Karnak, Indexed Word Monster

Att @hobbesq.bolasgang.com desertbus.org/2026/prize/1...

Why do we persist in making games despite weeks like this one? This:

I was a clue on Jeopardy! I think this means I made it, right. That’s the top of the mountain.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Beatle Goes Down A Slide in Mario 64

getting older is realizing that candy corn, in fact, is good

Repost if $30k would change your life right now

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The Wedge

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

the tech industry is about to invent books

believe it or not this is what a datacenter looked like before ai

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. - Version with ALT text! Thank you @virginiaopossum.bsky.social for the help!

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

Grim Fandango Remastered is $2.99 on GOG buff.ly/m90bUjn #ad Steam buff.ly/XfE3qOw

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

Spooky Alters Month Day 2: Choose your destructor.

My wife got me a new playmat. I've got a good one.

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”

We cannot have nice things because we cannot be nice people. We don't deserve nice things. Until cancerous behaviors from cancerous people are excised, we won't be able to keep the nice things we have. They will ruin it.

I'm sorry no, voters aren't getting a pass on this one.

remember their names, remember their faces, ruin their fucking lives

To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?

I’m sorry but if there is no Kermit what stops me from murdering people? A genuine internal desire to not harm others? Uh keep dreaming aphibiests

"You must make your choice. Either this itinerant banjo playing frog was—as he claimed—the roving TV news correspondent for Sesame Street News Flash, or else he was a madman, or else a liar. Kermit leaves you no 4th option: you must accept him as The Frog or reject him as a fiend." -CS Lew Zealand

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb

Me: I don't like AI and I don't want to talk about it during every adult conversation. Everyone I meet:

WE'RE MAKING A SHELVING SIM WHERE YOU USE THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM IN A LIBRARY THAT'S HAUNTED AS FUCK BECAUSE A BILLIONAIRE WAS STUFFING CORPSES IN THE WALLS TO GENTRIFY HIS CITY WISHLIST "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE LIBRARY" TODAY store.steampowered.com/app/3971340/...

35 years ago on September 28, 1991, TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' aired episode "Darmok"

I did this a few days ago, but just in case anyone was interested, I'll pop it up here again. They've been a favorite at some point in my life, even if they aren't all so right now.

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

While I have your attention, donate to @tonyweaverjr.bsky.social's Nerds fot Literacy! donorbox.org/nerds-for-li...

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

The Federal Bureau of Control needs all capable hands to help with the unfolding crisis in Manhattan. Please find a standardised leave of absence request form enclosed. Present it to your place of education or employment upon filling it out, and no later than September 23rd EOD. #CONTROLResonant

Not all of them have always been my favorite, but they all have been at some time.