The social internet got turned into a giant dopamine farm by a handful of companies who literally hired the same psychologists who design casino floor layouts, and the policy-makers just threw up their hands and said "guess we better ban kids from using the internet then"

REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Democrats want you to believe that sending FIVE MILLION DOLLARS of YOUR tax money to MEXICO to “manage” the “Dick Exploding Spider” population is “normal” SAME SENATOR SIX MONTHS LATER: (walking like a saddle-sore cowboy) This is the greatest public health crisis of our lives,

Troubling reports out of England of 30 year-olds being socially transitioned into same-sex attraction without parental consent! One can only hope that the UK bans coming out as gay until a child is at least 35!

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Somebody should probably tell Facebook's lawyers about the Streisand effect https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/31/meta-legal-action-forces-facebook-whistleblower-to-stay-silent-at-hay-festival

The last two were and the next two years are literally just going to be endless rounds of “lol get wrecked nerd“ swiftly followed by “Ooooh, THAT’S why you were doing that” because our entire country is being run by pompous assholes who literally do not believe in expertise

I don't want to say smart watches are not quite accurate with their fitness metrics, but I was just awarded my daily step goal for the hand motions I made while eating potato chips.

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

Funny how the bank _loves_ interest when I owe them money, but when they have to pay _me_ interest then suddenly it's "gross" 🙄 smh

are you just going to do this for every generation

"You see, when I was your age, my mother (Grammie, to you) added me to a family plan, which meant that my phone costs were included in her bill. Your father’s mother, Nana, did the same with Dad. So now we’re stuck, lest we start paying for phone usage ourselves."

Windows apps built with SwiftCrossUI are now 200mb smaller! 🎉 SwiftPM's static linking support has recently improved on Windows, allowing me to merge swift-winui and all of its dependencies into a single monorepo with static linking. Static linking lets the linker drop a lot of unused code.

Hi, I'm the Sony engineer who wrote code that shows "Rebuilding database..." for 20 minutes when your PlayStation crashes or gets unplugged. Yeah, it's actually all just Sleep() calls. I'm just trolling you with it.

plato's cave: the video game

Big let down, to be honest

Has anyone else noticed that Apple's on-device translation API seems to really like to add redundant line-breaks? Every bare \n gets "translated" to \n\n regardless of language

Probably my all-time favorite quote about editing is, some clueless individual asked Martin Scorsese's editor Thelma Schoonmaker how such a nice lady could edit such violent movies, and she replied "Marty's movies aren't violent until I edit them."

A thorny aspect to Xcode's default settings that we did not appreciate until today: app targets have default main actor isolation, but test targets do not, and all targets are in Swift 5 mode. That means tests do not exercise how your code will really behave in production.

Still remember the crushing moment as a young researcher when I realised that proving something through evidence had damn near no impact on social policy unless it was politically useful to believe it.

Why does the boiler have a gamertag?

Oh my fucking god I thought they made this up. They did not. I just tried it myself

Accidentally made Gemini roleplay as a fried egg when I googled a quote from Mixtape.

this is sick as fuck, i didn't know you could program music but i guess it makes sense

Owwwww

Chrome ain't done 'til Safari won't run: https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-treat-big-sites-differently

Finally, we have an answer!

I'm looking for work. 21 years of experience. • any game art, isometric, top-down, side-scroll • stylized or realistic • characters, icons, key art, animation • Can build a style from zero or match yours • Big projects don't scare me • ex Minecraft DM here or email [email protected]

🚀Social Symbols, it’s now available as Swift Package! 🥳 It works with #SwiftUI, #UIKit and #AppKit. Free to use, it has never been easier to add your socials on your app! It’s the first release so be nice and report issues… 😘 github.com/jeremieb/soc...

Ghoulish stuff, and deeply counterproductive. The message this sends to immigrant communities is “Do not call the police. If you saw a crime? No you didn’t. If you were a victim of a crime? No you weren’t. If you see a cop? Run.”

Don't worry I shaved the beard.

I really appreciated this thoughtful post by @[email protected] on the subject of LLM use in online discussions: https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-narrowed-any/86369/50 (posted on the Swift forums, but you don't need to know anything about Swift to understand it)

These dudes think they are casting spells. @wolvendamien.bsky.social called it a long time ago.

I'm so excited to finally announce my first game: THE PACTMAKER! A supernatural point-and-click thriller about pacts, guilt, consequences... and many, many books. 📚 Coming to Steam & itch next year. Watch the first trailer 👇 and Wishlist now:

In just over a month, the duration of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will match that of the entire World War I. And the entire might of Russia and its totalitarian allies, as well as of the Kremlin's corrupt useful morons in the West, still can't defeat Ukraine.

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This may not mean much to non-devs, but this my custom UI running on Android. Programmed entirely in Swift, the language I know the best, and so fits my needs well. It feels good to be here! #Swift #BuildInPublic #IndieDev #Android #AndroidDev #Crossplatform Music by Nver Avetyan via Pixabay.com

When your boss wants to give you a confidence boost but can't think of anything nice to say about your work

Every era invents a new reason why the old rules don’t apply. Then the old rules apply anyway. Tulips. Railroads. Radio. Dot-com. Housing. JPEGs. AI. Different costumes // same brain. The most expensive sentence in history is: “This time is different.” www.joanwestenberg.com/the-loop-ev...

Starting with Swift 6.2 and iOS 26, EnumeratedSequence conforms to RandomAccessCollection, allowing enumerated() to be used directly in ForEach and List views in SwiftUI: nilcoalescing.com/blog/UsingEn... #iOSDev #SwiftUI

Pixels. What are they? We just don't know. www.kickstarter.com/projects/110...

Good worked example of how substack’s roach motel works in practice, and why I don’t begrudge people who won’t move their businesses but do advise people against building new ones on the platform

Congratulations to @stephenking.bsky.social for this well-deserved honor!👍 (Novels/Novellas: Approximately 65 to 67 Non-fiction books: 5 books. Short Stories: Over 200 Pseudonyms: 7 novels were published as Richard Bachman. Frequency: He has published at least one book almost every year since 1974)

"Trust this computer?" my phone asks me, when connecting to my personal laptop for the 67 millionth time

Whats worse too is most of the results on search engines is just ai slop too so the ai thing ends up being the only useful result if you ask it for its sources and read them.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

apple has tons of problems but they're also the only major tech company that does literally anything for privacy

megalopolis is one of the most effective anti-capitalist pieces of media ever produced because you’ll walk away from thinking “any economic system that would enable francis ford coppola to self-fund this movie must surely be a failed economic system”

It's really elegant how SwiftUI has three versions of CollectionView, and each is broken in a different, infuriating way 😩 #swiftui