Interesting report. AI Bots are now using up more of the Internet than Humans. I've got nothing good say about this except it is interesting comparing the traffic cycles of USA vs India where USA has has a short "high" during the day compared the sustained high during India's daylight hours.

Did you know we use quasars everyday? I didn’t. This video is both fascinating and rather concerning. Okay. Super concerning. But the part about quasars is super cool.

I did not have hedge funds trying to exit out of AI by doing an overpriced IPO and raiding 401ks by forcing index funds to buy AI stock on my retirement plan bingo card.

I hope everyone is safe. Just having done ARG games in class with my students, I'm all, "this is a great setup for an ARG conspiracy theory", in my head. I have to get back to making ordinary games now..

Done with teaching for the school year! Still got grading and capstone but wow, this year I started it looking like I was in my 50s and ended it looking like I was in my 60s. I had a lot of awesome students, with two good celebration classes of their achievements today.

Well this is a good idea for a newspaper!

I’m still not over how that power company told the community that they’d have to find a different company to provide their electricity because the data center would take too much of theirs. They didn’t tell the data center to find a different power company. They told the humans.

I have lots of thoughts on book 8 of Dungeon Crawler Carl. But you don’t want to hear me rant on about that. Go read the series. Especially if you are in game dev.

Yeah, I think we're going to see more of this - the big corps are determined to enshittify themselves into non-existence, or at a bare minimum creating powerful new competitors that only exist due to their own greed / incompetence.

Okay, hear me out. I would wear that jacket.

I don't even know what to think of this. "Hey, look, see, the millions of fans you already have that REALLY love this series isn't what we are looking for" seems like a really strange take.

This is what happens when you become known as the teacher who uses old board games with missing pieces for their class.

I love this station (except the stairs down to this platform), the light coming in, watching people, feeling history in its bones and the future in the carriages. Great painting.

Okay. One more time without my home address (thank you @jmsaunde.bsky.social). Each of these is a different card in my classes CCG game. Awesome work by my students.

Well that’s an insta back.

Today in class we were making an ARG. I got through talking about an old documentary called Alternative 3 from 1977 which scared me to death when it came out and then shared it was considered fake. My slides went off script at that point and this played (me talking not in video).

Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

Class tomorrow should be fun!

I managed to get some League of Legends Rift cards at retail price! Yes, I'm that much of a nerd.

Watched the season finale of For All Mankind. For all its drama, the alt-history timeline seems to be going better than it is here.

30 years ago the thought of a pile of Graphic Gems hardcovers, a backlog of Dr. Dobbs, and a NEXTSTEP machine was the absolute dream. I was pretty weird.

Voted (CA). That was one long ass list of candidates. The drop off station here was actually quite busy. A good sign I think.

I scroll through "the feed" I see people being put down, just for existing. I feel a bit helpless to make a difference (beyond vote), but it is on all of us to find something, however small, even if it's just making sure all voices are represented, with consent and input, in the game I'm writing.

Are these sonic booms in the news real or marketing for Disclosure Day? Sad I can’t even tell these days.

Life goes at 1 second per second. That's all we get and it adds up. When you are young it's slow, and when you are older it feels faster. But right now, *waves hands around* it feels glacial.

Something I never expected to see - 2 player Elite for the BBC Micro. It's still very much WIP, but amazing work, as ever, by @markmoxon.bsky.social!

If there's a hell I think the people who "fix" trailers and movies by using AI to change actors to "correct them" should be getting some sort of priority pass.

This is an absolutely glorious mess of brilliance and I am 100% here for it.

I loved Windows XP, it was peak Windows for me because it wasn’t “corporate clean”. Same with macOS El Capitan (although Monterey was also nice). Why we have such poor experiences from modern OSs right now is actually something of a mystery for me. I use KDE Linux, but it’s not quite home yet.

I have to say I am really excited for the retro computer revival. Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, C64, and more. Of course, now I want a VAX 11/780 running on a micro computer inside a VT-100 box. But okay, that's probably a very small crowd...

I know this video is old but it’s one of those times when humans see patterns everywhere. This is why we buy lottery tickets convinced we can win.

Awesome.

Learnt how to use the DTEN for a guest speaker today in my class. I believe that completes my teacher training and I now get a donut.

Well then. Someday there will be a documentary on this whole drama.

Every day I wonder more and more. Am I the scribe standing in the way of the printing press or the scientist who knows the world is round watching everyone suddenly say it’s flat?

Well Spider Noir is rather good. What a great first episode. Nicolas Cage looks great in monochrome.

Bella and I just went outside for our evening check on the night sky and other business. But there was an owl, so we didn't stay outside. We don't mess with owls. Bella stars in quite a few cards from the CCG I made with my awesome students. No owl cards though.

Well this is genius. It’s an Ad Blocker that replaces ad frames with They Live text. Big white frames with one line of words saying things like “CONSUME” and “OBEY”.

Wake up, have my coffee, meet nice new people on Bluesky. Perfect start to the day. Last two weeks of teaching starts today. Very excited about today's slides, we have finished our CCG game and moving onto making an ARG!

History is literally disappearing.

Okay. My crazy idea for today. DOSBOX as a game platform. 1. Get to write in assembly code and boot from BIOS so whole "computer" is yours! 2. One image works anywhere! 3. Did I mention you get to write in assembly code? (also, good idea for a syllabus).

Loved Mandalorian and Grogu. Nice call out to the old Atari arcade game.

This. So much this.

Researchers at the University of Plymouth confirmed what #BoardGame and #RoleplayingGame ( #TTRPG ) enthusiasts have known for decades: #Tabletop #Games "enhance #WellBeing, foster #Inclusion, support #Learning, strong evidence they improve #Engagement." phys.org/news/2026-05...

Hmmm... seems like that Bladerunner Sketchbook was a bit of an influence on younger me... (excellent book btw if you can get it)

Well that's a fun project. I thought for sure it was an old US based clone that came out in the 1980s... but nope, the ST lives! 68060 assembler is fun too.

Oh? You mean the thing philosophers have thought about, authors have written about, film makers have told stories about for over 100 years? This isn’t even Asimov. We are literally doing A Brave New World / 1984 and we are pissed off about it.

Sometimes I wonder when I wake up each night for a few minutes and check on the systems taking me to another star system hundreds of lightyears away. Why did I pick this movie?

PSA. With all these NPM malware attacks you may want to check vscode extensions you use and make sure auto update is off. Better yet it might be time to switch away from vscode. You are basically risking your entire source code every time you open it.