Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses. Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.

I’ve seen some of these before but it still blows my mind that this is 116 years ago.

Okay what the hell here's the free version if you have nothing better to do drive.google.com/drive/folder...

cant.stop.laughing

“We don’t actually view AI investment as strongly growth positive,” said Hatzius. “I think there’s a lot of misreporting, actually, of the impact AI investment had on U.S. GDP growth in 2025, and it’s much smaller than is often perceived.”

That's what I'm talking about

This is a moment of awe for me.

I don't know that any social media platform is good for you but the stated intention of the owner of twitter is to make you worse and studies are now showing that he's having some success with that. This isn't esoteric, everyone knows it. So at this point being judgmental about staying there is fine

I say this as a person who does indeed know NGE lore, but if you know NGE lore you're watching Eva wrong. You're meant to watch scenes as they're set to Linkin Park songs by an angsty 14 year old.

"Xbox, like a lot of businesses that aren’t the core AI business, is being sunsetted. They don’t say that, but that’s what’s happening. I expect that the new CEO, Asha Sharma, her job is going to be as a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night." gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...

Any game coders out there want to program for hack/slash game where you play as a croc lady hunting down alchemical moon jesters? Let me know! We need a programmer! (otherwise *i* have to learn coding ;w;) #gamedev

"A gap in US accounting rules allows Big Tech companies to conceal tens of billions of dollars of potential liabilities for their AI data centres, the credit rating agency Moody’s warned... liabilities might not show up anywhere" in the accounting

'A Big F*ck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center www.commondreams.org/news/new-bru...

I am once again wallowing in the title cards for Batman: The Animated Series...for reasons.

the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)

ok had to draw this too

The entire ecosystem of culture war bullshit has completely wrecked the central question of our experience with that art. If The Thing came out in 2023 I’d be like fucking droopy dog going ohhhh please go see the thingggg it’s floppinggg instead of going yo that movie is fucking dope

this is how you de-borb a bird fyi

So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it. WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY

My first non-food service job when I moved to Portland in 2005 was a Production Assistant (cataloging storyboards, not making art!) on the movie Coraline. My boss had worked on James and the Giant Peach, and when I told her that it’s one of my favorite movies, she just friggin GAVE me this-- 1/2

You know how anthropologists love finding interred skeletons with bones that have been broken and safely set, lbecause it shows that real humanity happened there? Old literature is like that too, if you read it.

If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so

last night i had a dream where i was playing a race against cpus in kirby air riders and won, but there was a mechanic where one of the cpus could be randomly revealed to have died in the middle of the race and it would automatically give them first place

I’ve shared some of the remarkable intersection transformations in Barcelona’s “superblock” program many times before, usually as an example of taming cars in cities, and place-making. But as @thetransitguy.com’s before-and-after illustrates, they’re also about greening, cooling & cleaning the city.

Everything from my ~13-year tenure at Polygon is still up, thankfully. But the site's design changed after the Valnet sale, which resulted, bafflingly, in the loss of almost all italics formatting. That is *infuriating* for me, a person who cares deeply about copy editing and visual presentation!

lol, it’s a lot easier to form a tenants union when everyone in the building is in the same group chat

Phil Gonzalez from CBS, welcome to the Verge’s background policy www.theverge.com/policy/88000...

its so cool how good cats are at telling time, you dont even need an alarm clock to be awake 2 hours before their breakfast time

hey chat can I borrow $4,000 real quick

Grok含め、ユーザー投稿型のサービスによる生成AIが絶対にクリーンなり得ない理由はココ。 第三者が勝手に投稿したものもサービス側の規約に同意した扱いになってしまう。

I get not liking Suda 51/Grasshopper’s games but it’s hard to play Romeo Is A Dead Man and not feel a little embarrassed by the lack of ambition and creativity in a lot of games just visually.

we're never gonna be normal again; unless we literally destroy the entire fucking thing.

Pipe cleaners have basically not been used for their stated purpose outside of a small minority for decades

the Black Panthers were right

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

Probably one of the top 10 best comic pages, of all time, ever

There is a Kinda Guy that is absolutely gaga for Gruff-Aesthetic White Guy Who Says Kinda Lefty Things. Their love for this is *not* strategic or instrumental to some end, such a person is an object of intrinsic attraction to them, and a strong one at that. They will rationalise anything for this.

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

as far as purely psychological analyses of the situation go this one seems pretty convincing to me

"Discord is apparently switching age verification providers to Persona due to the bypasses... which means everything they said about it being client-side and face images not being uploaded is now false"

Wow Bukowski is spot on yet again, truly a poet of the common man

I think it's weird you can become a total burned out dopamine addict through overexposure to stimuli but simultaneously enjoy simply walking down to the piers in SF to look at sea lions and go "hahaha yesss" every time they make fucked up noises

AI is not inevitable. If we had sane people in government that were not in thrall to billionaire tech CEOs, LLMs could be regulated, forced to obey existing copyright laws, and banned from places where their use is inappropriate, such as college classes. This should be a moderate position.

Oh. My. God.