Chad Barb

Yeah, UofU is a real rough neighborhood, LOL. Imagine being this much of a wuss.

LOL. Sam Altman is just going house to house trying to scare people at this point.

WHAT

When dumb fake AI parenting engagement-bait makes the rounds: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah

Hell yes.

Do you want Boltzmann Brains? Because that's how you get Boltzmann Brains.

the gamer entitlement is fucking insane. they're yelling at a developer who has spent a decade of his time writing Dolphin and PPSSPP for using Claude to build a prototype. the same people who don't pay for their emulator, certainly don't pay for ROMs are entitled to bully developers now?

Yeah, this. I used to steadfastly avoid muting/etc. to not create a "bubble." But I recently broke down, and I believe not having to wade through toxic and stupid shit has given me _more_ mental energy to entertain reasonable counterarguments to my beliefs.

“We are pressuring Congress to pass laws ensuring we are the only ones allowed to make burgers until the threat is contained.”

Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars.

The DOOM demo is fascinating

technical details for anyone interested in trying something like this: the rule family is orthodiagonal compare. the rule is [[0,1,0,0,1], [0,0,0,0,2], [0,1,2,0,0], [0,2,2,1,1], [1,1,1,2,2]]

Sebastian Aaltonen's No Graphics API is now on Github! github.com/sebbbi/NoGra...

“Bluesky is built on ATProto, which enables new forms of decentralized social networks.” “Oh, so I bet its users are big fans of new technology.” “Oh heavens, no.”

I am mostly done implementing crypto/passkey, but now I need YOUR help collecting real-world traces for its test suite! Please go to help-test-crypto-passkey.exe.xyz and click the buttons. It should take 1–3 minutes. 𝘌𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 if you have some unusual Linux-on-the-desktop xkcd 1987 passkey setup.

if you're somehow still alive, and you're seeing this, please - pokemon go to the escape pods

My first games job, around 2003, I took a train/tram for an hour each way, and had 3 or 4 of these loaded up with music. it was great; peak physical media in my opinion, or at least peak _portable_ physical media.

I wrote something like 100K words of weird underworld content for this gorgeously illustrated "tactical narrative" game from the creator of King of Dragon Pass, and that's only a fraction of the content... definitely worth a wishlist.

I made a dumb little thing that lets you evolve 'bytebeat' sounds/"music" chadlyb.github.io/bytelab

I had Claude verify it, which Claude dutifully did. Claude also flipped out, thinking it was being tricked somehow or forgetting something because this is "one of the most famous open problems in mathematics"

Sources report he is expected to start wiggling in about three seconds and make a full recovery within five or six.

Critiques of AI saying "they only assess what answers are probable based on data" are not terribly convincing. If a majority of humans could do that, we'd all be far better off.

5 of 9 of our Supreme Court justices are capable of (or not corrupt enough to be unwilling to perform) basic reading comprehension? Uh, Hooray?

I made a video about the smooth-maximum function, I hope you like it! youtu.be/6Qb6QtC6QMs

Long Horses

He’s so crazzzzzzzzzzzy! Love him!!!

Since around 1995, every 5 or so years like clockwork I try out desktop Linux (because it seems like the kind of thing I _should_ be into, and "it's better now,") and I always end up getting derailed by some total BS. I used to go back to Windows, but now I go back to Mac.

"It has arrived, oh feeble ones, the time for my automobile to barrel through your vicinity and announce my prowess—my vital and irrefutable masculinity. How is it that you know of my unquestioned and eternal virility? I have a vehicle that goes vroom vroom!"

Schrödinger's nap: both too long and not long enough.

On the one hand, I don’t really play MtG nowadays, and I oppose artificial scarcity on principle. On the other hand, I want I want I want I want.

When Hollywood is down to one job, that last guy is still going to treat video games, and video game players, with sneering condescension.