Well, before things with AI go much further, the best time to read Iain M. Banks's Culture series is probably right now.

Everyone hates it when their opponent just leaves the game before it's over, so I've been trying to find ways to soften the blow a little bit. #fightinggame #gamemaker #indiedev

Ball wide mouth jar good. That is all

let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 4d ago

and Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!

Eating humble pie breakfast luncheon dinner

In da oasis got me feeling like Thief (1981)

checking in, yep, still hate job interviews

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

BOURDAIN: so ive had joints of mutton everywhere. exeter, wroexeter, berwick. Ive never seen a joint of mutton prepared like this MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere BOURDAIN: *chuckling* wow

Witnessed a murder on Facebook

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

Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini - Engadget

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Incredible time warp. Listen to this Adobe guy in 1993 saying that pdf will be an open format youtu.be/cPeYlqu22S8?...

Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...

Since I have few better things to do, I setup local LLM on my desktop and found some small models that would fit in 10-ish gigs of VRAM. I get 25tok/sec of either okay summaries I can cross reference or really powerful nonsense

Last night we were visited by a meteorological phenomenon

Just to second this: I find Wilson’s criticisms enlightening as a person who is not at all a trained classicist, but this point, along with a few questioning statements about Nolan’s ability to triangulate his own themes, did hit me weird. I think Nolan did make a meal of The Odyssey, misses and all

Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · last wk.

I do want to pick apart this observation in Emily Wilson's review: "we are not shown that war and killing are bad." This is an odd point to me, given that I found the entire war as presented to be a squalid, poisoned event that has brought everyone involved with it harm despite its glorification

i really enjoyed the odyssey despite agreeing with a lot of emily wilson's criticisms of it (& finding nolan's overly-expository dialogue generally irksome) but she did go a bit angry video game nerd in her review there

Good lord, no quarter was given

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

punkitt ‼️🧣@punkitt.bsky.social · 12mo ago

mucho texto i know but i wanted to write a lil thing about how u can treat yourself nice!!

Over a year ago, we built a prototype for a new Myst Universe game meant for publisher eyes only. This project is NOT in active development, but we're proud of the work the team did, and wanted to share it with you all. Presenting: Project Anglerfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNGt02yZNc

This is the bike of one of the cyclists who was "bumped" by the pick-up truck driver. This sort of language is one way that media outlets downplay traffic violence.

The Durango Herald@durangoherald.bsky.social · 2w ago

Medics and law enforcement responded Tuesday to a crash south of Durango where a pickup truck driver – suspected of impairment – allegedly bumped several road cyclists and seriously injured one.

Had a webserver getting crushed by Claude for some reason. Dug in to the logs and someone made a shitty php hangman game back in 2008, the dipshit computers found it, and were “playing” it 1M+ times a day until I blocked it. The future sucks ass

BREAKING: Guy Behind You At Concert Knows Some Of The Words

ceej@ceej.online · 2w ago

BREAKING: Woman In Front Of You At Concert Wearing Big Stupid Hat

Ideal 40k lore

proletkvlt@proletkvlt.bsky.social · 2w ago

40k is bad for a lot of reasons but I maintain that the worst is trying to grimdark-wash the Tau instead of leaving them as funny cartoon aliens, who are basically Normal in direct contrast to the entire rest of the setting. It was a fun dynamic but noooo they're actually EVIL and SCARY now

Jane is so lazy she only half closes both eyelids when she naps

Sean Clements cameo in The Dink hit me like a jumpscare

I can't believe it finally worked

Nolan's weakness seems to be that he loves story-shape so much, often to the detriment of character or any sort of stylistic flourish that would lend some texture or cultural specificity. Great to watch if you like story shapes, but aggravating to think about over time.