Ser Wonkel Rotary

All Landlords Are Bastards, and leaseholding is some outdated Victorian era quasi-extortion racket shit that should be outlawed but this guy is a fuly on cunt. Stay for the kicker of "Yes I'm up in court on a stalking charge but I demand you send me the home address of one of your female reporters."

Screenshot from SRIV, four spheres in different skin shades

On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.

‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’

BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.

Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

YouTube video by MS_Paints The UNHINGED Miniature VHS Board Game No One Remembers

Every year Dave from MS Paints knocks it out of the park with the Halloween special and this year is the best yet. An absolute labour of love, do yourself a solid and watch this:
#nerdlings

youtu.be/sjTEs2jKgTA?...

I told him that I was born in Russia and was a writer. He showed me a list he’d written of his favourite desserts in the city. It was a sober hobby he’d started during the pandemic, going to restaurants by himself, sampling sweets. He made a lot of lists, he said, most of them food-related. I asked what other kinds he made. “Lists of lies liberal white women tell about Donald Trump,” he replied. Suddenly, his leg was shaking. He grabbed the edges of the table and raised his voice: “White, liberal women are a plague on our society.” He proceeded to drink 11 iced coffees.

A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

I live 100ft away from a retired House rep in his 80s who I see at least monthly at our neighborhood social; he has said to me almost verbatim what Duncan said here. Older members are terrified of walking away from the 20-person 24/7 support network you can't even get in a high end nursing home.

There is something truly remarkable about Generative AI.

Several years in this revolution, half of the US GDP dumped to make these tools free, and i can't think of a single generated artifact, text, image, sound, video that had a significant cultural impact.

Nobody ever says "I wish I'd played more video games" when they die. Video games haven't been around long enough. I may be the first to say it.

Sarah Pochin doubling down on her flaming racisms: My comments on a Talk TV phone-in earlier today were phrased poorly and I unreservedly apologise for any offence caused, which was not my intention. The point I was making is that many British TV adverts have gone DEI mad and are now unrepresentative of British society as a whole. This is not an attack on any group but an observation about balance and fairness in how our country is portrayed on screen. A study commissioned by Channel 4 as part of its Mirror on the Industry project, found that Black people were featured in more than half of adverts in 2022, up sharply from 37 per cent in 2020 following the Black Lives Matter movement. By contrast, Black people make up around 4 per cent of the population in England and Wales, according to the 2021 Census. Representation in advertising should reflect the diversity of modern Britain, but it should also be proportionate and inclusive of everyone. My comments were made in that context, and I stand by the principle that equality should mean fairness for all.

The point cannot be made enough that it is not immigrants or people of colour who refuse to integrate with modern Britain: it is white racists like Pochin

sometimes when the process of what most of all to play out, of which is important. and what i'd all which to do, is take at the entire thing and in due time when it's the situation of what's ahead. after all of together i have many times said, let's just going on

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

"AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat" is something from a Final Destination pre-production brainstorming session www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

This is cool news, and a lot of what I've seen from Archon has been quality stuff.

Same is true of my British grandfather - never talked about his experiences, no one knew he was decorated until after he died

Software engineering, as a practice, often is really not about the code at all. Process, organizations, teams, distributed work, etc. etc.

AI coding tools are great. They are really bad at solving "human" problems.

Naoise Dolan | ‘You’re here now’ The steel handcuffs the Israeli guard locked on me were ‘Tri-Max Made in England’. Clanking mine to the beat, I sang...

I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Sharm El-Sheikh Shows That the US Has Learned Nothing From Gaza Palestinans are expected to accept the same deal that led to October 7: permanent subjugation under the guise of “prosperity.”

New from me @thenation.com: the farce at Sharm El-Sheikh displays the delusion that led to October 7 and the genocide Israel pursued after it — that the U.S. regional coalition can pursue normalization over the heads of the Palestinians, who are supposed to accept permanent subjugation.

Oh hi Gregg!

In This Graphic History, an Unflinching Look at Black Activism

Anyway this week for the Times I reviewed this incredible book, which asks the question “what if we kill them back” in a way that I found very moving and sad

It's delightful. You can build wonderful things with it

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

this is a GOOD speech

A factor in this triumphant return is how platforms (Spotify) dissolve historical time, with the effect that a) nobody needs to remember that this was a band whose 'good' patch lasted circa 18 months and b) they provide the backdrop for inter-generational bonding

(sorry)

Correct. It is a rejection of me as a person!

Trans people frightened to leave homes, says MP Daisy Eastlake Trans people are frightened to go out or use public toilets after the supreme court ruling that defined a woman in terms of biological sex, a Labour MP has said. Rachel Taylor, who is a member of the women and equalities committee, described the interim guidance put forward by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) after the ruling as “dangerous” and “incorrect”. The judgment in April ruled that sex was defined biologically in terms of the Equality Act. Numerous Labour MPs have defied the ruling, and criticised guidance issued to the government by the EHRC in light of it. The Times previously revealed the guidance warns shops, gyms, the NHS and other public bodies that if they say a facility is single-sex, it would have to exclude transgender people who did not biologically match that sex. Taylor said: “I think the interim guidance ... was a totally disproportionate response to a judgement. What happened as a result was that trans people became very frightened — to go out, to use toilets.” Taylor also said that the commission’s new guidance, which was set out following a public consultation, was likely “dangerous”. She added: “We have some very rushed, very incorrect guidance ... that wasn’t done in any way in consultation with the government. They have now put forward guidance which ... I’m assuming is quite similar to the dangerous interim guidance.”

This is in the Times today

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Here’s the segment I animated! I had a lot of fun Contra-ing it up, but also animating dog friend in a Pizza Tower style so he looks REALLY out of place.