[deep sigh] After being let down again, I call upon the powers of the network: Does anybody have an inflatable planetarium they would be willing to bring (or lend) to @emfcamp.bsky.social?

It's really cool to see AGPL advocates going *to war* defending the licence terms: www.theverge.com/tech/931532/...

Wedding Planic! A game that asks: - What if a #deckbuilder was about something different? - What if the Balatro jokers were your own unhinged family? - What if you would rather watch the world burn? Would you play this? #indieDev #WishlistWednesday store.steampowered.com/app/3792820/...

Just finished the Pope's encyclical. Whilst I appreciate the valid social teaching, I fear that what we really needed from the Vatican was a piece of speculative demonology.

AI-Generated Interfaces and the Delamination of Application UI A clear sign that the UX layer is *actually* delaminating from the application layer came this week at Google I/O with their announcement of Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered Google Search results.

This is close to the plot of one of the very first solarpunk short stories.

the thing about “put everyone together in an echoing brightly lit room with instant search that encourages everyone to post in oral-culture mode but judge each other by the standards of text-culture mode” is that deranged structures produce deranged behavior

Telephone | Weeknotes #440 Rumours talk hold when highly important events are shrouded in ambiguity in the presence of a censorious cultural environment.

Raindrop.io 's agent is fantastic. Took nearly 2 months, but i'm all done! Processed over 1k+ unsorted bookmarks, added notes and tags. The prompt in my blog post has been tweaked a few times over the last month or so and works really well now.

Our solarpunk orienteering larp is debuting in Edinburgh on Saturday September 5th! Sign-ups will open in the coming weeks, but you can find out details on time, location, how we'll select players, and cost (it's free) right now!

Realising belatedly it's a similar problem to long-term storage of nuclear waste in the absence of historical continuity. Besides the famous "This place is not a place of honor" meme, people tasked with studying the problem in the 80s also considered the possibility of an "Atomic Priesthood"

Quote with a fictional band that isn’t Spinal Tap

People seem so psyched for the Popes AI encyclical. But everyone is sleeping on QUO VADIS, HUMANITAS? from International Theological Commission. CONSIDERING CHRISTIAN ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF CERTAIN SCENARIOS FOR THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY

Surely, this is going to be the greatest movie of the 21st century!?

I made an LLM integration for #dwarffortress. It's called Vizier. github.com/ryanbateman/...

I just think that if I ask an AI on my phone how to do something in a video game, it should spawn the giant floating head of cyberpunk Patrick Moore, and tell me how to get the secret in Doom Eternal I'm struggling with in clipped British broadcaster tones.

Just Sad | Weeknotes #439 It has frankly, been a shit week.

rude. in my day we called that Italo-disco.

Just realised the study that everyone was going on about that showed AI tools identifying the exact (or very close) diagnosis from electronic triage records in 67% of cases, beating 50%-55% for human doctors was based on GTP-o1 series 🫨

also, rather notably, the internet did in fact destroy entire industries, including socially useful ones! the death of local media is a direct result of the destruction of the small ad business, for instance.

Extremely into this www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gha...

I love when the literary works are in bloom built with threejs / webgpu

“Buddhism isn’t a belief in a God; it’s pursuing Buddha’s path. It doesn’t matter whether it’s represented by a machine, a piece of scrap metal, or a tree.” - Tensho Goto

Cutting-edge plant intelligence research inverts this entire essay’s argument. The whole post-Enlightenment worldview is built on ignoring it.

Jubensha Con | Weeknotes #438 On Saturday I went to Jubensha Con 2026. The first english language convention about the Chinese social phenomenon of Jubensha.

Massive shout out to @adrianhon.bsky.social et al for organising Jubensha Con 26 in London yesterday. Talks were absolutely fascinating. Learnt so much!

I think we could get the tech bros to make the world a better place if we rebrand gardening to "auteur terraforming".

We need 1 million small ponds

A note for content creators. When I'm searching for something, I will click on almost any youtube video that has 'Unhinged Recap' in the title.

Unpopular opinion but airpod users should have been bullied from the moment they came out. Society saw people walking around with plastic toothbrush heads hanging out of their ears and, instead of intervention, we chose silence.

Some very Of Our Times patchnotes from The Sims

if 4gb downloads are killing the planet then we need to ban netflix and tiktok and youtube

When ever upload a .md of my own writing to Claude I imagine its doing this

Thinking makes my brain hurt

WAIT!? this isn't how everyone thinking about dealing with LLMs? That you are shaping the topology of vector space with every word, concept etc?

Fantastic book! highly recommend!

Absolutely baffled by people screeching “SPOILERS” in the comments after the new Nolan trailer for The Odyssey dropped. The poem is over 3,000 years old. Its one of the foundational narratives that the entire culture around you is marinated in. If the plot is new information to you, that’s on you

April 2026 | Photo 365 Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 4. Photo-a-day for the month of April 2026.

@genmon.fyi very you coded I think? open.substack.com/pub/technica...

Turnstones | Weeknotes #437 I can't belive its MAY. With every passing year, it feels like life is accelerating, but then again, so are events.

Trolling, I once flippantly made this argument on a Sci-fi forum in the early 2010's and the resulting flame war got so bad that the admin rage quit and killed the whole community / phpbb.

Blender Community

We've got agent IDs, audit logs, governance, registries, lifecycle management, payments and secure harnesses so far. Codex&Cowork are coming along rapidly. But as per usual, enterprise is slow, and still building the cages before we can release the little guys into the corporate maze.

It actually doesn't bother me at all Tbh. 'oh they used Claude' and then move on to what is being communicated.

It's time to delve

"I just don’t think people should need to post their creative work online every week for forever." Amen!

Nearly Doable | Weeknotes #436 I can honestly report that sending physical things to people in the post is brilliant.

Seems like a massive L that the @anthropic.com fellowship program has no track for creative/cultural applications/public communication or AI philosophy and/or language?

Start Select Reset Zine #015 | Monsters In The Mirror 36 pages. A5. Printed on heavy stock with thick covers. Hand stamped twice, copy number and FOG logo.