I'm increasingly convinced that your best PC buying strategy for 2026 is not to buy a 2026 PC, but to look a year or two back instead. Am I wrong? www.pcworld.com/article/3187...

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Some of us did recommend not electing a Nazi but what did we know

Poke, poke.

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

On Saturday I was up at the crack of dawn, out on my kayak on the Delaware River, to get a photo of a wild bald eagle on the 250th. I had to wait for power to come back after the storm to edit it. The original is gone, this is the only form in which this photo exists. Happy belated 4th.

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

It's that time again. And "PC games I can play on minimal hardware" is a category that's only getting more relevant, soooo www.pcworld.com/article/3182...

Quoteskeet with a gif of your fav pokemon! (wrong answers only)

All seen within one mile on the Delaware River near my house, in about 90 minutes. Shot from my kayak. The fuzzy beaver is a baby. I have just been informed that I may now qualify as a Disney Princess.

dreamcast forever 🌀

RSS has been around for decades, but it’s still one of the most powerful tools around to take control of your media and social consumption. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

You can’t own anything physical anymore, everything is digital, you can’t own anything digital now, storage is too expensive, you cant stream anything because they took it off the service once their parent company got bought out, you can’t get a McFlurry because the machine is broken

I've been waiting on this to pop up ever since CES, got an order in last night. It's rechargeable, thinner than the Tile version, and works on Android without a dedicated/branded app. The only downside is needing to replace my Tile tags to get rid of said app, but that's doable.

need some good news? here it is: not only is there a Ghost Dog tabletop roleplaying game based on the film by Jim Jarmusch starring Forest Whitaker, it's fully compatible with the Sailor Moon tabletop roleplaying game 1900hotdog.com/2026/07/nerd...

nige argument! unfortunately, I made a meme in which I'm the chad and you get back problems

Sony is taking this away from us

I need new boxers. Boxers with the same tensile strength in the band and flexibilty of material as my current boxers, because it is an ideal combination for holding my phone against my hip when it's too hot to wear pants. I may have a problem. I may have several problems.

Nice one-two punch of bullshit, Sony

NEW: Companies are deliberately making their AI tools speak like cavemen in an attempt to stop burning through AI tokens and curb their massive expenditure on AI, 404 Media has found. “Caveman save you token, save you money.”

wrote a little essay in response to an extremely vague post about the Pale Blue Dot and Voyager 1, talking about the importance of specificity in science communication and the solipsistic nature of so many astrophotography inspiration-porn memes

Valve Steam Machine single vs. dual-channel configuration testing for memory: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JEl...

this is absolutely the case and an additional reason the SC is illegitimate.

FUN MOVIE FACT: your eyes did not deceive you if thought a key location from MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (2003) looked familiar! It's appeared in many classic Hollywood films for decades. True fans of cinema recognize it immediately as: "The Ocean."

AI has not made any discoveries. Iterative AI models have helped *scientists* make discoveries. No version of LLM (generative or iterative) is autonomous and working under its own direction. Being imprecise with language and allowing AI grifters to co-opt the term “A.I.” in the first place

Here are a bunch of games I love from my own library, 50% off or more for the Steam sale. You can get all ten of them for less than the price of a new AAA game. www.pcworld.com/article/3

Shareholders.

Exodites are really getting tabletop models (before Elder Scrolls 6) God dammit I don't have time or money to actually play this game, but DINOSAUR ELVES IN SPACE youtu.be/HdDh4-dAzBI

Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.

I went back upstream with the good camera. I have christened the beavers "Samson and Delilah." Samson does a pretty good Godzilla impression. Also: eagles. Dammit. I'm finally gonna buy a really good zoom lens.

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

If I was in charge of a political party who lost two of the last three elections to a historically unpopular dipshit, I’d stop paying attention to the people who lost repeatedly.

Wow. Etsy is just DROWNING in AI slop, huh.

when AI companies go bankrupt

We've just updated the SteamOS installation image to 3.8. This update improves compatibility with certain modern systems and includes a first-time setup. help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view... If you have an AMD GPU, you can build your own Steam Machine now! More GPU support being worked on.

Went kayaking after work. Spotted a pair of beavers building, about three miles north of my nearest landing on the Delaware. So freakin' cool.

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

"based on the best available data, the model reached a sobering estimate: The shift toward vehicles with higher hoods caused about 3,000 deaths from 2016 to 2024. The estimate is conservative in many ways." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I really enjoyed Whistler as a presenter. Now I can't click on his videos. If you use AI slop thumbnails and backgrounds, I assume you use AI slop for scripts too. Why wouldn't you?

need some help, AI community! My vibe-coded autoCAD app just keeps rendering models of Snidely Whiplash and then a helper program it wrote goes "teeheehee teeheehee" in like a real wheezy dog voice so like ?

funny how that works

Also, the people advocating for everyone having their real names has never been a woman on the internet. 🫠

pulling this shit in indie ball is grim. hating gay people so much you'd rather go back to working at autozone than be a professional athlete is insane

Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.

The first non-repulsive use of "AI" I've seen in gaming. Not only is is powering an NPC behavior, which makes sense, it's running locally on your own hardware, so you're not roasting the planet to do it. Nvidia and Krafton are pretty repulsive in their own ways, of course.

Thanks, Epic, there's about 100 gigabytes back on my SSD from the uninstall.