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Mohrta

Mohrta is a nonlinear FPS adventure through the strange and otherworldly. Explore a vast selection of unique environments, slay an enormous cast of bizarre creatures, and upgrade your arsenal of multifaceted weapons.

Meditations On Moloch

I. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem on Moloch:What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and u…

Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 on Twitter / X

You cannot have too much of an ultimately good thing.You can only have too much of a "good thing" in a lower created sense.The correct dosage is what makes goodness. Excess is itself a form of deprivation.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 13, 2026

Database consumption

Database consumption (Japanese: データベース消費, romanized: dētabēsu shōhi) refers to a way of content consumption in which people do not consume a narrative itself, but rather consume the constituent elements of the narrative.[1]: 240  The concept was coined by the Japanese critic Hiroki Azuma in the early 2000s.

Less rice for your labor-value - The Wobbly World of Miftah's Words

...and more exploitation for your location!

How the Finnish survive without small talk

Their desire for avoidance is a predisposition so common that it’s become hard-baked into Finnish culture.

Resisting Cognitive Surrender

This particular note is around exploring cognitive surrender: uncritically accepting whatever agents output without actually thinking, exploring or considering alternatives. Working this way is extremely fast, not particularly taxing, and unsurprisingly seductive.

Via Negativa: The Process of Making Good Decisions By Eliminating Bad Ones

When we set goals—both personal and professional—we tend to focus on what we should do, rather than focussing on what we should avoid. Humans naturally know more about what is wrong, what is bad, what is harmful, or what won’t work, more than they know about what is right and what would work.

Quality and effort

It seems as though the opposite of “careless” ought to be “careful.” That the best way to avoid avoidable errors is to try harder, to put more care into the work. This means…

Mosa Lina

a hostile interpretation of the immersive sim, where nothing is planned, and everything works

It's never been easier to keep waste from landfills, but are you doing your part? | CBC News

'You have to find your why and for me it started out with the environment and I needed to feel like I was doing my part,' says zero waste blogger Katelin Leblond. 'For some people it's the financial aspect, some people it's the minimalist aspect but I have yet to meet a person who has adopted any sort of level of zero waste that has regretted it.'

Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 on Twitter / X

A person can experience a genuine deprivation relative to an imagined or desired condition without suffering any deprivation of a good that is actually owed. The absence of a desired perfection is not necessarily the privation of a due perfection.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 12, 2026

Tightwads and spendthrifts: An interdisciplinary review

Consumers rely on a “pain of paying” to help deter their spending. While this is beneficial for some consumers, others experience levels of pain that create problems. “Tightwads” experience too much pain when considering spending and therefore spend less than they would ideally like to spend. By contrast, “spendthrifts” experience too little pain and therefore spend more than they would ideally like to spend. Neither are happy with how they handle money. In the decade since the tightwad‐spendthrift construct was introduced, much has been learned about what it is and is not (e.g., frugality, greed), what contextual factors are likely to reduce its importance, how it plays a role within romantic relationships, and when it might first emerge in childhood. This paper reviews the wide range of interdisciplinary research relevant to the tightwad‐spendthrift construct and proposes several directions for new research.

Museletter #353: Deadly Optimism, Useful Pessimism

What's really needed is a realistic sense of what's possible, and a dogged determination to heal division, protect nature and culture, and build sustainable alternatives.

Dan McKinley :: On Misery

Not every fun activity or moral good is a waste of time.