Pippa Update:

Love this clip of Vozinha comforting a young crying Cape Verdean fan after the game last night. I'm sure he has inspired so many young kids.

Charlie Update to Pippa Update

Charlie Update to Pippa Update

Nintendo reveals 800,000+ people have now visited the Nintendo Museum https://mynintendonews.com/2026/07/04/nintendo-reveals-800000-people-have-now-visited-the-nintendo-museum/

Today is the 250th anniversary of Boston’s mass inoculation against smallpox on July 3, 1776. The city was effectively closed to commerce from July through September 1776. The mass immunization effort was cheered as evidence of true independence. Here's how I described it in my book:

These beautifully crafted balls, dating to around 1500 BC (18th Dynasty), were made from linen and decorated with vibrant red, blue, and green reed strips. They were likely used not only for play but also in rituals and acrobatic performances. On display at Museum August Kestner 📷 me

Cambridge college swift boxes used for first time. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Imagine travelling thousands of miles just to spend your evenings doing zoomies over the same few houses... It's hard not to be impressed 👇 #SwiftAwarenessWeek

British rail standards have changed recently.

Prime Minister Péter Magyar can move mountains, bring the stars down from the sky, defeat the deeply entrenched, corrupt Viktor Orbán and elicit regime change in Hungary, but one thing he cannot do... ...is beat legendary Hungarian chess grandmaster Judit Polgár. 😊♟️👏🏼

Pippa Update:

Today I became best friends with Pippa. Pippa is the best and she’s one of my best friends.

I have a great story about coffee and roach milk.

British rail standards have changed recently.

Today I became best friends with Pippa. Pippa is the best and she’s one of my best friends.

Well, the kid now has a 1st from Durham. You can see the joy. It’s infectious.

Well, the kid now has a 1st from Durham. You can see the joy. It’s infectious.

Back in the Toon.

Back in the Toon.

The remarkable story of how video game system pioneer Seamus Blackley (@seamus.bsky.social), known as the "father of the Xbox," restored physicist Richard Feynman's iconic family vehicle. The Dodge Tradesman Maxivan was uniquely painted with Feynman diagrams. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/may-...

Superb! #YeastMasters

French archaeologist cracks 4,000-year-old Elamite script from Iran - Tehran Times www.tehrantimes.com/news/527705/...

More relevant to the subject of the book (Egypt): News clippings from the opening of King Tut’s tomb in 1923!

This is my next book restoration project: a c.1910 revised edition of Mrs Beeton’s Household management. Of no great financial value even in immaculate condition, but of sentimental value to me, binding falling apart so badly that it can barely be handled.

I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

New at Bibliothèque ouverte d'égyptologie! My #OpenAccess peer-reviewed article on why Egyptian scribes started writing a 🦶 in front of their "not" word around 1500 BCE. It also explains why the #Coptic adverbial phrase is currently misparsed. #Linguistics #Egyptology zenodo.org/records/2084...

Working the water simulation for 🌳🏡Island Architect🏡🌳, my relaxing sandbox building game. The interaction between the water and simulation is starting to work well, allowing you to build dams and aqueducts! #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

Fucking cool.

Fucking cool.

Im thinking we make a console with a furnace built in to power the graphics. If you want more frame rate, you shovel more coal into it. Maybe she blows, maybe not. But you get a clean 60hz.

@hazelmonforton.com so, did you succeed?

“Holy shit, what the fuck am I doing?” said the 55-year-old Knoxville, who was seen in the footage shrugging at the camera before taking a few shaky steps and then losing his balance as the rest of the cast laughed hysterically in the background.

Big earthquake off northern Honshu. 6+ in the northeast, 2 or so in Tokyo. Rolling, nobody batted an eye.

Do you ever think about how if Socrates were alive today he would be the world’s most annoying Redditor?

when does the cat become prime minister

🧵Thread overview of ALL my publications related to "Cognition and Intractability" in chronological order: 🌟

This whole picture is a photo! It's the sky as viewed through a 6-meter-wide hole at the top of James Turrell's huge new installation The Dome. The light inside this dome keeps changing - and so does the color of the sky, as the day goes by. People like to lie in the dome and stare up.

RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.

It's just over a week to #synthesized at Cambridge and I'm cutting it fine. This new toy arrived today - it's a Juno-6, it's a DX7 and it's all programmable in Python too- and it cost just $29! I have 1 week to understand it, program it, write some music for it and be able to demo it. Wish me luck!

Let your heart be lifted today. Let it fill with joy. But be reminded not to squander the awesome sacrifices of our ancestors.

the reason game dev cycles are taking longer is because you need to login & 2FA into five different things every day to do any work.

When I worked in Singapore at the Centre of Quantum Technologies I went to Cambodia and visited Ta Prohm, an old temple near Angkor Wat. You may have seen it in "Tomb Raider". As nature regains control, it beautifies what it ruins.

Juicero definitely would have pivoted to AI.

Let your heart be lifted today. Let it fill with joy. But be reminded not to squander the awesome sacrifices of our ancestors.

cozyMIDI: my brand new 68k mac application coded in C (and sweat). Plays standard MIDI files assuming you have an external module plugged on the modem port. Runs on a Mac Plus, speed is perfect on a SE/30 and up. Has fun animations during playback (see the 2/2 post in this thread) #macintosh 1/2

Juicero definitely would have pivoted to AI.

@karaswisher.bsky.social Wow. Bravo.

of possible interest to @seamus.bsky.social (for Anubis is always interesting)

We are reverse-engineering the meaning of the 8087's microcode. For more details, see my latest article: www.righto.com/2026/05/micr...