I had a long, honestly pretty spectacular conversation with Antonio Banderas (!!!!) and i think you will really enjoy reading it www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Antonio Banderas’s Acts of Faith

Antonio Banderas on meeting Stephen Sondheim, staging “Godspell” for the Pope, and the thrill, in the new Anthony Bourdain bio-pic, of playing someone “good.”

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This was a fascinating chat. I especially enjoyed digging into Steve’s approach to learning new skills, which has been a constant through the decade+ that I’ve known him.

Steve Lin@stevelin.bsky.social · yesterday

I joined @willsmith.fun to record an episode of the TechPod! We talk about hobbies, collecting, and learning new skills among other things. What's it like to be in the car as we drive an hour to the electronics flea market? This: techpod.content.town/episodes/350...

I joined @willsmith.fun to record an episode of the TechPod! We talk about hobbies, collecting, and learning new skills among other things. What's it like to be in the car as we drive an hour to the electronics flea market? This: techpod.content.town/episodes/350...

Even if you only get halfway through I think Zelda II is worth the experience

Freddie@cabanafred.bsky.social · 3d ago

It took me until I was 40 to realize what Zelda 2 was doing. I now Enjoy it a lot more than I did at 10 but it’s too damn difficult to complete still

We’re at the BFDI/Inanimate Insantiy Tour in LA today and the maker energy that the kids are bringing to this is incredible.

Every time we find out about the negative impact on people’s mental health and cognitive ability when AI gaslights you constantly, I think about the Designer People from Douglas Adams’s brilliant Young Zappos Plays it Safe.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

Suresh reports on his experience talking with hundreds of executives (and, more importantly, their subordinates) about what (if anything) AI is doing for business in an essay entitled "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking": hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... 11/

Wake Up, New Movies with Mikey on a new Benoit Blanc movie! Also, hi hello. nebula.tv/videos/filmj...

FilmJoy — The Many Layers of Wake Up Dead Man

Benoit and Mikey are back once more! Experience a dark and devilish dive into the macabre world of the modern world. Video essays for the soul of mankind!

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The last time someone ran this scam and it blew up, my electric bill quintupled overnight. I wonder how it’s going to screw us this time?

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

I played this during a bunch of playtests and it was good good chaos. Highly recommended!

Sponge Break: Co-op Chaos on a Raft 🧽@goosebyte.bsky.social · 6d ago

Ready. Set. RAFT. Sponge Break is ✨OUT NOW✨ on Steam! Co-op chaos for 1-4 friends. Use physics to navigate rapids, solve puzzles, avoid traps, and dodge more than a few unpleasant surprises... Take the plunge: balor.gg/SpongeBreak

News time! 🚨 On August 9th our Steam version will transform to become BIG HOPS TOGETHER. - Play the full adventure ONLINE with 8 players - Pick up and throw your friends - Tongue swing from other players - Steal items from each other's backpacks - Story and collection progress is shared

This is straight up lifted from a Vernor Vinge novel (Rainbow's End, I think). Nightmarish.

chiller@chiller.eurosky.social · last wk.

This is ... horrific

Don’t sleep on The Incident at Galley House. If you like puzzle games, you’re gonna love it. Even if you don’t, it’s worth checking out to see if maybe you do when they’re really well designed.

One @vinnycaravella.bsky.social and I are playing more Raft this afternoon over at @nextlander.com

Nextlander - Twitch

Come watch Vinny, Brad, and Alex play through the latest games, a slew of classics, and chat with you, the viewer!

twitch.tv

Don’t sleep on The Incident at Galley House. If you like puzzle games, you’re gonna love it. Even if you don’t, it’s worth checking out to see if maybe you do when they’re really well designed.

People who don’t get the appeal of the Steam Machine can’t understand that every attempt I’ve made for decades to have a PC in the living room has inevitably ended up in a situation like this.

Will “Available for Contracts” Smith@willsmith.fun · 2w ago

I don’t understand why the mouse is there, just hanging out.

They come indoors during the winter to stay warm and sometimes end up dying in pretty inconvenient places

I don’t understand why the mouse is there, just hanging out.

It's Monday, which means that back-alley electrician @vinnycaravella.bsky.social and I are Rafting once more on @nextlander.com:

Nextlander - Twitch

Will.Vin.Live?! - Raft (Part 02)

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My Steam Deck game this month has been Rebel Galaxy Outlaw. It's a modernized version of Privateer or Freelancer and captures the space trucker vibe perfectly. I had to do a protontrick (see ProtonDB) to get it working, but the game runs flawlessly on both the Deck and Steam Machine.

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Official Game Site. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw takes place in a greasy, blue-collar world of outlaws, truckers, cops and thieves. Nobody’s saving the universe around here. They’d settle for saving their own ...

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So the corgi nationals race happened ..

I took Toby on a long walk yesterday. He liked the trail above the beach best, I think.

The Last Jedi made $1.3B at the box office.

Richard Newby@richardlnewby.bsky.social · 2w ago

This has always been the case. “Go Woke, Get Broke” has always been clownish untruth. No movie has ever failed because of Black folks, POC, LQBTQ+, or women. There are a myriad of other reasons why some movies fail to connect. But bigoted chuds don’t have that kind of power.

This is happening tomorrow night! This promotional graphic started as a 4:3 flyer made over 10 years ago by a friend of mine that got reconfigured and then I added some text in google slides. This is all homemade jank. NO AI.

Pat Baer@patbaer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Did you know I'm bringing back a version of 404ing It: Breaking (Down) the Internet? It'll be a solo stream on Tuesday, July 21st at 9pm Eastern. I'll be covering a multi-layered prank, an Olympic event that never was, a meme that started in Eurovision (not that one!), and more!

Last night, I dreamed I was competing in a Survivor/Big Brother-style challenge that involved digging stuff out of a 50 gallon drum of fine glitter. It was one of the scariest dreams I've had in a decade.

I think it’s either Patch Adams, Hudson Hawk, or Medicine Man. I’m not sure I could place one below the others.

Defector@defector.com · 3w ago

What's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...

PlayerUnknown's BattleGrounds: Battlegrounds? - Tight, Progressive Squad Play - I'm playing PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS over at https://twitch.tv/notthatwillsmith

NotThatWillSmith - Live on Twitch

PlayerUnknown's BattleGrounds: Battlegrounds? - Tight, Progressive Squad Play | Playing PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS

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I'm Will Smith and this is my favorite feed on bsky.app.

spacecowboy@spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 8mo ago

How to like and pin the feed:

That’s Milton “Cherry Lime” LaCroix to you sir.

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 3w ago

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

Toby is the bendiest corgi I’ve ever seen.

This is a great thread.

Brian Jay Jones@brianjayjones.com · 3w ago

OTD in 1984, The Muppets Take Manhattan was released in theaters. Written and directed by Frank Oz, it would spawn one of the Jim Henson Company's most successful--and unexpected--spinoffs. It would also be the last Muppet film to be released in Jim Henson's lifetime. /1