"Check a bag, you glamorous beast." I used to be solidly on team carry-on, but more recently I am checking a bag when travelling, especially if there's a layover. Not having to shlep anything bigger than a small backpack around feels luxurious.
50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon. There are 50 chapters, covering one text game from each year since 1971. Zork. Adventure. Dwarf Fortress. LambdaMOO. Universal Paperclips.
Useful word for our time: polycrisis. "the interplay between the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the energy, cost-of-living and climate crises [...] where disparate crises interact such that the overall impact far exceeds the sum of each part." (via thegoldenhour.substack.com)
Subwaydle is a Wordle-like game where you try to guess the NYC subway transfers to use to get to your destination (e.g. "travel from Saratoga Av to 42 St–Port Authority Bus Terminal using 2 transfers").
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