Rym DeCoster

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The Epstein Files has turned into this.

→ 10:22 PM, Jul 17

Running

I got to ~5:20 at the peak of my fitness. Now in my 40s, I can do it in 24:00 with effort. I’m too old for 5ks.

But I can do a half marathon ~1:40, and it feels great. So I turned into one of “those guys” and I run them almost every weekend.

I ran the New York Marathon once in 4:12. But it took me over a month to recover, and I injured myself doing it. I do not plan to ever run a Marathon again, but I am glad I did it once.

So these days it’s at least weekly runs of 9-16 miles and as many short 3 mile runs as I can sneak in around the heat.

→ 10:11 PM, Jul 17

If they’re just stupid, there has to be a way to beat them.

→ 6:58 PM, Jul 12

GeekNights will be live in a bit with our Book Club review of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072

→ 5:21 PM, Jul 10

GeekNights will be live at 5:30pm ET talking about auction and bidding mechanics in games!

→ 4:42 PM, Jul 8

GeekNights will be live at PAX West 2025 with a brand new talk!

Mastering Game Mechanics: Auctions and Bidding
Monday, Sept 1
1:00 pm
Firebird Theatre (lvl 5)

→ 8:56 PM, Jul 6

New Yorkers! Vote in the primary!

Mayor

#1 — Zohran Mamdani #2 — Brad Lander #3 — Adrienne Adams #4 — Zellnor Myrie #5 — Jessica Ramos

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams

City Comptroller Justin Brannan

→ 1:54 PM, Jun 22

This is the real world equivalent of a vampire asking to enter your home.

→ 7:17 AM, Jun 19

Former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in a politically motivated assassination. A second lawmaker and his wife were shot and wounded.

The Republicans are going to kill us and seize the government. It’s 1938 in America.

→ 11:19 AM, Jun 14

What you do in the weeks to come is what you would have done in Germany in 1938.

We are at the terminal crisis point. 2026 will be far far too late to stop the mass death that will come from a continued Republican government.

→ 1:15 PM, Jun 10

If this doesn’t scare you, you are on the wrong side of history. Trump is about to use the military to kill US citizens.

This is exactly what it looks like it is.

→ 10:45 AM, Jun 8

Harvard is offering free online classes around government and public policy. This is the knowledge you need to effectively resist fascism. I HIGHLY encourage everyone who follows me to take some.

I started with U.S. Public Policy: Social, Economic, and Foreign Policies

→ 2:28 PM, May 25

This was a terror attack against an LGBTQ+ focused IVF clinic.

→ 7:23 PM, May 17

Running Man and Robocop were documentaries from the future.

Capitalism delenda est.

→ 10:11 AM, May 16

Our final talk at #PAX East is tomorrow (Sunday) at 11am in the Bumblebee Theatre!

Game Mechanics in Tabletop Design

→ 7:51 PM, May 10

The history books will start this chapter, in the Leadup to the War section, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014.

The world’s failure to respond adequately led to World War 3.

→ 3:01 PM, Apr 25

This is a full constitutional crisis and the Trump administration has fully ignored the Supreme Court.

→ 12:11 PM, Apr 24

There are anti-fascist protests all over America today.

We will eventually have to take the streets to defend the constitution directly. Find your local organizing groups and be ready.

→ 12:25 PM, Apr 19

The sheer number of high performing people I’ve met who share Donald Duck in Mathmagicland (1959) as a formative memory remains astounding.

www.youtube.com/watch

→ 9:48 AM, Apr 12

Fuck you Throm Sturmond. May your legacy have died with you.

www.youtube.com/watch

→ 7:27 PM, Apr 1

Will the revolution be over health care?

www.youtube.com/watch

→ 10:38 PM, Mar 31

Thank you #Zenkaikon for a fantastic time!

Here are video and slides related to the three (filled to capacity) talks we gave this year.

→ 4:24 PM, Mar 23

I did not expect to fill the panel room at 10am on a Friday at Zenkaikon but here we are.

→ 6:33 PM, Mar 21

This is THE most important thing happening.

Watch this case. Be ready to march in the streets when (not if) Trump defies the courts.

The DOJ is arguing the judge’s order lacked proper jurisdiction “because the presidential actions they challenge are not subject to judicial review.”

→ 11:08 AM, Mar 19

GeekNights will be live talking about Power Grid: Outpost ~6:30pm ET!

→ 5:49 PM, Mar 18