cowboy who stubbed his toe:

Here's my crusade for 2026: 1920x1200 resolution is not "2K." That's bullshit and I'm gonna call it out every time I see it. There are far more important things to worry about. And I do. Constantly. But for some reason adding another 10% of pixels and pretending it's double really pisses me off.

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

Can confirm, I worked in a printshop and I frickin' hate printers

Belle: hey Scrooge: sup Belle: left the house again Scrooge: lol Scrooge: did they do the song Belle: 🫠

Check, and check

This hoodie is great, I'm bringing it to CES.

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday

I'm sure I'm not the first or the hundredth to make this observation, but...Walmart ads with the Grinch are "The Lorax says buy an SUV" levels of tone deaf.

Had a chat with Genndy Tartakovsky about how his idea to make Primal's third season about zombies came to be, his grassroots effort to get Black Knight greenlit, and why he wants the future of the animation industry to be driven by bold original works instead of legacy sequels, franchises, and AI.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

Nine of nineteen Google Discover stories in my feed right now are obvious AI slop, auto-generated and parked on abandoned domains. The kind of massive spam and disinformation that machine learning should be able to spot easily. Google, you broke your shit.

Logitech's new Alto Keys K98M keyboard is pretty good, even for mechanical fans. It won't win anyone over if they're used to custom or high-end stuff, but as a gift or a way to dip your toes in, yeah, I'd say it's worth $100. I dig the looks, gasket, and PBT keycaps.

When I ask LLMs to summarise my own work, within two or three turns, it stops doing that, says what it reckons is the most statistically likely combination of words, says I talk about things I don't and misattributes either someone else's work to me, or my work to someone else. Trust it? Fuck off!

If websites can use cookies to improve performance, I can too

Saw a woman in the store with an "emotional support" dog today. That's not a guess on my part, it said "emotional support" on the harness. It was an 80 pound, intact pit bull. Straining against its leash in a crowded big box store. With a muzzle. We need laws against this shit.

90% of these games are on sale right now!

tricorder slow after triOS update

You love to see it.

The thing that continues to amaze me about the AI push is how top-down it is. It seems to always come from the managers and the C-suite. (At least in creative fields, I know some programmers who are genuinely interested.)

oh my god

this is the most "Get a Job, Stay Away From Her" I've ever felt

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

I swear to fucking god mozilla, *everyone hates this idea*. Do NOT succumb to The Fear & the Monetization Disease. You don't need to have a "modern AI browser", at all, ever. You need to be th comany that respects user privacy, meaningful consent, & choice; the one w/ The Browser That Fucking Works

I've been saying for about two years that you shouldn't buy a Windows laptop with less than 16GB of RAM. It isn't enough, both for the OS and modern browsers. I do 5-10 deal posts a week, and I won't write up an 8GB laptop, becuase I don't think anyone should buy it.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.

Great PC games that don't need a graphics card, part 2. There are so many games releasing that for 2025 I've got 20 picks for you.

I had an idea for a D&D wizard subclass that was all about summoning dinosaurs. On a whim I searched DuckDuckGo for "dinosaur wizard." The very first result is a 12-page Kindle "novel," AI-generated cover, AI-generated description text. Despair. Deep, hopeless despair.

all of this AND it all houses an incredible goodreads scoop

note to self: dinosaur wizard

surveillance pricing anakin: From each according to their ability padme: ...to each according to their need anakin:. ... padme: to each according their need, right?

The theme of 2026 is "despair." Would you like an AI agent to help you experience your sense of world-crushing hopelessness? It's only $19.99 a month. Maybe you can win it from a slop casino game, download it on your phone now.

Speed running your business genius certification: - lightly rework slavery - cut benefits - put ads in it - put porn ads in it - make it into a porn app

I'm struggling to think of a single part of the Google/Android experience that hasn't gotten worse since Google (and, to be fair, every other tech company) went all-in on "AI." Discover is a shitshow. Gmail is letting in spam it never did years ago. The Play Store is constant, never-ending garbage.

Love Discord being like "bro you didnt complete any quests this year" yeah man I dont know what those are and I'm working really hard not to have to learn

“Affordability” is not a scam when you literally campaigned on bringing down costs and most people are living paycheck to paycheck #TrumpAffordabilityCrisis

I still love you, Inspiron 710m.

I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being. Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.

Actually somewhat terrifying -- Grok is providing random people's home and work addresses to would-be stalkers futurism.com/artificial-i...

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

The fact that this set almost certainly killed the BlueBrixx Star Trek line, dozens and dozens of ships with deep cuts and three different sizes/prices for most of the hero ships, is a tragedy. BlueBrixx isn't available in the US, where Mega Blocks had Star Trek at the time. Also a tragedy.

If I see generative "AI" slop in your lead image, I assume you used it to write and/or research your article. I look elsewhere.

Contrast these ledes. Left, NYT. Right, Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/us/off...

This article still gets a lot of comments about why the politics of Brave Browser matters. It's the first thing mentioned because Brave *would not exist* if Brendan Eich didn't get kicked out of Mozilla for doubling down on homophobia. That's its origin story.

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it. Everyone, give @skatunenetwork.bsky.social your money. They deserve it.

NYC 🌆 Protest at Rockstar’s NY offices next Friday, Dec 5th with us! We will be there with organizers across the industry — let’s make the fight against their illegal union-busting international ✊ 🗓️ Friday, December 5th ⏰ 5PM onwards 📍 622 Broadway, New York, NY 10012

Got some real "we never intended our long-range, 30-round, semi-automatic rifles to be used to shoot lots of people really fast from a distance" energy here.

"It looks like you're wearing 2000s-era nostalgia. Would you like help with that?" @morphingball.bsky.social gives us the review we've all been waiting for.