Dutch judge rules Meta must offer an “algorithm-free option.” Finally, software engineering enters the post-algorithm era.

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

This song was in my head this morning, and now it is in yours too :P Exist†Trace - 君の真っ白な羽根. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDFb...

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

So Microsoft PC Gamepass gets a 40% price hike, starting today, with no extra benefits. I'm not in marketing but I think a 40% price hike without anything in return feels... off? www.theverge.com/news/789424/...

One of the sad side effects of AI-powered dev tools is people who previously weren't able to write code at all, now manage to cobble together code that at one point doesn't work and they then ask the developer who made e.g. a library they're using what to do because their AI tool fails them. Ugh

The amount of times i had people look at me funny when I get excited for a different error message. "Why are you excited, it's still broken." "Yes, but the problem changed meaning we're starting to narrow down what's actually wrong."

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Ray Tracing The World of Assassin’s Creed Shadows" by Luc Leblanc and Melino Conte from Ubisoft is now online: youtu.be/2K-rwy4aMmU?...

If you want to by just 1 game this steam sale, make it this one. It's awesome

Silent Hill f (PC, own Universal Unreal Engine Unlocker for camera/hud toggle/scene manipulation/tweaks/post processing/custom lights, Reshade)

It’s official: EA is going private. The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Silent Hill f (PC, own Universal Unreal Engine Unlocker for camera/hud toggle/scene manipulation/tweaks/post processing/custom lights, Reshade)

Metal guitar goddess Miyako of the awesome metal band Lovebites covers Judas Priest's Painkiller on piano. Just amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3W5...

This week in the HALL OF FRAMED Take a look at the excellent shots in the Hall of FRAMED for 20th September 2025 - 26th September 2025 framedsc.com/HallOfFramed...

Borderlands 4 (PC, own Universal Unreal Engine Unlocker for camera/hud toggle/scene manipulation/tweaks/post processing/custom lights, Reshade). Especially tweaking their Sobel-Feldman algorithm helps keeping the lines thin on higher resolutions

Silent Hill f (PC, own Universal Unreal Engine Unlocker for camera/hud toggle/scene manipulation/tweaks/post processing/custom lights, Reshade)

Advanced Shader Delivery is here devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/agil...

Microsoft has now ruptured its ties to Israeli forces, blocking access in response to the mass surveillance of Palestinians. Unit 8200 violated their terms of service by storing the data on the Azure cloud. Microsoft requested an external inquiry on data usage www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

My biggest fear is that I am the subject of this post. anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

Silent Hill f (PC, own Universal Unreal Engine Unlocker for camera/hud toggle/scene manipulation/tweaks/post processing/custom lights, Reshade)

Fixed UUU v5 for Silent Hill f, as it uses a heavily customized UE5.4 patreon.com/Otis_Inf

Borderlands 4 (PC, own Universal Unreal Engine Unlocker for camera/hud toggle/scene manipulation/tweaks/post processing/custom lights, Reshade)

Released camera tools for Dying Light: The Beast! Camera control (gameplay/cutscene/pm), hud toggle, pause, gamespeed, frame skip, higher details. patreon.com/Otis_Inf

Borderlands 4 (PC, own Universal Unreal Engine Unlocker for camera/hud toggle/scene manipulation/tweaks/post processing/custom lights, Reshade)

this exists it is called thinking

Besides the effects on the tech industry, right now there are H-1B holders—people—who built a life in the US. If they are traveling, they have 17 hours to get back to the US, or the life they built will be shattered and taken from them. Can you imagine constantly living with this uncertainty?

This week in the HALL OF FRAMED Take a look at the excellent shots in the Hall of FRAMED for 6th September 2025 - 12th September 2025 framedsc.com/HallOfFramed...

From the metal gods of Lovebites www.youtube.com/watch?v=99zs...

Tbf, nothing will ever beat the GW website front page at that time. "The Queen is dead: PREPARE FOR SKIRMISH COMBAT!"

All this over a person, who is not an actual politician, not an influential figure, not a celebrity or artist who brought joy and hope to millions of people on this planet, but a mere *commentator* whose legacy is an amount of bigotry on the same level as grass in a forest. Unserious country.

I assume this is obvious, but I’ll say it anyway: The advantage of proscribing a non-existent organisation is that no one can prove they don’t belong to it.

So how much longer till everything that's running on some USA based cloud system (even if what's run is running in an EU datacenter) is going to be monitored and vetted by the US government?

If Jimmy Kimmel, the mildest slice of Colby Jack in America, isn’t safe, then you aren’t safe.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group. There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi. He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Assassin's Creed Shadows (PC, own camera tools, Reshade)

you open the Bluesky app and take 4d6 psychic damage

This strongly reminds me of the international waters predictions made by @peterzeihan.bsky.social in his 2022 book “The end of the world is just the beginning”. I see that book as prophetic at this point.

Soma landscape paintings from last year or two.

So 2K accidentally(?) released Borderlands too early. Some people bought it at that time and got a pre-order bonus. 2K thought that was bad (apparently it hurts their bottom line?) and switched off ALL bonuses, also for the ppl who bought the superdeluxe version. steamcommunity.com/app/1285190/...

This week in the HALL OF FRAMED Take a look at the great shots in the Hall of FRAMED for 6th September 2025 - 12th September 2025 framedsc.com/HallOfFramed...

Borderlands 4 still has its old commands like 'Camera 3rd' to get to 3rd person :) After 2 days of fighting the obfuscated assembly (picture a 10 liner spliced into 10 fragments connected with jmps), there's light and a camera and more! :) Not done yet, but getting there...

Job alert! Would you like to do good? You could do good.

Virtual Photography with the Universal Unreal Engine Unlocker: In this video I show 3 different kind of shots using Wuchang Fallen Feathers and my Universal Unreal Engine Unlocker. I'll show scene manipulation, reshade effects, model posing, custom lights and IGCSDOF www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJnh...