Jordan Orelli
@jordan.orel.li
platform engineer at Whatnot, game design MFA from DePaul
https://orel.li/
https://orel.li/
they came with manuals, but those manuals often haven’t survived, so people are playing games blind that weren’t designed to be played blind. E.g. the original Zelda manual had a map of the whole game. www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/...
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
they came with manuals, but those manuals often haven’t survived, so people are playing games blind that weren’t designed to be played blind. E.g. the original Zelda manual had a map of the whole game. www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/...
yeah the way it brings back a browsing experience is why I love Whatnot. Albums I’ve bought based on Whatnot sellers showing me what they thought was cool:
- Akina Nakamori: Second; Amii Ozaki: Points (@capcitypop.bsky.social)
- Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
- Guru: Jazzmatazz Volume 1
- Akina Nakamori: Second; Amii Ozaki: Points (@capcitypop.bsky.social)
- Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
- Guru: Jazzmatazz Volume 1
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
yeah the way it brings back a browsing experience is why I love Whatnot. Albums I’ve bought based on Whatnot sellers showing me what they thought was cool:
- Akina Nakamori: Second; Amii Ozaki: Points (@capcitypop.bsky.social)
- Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
- Guru: Jazzmatazz Volume 1
- Akina Nakamori: Second; Amii Ozaki: Points (@capcitypop.bsky.social)
- Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
- Guru: Jazzmatazz Volume 1
many tech posters evangelize about whatever the current trend is because they are desperately looking for validation and will never have enough of it. they’re telling you “AI is good” right now and they don’t care if you use it, they just want you to tell them they are smart. my dudes, get a dog
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
many tech posters evangelize about whatever the current trend is because they are desperately looking for validation and will never have enough of it. they’re telling you “AI is good” right now and they don’t care if you use it, they just want you to tell them they are smart. my dudes, get a dog
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Just watched an 11 minute Star Wars edit, pretty good www.tiktok.com/@swft.editin...
Star Wars: Corporations and Technology #starwarsedit #starwarstiktok #andor #theclonewarsedit
TikTok video by SWFT
www.tiktok.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Just watched an 11 minute Star Wars edit, pretty good www.tiktok.com/@swft.editin...
same dude on lobste.rs offering up the helpful point that slavery has produced some neat products.
lobste.rs/s/42qb2p/i_a...
lobste.rs/s/42qb2p/i_a...
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
same dude on lobste.rs offering up the helpful point that slavery has produced some neat products.
lobste.rs/s/42qb2p/i_a...
lobste.rs/s/42qb2p/i_a...
when I started in tech in 2009 in consulting, many corporate clients had their own email servers running on dedicated instances hosted by Rackspace. If the average bluesky user is 38 the odds you’ve sent a private email in your lifetime are decent, but it was at least 15 years ago.
It is important for you to realize that you have probably never once in your life sent a private email. That’s just not how email works. Sure, turn off whatever Gmail features you want, but you’re just playing whack-a-mole with the technical realities of email as a concept.
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
when I started in tech in 2009 in consulting, many corporate clients had their own email servers running on dedicated instances hosted by Rackspace. If the average bluesky user is 38 the odds you’ve sent a private email in your lifetime are decent, but it was at least 15 years ago.
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
can a cheese be a person in the way that a corporation is a person
United Talent Agency has signed literal type of cheese Parmigiano Reggiano to its roster with the goal of finding product-placement opportunities for the brand in film and TV
www.vulture.com/article/parm...?
www.vulture.com/article/parm...?
Beloved Cheese Parmigiano Reggiano Signs With UTA
The blonde Italian bombshell is about to be all over film and TV.
www.vulture.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
can a cheese be a person in the way that a corporation is a person
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ok, an update: I made this comment in a thread about this @mcsweeneys.net piece: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
since then, lobste.rs admins took it down the thread for not relating to computing. You can't make this stuff up!
since then, lobste.rs admins took it down the thread for not relating to computing. You can't make this stuff up!
November 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
ok, an update: I made this comment in a thread about this @mcsweeneys.net piece: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
since then, lobste.rs admins took it down the thread for not relating to computing. You can't make this stuff up!
since then, lobste.rs admins took it down the thread for not relating to computing. You can't make this stuff up!
