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Introducing ShaderBeam - ShaderGlass' sister app focusing on applying @blurbusters.com CRT Beam Simulation technology to Windows desktop. Re-experience the motion clarity of CRTs on a modern high-refresh display. Free and open source.
github.com/mausimus/Sha...

Man kann eh Kindergärtner/in sagen; muss man sich einfach nur trauen. Aber: selbst die 4-jährigen schaffen es stattdessen Pädagoginnen zu sagen; geht schlicht um Respekt vor der sowieso schon harten u schlecht bezahlten Arbeit; Ernsthaftigkeit der Rolle/Ausbildung. Alte Bezeichnung für mehr Geld? 🤡

Rechenbrett Deluxe

the tech oligarchs crossed the pond for keir starmer to kiss the ring of silicon valley

Concept art for the Star Wars film Rogue One. Mountain platform scene.

Concept art for the Star Wars film Rogue One. Mountain platform scene.

Concept art for the Star Wars film Rogue One. Mountain platform scene.

Concept Art and process work for Rogue One. I worked on this sequence from early concept art to the set build - based (very) loosely around a Ralph McQuarrie sketch from the original trilogy. This shot was so spot-on the concept art that I remember gasping audibly during the screening.

those NTSC composite shots are true to its era and IMO how the Super always shone and somehow weirdly (purposefully?) flexed beyond its already higher color capabilities; thanks for that article, very cool

YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk AI doesn't work the way you think it does

youtu.be/o1q6Hhz0MAg?...

Meme style crude illustration of man in hospital bed on oxygen during his last breaths thinking to himself: "I wish I spent more time deslopping AI-generated code"

can you imagine ms and nvidia taking down the world economy? no runaway crash like it before

9th day with covid again; still testing slightly positive and still ye old subtle-yet-not-so-subtle swing of sledgehammer; after 5 years+ of learnings afaik no novel acute / chronic treatments in sight? yes, i should have boostered this year; not forgotten my mask on public transport week prior

Grim news from Germany. A black family, who had previously experienced several incidents of racial harassment, was the victim of a suspected arson attack on Monday. One child is dead, the other is in critical condition. A fundraiser for them is here: www.gofundme.com/f/unterstutz...

Interesting article here including a test of the average response time of the Switch 2 screen. The results are awful. It's about as slow an LCD as one could imagine in the modern era.

chimolog.co/switch-2-pan...

Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm, at Lambda Days Conf 2025 on Silicon Valley culture and how its incentives are inherently opposed to quality

Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm, at Lambda Days Conf 2025 on Silicon Valley culture and how its incentives are inherently opposed to quality

Evan On Killing

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Cumulative damage due to Covid reinfections is still ongoing. I non-ironically wonder how much of the current state of the world can be traced to actual brain damage.

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in minecraft

Don’t trust anyone who is rude to the serving staff

Not disputing the role of tech, but since 2016, the pandemic is definitely a factor, long before AI became a phenomenon, many of us who were teaching noticed students' memory and cognition impacted by COVID. Of course we are all pretending that it isn't, because the pandemic is "over", apparently.

Unfortunately the data is pointing to this still ongoing. Ironically, always makes me think about the en vogue flinging of the term: "mind virus"

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Don't follow @daniellebeckman.bsky.social if you don't want to continue thinking about this.

Get more from Mike Kasprzak on Patreon creating Ludum Dare, videos, and more

The fantastic game jam @ludumdare.com is sadly not running any events in 2025 as host Mike Kasprzak is struggling financially.

While Mike isn't specifically asking for donations, he does have a Patreon which helps cover the jam's expenses.

Perhaps we can help? www.patreon.com/c/mikekasprz...

I've been meaning to read this paper on mass extinctions (pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...), and today, I came across this great write-up about it in VoxDev (voxdev.org/topic/energy...).

It's a great paper. I am glad I found the time to read it.

Below is a short thread.

China just redefined the global AI race—with massive implications for OpenAI, Nvidia, and foreign policy Silicon Valley’s initial advantage in LLMs evaporated quickly despite export controls, writes AI expert Gary Marcus.

"I have said it before, and I will say it again—OpenAI may well become the WeWork of AI," @garymarcus.bsky.social writes in a new commentary piece for Fortune. fortune.com/2025/01/27/a...

*ahem* www.noemamag.com/not-my-problem

When I scheduled this episode, I hadn’t even considered what day it would be dropping. Anyway, here’s @danmcquillan.bsky.social talking about AI as fascistic solutionism.

Resisting AI Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Calling for the restructuri...

I wrote 'Resisting AI' (subtitled 'An Anti-fascist approach to Artificial Intelligence') to help preempt the kind of convergence of far right politics and the tech sector that we are waking up to today. The struggle against fascistic solutionism continues. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

1981 BBC Lord Of The Rings : J.R.R. Tolkien : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Tolkiens great masterpiece done better than ever before or since.

Tune into the 1981 BBC LOTR radio play to drop out for a little while:
archive.org/details/lord...

The revolutionary Xerox Alto computer (1973) started GUI computing, Ethernet, the optical mouse, laser printing, and visual word processing. We came across a password-protected Alto disk so I cracked the password. @tubetime.bsky.social looks at the contents:
bsky.app/profile/tube...