The thesis that "it can't be nonsense if there's a lot of money at stake" is the core of so many of these swindles. It's the investment theory that holds that once a pile of shit gets big enough, there *must* be a pony under it somewhere. 27/

I'm off work til Monday week but seeing a lot of LinkedIn posts pointing out Jonathan Haidt is on that alleged list of members of Peter Thiel's club. Given Australia embarked on the social media ban and associated user surveillance based on Haidt's book, it's an interesting alleged connection.

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A computer can have sentience as a treat: Sentience is a dangerously misunderstood word It JUST means SENSING and DETECTING REDUCTIVE RICH CREEPS who's sole referent is Startrek think it means ALL the other stuff too The words you *actually* want are COGNISANCE (realising) and SAPIENCE (wisdom)

Na sala ao lado, estão as métricas "curtidas" e "número de seguidores".

managers be like "you still coming in today"

Someone should create an economic system that incentivizes the production of useful goods and services instead of scams and swindles

Omph

jesus christ let some people who know about video games be executives instead of fucking actual vampire chattel

At its absolute core, Palantir’s entire business model is selling a ridiculously overpriced object-relational mapping (ORM) wrapper built to sit on top of open-source technology. If you strip away the sleek, dark-mode sci-fi interfaces, the stack is just a towering inferno of architectural debt.

Colour grading mood changes: Rise of the Dragon (Dynamix, 1990) In the OG DOS version, the 'Pleasure Dome' club has a brighter palette and a jazzy feel with the MT-32 soundtrack. The Mega CD port changes the colour grading of the whole game to a moody cyberpunk green and also ups PD's tempo.

She loves to play with the rooster 😭

Who's subscribed to LOADSTAR?

RIP Bobby Prince. this 1993 clip of him explaining the Commander Keen menu music is amazing. worth a watch even if you don't give a rip about Keen. source link below.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1982)

RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.

The *actual* dead economy risk is that our institutions and markets will continue to move capital from productive activity into memestocks, vibes, and bubbles. 19/

true but I think it is even closer to the individual: it was pioneered by those who grew up seeing the erosion of the cozy 'third space' where you're welcome and people hang out. liminal horror is the exact opposite of these feelings, a reflection of what most of our lived reality is nowadays

Caves of Qud’s Jason Grinblat on Writing a Game Like a Wolfe Novel Caves of Qud is not your usual RPG. Last year it won the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work and the Independent Games Festival's award for Excellence in Narrative. That's an unusual amount of literary credibility to rack…

When I was a little kid in the mid 90s I had swim trunks with that exact graphic in the bottom right as the pattern. Obvs as a kid I didn't understand free use image libraries so I thought they made swim trucks based on the first Bowser level in Super Mario 64.

doom doner (forgot to mute the desktop audio lmao so enjoy the pleasant sounds of OFF's soundtrack)

one of the areas in our game, City of None

Going to start a thread of all the areas I worked on for Marathon <3 <3 first up: bioresearch #MarathonTheGame #Marathon

thousands of disabled people, families, kin, organisations and community say ndis cuts are cruel and unfair --> nothing rich folks freak out about paying a fairer amount of tax --> change very clear who government cares about www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

A friend of mine pointed out this is how the Andrew Tate podcast shit blew up with kids. He's very much a child's idea of a manly man, but all of his advice is designed to actively repulse women. But that helps him isolate his listeners who then buy in even more out of it out of desperation.

Oh my god they're trying NFTs again actual brainless industry off your local CEO

Pretending that education is just job training and that it should be stripped of all non-utilitarian elements is one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas. Acting like it's some kind of axiom we should be using to orient ourselves at the moment is disastrously wrong-headed.

If you're wondering why Rockstar is going all out on the GTA 6 cover art reveal its the poisoning news results about them losing their union busting suit

Trumpmerican ethos

this is what i mean when i say ai is a rhetorical technology. functionally this is a tool for *justifying deportation*, not a tool for assessing age. when someone is pitching an ai product, don't ask them what it's supposed to do. ask yourself what it's supposed to justify

Reelism 2 Turbo (yes that is the new name!) is done, and it will drop the instant there is a new stable version of UZDoom I really think we've made one of the best Doom mods ever. I cannot wait to watch people play this together

can't argue with this.

Departing for Thrax.

Deskilling is the point of AI. Rigid subjectivities, which skilled work produces, are less desirable to the capitalist order whose entire existence is predicated on managing crises tied to and created by capital flows. It’s much easier to manage malleable, liquid subjectivities of instant ‘experts’.

shoutout to the guy who uploaded this photo with a free license 20 years ago

If you love old-school pre-metroidvanaia era #Castlevania then you owe it to yourself to check out "The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest" by @programancer.com This fires up on all cylinders when it comes to Castlevania awesomeness Demo's out tomorrow #retrogaming #pixelart #gaming #indiegame

Windows 95 Plus! Theme - Dangerous Creatures

avoid the noid, screenshot, dos, ega (1989) www.mobygames.com/game/1095/av...

I hope someone, somewhere cracks down on this shit. It’s basically akin to breaking into someone’s shop and stealing all their wares to sell elsewhere. Another example of why GenAI sucks and should be taken down.

Often see people talk about how they like "small games" and that's almost always about small weird indie games. But there's another type if games that are usually small and weird, ARCADE GAMES! Been playing a lot of these lately and there's a lot of cool stuff in there.

Recently finished tweaking my RabbitRunner mod for #Selaco and I'm gonna do a super self indulgent run of it because I wanna and I'm an adult. Come enjoy me obliterating some nerds with a rabbit and fists. LIVE NOW @ www.nuclearhog.farm

I was digging around on wikipedia today and happened to come across this very good painting of Fancy Men Bamboozled By Egg

it's hard to find a video game worth writing about at @1900hotdog.bsky.social because gamers are obsessive and everything's been done to death. but today i bring you something truly grotesque: Skunny Hardnut, which is somehow not a DOS porno game 1900hotdog.com/2026/06/nerd...

me when I kill the enemy holiday with a goo splatter with spirit burn and mystic reverb from across the map

pretty funny that humans across the ages just generally agree that cats are allowed to do whatever the fuck they want

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...