As a huge Dune fan and tech nerd, I always thought that the concept of the Butlerian Jihad was amusingly far-fetched. But after only a few scant years of our primitive "AI" and seeing peoples' reaction to it, I've already done a complete 180. Some sort of future reckoning feels inevitable.

Little thread where I talk about subpixel animation and share some of my own resources I made to study it better. This is a circle I rendered in blender slowly crawling up 2 pixels over the course of 17 frames. I'm showing the aliased version first and I'm going to break down what's happening here

finally published this visual article on dithering (part 1)! I had so much fun and learned a lot while making this. not only about dithering, but also about @threejs.org shaders. as usual, animated with @animejs.com enjoy! 🔗 visualrambling.space/dithering-pa...

Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers: Suzanne Vega x2 (#3 coming up next month) Poe x2 Tori Amos x2 Schoolyard Heroes The Warning

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

Watching Eraserhead before having a child: my god what a harrowing vision of the fears of parenting realized Watching Eraserhead after having a child: Henry just pick the fucking baby up. Pick it up and walk it around. Jesus christ.

I am accidentally researching a topic that finance bros are into and I cannot believe there is a single human alive dumb enough to listen to finance bros. Holy crap how does that industry exist scammers on scammers on dumbass scammers.

First cassette I ever bought, from the local drugstore when I was 7 or 8. Played it on my mono cassette player endlessly, then joined the Columbia record club to start growing my collection. Fell prey to Styx denigrators for many years but have since come back around to appreciate their awesomeness.

Did my yearly Tacoma brewery tour today. Happy to report 3 of the 4 I visited had a black IPAs (aka CDAs) available. Auspicious start to the new year for sure. 😜

I'm so not a game player. Every once in a while I open one of my few mobile games and it immediately spams me with tons of free shit in the hopes I will start binge playing. Even the games I do play (Word Cookies) I'd rather figure it out myself instead of spending the 50k coins I've accumulated.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

this stupid menu does absolutely fuck all. useless.

So very tired, but I couldn't let 2025 end without taking stock of Microsoft's embarrassing treatment of gaming, Windows, and indeed human beings while it chases the AI money train

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Sex Bob-ombadil.

Have to admit that one of my favorite genres of YouTube videos these days is @acollierastro.bsky.social talking about why billionaires are just so incredibly dumb. Because OMG it's so true. People need see beyond the buzzwords and recognize the BS they are spewing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C179...

Whenever I hear that "albums are dead", I think it's incredibly short sighted. In the past, you would buy an album based on a strong single or two, or based on past commitment to an artist. You sank your hard-earned $$$ into it, and when you listened, you would try hard to justify your purchase. 1/3

I seem to be one of the few with no Spotify account, but if I did here's what would be in my wrapped this year: ALT BLK ERA, Apoptygma Berzerk, Perturbator, Depeche Mode, Chevelle, TMBG, Styx, Scars on Broadway, Nothing More, Electric Callboy, Slipknot, Kasabian, Kiki Rockwell, The Warning.

Heh, as an 80s kid I always thought Loverboy was hugely underrated compared to their peers. IMO they deserve a similar level of love to Journey, but seem to be largely forgotten. This was a fun reaction video to "Turn Me Loose", especially the octave jump in verse 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi2h...

Lindsay, as always, does not disappoint.

Fuck, man. I'm sick in my heart about this.

Rob Reiner directed some of the most beloved movies of all time, including Stand By Me, This is Spinal Tap, and The Princess Bride. His production company also made movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise and Michael Clayton. The film industry has lost one of its titans.

Just finished dress rehearsal for this weekend's performances of Messiah. I signed up with yet another choir this year in order to sing it in its entirety with orchestra, and it does not disappoint. 20 choruses and they're honestly all bangers. The real challenge is to not oversing until Sunday!

Been rewatching the BBC Sherlock episodes recently and remarked, "Hey, it's Bilbo and Smaug together again!"

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Sometimes I try using AI to generate assembly code, and the results are always funny, no matter what I ask for

“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them”. Frank Herbert, Dune.

Pedro Pascal in Turbo Pascal

My son just informed me of this, where They Might Be Giants wrote and recorded a song to sync to the Walk This Way video vimeo.com/253025437

As a choral singer I'm super into traditional church music myself, but TBH this is absolutely badass, no notes.

Decided to listen to my random singles collection today. Sadly most are MP3s from Amazon, but it's pretty fascinating cross-section of music I grew up on plus music from the 90s-00s when I moved to the Bay Area plus a smattering of random newer stuff that caught my fancy.

How is this guy still alive 30 years later...?

Oh, cool. I worked on SGU and have many fond memories of the experience so I'm excited to see what comes through the Stargate next. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Here is a Christmas gift months in the making: an RF rip of the greatest magic special in history. Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants, directed by David Mamet, never released on home video, sourced from an internal HBO Production tape sourced by @pulsingcinema.bsky.social: archive.org/details/rick...

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

One thing I've realized in my recent revisiting of early 80s New Wave is that the bassists were totally killing it. From Duran Duran to Kajagoogoo to Heaven 17 and so many more, those bass players were just going crazy (in a good way!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtcL...

Hard to get the wife to watch scary movies, but she did like "Get Out" and "Nope", so I convinced her to watch "Us" tonight. Have to say, it's probably my favorite Peele horror so far. Hits that sweet spot between creepy and high concept with a really original premise.

I think this is really well done: youtu.be/2LYPfMBie9Y?...

Was in the queue but decided to take a pass on getting Rush tickets at $300+ each. It'd be fun to see them again, but I saw them at the same venue for R40 and at the time had made peace with that being my final show. Can't blame them for charging what the market will bear, but not for me this time.

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

Finally finished up season 3 of Wheel of TIme, and wow that was a huge step up from previous seasons. Sadly, just as it was finding its footing, it was cancelled. 😞 I haven't read the books (yet) but they are in my TBR queue and I'm definitely excited to check them out now.

God, "Intergalactic" is a miracle. More songwriters need to use the AAAAAAAAAAA rhyme scheme

Sometimes the YT algorithm gets me in a spooky way. Hadn't thought about this series for years, but I watched it religiously in high school. Sincerely doubt it would hold up today, LOL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=156_...

If your device is connected to the internet, then either (a) you should be able to query the time via NTP, or (b) you should not display the time at all. 🙄

Seattle!! Haven't been this stoked for a concert announcement in a loooong time.