Seamus’ bread adventures are a warm glow of light in this dark timeline we find ourselves in.

It hits different on the actual hardware. It was a real work of creative and technical genius. Making a game like that was HARD. That team was fucking amazing.

Come for the hairstyle, stay for the bad jokes. I forgot about this; and I never like interviews I do. But Alex is the cofounder of Bungie and a real guy who knows how hard doing things is. Anyway I suck but Alex is great. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgh3...

You will note the little white cardboard box that the free-floating video card is resting against to insulate it from the motherboard. It’s connected by a handmade cable of matched-length hand soldered wires. Somehow it ran full speed.

My hand. What the fuck was I doing with my hand. Am I going to stab my hand into the thing and rip the graphics card out? Am I a hand model? What the hell.

You will note the little white cardboard box that the free-floating video card is resting against to insulate it from the motherboard. It’s connected by a handmade cable of matched-length hand soldered wires. Somehow it ran full speed.

William Hawkins (1895-1990) American Artist

Allow me to interrupt this excellent thread with a fanboy moment for my hero Galois:

www.upstateramblings.com/air-fryer-bl... Posting this because I love you.

www.upstateramblings.com/air-fryer-bl... Posting this because I love you.

May 18, 332 CE: Constantine introduces the annona (bread dole) to his "new" city, Constantinople. It was based on Rome's & diverted grain from Egypt to 80,000 recipients in the city (Chronicon Paschale [Whitby & Whitby 1989], p. 19). archive.org/details/chro... (Bread 🍞 exemplum from Eirenopolis).

Viral pan dumplings, recipe in comments. #mamasunnyeats #foodporn #hoemade 🍜

That thing where Gandalf is just a frail old guy who does some clever tricks. Then some idiot challenges him and learns the hard way. You shall not pass.

It's amazing that besides his famous results Galois had time to write about PSL(2,p) for p = 5,7, and 11. For p = 11 this is the symmetry group of the icosahedron. For p = 7 it's the symmetries of the Klein quartic. But for p = 11 it's connected to the buckyball in a much weirder way! (1/n)

"It will be proved that the conjugacy class M has a natural structure of the graph of a truncated icosahedron. In effect, the model we are proposing for C60 is such that each carbon atom can be labeled by an element of order 11 in PSL(2, 11)..." 😵‍💫 (4/n)

I never knew what was so great about the "great icosahedron". Now I do! Take a regular icosahedron whose vertices have coordinates in ℚ[√5]. Apply the nontrivial element of the Galois group: that is, replace √5 by -√5. You get the great icosahedron! (1/n)

This is almost exactly what the homemade bus in the @xbox.com prototypes looked like except that Ian did a much neater job than me and Drew did in 2000.

Marie Curie, her daughter Irène, and Irène's husband Frédéric all won Nobels on radiation and died of blood cancers. 😢 Marie Curie's notebooks are so radioactive that they may only be opened by people wearing protective suits - and they're stored in lead-lined boxes at the Bibliothèque Nationale!

This is almost exactly what the homemade bus in the @xbox.com prototypes looked like except that Ian did a much neater job than me and Drew did in 2000.

Let’s push this to 1k.

I do like that thing

I think we need to end this anti-fire bigotry. It’s time people understood that being constantly on fire and having a terrifying jet blast of flaming gas for breath doesn’t automatically mean you’re bad at calculus, for example.

“90% of the internet is advertising in disguise. On social media, every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated.” www.vulture.com/article/soci...

For the women done putting themselves last, done putting their ideas on the back burner. What will we achieve together in 10 weeks? You tell me 👇🏽

"B. Cardi B."

Olivia Hallisey created a portable test to detect the Ebola virus using visible chemical changes. The system required neither refrigeration nor complex laboratories and aimed to accelerate diagnoses in regions with limited medical resources.

That thing where Gandalf is just a frail old guy who does some clever tricks. Then some idiot challenges him and learns the hard way. You shall not pass.

This brought me back to the Covid lockdown, following Seamus Blackley on Twitter, and and checking on the wild yeast incubation in the bowl next to flowerpots, before the bloody pigeons got to it.

I knew it. My generation is even more toxic than the one it replaced.

I knew it. My generation is even more toxic than the one it replaced.

I talk about the Pkunk all the time. Is swearing is my superpower? Hm.

Amazon pressured one of its teams to develop an AI game, they scrambled to make it work - then got laid off anyway. A special report on the story of Project Trident: www.eurogamer.net/amazon-ai-ga...

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Amidst the cognitive dissonance of huge buildings and thousands of employees existing as a result of what in my memory is still just a bad slide deck written on a red-eye flight, I decided to ground myself before the meeting by, of course, COLLECTING WILD YEAST on the Microsoft campus. As one does.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PnWu... Don’t know Kidjo? You’re welcome.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PnWu... Don’t know Kidjo? You’re welcome.

Ruth is the shit. Hire her if you’re serious and hardcore as fuck.

LIVESTREAM Today at 5pm UK/noon EDT, I'm joined by Dr Eric Cline to discuss the Amarna Letters and the network of the Late Bronze Age world in the Eastern Mediterranean Don't miss it! (and if you do, it'll be recorded) youtube.com/live/9Gfeg15...

Illustration from "Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks" c/o the "DOCTOR WHO AND THE DALEKS OMNIBUS" (1976). #DoctorWho #DrWho #scifiart #1970s #sciencefiction

<peeks out from under rock> What happened with Jon Blow? What did he do? <returns under rock>

I just somehow heard Belinda by Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart for the first time and my god I love them.

I just somehow heard Belinda by Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart for the first time and my god I love them.

This is important and one to keep an eye on.

hey @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app your boy was shouted out in this video just released today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHk9...

This is important and one to keep an eye on.

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.