Matt Hewes

Number of exoring systems. Number of exoDyson spheres. Number of exoemails received. Number of exoplanets experiencing a meteor shower in 2012.

You maybe thinking of the Mario RPG rerelease? Because *that's* the last game I played.

Oh I was talking about Outer Wilds.

Why Mario 64?! Literally never got past the first painting.

Well now I'm doubly confused, because I've basically only ever played RPGs and puzzle games to any extent. Also this game is in the second category.

Chat, is it bad when one tech dude having a modicum of a conscience is the only thing hindering the plans of the worst people in the world to use hallucinatory robots to automate crimes against humanity?

Describe your favorite game poorly:

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Then assemble the band at the end of time

The screenshot of the release notes reads: A new version of TeX Live Utility is available! TeX Live Utility 1.55 is now available-you have 1.54. Would you like to download it now? Release Notes: Changes Since 1.54 • Fix bug 137, homepage link in Help Book. • First release in a long time, since I don't use TeX anymore and resent the very idea of paying Apple annually for the privilege of giving away free and open-source software. Also, I'm really lazy. Please accept my apologies for all the annoying issues you've encountered in this mission-critical software. • Updated mirror list, which was three years out of date. • Added missing legacy mirrors, which was even more out of date. • Added an alert on startup when user tries Homebrew's lobotomized MacTex, because those lunatics left timgr but removed its database. Thanks for nothing, guys. Bug 142 and 144. • Use a custom user-agent to work around the Anubis bot trap on texlive.info. Can't wait to see what else breaks because of this, thanks to the profusion of degenerate Artificial Insemination fetishists scraping websites to feed their models. • Lists of countries in Repository/Continent are now sorted. No idea how you people let me get away with that one for the last fifteen years.

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

And just to be clear, whatever "advantage" ghouls like Newsom see in selling out the trans community is a fucking mirage.

1. People like politicians who don't just mindlessly follow polls

2. This is a wholly engineered panic

3. It's a numbers game and selling out constituencies is dumb

And we're off! My most favourite telescope, the Vera Rubin Observatory, has turned on its public alert stream and boy, were there a lot of changes in the Universe last night. More coming: ~7 million a night 😮: exploding stars, belching black holes, asteroids cruising through the solar system. 🤗🔭🧪

That would legitimately be a more coherent message from him than what we normally get

"They will make you eat bugs" was a core thing conspiracy theorists were shrieking about

I love and hate this

No because those are two completely different flavors. One of them actually has flavor, for example.

Two back-to-back skeets in my timeline, both replying to the @spiffykt.bsky.social skeet that says "Instead of whatever this discourse is I humbly request you tell me which fruit you think is the worst. My vote is for blueberries." The first is @sunderedmarches.bsky.social saying, "watermelon. what is this shit. how does anyone like it." The second is @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social saying, "I'm the only person in the world who hates watermelon"

Go my whole life thinking everybody else in the world looooves watermelon and then this pops up in my feed.

So now I'm wondering if anybody actually likes watermelon? Are we all just pretending together?

Putting legs on the tire seems as contraindicated as the triangle.

Maybe it's Neighbelline

I have a really cracked sense of humor but honest to god no I do not find Trump funny in any way

I often do find really horrible things funny out of the sheer novelty or cleverness and have to stoneface as a moral decision but I am, honest to god, bored of him almost as much as I am disgusted

In his house at R'lyeh, dread Cthulhu lies dreaming. There is a nudge on his back.

"Fgimb?" eldritch Cthulhu mumbles.

"Scoot over a bit."

The elder god complies, and soon resumes dreaming.

Being spooned alters the dreams.

"Mhrrm..."

"Yes, it's nice."

The visitor snuggles in and falls asleep.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

"I am special, I am immune to The Algorithm, it will not change me"

you are not special and it will make you worse

you should leave

Dennis nedry jurrasic park "see nobody cares" meme reads Hey everybody, this guy still posts on X! See? Everyone is horrified and disappointed. They feel it speaks directly to your values.

Cover of the trade paperback of Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton comic series. Written by Ryan North, illustrated by Mike Norton, cover by Jae Lee and June Chung

In financial news, I have made a substantial investment in Krypto

The best part was, he had already clocked the USMC part and was *only* struggling with "VTRN"

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

I remember the Turkish sharpshooter guy

The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.

Writing is thinking.

It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

"I have questions about this interstellar travel form," the human said. "What should I put at 'Rose'?"

"The star system you are traveling from," xFfy said.

"I see. And at 'Violet'?"

"The one you're traveling to."

"Ah. Who translated this form?"

"Our best poets, well versed in human poetry."