2020-08-20

ROBLOX is a MUD

Felipe Pepe has written a detailed look at MUDs through history and it’s awesome. These games have had quite a run.

Wage theft and prisons

Dave McKenna wrote this excellent Twitter thread about how much of crime isn’t punished in the same way we punish lower-impact crime. Wage theft happens frequently, with little recourse for a lot of people. Small-scale theft, meanwhile, is punished with jail time. The solution isn’t necessarily to jail for wage theft, but rather to stop jailing so much and focus on restitution.

Video of the rock being placed

There’s a well-known local rock at Hill St. and Washtenaw that’s been there for as long as I’ve been in Ann Arbor, and here’s a video of them placing it.