Replayed Metroid Zero Mission last night and it made me realize the thing I like about 2D Metroids is how *fast* they are. The backtracking and exploring doesn’t feel as bad as it could because Samus moves quickly and any abilities you get make you faster. I want more Metroidvanias with that speed

"so excited for this artists new era" dawg its just an album. thats what an album is

100%. Join your local solidarity orgs, stay on top of actions that are happening in your area. I expect Seattle is a target this year.

absolutely insane. ash made the verge my go to site to check every day. please hire her someone else

Also this is a reminder that the respectable influential liberals on this website celebrated Machado winning the Nobel Peace Prize, despite her openly being a fascist who loves Trump and agrees with him on everything including invading Venezuela to do regime change.

This is a classic dark UX pattern that Microsoft Edge has used ever since Bing Chat (now Copilot) was added. It opened the AI sidepanel if you just hovered the mouse over it. Edge doesn't (always) do that now, but the button is still purposefully bigger and more colorful than other toolbar buttons.

The more passive he is, the less control over the situation he will have. This is a feedback loop

the replies to this are so insane. people have zero clue what they’re talking about and it drives me mad

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

i accidentally wrote the perfect eight words in an outline

YOU - “Our lives are very different from each other.” JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”

I am a cybersecurity professional who gets consulted on travel policy and my professional opinion is that travel to the US is not currently worth the risk for most non-US persons

Via @status.news

This good-natured, 34-year-old, Muslim, immigrant man—who the Times bemoaned was too young and radical to “get anything done”—has accomplished more good governance in a *week* on the job than most liberal politicians accomplish in their whole careers. With a smile & a joyful heart. A blessing.

Self-driving gets pushed back yet again. We're not going to solve car dependency with robots; we need to provide more alternatives to driving - and discourage avoidable car use - especially for the enormous number of short, single-occupant trips

Just the White House referencing “which way, western man” by William gayley Simpson (published by the National Alliance, the Neo Nazi group led by white nationalist William Luther Pierce of Turner Diaries fame) AND threatening Greenland in the same tweet.

This morning, I visited the site of an encampment in Ballard that was scheduled to be removed because I wanted to understand in detail for myself what’s working and not working in our current approach. I decided to extend the deadline. Read more: wilson.seattle.gov/2026/01/14/m...

finding out Will Stancil is a Honda Fit guy who does genuine praxis is the most optimistic I've felt about a true left-lib coalition in my entire lifetime

I miss the days of NewGrounds. By now, we'd have a dozen Flash games that let you punch a cartoon Tony Dokoupil in the dick

just 2 years ago I had organizers in my circle who felt all tech was bad and wouldn't even join a google meet call now in my own group and others people are talking about self-hosting tools hopefully won't take another 2 years to realize how hard it is to host infrastructure of any consequence

best example i’ve seen so far of why rightwingers are intent on owned and directly controlling every level of information distribution, they want to control us all and how we think and percieve the world

If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit

99% chance this is what they mean

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

administration of a Linux system is done by editing text files, since pretty much all settings of the system are a defined in some text file. this quirk has, by accident, turned into a UX superpower in the age of text-based AIs, which will fix your problem... by asking it to do so.

𝙳𝙴𝙷𝚄𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙸𝚉𝙴 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁𝚂𝙴𝙻𝙵 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙵𝙰𝙲𝙴 𝚃𝙾 𝙱𝙻𝙾𝙾𝙳𝚂𝙷𝙴𝙳 𝙳𝙴𝙷𝚄𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙸𝚉𝙴 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁𝚂𝙴𝙻𝙵 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙵𝙰𝙲𝙴 𝚃𝙾 𝙱𝙻𝙾𝙾𝙳𝚂𝙷𝙴𝙳 𝙳𝙴𝙷𝚄𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙸𝚉𝙴 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁𝚂𝙴𝙻𝙵 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙵𝙰𝙲𝙴 𝚃𝙾 𝙱𝙻𝙾𝙾𝙳𝚂𝙷𝙴𝙳 𝙳𝙴𝙷𝚄𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙸𝚉𝙴 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁𝚂𝙴𝙻𝙵 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙵𝙰𝙲𝙴 𝚃𝙾 𝙱𝙻𝙾𝙾𝙳𝚂𝙷𝙴𝙳 𝙳𝙴𝙷𝚄𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙸𝚉𝙴 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁𝚂𝙴𝙻𝙵 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙵𝙰𝙲𝙴 𝚃𝙾 𝙱𝙻𝙾𝙾𝙳𝚂𝙷𝙴𝙳 𝙳𝙴𝙷𝚄𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙸𝚉𝙴 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁𝚂𝙴𝙻𝙵 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙵𝙰𝙲𝙴 𝚃𝙾 𝙱𝙻𝙾𝙾𝙳𝚂𝙷𝙴𝙳

just under the time limit let's goooooooooooooo

I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, ads, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.

i think very often people conflate the idea that one product is how everything works. that’s not true. there is a massive gulf of quality between like github copilot and claude code, even if you’re using Opus 4.5 on both

What makes something like Claude Code work is you fulfill the role of the agent. You tell it where to go and what to do. If you’re skilled at swe you can erect some automated steering (tests, linting, etc), and you can even have it build that automation but you still have to steer it.

An agent is a little guy who wants something and tries to get it. LLMs just aren’t that. They’re not guys and they want nothing and don’t try to do anything. But you can set them up so that they do convincing impressions of agents in a demo.

this doesnt really change anything about the app as long as local libraries dont purchase ai-generated ebooks to have in their catalgoues, lol? not sure why people are upset.

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

An upsetting portion of people literally do not consider politics beyond aesthetics they apply to themselves, like debating over which sticker to put on their water bottle.

Congrats to all of the Liberal Zionists on your hard, racist work making Palestinian liberation the bogeyman while the real threat to us Jews were right in front of your fucking faces

Abolish ICE

notice how Men is purposefully not included

This is why the fascists are so obsessed with propping each other up and setting up their international crypto empires. They correctly understand that, once ejected into exile, they will need to once again recuperate and launch another offensive. They benefit from cooperating on this.

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

Benefit of being a millennial is I can say without a single doubt that things were actually better before social media became the cornerstone of everyone’s life

i'm just not sure it's worth it for spark or any newcomer service to have shared social graphs they would be drowning in graph records that are for the most part, irrelevant to their service

we have been way too tolerant of cowards: we should be demanding that far more people in power who claim to be against the murderous evil of MAGA meet the standard currently being demonstrated by Jerome Fucking Powell

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

the DSA, the Federal Reserve, and the ladies who lunch have formed a popular front — it remains only to see if any elected Democrats will join them.