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And Maine rejects Voter ID and Restricted Vote By Mail.

"AI games" are gonna be more like errands you do in real life to get more scrapable data to relay to the AI and help it slip past capchas and no bot zones

PBOT gives bike bus leaders traffic signal superpowers You could think of this as bike bus signal priority.

At several locations across the city where bike bus routes cross busy intersections, the Portland Bureau of Transportation has programmed traffic signals with a custom, bike bus-friendly timing plan that is activated by a longer push of the beg button.

(!!!)

bikeportland.org/2025/10/21/p...

From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy

“You have this narrative that data centers are needed and will make us rich and thriving, but this is a real crisis.” 🧵

What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press Tech Policy Press spoke with Rejo Zenger, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Bits of Freedom, to better understand the significance of the ruling.

Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to let Facebook and Instagram users set a chronological feed by default, a first test of the EU’s Digital Services Act in civil court. Tech Policy Press spoke with Bits of Freedom’s Rejo Zenger on the ruling’s significance.

This is like those turtles in the Super Mario World castle

Withnail and AI

Chris Cornell, astrophysics pioneer

Discovered something fun: If you combine cylindrical gravity with gaining speed from bunny hopping, you can literally go into orbit!

Wishlist KOOK if you think this looks fun! store.steampowered.com/app/2329690/...

#ScreenshotSaturday #GodotEngine

Rabbit hole about the cgi machine used for the dire straits money for nothing music video in the 80s (videos creator pops in the thread halfway down) forum.vcfed.org/index.php?th...

There seems to be a lot to learn here and I don’t want to learn any of it.

When Turkey purged their universities, "The 'to be expelled' lists were prepared by the university administrations. The few universities where massive dismissals did not take place were the ones who did not submit any 'to be expelled” lists."
merip.org/2018/12/turk...

picoCAD by Johan Peitz A tiny modeller for tiny models

johanpeitz.itch.io/picocad

💥Ash & Adam's Existential Treads now has a pre-release demo!💥

Top down Action! Settlement-building! Explosions!

We've been working on this all year and can't wait for you to play.🍻

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/...

Itch: ashadamsgames.itch.io/existential-...

#indiegame

Doom mod - Space Cats Saga

Tomb Raider mod - Hashep Oasis

Quake mod - Dwell

X-Com Mod: The X-Com Files

I've talked a lot about seemingly immortal mod scenes like Doom, Tomb Raider, Quake or X-Com. But I'm sure there's countless others that I'm barely aware of.

So, creators (or just mod-likers) of Bluesky: Tell me about a cool niche mod scene that YOU love and is alive and kicking to this day!

2 images from hackers as characters converse. "I've got a record. I was Zero Cool." "Zero Cool crashed 1.507 systems in one day, biggest crash in history. Front page New York Times August 10, 1988"

Never forget today, when, on this day in 1988, Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day.

Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information

Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.

ICE Is Holding Migrants in Crowded and Unsanitary Cells, Suit Claims

NEW: A Peruvian immigrant filed a potential class-action lawsuit against ICE over conditions at 26 Federal Plaza.

The suit said migrants sleep on the floor, lack access to legal counsel and are subjected to a “horrific stench” emanating from toilets.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/n...

Reading about spatial AI and navigating space via language/llms.. someone was questioning the efficiency of translating maps to language for an interfact and then back to maps again and im wondering could conversational ux cut us off from spatial thinking like haptic ux is stunting fine motor skills

Why do these terms "pro social" and "alignment" seem so singular in the assumption of one set of ethics and social values to calibrate technology to? Can anyone explain this to me? I know pro/anti social is common phrasing in UK/EU and alignment in AI stuff seems to treat humanity as a whole..

YouTube video by McGovern Institute Things and Stuff: How the brain distinguishes oozing fluids from solid objects

youtu.be/B0XRG_G6his?...

YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

New doc releases today!

- Ultrasonic recording of a starling that can record and playback virtually any sound

- Analyzing incredible slowed-down bird songs

- Showing you how to do this (and way more) on the cheap

youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo

"A fundraising efficiency rate of just 1.6%...

The financial waste, staggering as it is, pales beside the deeper damage. Every fabricated deadline, every manipulative text, every email screaming that democracy will end without your $15... burns through something more valuable than money: trust."

They gave the login to praxis kids didnt they

New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S. The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.

If you're talking about lack of media messaging WITHOUT taking into account the crisis in journalism, especially local journalists in smaller areas, then you're not really looking at the whole picture. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-...

Cover of A Natural History of Empty Lots

My new book A Natural History of Empty Lots is released today. I hope you like it—it distills 20 years of exploring the edgelands, working on rewilding projects, and trying to understand what such places teach us about our lives, history and future: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chris...

The first rule in Trump’s Washington: Don’t write anything down A new culture of secrecy in government is taking root – among career staffers and new political appointees alike.

This story is simultaneously unsurprising and insane on more levels than it is possible to count.

wapo.st/4kjmqsn

Simulations can be 100% reliable, just have to diminish reality to fall in line with them!

Annual sunprint tapestry #cyanotype

My dad got me the super mario world soundtrack on vinyl for my bday i think its the only game he ever played himself and beat when i was a kid