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i put together a little video explaining 868-BACK for the curious! youtu.be/SU_67Y2Wb_0

Why is this pharmacy talking to me like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Every single hobby I love has has been infected by slopped up and unserious software. It's exhausting. aftermath.site/ai-slop-hobbie...

I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

Blooming Flowers I always enjoy seeing plants and flowers at stations. These beautiful roses at Hatch End London Overground Station caught my eye and briefly distracted me from my journey.

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We have an exciting news to share! Croak was featured today in the ID Xbox x IGN October Showcase, and we are thrilled to announce that the game will be released in March 2027 on Steam and XBOX. You can discover our brand new trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOwi...

The invincible airplane

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society: VVVVVVV A fan game about a new recruit trying to join the crew of the DSS Souleye. My micro-sized love letter to the original VVVVVV is released! rarelikeaunicorn.itch.io/vvvvvvv #pico8 #vvvvvv

A post about the latest Musk thing shows up on a tech forum. You mention that the man is responsible for 100,000+ deaths and people just flame you or even cheer. Hardest thing about the post-truth world for me is the constant feeling of having to fight over the zeitgeist. (Of course, it's useless.)

This DJ set is fantastic! Listened through the whole thing maybe half a dozen times by now. And what a cool setting to boot.

Loved this article by mathematician/educator/researcher/artist Vi Hart about the Navier-Stokes proof, its antecedents, its politics and ethics, and its effects and relevance:

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." By that measure, pairing Matter devices[1] to an Apple Home is the definition of insanity. You can attempt to pair 20 times using *exactly the same steps* and only succeed once! [1]: Ikea, specifically.

Punch Brothers at #HardlyStrictlyBluegrass!

Somebody, somewhere on social media mentioned Concord grape pie, which I didn't know was a thing, so I thought I'd make one to see what it's like. Delicious! Tastes like an adult version of childhood grape candy. And I'm finally figuring out how to avoid soggy pie bottoms.

Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.

Tower of Gold is coming November 1st! 🎉 It's a massive puzzle/action game with a first-person overworld full of characters and mysteries. I'll release a trailer alongside the game, but here's a small teaser in the meantime! #indiegames #indiedev

Really fun story of a hack by @aresluna.org: aresluna.org/a-hackers-gu...

New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...

Earlier versions of the game did acknowledge the creators of the original games at the start of each section, and I consider it unacceptable that this was removed at Jon’s direction. Stephen Totilo noticed this change and wrote a nuanced article here: www.gamefile.news/p/a-complica...

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

Anyway! #pixelart #ドット絵

Sick:

Dunno how people get used to mice in macOS without `defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1` (disabled acceleration)

fwiw, i've really been enjoying using Indigo recently as a shared bluesky & mastodon client. the ui is super clean, it makes reading nice, and most importantly, it's great at crossposting. check it out! —me

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

A century before we would move from fixed-program computers to reprogrammable ones, Ada Lovelace realized that the Analytical Engine was capable of universal computation. Reading her Notes is thrilling for her awestruck articulation of these ideas. Available now; link in reply.

but, when you start outsourcing concepts that are *very* fundamental with a high degree of agency, like problem solving, decision making, creativity, artistry, craftsmanship, and communication? you're slowly sacrificing yourself to a prediction machine. you run the risk of losing yourself

How many cities are named after a *bar fight*? "[Sebastopol, CA] was originally named Pine Grove. The name change […] has historically been attributed to a bar fight in the late 1850s, which was allegedly compared by a bystander to the long Allied siege of the seaport of Sevastopol (1854–1855)."

Come take the full tour of the BART A, B and C Cars on display at the Western Railway Museum! The new interactive exhibit lets visitors step aboard three legacy BART cars and explore the technology, design, and history of the system. Thanks to @bsky.app for supporting longer videos now!

What's wrong with me that I keep listening to this, uh, "cover"...

its ogmo!!

PSA: this jazzy album slaps.

I read this 17 years ago and I think about it probably once a week. One of those things that I read that literally changed my political understanding of the world (and put me at odds with my family but that was coming anyway)

Based on the attract screen, you won't see the name of this 90s arcade game coming...

Knytt has been faitfully recreated by @bitkidgames.com to run on current operating systems and was just released on Steam and GOG, completely free Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2656050/...

It's a lovely sunny day! If you're out for a walk, please take some photos of memorial benches and add them to openbenches.org We're *very* close to thirty-nine *thousand* benches mapped 😃

Another cross stitch completed! As usual, it’s from a historic Berlin woolwork pattern, published around the 1840s and included in fol. 360 at the Winterthur Library 🪡

You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))

Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? “Musk’s virulent racism and vicious, disturbing views are no secret. He does not hide them. They sit in plain view, easily accessible on the social media website he owns…” [nytimes.com]