The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
A philosophy of games to help us win back control over …
Trade
"You legs may have a comparative advantage at running, but we arms have a competitive advantage at swinging hammers, so unless you accept that we're the dominant limbs and stop hogging the oxygen, that running advantage won't be around for long."
Opinion | One Senator’s Plea for Tariff Breaks
How protectionism works in practice: Public support, but seeking exemptions in private.
Cheating Is Encouraged
Straight from the mouths of the legends of the Silver and Black, Cheating Is Encouraged recapitulates the many as infamous stories from the last team to play...
Swansea from Mouthwashing is the best alcoholic in games
This is the bad kind of drinking contest
Dutch Defence
Black's 1...f5 stakes a claim to the e4-square and envisions an attack in the middlegame on White's kingside; however, it also weakens Black's kingside to some extent, especially on the e8–h5 diagonal.[1] Like its 1.e4 counterpart, the Sicilian Defence, the Dutch is an aggressive and unbalancing opening, resulting in the lowest percentage of draws among the most common replies to 1.d4.[2] Historically, White has tried many methods to exploit the kingside weaknesses, such as the Staunton Gambit (2.e4) and Korchnoi Attack (2.h3 and 3.g4).
Cross-App Authentication on AT Protocol: How Roomy and OpenMeet Share Identity
The free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.
Officials defend using temporary containers, cruise ship as lodging at Asian Games - The Korea Times
NAGOYA, Japan — The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) is attempting to quell complaints about lodging for athletes and officials at the Asian Games, wh...
Wandrer
Wandrer is the outdoor game where you win by going places you've never been before
Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 on Twitter / X
I like using poker as an example. Even as a game-theory-optimal strategy will beat any non-optimal strategy over enough hands, the pot it lost on the first hand is not itself actually recovered. That wound still is there.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) August 6, 2026
Beyond the Pentakill: 21st Century Competition
There’s been a lot of discussion about how to prevent toxic behavior in players of online competitive games. Today I’d like to suggest a different approach.
Agent teams perform better when they communicate This paper shows that giving each agent a sendMessage tool allows even weak agents to perform significantly better than running the same LLM K times in isolation A punch to the gut for GPT-Pro, DeepThink, etc models arxiv.org/pdf/2609.21032
