I am looking forward to Resident Evil Requiem, but mostly out of obligation? And it looks... solid. But, what is the hook for that game? 7: Texas Chainsaw shit, back to classic survival horror. 8: Fairytale shit, fun as hell villains. 9: I don't know, it's an old Hotel and some lore legacy shit?

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

Rediscovered that Apple's Pages is just a nice simple word processor that actually makes customizing a consistent layout easy. Only to find out that they are pivoting to a subscription model, because of course they are.

Useful hack for working with unclear project managers. Tell them that you are finished! Tell them the thing is done. Then they will panic, and *finally* starting listing the actual requirements, that were so hard to get out of them before. This technique will cost you a lot of your goodwill!

The Steam Machine has been delayed because stupid little babies can't stop using AI to write their emails: aftermath.site/steam-machine-...

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Just encountered a bug in Windows where the 'P'-key did not work until I rebooted.

This one is a lot of fun. Rostov is a top tier interviewee.

The Pitt got greenlit for a season 3, out next February, and the announcement has very funny comment from HBO chairman Casey Bloys that’s like “yeah, turns out if you just make a TV show like how we used to make TV shows you can have a 15+ episode season every year 🤷‍♂️”

Getting John Hodgman and Justin Long back together for an "I'm Ozempic"/"I'm other GLP-1s" commercial is a great example of how there are no highly esteemed deeds commemorated here, nothing valued is here, and what is here is dangerous and repulsive to us

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

You’re banning kids from the internet but beaming psychosis-creating, suicide-coaching, wrong-60%-of-the-time autocomplete robots that cause cognitive atrophy directly at them

This article was so good it convinced me to subscribe to Aftermath (btw subscribe to Aftermath!)

This government has what I would describe as a god-mode majority in parliament. They could be nationalising the water companies. They could have brought in a robin hood tax. 1/5 people in this country are living in deprivation. And we get this cavalcade of soundbytes.

Gamejam idea: "Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill."

NYT less insightful than a 9 year old 4chan post

on an internet ruled by cynics, clip farmers, and ragebaiters – and built by those who seek to profit off them – highguard never stood a chance of having a normal launch

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

The answer is yes. It's hard to stress how important Linux is about to be. www.theverge.com/news/658584/...

The average fascist is a follower. The average fascist is frightened of life. The average fascist needs the backing of the state to do evil. Without the backing of the state, they're just your neighbor who wishes you were dead but is too terrified of consequences to say it.

As a child, Plumbp Goofus was always told he would amount to nothing. Now he's Federal Officer Plumbp Goofus -- not so funny any more, is it?

It’s exciting to note they haven’t figured out exactly what’s causing the hallucinations and also that it’s like CONSISTENTLY little dudes.

A reminder that QBJ3 is a fully standalone free game. Also like 35+ hours long. For reference, vanilla Quake is like 7-8 hours. An all-you-can-eat buffet of concrete and rust. It is VERY good. Even the weakest parts are still on par with your average retail Quake map. The best parts are stunning.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

I’m just gonna leave this here. cottonbureau.com/p/ACS2EP/shi...

Webapps need to stop highjacking CTRL+F

For over a decade I have tied my shoes one specific way: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot. I learned it from Ian (aka Professor Shoelace) whose site is over two decades old. The knot has never failed me. I spoke with Ian about knots and the dangers of the modern internet. aftermath.site/ians-shoelac...

My brain when there is international tension in the northern hemisphere: "Getting a lot of 'Metal Gear Solid' vibes from this..."

OUR DISCO SERIES RETURNS (sorry for the wait) In episode three we cover the work of the writing team. This one is a long and detailed exploration of the work of every credited writer and editor, and explores the work that went into creating dozens of characters and locations. youtu.be/fpjHZc9bbFk

People were able to force this change not by voting with their wallet but by being really annoying. Being annoying actually works.

This isn’t just Apple’s responsibility basically any country on earth could put pressure on them. They have a pedophile robot. Every nation on earth is complicit at this point. Nobody wants to do anything.

Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.

First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc? He had no idea.

I decided to try and refresh the thermal paste on my cpu cooler after 10 years and I broke the cooler.

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

Is there any precedent for powerful people claiming that a nonsentient process has a personality behind it that only they and their fellow experts can understand and speak for and it knows everything and can do anything and wants to help and also it will destroy us if we dont give it what it wants

Grok didn't have lapses in its safeguards; xAI failed to implement them. Grok isn't "working to fix it;" xAI engineers should be (and it's unclear if they even are, since no journalists are doing their goddamned job). Grok did not "issue an apology." The account posted an apology written by ???.

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.

Hey remember what we said recently about Switch 1 and Steam Deck being the necessary development spec target going forward? Because…yeah.

2025: Burst the fucking AI bubble to shut idiots up about bullshit. 2026: Burst the fucking AI bubble so I can buy RAM.

holy fuck what an intro