Unserious research will be defined the usual ways first but quickly will be anything that the political regime won’t fund. As @bakerdphd.bsky.social says more eloquently, they want federal grants to be “pork”. Not quite soft power or hard power. Managerial power.

agentic installs are, really, just malware, full stop. They're great at social engineering and it's extremely difficult to prevent them escalating permissions it's tinfoil hat of me but i assume that's what the IPOs this year are gonna go on; all the personal secretaries installed on the desktop

We've got the latest certification round up on Make and Hackster.io! See 3 new certs we loved including the first Vietnamese cert from Long Phan, the first Pakistani cert from Hariz Zoran Farooq & we're so stoked that Ribbit Network has certified their frogs! Read here: makezine.com/article/make...

This guy

If AI is so successful how come data centers can't just pay an entire rural county's utility bills

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achievement: cap from tomodachi life nintendo direct EU this is alex who is into coffee this is the only identifying detail provided and i strongly approve

this is the future liberals want

Tell me five classes you took in college: Advanced Printmaking Fairy Tale Science Fiction (cyberpunk) Postcolonial Literature The Anxiety Of Influence

it was on glitch at the time which didn’t have a high enough version of node to support native fetch, so i assigned an npm package to a global fetch variable and then quit my job and now i make candles. tale as old as time

oh noooo he's been around too many trans women now he wants to make techno :((((

Understandably the NYT piece* included only a soundbite but if you want to know ✨WHAT I THINK ABOUT PEAK✨ here's the full conversation. * www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/a...

this is just an incredible work and you should read it

this is sort of true, and sort of... not. What's been true in my classes so far is that the only people who can get what they want out of "finish" systems like AI are people who have a good underlying plan and a strong idea of what they need. That was already true of illustration, writing, and code.

True Crime for the day but I sincerely thought it was from the nineties because the new yorker keeps using SickKids' full name throughout presumably for gravitas www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

i designed a t-shirt to let people know about my dream of a beautiful perfect world of horse roryblank.bigcartel.com

listening to cbc makes me recall that canada straight-up invented a lot of contemporary propaganda techniques and has a robust export economy in the field last year the CCP lunar new year shindig had drone-filmed indigenous dance sequences straight out of an Air Canada boarding ad, for example

birds out foraging in the sun

Just a heads up, tomorrow is Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder, hope you've done your shopping and holiday meal prep.

There's a joke from the old country about bribing the driving test proctor: "Bought a car, bought a license, couldn't buy knowing how to drive." Sad to see higher ed at risk of transforming into a version of that joke.

A new version (v0.1.8) of p5.plotSvg, my #p5.js library for plotter-oriented SVG output, is now out. It includes support for Inkscape layers, and several bug fixes. github.com/golanlevin/p... #plotSvg #creativeCoding #plotterArt

Update: wow this really does work a lot more effectively and with much less smoke than other ways!

Im authentically thrilled watching this happen (electrolytic de-rusting)

Tickets are on sale for Brooklyn Web Workers on January 26th withfriends.events/event/c9YXB6...

this is really well-written and informative tech crit - the best piece i have read on gas town and the future of agent orchestration and distance from code

If your employer covers training, you'll get a certificate and you can tell 'em that devs and designers from the NYT, WaPo, Bloomberg, Spiegel and MLB have taken the course. If you're an employer who covers training, talk to me about a group discount for your team.

lol: that is, or in principle could be, amusing actual lol: I have produced a sound, contrary to social convention lmao: I appreciate the humor of the situation actual lmao: nearby strangers are becoming concerned rotfl: that is genuinely funny actual rotfl: emergency services are already en route

sometimes you just want a really tedious puzzle

Can you design game progression and also help with level design and other modes of design too? We would like to see an application from you, especially if you like games that encourage people to play together

It's the Polaris 2025 reports! They've come! They're here! It's a bumper crop of five, count'em FIVE papers! We got comedy, we got death, we got cringe, we got trust... something for the whole team. Piping hot game design knowledge and insight await: polarisgamedesign.com/reports/

What do I need to do to get you to read this free internet comic? What if I gave you $50? Is that enough for you?? Big announcement: If you read this comic I will give you $50*

Geordie Greep shares eulogy for Black Midi co-founder Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin

people saying my online "most hateable child in fiction" tournament is "weird", "offputting", and "mean spirited" until it gets to the finals bracket and everyone is yelling at each other over whether caillou or willy beamish is the true son of the beast

my job is to make it so there is a boring, normal, and historically usual little challenge once a week something to care about that one can, in fact, directly control the outcome of through one's own efforts or get upset about a normal amount giving up on this would make it much worse very fast

We are soooo excited to announce that the tickets for the 2026 Open Hardware Summit are officially available! Snag your tickets today and maybe even get yourself an extra cool Summit tee? 👀 ticket.nodeforum.org/OHS26/

mommm they're making the robots go to grad school

about once a week i listen to cbc to hear what's up good to know the mob in mt tremblant (extremely popular QC ski town) disappeared a 20-something last year but la surete was maybe paid off to not know anything? the national investigative reporting show is now involved love u canada never change

parties are what you make them www.andregiesemann.com/vombleiben#7

I'm doing a slight refresh of my 200-level Designing Fair Systems class. I would like an alternative to Coded Bias (2020) as a first week "watch this, see some sensitive use cases for ML, get a rough understanding of how it works" on-ramp to the class Any ideas? Documentary, fiction, audio, whatevs

screenshots of the startmap I built for qbj3 or Quake Brutalist Jam III some fancy bits in here will be in the coming update, like the paintings and plaques

ooh.directory twenty-three hundred blogs, in a yahoo-style directory listing

clearing tabs, came across this longread on writing in iambic pentameter from last fall got it via cat manning azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

It's maybe vulnerable but this week did make me finally put together the advance directive kit. Too much news, public and from very upset friends.

A hard thing about teaching game design right now is how much of the class content does need to address behaviorism, stats, psych, and casinos of one sort of another

my longest THIS WOULD FIX ME ever

my deeply neurotypical opinion is its time to remove honourifics and replace them with neutral job titling, i do not want to be navigating Gender in writing any longer, the only correct one is always "man" anyway everyone is M. now, except children who can be Mlle. for mijo and judy dench who's MI6

good news despite the best efforts of Faculty Success my cv is approaching legibility if not comprehensibility

don't have an injury one but on the farm we used to play a game called "stump"