Before the Challenger exploded, engineers tried to tell their bosses that the o-ring that failed would do exactly that. Their bosses decided their NASA contract - aka the money - was more important than safety and gave the go ahead anyway. I think about that a lot lately.

you should read my article, in which I explain why westerners are obsessed with a completely fictional idea of 'honor culture,' where it came from, and then repeatedly dunked on pete hegseth

that the president is making unhinged threats of war crimes on easter sunday should be an immediate presidency-ending scandal and that the media is rewriting this as just a normal negotiating tactic should be a career-ending scandal for everyone involved

'Is deltarune metamodern?' is a topic I've been meaning to write about for ages, so I'm glad someone has beaten me to the punch in video form

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I feel like I'm going insane aftermath.site/one-piece-zoro...

This is every Gen. Like the Silent Gen did this. The Jazz age was all this. White people have probably been using slang created by black people since slang was a term. The high five was created by a gay black baseball player named Glenn Burke.

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

the work is the work

Don’t stream, buy music and listen to what you own multiple times. Tidal and Quboz won’t be online forever and you will kick yourself for not having a hard copy MP3 on your harddrive or a physical media collection. Invest in yourself.

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They are huh?

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This This This This. I’m really tired of the idea that games should have additional content, especially free content. I love a good update, or cheeky wee expansion, but devs shouldn’t be working on a game more than a year after launch (as a rule)

An excerpt of an interview with art historian and critic David Sylvester which i think feels relevant to the environment artists find themselves in the digital/social media/algorithmic content age

6 Magic School Anime and Manga to Discover Instead of Thinking About 'Harry Potter' Ever Again

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

gonna speak frankly about this: localization, especially good localization that does the players of that respective language right is expensive and time consuming, often prohibitively so. it's one of those asks that so easily gets dismissed as an easy add that they should do, but it's not

oh hell yea, the Eyewitness series was a core memory. (also this slaps, nice job)

This image is AI generated!!! Stop sharing it!

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

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New trailer for "The Ghost In The Shell" anime series by Science Saru studio. Coming on Prime Video in July 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahZn...

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This is RAOS you can’t do this to RAOS

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

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almost tweeted this but decided i didn’t want to get yelled at by the most boring people alive so you can have it instead

Coconuts

Any use of genAI always reads to me like: “We just used a little bit of shit in our cake because we couldn’t afford chocolate.”

I've been emotional about art and life lately. To me, while I appreciate craft and technique I do think it has to serve an end and that end must be *good* in a real sense. There is no inherent goodness/worth to scale! Who cares about ray-tracing (or w/e) if the *game* doesn't DO SOMETHING?

I love this text post so I drew it

lol. lmao

Hayao Miyazaki has recreated/redrawn 31 scenes from his films in "Panorama Boxes", on display starting July 8 at Ghibli Park. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=toVU...

I still love this scene Nathalie made for the prototype, this was an old church turned into a bar and shelter for people resisting assimilation into heaven’s endless highways. This is where Garter and THRONE would talk to their neighbors and you would pick a mission like Tron Bonne or Armored Core

This is the take I keep coming back to. NVIDIA is going to vomit on itself to impress shareholders and that's fine, that's what corporations do, but I'm hurt by how much Digital Foundry has lost my trust over this. It feels like the worst parts of "access journalism," it's PR disguised as reporting.

[trent reznor singing voice]

Great thread but I also just want more people to look at this animation

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

Since this is sadly relevant again, the literal oldest written epic we know of has the hero sink into a deep introspective depression grieving his dearest friend, before trying to find immortality, failing, and reflecting on the inevitability of loss and death. Circa 2100 BCE.

"Pokemon GO actually one giant front for AI training" is really a microcosm of everything I fucking despise about modern tech & games

Dear Rook, I love you. If you’ve come this far, that’s all I can say. I love you and I love you and I love you, on battlefields, in shadows, in fading ink, on cold ice splashed with the blood of seals. In the rings of trees. In the wreckage of a planet crumbling to space..

wow this fan-made Marathon Timeline website is incredible timeline.bumgie.org