EA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest

@speckbrummsel.bsky.social hänge bei level 42. nimmt man die kirsche, steckt man unten fest, mit oder ohne trauben. die trauben kann man scheinbar nicht zuerst nehmen.

Before the Storm, painting by George Callaghan, Irish artist.

Split Fiction is fun, but we think the pacing could be better. Too many breathless segments in sequence. Not enough puzzles. So instead, we find ourselves taking breaks early because it's quickly "too much for one evening".

a good way to fight ignorance is, whenever an ignorant person appears, to say, in subtext, "shut up and go away". this will quieten ignorance and make it disappear, so that we may all bask in the golden light of undisturbed lucidity.

The PC Gaming cambrian explosion began 13 years ago. Up until July 2013, there were 10-30 releases on Steam every month. Now there are *thousands*, a number that is still growing constantly. And I have dedicated myself to trying to keep track of what's happening, because I am apparently an idiot.

today's alex-mega-gamedev-tip: one of my favourite passtimes is getting deep into design thoughts on whatever im working on; on walks, in the shower. but dont let the thinking get more than about 1 day ahead of the process of actually making it. any more, and you're probably wasting your time... 🧵

the roaring 20s. the swinging 60s. every decade gets its own adjective. i propose: the dirty 00s.

by Eureka S1E7 it becomes clear that this is indeed a sci-fi vision of small towns. the star trek among the x-filey twin peakses, if you will. with a dash of gilmore girls banter.

My A/C Guy when I call in March: Great to hear from you, I'll get you taken care of! Thank you for your business! My A/C guy when I call in August: I'll do the best I can fucker! Ahhhhhhh

Das Druffikantenstadl #VPofIdeas

i got Split Fiction for my birthday!

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

Normalize describing a vector's direction without regard to its length

cognitive offloading is ok when you offload to a human being. with their consent. because they have limits, limits that also protect you from becoming The Laziest Fuck On Earth

jkr shows how you can still be white trash with a million bucks in your account

Friend, who chose The Amulet of Great Wealth: Haven't seen you since The Choosing, how's life? Me, who chose The Amulet of Creativity: I'm great man yeah all good super good

Never tire of seeing people who are absolutely merciless in their disdain for popular culture and unflinching in their scorn for ideological nonconformity taking a lil' break from Frankfurt Schoolery and delivering a paean to Andor's representation of antiimperialist struggle as a treat

finally got a link to share with people who try and say "oh you DON'T LIKE AI??? what about ALPHAFOLD!!!!" as if it has anything to do with any of this AI capex

Engadget@engadget.com · last wk.

DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.

"I've traveled the world and the seven seas Everybody's looking for something" — it's the Eros' Journey!

Gotta make you own fun😁#b3d

SIGGRAPH 2026 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2026/07/26/s.... I'll continue to add to the list as more things show up online.

feels like a good time to remind people of this

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

@speckbrummsel.bsky.social bin jetzt auch bei snakebird level 26. ein echter kopfkratzer.

Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...

Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.

cnbc.com