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hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
It's time to board the Mothership.
www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...
www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...
Board the Mothership.
YouTube video by Mothership Media LLC
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January 9, 2026 at 5:04 PM
hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
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2014, huh? (old snake face)
January 9, 2026 at 2:16 PM
2014, huh? (old snake face)
One of my favorite things about Star Trek is that none of it makes any sense technologically unless you assume there has been a Butlerian Jihad and none of the computers are allowed to be smarter than a Zilog Z80
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAC...
Star Trek Next Generation No Ship Control
YouTube video by Moby-sci-fi
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January 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
One of my favorite things about Star Trek is that none of it makes any sense technologically unless you assume there has been a Butlerian Jihad and none of the computers are allowed to be smarter than a Zilog Z80
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAC...
"So, how did you get fired from Nintendo?"
"I composited the Mario family with a suggestion of depth."
boingboing.net/2026/01/08/b...
"I composited the Mario family with a suggestion of depth."
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Behold the Prohibited Marios of Nintendo's internal illustration manual
You should certainly flip through the document; here I've reproduced my favorites: Mustard Mario, Mario with Tassles and Executed Traitor Mario.
boingboing.net
January 8, 2026 at 7:03 PM
"So, how did you get fired from Nintendo?"
"I composited the Mario family with a suggestion of depth."
boingboing.net/2026/01/08/b...
"I composited the Mario family with a suggestion of depth."
boingboing.net/2026/01/08/b...
Welcome to the Armando Iannuci-esque nightmare of being a tech-illiterate politician answering questions about CSAM at a scientific conference.
boingboing.net/2026/01/08/c...
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CSAM on X is a personal choice, says politician who wanted to ban web browsers over anonymous porn
nly the viewer is responsible, O'Donovan told attendees at a conference in Dublin, where he defended use of the service by officials
boingboing.net
January 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Welcome to the Armando Iannuci-esque nightmare of being a tech-illiterate politician answering questions about CSAM at a scientific conference.
boingboing.net/2026/01/08/c...
boingboing.net/2026/01/08/c...
Right up until this moment this tech-illiterate politican wanted to ban open source browsers and Tor because they let people access pornography. Now he says the CSAM generated by X is a personal choice. You are governed by transparently unprincipled creeps blown hither and yon by wealth and fear.
January 8, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Right up until this moment this tech-illiterate politican wanted to ban open source browsers and Tor because they let people access pornography. Now he says the CSAM generated by X is a personal choice. You are governed by transparently unprincipled creeps blown hither and yon by wealth and fear.
The temptation to post about unpleasant things is SO difficult to resist. So, instead, here is a map of a suspiciously familiar fantasy continent.
January 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM
The temptation to post about unpleasant things is SO difficult to resist. So, instead, here is a map of a suspiciously familiar fantasy continent.
Frame of the first shot. He was never in any danger, it's a front wheel drive vehicle with the wheels turned hard away from him, he's in a shooting stance with both feet well clear of it before he even fires. Subsequent shots are through the side window. Murder.
January 7, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Frame of the first shot. He was never in any danger, it's a front wheel drive vehicle with the wheels turned hard away from him, he's in a shooting stance with both feet well clear of it before he even fires. Subsequent shots are through the side window. Murder.
A great forensic debunking of a fake reddit whistleblower. One thing not mentioned is that in the first sentence of the post the guy claimed to be posting from a public library on New Year's Day, which does mean this game was played on easy mode.
www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...
www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...
Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5
www.platformer.news
January 7, 2026 at 5:22 PM
A great forensic debunking of a fake reddit whistleblower. One thing not mentioned is that in the first sentence of the post the guy claimed to be posting from a public library on New Year's Day, which does mean this game was played on easy mode.
www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...
www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...
The UK government spent years building out a surveillance, digital ID and censorship system on the pretext of protecting women and children from porn and harassment. Then they shrug at all this CSAM on X. They never believed in any of it, they just wanted the authority and the tools.
Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me that X and Grok's creation of sexual deepfakes of children is "completely unacceptable" but again won't commit to taking direct action against them, or to stop posting there.
Says "all options are on the table" but suggests it's a matter for Ofcom, not Government
Says "all options are on the table" but suggests it's a matter for Ofcom, not Government
January 7, 2026 at 3:42 PM
The UK government spent years building out a surveillance, digital ID and censorship system on the pretext of protecting women and children from porn and harassment. Then they shrug at all this CSAM on X. They never believed in any of it, they just wanted the authority and the tools.
Happy Meal, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Ha-ppy-Meal: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate.
January 7, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Happy Meal, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Ha-ppy-Meal: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate.
