Life goal: Get a plaque this good

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

Reminder that in August of last year Trump fired the person tasked with releasing jobs reports because the report was bad, and replaced her with a stooge. Now the stooge releases job reports that are "surprisingly great!" and they're just reported as fact with no context.

The most amazing experience for me is when you find a record album and you love every single song on it all the way through on 1st listen. This happens to me VERY rarely. My normal experience is: discover a song I like; find the album the song's on, & like exactly 0 of the other songs on the album.

Please enjoy this graph from a FT article explaining that AI hasn’t added any value (no, debt and circular investment isn’t value) It has produced More Stuff, it’s just the Stuff isn’t useable or fixable. Welcome to the age of everyone making apps no one uses

I'd thought I could just use texture filtering to bilerp my height fields, but it turns out the 8-bit interpolation precision produces artifacts. Perf testing using gather + manual 16-bit bilerp on nearest N of 2000 steps. Conclusion: all. 5.40 ms - 0/2000 5.50 ms - 600 5.53 ms - 1000 5.65 ms - all

Forget 'death of the author'. My preferred model of art is that it's an act of communication between an artist and the perceiver. A common reply about explaining artistic works is: if I could have put it in words, I would have. But AI art? All they're communicating can be put in words: the prompt.

ONE. THIRD.

Me, searching WWW to jog my memory about the 2017 Horizon Zero Dawn frustum-culling-GIF incident: [not finding any good overview] Me, clicking AI summary just in case: "as explained in this celebrated gist by renowned programmer Sean Barrett" Searching for the gist to test "celebrated": 4 hits

There are a lot of games. Play those that are made by people.

dang, I just spent like 30-60 minutes trying to debug a shader with no debugger, nothing was making any sense, and then eventually found this:

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

a rope tied in a knot a knot tied in a rope

Me: I wanna put some shared computation in a struct to pass to these various compute shader functions. Okay: "struct Shared { ... } shared;" GLSL Compiler: "shared" is a reserved word. Me: Okay, fair enough: "struct Common { ... } common;" compiler: "common" is a reserved word. Me: Come on.

They're still making them and I'm still watching! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpWJ...

Incomplete Calvin's dad meme idea: all jokes are Great Clown Pagliacci or ________

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

sometimes headlines can give the wrong impression but this is exactly what it says on the tin. this is despicable. it took a phenomenal, expensive, coordinated effort to get from north carolina losing 400 million dollars & a gubernatorial race over a bathroom ban to this in 10 years.

Today in What the Actual Fuck news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/corporat...

this fucking sucks ( from the creator of the cupcake character, lorynbrantz instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DY2v_qXIoQt )

It’s really frightening.

Watching Interstate 76 gameplay footage for inspiration.

Oh hell yeah GN dropped their video where they talked to everyone they could in the personal computing space and showed just how bad it is. youtu.be/zyQwAhppWj8?...

I really hate that whenever I see "made in the USA" on a product there's a very good chance that it involves prison labor.

at LGS, I pitched a sequel to Thief called "Mage", where you're an enforcer for a local gangster in a society that uses mages as enforcers who visit people who need threatening and uses magic to break their stuff until they comply (and then there's defensive counter-mages, etc). Ideas are cheap.

My entire career I've really always wanted to make a moderately large 3D world for people to be in, so I make lots of engines but never actually make the worlds or games because making things is hard. Anyway, I'm thinking again about possible things to do with a moderate-scale lofi landscape engine.

Somehow I wrote this entire thread without using the word "retcon".

AND a one AND a two AND a three? In this economy?

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.

A dumb thing about me & the green revolution in power generation is I grew up naively believing that most electricity came from dams. I don't know why I thought it. I guess I literally wasn't aware of any other method of power generation? (US was already under 20% hydroelectric when I was born.)

Star Wars post escaped containment so for the first time ever I'm applying interaction settings because I do NOT need a bunch of yahoos arguing about whether things in Star Wars are dumb or not in my mentions.

Star Wars: a thing people noticed is because Ben Kenobi wore desert robes in Star Wars BECAUSE HE WAS ON A DESERT PLANET, that nevertheless became the official Jedi uniform in the prequels. It's a dumb pattern: "if thing A and B occur together in a previous movie, A & B should always go together."

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

everything sucks because too many people only have morals up to the point where someone asks them to stop using a fucking website. or stop buying the transphobic wizard shit. and then they're like "oh but i don't wanna do that" fuck you. you fucking suck. you're why everything sucks

I've been ranting about this for MONTHS Every single penny that's stolen by AI is a penny that ends up in a tech bro's offshore account instead of circulating in the local economy We are simply not ready for what's coming by that money being funnelled upwards instead of staying in our pockets

My ability to tolerate fools on social media has been totally obliterated by, I assume, the ongoing AI apocalypse.

If you block your tweet from being quote-tweeted, it should be blocked from being retweeted too.

No it the fuck was not.

Me, reading a request for money from Stereogum to help them deal with a bogus copyright lawsuit from a seemingly predatory copyright troll, with unclear implication where the money would go, but quite possibly to pay a bogus settlement:

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"But, Captain, that's _every_ episode." [ made with trek.epicrandomness.com ]

"But, Captain, that's _every_ episode." [ made with trek.epicrandomness.com ]

For anyone who's ever wondered about the performance overhead of using VC6: it's huge, if CPU is your bottleneck, but I'm mostly doing GPU stuff so it doesn't matter. But here's a worked software-rendered optimization example:

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

It's risky to try to draw conclusions about voting patterns from only five data points (although voting patterns may change over time so maybe it's not THAT bad), but every time I see any modern presidential election analysis I think about how nobody's engaging with (or even aware of) this angle.

This future is so fukken stupid.

Well, ok, glad we're all on the same page. (I forgot to capture the text for the alt text, so I ran the search again a minute later, and it gave me a different answer with the same basic idea.)

Western politicians: