George Wanfried

I thought something seemed off about the the image posted below: it's a photo that's been edited and colorized by AI. Please don't do that.

During trump’s first term, it was air traffic controllers that tipped the scales regarding the longest government shutdown in history.
It appears they have decided to stop fucking around and go on and do the thing.
This is an outstanding example of the power of the working class.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

the thing about asking for a worker owned anything on the web is that the pitch has to account for the fact that the website is going to - innately - be slower to add features, slower to respond to issues, have financial struggles, etc

it's wild that we're somewhere between "the stock market is so far divorced from the real economic health of the country due to wealth and speculation that this bubble won't actually pop" and "Great Depression 2", and we simply do not know which one

It's truly insane that it's legal to go "I'm going to spend $50 billion dollars to buy this company. Do I have $50 billion dollars? No, the company I'm buying is going to take out a big loan"

Grainy black and white photo of a baseball game taken from left field seats. Ball is in flight towards plate, about 20 ft from home plate. Stands are full of people.

Grainy black and white photo of a baseball game taken from left field seats. Ball is in flight towards plate, about 20 ft from mound. Stands are full of people. Left handed batter

Grainy black and white photo of a baseball game taken from left field seats. Pitcher has thrown the ball and the batter has hit it. Looks like it may have been a foul ball. Stands are full of people.

Grainy black and white photo of a baseball game taken from left field seats. Batter appears to have hit a foul to the left. Stands are full of people.

Everyone was so cool and nice when my wife posted my photo that I’ve decided to get on bluesky to share my photographs here instead of In*tagr*m 🤢

Kodak Tri-X 400 (expired 1995) shot on Exakta VXii (1953).
1/250, f/5.6 (I think). Pushed 1.5 stops.

Backyard tournament for arcade games

SF III: 3rd Strike projected onto a pool

3rd Strike tournaments with the feed projected onto the pool is a new one lol

The End Result of My Herculean Big Bang Theory Spec Author’s Note: This is the first newsletter where I’m reposting a piece I wrote that’s no longer hosted on the internet. My archive is pretty solid because I always figured this would happen eventuall...

It hasn't been online for many years, so for today's newsletter I reposted my Big Bang Theory "spec." Tell your friends. kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-end-resu...

Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody.

42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

One other wishlist item I'd like to see in this style of game someday would be a fighting-game-like animation viewer, sandbox mode, or in-game option, that highlights with red rectangles when and where the hitboxes come out.

If I obtain enough hubris to jump into gamedev I'll consider this.

Yeah, that would be pretty cool for enemies' melee attacks. (It wouldn't work so well for projectiles or charging/leaping/body slam etc. attacks, though, since moving around to adjust the timing of when those things get to you is an important skill to practice.)

2 skeletons, on left with veins, arteries, lymph nodes as they are in the body; on right with them being represented as straight cables like in the arranged neatly next to each other like in a server room

I finally cleaned up my messy cablework

A nice subtle aspect of worldbuilding here is the header only indicating 1D6 instead of 2D6, thus showing that the entries for results 7 or over are brands that do exist in-universe, people have heard of, but whose products will never actually be generated or seen. This is definitely on purpose.

In her recommendation, Bagdasarian stated, "Any person over the age of six months without contraindication who has not received a dose of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved or-authorized 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine may be considered to have an underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 and is thus eligible to receive an age-appropriate dose."

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition.

www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Why Nobody Challenges Dukes in Coup - A Mathematical Analysis There’s been a lot of ink spilled about the strategy of Coup, and in particular one strategy - in the first round of a table, everyone seems to claim Duke to take 3 coins. When people post about this ...

got mad about people being wrong on the internet so i did some math

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Can now confirm: Even if you have a home washer/dryer, sometimes the laundromat is still one of the few practical ways of washing a truly large and bulky item like a big sleeping bag.

Certainly saves a lot of effort over hosing it down in the backyard and hanging it to dry.

KGLW exited the Spotify ecosystem as a moral protest to the CEO's direct involvement in funding the development of AI weapon systems and have taken the additional step of (at least for the time being) making a majority of their huge musical catalog free/pay as you like on Bandcamp.

To the spider that was inside my car, dropping down from the sun visor and into my face:

"You are a wonderful creature, please do not make me destroy you."

The words were trapped in my mind and heart but did not leave my mouth, for humans Ought Not speak to spiders.

How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

a wacky idea i unironically believe is that dead suburban shopping malls should all be turned into small public commuter colleges. most non-anchor stores are a decent size to be a classroom, parking/road access is already there, you even have a food court

Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because

a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked

b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books

Not having to put any text at all in it may help too, although that's easier for some games than others.

Apologies for the wait. I've finally finished the article about ZUN's opinions on AI, as well as Touhou 20 and the usage of AI within the game. I do hope that you take the time to read the article and come to your conclusion.
Link to the article :
note.com/richard_effe...

A bipedal dinosaur desktop image without a head, with a small parrot sat behind the screen poking his head out.

I got a notification from my pharmacist, saying they couldn't fill my prescription until I answered some questions. The app takes me to a question page, and the first question is:

do you plan to take this medication? [yes][no][unsure]

I click yes, and it goes OKAY THAT'S ALL