This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

So proud to be contributing to this final episode of The Long Dark - Wintermute 😭

Hah yes this. Some of the books I loved as a teen have really not held up, while others did and are clearly excellent. But there were books I was also just not ready to read, and my opinions on them were a waste of space.

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

5yo: “I’m going to befriend a kind wolf and then I’ll tell him to bite Musk and to eat all of his money and then Musk will become a zeronnaire”

There's something amazing about game designers at the peak of their careers taking time to share advanced techniques. Because they care. Because they know in their hearts that we are in this together.

Musk has always been open about the fact that Grok is meant to push his own biases and ideologies rather than be an actual source of reliable, unbiased information. It is a tool for controlling and influencing the masses. The number of people unaware of (or uncaring about) this is terrifying.

I‘m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Maram. Maram was a kindergarten teacher before this and her family had a farm with many greenhouses. The farm was destroyed and she lost her job. Maram is trying to help her large family including 5 siblings and a nephew, Jood who is only 2.

Samaa’s request is extremely urgent. She and her family need to leave the red zone yesterday. She gave birth to baby Talia via c-section just a week ago, and that’s why they haven’t been able to leave yet. Please help. @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️

Laila has the hardest time getting online because she sold her phone for food but I heard from her friend Motaz that her and her six kids (three of whom are deaf) were able to leave North Gaza but they have essentially nothing- if you can help ❤️

realistic Star Trek

Literature is when the protagonist is also their own antagonist

A combination of two alien invasive species, sika deer and rhododendron, are killing this beautiful native forest in Lauragh, Kerry. The trees can't regenerate due to the overgrazing, and as they age and die, only the proliferating rhodo remains. Invasives are a *top* driver of global nature loss.

Yesterday I saw a small mauve tutu rolling away in the dirt like a tumbleweed It just rolled past me and I didn’t try to catch it Still thinking about it

“That's 40 *cents*. Cents are a form of currency one hundred times smaller than the reál. I'm not even going to take this. Come back when you have 130 reál.” Isn't it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?

Yeah, that's right... an MIT study shows 95 percent of generative AI products fail to provide any real value. No shit. Sloppers live in vain. Stop the slop.

Making ghostly space cyanotypes with the kiddo

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 15th 2025) in less than 9 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy... ...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.

Unsolicited writing advice, no: 216: RESEARCH. If you're writing about a time, place, culture, historical figure, profession, etc., it pays to research it properly. That might mean: reading; travelling; going to libraries and museums; consulting archives; talking to people with lived experience.

will never forget the book set in India by an American author who painstakingly researched everything but then had people across the country flipping light switches up to switch them on when in India you flip down for on and up for off, it's the stuff you don't think needs research that gets you

“There’s a bit of me that thinks part of the magic is that it is actually this combination of stuff that’s working. And we might be losing something the more we try to pick apart the explanations.” “Nature” is a mysterious mix of systems and experiences that we could never reproduce artificially

Being in nature is great for your brain. Scientists are trying to understand exactly why.

I think this is probably the best prediction I’ve seen of what’s going to happen. Because “what’s going to happen” is not best understood by science fiction stories but by economics and “what has happened before in similar markets”.

There is a hard difference between People Who Are Rich, who are people that do things with their riches, and Rich People, who are so defined by their riches that every engagement with the world is for their financial advancement.

but no, let's pump more resources into AI servers so that we can speed this process along. fuck anyone who thinks AI is the solution. our forests are burning. our wildlife is displaced or simply killed. and yet there are still people who think they are above this.

Proud of my former colleagues Unionized Workers At Arkane, A Microsoft-Owned Studio, Demand That Microsoft Divest From Israel’s ‘Sinister Project For Gaza’ - aftermath.site/microsoft-az...

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

The Secret

Great thread. But imho the main similarity is the gender divide: violent men who fucked up the Earth/ women with a child who believe in another world. And the enslavement of fertile bodies as metaphor of what they did to the Earth.

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Rhonda gets it.

The reality of the market right now is you’ve got to spend less while also being better; and in terms of result for cost voice actors are a steal — they are, in general, very very good and given the right design it can pretty efficient to load a huge amount of joyous speech into a game

I misread something as Disco Skyrim "Dragons, are they bourgeois?"

lol you’ve got an AI girlfriend?? ur putting techbros in charge of your relationship??? ok buddy lmfao ok champ

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

“AI is inevitable, we’re just going to have to live with it” sounds a lot like “Covid is inevitable, we’re just going to have to live with it” We’re all being conditioned to accept mass atrocity as normal

56 years ago today: The Eagle Has Landed 🤩

Cleaning out my parents' house / childhood home has me feeling A Certain Way so I just watched Kore-Eda's AFTER LIFE for the umpteenth time - rentable from Apple or streaming on Criterion. Asks the question: if you could only take one memory of your life with you when you die, what would it be?

Once again this proves he can damn well afford to pay authors and other creatives to license their copyright material, as well as punitive compensation for work which Meta has already stolen. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My mom would put me and my sisters on the night train to go spend the holidays at my grandparents’ on the other side of the country. Six beds per cabin. Sleeping bags, blankets and pillows were provided. It was fun and affordable.

This is the second day in a row I’ve shared a teenager- both of whom were mature way beyond their years and it makes me furious they were forced to be so.

Too many aspiring writers have movie brain poisoning and write like they’re showing an establishing shot on screen. Most fiction in English doesn’t have an objective camera eye, usually you’re in somebody’s mind, it’s an advantage we should ruthlessly exploit

Once again pointing to my gigantic sign that says “place descriptions are an element of viewpoint and should be used to reveal character” The lake view a 90-year-old widower whose husband died by drowning sees is not the one a 22-year-old freshly graduated geologist does

If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior. You know what's NOT normal US behavior? This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.

We pay the Lingua director and we would like to pay all of our translation managers, and offer stipends for translators in countries where internet access is expensive. But in this age of extreme excitement about large language models, it is hard to find funding to pay for human translation.