“The Trump administration has ordered a halt to new student visa interviews as it considers requiring foreign students to undergo social media vetting as part of their application to study in the United States, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing a diplomatic cable.” - Reuters news

I feel like there’s like 400 essays in the relationship between “The Myth of Sisyphus” and other absurdist discourse as it relates to generative AI models and the role of artist in society. I think im thinking of it now bc im practicing and i am sisyphus. Help me.

Its 12:30a and i am dying at Grosse Tete absoluty demolishing me with his namesake big head

The gestrals in Clair Obscur are the greatest things ever

Ursula K. Le Guin’s forward in The Left Hand of Darkness being most upfront about sci-fi being descriptive of now, and pointing out the fallacy that sci-fi is predictive makes so much sense. God I love sci-fi

Not me spending 20 minutes trying to figure out why Catch2 won't work and realizing it's because I was using gcc instead of g++ lol

Cheeeese

I would like to learn Spanish to facilitate cafe transactions

John H Benjamin being canonically responsible for tribbles as an act of spite is so ridiculously hilarious and perfect

As a traditionally Javascript/Typescript developer, successfully refactoring C++ makes me feel like god

What on earth did I just start my morning with @tantacrul.bsky.social

Practicing piano and repeating to myself “one must imagine Sisyphus happy one must imagine Sisyphus happy one must imagine Sisyphus…”

Google search making the “Continue” the CTA color every time I search and me hitting it on autopilot makes me so fucking mad im not downloading that stupid app maybe i should just use duck duck go like all the other hipsters

Reading pro-Musk published op eds saying he risked Tesla’s stock health is hilarious because it hand-waves the trend of its decline and public sentiment in the face of Musk’s own rapidly deteriorating public image that preceed even the DOGE fiasco

Ok so like why doesn't the US have a cafe culture. Why is every European city compelling me to sit and drink small espressos but every American city hands me two liters of watered down caffeine to lug around and no public bathrooms

What an insane timeline we live in.

“American Becoming: Making a New U.S. Citizen” out of the National Review makes such a commitment to its trite stream of consciousness flow. Short sentences that never go anywhere, like the worst imitation of Hemingway possible. Why do i read these lol

This Oblivion remake is a fucking mic drop

I don’t think the horror story is what this presidency is doing, because he just does what he said he’d do. I think the horror story is the legislative complacency and the example it sets to embolden other attacks on civil rights in other nations

Iroh says its time to stop tinkering

Other things I did today: working on a rougelite kit for my VGD students coming up in July! #gamedev

Rejecting Javascript and its web framework ecosystem. Rolling my own C++ static site generator to learn new things. Thankfully markup language processors are much less difficult to write than interpreted langauges

Bloody Marys are just an excuse for me to drink copious amounts of the juice left over from pickled peppers and olives

Tesla stocks so bad they're branching out to Minecraft modding

I think duck typing is the worst programming concept ever

Past couple weeks I've been following along Crafting Interpreters by @stuffwithstuff.com which has been really fun. My ulterior motive is to create an even simpler language for my students to use vs GDSCript I feel like the least sane person on the internet when I say: I really HATE GDScript

Never forgetting my mom flaming my dad’s friend’s ingredient-intense bolongese recipe by saying “its just like, the same as from the jar”

Americans always be like “we have no food culture” like my guys y’all introduced me to beef with horseradish, rueben sandwiches, breakfast bagels, and spaghetti and meatballs. I love spaghetti and meatballs. AND CHICKEN PARM. Shiet.

My laser tech geeking out over my skin’s reaction is endlessly endearing

one beer is so much beer

“You don’t understand. Ferengi workers don’t want to stop exploitation. They want to become the ones exploiting” - Rom DS9 S4 E16 Star Trek was never woke :^)

USA implementing isolationist foreign & trade policy and announcing a $200b increase in military spending to a total of 1 trillion is a bad sign :^)

Clinging to my cafe job as if margins in this industry arent narrow enough :^) My heart goes to all the upstart 3rd wave Viet American coffee shops especially WE JUST STARTED TO MAKE IT OUT HERE MAN

Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.

depressing how much AI music is on youtube these days...i saw a Rat Detective mix that was definitely all AI and i was like...man i did that already and actually wrote and played it lol

Hey so what the actual fuck apple.news/AVzbn-y_qTaG...

What in the fuk is Connections blue category today

Send me your #seattle coffee shop recommendations bc for the past few years I’ve felt the coffee here has been lowkey overrated am i just crazy or like??

The Good that Won’t Come Out is such a cold open to The Execution of All Things and Jenny Lewis is such a good songwriter

⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞

The more I work out Jeau d’Eau the less intimidating its structure becomes but still

Starting to tackle Jeux d’Eau by Ravel bc its my favorite piano piece and its very intimidating

Thinking more than 3 days in advance feels impossible. The world feels markedly different, like reality has changed

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if you’re queer and feeling despondent these days, i really can’t recommend reading about our community’s history enough. very little we’re dealing with is new, and there’s so much joy & vitality, you’ll learn about the most fascinating people

Im hoping for all y’all #ECCC cosplayers to show up to my cafe this weekend to break up the usually corpos and normies

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

Me, practicing stuff im supposed to learn: hey this sucks i quit Me, practicing the next chopin etude I’m not even playing for juries, recital, auditions: 40 hours a day im locked in

I tried to talk with an aquarium employee about my very large black tip reef shark plush and he seemed unenthused 😔

American men are so sloppy. Like they really just wake up and chose… whatever that is. Like, what do men think when they look in a mirror? Smdh someone help me exit my misandry era