Prediction: this war only ends when Trump is out of office. Ending it on terms acceptable to Iran means humiliation on a level Trump’s narcissism can’t tolerate. So, barring 25th Amendment, impeachment & removal, or ‘the glorious day’, expect several thousand more deaths and oil at $200+ a barrel.

The professional artist community is mostly people who cannot possibly live on what they make from their art, with those who can being mostly folks who have privilege and security with or without their cool art job.

I bet a run-down of document formats, how they work, and what they're for was high on you wish list, wasn't it?

movie about all the world's nations working together to stave off an environmental apocalypse succeeds by completely avoiding politics

What fantastic news. The battle is won but the war continues.

At this point in the long cycle, when the concentration of wealth and power has reached a historical extreme, those at the top always try to overthrow the system to cement their dominance and control for eternity. Same place as 1920s/1930s, 1850s/1860s, late 1700s.

Finally some useful writing advice.

"...it gets harder and harder to tell what’s us, and what’s it." And with that line blurring, truths stops to matter. Meaning discussions and politics are no longer about who is right, but about who is stronger. At the end of that road lies fascism.

Where science and politics clash. martinstellinga.com/science/scie...

Aside from all the good cleaner energy offers, this was obvious to anyone who paid the least bit of thought to it.

What was their battle cry again? Deus vult? I’d personally rather pray to end this colonialism-revival madness.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

DLSS off // DLSS 5 on

Old Hollywood joke: How many executives does it take to change a lightbulb? Does it have to be a lightbulb?

Seriously spread this clip around so people can start being aware at how fucking stupid the MAHA people are. Good on SNL for mocking the shit out of them. "My parents died after getting the covid vaccine." THE PUNCHLINE TO THAT!!!

I played Shadow Tactics (I know, it's 5+ years old). Some thoughts:

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

Reading news and found a new favorite example of false nostalgia

So, if we all pirate a gazillion tv shows, but create opt-out forms somewhere tucked away on our websites for the content owners, it's okay? If I break into a house, it's okay if I create an opt-out form for the owners first, right? Of course not, because _that's not how the law works_ !

Totally agree. As I get into a story I actually start speeding up because the story is on my mind a lot. On the flip side: there are people who can't seem to figure out they don't like writing. If you keep failing at this, maybe think hard if you actually enjoy it.

Harsh reality: writing a book takes time. You have to put in the hours. But how do you find them? When there are a bajillion things going on in your life? Here's what I did that worked. ⤵️

Some thoughts on the current streaming business model.

Shadowrun 2E… last century😬

I *think* it was Vampire: the Requiem, but it may have been Shadowrun 4E.

I haven't written about writing in a while. So, today, some thoughts on exposition.

Rob Grant has died. This one hits hard. I was dangerously obsessed with Red Dwarf as a teen. www.ganymede.tv/2026/02/rob-...

I released my first commercial game at age 30. This is a lame take.

A true honor. As a blogger who wants to publish a book but has not done so, it is truly amazing that this reading circle found that my book ‘stood out’. I am honored that I finally got one of these emails. It makes me feel like a real author 🥳 (A warning, this is of course a scam.)

So, about that dark post-apocalyptic fantasy movie with Mila Jovovich and Dave Bautista...

This makes me sick to my stomach.

The headline for this article should have read "The Dutch have had a facto four-day working weeks for decades, and still keep up productivity. Why do other countries keep enforcing the clearly less efficient 5+ day work week?"

We use file compression every day, but how does it work? And what is 'lossy' compression?

When aliens find the remains of human records on dead Earth in the far future, they'll probably wonder how we could be stupid enough to let our leaders actively kill us when we all knew better. apnews.com/article/trum...

A demon framed for murder A shlub questioning his faith and his past Card shark puppets Manischewitz-loaded water balloons Roger Rabbit x Michael Chabon Presale copies available now. www.amazon.com/Hornytown-Ch...

I would have expected ‘European Progressive Creatives’, but I’ll take ‘Dutch Progressive Politics and Culture’. That sphere seem to be in good company 🙂

Some thoughts on the viability of datacenters in space and why billionaires really talk about them.

People can take their defenses of microtransactions, their corporate apologia, and their excuses for Activision Blizzard and cram them fully inside their assholes.

“After being told that the person had been shown the photos and was crying, Grok continued to generate sexualized images”

Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off

... gonna be honest here and say the first problem is connecting a random action generation machine to your data and bank accounts

It has a certain irony to post a rant against ads on social media, I suppose.

“A.i.” is for creeps and weasels.

This is code for rewriting my posts with ChatGPT and spawning reworded posts hoping to woo the search engine AIs, isn't it? Is this how AIs mate? One cooing a mating call of SEO and the other crawling all over my blog's naughty parts? Two AIs passing in the night, then having little Sam Altmans?

And here is why dictators suck. Disobey big brother and he screws you immediately. Do the monstrous tasks big brother sets you and he screws you whenever it becomes convenient. There’s no win condition, even if you don’t mind becoming a monster.

Some days getting anything done is just _hard_ Don’t know why…

I actually played @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social's Old Skies a few months back, but I didn't get around to a review until now. So, a review from the future! Sort of...

$200k per AI company to aid them in pirating our books, for which we will not see a dime. Sorry, but if you still use Anna's Archive, kindly fuck off into the sun.

I fucking did it

Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...