rebirth ii

Whatever make it 10 factor authentication.. I don't want to be able to sign into anything ever again

my favorite pieces from 2025

fucking christ

For our Playdate game based on Firewatch, we wanted some collectible Forrest Byrnes posters with a creepy and threatening 60s-70s Smokey Bear aura. Scaring kids into not starting fires. So I made these.

I’ve been feeling this way too, especially seeing account requirements starting to creep their way into the apps for pulling photos from a camera wirelessly; how long before they start removing the SD slots from consumer cameras entirely…?

You're probably aware that modern Santa is mostly an invention of the Coca Cola company but did you know that the drink Sprite is named after Sprite Boy, a sidekick for Santa they tried to introduce in the 40s

We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Pudding Cup! Our entry pool was the strongest ever with close to 100 submissions. Show our 3 winners some love 🫶 on this thread, and check out the full details and honorable mentions at the link: pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

"these aren't bugs to patch—they're features of the architecture" is an excellent summary.

Sorry I didn't respond to your message I opened it 5 seconds after you sent it and forgot to reply while trying to wait an appropriate amount of time to reply

STOP EVERYTHING, NEW US CSB VIDEO the best use of my tax dollars, succinct clear animations showing industrial disasters youtu.be/35FkCArjLU0

I've just launched the demo for my new game Factory 95! It's a retro-Windows inspired automation game about making PowerPoints. You can play it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3987250/... #gamedev #indiegame

I just realized this is why I like watching Search/Party - a youtube channel about sports & politics (S/P, hehe); even tho I'm not at all an avid sports fan >.> Please check it out here and support them if interested: www.youtube.com/@SearchParty

Imagine losing 77 billion dollars

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads

Website Task Flowchart xkcd.com/3175/

I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

Interpreter alignment chart

Dune, 1965

this guy made his son a tiny version of Engineered Garments's FA pants 😭 IG twhattcomethru

ladies

YouTube should come with a no AI option

mood

seen it in other countries too, together with "cyber monday", and this is some first-grade nonsense

The ending to A House of Dynamite (2025) could have been a lot better (and without changing the movie's message) kripken.github.io/blog/movies/...

Today at #ase2025: “The fault in our stats”, or how the majority of notebooks fails to check even the most basic statistical assumptions

"Leftists stop fighting tech and start fighting IP on tech so billionaires and large corps can no longer succeed with monopolizing tech in their hands."-challenge (you would think this challenge to be easy considering fighting IP to seize tech from billionaires once was considered leftist but nope…)

This is still one of the most powerful visualizations I've ever seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zP0...

nori's website is gone now, i would like to share this one part. they're good values, and i will try to carry them with me. you nailed it on all of them. i am proud to have been able to call you a friend

In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead

one of the things that makes me most mad about genAI (and there are many) is we've been told there's not enough money for hiring. but there's billions poured into ai. so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.

It has got me thinking - what percentage of our kids learn less simply because they're hungry? What percentage of our adults act out due to hunger? I think any society that doesn't offer at least some form of free sustenance to all its people is a society shooting itself constantly in the foot

Good old Woz. Good for him.

Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed. I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.

TRISTAN PERICH AND HIS 1-BIT SPEAKER ARMY VERSUS PIPE ORGAN HOLY SHIT www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5h4...

It's on apt. It's literally on Cargo. It's on DockerHub with ads. It's literally on nuget. You can probably find it on snap. Dude it's on portage. It's a Homebrew original. It's on pacman. You can download it on nixpkgs. You can go to pkgsrc and watch it. Log onto the Windows Store right now.

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

My lord, to be able to write science this well. This is like the opening of an econ or law paper. From Donald Hoffman's "The Interface Theory of Perception", sites.socsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/inte...

there should be some kinda way to do things

❤️ Love this ❤️ @mathforge.org has done what I’ve never been organised enough to do myself, and catalogued every #geometrypuzzle I’ve ever posted on social media. It looks amazing!

We've worked on this project for months — excited to finally share it! [Note: The animations are not to scale, and details such as flight paths are simplified to give an illustrative overview of the mission design.] cnn.com/interactive/...

How long before they'd have your dead relatives recommending products

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.

My strong belief is that you should be able to ask a program how it wants to be talked to, so you can: * cross check binary compatibility at runtime * download schemas for codegen or proc gen'd docs * dynamically generate tool paths for a repl/cli lib/api translator

Imagine instead of doing this AI garbage, we actually did the thing it's subtextually doing and working out IP schemes where we didn't jealously hoarde all our systems and art and every person making an open world game didn't have to implement ladders from scratch.