First off, congratulations on an inarguably successful tenure as Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook. Apple has been first and foremost about craftsmanship, skillfully making precise and beautiful tools on the inside that empower human creativity on the outside. Please keep focused on that, John Ternus.

@ff14.norirow.com I’ve come across your website a couple times now! It’s helpful and very cute! Thank you!

Lithgow previously said he thought Rowling had handled the issue “fairly gracefully.” I don’t doubt that his personal views are pro-trans-rights. That isn’t good enough. You have to also stop treating this as something reasonable people can disagree about.

Corporate America didn’t embrace “diversity” for the sake of good or anything but because the nature of capitalism mean you can’t just be profitable you must always be more profitable than the year before. By extension marketing to everyone was a strategy that yielded results .

remember to set your clocks tonight. time begins at 2 am

@jamies.page I’m so impressed that a fellow chostie wrote a song that got Nerissa to scream “my penis” in a YouTube cover of it. And it’s *also* catchy as hell (though really that was a prereq for the first part lol). amazing work, will pick up some tracks next Bandcamp Friday for sure

@danshive.bsky.social huh, was the Dewitchery Diamond a type of wand?

I'm beginning to realize that when someone proudly presents an AI generated thing to the rest of us it's basically the same thing as a cat presenting a dead mouse

Zohran hits another one out of the park. I want the team behind these videos to travel the country, picking out stories and causes for all of us to cherish and fight for. But they gotta get Zohran elected first. Until it’s done. o7

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month. Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

not even close to a New Yorker, but damn if Zohran doesn’t manage to make me proud of that city anyway.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 3: Earl Manigault When he stepped onto the court, the world watched. No one dunked harder or jumped higher. But the GOAT never made it pro. There are countless NYC stories like his. Brilliant talents lost to drugs or crime. It doesn’t have to be this way.

"Over a decade, Amazon spent about one-tenth of the capex that the Magnificent Seven spent in two years on generative AI building AWS — something that now powers a vast chunk of the web, and has long been Amazon’s most profitable business unit." who thinks LLMs are *currently* worth 10 AWS's?

Why does Apple insist that every iPhone should have the same number of icons on the home screen? Does the Pro Max do it too? Because the Air had the same icon count as my 13 mini, despite much much more screen area

I went by the Apple Store to handle the new phones, and tbh, I want to move on from my 13 mini but all of those feel comically huge and bulky in comparison. 17 Pro feels like a toy. Air is the only one that feels reasonable, and it’s still heavier, just spread out more. Will wait and see for now.

I love that the stars and stripes are coming back into fashion around here, at least in a small way, but to anyone inspired: follow the flag code. the flag is a banner, it is not clothing. do not buy apparel made of cloth with the flag pattern. (I think depictions of the flag are fine personally.)

Meta is planning to spend $600 billion on AI in the next 3 years? Thats $582/US resident/year… Y’all, I think we *might* have let Facebook hoard too much money

@epistemophagy.bsky.social omg thanks for indirectly telling me valerie's on here

this is really the whole thing, isn't it? we, as a culture, are so fucking hooked on the prosperity doctrine that we have to find failings in ourselves and others to explain problems our *children* have. stop trying to sound sciency when you mean to ask "why would God inflict autism on good parents"

dying at the image Apple chose to illustrate their "Roadside assistance via satellite" feature, it's a real Saab story, if you know what I mean

okay, this is some incredible political maneuvering actually

sometimes I wonder if the way to kill a conspiracy theory's power is to prove it right

you ever think about how there's actually a whole thing about censorship in video gaming right now and it seems to be mostly carried by queer peeps and sex workers and basically not at all, as far as I can tell, by the GG folk who made that a rallying cry whenever an ass size got nerfed

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

There is no political center to move to. You do not gain voters outside your base until well after you’ve lost the voters in it. You must motivate the base you have.

