semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

misty eyed about Johnny Chess on nye

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

In essence a language model changes you from a programmer who writes lines of code, to a programmer that manages the context the model has access to, prunes irrelevant things, adds useful material to context, and writes detailed specifications. If that doesn't sound fun to you, you won't enjoy it.

My “aced my weekly medically-mandated cognitive test for the 50th week in a row” plaque has people asking a lot of questions answered by my plaque

barkeep, can i get another activity placemat over here please? (sliding a fifty across the bar) and keep those crayons comin'

2025 was a rough year. But here are five things that were good and made me happy (besides friends and family, taken as givens). What made you happy this year?

Ending 2025 on a high note of finally figuring out the Gordian knot of multiple Switches, Microsoft accounts with Minecraft purchases attached, and various bad decisions made long ago around kid gaming account setups. Something @patrickklepek.bsky.social might be able to appreciate.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

When the player count on the box says 2-8 but everyone knows it’s lying

Happy Nintendo Server Meltdown Day, for those that observe

I love mine, my cupboard was a disaster before

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

got inspired

Love our public library system here in Oregon and their impressive board game collection

Find something for yourself that inspires the kind of joy this woman got from packing cubes

The top selling board game at Essen this year:

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

Someone in a board game discussion group asked about “3-8 second games”, and I suggested Rock Paper Scissors: Legacy as a joke, and now I kinda want to imagine what that would actually look like

In Japan, tourism to Portland, Oregon, is promoted by a grinning blue monster named Odnarodude. He’s at a Portland artisan event in Jiyugaoka De Aone this weekend.

Co-signed

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag “Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management. Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

Enjoying the new series #taskmaster

“And this is one of the things that I don’t love about large language model AI, the notion that you can think about something but then have a machine write it for you because it means you’ve never thought about it.” Great interview with @danthurot.bsky.social talkingshelfspace.com/origin-story...

What the hell is this

I’ve seen many board game stores close in my time, so as I’m sitting with friends playing in the largely-empty second room of a game store while drinking the complimentary soda they offer, my gamer-spidey-sense-of-impending-doom is going off like crazy, not gonna lie.

Played Elysium for the first time, from the olden times of 2015. Moved quickly and had some interesting decisions, I dig it.

Board gamers, remember: when @watchitplayed.tv says “return these other cards to The Box”, in any of his videos, this is always The Box he is referring to

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!" just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement it's 95% now you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

i'm selling a guitar on marketplace and some doorknob offered me a pixelart nft of the same guitar in trade and sent me an image of it and told me it was a 1 of 1 so i downloaded it and replied that now it was a 1 of 2 and this was the last thing he said before i blocked him

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Tigris AND Euphrates? In this economy?

Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September

Now you know.

1800 block of South Western Avenue in Chicago

Back by EXTREMELY popular demand, the TRANS RIGHTS!! tee designed by @kduffles.bsky.social is back again for sale in The Yeteemart, with a portion from each tee sold donated to Transgender Law Center! Pre-order yours now: theyetee.com/transrights

Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Spent a couple lovely days in the woods by the beach at the Oregon coast. Yurts at the state park required making reservations well ahead of time but were worth it, I think my tent camping days were short-lived and behind me

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

AI that sucks up original creative expression made by humans and serves up a regurgitated version without compensating those humans 🤮 AI that can submit medical FSA claims for me and remove the need for me to log into two awful websites repeatedly 🙏🏻

A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:

Coding interviews from people who left government earlier this year, and this is a fantastic quote in response to a question about what DOGE tech folk don't understand.