This feels related to my guess that the performing arts will be relatively difficult for automation to replace but is a more generalized and interesting way to put it

a demoscene will emerge around unaugmented intellectual labor

I’m a simple man of simple pleasures: it always makes me a little bit happy to be reminded that the etymological breakdown of “helicopter” is not heli + copter but rather helico + pter

This has been very similar to my experience. The more I already know about the domain and implementation of whatever it is I'm trying to write, the better the result tends to be. arstechnica.com/information-...

Lotus in the Wild 🪷 A symbol of life, rebirth, and enlightenment. The lotus flowers bring new life into an abandoned ruin. #magicavoxel #voxelart #digitalart #3dart #animation

The golden cube #art #render #voxelart #voxel #magicavoxel #magicavoxelart

sleep weather ⛈️ #voxelart #magicavoxel #lowpoly #rainy

Ham journey from can to stew #voxelart #magicavoxel #lowpoly #foodart

Escape Velocity Nova.

thinking about the Imperial technician in the scene late in Andor where they're examining the self-destructed radio rig in Luthen's store and she has this quiet little moment of admiring its clever engineering before getting a Shut The Fuck Up look from her superior. man what a fuckin show

Tatami Galaxy is getting a stage adaptation: www.yojouhan-stage.jp

If you’re a parasitoid or predatory species, I do NOT consent to the introduction of any cocktails of peptides and/or proteins to my internal organs via mechanical injury or otherwise. In particular DO NOT interrupt the function of my nerve or muscle cells’ voltage-gated sodium channels!!!

the rich, corinthian leather......we didn't know how good we had it...!

If your family is observant, as mine is, I wish you a blesséd National Popcorn Day

Steadicam operators… wow

Absolutely nuts that anyone could look at this and be like, yeah that's a series we should essentially let lie dead/dormant/fallow for 20 years and counting

I just reread China Mountain Zhang, which is an all-timer for me. It gives me no pleasure to report that Maureen McHugh does not tell you what the spaceship looks like, but in her defense no space travel occurs on the page. She DOES tell you what the cybernetic kites in Washington Square look like

Science fiction authors will literally tell you how many cats they own—nobody asked—instead of telling you what the spaceship looks like.

SFF people are going to want to take the chance to dunk on literary fiction thanks to the Vulture story about the insufferable literary divorce & the books its participants wrote about it, but before you nerds start crowing I’m gonna need you to tell me what the goddamn spaceship looks like

Going over my Exordia highlights: “[The alien starship] maneuvers with arrogant disregard for the laws that have constrained humanity. Like a rich man in court, it has its own arrangements.” Authors are only exempted from telling me what the spaceship looks like if they can drop a banger like that.

SFF authors love reading manga and not paying for it and not nominating it for Hugo awards almost as much as they love not describing the spaceship.

that's crudslop. you only like it because you need to create, read, update, and delete records

Room of culture writers arguing about whether Heated Rivalry is fetishism or representation stunned into silence by Fujoshi in big swirlie glasses running their nails down the chalkboard like Quint from Jaws over a drawing of giant hands

This one is especially worth your attention. Give yourself a little break and read it. I've read it dozens of times at this point, and am surprised and delighted every time.

Can anyone tell me how much of the Animal Crossing update is relevant if you don’t have a Switch 2?

golden utmost (11 minutes)

leaf

Check out @g4be.net using the supercomputer in his garage to explore the space of all possible playing card games github.com/signalnine/d...

This plus Nostalgebraist’s “The Void” might be the pieces of reading I’d recommend most to start grappling with the weirdness of language models

I don't believe in the word "kino". Never heard it until like a year ago when people started saying "this is kino" about any movie with a pretty girl in shallow focus or whatever. "Kino"? c'mon

My retired ME professor father on correcting the inaccuracy of the family's wall-mounted cuckoo clock: "...so then I recorded a few seconds of the clock with the voice notes app on my iPhone, then loaded the audio into MATLAB and visualized the number of samples between the tick and tock—"

this is my answer to the "what prestige TV character do you most identify with" thing btw. scruffy guy burdened by crushing professional disappointment, neither able to fully abandon hope nor stop sabotaging himself, surprisingly sentimental, insanely beautiful wife....representation is so important

Time for more Menu Cube posting 😌

Huh…it’s my own back. Might as well pat it

amontillado is low-key goated when the thousand injuries of fortunato are the vibe

oooh this is exciting. Joybubbles' story is absolutely wild. Featured in BOTH the esquire article that introduced the term "phreaker" AND in the Tom Junod esquire article "Can You Say... Hero?" about Mr. Rogers AND the basis for maybe the best character in _Sneakers_

90% of the experience of parenting a small child can be understood by watching Ponyo say the word "HAM"

To all translator friends who have ever had this argument, "sempai" is now officially an english word according to the Oxford English Dictionary www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/01...

S2E1 had someone saying “I need to get laid” translated as “I need to get some sleep”. Idk if the translator is hyper-specialized to translate medical terms or what

sysadmin hits different now

This is very good with popcorn btw

they should finish the obelisk

ME (trying to cryogenically freeze myself): fuck. this feels like it might be regular freezing

It keeps dwelling on this. This was a real thing that happened in engineering and this was the solution en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

Cocktail: Papa’s Soda • Sweet vermouth • Maple syrup • Lime • Soda Half-fill 12oz tumbler with ice. Drizzle ice with maple syrup, then add juice of half a lime and a shot of sweet vermouth. Fill tumbler to near brim with soda, then stir gently to fully combine mixture. Add soda to brim to finish.

Friends, Anime Sickos Podcast

For any Burqueños reading this (alas, is it zero?), Cutbow Coffee on Rio Grande is legit

When we were visiting Albuquerque, I had a coffee drink that was literally a shot of espresso poured over a marshmallow and I’m not too proud to admit that I loved it