What is a harmonic? Check out the interactive comics about additive synthesis that @aleclongstreth.bsky.social and I made! melatonin.dev/additive-syn...

Introducing ShaderBeam - ShaderGlass' sister app focusing on applying @blurbusters.com CRT Beam Simulation technology to Windows desktop. Re-experience the motion clarity of CRTs on a modern high-refresh display. Free and open source. github.com/mausimus/Sha...

the tech oligarchs crossed the pond for keir starmer to kiss the ring of silicon valley

Concept Art and process work for Rogue One. I worked on this sequence from early concept art to the set build - based (very) loosely around a Ralph McQuarrie sketch from the original trilogy. This shot was so spot-on the concept art that I remember gasping audibly during the screening.

can you imagine ms and nvidia taking down the world economy? no runaway crash like it before

9th day with covid again; still testing slightly positive and still ye old subtle-yet-not-so-subtle swing of sledgehammer; after 5 years+ of learnings afaik no novel acute / chronic treatments in sight? yes, i should have boostered this year; not forgotten my mask on public transport week prior

Grim news from Germany. A black family, who had previously experienced several incidents of racial harassment, was the victim of a suspected arson attack on Monday. One child is dead, the other is in critical condition. A fundraiser for them is here: www.gofundme.com/f/unterstutz...

Interesting article here including a test of the average response time of the Switch 2 screen. The results are awful. It's about as slow an LCD as one could imagine in the modern era. chimolog.co/switch-2-pan...

Evan On Killing

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Cumulative damage due to Covid reinfections is still ongoing. I non-ironically wonder how much of the current state of the world can be traced to actual brain damage.

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in minecraft

Don’t trust anyone who is rude to the serving staff

Not disputing the role of tech, but since 2016, the pandemic is definitely a factor, long before AI became a phenomenon, many of us who were teaching noticed students' memory and cognition impacted by COVID. Of course we are all pretending that it isn't, because the pandemic is "over", apparently.

The fantastic game jam @ludumdare.com is sadly not running any events in 2025 as host Mike Kasprzak is struggling financially. While Mike isn't specifically asking for donations, he does have a Patreon which helps cover the jam's expenses. Perhaps we can help? www.patreon.com/c/mikekasprz...

I've been meaning to read this paper on mass extinctions (pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...), and today, I came across this great write-up about it in VoxDev (voxdev.org/topic/energy...). It's a great paper. I am glad I found the time to read it. Below is a short thread.

"I have said it before, and I will say it again—OpenAI may well become the WeWork of AI," @garymarcus.bsky.social writes in a new commentary piece for Fortune. fortune.com/2025/01/27/a...

*ahem* www.noemamag.com/not-my-problem

When I scheduled this episode, I hadn’t even considered what day it would be dropping. Anyway, here’s @danmcquillan.bsky.social talking about AI as fascistic solutionism.

I wrote 'Resisting AI' (subtitled 'An Anti-fascist approach to Artificial Intelligence') to help preempt the kind of convergence of far right politics and the tech sector that we are waking up to today. The struggle against fascistic solutionism continues. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

Tune into the 1981 BBC LOTR radio play to drop out for a little while: archive.org/details/lord...

The revolutionary Xerox Alto computer (1973) started GUI computing, Ethernet, the optical mouse, laser printing, and visual word processing. We came across a password-protected Alto disk so I cracked the password. @tubetime.bsky.social looks at the contents: bsky.app/profile/tube...

Still astounded how people think that the government force-closing a social network that's literally used by 170 million people in the US is just fine or even good. It would not surprise me if they go after VPNs next. They tried this already: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RESTRIC...

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

It’s sad how CBC has become so wedded to this narrative of Canada Post privatization. Where’s the big article about CUPW’s proposal to reinvent the postal service with postal banking and other community services? What happened to presenting both sides?

the absolute dearth of both intellect and imagination needed to insist not only that this place must operate like twitter to be “relevant”, but that being “relevant” is something defined by some external orthodoxy, rather then the platforms actual users

I used my camera sensor to rescue space photons before they crashed into my driveway, how did I do? Detail of the Rosette Nebula in Monoceros, a H II region approximately 5,200 light years from Earth. 🔭🧪 #astrophotography

disconnect.blog/shame-on-the... "If you thought we were already living in a tech dystopia these past few years, it’s time to buckle up. You haven’t seen anything yet."

OK, that's both routes cleared properly! Here's one last thing I wanted to share - the classic costumes! The low-res look here is so much better than the one Capcom used in RE2's remake:

An elegant study by Katerina Akassoglou and colleagues has illuminated our understanding of the role of fibrin (component of blood clots), SARS-CoV-2, and brain inflammation in Covid/Long Covid. A new Ground Truths podcast, w/transcript. Open-access. erictopol.substack.com/p/katerina-a...

Curtis Yarvin describes himself as a “dark elf” saving the know-nothing “hobbits” of the US public with an anti-democratic, pro-tech politics. @juliablack.bsky.social joins @parismarx.bsky.social to discuss how tech billionaires are echoing his ideas. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/244_...

🚨 indie devs: my latest GDC talk is now FOR FREE on YouTube!! - "The Marketing Money Talk: How to Budget Your Indie Game's Promotion Campaign" - DOLLAR TIME!!!! - with loads of price estimates - and a list of what to spend your money on first youtu.be/-jM9Tx6AVIE

pleasantly *disco* news summereternal.com#manifesto

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Julian Assange speaks for first time since release from prison: “I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.” youtu.be/Aj0pD5k9uLw?...

Just lost my job to AI! ✌️ Anyone looking for a full stack principal engineer with 20+ years of experience, multiple publications, and a let's-make-it-happen attitude?

SEGA Bluesky / October 2024

Very intrigued by this science focused Metroidvania; out today on all major platforms. www.godisageek.com/reviews/exog... youtu.be/_tyuIPemESE?...

“The government has also imposed a communications blackout, with all internet and social media access blocked since Thursday night” www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

So great to hear you’ve decided to take a stand against book censorship. Does this mean you’ll be dropping your lawsuit against libraries, too?