Brian Eno, creator of the Windows 95 startup sound, calls on Microsoft to sever ties with Israel: ‘If you knowingly build systems that can enable war crimes, you inevitably become complicit in those crimes’

Art rock legend Brian Eno has called on Microsoft to sever its ties with the government of Israel, saying the company’s provision of cloud and AI services to Israel’s Ministry of Defense “support a regime that is engaged in actions described by leading legal scholars and human rights organizations, the United Nations experts, and increasing…

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Nubby’s Number Factory is like Balatro if it were a plinko roguelike and instead of Jokers had items like Squirmy, Pedro, and A Ton of Feathers

I have but a simple brain. Some people turn to games like Blue Prince to engage their minds in a thoughtful and complex exercise. But not me. Instead, I’ve been spending my precious time and brain power playing Nubby’s Number Factory. Nubby’s Number Factory is a plinko-style roguelike which has you working at a number…

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Share of the Week: Afterlife

Share of the Week: Afterlife

Last week, we asked you to share pictures that represented the afterlife using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: secondcapture shares Wander overlooking his lost love from Shadow of the Colossus RhodWulfLeon shares Atreus standing in Helheim in God of War Ragnarök gra_o_pada shares V standing in front of the Afterlife in Cyberpunk 2077…

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This XCOM-style strategy game dares to ask: What if Napoleon Bonaparte was a woman who had an army of battlemechs?

The French Revolution was a time of overwhelming and quotidian violence. As Louis Antoine de Saint-Just—the revolution’s Angel of Death himself—put it in Georg Büchner’s play Danton’s Death, “Is it so remarkable that the stream of the revolution should at every bend and cataract cast up its corpses? … Are a few hundred dead bodies…

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