This seems important from Jake Sherman

i think its ok for a video game to look like that

YouTube video by PyCon US Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow

Excellent #keynote from @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy from @pycon.us last week - "we must build the new good internet". Cory Doctorow advocates for real regulatory settings that dissuade the funnelling of technological benefits from consumers to shareholders.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVm...

Seriously loved @chucktingle.bsky.social’s newest novel, LUCKY DAY. A gruesome, candy-colored balm for our existentially fraught moment. Available this August from Tor Nightfire 🎰♠️🃏♣️ #booksky

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

Sign on post reads "WARNING SHALLOW UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLES"

Bloody shallow underground electrical cables only care about your clothes, like "are you even wearing this year's protective equipment?" and not about the true person you're on the inside, like how beautiful are your vital organs.

YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO Masculinity Debate: Are Dating Apps Creating Incels?! Lonely Men Are More Dangerous Than Ever!

Great conversation on the Diary of a CEO podcast with host Steven Bartlett and Logan Ury, behavioural scientist turned dating coach and Director of Relationship Science at Hinge.

The DIY Dumbphone Method In Jan 2024, I gave my smartphone a lobotomy. Here's the how and the results.

Make you background something really boring, like the default globe image. No children, no pets, no heartwarming memories. This is your enemy, not your friend; don't let it wear the skins of your loved ones. www.shesabeast.co/the-diy-dumb...

I can’t stop taking pictures in AC Shadows!

Someone will the skills and time please post a deepfake in which Liam Neeson's monologue in Taken is replaced by Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, declamed in its entirety to the world's most patient kidnapper.

Please make it happen.

One of the (unintentionally) funniest ongoing bits in the Mission:Impossible franchise is that they keep casting badass beautiful women to play the female lead and then randomly off them so Tom Cruise can do a few beats of sad-eyes acting

Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻

I became convinced of AI's low value for creative work after reading Brian Eno's dismissal of it.

www.bostonreview.net/forum_respon...

Add John Stewart, Colbert, even Bill Burr! Just huge funny political commentators

Hey NBC and Seth Meyers, y’all need to book the largest possible venue in D.C. on April 26th and do a competing fundraiser and comedy show that actually celebrates the First Amendment. Televise it. Make Amber Ruffin the central act. Send a message that free speech is non-negotiable.

As a past guest at these events, including when Obama took Trump apart, I agree. Cowards like the White House correspondent’s association need to not only “not be rewarded,” but also actively shunned.

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

So, vibe-coding the replacement to an enormous legacy codebase upon which millions depend for benefits, where most of the programmers who know the #COBOL codebase are dead or retired?

What could possibly go wrong etc etc

-- @makenakelly.bsky.social for @wired.com

www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

They already have

EXPLORER 1: what should we name this new land we found

EXPLORER 2: how bout Newfoundland

EXPLORER 1: damn that’s fucken good

I WANT TO BELIEVE IN ABUNDANCE

I wrote my review of the new book, what I liked, what political opportunities it presents, and where I was left unsatisfied.

Here are some sections, and you can read the whole thing here.

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my theory is that the people who are dissuaded by a $9 toll are the same people who refuse to pay for parking and cruise around for a long time searching for free parking, and are responsible for a disproportionate amount of traffic

The behavioral economics of congestion do not work unless you assume that the marginal people affected by it has a bizarre and nonsensical set of preferences. Which, by looking at the type of person who would choose to drive into Manhattan...

A code generation tool that gets you 80-90% of the way there is like a boat that gets you 80-90% of the way.

You'll need to be a strong swimmer.

The Token Wars, Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup The MLAI Meetup is a community for AI researchers and professionals which hosts monthly talks on exciting research. Our format is: * 6:00 - 6:20: Socializing * 6:20 - 6:40

If you're in #Melbourne in mid-April, I am giving a redux of my #EverythingOpen talk about tokens, economics and the burden of web scraping for #AI training #data - the #TokenWars

Checkout this Meetup with Machine Learning & AI Meetup: meetu.ps/e/NW8rC/14fx...

It's an anagram for "Severance". The answer was there, in the title, all along.

after watching the season finale, has anyone else noticed that “Severance” has the word “sever” in its title, really makes you think about what’s being severed so to speak 🤔

Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans Youth Elon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own.

Teen Vogue: remains braver than almost any other news outlet at this time.

Going back to the classics.

Bob Carr says Aukus a ‘colossal surrender of sovereignty’ if submarines do not arrive under Australian control Former foreign minister says it is ‘inevitable’ US won’t supply nuclear-powered submarines under Aukus

AUKUS
“The Aukus pact has become a textbook example of how to disenfranchise the community, providing almost no transparency or democracy in a sweeping decision which will affect Australia for decades.”

"The US is utterly not a reliable ally."

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“Every day in Los Angeles, one actor is told he looks like a rapist, and 99 others drive home for an hour and a half on the 10 Freeway, upset with themselves that they don’t look enough like a rapist.” — Bucky Sinister, GRUNT Issue 2 (e-zine)