O right I fixed the boxfighter netplay. Probably. Other people playtesting it is the only way to be sure

the cool thing about how the borg works in star trek voyager - aside from being at least as lesbian-coded as several linux distro families - is that it clearly presents a collectivist vision for society from the perspective of an individualist one, but more fairly than is typical of that society

IDK on the one hand you can run arch on a minipc and play most games that have ever been made in human history for like $100 but on the other hand the economy is so broken that I have no idea if that's even considered affordable

IGN@ign.com · 5d ago

The $500 console is dead. Even after the RAM crisis ends, the era of affordable gaming hardware is gone for good. https://bit.ly/3ROAvpc

sick haul today

being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.

couldn't hurt

Once in a while I really gotta hand it to star trek for taking extremely contrarian but correct ethical positions, like "lying to children isn't better than lying in general it's worse"

All change is destructive. No matter how broken something is, someone or something is relying on how it currently works. This doesn't mean you never can or should change anything, but it does mean that you have to account for all the effects of what you're doing, not just the ones you intend

issue: rice became unstable after third cooking

The thing about someone ‘improperly receiving benefits’ is I don’t care. Oh no did someone get food or health care? Good!

Feedback latency increases when decisions outpace feedback. The impact: we spend a lot more time climbing the wrong trees, and it costs a lot more to change our minds. There are 2 ways to decrease that latency: 1. Accelerate feedback 2. Decelerate execution 1 is hard to do. 2 is hard to sell.

went to a music show and I guess someone was big mad online after that there was like, apparently briefly a mosh pit in the standing section, during one band's set, in a venue with a very large and accessible open seating area from which the whole stage was visible. really makes you think

It seems like to get ahead in a low-trust, high-noise environment, the only viable strategy is to constantly make shit up in public. Like if no one is fact-checking anything, whoever's loud wins, right? While you're still trying to figure out what happened, NYT has already published a thinkpiece

Unironically no one who has been concerned about "wokeifying" anything has ever been worth taking seriously except of course sometimes as a threat to freedom and human rights everywhere

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 4w ago

Somebody (Rebecca Onion) didn't read the books. If they read the books, they would know the Black doctor is in the books. He nurses the Ingalls family through malaria. He's based on a real Black doctor who lived near the Ingalls family in Independence, KS, REBECCA ONION slate.com/culture/2026...

Actually when people with progressive aims start borrowing this playbook even a little bit all the talking heads with gazillionaire backers start a moral panic about "cancel culture" or whatever

Gareth Watkins@garethwatkins.bsky.social · last mo.

People want to hear this even less, but the left/liberals need to study the TERF movement as an example of wildly successful organising and cultural engineering by an extremely niche, mostly online micro-community.

I tell people who hit on me I have trust issues but actually I think my level of trust is well-calibrated for the abysmal average-case outcome of someone being attracted to me - whether I reciprocate, reject, or ignore it - and every fast lane heuristic for vetting exceptions has been a mistake

the internet is a machine that turns grievance and atomization into rumination and narrative formation and narratives are a hell of a drug

I think there's a lot of space for nuance about the pragmatics and ethics of language processing technologies, but I have no respect nor time and energy to argue with people who honestly buy into the idea that model distillation via public APIs is wrong but that training on the public internet isn't

I have a job right now, and I've been some kinda dev for like 14 years and have credentials and experience and skills, but the tech industry has been reshaping its entire culture for most of this decade with the monomaniacal aim of making anyone not rich precarious, so I always appreciate help

Lauren Theisen@laurentheisen.bsky.social · last mo.

speaking generally, I think the no. 1 thing you can do as a cis ally is help a trans woman get a job

sewing on a button is really easy! cutting and sewing a buttonhole is... proving much more difficult this too is a fractal metaphor

the way to get things done in america is pushing the boundaries of extremism and waiting for pundits to asymptotically approach your position and call it moderate unrelatedly, I want to state for the record that the plain text of the constitution is that all multicellular organisms are US citizens

I hope today is a stark reminder why "I will follow the law" was an absolutely horrible way to respond to a question about trans rights.

there's no such thing as a good billionaire. all rich bitches love building the state surveillance apparatus

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4mo ago

Social media companies have shown us they won't step up, so Illinois is stepping in. It's time to pass the Children's Social Media Safety Act.

"conservative" communications strategy is aptly described as "flooding the zone", and relies on lies and incoherent emotional appeals to people marinating in conspiracy theories they have paid millions to spread. the idea that we need to take them seriously is offensive to any honest person

thunderstorms are for soup and chill projects like sewing buttonholes or installing linux

I keep being struck by how, in a different world, this could be a cute little mistake of overeager folly. Perhaps one where C-suites didn't do this with the aim of destabilizing hundreds of thousands of workers' lives, not to dare dream of one where that wasn't in their purview to do at all

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · last mo.

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

did... did people ever not hate kids? adults sneered at millenials' taste as teenagers, abused kids' legal status, voted to reduce it further to "protect" us, peer pressured less tyrannical parents, blamed us for every bad thing. my parents remember this as kids too. people hate kids a lot

Rachel (loves LA, always will)@rachelpowers.myatproto.social · last mo.

Everyone has started talking about teen takeovers and it’s like Gen X all over again. The culture is back to hating kids.

disbanding and prosecuting the supreme court is the moderate position

the FGC has a word for people who yap constantly about their brilliant strategies, then lose, and try to take to the internet to rationalize their nonsense don't be a scrub. read the room or lose the mandate of heaven

sorry, my advisor told me to avoid squares, swinger's clubs, really low-poly circles of any kind