Something for the US #TTRPG bubble:
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntpress/p/im-teaching-free-game-design-cl…
I’m now afraid this shit-crony will come back to Buffalo to lick his turd-crony wounds and leave poop-crony stains all over town again as he works to crony-up once more.
Thanks to this case, I now know that in NY, calling someone a “crony” is non-actionable rhetorical hyperbole.
Crony.
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Something for the US #TTRPG bubble:
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntpress/p/im-teaching-free-game-design-cl…
Harry Keyishian, one of five University of Buffalo faculty members who were dismissed in the early 1960s for refusing to sign a loyalty oath,
a vestige of anti-Communist witch hunts,
and whose legal challenge led to a Supreme Court decision that enshrined academic freedom with constitutional protection,
died on April 4 in Morristown, N.J. He was 93.
Professor Keyishian (pronounced kay-EE-shee-un) was in an early stage of his career when Buffalo hired him as an English…
…it’s not even that. It’s just ugly. Bad layouts. Bad margins. Bad proportions. Awkward animations. Flickers and flashes. Content peeking through all the negative space so that the screen is filled with visual noise. It feels designed by committee. It feels pasted together.
The feel of Apple products has covered a lot of ground over the decades. They’ve felt elegant. They’ve felt basic. They’ve felt bauble-y and cute. They’ve felt futuristic. They’ve felt practical. But this is the first time I can recall an Apple product feeling •cheap•.
Kleine Frage an die germanistische #Linguistik bzw. #Phonetik-Bubble: anekdotische Evidenz zeigt, dass -ss- (z.B. in Diskussion) manchmal stimmhaft [z] ausgesprochen wird. Ist das eine regionale, diastratische oder andere Variante? Weiß man da Näheres?
Raiders, Bills and Commanders get great news from Colts' transition tag rumor https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-bills-commanders-great-news-colts-transition-tag-r…
This week’s #ThursdayFiveList—courtesy of @…—is #ForeignAffairs: songs in a tongue that isn’t my own.
1. Adriano Celentano, “Prisencolinensinainciusol”—
Wäre ja ein Witz Wenn die KI buble deswegen platzt, Weil die Klickworker in Kenia Dauerhaft streiken.