nature not exactly covering itself in glory as a brand here

I will forever see the FDP arriving at 4.x%, and that will always be fine with me. #landtagwahl #baden-wuerttemberg

It sure is! Support your favourites and let me know what you’re selling/buying and I’ll give it a share isitbandcampfriday.com

Day 2 of the Game Lab, we unboxed Barcelona. Can a game be both abstract and point salad? It can. Lots of thoughts on how to play this more efficiently...we'll play it again, and maybe next time I'll take a better picture of the main board.

The next Bandcamp Friday of 2026 is this Friday, March 6th. From midnight to midnight PDT, we'll waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists and labels.

March is shelf of shame...I mean "Game Lab" month for #boardgames. Today we played World Wonders (2023), which we've had for 2 years. A picturesque polyomino game, whose charming design hides interactive game tension & complex grid-filling. We like it a lot! Great teach by @watchitplayed.bsky.social

“Therefore, my Harry, Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days.”

While I'm complaining, every paper should have a required & standardized disclosure/description of pre-registration (or not).

There really needs to be a term for these end-note comments ("this is an opportunity for further study"; "we were not able to adjust for confounder[x]") that authors seem to think of as get-out-of-jail-free cards. They aren't, and your intros & titles need to be 100% clear on outcome uncertainties.

It turns out to be difficult to synthetically reproduce the diverse and perhaps not-internally-consistent ways we think and feel about things...

"Claude originally refused the nefarious demands until eventually relenting." So. Like a bad parent giving in to a nagging kid. www.engadget.com/ai/hacker-us...

“Your prescription drugs will come way, way down and, under this policy, the prices of many drugs will be slashed by 300, 400 even 500% starting this month..." We are a clown country. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Bqhatevwr.

Every AI company: AI is GREAT! Skeptics: Great what? Is it an automatic duck? Every AI company: Could be, could be.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

I tried out the "I need to wash the car and the car wash is 50 yards away" question on CoPilot, and was told to walk. When I asked how my car would get washed, what followed was a new education for me on what defines 'standard process'. I've learned so much!

Judy Greer makes everything better. #SpiritAwards

The Testament of Ann Lee had terrific editing, an unsurprising win. #SpiritAwards

Best Screenplay was a loaded category, but Sorry, Baby was one of my favorites of all the #SpiritAwards nominees - very glad to see Eva Victor win.

Saying farewell to 2025 with my 10 favourite records of the year fortherabbits.net/2026/02/12/a...

Bad Bunny, Lada Gaga, Ricky Martin: fantastic. AI vodka ads: horseshit.

Cris Collinsworth Just Shut Up for a Minute Challenge. #SuperBowl

An ad from Rocket showing that if POC want to be acknowledged they have to do people favors.

@raecomm.bsky.social with a late-match language flex, but not German! #tousy

If they'd only done half these changes it already would've been a huge boost… This really is an amazing update.

Nine More Higher Ed Names in the Epstein Files www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The thing about walking your dog repeatedly in 0°F-adjacent, early morning temperatures is that when you walk her at 30° in the afternoon you find yourself just shrugging and going out in a t-shirt. ❄️

I was looking at the kaggle Goodreads dataset and was curious which books had the highest diversity of reaction, i.e. weighted std_dev across reviews; other than a strange history of The Hobbit I'd never heard of, and poor John Berger (I think we own that book!), there are no surprises here.

How do you repeatedly shiv someone, and not only do they not realize it, they actually act grateful for it?

I would've paid a lot to somehow be watching this in 3D.

My daughter came home for college break this year and got me to watch Dream Academy with her and all the survival videos, and how excited were we to see the Katseye performance? Pretty damn excited. #Grammys

Happy Black History Month. German soccer is full of accomplished Black players, coaches, media figures, and fan figures that often go unnoticed. We try to make sure these people don't get lost to history every month, but it's always good to really make sure in February.

But Dortmund also cooking when they're on the front foot.

Dortmund giving up the most Dortmund goal ever.

There are a lot of very bad decisions to unpack in this. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Sam Healey once again failing a basic character test. He's an absolute millstone around the Dice Towers neck. I wonder if Tom will actually say anything about this or just keep pretending that politics don't matter in the USA these days.

I never get tired of photos of New York in the Great Blizzard of 1947—26 inches in Central Park, making today's storm look like a picnic. This is a lone pedestrian making their way through a peaceful Times Square, showing the Pepsico sign and a marquee for "The Voice of the Turtle" at left.

(checks for Sora watermark) Appears to actually be...Seth Moulton?

What exactly is being celebrated here? The designers and publisher of Terraforming Mars have repeatedly shown themselves to be anti-artistry and pro-bigotry. BGG has missed an opportunity to celebrate humanity and creativity rather than just products and popularity.

Because I do software engineering/data science work but in a non-traditional industry, I keep an eye on the data/tech world. It is really troubling to see how many people in that industry talk about companies like Meta, Palantir, and OpenAI in broadly neutral terms, and not the evil that they are

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the 2nd sentence. While putting together lighbulb proposals for the lighbulb maker, she used a silhouette of me on my stepladder, and tried it out on the company, and the company said That! That man is our lightbulb man! (You Shall Know Our Velocity!)

(and if you haven't read Pictures at a Revolution, you absolutely should)

Every smoker — past, present and (let’s be honest) future — feels this video, DEEP in their bones.

The last play of Rodgers' career is going to be a pick-six and a half-assed tackle attempt in a losing playoff game. I couldn't have asked for anything better.

“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

Siri, what is the most Crystal Palace thing that Crystal Palace could do after winning the FA cup in 2025?

If you are still using/actively promoting X as a legitimate social media channel, either personally/organisationally, shame. It doesn't matter how many 'followers' you fear losing, it just reflects badly on your brand still being present in such an immoral cesspit/owned by a belligerent asshole.

I mean, he's not wrong. #stackexchange