The time of the year to pause the Paramore loops and loop The Mountain Goats. Depressing music with hopeful vibes will continue until moral improves

woman who is basically god voiced by inoue kikuko: well met little spark. do you remember the basics of CQC. *you fight her to the death*

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

shel silverstein was a prophet

"Why do we have to take ethics classes for a computer science degree?" This is why. And frankly, we should be failing more students for inadequately demonstrating their understanding of the topic. Let's review some fun historical examples of why "No, actually quality will continue to matter."

yes Discworld made me a better person and those three quotes get to the core of it - a sort of outraged decency from a man angry at the state of the world and the cruelty therein who also knew what we were capable of at our best

December 25th. The day the Fellowship departs Rivendell to destroy the One Ring. Whatever you celebrate, may you have the courage to take the first steps to defy and endure against the dark, and rekindle light into the world.

low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like. we forget these things at our peril

THIS ISN’T CALL OF DUTY WE PROCURE MILITARY PLATFORMS BASED ON THEIR UTILITY IT DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE

HERES THE REEVEEAALL!! Warhammer and Polly-Pocket (or i guess in this case Mighty Max) Are together at last! This is a project i've had in the back of my mind for YEARS so im super pleased to finally have it done, and i gotta say it's been the most fun to play with lol #warhammer #warhammer40k

"From the fans that brought you 'low-poly grapes' and 'smooth rock' comes the newest meme: "

This is my frustration as someone who adores solving problems with algorithms! I can write a simple spreadsheet formula or complex programs using massive databases and both with the rigor of exhaustive testing to ensure that they work flawlessly. Or, a machine that can lie. How is that a choice?

I finally finished writing up the blog post on this. have a look if you'd like to know more about how I made it #gameDev #indieDev #renPy #python puddraws.neocities.org/blog/match-3...

y'all on here really gotta learn how to repost the supportive shit too

...I doubt Tolkien was thinking about that with Saruman & Gandalf but it's a context that works for Gandalf. He actively seeks out the company of grounded people, people who like him but think he's just the guy who does neat fireworks.

I was thinking about rockstars, celebrities & billionaires & how messed up the minds get & so, how messed up wizards would be if wizards were real. Imagine, guys who actually were magic & could distort reality - what would that do to their heads, their egos? 'Reality distortion fields' but real...

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

When you're hoping for "old man yells at cloud" and not "war were declared"

People need to understand that working in games is a "theme park job." Everyone on the outside sees the rides and the mascot suits and assumes it's a fun day out, five days a week. It can be fun, but it's still work. But it's that flawed perception that leads to studios taking advantage of workers.

Brotherhood of Stealing your Food. "Just try to tell me to get off of the counter now!"

good morning - my working hypothesis is that Morgan will be able to make cool safari builds 50 years past when they go out of style dylan-miles.com/vehicle-deta...

May I just say that the hard line @alaskaairlines.bsky.social takes with enforcing their "You must use headphones or silence your device" policy is GLORIOUS and I wish flight attendants on other carriers showed the same initiative in caring for other passengers by enforcing a similar rule. 🔇

Dam break at the Green River levee. komonews.com/news/local/f... Tukwila, Kent, Renton (Includes the IKEA.)

LRS In my most dystopian of moods I never considered "gambling on war" as a thing we'd ever see. A fictional version of Neuromancer where the protag makes a bar bet on a soviet invasion resulting in me throwing my book at the wall

Me leading my battalion on a suicide mission to win the “take hill 67 parlay” with a 30% boost:

militarnyi.com/en/news/neth... I appreciate that at least foreign defense companies are going "ah, so we need CIWS like 30mm cannons to provide air defense against drones" which, imo, seemed like the obvious counter. Not like air-burst 30mm is cheap, but cheaper than missiles and easy to stockpile

This is true but also Pillars II: Deadfire is fantastic and everyone should play it.

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

Jester here, to deliver a very important message from The Traveler this morning. "TBBBBBBBBBBPT!"💦 #CriticalRole #TheMightyNein

The advantage of a democracy is not that the people never make a bad choice. The advantage is that no one is stuck with the bad choice for decades unless they *keep making it.*

Booting up Destiny 2 after not touching it for over a year is always like:

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

HAVING THIS ON BY DEFAULT IS A CRIME

This was such a funny story thread by @neolithicsheep.bsky.social that I had to make it a comic.

LRS Also the siren call of "it's not online" and "No ads or algorithms, just whatever media you bought" has to be amazing to someone who otherwise has grown up in a world awash with ads and algorithms pushing you toward whatever they want you to buy today. It's nice to disconnect with an old console

I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30

Red and Blue America the minute they realize that a civil war means that the flow of treats would be disrupted

metroid prime 4 day feels like a good time to remind you that me and samus are both 6'3" #metroid #zerosuitsamus #cosplay

hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone

The biggest surprise here is that "Middle of the Road" is only at 5, because I put that on repeat playing games a lot! Followed closely by nothing by Lights showing up. (Pandora helpfully noted that my most listened to band was "Chvrches" and my most listened to channel was "Chvrches")

Be a fan of any fictional world long enough, and eventually you’ll feel like this:

Ok seriously. Every meeting now. Is he just being old? Did they remix his meds so the Viziers and palace eunuchs can just run wild? Did the ghosts of Epstein Past come to him in the middle of the night robbing him of sleep?

Jester continuing to make the best faces

Did not have Costco being the strongest American institution on my bingo card (I’ll take it)

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.