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A feeling I've had about every online tech space during the genocide, articulated very well by @jordan.orel.li
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A feeling I've had about every online tech space during the genocide, articulated very well by @jordan.orel.li
the new Rosalía album is the best Disney movie soundtrack since The Little Mermaid
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
the new Rosalía album is the best Disney movie soundtrack since The Little Mermaid
no one at Grammarly is on the Epstein list
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
no one at Grammarly is on the Epstein list
today in "comcast/xfinity's home security shit is spying on you and intercepting TLS traffic" their shit broke Google Docs, I can see Google Docs when tethered to my phone but not on my home internet. Just an outrageous breach of trust from an ISP.
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
today in "comcast/xfinity's home security shit is spying on you and intercepting TLS traffic" their shit broke Google Docs, I can see Google Docs when tethered to my phone but not on my home internet. Just an outrageous breach of trust from an ISP.
this is what Elon Musk and AI sloppers do not understand. Rather than wanting to understand it, they want everyone else to forget it.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
this is what Elon Musk and AI sloppers do not understand. Rather than wanting to understand it, they want everyone else to forget it.
the tech industry cannot ever come to terms with its participation in atrocities because every technology/programming forum is populated at least in part by insufferable nerds that scream “off topic!!! off topic!!!!” about any post that makes them even slightly uncomfortable
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
the tech industry cannot ever come to terms with its participation in atrocities because every technology/programming forum is populated at least in part by insufferable nerds that scream “off topic!!! off topic!!!!” about any post that makes them even slightly uncomfortable
Sam Altman’s pants are totally on fire
Even for him, his latest whopper is something
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I sure hope this gets corroborated by other sources because if this is true it's extremely funny
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I sure hope this gets corroborated by other sources because if this is true it's extremely funny
having a fun day with Python
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
having a fun day with Python
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Dwarf Fortress' classic "babies take control of those who carry them (like a rider controlling an animal mount) and perish of dehydration because they're babies that don't know how to pour drinks" bug is back:
November 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Dwarf Fortress' classic "babies take control of those who carry them (like a rider controlling an animal mount) and perish of dehydration because they're babies that don't know how to pour drinks" bug is back:
man I believe so much in the concept of the ATProto but between this, Jay saying “books are there to serve me” and one of the engineers saying that anti-AI sentiment is a type of racism… I am just so, so disappointed in their ability to interpret society. Truly bleak stuff.
November 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
man I believe so much in the concept of the ATProto but between this, Jay saying “books are there to serve me” and one of the engineers saying that anti-AI sentiment is a type of racism… I am just so, so disappointed in their ability to interpret society. Truly bleak stuff.
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battle suit aces rewrites mecha history by being one of the few mecha properties to go "kid, don't get in that gundam"
Maybe the first piece of mecha media to ever say something like this lmao
October 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
battle suit aces rewrites mecha history by being one of the few mecha properties to go "kid, don't get in that gundam"
My "Gloo does not sell your sins to advertisers" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
“AI assistants for automating pastoral work”
October 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My "Gloo does not sell your sins to advertisers" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
what if AI hollows out the software engineering profession so deeply that one day us-east-1 went down and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put us-east-1 together again
October 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
what if AI hollows out the software engineering profession so deeply that one day us-east-1 went down and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put us-east-1 together again
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Good article by @im.giovanh.com about a "cozy" airport security game.
Wholesome games tend to reimagine labor -and reality as a whole- as we'd like it to be: beautiful, tidy, meaningful, social... but why would there be terrorist threats in this utopia?
blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10...
Wholesome games tend to reimagine labor -and reality as a whole- as we'd like it to be: beautiful, tidy, meaningful, social... but why would there be terrorist threats in this utopia?
blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10...
October 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Good article by @im.giovanh.com about a "cozy" airport security game.
Wholesome games tend to reimagine labor -and reality as a whole- as we'd like it to be: beautiful, tidy, meaningful, social... but why would there be terrorist threats in this utopia?
blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10...
Wholesome games tend to reimagine labor -and reality as a whole- as we'd like it to be: beautiful, tidy, meaningful, social... but why would there be terrorist threats in this utopia?
blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10...