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Yes, we are doing Daft Punk. Yes, I've known about it for a while. No, we are not done. www.lego.com/da-dk/aboutu...

in case it was not already clear why the ellisons want to own and control all media

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Justice - Flower In A Hurricane (feat. Tame Impala, SZA, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard) [from GTAVI] www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWxo...

Grand Theft Auto VI Launch Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz1B...

"We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor https://bit.ly/4hMHbi5

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

the Catholic Church racking up PR wins by saying shit like “we shouldn’t bring back public executions” and “your Claude app isn’t sentient”

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

no....no!!!!!

IGN's ownership chooses busiest time for games media in years to lay a bunch of people off: aftermath.site/ign-layoffs-al...

🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. Hooray!

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

The year I was born. we basically had no idea why cancers happened and now we understand the underlying force behind it with 100% clarity and the molecular forces behind it with many orders of magnitude more resolution. We were entirely in the dark, and now the room is lit.

some classic psych tricks on the pricing at this cinnabon: why buy 9 minibons for $23.99 when you can get 15 for $24.99? i think they massively inflated the base price to trick people into thinking they were scoring some kind of "deal", thus spending more so who buys the 9 (they said people do!)

just… just imagine being a worn-out husk of a political human being motivated only by getting ahead at any cost and feeling enjoyment only from seeing other people suffer… and trying to compete with this. impossible.

Corporate America has been waging a war against the trade union movement for a simple reason: They know that union workers earn higher wages and better benefits than non-union workers.

Crime rates in all three cities have gone down, and in Baltimore at astounding levels, in part by treating crime as a public health crisis, rather than a "need more cops" crisis. popular.info/p/the-secret...

Day 3 of #Evo2025 is about to begin. Here is the broadcast schedule for today.

What if I’m a narcissist who experienced ego death during an acid trip in high school and so the thing I’m narcissistic about is humanity and life and also the whole universe.

📢 1.104 is rolling out with new ways to personalize your notifications! • Activity Notifications: Get push alerts from your favorite accounts • Repost Notifications: See when someone likes or reposts something you’ve reposted • New Notification Settings: Fine-tune which notifications you receive

Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications

Teams trailing by 9+ points in the final three minutes of an NBA Finals game are 1-182 since 1971. That one win was the Pacers' thrilling comeback last night. H/T SportsCenter

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

🐦‍🔥 tapbots.com/phoenix/

The sampling visualizations in this video are *so* good: The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990-2023). Includes tracks from Dee-Lite, Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, Burial, and Fred again. [kottke.org]

finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years

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2. Here's an image from a presentation I gave to Twitter, representing the Twitter bird freed from a closed platform to fly in Bluesky's open ecosystem.

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

Love how Bluesky provides a free verification method that other platforms require a subscription for (where some like X, formerly Twitter, can currently be anyone behind a paid account.) People can see @kzeni.com is me & anyone with a website presence can do it, too (w/ subdomains for multi-user.)

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

Working on a feed of trending links, its not personalized yet (working on that!). But if you wanna see the most popular links people are sharing for now, you can check this out:

a few common Bluesky misconceptions i see in articles

Bluesky by the Numbers today: 1.3M people Posted 6.5M posts 2.3M people Liked 37.5M posts 2.9M people Followed 41.5M people (!!!!!) Over 1,000,000 people joined the network!!!!!! We broke all-time traffic records by over 30% today across the board. Follows are up 20x from 2 weeks ago! Holy Moly

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90 days ago Bluesky had 6.18M users 30 days ago Bluesky had 10.85M users Tomorrow Bluesky will have 15M users This is absolutely wild, thanks for believing in us y'all

Bluesky stuns in new App Store ranking

while Bluesky might look like a familiar app on the surface, behind the scenes it's designed to always put users first. here's a quick orientation thread! 🦋