orson welles if he lived several more decades: This game supports and uses an autosave feature. Please do not turn off the power or close the game when the autosave icon is displayed. ...Now you want me to do a 'funny' take. Why? For what purpose. Am I informing the players or am I entertainment.

Where does the “it’s not x, it’s y” come from? It’s not only training data: LLMs are trained to use language to arrive at “answers.” Whatever we’re incentivizing and disincentivizing in our use of language when we resist “sounding like AI” has big implications for students, and for human thought.

If you don't have time to read it, the tl;dr is, if there are educational content creators you value, let them know. They might write, make videos, or anything else. Times are tough, and talented people are fading away. A few encouraging words from a real person can make a huge difference.

More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a lot from over the years feel like they are speaking into a void, to the point where they are losing motivation to continue making content, which got me to write my first post on my site in over a year... www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell...

This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

I've been known to use the former; adding the latter to my idolect now.

Great thread - and I really like the term "porridge" used like this

✨ I just released a new (free!) tool for creating custom Bézier curves! courses.joshwcomeau.com/tools/bezier It has one special feature that I haven’t seen anywhere else, and it allows us to do something pretty cool. 🧵

Some areas in Paper Mario feature a rim lighting effect that is achieved in a manner that is extremely simple for the surprisingly effective results it produces, being simply shifting around a shadow copy of the sprite.

Oh I kinda love this

✨ Tomorrow’s the day! After 18+ months of work, Whimsical Animations will be releasing to the public. 😄 I just sent a FAQ about the course to everyone on my newsletter. If you have any questions about it, they might be answered here:

I'd watch this Moneyball sequel

A selection of floor burgers from various beat 'em up games.

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Fascinating paper. "For example, P1 shared, “I was just trying to frame a sentence in my mind when I saw the suggestion.” This speed often outpaced participants’ own ideation and sentence planning."

Here is an easy solution: Food stains are humiliating, as they suggest you're a little baby who can't feed themselves. Oil stains, such as those you'd get from working on your car, suggest you're tough, independent, and skilled. Thus, simply cover your food stains with used motor oil.

Picked up a nice little frame for the four-leafed clover I found when I was 11.

When I was an editor, I had a rule: no "Betteridge" headlines. I mean, come on.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

I know a lot of researchers who should know AAT exists. “A disabled-led, unapologetically intersectional transcription and closed captioning social enterprise offering transcription support for researchers, by researchers.”

important on LLMs for academics: 1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems 2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism 3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills 4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution 5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI 6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

This is all great framing:

Hamilton walked so Operation Mincemeat could run.

See also @thalkowski.bsky.social !

In case you missed it: my full, free, open course on accessibility and visualization is out!

Thanks to the new Patreon feature, you can buy direct access to the Mini-Reverse Design: Paper Mario. No subscription required. It's in 3 parts. www.patreon.com/posts/mini-r...

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

My son and I are on the final chapter of this and the whole game has been excellent!

In celebration of @whmpodcast.bsky.social coming to the UK, I've put together a mini webapp that lets you enter your country, streaming services and Patreon level, and see which WHM episodes cover movies and TV episodes you can already stream: whm-whatcaniwatch.pages.dev