Brian Gans

More than 200 million Americans are under heat advisories this week. That includes workers toiling under the hot sun, in overheated warehouses, and in delivery trucks with no AC. They used to count on OSHA to keep them safe — but Trump has sold out the agency to corporate interests.

Today, SCOTUS struck down Trump’s anti-birthright citizenship EO . A huge relief, but I’m alarmed this no-brainer ruling was 5-4, rather than unanimous as it should have been.

Bring back the 1983 HBO Feature Presentation intro

The candy PEZ is basically pieces of a Fun-Dip stick infused with the Fun-Dip flavor powder.

Sign me up!

Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol

READ THIS. THEN READ IT AGAIN.

Happy New Year!!🍸🎉🍾🎆🎇

How to avoid paying taxes, billionaires 101.

I left before he renamed it.

Some lyrics from one of my favorite songs: "When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme."

Curved monitors have their place and all, but in video games, the projection of the game world onto the monitor (sans any panini projection post processing or very low FOVs) is such that flat screens end up producing a more accurate image (with the eyes being a typical distance away from the screen.

George Takei is an absolute gem of a person.

still one of my all time favorite movies the way I sell it, based on how someone feels about Tom Cruise: if you like Tom Cruise, he’s great it it and if you hate Tom Cruise you get to watch him die dozens of times over there’s something in there for everyone

Everyone’s directing their hate at Garland today, but I’ve got enough rage go around. John Roberts and the corrupt Seditious Six can GFT. 🖕🤬

They only worried that he’d been caught.

It’s a question we ask all the time.

Have I had my mind changed on social media? Yes - NOT by arguing with randoms, but by following experts and first hand folks who share what they do, what they think and what's going on. The change isn't binary - I used to think one thing, and suddenly now another - it's slow and additive: Learning.

This will mean higher gas prices, higher alcohol prices, higher food prices, higher building prices, higher car prices, higher pharmaceutical prices, etc. Trump is about to teach Americans who *actually* pays for tariffs (the consumers do).

There it is

Mitch McConnell had polio. Mitch needs to be absolutely spiking RFKs nomination, but…. Nah

Free speech is a beautiful thing, but when a billionaire thinks his voice is more valuable than yours and steps on your opinion using their vast wealth it creates an inequality that we really need to address.

The Onion gets it.

Something I'd like to see Epic add to Unreal is a node to use cheap iterative parallax occlusion mapping in materials. Could be a big help for mobile games that can't use Nanite.

Proud of how ashesofcreation.com is shaping up. Lots to do still, future's looking bright!

My wife to our 4 year old son: Our house is at home. Son: No it's not!!!

Me to my 4 year old: What color are you? Son: I am Monsters, Inc.!

Happy Holidays to all!!

Deep thought, from my 4 year old: "Nothing is not happening."

It makes sense that the very wealthy would want us to fear A.I. since it threatens to level the playing field. Imagine having the equivalent of a high priced lawyer at your finger tips for the price of ChatGPT 4.

First post on this platform. Seems pretty good! May it earn a verb like Twitter earned "tweet".