i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

Wow. Just ordered Swords of Lankhma from a used book store. Thanks!

I'm old enough that TikTok was never really in my usage wheelhouse. But hot damn, it's been captured hasn't it

AI Enshitification is here: OpenAI rushes to put ads into ChatGPT apps. Can't wait for everything to be brought to you by Carl's Jr

I didn’t expect to see projectile shitting in Westeros but here we are (series is off to a good start!)

A time when smoking was so common on the job that industrial designers added ash trays to the consoles (Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA)

Look for the helpers

Tom Waits is "Dad Rock" I guess

bluesky moderation lists doin' their block things for me! Nice

Son and I upgraded up our new R36S handhelds' SD cards: - shit, they're both clones (different clones, too) - faulty SD card burned my finger, exposed wire - 1 unit fried due to this bad SD/fire hazard - Was able to get other running w/ArkOS for clones Buyer beware www.reddit.com/r/R36S/comme...

you don't need an open tab of chatgpt, you need an open tab of GWAR singing "Pink Pony Club" www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5XR...

Pretty sure Greenland isn’t (just) about minerals or countering influence. It’s as much about Network States utopian bullshit

There are a lot of non-engineering types in software and tech companies. For them, vibe-coding is a magic wand. But something else-I spoke with a C-Suite person recently and he described how he feels so more empathy for engineers, and more educated on the dev process, than in his entire career

I’m actually socially liberal and fiscally chaotic neutral

Getting SETI ready for our annual New Year’s Eve Game-A-Palooza event! (Link is ready to play)

36. The secret to successfully working at home is to always, always wear pants. You will be tempted otherwise, but for your mental health, wear clean pants. Slacks or denim, any kind except for sweatpants. Those are for when you’re off the clock. johndevore.substack.com/p/advice-for...

Only 2 episodes in, but HBO Max’s “Eastern Gate” is pretty damn good. Comes off like a modern day Cold War spy show, but set in 2021 in Belarus, Russia and Poland. Just wow performances by its leads.

The ROLE modded C*BASE v3.3.8 works out-of-the-box with the new Commodore Ultimate's wifi modem csdb.dk/release/?id=...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

All in one piece!

Commodore 64 arrived - box looks a little worse for wear, we’ll see!

Of all the bizarre decisions... After years of development hell and Kickstarter drama, SpaceVenture, the new point-and-click adventure by the original Space Quest guys, leaves early access. On Christmas goddamn eve (GMT-wise). In the middle of a Steam sale. With no discount. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy???

My wife informs me that her uncle is an OG furry, creator of T.H.E. Fox… pretty awesome en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.H.E._...

Hilariously, we have created a commerce model where it’s increasingly impossible to buy something locally today, but you can have nearly anything on earth delivered tomorrow.

For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...

Apropos of nothing else, I am going (back) down the Divinity rabbit hole, starting with Original Sin, which i found tucked in my Steam Library from 2014. BONUS: it's available on Linux/Proton as well 🦾

AI search remains undefeated

Here’s a cool story that connects this article with a piece I wrote for Pittsburgh Magazine 5 years ago about one of Pittsburgh’s coolest pieces of analog history: the Telephone Jukebox service that ran for over a half century.

This is a good idea, @kevinrose.com, @alexisohanian.bsky.social

Ten years ago.

gotta be a South Park follow up to the Disney+ and OpenAI IP deal

Apparently there's this new HBO show about IT Professionals, but they are dressed as clowns? And kill people? Gotta check it out

Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.

Indeed, everyone has a plan until they roll a critical miss.

Ever want to make a parser-based interactive fiction game but didn't know how to get started? Of course you have. Good news! I've created a small and very basic tutorial to creating IF in TADS 3.1.3 using the adv3lite library and Inform 7! Find out which works best! #gameDev #interactiveFiction

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

Everybody in #retrocomputing is going to be talking about this #c64 laptop build. So sweet! youtu.be/H5QQ0ECfwyE

ascii stuff for the first time in a while

Bro did you just eat the corpse of a rat? We Have Grog At Home alpha 0.0.9 out now! causticwarden.itch.io/we-have-grog... #roguelike #roguelikedev #gamedev #indiegames #videogames #retrogaming #ascii

I think the more likely reason is they’re trying to win over users who are used to Spotify. They’re behind, and challengers very often do user testing with customers coming over from the more popular app or service.

A gift you say

Is there an alternative to the built-in Bluesky “explore” of hot topics? Would be cool to have more algorithmic control over the signal/frequency/topic areas. In other words, any good user created “hotness” feeds?

"Kohler can access data and pictures from toilet camera" It's amazing what passes for a totally normal sentence in 2025

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

I just submitted to present at #ATmosphereConf! My (very niche) topic: how ATProtocol can extend into pre-internet systems like BBSs and map onto classic message bases, networks and identities to enable interoperability between modern decentralized networks and vintage software/communities...

In the BBS door version of the 2025 @mistfunk.bsky.social Advent calendar, your welcome wreath is summoned in blazing color by my Silvamancer from Revision 2025 ( @revision-party.bsky.social )! #Art #ANSIArt #FurryArt #TextmodeArt #Furry #Textmode

Read as "Chef" I'm like, Apple has an AI Chef?

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

The East Bay Regional Park District has unveiled its design for the North Basin Strip. No funds have yet been allocated to the project.