It's hard to look at stuff like this and not think about how you could use the current tech to do this WAAAAAY better, if only understanding how to do it better didn't also mean understanding this stuff is a dead end.

We (Rockets fans) knew when FVV went down that unless Sengun or Amen developed a reliable 3 in the off-season they were not a real contender. But it still sucks to see it get confirmed in prime time on national TV.

"We understand many people don't see the value in paying for a GDC pass. We hear you, and we're making changes. To increase the value of a GDC pass we're going to fence off the commons and charge rents for access to it."

Rejected Mega Man robot master? #art #animation

This is an excellent rule for storytelling but also implies that Philip Pullman witnessed the death of God as a boy.

when i shoot an elite in halo and he goes wort wort, he is responding to stimuli. he goes from a passive state to being affronted and angered. when he dies, those close to him run and cry in fear. it is therefore evident that he is conscious.

Bluebonnet season

The takeaway from the success of Iron Lung isn't to fund YouTubers making sci-fi movies about games. The secret is that Markiplier is a creative person who made something that excited him. This is also the secret sauce behind Sinners. There is no repeatable trend. Fund creative people. The end

See all those buildings? @nictringali.bsky.social and I have written hundreds of ways they can collapse into the mausoleum beneath, leaving geographical reminders of your city’s history as well as impacting the political machinations of factions 😌 Which can be experienced on MAY 6✨

“‘A nice little campfire makes you feel warm,’ he said. ‘You got marshmallows and s’mores. But if it turns into a wildfire — that kind of feels like where we are right now. I don’t know how you rein it back in.’”

This celestial cicada is Jadzia✨ . . #celestial #stars #cicada #insect #fiberart 

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

Helped my dad with some yard work today.

I am honored and delighted to announce that my image of two Springboks in a sandstorm that was raging in Namibia's coastal dunes has won the Grand prize of the2026 international Memorial Maria Luisa competition! 🥳🥂🍾 #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #bluesky #nature #mammals

requiem for vanished birdsong

"The current state of academic publishing is in a bad place right now, and I believe with AI we can make it worse"

cyborg 009

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

The Immovable Myru. Its paws never leave the ground 부동不動의 미르는 버틴다 #oc #dragon

This sort of thing disgraces all of humanity.

I need season 2 NOW #dungeonmeshi

Amen Thompson with a reliable 10-foot jump shot is an all star. Doesn't even need a 3. Just something far enough away from the rim to avoid packed paints.

And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12." Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.

Jabari going down without any contact is a bad, bad thing for the Rockets. At least it looked like he was walking back to the locker room on his own power.

holy fuck

for example, instead of having the funny little guys only want to stay in a single location if they are interacting with a structure, they will now want to stay in a location with anything sufficiently interesting

one of the things I always remind myself working with symbolic AI is that if you can make a reaction tied to something more general than A Single Type Of Thing, then suddenly you can have it express its desires to other systems in a way that lets cool emergent things happen

kill all fake lovers

I don't think they're in denial so much as their business model has always been "oil company, but for knowledge work", and they'd have to consider the ramifications past that point at all to deny them.

The video game industry decided to discontinue their product, the video game, in exchange for trying to make Fortnites. They have in recent years found out this doesn't work, so they have pivoted from making Fortnites to making ????????????????? nothing I guess

Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev

Obsession

this made my soul ache

Rewatched this & the moments leading up to the medal ceremony several times since last night - not only because it's wonderful seeing someone take such joy in what they do, but also because her story of burning out, stepping away, and coming back on her own terms is inspirational for so many of us.

This is a much better take

Have we seriously considered that there may not be videogames in 10 years?

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

There is a venn diagram of "We need to believe that AI can develop a real consciousness," "I now adhere to a truly bizarre health routine" and "I need all the money possible and I need it just for me," and at the center of it is "I am terrified of dying and I don't know how to fix that"

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

It's kind of funny how Hayek's (mostly correct) argument against central planning because concentrating that much economic power in one place inevitably lead to totalitarian behavior is also a pretty strong argument against like, extreme concentrations of wealth and market power

“Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.”

The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.

dialogue lock before feature kickoff is a real place and it can hurt you