RIP Béla Tarr. I first saw The Werckmeister Harmonies in downtown Manhattan, a month or so after 9/11. A strange, slow, melancholy film that's haunted and inspired me ever since.

I'm surprised this has to be said but when people say genAI art is "soulless" they are usually not making a religious argument. It's just shorthand for the feeling of "I can sense nobody made this, it feels empty," which is an aesthetic/visceral response that requires no appeal to spirituality!

One of my all-time favorite films.

Made a little (de-)glitch toy with quadtrees: Quadraw: experiments.mariov.ch/quadraw/

I'm annoyed by the idea of having to state I didn't use genAI to make something. Ofc I didn't you knobs

I'm annoyed by the idea of having to state I didn't use genAI to make something. Ofc I didn't you knobs

BTS

Proof wall, Dec 31 2025

what a thing, to love so deeply, to know that the choices are to lose it or to pick up tools and fix it yourself, even though the skills are beyond you, and then to overcome fear and take that step anyway

These artists are showing more bravery in confronting Trump than the Democratic congressional leadership has ever demonstrated.

Working on old code (mine) like an archaeologist entering a tomb: "Their ways are ancient and strange, but everything is for a reason. Touch nothing until you understand."

I waited for some downtime to play Time Flies (timeflies.buzz) and I'm glad I did. It's a quietly amazing thing—charming, clever, tender, and funny, and that's all before the final act hits you unexpectedly in the gut. A game that makes me want to make games, and my favorite in a long time.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

No, I think the art is bad because it feels utterly derivative and aesthetically vacant. I might conclude that's because an LLM has no consciousness or experience of being alive to express, but that's not a "religious belief." That's just me trying to puzzle out why the art sucks shit.

and Dark City was the year before!

Reminder that The Matrix and eXistenZ came out the same year

Were classical statues painted horribly? buff.ly/fS78ULM It is often suggested that modern viewers dislike painted reconstructions of Greek and Roman statues because our taste differs from that of the ancients. This essay proposes an alternative explanation.

Split second timing only possible in animation. Me Musical Nephews (1942) #popeye

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

the good that you do persists in this world

I'm obsessed with ancient sculpture. Like how is it so.... Je ne sais quoi...

I submit to you that the frustrated/divided reactions to Pluribus are due to the creator having the clout to make exactly the show he wants and that's extremely unusual in television

I drew way too many fonts for the game Time Flies…

if you give a mouse a cookie

Happy Birthday Tom Waits, purveyor of anthems for freaks, outcasts, and battered, beating hearts www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvUJ...

If a tiny fraction of the resources deployed towards AI was invested instead in actual artists we'd be enjoying a renaissance rather than drowning in a sea of garbage

"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.

Something I find baffling about AI discourse is the notion that a viable artistic ecosystem only benefits artists

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see

This future imagining is sobering and important

The Democrats once again showing us why we have Trump

I'm having a hard time even figuring out this Democratic cave. Like ever work with a guy so stupid he will do something and you can't even tell exactly what he was trying to do

My friends who work in government have gone into debt to protect people's healthcare, they are being fucking betrayed by wealthy Senators who never stopped getting paid.

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

Stop patting senators on the head unless they are calling for schumer's removal. Everything else is just in the script

Cool how all three branches of the US government are collaborating to kill poor people

Throwing away all your political capital after a historic off year election for a 1 year continuation of ACA funding is absolutely pathetic.

This is heartbreaking and terrifying www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Elon and Marco are genocidaires and I hope they are one day tried in chains at the Hague.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading. From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

politically and culturally 2025 has been the worst year i can remember in my lifetime, perhaps even surpassing the period after 9/11: it's only fitting that that 2001-2003 era felt like the beginning of something truly terrible, and these election results feel like the beginning of the end of it

Schumer had a chance to repudiate the gutter racism and Islamophobia of Cuomo's campaign and he just fucking didn't. And that is disqualifying. He should be ashamed and we the voters should make sure he feels that shame.

New from the makers of KIDS & CARS: EGGS

Seemed like a good day to finally port this to desktop: vectorpark.itch.io/egg

Seemed like a good day to finally port this to desktop: vectorpark.itch.io/egg

Trying not to be dulled to the horror of this headline

Five Extended Figures by Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1926)