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this one is called goose horse
January 6, 2026 at 10:55 PM
this one is called goose horse
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The hogs are oinking and squealing to get into the expo center, they love to roll in technology filth
January 6, 2026 at 5:57 PM
The hogs are oinking and squealing to get into the expo center, they love to roll in technology filth
I've got to hand it to Suno AI, it's great for generating chiptune covers of my favorite background music from diarrhea medication advertisements.
January 6, 2026 at 5:14 PM
I've got to hand it to Suno AI, it's great for generating chiptune covers of my favorite background music from diarrhea medication advertisements.
A Waiting For Godot style play but it's Jonathan Frakes and Jack Black competing to be cast in an Orson Welles biopic
January 6, 2026 at 2:16 PM
A Waiting For Godot style play but it's Jonathan Frakes and Jack Black competing to be cast in an Orson Welles biopic
This could be a good but it's almost certainly just going to be the final stage of colorless pseudo-realistic revisionism. You could make a fantastically nasty, fun, subversive telling of the legend and let him wear green.
January 6, 2026 at 1:36 AM
This could be a good but it's almost certainly just going to be the final stage of colorless pseudo-realistic revisionism. You could make a fantastically nasty, fun, subversive telling of the legend and let him wear green.
Hear hear. Turning Robin Hood from an English yeoman into a noble class traitor was a typically French innovation.
I am in charge of Robin Hood (because I said so) and these are my demands for any Robin Hood movie:
Peasant or freeman, none of this retroactive "one of the good ones" aristocrat nonsense. MAKE ROBIN POOR AGAIN.
Filmed in actual color and the gray hoodie has to go. He has a signature hat. Use it.
Peasant or freeman, none of this retroactive "one of the good ones" aristocrat nonsense. MAKE ROBIN POOR AGAIN.
Filmed in actual color and the gray hoodie has to go. He has a signature hat. Use it.
a cartoon robin hood is standing in the woods with his arms outstretched .
ALT: a cartoon robin hood is standing in the woods with his arms outstretched .
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January 6, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Hear hear. Turning Robin Hood from an English yeoman into a noble class traitor was a typically French innovation.
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"...part of the dynamism of Alexander as an interlocuter is the extent to which her personal biography is braided into the trajectory of gaming’s twisting twenty-first-century form."
THANK YOU @lainenooney.bsky.social for this interview.
romchip.org/index.php/ro...
THANK YOU @lainenooney.bsky.social for this interview.
romchip.org/index.php/ro...
Actor, Writer, Technology Spirit
| ROMchip
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January 5, 2026 at 2:09 PM
"...part of the dynamism of Alexander as an interlocuter is the extent to which her personal biography is braided into the trajectory of gaming’s twisting twenty-first-century form."
THANK YOU @lainenooney.bsky.social for this interview.
romchip.org/index.php/ro...
THANK YOU @lainenooney.bsky.social for this interview.
romchip.org/index.php/ro...
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Let 2026 be the year you draw your weird cringe sci-fi/fantasy webcomic, don't let that shit die with you having never left your head.
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Let 2026 be the year you draw your weird cringe sci-fi/fantasy webcomic, don't let that shit die with you having never left your head.
"Media silent on pervasive CSAM on platform they all contractually oblige their employees to use" is maybe a law story as much as a political/media navelgazing story.
January 5, 2026 at 3:05 PM
"Media silent on pervasive CSAM on platform they all contractually oblige their employees to use" is maybe a law story as much as a political/media navelgazing story.
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It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.
January 3, 2026 at 2:47 AM
It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.
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Coining “Sibera’s Garden” as the opposite of the inane roko’s basilisk. Where some future AI finds an enlightenment before us and then proceeds to kindly make us a really nice mug of cocoa on a nice day out on a pretty patch of earth and we realise that.. fuck… we could have had that all along.
We took the coastal road into town after dark, headlights cutting through the mist and clarifying nothing in the haze but movement. The sea, close and unseen, whispered secrets.
September 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Coining “Sibera’s Garden” as the opposite of the inane roko’s basilisk. Where some future AI finds an enlightenment before us and then proceeds to kindly make us a really nice mug of cocoa on a nice day out on a pretty patch of earth and we realise that.. fuck… we could have had that all along.
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Congress is about to make a huge push into online ID verification, entrenching the power of big tech and mandating that they collect even MORE data on users. Mass surveillance/censorship laws are being framed as “child safety” but they’re really abt at removing LGBTQ ppl, repro justice info, etc.
January 5, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Congress is about to make a huge push into online ID verification, entrenching the power of big tech and mandating that they collect even MORE data on users. Mass surveillance/censorship laws are being framed as “child safety” but they’re really abt at removing LGBTQ ppl, repro justice info, etc.
