instead of a fanboy the ideal creative director for lucasfilm is someone who doesn’t give a shit about star wars but does care about making good movies and TV

It was 1GW ~18 months ago? Here's to 4GW a month in 12-18 months time

if you manufacture a device that makes a noise that noise should be fully customizable

This is one of the best of these I’ve seen. It really almost got me.

Currently reading a study about influenza aerosol transmission, published in 2020 and shows more RNA copies (log scale) in fine aerosol fraction. In 2020… and we still haven’t sorted out air safety in hospitals, and we are still whinging about flu being such a big problem (which it is).

they're doing it for gender, imo

So I've been learning deep learning NNs for data science from the fast.ai course, and while it took a bit to get my head around some stuff, it makes me feel a bit more sane in an NN-crazed time.

second degree murder, and specifically depraved heart murder, wherein the accused doesn't actively plan to kill a specific person or people but acts with callous disregard for human life - like firing a gun into a crowd or driving drunk - should apply to decisions made by CEOs and heads of industry

Someone yesterday told me they overheard the cops saying they'd arrest us if we marched, but I think because we were stationary in a public place and not blocking any roads or access to anything - that we were not doing anything illegal.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

This excellent film may start a little slow, but stick with it. It's a powerful short documentary about neo-colonial exploitation in the digital economy.

The amount of “this is clearly about oil” posting across all platforms as story after story comes out where the oil industry is saying that the oil isn’t worth extracting is making me feel a little insane

some sketchy concepts for my *big thing*

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Podcast listeners who like audio REALLY like audio. I polled the Post Game Patreon on whether they'd like video episodes or a more focused audio experience. 98% voted for audio But, as Kirk gets at here, the pull to reach beyond your base is real. It's a tricky balance, especially for solo creators

Never ever teach the algorithm what you like

'How much does the aurora borealis weigh?" It's pretty light.

This article is fascinating but as someone who recovered from an eating disorder the idea of "morphological freedom" is sort of terrifying. Individuals are prone to morphological pathology and doctors aren't gatekeepers when they're trying to protect against that.

Not For Human Consumption: An extinction-level event for obesity, and the birthing of a new medical transhumanism – delivered in Chinese peptide raves at a dollar a gram open.substack.com/pub/vectorcu...

One of my biggest fascinations in machine learning is the unrolling and deciphering of the Herculaneum Scrolls. Anyway just found out the 21 y/o who won $740k out of the $1m prize for their work on discerning ink letters went on to work for DOGE eww

Nine Delights 2026

i am rooting as much as is appropriate for mamdani to be an effective mayor because if he manages it, he will be an important model and national leader for american progressives — one part fiorello la guardia, one part robert la folette

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

to be clear the joke I am making here is about how both Nabokov and Stephenson’s prose is designed to be dynamic to enthrall the reader and then discomfort them with that enthrallment but that many readers get stuck on part one

re: how people socialise in rural areas where bars and houses are spread out. The thing is, they shouldn't be spread out! Historical rural towns had houses and taverns close together -- you would travel out to your field @ day. Not live on your field and travel to the bar @ night, like it is today.

SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

#resistance www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Imagine not needing to drive a car ever, because you can walk or bike to every place you need, and if you have to go further, there are buses and trains. If only such a place could exist.

please enjoy this vision of 2026 from 'What's the World Coming To?' (1926), a silent film offering a terrifying glimpse 100 years into the future... where gender has been destroyed we have five days left to do this and bring back big hats

ive been playing caves of qud for five minutes and my pet just exploded

I think abundance as a book is a weak analysis but ideas like transit and density offer a lot to rural towns! Density and transit are big factors in small town thriving, in Australia at least. (+ remote working allowing workers to seek non-local employment but I suspect Ahlman might not like it)

What is the game you played in 2025 that made you really go “wow, that’s what game writing can accomplish!” I spent a lot of this year in a tabletop fugue, and a lot of the video games I did play just didn’t work for me. So here, in the time of holiday sales, I ask for your recommendations.

Special holiday shoutout to 102.7 FM Triple R Naarm/Melb. So many of our music recs these days come from random tunes we hear on RRR. (And yes I am an annual subscriber). Fuck Big Tech, independent radio is more vital than ever 💕

8 nuclear subs have sunk due to incidents, which is a lot when you consider there's been no submarine warfare since 1945

just 30 to 40 trillion cells in a trenchcoat

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

One of my favorite lines about AI — not LLMs but human-like digital intelligence — was said to me almost a decade ago by @galaxykate.bsky.social for a piece I wrote for Vice. www.vice.com/en/article/w...

Hanson is calling for tougher hate speech laws, while she is currently in court trying to appeal against her loss in a hate speech legal case. A fact not mentioned by a single outlet covering this story.

fav thing about camping is how it teaches you to value drinkable water again. then you get to a house and all this clean water comes out of a tap and you’re like holy shit

While true, Tokyo is an ugly city while New York is a beautiful one. I'm not convinced that people in low density cities who fear a loss of amenity look to Tokyo as their desired outcome. Are there no affordable, dense and beautiful cities? Why not?

So, to be clear, what the Coalition and their mates in the press are demanding is to intensify the precise approach that led to this security failure.

Importantly, the book makes it clear she didn't start out thinking she was lying, but as an overconfident dunning-kruger novice convinced she could invent mini blood tests by throwing money at development. When it turned out med sci doesn't work like a software product, she started scamming instead.

Cicero's effectiveness as a lawyer was entirely down to stuff that's illegal for lawyers to do today: tons of hearsay, speculation, insinuation, leading witnesses, irrelevant accusations. Just dirty tricks all the way down.

The Palia beta literally had unreal mannequins as NPC placeholders! This is good for development! You do not want overly rendered placeholders, it completely hurts the foundation evaluation of your game. Grayboxing is simple and ugly ON PURPOSE

we solved platonic philosophy and they’d rather license Elsa giving Goofy a blowjob

it is always going to drive me insane that we discovered a mathematical model of the conception of all human language and ketamine-brained billionaires have decided that its best use is writing scam emails. go to hell

I thought of this on my drive home tonight and it had to be depicted

Sifter’s annual list of every Australian made videogame is out. These are a crucial resource and I’m so glad they do it every year.