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November 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM

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SMBC Comics

@smbccomics.bsky.social

Of all the AI concerns, the one about wanting to replace management with algorithms is the most monkeys-paw-ish.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/boss
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

2-panel SMBC comic update. In the first panel, a man on public transport is looking down at his phone, seemingly reading something on the internet. The man says "It's not fair that robots are gonna take our jobs first! If they can replace us, why not replace the CEOs first?" The second panel shows the same man now in the office with the robot boss monitoring him. The boss says "I noticed you were way from your desk today, Todd." The man replies "I needed to use the bathroom", to which the robot replies "needed to or wanted to", implying that AI bosses would micromanage to an absurd degree.

November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM

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A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

Attention retrogamers:

CAPTAIN ISHTAR VS. THE FEDERATION'S MOST WANTED (C64) is available at
psytronik.itch.io/captainishtar2

#retrogaming #retrogames #games #8bit #c64

October 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM

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A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

Alfred Bester wrote a wonderful short story, “5,271,009”, a.k.a. “The Starcomber”, in which he picks apart the most immature daydreams in fiction.

“The Starcomber” is available here - highly recommended (especially for fiction writers):
www.amazon.com/Starcomber-A...

#literature #writing #scifi

The Starcomber

www.amazon.com

October 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM

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A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

A strange trailer for a strange book...
PRECINCT 20: DEAD STRANGE
aryngve.substack.com/p/precinct-2...

PRECINCT 20: DEAD STRANGE

Book trailer

Earth Becomes a Disney World?

October 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

Essay:
"Earth Becomes a Disney World?
Anthropocenic Evolution may already be altering life as we know it"
aryngve.substack.com/p/earth-beco...

Anthropocenic Evolution may already be altering life as we know it

Physicists Prove That Universe is not a Simulation

October 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM

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A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

If you want to play my retro games in your PC browser, without any extra software, try these game links!
-Spearhead:
richard-tnd.itch.io/spearhead
-River Barrage:
richard-tnd.itch.io/riverbarrage
-Super Silverfish:
richard-tnd.itch.io/supersilverf...
-Flying Cobra:
richard-tnd.itch.io/flyingcobra

November 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM

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Sabine Hossenfelder

@hossenfelder.bsky.social

The Simulation Hypothesis is the idea that our universe is actually an algorithm being run on a mysterious supercomputer. In a recent paper, a group of physicists say they’ve disproved this theory by using Goedel’s theorem. Let’s take a look.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Ad...

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

www.youtube.com

November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM

A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

-What if a PG Wodehouse story was set in the future?
-What if the aliens finally came, and Science Fiction fans had a collective meltdown?
-What if a Spaghetti Western was set in space?

All that and more in the book A MAN CALLED MISTER BROWN, available here:
www.amazon.com/CALLED-MISTE...

#books

November 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM

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verdverm

@verdverm.com

10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development

www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...

comic strip at the other end of the link, click it!

November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM

A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

Katherine Dee tries to explain that it's the medium itself - the Internet - that messes us up. It has already changed the way we think. And we need to stay aware of that.
But we are being distracted.
default.blog/p/what-are-w...

#media #socialmedia #internet #culture

What Are We Even Doing Here?

thought digest, 11.10.2025

default.blog

November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM

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Port Sherry

@portsherry.bsky.social

Behind the magic

November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM

A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

DARC AGES - the epic book series. Available here:
www.amazon.com/dp/B078ML1JBR

#books #literature #adventure #romance

November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

Scientists claim to have revived the nervous systems of dead animals in experiments.

Are we ready for a future where death can be reversed?

In this essay I argue that society cannot handle such a profound change:
aryngve.substack.com/p/land-of-th...

#science #future #biotechnology

LAND OF THE DEAD: A possible future scenario

Submitted for your consideration

Nobel Prize Discovery Incompatible With New Data

November 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM

A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

Whoa:
youtu.be/2VpP-qXuJMc

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

youtu.be

November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM

A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

I and my kid visited the games expo SPILLEXPO 2025 in Norway this weekend, and tested the cool new Norwegian game JETRUNNER (Riddlebit Software).

Available on Steam!
Link:
store.steampowered.com/app/2865670/...

#spill #games #Riddlebit #gaming #Jetrunner #norway #norge #indiegames

November 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM

A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

If you want to play my retrogames in your browser, without extra software, try these game links!

Cosmic Combat DX:
richard-tnd.itch.io/cosmiccombatdx

Double of Nothing:
richard-tnd.itch.io/double-or-no...

Zap Fight 2:
richard-tnd.itch.io/zap-fight-2

Split Second:
richard-tnd.itch.io/splitsecond

November 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM

A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

Buy the book THE ARGUS PROJECT on Amazon

www.tiktok.com/@aryngve/vid...

#scifi #booktok #books #literature #spaceopera

ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR... In the distant future, Planet Earth has become the seat of an interplanetary empire. It wages war on its own colonies to gain control of the Solar System and its preciou...

LAND OF THE DEAD: A possible future scenario

November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM

A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

Scientists claim to have revived the nervous systems of dead animals in experiments.

Are we ready for a future where death can be reversed?

In this essay I argue that society cannot handle such a profound change:
aryngve.substack.com/p/land-of-th...

#science #future #biotechnology

Submitted for your consideration

Discover an age of adventure... DARC AGES - the epic illustrated book series. Available here: https://www.amazon.com/DARC-AGES-Book-One-Illustrated/dp/1520157495/ #BookTok #DarcAges #books #fantasy #s...

November 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM

A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

Discover an age of adventure...
DARC AGES - the epic illustrated book series.

www.tiktok.com/@aryngve/vid...

#BookTok #DarcAges #books #fantasy #scifi #adventure #literature #postapocalyptic #postapocalypticbooks

THE PRESIDENT HAS A TIME MACHINE. BUT DON'T PANIC. The born-again religious, recovering alcoholic, not-too-bright U.S. President Prescott "Pres" Walker is desperate. He fears he will end his presidenc...

November 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM

A. R. Yngve

@aryngve.bsky.social

Dick Cheney?
He was caricatured as the sinister Vice President “Zack Cutter” in my satirical sci-fi novel THE TIME IDIOT (2011):
www.tiktok.com/@aryngve/vid...