Franz von Stuck - Falling Stars, 1912

#fantasyart #ttrpgart #osrart #traditionalart Brave one. Pencil on paper.

Is it just me or are fewer people remembering how to walk on a sidewalk? Seems like it’s happening often these days where someone is walking at me on the right side of the sidewalk (their left) while I’m also on the right side. You gotta walk like you drive, two lanes.

cloudmancer 💨💦

The trend of the past 20 years of software has been a race to the bottom, AI is just propelling the next wave. Electron apps, NEXT.js, many SEs don't even know how to properly profile. Software with just a bit of genuine craftsmanship will handily beat unmaintainable AI nightmare code.

You can find a 13 year old who programs Godot games who can figure out how to securely redact a PDF for free.

found the best type of guy to be in caves of qud

Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too. www.wired.com/story/us-tra...

To me one of the central questions of Pluribus is: Is eternal happiness for all people worth the total eradication of individual identity? I tend to think the sense of a separate self is the core of a lot of unhappiness. Many people disagree. So interesting to see how people react to Pluribus.

Happy happy holidays!

Does the island effect apply to Long Island? Are people from Long Island like 1ft shorter than the global median?

Love mad men. Don Draper just mopes all day in his office and makes 80 billion dollars a week

3B LLMs are getting pretty great. Played with ministral 3B and was able to get pretty great Chinese to English translations on Wikipedia.

My biggest hangup is the loss of art and culture as we know it. Why express when everyone perfectly understands each other? Why play when there's work to be done? Material conditions would absolutely be better, but it's the death of something fundamentally human. The hivemind is a new thing entirely

I will not be participating in Advent of Code this year as I have a load-bearing need to believe I'm a supergenius coder and this has "reality check" written all over it

Dioxus is incredible so far. Super super impressed by how good the tooling is. Also, super excited for more work on rendering dioxus using lightweight custom renderers, over webviews.

PLURIBUS spoilers

I don't mean to put Simon on blast here, but having gone through these numbers more carefully, I think it illustrates a problem with a lot of LLM defenses: this is comparing the cost of the chips themselves processing a query to *the end to end transmission of streaming video*, including your TV.

Writing JavaScript for the first time in a while after doing exclusively Rust for months. It feels like moving from navigating a Virginia-class submarine with every conceivable technological aid and guardrail to sailing an inflatable pool raft across the ocean with a map on the back of a bar napkin.

Woweee Im so excited to dive into dioxus and bevy some more. Rust's macro system has allowed for some extremely excellently designed libraries. Bevy's queries leveraging the type syntax is so awesome. These kinds of libraries really feel like a technological leap forward.

We literally solved the natural language understanding problem in computer science, this is unbelievable. The critique is still, and always will be, companies cannot be trusted to a small set of voraciously greedy capitalists. That should be thought in tandem with how LLMs can be made open and safe.

American people's wealth is largely in the stock market. Maybe an economic system where financiers recklessly gamble this wealth, leading to regular market crashes, is bad actually.

People want a technical solution to what is ultimately a judgement problem. People know that unwrap can cause a panic. That's the choice that's being made when you unwrap. Changing the name won't change that.

"Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search": theconversation.com/learning-wit... Not shocking. What was interesting, is this held over many studies and w/ a large pool of participants. #ai

I feel like claude 4.5 is the first model Ive felt like I can use reliably for focused coding tasks, gemini 3 just improved that feeling of confidence. A little slow, thinks a bit too long, but super helpful for making many annoying tasks easy.

Pluribus might have my favorite premise of any show ever

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Evening in Adelboden (1913) by Waldemar Fink

At my previous job I used Angular and thought it was annoying but not that bad. After having used React for the past few months... Angular has pretty serious design flaws. The Elm UI model is THE model for writing excellent UIs, you can easily emulate it in React, you can't in Angular.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Having fun looking through Caves of Qud game files. Stumbled upon a file 'Genders.xml' with XML entries for genders like "elverson", and "hartind".

Maybe now is the time to switch to jj vcs. I hate getting a ping of a broken issue on prod and having to do a little dance to make it okay to switch branches.

Iroh from @iroh.computer is the coolest rust library I've seen in a long time

There was already a *lot* going on with Bluesky, and now it's under even more pressure. I wrote about how I think about moderation, affordances, expectations, human needs, and powerful trolls for @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/trump-admini...

Since the administration seems hell-bent on starving millions of Americans, I've set up a recurring donation to Gleaners food bank. Please consider contributing some of what you have to an organization helping to create food security. donor.gcfb.org/page/donate

Pure cinema www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw8j...

Setting up comprehensive visual regression testing cli on a big giant messy vanilla js web application with playwright might be the most sanity preserving thing Ive done. Being able to type a one liner into my terminal "show me all visual differences between my local branch and prod" is amazing

The emacs equivalent of neovim plugins are usually much better designed, and simpler. Something about the emacs community produces such a high quality package ecosystem.

Imagine if you had a society where all the politicians were like Mamdani, but the political debates were over super nerdy details on exactly how to implement/run a universal child care system.

It's pretty depressing to me how many people - even on the left - still don't realize that modern states, borders, polices, prisons, etc. must be abolished. States have been so internalized that most leftists, feminists, poor people, etc cannot ever think about a society organized differently

How do I nominate a youtube video for an award youtu.be/LBUHBfFSa4I?...

hyprland is so well made omg also pretty amazing that I can use ddcutil on linux to control my monitor brightness through software, when mac and windows offer no facilities for this w/o HDR being on.

“It's really quite repulsive that Palestinians have had to negotiate an end to their genocide,” says Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu.

oh so László Krasznahorkai wins a nobel prize for literature but Im not even considered for my bluesky skeets

(1/4) I'm soft launching nooki.me to get some early traction and feedback on what to improve. Excited to see how this platform grows!

Version 0.3.0 of Jacquard is up on crates.io! Bunch of breaking changes, but also OAuth (client) support! Now I can actually get to work on some of the features people have been requesting. Please create issues on Tangled for bug reports and feature requests <3 tangled.org/@nonbinary.c...