This is the northernlion supercruise of ontario politics

is there any other media awards ceremony that is constantly scared of itself

putting a random flag emoji in my display name every day and seeing who gets mad

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

Flock cameras have useful, modular electronic components in them, including: - Rechargeable lithium iion battery with solar panel - 5G LTE modem - 5MP 16mm camera with IR filter Plus various other components with precious metals that can be harvested for scrap.

someone else said this today but i think this is less of a reflection on AI and more of the power and precarity of the tech industry in the 2020s

Get ready with me #oilpainting #art

Today, exactly 1 year ago, I started a new project, that later became Gloom Gate. It began as a little experiment with pre-rendered backgrounds and it evolved into a full grown game-dev project I'm really proud of! #gamedev #indiegame #1bit #playdate

Cube? #MTGCube #MTGStrixhaven

They legitimately thought my unicycling game STREET UNI X was manipulated by Sweet Baby to have a trans person in the trailer and in the game when really it is that way because I am that person and I made the game and the trailer exactly how I wanted to make it

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

my GDC talk on jedi: survivor's lightsaber customization system is finally public/free to watch— see unreleased concepts, hear my hot takes on UI and count how many times I fix my glasses gdcvault.com/play/1034223...

Think of how many games where the verb is violence. How many games (including the ones nominated for tonight’s BAFTA awards) where you shoot, fight, kill. But when games want to explore the topic of violence in a meaningful way, that’s the issue?

Achievement unlocked: minor self-surgery (removed my own stitches)

since yes, it seems clear that "making good money right now" is absolutely not enough to get many people to unclench nowadays, which TBH really shouldn't be a *huge* surprise.

if we want the vibecession to end perhaps we should be focused primarily on reducing the grinding existential dread of the future that even many objectively comfortable and highly-paid people seem to be feeling nowadays - and yeah, i do think there are practical things one could do to improve this.

They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...

again this is a well written and reported and sympathetic article, and a quote from a sympathetic party!! it’s just truly insane the blind spot cis people have for talking about us

glad that the (otherwise well reported) wired article about the dolans using facial recognition tech to track a trans woman in the garden to keep her off the MSG cameras included the extremely important detail that she was “very large.” you don’t want anyone forgetting she was monstrous to behold

“They only call them bodegas in new york not corner stores” false.

I don't know a lot about how EVs are perceived in other markets, do they have the "I might need to drive 500 miles in a day" brainworm in countries where that would cover pretty much the whole country

this is remembered as one of the biggest, most important anti-war protests in american history, and now we have protests 100x the size, and the media publishes articles asking, "where are all the protests?"

Whether or not a production issue is specifically caused by LLM-generated code, vibe-coding is going to be the casual synecdoche for the end-stage result of the "move fast and break things" philosophy that has eroded technology for the past decade.

Kind of painful and humbling to see so many interesting CHI papers on topics that are closely related to the stuff I was thinking about from 2021-2023 before leaving my PhD

i’d repost an old vibe-coding joke but the servers can’t handle that sort of searching

Make It Myself xkcd.com/3233/

Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car

It costs the City of Ottawa $465/person each year to serve new low-density homes, over & above what it receives from property taxes/fees. On the other hand, high-density infill such as apartment buildings pays for itself plus an extra $606/person each year. Sprawl costs, infill saves. #UrbanTruth

if this 100% FPGA demo is passing for a shader, that’s probably my cue to release it. this is an early demo of my own work to replicate the 3dfx sst-1 pipeline in systemverilog. there is a non-canon geometry engine driving it from within the FPGA for kicks.

That’s so funny

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

He really is a Magic player

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

Claude Code became very reluctant to do anything remotely connected to viral sequence data some time in the last few weeks. (I'm quite sympathetic, but also I will now have to use Codex)

April 2: guards cut all phone access in the housing units without warning. When detainees protested, CRS officers allegedly punched a man, threw another to the ground, kicked him in the head, and pinned him by the neck. A third detainee's wrist was broken. The entire cage was pepper-sprayed.

I'm not at CHI but I hear that there's expected "oh god what do we do about reviewing, we have had an exponential explosion in paper submissions" discussion. I think a good start would be to stop making everyone feel like they have to publish 10 first author CHI papers to get a job. :-\

Summer after 2L, I shared a subleased 2BR with a guy who’d just finished 1L at Yale. He had some job he hated, and halfway through the summer Kozinski called him and offered an 8-week clerkship. He left that weekend. I didn’t see him again until 2025, on TV, when Trump made him Secretary of the Army

For me, a big “aha” moment in law school was when I realized that every year, the handful of normal, median-ish guys (they were all guys) who would land huge clerkships seemingly out of nowhere were all officers in the student FedSoc chapter

this sounds so great. i think the idea of taking stories traditionally associated with 'epic scale' and making them heartfelt and lo-fi through the creative artifice of people with real good taste is the way forward for all kinds of media, especially games www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/s...

Super successful 1st day (of 3) speaking with e-bike riding gig workers about their experiences, & sharing information about their rights/responsibilities. Our pals @thebikebrigade, @cycletoronto.bsky.social, @tomflood.bsky.social & @senditcourier made this happen!

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

Bold of him after he gave everyone Ebola that one time

Imagine reading the flavour text on the Dwarf Fortress Secret Lair and that’s how you get spoiled about the ending of Dwarf Fortress

aaaaand as is so often the case, the bug I've been chasing for days had nothing to do with any of this and was actually just an incorrect string somewhere

didn't sell enough japanese style egg sandwiches

The moment I looked into my child's eyes, I knew I was no longer just a man. I was a man-chine, with gasoline for blood and circular saws for arms.