Remember how you used to just know everyone’s phone number? Then cell phones came out and you could barely recite your own number? That’s what AI’s endgame is but for every aspect of your life.

you’re so hard to reach. you never let me in

what a healthy industry! nothing wrong here!

Neuromancer seems like a bad time practically but making one big ass city on the east coast that goes from Boston to Atlanta is a sick idea I’ll give them that.

"telepresence" jennfrank.bearblog.dev/telepresence/

It took me a while to realise that when American friends spoke of the need for more walkable cities in certain parts of the US, they often didn't mean more and better footpaths so much as "You literally cannot move around on foot here. Please fix that."

"she sat suspended in a roomless room"

Separately today, Brodesser-Akner writes briefly about her takeaways from working on this "profile" and I think reading this first will help readers go into the feature with a more useful mindset for understanding it than the headline does static.nytimes.com/email-conten...

literally just put hand cream on my toothbrush lmaoooooo bye

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I wrote a book. With my kid. Now we're turning it into a videogame. The Stinky Adventures of DungDung! It's EARLY in development, but swing by and learn more: URL: www.rexrothstudios.com STEAM: store.steampowered.com/app/4742940/... Support #IndieDev #IndieGaming #GameDevelopment!

Frankly I’m disappointed with how few politicians can describe their favorite Final Fantasy Tactics party

868-BACK is out! Turn-based* roguelike with super rich decision space. I've been beta testing it for a month and I love it. There's a whole new meta structure around the original 868-HACK gameplay, and it's all really enchanting. Big congrats to Michael and team! bsky.app/profile/smes...

The Spanish royal family, or as I like to call them, the In Spain Crown Posse

"why do people harass indie creators more than big studios" why does the worst person you know kick small puppies instead of kicking their jacked as shit neighbor down the street, the world may never know

holy crap I was not prepared for the pain of an epilator, my legs will never love again

As Jabba the Hutt's son I'm often gatekept from progressive spaces due to preconceived notions about my family. At the same time, I acknowledge the reasonable concerns my presence would raise, and I'm working every day to unlearn the harmful attitudes instilled in me on my father's pleasure barge.

i love her make her president

‘dialectics’ is grad school for ‘there’s two of them’

Like, Hanif wrote a beautiful essay, and people are arguing about all this “tech propaganda” or whatever and I feel like it’s so far removed from the point of the piece.

Ok but something I genuinely enjoy is tweeting about a ragebait headline and then *eventually* opening the article to see how close I got to what was actually inside the article, like was I able to guess the contents and ending from just the movie trailer

Zack is right. There may be an underlying maxim here, which is, anytime you're freed from a digital *captor*—you're their captive audience, it's basic user retention, it's *hard to leave*—breaking that dependency means your agency & responsibilities are restored to you, which looks like "friction"

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Pope Leo quoting Tolkien in his encyclical on AI seems like a pointed reference for the tech oligarchs who have appropriated LOTR for their own ends.

big computer is conspiring to take away the only thing i've ever actually liked: the computer

how has no one mentioned my absolute GOAT, bug with GUN

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The rare "solid youtube comment" on a video by Gamers Nexus on Nvidia's circular financing

i often think about this review

‘the island’s economic future partially depends on Patricia keeping her mouth shut’ this is exhaustively true for so many things

just for fun I wrote about episode 4, "Beach Reads," even though/because everyone has by now moved on jennfrank.bearblog.dev/widows-bay-e...

I think everyone should watch Widow's Bay, so I made this new piece.

Episode 5 of Widow's Bay was very immersive because I wore headphones to watch it, but episode 4 was immersive because I slapped pause and ran out to the kitchen to grab, coincidentally, a strawberry Izze, and ran in and unpaused seconds before Patricia started making the punch

almost done with fantasy life and having a fierce internal debate about what to play next

I've been enjoying using these Friday posts as an excuse to tie the lessons I've learned from fighting games into the other skills I practice, and I hope y'all have enjoyed reading them. Learning how to learn is a huge part of fighting games that carries over into everything else you do, too.

Just pulled into the drive-through car wash with both windows down!! Realized my error quickly!!!!!!!

BEN: Then the Emperor has already won. You were our only hope. LUKE: Yoda spoke of another. BEN: Oh yeah he must’ve meant Ahsoka Tano, a fully trained warrior badass who’s alive just offscreen. She’s got two lightsabers LUKE: That’s badass. BEN: You only have one and you lost it

a cow is distantly mooing and I’m laughing ‘cause it just sounds like some guy

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‘We aren’t socialists, we’re just better at accounting’ is a killer line.

WaldoWare

"So I've decided to pronounce Charon like Charon. Feel free to correct me in the comments if you disagree!" The way the Internet, just existing on it, mediates everything else we talk about, is just as fascinating as the game itself (Dante's Inferno for PC-98 by Koei)

This is devastating and great journalism by Mother Jones. We are bombarding America’s forests with Roundup

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

I like that at first glance this looks like the yes/no stop/go "everything remote" from Bluey

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!

might be recency bias but this or her cover of "life on mars" (and yes, it was fiona apple's before) youtu.be/Zb4sIiGLXvc