Nicholas Macias

i will bet you 1 million dollars AI isnt allowed cause theyre gonna use it to train AI

don't worry, they keep screenshots and run every word they write through chatGPT, which is legally enjoined from deleting *anything* at present afaik

I made the mistake of clicking through to the NOS site and my gaud the aesthetics are fucking toxic and the pseudo content betrays a certain demographic's arms-distance from culture

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

I mean. Zoom, right? Just vibe code zoom

Spitballing an iteration: two-person team rally game where a card deck is being played by the navigator to change the track / portal between levels / mod the car while the driver does their best to drive

Squinting hard to imagine if that could yet be single player through autopilot, or loops

I keep looking for a chance to prototype “Mario kart plus a card stack” & the transitions from garage to dirt here are so close to how I imagined track switching felt a lil portal like (that’s a card move)

Hmm…

Maybe a word game opportunity: misdirection with pictures to deprogram those early reader instincts.

I think that the three cueing lawsuit was dismissed — so, not a court-mandated blockbuster game idea, but still, there’s maybe a market for trying to unlearn these habits

San Francisco has been rolling out the fix since last year, but I still think there was enough residual curriculum to do some harm, watching how often these kids fight the word in favor of the picture — and, I’ve definitely seen a skippy frog printout somewhere.

Lumines Arise is the cure for our cynical world The cult classic rhythm game is back in life-affirming fashion

When I play Lumines Arise,
I am no longer in The Cynical World.
I am a cat in a sunbeam.

(my lumines arise review) www.polygon.com/lumines-aris...

If this catches @eldar.social lights out, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could have it ready for testing tomorrow

There oughta be a devtools plugin that pulls in live image of ANOTHER window (via screen sharing) onion skinned atop. bonus:

- anchor on an element (so, like, match up two containers and the rendering stays at that origin even if there are other page differences)

- coordinate window resize/scroll

Oh, I very much read that as “there is no safe way to discuss parenting online because too many people have parenting opinions that are so, so not okay” but it’s kind of two sides of the same thought

There are now five identical Bonds. Watching the entire saga will require 3 individual streaming subscriptions.

Little bits of Bond land on bystanders at the close of the last film. Cut to a classic, recursive 007 title sequence as their DNA is shown reconfiguring into Bond at a cellular level. As he regains consciousness he rips off a sleeve of whatever they wore & field dresses a proper tie; fixes hair.

I understand the argument about relying on LLMs to a fault, knowledge entropy etcetera etcetera but, like, I never really learned CSS Grid and I'm pretty sure that brain space can be better applied

Unfairly I just woke up and I’m immediately wondering if I can cricut these from a basswood scrap I saw yesterday

i have had this idea forever to map all the badly painted intersections in SF (there are hundreds that are like spray painted "stahp" basically) and now I feel a lil defeated before i begin

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

Has anyone put him in T pose yet

‘Murica

There needs to be trials and there needs to be people sent to die in a prison cell. Consequences must fall on the people who issued the orders and those who carried them out. We must make the punishment of these people a national spectacle that will be remembered for generations.

after some hilariously bad attempts by an LLM to reduce headlines to a subsetting string, I went back to the old ways. Here is a google sheets tool for generating a sorted character list, where A1 is any text matter you have.

=JOIN("",SORT(UNIQUE(MID(A1,SEQUENCE(LEN(A1)),1))))

Death By Coconut: A Story Of Food Obsession Gone Too Far August Engelhardt believed coconuts were a nutritional and spiritual panacea. So in 1902, he sailed to the South Pacific to start a utopian cult that survived only on the fruit. It ended calamitously.

Like that cat who decided that Coconut is all that you need but maybe less twee

www.npr.org/sections/the...

All this Thiel group thread et al silliness makes me realize that there have been thousands of salons & schools of thought along history that were just SO deliciously daft but they didn’t make the curriculum

I want lectures on the pettiest people in history, the funniest delusions

Emerge

looping this in art school, looping this 22 years later

but anyway, you can cut off your laptop from the world and then just drop things over onto the iPad when it's time to send. Basically, the world you described.

Also, the M5 iPad is probably the most powerful computer I've ever touched except that the memory stops at 16GB

I started using my ipad as a second monitor and it seamlessly lets you swap into the iPad state — highly recommend

Sonos and Wacom are two companies that have burned me for thousands of dollars and I'm strongly in the camp of Never Again.