Mike Potter
@wthr-mike.bsky.social
Emmy award-winning Indianapolis journalist. Dad, husband and unrepentant nerd. Above-average home chef and below-average woodworker. Opinions are my own. Embracing the healing power of being a sports hater.
My idea of a cozy game is crafting bioswales filled with native pollinator gardens along thriving pedestrian corridors.
Mike Potter@wthr-mike.bsky.social · 10h agoWant a city builder where the focus is on creating sustainable, livable environments. I love my transit simulators, but I think there's space for a game where "moar development only" isn't the primary goal.
Want a city builder where the focus is on creating sustainable, livable environments. I love my transit simulators, but I think there's space for a game where "moar development only" isn't the primary goal.
Hard to overstate how much greenspace improves urban environments, both in terms of quality of life but also things like dealing with stormwater. This is cool!
William Hazen@williamhazen.bsky.social · 10h agoWaking up to the news that KIBI plans to turn a massive surface parking lot, ironically called the Polar Bear Lot, into an urban microforest
Come to Bluesky, where renowned singer-songwriter John Darnielle will celebrate Labor Day by showing you his mono-blue Magic the Gathering deck built for... it looks like Standard?
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · yesterdaythis Labor Day, you owe it to yourself to run my Conniving Jace deck. Make them work for it. How it works: Ledger Shredder lets you draw & discard on the 2nd spell a player casts; Uthros Psionicist & Highspell Bellringer reduce casting cost on 2nd spell; (cont'd)
If you wonder why we have a Labor Day, it's time to learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...
Battle of Blair Mountain - Wikipedia
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Prompt: Name a film that you watched repeatedly as a child. Answer: Land Before Time.
Aryq@nefariousaryq.bsky.social · 2d agoGoonies.
Most people outside of development will not use LLMs very often beyond Google searches and customer service chat bots. Most data centers will never be built. H200s will be distributed like pre-printed Super Bowl shirts for the losing team.
The Pub-Liking Universal Friend@johnb78.bsky.social · 5d agoA lot of people of various ilks are going to be confused when OpenAI and Oracle go bust, SpaceX and Anthropic at best fall below to 10% of current valuations, and LLM use nonetheless keeps growing and getting cheaper because hosted open weight models are fully competitive with hyperscalers already
@tkingfisher.com I will die for Large Francis Building. If something bad happens to Our Friend I'm gunna be pissed!
The USS Abraham Lincoln as it heads to port in Thailand. (📷: AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
“I think it is non-negotiable that you have to use it,” he said. “The economic growth and benefit to people that can come from this, the value to a country, is too high to ignore.” www.cnbc.com/2026/09/02/g...
G20 live updates: OpenAI's Altman says the use of AI is 'non-negotiable'
Follow Day 2 of the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, and ministers discussing AI, policy and trade.
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Wait, I screwed up. I didn't remember my favorite movie of all time came out that year.
Street Explosion in London
ALT: Street Explosion in London
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Mike Potter@wthr-mike.bsky.social · 6d agoWithout saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
Paul Crider@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 6d agoWithout saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old? Had to check the release date, this comes in just under the wire.
Oh boy.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last wk.Free newsletter: We have entered an era of technological hypernormalization, where the tech industry does everything it can to twist our sense of reality to make us ignore the very simple economic problems they're unable to solve. www.wheresyoured.at/hyperscale-n...
The number of people with strong feelings about this boggles my mind.
Jessica Smetana@jessicasmetana.bsky.social · last wk.How do we feel about blurred zoom backgrounds in 2026
I have way more visibility on how my kids are doing than my parents had. I dunno that it is actually helping anything.
It's still Albrot@albrot.party · 2w agoAttention Parents: We will no longer be using MyGrades for progress reports, they will be on RePortz. Discipline & attendance events will be tracked on Spanc. Bus service will be monitored with YELO. These services are accessible through the KidzPortal. You can set up your portal account in MyGrades
Not buildings and not asphalt beds for rivers of distracted drivers but a secret third thing. A third space, if you will.
Cross-laminated Tinder@nickhasthoughts.com · last wk.most downtown streets are six (6) lanes, you could easily take two out of each street and it would be barely noticeable in terms of traffic. two travel lanes and two for parking. there are so many examples of cities that make this work, Indianapolis isn't special!
C&C was peak. I will not be taking questions.
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 2w ago3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3
At least another 5-10 minutes until we get the inevitable Dolly Parton backlash.
Re-reading Catch-22 and I forgot how thirsty this book is. Good lord, Heller.
I'm broadly sympathetic to the notion that LLMs are a fairly niche technology that isn't super useful for most people (only 24% of Americans report using chatbots, in any form, daily). Of course we're instead on the "spreadsheet people" discourse. www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI?
In a random sample of 10,000 webpages collected in July 2026, one-in-ten show signs of being written or substantially edited by AI.
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I will say that when I had the Dark Sun rulebooks back in the day, it was overwhelmingly clear that slavery was a horrible thing that existed as part of the setting's overall aura of apocalyptic horror.
A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 3w agoOk seriously, Hasbro is making Dark Sun and removing the whole "evil mass slavery" from it? *Seriously*?
