Jorge
@slackito.bsky.social
Software plumber. Amateur musician. Semi-retired demoscener (I'd like to go back at some point, though). Videogame aficionado.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience.
This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.
This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.
Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge
The Finnish government announces the migration of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to international gauge (1,435 mm) from 2032. The change aims to improve military mobility and regional ...
www.trenvista.net
November 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience.
This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.
This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.
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if you tax billionaires and trillionaires you'll generate an absolute shitton of new millionaires
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
if you tax billionaires and trillionaires you'll generate an absolute shitton of new millionaires
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the idea that operating systems need 'verified' (rent seeking) status before letting you run executables as the norm, not the exception is *wild*
im all for guard rails on user behavior, yet dictating to people what they can / cannot run is absurd
im all for guard rails on user behavior, yet dictating to people what they can / cannot run is absurd
November 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
the idea that operating systems need 'verified' (rent seeking) status before letting you run executables as the norm, not the exception is *wild*
im all for guard rails on user behavior, yet dictating to people what they can / cannot run is absurd
im all for guard rails on user behavior, yet dictating to people what they can / cannot run is absurd
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United's hilarious response to the windowless window seat lawsuit:
"The use of the word 'window' in reference to a particular seat cannot reasonably be interpreted as a promise that the seat will have an exterior window view,"
www.businessinsider.com/united-airli...
"The use of the word 'window' in reference to a particular seat cannot reasonably be interpreted as a promise that the seat will have an exterior window view,"
www.businessinsider.com/united-airli...
United Airlines says a window seat doesn't need to have a window
Lawyers for United Airlines argued that the word "window" cannot reasonably be interpreted as a promise that the seat would have an exterior view.
www.businessinsider.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
United's hilarious response to the windowless window seat lawsuit:
"The use of the word 'window' in reference to a particular seat cannot reasonably be interpreted as a promise that the seat will have an exterior window view,"
www.businessinsider.com/united-airli...
"The use of the word 'window' in reference to a particular seat cannot reasonably be interpreted as a promise that the seat will have an exterior window view,"
www.businessinsider.com/united-airli...
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We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
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“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm - AUTOMATON WEST
In an interview following the launch of ARC Raiders, the CEO of Embark Studios' parent company Nexon shares his views on AI.
automaton-media.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
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If the Republican strategy is "if you reveal the President is a pedophile we'll reveal tons of other pedophiles" then... Okay? Go for it? Take them all down? Send them all to jail forever? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Epstein Files Live Updates: G.O.P. Lawmakers Release Thousands of Files
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If the Republican strategy is "if you reveal the President is a pedophile we'll reveal tons of other pedophiles" then... Okay? Go for it? Take them all down? Send them all to jail forever? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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My talk on "I want a good parallel language" is now up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-eV...
Slides here: docs.google.com/presentation...
Thanks Arthur Gleckler and BALISP for hosting the talk!
Slides here: docs.google.com/presentation...
Thanks Arthur Gleckler and BALISP for hosting the talk!
I Want a Good Parallel Language, by Raph Levien (BALISP)
YouTube video by Arthur Gleckler
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
My talk on "I want a good parallel language" is now up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-eV...
Slides here: docs.google.com/presentation...
Thanks Arthur Gleckler and BALISP for hosting the talk!
Slides here: docs.google.com/presentation...
Thanks Arthur Gleckler and BALISP for hosting the talk!
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.”
We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.
We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.”
We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.
We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.
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I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)
October 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)
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So a video dropped today of game composer Takuya Nakamura
DJing a jungle set in the middle of a rice field while accompanying it on trumpet and I feel like more folks should know about this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVvr...
DJing a jungle set in the middle of a rice field while accompanying it on trumpet and I feel like more folks should know about this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVvr...
jazz jungle mix at Japanese rice field l Takuya Nakamura l login.jp l juke dnb chill
YouTube video by Login.jp_
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October 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
So a video dropped today of game composer Takuya Nakamura
DJing a jungle set in the middle of a rice field while accompanying it on trumpet and I feel like more folks should know about this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVvr...
