If you thought February was warm (and heck, most of climatological winter, too), then you weren't imagining things. The statewide average for both easily broke their previous records by at least a half of a degree according to data from the Oklahoma Mesonet! #okwx #okmesonet

The people who lived through 9/11 and Iraq are approaching their 40s-50s and they’re still treated like immature kids who aren’t worth listening to. We were right motherfuckers, and we’re right to say it

I built this whiplash algorithm that feeds me world tragedies amidst video game development discussion and I can’t stop coming back to it

Every winter around February in Oklahoma I wonder if maybe I prefer warm weather, and then it arrives and I realize anew I much prefer the cold

As a young single guy I used to bike about three miles to get my groceries for the week. I felt disconnected from much of the city because most of it was built for cars, but what I gained was an appreciation of the journey rather than a focus on the destination. I miss that feeling.

Tax billionaires out of existence.

This is bigotry, pure and simple. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

People have to eat and sometimes you don’t have a choice, but it does still sting to see Dropout do copaganda.

It’s sad to see geriatric millennials starting to do the goofy nostalgic “back in my day” stuff online now. I lived in the 80s and 90s, and they weren’t great. I spent years not knowing what happened to people or things because they just disappeared from my local area. Modern life is better!

I’m feeling the lack of physicality to digital music a lot these days. I am so overwhelmed my how many various songs I’ve found through a streaming service that I can’t open my library and just play something. It’s all just too much.

It is pretty telling that it comes as something of a surprise that the Supreme Court sided with the Constitution over Trump.

hey guys this article that boasts about how great AI is that is written by someone with a vested interest in the field succeeding seems really convincing when read with an uncritical eye so I guess all of it must be true and AI is amazing now even though it hasn’t met the previous promises yet cool

I think it’s funny that the AI trained on so many bad actions movie scenes that it included actors completely missing punches, inaccurate physics, and extremely short camera shots that break up the flow of the movement.

Wouldn’t it be wild if time zones worked by forcing events to occur at the same time on the clock, so that if you got in a car accident at noon in the east coast of the United States it would be impossible for people on the west coast of the country to know about it until hours later

I’m kinda impressed that Lindt stared down the increasing prices of cocoa due to tariffs and marketed hollow chocolate with pistachio filling as a luxury “Dubai” version for $15 a bar. I don’t know how many people bought the stuff, but it was a bold choice.

Age verification happening simultaneously with the prevalence of AI slop is making the internet simultaneously less friendly and less interesting

Well, good thing we didn’t silo off a bunch of important game knowledge in individual discords instead of forums or wikis or gamefaqs for some reason

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

THE EPSTEIN CLASS

The Distance. My entry into the Super Bowl ad mix.

I’m at the point of my social media cycle where I realize I can’t connect to most businesses or events in my city without reopening my Meta accounts and I hate it

Oh, cool! @jonsimantov.bsky.social’s helloyellow voice chat app for the Playdate is now available on the Catalog; it has on-device voice note recording and asynchronous voice chatting between users and via group voice chats of up to 10 people. My user code is hy-512714. play.date/games/helloy...

At some point the knowledge of how one clips on a lavalier microphone was lost by YouTube and TikTok content creators and they’re all daintily holding their tiny microphones. What is going on? I know people aren’t reading manuals anymore, but the promo videos show how to clip them to clothing!

#IndianCountry #Oklahoma

Measles have come to Oklahoma. The Oklahoma State Health Department has confirmed a case this week. People who were at a bar in Norman may have been exposed. | Brett Dickerson reports: freepressokc.com/measles-case...

Wow. The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.

I haven’t played a computer game for more than maybe 15 minutes in perhaps years but I still go to every game giveaway and add it to my collection like a shameful fool

I’ve never lived inside a failing country before and I’m learning that I don’t like it

I love the energy saving future of LED lighting but the constant flickering is KILLING ME

After decades of conservative Christians whining about how life in a modern, pluralistic and democratic society—with its rights for people and lifestyles they hate—amounts to persecution of them and their beliefs, they are now—in the most literal sense of the term—persecuting Christians.

Private equity at it again

Flip different. Blippo+ has arrived on Macintosh™ computers.  Get it on the Mac App Store: blippo.plus/mac ⌘ Get it on Steam: blippo.plus/steam

This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America

When the racist meme becomes national policy

"Long accused of Antisemitism" --New York Times headline, 2024

I am a weird one in that I like writing code and I don’t feel any desire to give that over to an LLM to do it for me. dhepworth.com/thoughtstrea...

Before reading any “social media is harming our children” posts online, I make sure to look in the text for either a link to or an outright mention of Jonathan Haidt, whose findings have been criticized for cherry-picking to reach a preconceived negative conclusion.

Let’s talk about abolishing ICE. Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.” /1

White supremacy is not only a moral issue, it’s also incredibly boring. Some of my best experiences in life were meeting people who were not like me.

If an opinion is stated as fact online in a way that annoys you, save yourself the frustration and mentally add “in my opinion” or “I think” to the beginning of the message. You know it’s an opinion and the person writing the message knows it’s an opinion, so why make this a big thing?

I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them. But this one hit today. And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon. fascism wrapped in our own flag

RFK Jr. announces plan to reduce childhood autism by reducing the number of children.

My son saw me playing a game on my @panic.com @play.date and felt inspired to make his own copy out of building bricks.

“Blippo+ would have been an extraordinary game in any year, but it felt particularly resonant in this one because it’s just so exuberantly, unabashedly, undeniably human, a collaborative work made by very creative people.” 📡❤️🍾

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

A very kind offer for a worthy cause!

Ziwe

🧵 about my health encounters outside the US. Took my mom to eye doctor yesterday at a private clinic, drop in hours. An optometrist triaged her, helped me fill out a single page form. Took her NH Ins card, ID, 250NT copay. After tests, an ophthalmologist saw her & wrote Rx+referral for followup