a sense of unease by...fuck it, that sounds hard, fifth ghoul.

Sixth ghoul, just in case the first five aren't scary enough.

Create disturbing imagery like a seventh, eighth and ninth ghoul.

Something something sense of powerlessness something something the uncanny something something. Tenth ghoul.

Remember to study the horror greats - King, Poe, Lovecraft. What did they all have in common? All wrote about ghouls probably. Imitate them and put in an eleventh ghoul.

Well, if you have eleven ghouls already, you might as well spring for a full dozen ghouls. That's just good business sense.

Thirteen is the spookiest number! Obviously a thirteenth ghoul would be the scariest thing! Your players will be talking about this for months!

Ok, fine, I guess you could put in a werewolf or shoggoth or something. Just don't blame me when the players are saying "hmm, that was pretty scary, but you know what would have been really terrifying? A fourteenth ghoul!"

Make the game room fit the tone of your game by having sinister music, low lighting and a fifteenth ghoul under the table who will eat anyone who complains about the number of ghouls in the campaign. That'll spook 'em!

Happy spooking and always remember the three rules of horror: ghouls. Ghouls! GHOULS!!!!