Google offset their entire Nevada data center water budget by paying to convert just 1500 acres of flood-irrigated land to drip irrigation. Yes, people were flooding fields for irrigation in Las Vegas in the 21st century.

anyway if Medicare can do this they'll do it for adults and then abortions

I looked up "anxiety" in the thesaurus and found worry, concern, and apprehension. Then I looked up "stillness" and found tranquility, serenity, and peace. From this, I conclude traumatic words stress out the thesaurus, but soothing, mindful words can calm it down. The thesaurus is intelligent.

generative art #trees #fractals

Really thought-provoking work here

"... while a man by that name probably existed, historians view 'Donald Trump' as a composite figure who symbolized the forces which ultimately destroyed American society..."

Classic

granny's garden, screenshot, zx spectrum (1983) www.mobygames.com/game/29747/g...

I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just… In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.

A bit of Sunday fun. My smooth transitions from graph to world didn't work as well once the world had elevation, because the positions of things would no longer line up. I've fixed that by scaling* the world up vertically as part of the transition. *Actually messing with the camera matrix. #GameDev

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

I'll be honest this sort of post always seems to imply that immigration enforcement was hunky-dory until Bush, which does seem unlikely to me

I would like to talk a little bit about the experience of living in the Roman ghetto in Renaissance Europe for you guys. Just to give a sense of why the idea that Nazis learned from the US is so offensive. A thread of uncertain length. To start, the Roman ghetto was deeply overcrowded swampland.

to defend abrego garcia, you didn't have to defend the guy, you didn't have to defend unauthorized migration, you didn't have to defend biden's handling of the southern border. you only had to stand up for the constitution! that's it!

I've noticed that when people feel uncomfortable about something these days, instead of sitting with the feeling and developing the words to describe it, they just call it "adjacent" to something that makes them feel similarly. a real bad sign that intelligent people are doing this!

Mystery Brandy Dug Up (1946) 2825 15th Ave. S (Carlson); 2945 Grand Ave. (Nicholson) Source: Hennepin County Library Melvin Carlson (left) and Edwin Nicholson, cement workers, discover a cache of Very Fine Portuguese brandy while ripping up the sidewalk in front of Doc's Bar at 810 Hennepin Ave.

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

Incredible scenes here: Boom Supersonic is raising $300mm and pivoting to AI by signing a contract to supply its turbines as electrical power for data centers. They're even talking about converting turbines from simple to combined cycle via a "field upgrade". This is all deranged.

Well well well turns out Congress does have leverage of it chooses to use it

ChatGPT cuts the crusts off my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I'm a big business boy.

It's really quite adorable how my 3d-brain refuses to accept this as strictly 2d. #mathsky

Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest

Rebranding all movies set between 1936 and 1945 as the Casablanca Cinematic Universe would be a good bit.

Take the crystal— I cannot hold open the Patient Portal any longer! You must validate your insurance provider at least 10 minutes prior to your appointment!

sonic the hedgehog cd, design document, sega cd (1992) info.sonicretro.org/R2 tcrf.net/Prerelease:S...

Kirk isn't horny, he's a *romantic*. The problem with his relationships is that his primary romance is with a ship.

Minneapolis this morning

Winamp Skin: Unison Brainstormed v5

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

This is stunningly good reporting by two bylined reporters and six credited researchers, and it's undermined throughout by links to an "Ask the Post AI" that delivers insipid answers to its own contrived prompts under the guise of "More context on this article"

The color of the sky in Seattle is aurometalsaurus #757877

The 2025 PICO-8 Advent Calendar is here! Today we launch this year’s Calendar with the first game, and calendar cart art, by doriencey! In Cat-astrophe, you’re a cat after the big shiny on top of the weird tree full of toys. Balance as you climb the tree. #pico8 www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=178...

AI is in fact capable of totally replacing one (1) specific human artist

Transmission #537 from RASR-2 (USAP) 1. Defunct Cruise Ships 2. Shrouded Boyfriend Railroad

i somehow managed to glitch out the desmos graphing calculator so i made glitch art with it

Incredible 2-post span here @cjzero.bsky.social

May 27, 1997

hey quick question!! Can anyone else see this? Is this real? Am I having an episode? Is this occurring? Am I dead? Am I dead and this is hell?

I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Lelu Demo - OUT NOW!! I'm so excited to finally share the demo with you all. I've been working on this project for almost 2 years now, so it feels great to be able to get it out there! ⚙️ store.steampowered.com/app/3131340/... #indiedev #indiegame

Historians Admit To Inventing Ancient Greeks https://theonion.com/historians-admit-to-inventing-ancient-greeks-1819571808/

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

I'm not going to fool with it. Let it stay closed. I don't need the cellar.

21st Century:

i quit my job working on these things because i concluded i could not ethically continue, but the problem is that the space of criticism is dominated by people who believe that they are evil, useless, and cannot be improved, which ironically excludes almost every way in which they are harmful.

Aargh! Go away!

it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened