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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
For those not quite sure what to make of the last boost, this might be relevant context: www.tumblr.com/maverick-orn...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM
For those not quite sure what to make of the last boost, this might be relevant context: www.tumblr.com/maverick-orn...
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low erth orbit perfec t size for put datacenter in to n\ap! outside very Soft and Comfort datacenter hum soundly in Low Earth Orbit. Put Datacenter in Low Earth Orbit. no problems ever in low earth orbbt because good Temperature and Sun exposure for datacenter hot of radiation.
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
low erth orbit perfec t size for put datacenter in to n\ap! outside very Soft and Comfort datacenter hum soundly in Low Earth Orbit. Put Datacenter in Low Earth Orbit. no problems ever in low earth orbbt because good Temperature and Sun exposure for datacenter hot of radiation.
This is a 100% game breaker for my enjoyment of RPGs, and it is *remarkable* how many otherwise excellent games it renders unplayable for me.
Person: this is a very important and time-critical task. it needs to be done as soon as humanly possible
Me, wise to video game design: I understand, it will be the last thing on my list to do, once I have exhausted literally every other available option, either implied or explicit
Me, wise to video game design: I understand, it will be the last thing on my list to do, once I have exhausted literally every other available option, either implied or explicit
December 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This is a 100% game breaker for my enjoyment of RPGs, and it is *remarkable* how many otherwise excellent games it renders unplayable for me.
<My band of adventurers, having infiltrated the castle, enter the throne room>
Sir, were you aware a horde of undead had taken residence in your dungeon?
Sir, were you aware a horde of undead had taken residence in your dungeon?
December 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
<My band of adventurers, having infiltrated the castle, enter the throne room>
Sir, were you aware a horde of undead had taken residence in your dungeon?
Sir, were you aware a horde of undead had taken residence in your dungeon?
For my sins, I want to make some changes to how Ubuntu packages build, which means I'm poking around `debhelper`, which means I'm interacting with Perl, and woah, boy, is that not a task for being tired and bored in an airport lounge.
November 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
For my sins, I want to make some changes to how Ubuntu packages build, which means I'm poking around `debhelper`, which means I'm interacting with Perl, and woah, boy, is that not a task for being tired and bored in an airport lounge.
“You should be able to talk to your PC, have it understand you, and then be able to have magic happen from that,” says Mehdi.
Yeah, the problem in one simple advertising-speak package, isn't it. No one actually *wants* magic - capricious, dangerous - they want *technology* - reliable, dependable.
Yeah, the problem in one simple advertising-speak package, isn't it. No one actually *wants* magic - capricious, dangerous - they want *technology* - reliable, dependable.
AI people keep showing up in my mentions to argue that I am not using their specific narrow definition of AI agents while the industry keeps promising magic computers that can listen and take consistent, reliable actions on arbitrary voice commands www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
“You should be able to talk to your PC, have it understand you, and then be able to have magic happen from that,” says Mehdi.
Yeah, the problem in one simple advertising-speak package, isn't it. No one actually *wants* magic - capricious, dangerous - they want *technology* - reliable, dependable.
Yeah, the problem in one simple advertising-speak package, isn't it. No one actually *wants* magic - capricious, dangerous - they want *technology* - reliable, dependable.
It is frankly uncalled for rudeness on human biology's part that one way to get a sore back is to lie down all day.
October 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It is frankly uncalled for rudeness on human biology's part that one way to get a sore back is to lie down all day.
Even detaching this from the “state monopoly on violence” frame, “policing” is a task that *needs to be done* in a community of any size - community norms need to be enforced.
In online communities, we often call this “moderation” rather than policing, but that is the task.
In online communities, we often call this “moderation” rather than policing, but that is the task.
“Agent of the government empowered to use violence in its name to enforce its laws” is a pretty old invention, actually. This is what I’m talking about, this is just like magical thinking: you need *someone* to maintain and exercise the state’s monopoly on force. It’s literally unavoidable, sorry!
“we should simply not have cops” is a good solution tho. policing as a concept is a very recent invention in human history
September 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Even detaching this from the “state monopoly on violence” frame, “policing” is a task that *needs to be done* in a community of any size - community norms need to be enforced.
In online communities, we often call this “moderation” rather than policing, but that is the task.
In online communities, we often call this “moderation” rather than policing, but that is the task.
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“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
The Politics of Humiliation
The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
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Last 12 hours and this bundle has outperformed just about everyone’s wildest dreams.
One person in the bundle commented about how the money they’re getting could cover rent on a modest apartment for 8-9 months
This is the kind of impact y’all have made. Thank you so much ❤️
itch.io/b/3065/queer...
One person in the bundle commented about how the money they’re getting could cover rent on a modest apartment for 8-9 months
This is the kind of impact y’all have made. Thank you so much ❤️
itch.io/b/3065/queer...
June 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Last 12 hours and this bundle has outperformed just about everyone’s wildest dreams.
One person in the bundle commented about how the money they’re getting could cover rent on a modest apartment for 8-9 months
This is the kind of impact y’all have made. Thank you so much ❤️
itch.io/b/3065/queer...
One person in the bundle commented about how the money they’re getting could cover rent on a modest apartment for 8-9 months
This is the kind of impact y’all have made. Thank you so much ❤️
itch.io/b/3065/queer...
My political take is that this is the ur-issue that left-wing politics in (at least) the Anglozone needs to deal with, the single biggest blocker to political success: lots of people have an experience of the world that is barely connected to their objective material conditions.
this is an embarrassing thing for this guy to say in public but also touches on something that constantly rankles me, which is the vague idea of "feeling unsafe" as a problem that someone else needs to solve for you regardless of whether you are actually unsafe or not
June 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
My political take is that this is the ur-issue that left-wing politics in (at least) the Anglozone needs to deal with, the single biggest blocker to political success: lots of people have an experience of the world that is barely connected to their objective material conditions.
