It seems more and more like the Lord of the Rings movies were luckily made at the exact right time to catch a convergence of high quality CGI and peak quality practical props and effects.

I gotchu

The Stanford Bunny 3d model is made up of 69,451 triangles. The Infocom in-joke number was 69,105 like "count leaves" in Zork. A difference of 346 triangles made us miss out on a silly running bit.

It's just like MAGA, except it wants a more tolerant, egalitarian society, where everyone has healthcare and the material prerequisites of a life of dignity. I guess from the perspective of the theater critics in media, that difference is invisible.

Opinion Today@opiniontoday.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Democrats are facing their MAGA moment. Good luck containing it. (Henry Olsen, The Washington Post) Gift link: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

MOTORSLICE #1. This game is weird and wacky and amazing. Fight construction equipment with a chainsaw and traverse some kinda massive decaying industrial world with Mirror’s Edge like movement. youtu.be/vXs9541hFpA

MOTORSLICE #1

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Rocket League Unreal Engine 6!!!

“Choose Your Own Adventure” books were great prep for the LLM era. Consider your choices carefully. Some paths lead to treasure. Some lead to instant death.

On a Mac: dash is the dash key en-dash is option+dash em-dash is shift+option+dash. I’m not going to stop using them just because AI follows good typesetting rules.

gem coop update #4: we have an experimental gem source with a 48-hour cooldown built in! there's also updates on what non-gem-coop stuff we've all been up to, as well. gem.coop/updates/4/

It sure would be nice if I could setup spam rules for text messages. Like if the message contains any Unicode font shenanigans: 🚮. Or the phrase “chip in”

The problem is undocumented immigrants you say? So document them bestie. Imagine if the ICE budget was applied to immigration applications and review and heck why not help out the huge backlog of all court cases while we’re at it.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

I guess a lot of PC gamers have really wanted a console all along, but only the right kind of console.

What is it with political donation solicitation text messages obsession with the phrase “chip in”? Is that some thinktank script at work?

Love when @hankgreen.bsky.social makes a video screaming what I have screaming in my head. It's good to not feel so alone.

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

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Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin@murlin.bsky.social · 11mo ago

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Having met with both sides on the current RubyCentral/RubyGems situation, here's my take: - RubyCentral have managed this exceptionally poorly in many ways including removing literally the most active member of the RubyGems organisation by mistake who has declined to return

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade. Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more. You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

My weekend project! Fun command line games and things starting off with the classic game of life. It was a good project to learn the bubbletea and lipgloss libraries from @charm.sh! github.com/sdball/funterm

GitHub - sdball/funterm: Command line fun things to run in the terminal

Command line fun things to run in the terminal. Contribute to sdball/funterm development by creating an account on GitHub.

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If you see this, post something monochromatic

Sam Tung@stung.art · last yr.

If you see this, post something monochromatic

If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research

Maybe it’s because I’m a state legislator, but I’m worried about the under reaction here. She didn’t spend the night on the House floor. She’s being DETAINED AGAINST HER WILL BY REPUBLICANS UNTIL SHE FOLLOWS THEIR ORDERS. This is 🦇 💩

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last yr.

Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

C'mon Netflix I know you have the data.

Did they ask an LLM to find flaws in Vault’s logic and security model? No. They thought though the problem and followed inconsistencies through the system. cyata.ai/blog/crackin...

Cracking the Vault: how we found zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, and authorization in HashiCorp Vault - Cyata | The Control Plane for Agentic Identity

Introduction: when the trust model can’t be trusted Secrets vaults are the backbone of digital infrastructure. They store the credentials, tokens, and certificates that govern access to systems, servi...

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I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

43 hours to raise $8,205 dollars to publish the first All-Black Women Fantasy graphic novel anthology. Omg I can feel it, please share, boost and support this groundbreaking campaign #sdcc #indiecomics #blerd

Rosa Sparks@rosasparks.blacksky.app · last yr.

Check out Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black W by Burning Phoenix Press on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...