For everyone who thought @caseynewton.bsky.social was overreacting when he left the platform, I give you: Substack Nazis. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Today the winter Olympics open. Russia and Belarus are allowed to participate under neutral flag. Picture by Gatis Šļūka

Must-watch: A powerful performance of a pro-immigrant Shakespeare speech by Sir Ian McKellen on Colbert's show; it resonates powerfully today. "This is the strangers' case; And this your mountainish inhumanity." [kottke.org]

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

I knew Unreal Engine was used in Hollywood, but I didnt realize they are using UE3.

A correction for the ages (from The Guardian's review of 'Melania'):

People seem surprised a genocide denier who spent 60 years excusing almost every mass murderer in the world is ok hanging out with a man running an international child sex ring.

I'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded

Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day

Epstein is like pervert forest gump.

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Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

So did Jeffrey Epstein go to DEFCON in 2016 with the former Prime Minister of Israel and the Hyatt Hotels guy along with “4 girls”?

Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

Little thread where I talk about subpixel animation and share some of my own resources I made to study it better. This is a circle I rendered in blender slowly crawling up 2 pixels over the course of 17 frames. I'm showing the aliased version first and I'm going to break down what's happening here

9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

Between Trump on guns now and Bessent on USDJPY, GOP seems to be backing away fast from a Right to Carry?

I'm trying a new "see how well AI image gen is" test. This time I'm going to ask it to draw a map of the world, and then zoom in to Europe, the UK, Yorkshire and York to see when things start to get hazy. All of these are with the free models using the smart/thinking variants. 1/n

Europe is finally waking up to the Trump threat ft.trib.al/eIM3D6S | opinion

Because not using AI tools for what they excel at produces less secure code. For example, they are great at debugging (words.filippo.io/claude-debug...), they can find real issues in code review, they know more math than me, and they can write static analyzers I would have never had the time for.

47 years ago today!

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

I don't think this is the case. Many European security researchers are alarmed precisely because of their deep investment in US networks and communication with US colleagues, many of whom are telling us to be concerned and to seek out alternatives for the sake of our own security.

Okay, wieder upgedatet. Aber Himmel, was ist das, @srfnews.bsky.social? Ihr könnt doch nicht jetzt noch (!) einfach nur sechs „Das sagt …“ machen - ohne auch nur zu erwähnen, geschweige denn zu analysieren, was inzwischen etwa fünf einschlägige Videos dokumentieren? www.srf.ch/news/interna...

There needs to be bigger punishment than this, but it’s a start

On tonight’s White House agenda: Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports. Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.

Vielleicht sollten sich deutsche Nachrichtenmedien die kursierenden Videos aus #Minneapolis, die verschiedene Blickwinkel zeigen, erst einmal anschauen, bevor sie die Lügen des US-Heimatschutzministeriums als ganz normale Aussage wiedergeben.

In my view, repression at home and thuggery abroad - most recently Greenland - are two sides of the same coin. Both reflect the worldview of people who think violence, power, threat and coercion are all that's required to push your agenda through & secure your interests.

This video shows how we developed games for the NES at Software Creations. PC-ED was our in-house IDE that we used to edit/build/deploy/debug our game code on a PC. This demonstration shows me loading up the 6502 source code for NES Wolverine - May 1991. Object code deployed to NES target dev kit.

Trump's Davos speech was the act of a madman and that is the only sensible manner in which it should have been covered iandunt.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Trumps „Friedensrat“ ist kein Friedensprojekt, sondern der Versuch, das UN-System definitiv zu zerschlagen und durch einen Klub aus Auto- und Kleptokraten sowie ein paar Opportunisten zu ersetzen – nach dem Vorbild eines Rats der Mafiabosse. Trump als "capo di tutti capi", sozusagen. 1/4

Für uns Bündner:innen besonders bitter, dass BP Parmelin auch Davos beleidigen musste, um Trump zu gefallen. Zu sagen, "Davos sei ohne Trump nicht wirklich Davos", ist eine absolute Frechheit des Bundespräsidenten. Er müsste sich bei der Gemeinde und der Bevölkerung in Davos entschuldigen. 4/4

Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.

Eklat in Davos: Verwirrter alter Mann stürmt Podium und pöbelt eine Stunde lang herum www.der-postillon.com/2026/01/davo...

Anthropic made a very conscious decision to not do any kind of image or video generation unlike OpenAI and XAI, which 1. cuts off a potentially really ugly legal liability tail, 2. is much cheaper to train and serve, especially without video, and 3. makes the product far more enterprise-friendly.

I will say, a god-level talent, but the footage devoid of the Pingu context could definitely be a scene from Mulholland Drive or Inland Empire.

We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

Ok, this made me chuckle. 58% of Swiss say: “I would like neutrality to be interpreted in such a way that Switzerland can join a defence alliance such as NATO if the threat increases.” Which is a hilarious question & position as joining NATO is the end of neutrality.

International Station xkcd.com/3195/

"What's your favourite Beatles album, then?" "Tough one! I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"

Erkundungsmission in Grönland: Diese 15 Erkenntnisse hat die Bundeswehr gewonnen www.der-postillon.com/2026/01/bund...

Multi-layered “look what you made me do” lie. Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).