First time back since 2016. Not going in this time. Been there, done that
James Bareham
@happicamp.bsky.social
Helping humans make great things for other humans linktr.ee/happicamp
Ever since I saw the first trailer for Taika Waititi’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, it has felt decidedly discordant with its cozy dystopian source material. Maybe, I hoped, the film would be more thoughtful in full. Apparently not apple.news/AJtzfIHvfQES...
Taika Waititi’s ‘Klara and the Sun’ Doesn’t Understand Kazuo Ishiguro’s Book — Vanity Fair
A close read of the differences between the adaptation and its source material, with bonus commentary from Ishiguro himself.
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Never ceases to amaze me that the tech people who say they're inspired by sci-fi books and movies seemed to have almost, but not quite, utterly failed to grasp even a modicum of understanding of the warnings in said sci-fi books and films www.wired.com/story/cool-c...
Cool, Cool, Cool, Palmer Luckey and Ben Lamm Made a Genetically Modified Military Dog Startup
Warhound came out of stealth on Wednesday with $200 million in funding and a mission to create “elite working dogs” equipped with "advanced body armor."
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Thinking of starting a YouTube channel where I stream myself playing FromSoft games while drinking Yamazaki Japanese whisky 🥃
I made a list of over 50 words from Mervyn Peake’s ‘Titus Groan’ that I’d never seen before or couldn’t remember the meaning of. Some, like “apparisoned” and “catalyptic,” appear nowhere else. I adore them all. Read more in my hot goth summer essay mbh4h.substack.com/p/dark-souls...
The new supercar announced yesterday is genuinely one of the most technically stunning, beautifully designed cars I have seen in years. No, not that one; the Porsche Mission S newsroom.porsche.com/en/2026/prod...
Porsche Mission S: the essence of the sports car reinterpreted
As part of its ‘Sportwagenschmiede ’35’ strategic realignment, Porsche is presenting a forward-looking vision model as a first glimpse of the brand's evolved design identity.
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At last, this bizarre trend of writing entirely in lowercase is explained—and no, as the son of an English teacher, I will not be joining in www.wired.com/story/the-ca...
the case for lowercase
a certain kind of person writes in all lowercase now. why?
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Every day, in every way, the headline writers’ jobs at The Onion get just a little bit harder www.businessinsider.com/ai-researche...,
AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO
Some AI believers expect the technology to make smoking-related health risks like cancer a thing of the past, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said.
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Can we all please acknowledge that the @wired.com art department are on fire right now and I for one applaud them www.wired.com/story/icann-...
The Internet Runs on Cats and Porn. It’s About to Get Cattier and Pornier
Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.
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My hot goth summer with a 15-year-old TV show, a 15-year-old video game, and an 80-year-old novel: 'Game of Thrones', 'Dark Souls', and 'Titus Groan'. Three ancient buildings cut from the same stone, yet none of them feel old. Gothic fantasy is seriously my shit mbh4h.substack.com/p/dark-souls...
How Game of Thrones and Dark Souls echo eighty years of gothic decay
My hot goth summer.
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I, for one, am not falling for it. I've read and watched enough sci-fi to know that just because they're cute doesn't mean they won't kill us all
I remember Battersea Power Station derelict and under threat. I once got driven through it in a rally car; it felt post-apocalyptic. Now it's protected, beautifully restored and Apple's UK headquarters, with its first live music venue beneath it. Progress is awesome www.theverge.com/tech/998581/...
Apple’s first live music venue is opening beneath its UK headquarters
Say hello to Apple Music Hall
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Glad to see LEGO maintaining its relentless quest to bankrupt me as I, the willing supplicant, continue to beg them to take my money. I mean, who doesn't want a LEGO Godzilla? ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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OK, this folding animation on the iPhone Duo is stunningly impressive. Am I going to buy one? Hell no—at least, not yet
Pairing this image with this headline is as exquisite as Chateaubriand with a '61 Pétrus
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 2mo agoNorway considers ban on camera-enabled wearable ‘pervert glasses’
The Dusk Bloods looks like FromSoft combined the best of Dark Souls/Elden Ring with Bloodborne. I am losing my goddamn mind over how wonderful this game looks. I'm generally not a huge fan of multiplayer, but this looks WAY more fun than Elden Ring Nightreign youtu.be/rh2XRuhlHNY?...
I Played 12 Hours of The Duskbloods
YouTube video by VaatiVidya
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I get it, brand updates are tricky. I also get the need to refresh the Instagram logo. But as if we needed proof that people don't read anymore (and kerning and letterform criticisms aside), that's not how Rs work. The 'r' looks like a 'z,' so Instagzam it is
Buddy Pine (from The Incredibles) could have written Zuckerberg's new 6,500-word AI manifesto. Read his monologue to Mr Incredible and you'll never unsee Zuck as Buddy: "I'll sell my inventions so everyone can have powers... and when everyone's super, no one will be." www.meta.com/thefutureisf...
If you want to read something beautiful today, this is the perfect place to start theunsaidjapan.substack.com/p/the-calm-y...
The Calm You Want Comes Twice a Day
On nagi（凪） — the name Japanese gives the pause when two winds trade places, and the sea goes still because the air is changing its mind.
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The gods of design and gaming combined to help me create some VERY moody art for this week’s Post Games. What larks!
Team that ships dumb idea realizes it was dumb to ship the dumb idea
404 Media@404media.co · 3mo agoUPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...
Even in this era of dumb ways to integrate AI that nobody wants, this dumb idea seems particularly dumb
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 3mo agoTook me seconds to make an image showing 'protesters' around Google buildings, using Google Earth's new AI generation tool. You can make bomb blasts, protesters, drone strikes, nuclear plants. How on earth did Google think this was a good idea www.404media.co/google-earth...
At last, we get to see what Apple TV’s ‘Neuromancer’ looks like (and it looks very good) youtu.be/g79GPZSQHBk?...
Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
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GameDiscoverCo Show is officially launched! A weekly update on games business, discovery, and trends for industry folks and all of the real sickos
The GameDiscoverCo Show
Visual Arts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · How do PC and console games get popular? Hosted by GameDiscoverCo founder Simon Carless & Polygon co-founder and Post Games/The Besties co-host Chris Plante, t...
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The first production Luce, Chassis 0, is a one-off all-white model from Ferrari Tailor Made. Very Kubrick—it also reminds me of the white Peugeot 205 GTI I had in 1988. Now that was a stunning car www.wallpaper.com/transportati...
First-ever production Ferrari Luce goes up for sale at RM Sotheby’s
Ferrari Luce Chassis 0 has been given the Ferrari Tailor Made treatment, creating this uniquely sensual white-on-white car
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I don't know, with AI-exposed stocks accounting for approximately 40-45% of the S&P 500's total market capitalization, this seems like potentially a big deal
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew from 404 Media: we've got leaks from Amazon, GitHub, Adobe, Citi, and more. The big takeaway is that companies in all industries are suddenly throttling their employees' AI use because AI is actually too expensive. Cutting off access to some models entirely www.404media.co/companies-ar...
Writing about reading Neuromancer for the first time, then being retweeted by William Gibson, is like unlocking a hidden level in this video game called life
James Bareham@happicamp.bsky.social · 4mo agoNeuromancer, William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel, was first released exactly 42 years ago today. I read it for the first time in 2025. It holds up remarkably well and is remarkably prescient about AI—so much so that I wrote an essay about just how uncanny it is at times. I also made art
