It's going to be real funny if games in 2030 are doing crazy things with inference, but a moderately sized Cities: Skylines 3 city still manages to slow your machine to a crawl.

Citizen Platano 🇵🇷@daniloc.xyz · 3d ago

of course the answer is entertainment the games of 2030 are going to be so fucking weird, you don’t even know agentic engines would allow games to construct novel environments on the same mechanics as procedural generation and roguelikes, with far more depth and sophistication sure. but… weirder

"And please, when I fail, will you tell me? You have the absolute right to cuss me out" but it's coming from my spreadsheet.

Has anyone made a combined @standard.site + bsky reader yet? Seems like there'd be something there -- the whole "oh hey here's a blog post; lemme add it to my long reads feed for later" sort of thing. #atproto

Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology

Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Bauhaus Milhaus

well that sucks. apparently the ALA/Freedom To Read Foundation have trademarks on the phrase "free people read freely", which i use in a lino print i made into stickers a few years ago.

This is sad but also, Airtable's "unsubscribe from these marketing messages" functionality doesn't work unless you escalate to their legal team, and somehow this all feels related.

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 4w ago

Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the US software company at $1.285B, set to close by 2026-end, its first post-IPO deal (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I am not saying we need a Toy Story 6, but if there is a Toy Story 6, maybe Gail should write it.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 4w ago

It's not what you think. It was a stuffed animal. She loved the movie THE LAND BEFORE TIME, and she especially loved the main character, the brontosaurus, Littlefoot. What she really wanted to find when she went back to their home finally was that stuffed animal. 21/

Each year America should get a little infrastructure, as a treat.

Menlo Park is trying to convert public parking lots to housing, and one of the things I find funny is that the local Draeger's, which has its own private lot and is thus unaffected, is complaining a whole lot more than Trader Joe's, which relies on a perpetually cramped public lot.

Was about to get a salad for lunch, had a second thoughs about the mixed greens, got a rice bowl instead. Anyways, I wonder what the cumulative impact of the cyclospora outbreak on calories and fiber intake is.

Taco Bell: Keep Records Más

President Taft descendent former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft slams Trump plan to devastate D.C. cherry trees ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/13/p...

President Taft descendent former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft slams Trump plan to devastate D.C. cherry trees • Ohio Capital Journal

A plan that threatens some historic Washington, D.C., cherry trees to make way for President Trump’s planned golf course is “very unfortunate,” said the great-grandson of William Howard Taft who recei...

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I like a good PWA as much as anyone but (1) a lot of things really don't need to be PWAs and (2) the way Chrome nudges me to install is annoying. "Welcome to my API docs, please install it to your home screen as an app. Uh, no?"

Not the use of the word "detained" here to make it appear as though the settlers have some legal capacity to be doing this. If i ran up on a US Rep with a rifle and prevented them from leaving it would be, correctly, described as kidnapping; and doing so with political ends would be terrorism.

Rob Delaney@robdelaney.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Read this. It’s a big deal. www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/m...

BEST STAR TREK CAPTAIN. WRONG ANSWERS ONLY

Jason "Moominpappa era" Sullivan@jason0x21.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BEST STAR TREK CAPTAIN. WRONG ANSWERS ONLY

Someone is going to create a social network where you have to mail hand-written posts and honestly, it might be kinda awesome?

Dan Gillmor@dangillmor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Huge amount of "long-form" posts on LinkedIn and exTwitter is AI spam. We are being drowned in slop, and the big platforms are fine with that.

not the point but fortune cookies were created by japanese who immigrated to the usa (after the chinese expulsion act) and then were taken over by chinese-american companies after the US put the japanese into internment camps during WWII matryoshka doll of metaphors in there to unpack if so desired

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Marsha Blackburn's new ad is so racist that it makes me wonder if mainstream Republicans could have gotten away with something like this back in the 1980s or 90s.

I find these threads sort of interesting because both sides are coming from a leftish POV but one side views code as labor for which a worker must be fairly compensated and another views code as a form of capital that should be collectively owned and made freely available.

Chris Kluwe@chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Cool cool cool cool cool, as an author, I have to ask - how were the actual coders this language was lifted from compensated?

How the hell is Windows S mode (which blocks installing Chrome) not a massive fucking antitrust violation?

Here is yet one more example. Miller's silhouette is similar to the first Palmolive bottle, whereas he would benefit from having more padding and extension, which would create the second Palmolive bottle.

I feel like I should repost this every day until everyone reposts it every day and demands this simple change with big impact

Koreen Brennan@koreen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

I harbor a special disdain for Gorsuch here, who demonstrates awareness of what the administration is trying to do (and has already done) and why that's bad but just dances around it with a "ah but you didn't ask the question right".

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:

There is a great deal wrong with the world, and yet my brain has fixated on "why are the things I install on my computer called applications but the things I install in my home called appliances?"

One of the things stomping about a modestly sized library impresses upon you is the value of series in which books can be read in any order.

"Are you DoorDash?"

There's a mini trend of boba (or boba-adjacent) tea shops using rectangular shaped containers that don't fit standard cup holders in cars, and I don't like it.