Do you all think a locust worries that their swarm is destroying the farm’s business when they’re horfing down the crops? No. When the wheat’s gone in one field, they just move to the next one. Everyone tries to make everything a spectator sport. Just bask in the crapulence. Feast ye locusts!

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

Cooling is only one of the issues with this idea. The other problems are seemingly... All of them? Cooling, updates, launch costs, power, radiation... taranis.ie/datacenters-...

Before you write a credulous story like this one about moving data centers to space, please talk to someone who understands how much cooling data centers need and another person who can explain how hard it is to cool hot things in space because it's a vacuum.

That woke me up fr a deep sleep.

Earthquake!

This thread warms my heart.

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the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

it's the one message no parent ever wants to get from their child 😱

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This picture is raising some questions. Is the hot dog that's stuffing the crust many normal hot dogs? I always assumed that they used some sort of magical circular hot dog to make these.

I'm gonna play some more Marathon with the @nextlander.com lads this afternoon. Come hang out!

I learned today that there’s a copy of the script of the episode of The Simpsons where Nelson knocks over the Sunsphere in Knoxville Tennessee in the (still standing) Sunsphere in Knoxville Tennessee.

So much about living life is getting harder because we now have to jump through hoops in systems that were designed by technologists without a very good grasp of the humanities. People tuned into that aren't going to be very excited about stuff which makes coding easier! The coding's not the issue!

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

No need for AI art. Anything can be temp assets during development even lawyers.

I really can't put this more clearly. If you watch the new Harry Potter series, you are directly funding the genocide of trans people, because that's what Rowling gleefully spends HP revenue on. There's no "death of the author" here, no "there's lots of awful creators." You are funding genocide.

If your website’s ad solution respects my time so little that you break into the experience when I’m reading an article and make me lose my place, I’m literally never going to waste my time on your site again.

close. fortnite's content cadence is what the modern playerbase (and also press/influencers) has been trained to expect out of every live service game, despite the fact that it's not a sustainable model to emulate.

If you want your computer to be reliable & fun, this is probably the best time in history to try Linux. Media & gaming support is pretty damn solid. I've been daily-driving Mint for months & I havn't had so much fun with a computer since Puppy was resurrecting my late 90s hardware back in the 00s.

Angry Golf Returns - Tight, Progressive Squad Play - I'm playing Super Battle Golf over at https://twitch.tv/notthatwillsmith

It's Marathon Monday over at @nextlander.com! I'm playing Marathon with Brad and Vinny! twitch.tv/nextlander

I wonder if the people stuck in 6-hour-long TSA lines are having to watch that Kristi Noem video on repeat the whole time…

Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.

We did not deserve the Speed Racer movie.

In the note that comes with each shipment of coffee, @tonx.coffee shared that he feels like he’s bad at self promo, so I want to help. I love @yesplz.coffee’s single-origin selections. They’re my favorite roaster, the coffees are always unique and delish. Share someone that makes something rad!

Apparently I have the same definition of 'chill' as @willsmith.fun

Since Slay the Spire 2 is out, here’s a peek at my Stream Deck with all the debug commands I needed to make gameplay capture fast and easy. Took about a day to hook up, but totally worth it! This was possible because @megacrit.com set up debug as either hot keys or console commands.

it’s literally wasting all that pathtracing work by inventing light sources that aren’t even in the scene 😭

obligatory

NVIDIA: What if we introduce ray tracing so you can have really high quality real-time lighting, models that cast shadows on themselves, and game lighting that looks _really_ real? Also NVIDIA: What if we do that, and then throw out that lighting to run the yassify filter so everyone looks HOT?

I'm bad at promoting my work. So, in addition to saying "buy my book!" (a chill game design textbook using Bitsy) I'll share some of my favorite writing from the book. www.amazon.com/Storytelling... link.springer.com/book/10.1007... (save 20% with code PALAUT and I earn a pittance of commission!)

Once more, we enter the “Finding out” phase…

I didn't get to GDC as much as I expected this week, so I didn't get a chance to wear the Skin Deep fan shirt I made. I'll just share it here because I really loved the space station designs that @blendogames.bsky.social's team made for the level selects.

I'm going to play some of John Carpenter's Toxic Commando with the @nextlander.com lads over at twitch.tv/nextlander if you want to come hang out

I'd very much like to narrate this project. Please consider backing it? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... @wctracy.bsky.social

For those lacking context because it has, in fact, been 14 years: whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/s...

I think the thing I like the most about Linux is that I'm 100% in control of it. If there's something I don't like, I rip that part of it out and replace it with something else. I can't fix my existential dread about *waves hands* but I can fix the thing that made my fans sound like jet engines.

Truly a perfect news alert

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If you can't materially support trans people, at least stop playing Wordle. The best time to stop playing Wordle was when the NYT acquired it. The second best time is now. I've linked five other word games for you to play. No more excuses. pressspacetojump.com/feature/if-y...

I have reversed my childhood position on this issue and now believe we did not bully nerds nearly enough.

HEY 👇 so secretly we've been working with a cabal of indie devs making the type of strange & distinctive games that we love to play on noclip_2. tomorrow we're announcing a SHOWCASE on noclip_2 as part of an upcoming Steam Festival about these games. it's gonna be fun. we hope you tune in.

This was an insta-buy book bundle for me. Autonomous and The City in the Middle of the Night are favs of mine. Best of all they didn’t require me to jump through any de-DRMing hoops. I just downloaded a bunch of epubs to my reader app.

This was my response when my agents asked if I wanted to pitch on this reboot back in November. I really hope more creatives do the same so that the likes of Max Landis are all they can hire. I may not make an honest buck but I’m a hundred per cent American and I don’t work for no two-bit Nazi.

I'm playing Yip Yap with the @nextlander.com lads and the always delightful @ybbaaabby.bsky.social over at

I spent some really really scary time with Resident Evil: Requiem to see how it performed with path tracing as well as its surprisingly capable raster renderer.

There's a sign you can see in the drive through at my local burger king with the official greeting that employees are supposed to say. "Welcome to Burger King, where you rule." I guess they're implying that I'm the real King of burgers. Thankfully, no employee has ever said that to me.

A mysterious YouTube video gave thousands of people a place to breathe. Then it vanished. Find out what happened next in this moving essay from @bijan.bsky.social longreads.com/2026/02/26/i...