If you're trying to ditch NYT Games, which you should be since their games singlehandedly prop up the entire dogshit rag financially, you should switch to Puzzmo. An annual sub is 50% off today for a crazy $19 and as a bonus doesn't enable the genocides of Palestinians and trans people

I find it very funny when prompting image models that the negative prompt is always something like "bad anatomy, extra fingers, low resolution", etc. may as well be "don't mess this up, idiot"

such an own that "BBC Good Food" and "BBC Food" are separate sites

Part of the reason why I’m so insistent about folks understanding AI capabilities is that they’re here to stay and we need to start thinking about what to do in such a world. Putting the genie back in the bottle is a pleasant fantasy that delays serious reckoning

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

just saw an advert describe Real Madrid as "the most successful Spanish football club in the world" which is a fascinating way to phrase that

This is how many conspiracy theories work, by exploiting real anger from legitimate grievances (often downstream from complex, unjust systems) and redirecting it onto scapegoats through simplified “conspiracy” narratives.

I think about the fact that potatoes have only been in Europe for a few hundred years, at least 3 times a week. It's my Roman Empire.

"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN

"journalist" should be a protected title, like "engineer". that if you misrepresent things, you lose your practice

if you think about it, shuffleboard is an anagram of "huffleboards"

tbt the time a drunk was trying to insult one of the bouncers on the high street and got the devastating response "oh look, someone who doesn't matter has said something that isn't true". I often think about this when not replying to tweets

Cryptic crosswords are such a quaintly british pastime.

The Paper is pretty good! I can definitely see it developing into a worthy successor to The Office (US) in time.

tailscale is sooooo good

I think tarot and astrology obviously have no predictive power and it's a bad idea to treat them like they do… …but I think they can maybe be useful, in a similar way to Oblique Strategies. Having a "random seed", encouraging you to think about different aspects of your life, might be beneficial.

If I was at itch, I don't think I'd have the resilience to keep running the site in the face of some of the stuff people are writing in their replies. I've been off Big Internet for a while before joining here; I forgot some people could be so persistently abusive. It's really not on.

This is pretty cool! It's one of those things I always idly wonder about when I'm doing it, so it's nice to have an answer😃 pudding.cool/2025/08/onio...

whenever you have text highlighted in IntelliJ and you press ", it's surrounded with quotes. every text field everywhere should support this, but sadly basically none of them do

Whenever a politician or huckster warns against "trusting the experts", they are usually implying that instead you should just put your trust in them, a single non-expert with ulterior motives and a track record of being wrong.

Why do the narrations for Nintendo Directs sound like that? It sounds really slow paced and condescending to me, like I'm a 6-year old and my parents are gently explaining to me that I shouldn't eat an entire birthday cake with my hands.

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Taking aimless walks is an essential aspect of the process of intellectual labor and people who have never had Truths revealed to them during a walk cannot understand this

TIL that if you wanted to get divorced in England in the early 19th Century, the only way to do so was to get a bill (usually a private members bill) passed in parliament which said you were getting divorced.

It's a bit sad to see some of the vitriol directed at Itch at the moment. I know people are worried, but it's a small team running a passion project and they certainly seem to be trying their best.

RIP to one of my favourite comedians. I'm glad he had a good run. A reminder, to those who don't know, that he dedicated all of his music (recordings, sheet music, and lyrics) to the public domain a while ago: tomlehrersongs.com

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

I suspect that which software engineering methodology you use likely has multiple orders of magnitude less impact on productivity and output quality than how happy and comfortable the developers are; how much autonomy they have to improve their environment; and how driven and curious the culture is.

The centralisation of payment processors is probably the best argument in favour of cryptocurrencies. It's a shame that entire space is completely flooded with cons, swindles, and rackets, otherwise "let's just add ethereum as a payment option for itch.io going forward" might actually be reosonable.

Just seen that in the women's euros there are 7 refereeing officials per game (probably pretty standard). One of them is called the "Assistant Video Assistant Referee 2". Imagine having a job title where the majority of the words are emphasising your relative juniority 😆

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/histori...

Based on some recent conversations, I am pleased to announce ContextSphere 8B, representing a paradigm shift in speed and accuracy of AI: dixonary.co.uk/ai

minecraft mod that replaces the zombie noises with the sound clips from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vow...

Despite the constant insufficient unit test covfefe

this is my all time favourite image caption

a lot of people compare programming to like, writing a recipe or telling a robot to carry out instructions, when what it's really like is getting bugs bunny to tell you whether it's duck season or not, and it always ends up with an anvil falling on you

I recently learned that the words "scientist", "physicist", "linguistics", "ion", "anode", "cathode", "electrode", and "astigmatism" are all only 200 years old and were all coined by the same person, William Whewell. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

We released DuckDB 1.0.0 a little over a year ago with a small easter egg. Since then, no one reported finding it, so we're revealing it: the hash of the DuckDB 1.0.0 binary starts with the duck emoji: 0x1f986 = 🦆.

Announcing RimWorld - Odyssey! Full announcement: store.steampowered.com/news/app/294... Build your own ship and travel across the planet. Explore fungal forests, volcanic fields, and frozen ruins. Raid bunkers, tame new creatures, and launch into orbit to scavenge tech from space wrecks.

Irony is out. Joy is in. Find a niche thing to love and then love it unreservedly.

sisyphus at daily standup: i had to roll back some changes

TIL that ten years ago, FIFA spent over $26mn on a movie about itself, inexplicably starring Tim Roth. It is probably the lowest grossing movie with a theatrical release in US history, taking in only $918 during its opening weekend. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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