Newsom has effectively made his entry into the primaries a referendum on trans rights in the Dem platform. Might actually be a masterwork because it completely hides his fascism in general behind his bigotry in specific. unless people get loud about it later. I won't drop it, at least.

oh yay, *blue* police state intensification if your problem with what Trump's doing in DC is that they're doing it under the behest of a person with an R next to their name instead of a D, please reevaluate

This is a great interview with Brody Phillips, one of the translators that worked on Final Fantasy IX's fantastic localization. Absolutely worth a read! www.timeextension.com/features/int...

superb piece by @interfluidity.com drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/08/20/t...

Giant Squid doing layoffs after SoTS released to glowing reviews is a prime example of how the industry is currently broken.

ugghhhh I'm so tempted to retire a flag while reading The New Colossus and other patriotic mainstays, but I'd at least have to get my hands on an old flag first, and local burn laws are a bit of a bear

Co-signed every bit of this, UChicago is both historically significant and currently firing on all cylinders right up until the suspension of some graduate admissions, it’s a shining jewel of academia in this country, and if it falls it will only be the first to fall.

okay but it's hecking adorable that all the indie game devs I follow are popping into bluesky just to be like "Silksong!" and retreating back into their holes I think the 7 years may have weighed more heavily on them than anyone, a dark cloud of "what if my project never releases either"

I think perhaps one of my problems in not being able to find cohost vibes is that all my favorite cohost people kept actually demented sleep schedules and I’m just never up this late

you ever think about how "crossing the Rubicon" was originally Julius Caesar marching an army into Rome, the mere presence of which became a civil war that ended the Roman Republic and crowned him dictator, and now large amounts of military in DC is supposed to just be normal?

We are on the cusp of AGI, definitely for real

Experimental philosophy

So this guy, who got pissed at a federal officer and threw a sandwich at him, got charged and was having his lawyer ask how to turn himself in, when his house got raided by 20 SWATs and a film crew, who professionally edited a 3 minute promo about it. Defund the police, and their video editor.

you ever think about how Madden career mode is a musume game

have we done any research into replacing people who say "can we replace people with ChatGPT" with ChatGPT? they're so one-note it's gotta be something a chatbot can do easily. maybe we can get ELIZA in on this one.

I feel like the phrases "it takes money to make money" and "the rich get richer" should probably be closer associated. why is the first one charismatic risk-taking individualism and the second one callous boardroom dealing when they're synonymous?

Hey all~ My FC + raiding group, Friendbugs of Eggbug, is recruiting a couple people to join us! We are a _casual_ raiding group. We don't aim to be perfect, we're mostly here to have fun, but we do aim to do our best and improve! Details below, reply if you're interested! #ffxiv #ff14

I remember back on reddit where we'd basically come to a consensus that the average popular AITA post, among many other subreddits, was really a creative writing exercise with very little, if any, truth to it, and now LLMs have made that the case with actual news articles on once-reputable sites

Something something Trump installing an old school nickelodeon that just shows pics of Brazilian Miku and calling it a tariff I dunno I’m tired

My neighbour says leftists keep taking over his social platforms, so I asked him how many social platforms he has, and he said he just finances a new social platform afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding social platforms to leftists at this point and his investors started crying.

Bunny tax, this is Attila the Bun, named for his imperial demeanor, instinct for destruction, and ability to inspire both despair and awe

@hayao.lol if you could hand between 1 and 5 albums on CD to someone who, say, only ever listened to the Silversun Pickups and wanted to hear more of the genre, what would you pick?

Currently cackling about a city-killer sized asteroid coming within 20k miles of earth, which gets closest to earth on: April 13th, 2029. Really. I gotta work on a cosplay I think, that's gonna be one incredible Homestuck anniversary party

ChatGPT has officially infiltrated my workplace, I need to get the heck out of here this isn't tech or tech-adjacent, it's construction, the sort of business that *I* had to get off of printing fullsize blueprints for measurements just a few years ago, now the owner's kid has ChatGPT up