During their twelve-year reign, the Nazis devised a color-coded system of triangle badges that identified the so-called crime of prisoners in the concentration camps. Queer men and trans women prisoners were labeled with the pink triangle. Beginning in the 1970s, queer activists reclaimed the symbol and asserted that being queer was in no way shameful. They transformed the pink triangle from a badge of shame and imprisonment into a global rallying cry for queer liberation, community, and pride.

NS Verwicklungen des Erfinders von autogenem training

As per usual, Avilo beautifully articulates an affirmative vision of leftism and dives deep into the history of contemporary American fascism. Du Bois, I will get to step back into the sun again.

I loved Heiyanko Alien off a Game Boy multicart an a kid and revisit it from time to time and always have a good time; I never knew that it actually predated Lode Runner and Pac-Man.

It plays as a clever combination of both. My favorite (and most played) maze-chase game is Clu-Clu Land, which I didn’t grow up with, I found it ten years back. Other beloved maze-chase games I still replay are Power Racer, Tasmanian Story, Devil World, and the aforementioned Pac-Man and Lode Runner. All of them I did play all the time back then but with Clu-Clu Land I’ve stacked up so many more plays since I love it so much. Just love the cozy fish vibes and the deliberately mindmeldy controls.

The Game Awards 2025 sparked yet another round of indie discourse with Expedition 33‘s historical sweep causing many to ask what does it actually mean for a game to be “indie”?

The pain of semantic drift.

The tsundere is a well-known anime trope, that many people still love to this day. But something happened to it since its inception, and I want to talk about that.

The “database” is a very interesting comparative media concept; will keep it in mind.

Waifus are a very well-known part of anime culture. So many have strong opinions on them, and yet very few know the full story.

A viral tweet made me curious about looking into the history of fanmade adult content, and I ended up diving into a rabbit hole that goes further than you could ever expect

via: https://youtu.be/yUVWXyNkR2I

a heavy-handed, but good piece about notifications as a design pattern

I lived through the homophobia of the 70s through 00s and “eww it’s unnatural” was as common and tedious a refrain then as it is now against our trans friends.

Whenever I hear people talk about “basic biology” or “nature” or “common sense” in order to bind the outgroup, this comes to mind.

a doctrine at war with nature

That is what it sounds like.

I know, I know—comparing struggles is gauche but when the rhetoric is a xeroxed mad lib that sounds as wrong now as it did then, I can’t help it. I’m not equating the magnitude of the oppression or denying that the African diaspora holds an exceptional place in American history through our modern day. (Not trying to be like that dumb novel that was like “catholics were the real Holocaust victims”.) The comparison to this unambiguously wrongheaded historical text is a tasteless one but brings with it the comfort that in future hindsight, this might be how all those “it’s just common sense, it’s just basic biology” boot stompers are gonna sound.

The article considers structuralism as a philosophy of mathematics, as based on the commonly accepted explicit mathematical concept of a structure. Such a structure consists of a set with specified functions and relations satisfying specified axioms, which describe the type of the structure. Examples of such structures such as groups and spaces, are described. The viewpoint is now dominant in organizing much of mathematics, but does not cover all mathematics, in particular most applications. It does not explain why certain structures are dominant, not why the same mathematical structure can have so many different and protean realizations. ‘structure’ is just one part of the full situation, which must somehow connect the ideal structures with their varied examples.

Very nice philosophy paper by one of the progenitors of category theory on structure. The idea to show a correspondence between Bourbaki and category theory seems like a nice grad school project.