Voted early this year as I'm travelling tomorrow.
First time I could vote above the line in the Senate, because I didn't have to put that POS Eric Abetz last.
First time I could vote above the line in the Senate, because I didn't have to put that POS Eric Abetz last.
May 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Voted early this year as I'm travelling tomorrow.
First time I could vote above the line in the Senate, because I didn't have to put that POS Eric Abetz last.
First time I could vote above the line in the Senate, because I didn't have to put that POS Eric Abetz last.
Boosting for @jasonimms.bsky.social in particular 😉
This!
And it's not limited to indies...
A lot of people across video games are spending a lot of time building content they know will be discarded because somebody in the decision making process can't visualise the final product without "final quality" assets.
And it's not limited to indies...
A lot of people across video games are spending a lot of time building content they know will be discarded because somebody in the decision making process can't visualise the final product without "final quality" assets.
something people don't talk much about in this era of "publishers expecting a near-finished game before investing" is
games are being made sub-optimally in order to speed-run vertical slices/convincing demos
instead of finalising systems then building content, you have to make content alongside 1/
games are being made sub-optimally in order to speed-run vertical slices/convincing demos
instead of finalising systems then building content, you have to make content alongside 1/
March 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Boosting for @jasonimms.bsky.social in particular 😉
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This may well be the most perfectly targetted sequence of words possible to engage my interest.
Wrote a bit about Heart of the Machine which should be up on PC Gamer soonish, but I'll need MANY more hours sunk into this just to get a feel for its limits.
Arcen Games (primarily Chris Park, galaxy-brain dev) have always aimed high, but this might be their Dwarf Fortress/Caves of Qud opus.
Arcen Games (primarily Chris Park, galaxy-brain dev) have always aimed high, but this might be their Dwarf Fortress/Caves of Qud opus.
Having a poke around Heart Of The Machine for my next impressions piece and... I think it might be something special.
It's ilke Crusader Kings for the speculative sci-fi crowd. Roleplaying 4X grand strategy where you start out as a single rogue android in a cyberpunk dystopia and go from there.
It's ilke Crusader Kings for the speculative sci-fi crowd. Roleplaying 4X grand strategy where you start out as a single rogue android in a cyberpunk dystopia and go from there.
February 5, 2025 at 6:03 AM
This may well be the most perfectly targetted sequence of words possible to engage my interest.
Hot eucalyptus scrub has a *very* distinctive scent.
January 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Hot eucalyptus scrub has a *very* distinctive scent.
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here come old laptop
he come
bootin up slowly
he got
broken touchpad
he need
one more update
he got
no space
on this pc
one thing i can tell you
its got no warranty
he come
bootin up slowly
he got
broken touchpad
he need
one more update
he got
no space
on this pc
one thing i can tell you
its got no warranty
December 28, 2024 at 2:24 AM
here come old laptop
he come
bootin up slowly
he got
broken touchpad
he need
one more update
he got
no space
on this pc
one thing i can tell you
its got no warranty
he come
bootin up slowly
he got
broken touchpad
he need
one more update
he got
no space
on this pc
one thing i can tell you
its got no warranty
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Banks have entire departments dedicated to remediation because errors will always be made. Not being able to fix those errors is a crazy idea for a financial system
December 11, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Banks have entire departments dedicated to remediation because errors will always be made. Not being able to fix those errors is a crazy idea for a financial system
Has anyone written “On the unreasonable effectiveness of printf debugging” yet?
December 9, 2024 at 5:51 AM
Has anyone written “On the unreasonable effectiveness of printf debugging” yet?
TIL that there are software development places where the coding style guide *forbids* comments?!
December 6, 2024 at 1:45 AM
TIL that there are software development places where the coding style guide *forbids* comments?!
Breathless reporting about Bitcoin is a great example of how the abstractions of economics have consumed popular understanding of the actual topic.
Bitcoin is an apotheosis of the stock market, discarding the remnant of social utility that the stock market possesses in favour of pure abstraction.
Bitcoin is an apotheosis of the stock market, discarding the remnant of social utility that the stock market possesses in favour of pure abstraction.
December 5, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Breathless reporting about Bitcoin is a great example of how the abstractions of economics have consumed popular understanding of the actual topic.
Bitcoin is an apotheosis of the stock market, discarding the remnant of social utility that the stock market possesses in favour of pure abstraction.
Bitcoin is an apotheosis of the stock market, discarding the remnant of social utility that the stock market possesses in favour of pure abstraction.
I love that the codename for this series of devices is “oddish”.
No idea who chose that, or why, but good job!
No idea who chose that, or why, but good job!
December 4, 2024 at 1:19 AM
I love that the codename for this series of devices is “oddish”.
No idea who chose that, or why, but good job!
No idea who chose that, or why, but good job!
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The biggest predictor for if someone believes in a conspiracy theory is if they believe in a different, unrelated one. Both are symptoms of a lack of trust in established institutions, science foremost among them
This is scarier than a glass of raw milk. And much more dangerous
This is scarier than a glass of raw milk. And much more dangerous
November 17, 2024 at 10:46 PM
The biggest predictor for if someone believes in a conspiracy theory is if they believe in a different, unrelated one. Both are symptoms of a lack of trust in established institutions, science foremost among them
This is scarier than a glass of raw milk. And much more dangerous
This is scarier than a glass of raw milk. And much more dangerous