SWinxy.webp (scary)

Hi newskies! I'm SWinxy, a software developer making a Minecraft world editor called Euclid. This is what the splash screen looks like, which was created EXACTLY five years ago to the day.

NYTimes will do absolutely anything to avoid linking. It’s a fetish, a sickness. They have people whose job includes typing out smarmy statements explaining why previous work published on a subject is not worthy of a link and send it to you with a straight face puck.news/media/2026/1...

This is your mission. Protect the undersea cables that carry AI-generated waifus that Europeans jork to. Good luck soldier.

Windows never gives me ads or anything like that, but today it started telling me about the new Call of Duty's shaders being compiled, a game I do not own

maybe this is just the SharePoint team and we're on our way to a much brighter and more beautiful SharePointless future

News: Rest of World, the nonprofit newsroom focused on the impact of technology outside the West founded by Sophie Schmidt, tells donors in an email it will “cease publishing as a standalone entity” at the end of January.

Premiere, what do you *mean* "uploading file"? I'm rendering a video! Huh??

Updating iOS and macOS to 27...

I can't be succinct in how much wonder I feel studying Alariko's illustrations. Castles in the sky! Rising up tall from down below! What a wonderful environment to set a fantasy world.

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oh, the PHP vulnerability is not remotely related to the certificate whose private key was the number 4

I think this is the most made-for-me pilot I've ever seen on YouTube

grok what would a smart guy say

I walked outside only to see a pigeon jump on the back of another to make a pigeon stack for a couple of seconds and I was mesmerized

OpenXR spatial containers are here: an open, cross-platform API for spatial windowing in XR. Apps can switch between a bounded multitasking mode and a full immersive mode, with the system managing placement. www.khronos.org/blog/openxr-... #OpenXR #XR

“i pay tax before, but still pay tax now?” We spoke with dozens of half-literate morons about the machinations of local governance. Here’s what they’re saying.

OK so I'm way more inclined to get the iPhone Duo because this exists lmao

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

[replying to an artist's work] this looks AI

Asked the BDS movement if it'd like to provide comment on today's House House news:

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

As you doubtless have already heard, superstar Kelly Clarkson is feuding with a pricy Brooklyn toy store over a bird puppet. I know what you're thinking: Which party is in the right here, morally speaking? We tried our very best to figure that out.

After two or three weeks of them laying on my floor, I finally donated a pile of clothes and shoes and it was much easier than I thought it would be to find and visit a donation place

Developments in my social life: a friend in one of my groups reappeared after two years and we’re all acting like a prophet returned (we missed him)

we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course

The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

Oh, this quote is awesome

Let's talk about AI in VRChat. Be sure to fill out the Google form at the bottom of the article. ask.vrchat.com/t/regarding-...

This Diff article is scathing! The WMF should sue OpenAI if they find that these bots were harming the site severely.

The Atlantic keeps poaching people lol Good work @mikeisaac.bsky.social !!

republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?

get it. i'm not asking. 🫵

it’s amazing that there’s no crime anymore. if you do crime you’re actually just the victim for getting caught. the people who catch you are the criminals

Damn, I haven't played on Hypixel in four years

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system