The Witness? #videogame

Make It Myself xkcd.com/3233/

Time to remember the Milgram experiment, and hope someone flying out there will play against the odds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram...

✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... @exploration.esa.int l

If asked to draw a person's portrait, many people would say “I cannot draw.” Why is observational drawing so hard? In a new paper, @judithfan.bsky.social and I answer: it's the limitations of human vision. Learning to draw is learning skills to overcome them. aaronhertzmann.com/2026/03/23/d... 1/

L’avenir appartient à celles et ceux qui vont continuer à apprendre.

Le plus grand danger de l’IA à l’université n’est pas la triche, c’est l’érosion de l’apprentissage lui-même

github.com/nevesnunes/z... : du désassemblage via une font.

Last week I organized the first Game Jam in my department at @fst-ulille.bsky.social. In 3 days, 3 teams developed 3 excellent games! itch.io/jam/gamejam-... More about the games below.

True positives, false positives, false negatives, and true negatives.

Resumed playing The Witness after years of hiatus. 🤯

I always advise wanabee gamedev to prefer more generalist schools, university or even better engineering schools for devs or maybe producer roles. Then maybe a specialization in videogames.

Games I must buy and play: * Baldur's Gate 3 * Talos Principle 2 * Red Dead Redemption 2 * Firmament

Games I have started a long time ago and I must finish: * The Witness * Outer Wilds * Subnautica Below Zero * Skyrim * Trine 4

The disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI. 🤷 www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

Are Tests Biased Against Students Who Don't Give A Shit

Programmer joke: "In the future we won't need programmers. We'll just need people who can tell AIs very precisely and in full detail what we want them to do using language the AIs understand."

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Here's a recording of my talk on the role of computers in making art, including so-called "AI", which was presented as the opening keynote of SIGGRAPH 2025, incorporating lessons from the history of computer graphics, photography, modern art, and philosophy of art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2YR... 1/

Broken Sword's AI upscaling wasn't 'enormously satisfactory'

📝 Vous venez d’arriver sur le campus Cité scientifique ? Voici un petit mémo sur quelques-uns des lieux incontournables de votre parcours universitaire en cette semaine de rentrée 👇

The Path

🎓✨ Bientôt étudiant·e à la FST ? En L1, L2, L3 ou Master, prépare ta rentrée 💥 📅 Vérifie tes dates 👉 jive.univ-lille.fr/dates-de-ren... 📲 Suis nos actus 👉 linktr.ee/fstulille ⚡ On t’accompagne pour une rentrée réussie !

It's amazing to have the book in my hand now, after several years of working on it with Kasper and Per Ola. In a nutshell, it's a new textbook for introductory-level HCI courses: ✅ 10 parts, covering the whole HCI process ✅ 864 pages and 1.9 kgs ✅ Open access (!)

On est sérieux là ? Des gens en cravate qui jouent avec la vie des gens sur des prétextes de cour d’école ? J’espère pouvoir accueillir en septembre les deux gazaouis que j’ai recrutés en master.

[SERIE "LES NOUVEAUX VISAGES DE L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES"] Episode n°2 : Au cœur du futur numérique : la vision de Michel Beaudouin-Lafon Cette semaine, notre série met à l’honneur Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, figure majeure de l’interaction humain-machine. Lien vers Youtube : urls.fr/dELyDm

The Moon, Venus, and a beautiful Sunday evening.

today we fired up the old Xerox Alto (the earliest computer with a graphical OS) and dumped a disk pack that we hadn't imaged before.