One of my biggest takeaways from living in Tokyo was that the city is incredible in spite of the fact that 95% of the architecture is unremarkable. It makes the years-long design review process for a single apartment building in the U.S. seem all the more frivolous.

people have been saying the For You custom feed is better than the default Discover feed but it's way too easy to accidentally push the algorithm into just recommending endless doomscroll cortisol content

spent the day offline putting together this diorama kit that a friend gave me for christmas and it owns

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Happy Xmas! My present to you is to remind you (as I was just reminded!!) that this year Hiroshi Iuchi (Radiant Silvergun, Ikaruga, Sin & Punishment) released a new rail shooter developed with M2 - NIGHT STRIKERS GEAR (PC and Switch)

hate when i'm watching a video of someone doing something cool and they have a section where they explain how it works but they preface it with "but if you think all of this is BORING and CONFUSING because you're not a STUPID NERD skip to this timestamp to just see the thing"

Love this — organ tuners as accidental climate historians

obama-era pop music loves to have a random half time "trap/dubstep-inspired" section that completely kills the energy and momentum

as I've said before, a lot of the root problems with LLMs is that they're bad at the things we think computers should be good at, and good at the things we think computers should be bad at.

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

looked at some cool rocks today

there is not any particularly strong evidence that study of the humanities make people good people. the elites of many brutal empires were extremely well-read!

i know the sexy and fun thing to do is say you'll punch anyone you see wearing google glasses but even if it's more boring i'd rather people talk more broadly about how to set meaningful expectations of privacy e.g. japan's regulations requiring cell phones make a loud snap when taking a photo

Between this and the absolute permeation of the chili pepper in Asian cuisines the mesoamerican/andean culinary victory is essentially without exception

I had to write about Horses for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/horses-indie...

baby steps

listening to bass music on the train is such a funny experience because the rumbling of the train drowns out all the bass so you're just listening to music instead

getting tetris effected with baby steps flashbacks whenever i see a divot in a stone staircase or when i feel my foot slip a little bit walking on slush

part of the reason i am genuinely irritated with the gAI/AGI cult is because there is real societal benefits in using ML techniques in medical care + weather analysis, and instead people get annoyed with anything that gets lumped in with the plagiarism machine

on a completely selfish note thank you to everyone who has switched from spotify to youtube for listening to my music, my streaming payouts from youtube have apparently doubled in the last few months

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw. ( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

Not kidding when I say they should fund the free buses by actually enforcing driving and parking rules. Walk around any neighborhood of NYC for an hour and you will witness ~30 ticketable offenses. Everyone will get around faster if people follow the rules. Iron-fist it. Cameras on every stoplight.

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

Half-life 1 is 27 years old today! Good day to revisit Valve's 25th Anniversary celebration content, and @lambdageneration.com 's fun little browser-based Half-life adventure game hl25.lambdageneration.com www.half-life.com/en/halflife/...

I'm still occupied with game development, but I do miss the ZX Spectrum. Hopefully I can return eventually when I have time. #zxspectrum #pixelart #ドット絵

at the airport

i still don't feel like i understand what people are referring to when they say something has "analog warmth"

selling a plugin that's just a waveshaper preset for $160 msrp in 2025 is not great but i guess maybe the knowledge and experience you need to pick that preset is worth that much. using a bunch of buzzwords and deliberately avoiding saying that it's just a waveshaper makes that price a scam though

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

29 long years have passed since I founded the emulation archive, Zophar's Domain, on 11.9.96. To this very day, the site still stands as a testament to an era that never actually disappeared but continues to live in the hearts of retrogamers all over the word. Emulation Forever!

it's so frustrating how basically everyone working on technology "innovations" these days believes that we only think with words and that we only perceive the world with our eyes

It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves. A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...

finished my 3rd playthrough of baby steps. i wasn't able to complete every challenge but i finished a lot more of them than i did before, and i also beat the manbreaker, which they aren't kidding when they say that finishing it gives you one of the hugest feelings of accomplishment in all of gaming

To the charge that it doesn't fit in: I don't think it's supposed to. Sometimes we should add new idiosyncratic, monumental buildings/spaces

one of the most annoying things about youtube is non-optional auto-translation of everything on a page to your selected language and defaulting auto-dubbing to "on". It's practically a low-key insistence that no other languages exist. anyway I tried this extension to stop that bs n it seems to work

starting a 3rd playthrough of baby steps because i love this weird ugly game so much, definitely my favorite game I've played this year

autechre croptop...

looking at japanese flip phones again and wishing that they worked with non-japanese cell networks

just found out that this part of japan has so many golf courses what the hell

there is mechsploitation everywhere for those with the eyes to see them

it's that time of year again where I'm wearing tshirt shorts and mittens

watching someone perform with a laptop or a bunch of synths/keyboards is uniquely boring because just about every other instrument has the visually interesting part facing the audience, or at least decorates the part facing the audience

autechre live went crazy i was not prepared for it to be a 2 hour set though lol

thank you to the people who upload classical music recordings to youtube with a tasteful amount of compression so that you can actually hear the quiet parts when you're not listening on a dedicated home hifi system in a quiet house with your full attention

finally ready to share REGOLITH! download the .tic file here: tic80.com/play?cart=4290

maybe if i deepen my current interest in islamic art I'll finally have the motivation to sit down and learn arabic like I've been wanting to for years