DJing a jungle set in the middle of a rice field while accompanying it on trumpet and I feel like more folks should know about this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVvr...
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It’s not a web browser if it hides the web from you
Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It’s not a web browser if it hides the web from you
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Tuesday's Thought - Excrement wearing a Crown
October 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Tuesday's Thought - Excrement wearing a Crown
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Yo dawgs, play our magnum opus.
TWO. DOLLARS.
TWO. DOLLARS.
Stranglehold is $1.99 on GOG buff.ly/3U3LZTF #ad
Hard Boiled is free to watch on Tubi buff.ly/JKipQR7
Hard Boiled is free to watch on Tubi buff.ly/JKipQR7
October 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Yo dawgs, play our magnum opus.
TWO. DOLLARS.
TWO. DOLLARS.
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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...
Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs
Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”
www.404media.co
September 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...
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Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
www.avclub.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
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Game mechanic patents are bad for the industry, and they are bad patents. They are an abuse of the system, which is clearly decades behind with games, and are using the guise of software language to protect ideas to instill fear into the marketplace. They will make your future favorite games worse.
September 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Game mechanic patents are bad for the industry, and they are bad patents. They are an abuse of the system, which is clearly decades behind with games, and are using the guise of software language to protect ideas to instill fear into the marketplace. They will make your future favorite games worse.
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Patents are meant to reward ingenuity for new, useful and non-obvious inventions and improvements, but instead, in the game space they are being used to attempt to block ingenuity by granting monopoly periods to game mechanics which arguably do not meet the basic criteria for patentability.
September 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Patents are meant to reward ingenuity for new, useful and non-obvious inventions and improvements, but instead, in the game space they are being used to attempt to block ingenuity by granting monopoly periods to game mechanics which arguably do not meet the basic criteria for patentability.
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Last thoughts on the pro-technocrat position:
I think the deep issue is something that nerds simply miss, which is that the goal of government doesn't have to be great leaders, great works, etc. Limiting concentration of power is sufficient.
I think the deep issue is something that nerds simply miss, which is that the goal of government doesn't have to be great leaders, great works, etc. Limiting concentration of power is sufficient.
September 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Last thoughts on the pro-technocrat position:
I think the deep issue is something that nerds simply miss, which is that the goal of government doesn't have to be great leaders, great works, etc. Limiting concentration of power is sufficient.
I think the deep issue is something that nerds simply miss, which is that the goal of government doesn't have to be great leaders, great works, etc. Limiting concentration of power is sufficient.
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Llevamos leyendo titulares de "los ricos huyen de España" desde 2018... los datos demuestran que su número y su riqueza media no hace más que aumentar.
Lo cuento en El Salto.
La ilustración es de Sancho Somalo.
Las gráficas de Aníbal Hernández. www.elsaltodiario.com/economia/no-...
Lo cuento en El Salto.
La ilustración es de Sancho Somalo.
Las gráficas de Aníbal Hernández. www.elsaltodiario.com/economia/no-...
No, los millonarios no están huyendo del ‘infierno fiscal’ español, no paran de crecer desde 2018
Los patrimonios de más de 30 millones de euros y su riqueza acumulada han crecido sin parar, incluso en 2020, año de la pandemia.
www.elsaltodiario.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Llevamos leyendo titulares de "los ricos huyen de España" desde 2018... los datos demuestran que su número y su riqueza media no hace más que aumentar.
Lo cuento en El Salto.
La ilustración es de Sancho Somalo.
Las gráficas de Aníbal Hernández. www.elsaltodiario.com/economia/no-...
Lo cuento en El Salto.
La ilustración es de Sancho Somalo.
Las gráficas de Aníbal Hernández. www.elsaltodiario.com/economia/no-...
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[taps the sign]: People who want to "run government like a business" are willfully ignoring the fact that almost every for-profit business that everyone *has* to use *sucks*. Cable companies, telcos, airlines, insurance companies, power companies — they're almost all awful.
I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
September 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM
[taps the sign]: People who want to "run government like a business" are willfully ignoring the fact that almost every for-profit business that everyone *has* to use *sucks*. Cable companies, telcos, airlines, insurance companies, power companies — they're almost all awful.