A Gorgeous Video Game That’s Also Very Jewish The ‘Eternal Life of Goldman’ is the rare video game to feature a distinctly Jewish protagonist

The Eternal Life of Goldman is one of the most beautiful games of 2026. It's also nice to finally see some video-game representation for people like me: aging Jews with back problems.

For this week's column, I spoke to the director of this stunning platformer: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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YouTube video by THQ Nordic The Eternal Life of Goldman | Main Theme Composed by Kevin Penkin

I've been working on our main menu this past few weeks and the music is just so good:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7lT...

Nah, I’m built different. I bet I can get out without the right equipment 😜

Fivefold Daily Puzzle #11 (Nov 21, 2025) solved in 4:25 with 0 hints! fivefold.ca

YouTube video by Internet of Bugs No, AI Will Not Doom Us All. We have REAL AI Problems to deal with instead.

i really appreciate this person’s views. from a developer with experience so it’s informed too!
it’s exactly what i’ve been saying. AI doomerism is another version of AI hype (or marketing) and it inevitably helps that industry… especially in avoiding responsibility.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=MaFT...

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up 78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.

I note this one in particular.

Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works) How to build realtime blurs on the GPU and how the best blur algorithm works - "Dual Kawase"

Fantastic, interactive article about realtime blur algorithms by FrostKiwi! blog.frost.kiwi/dual-kawase/

It's been pretty useful so far; for example found out that string params on animation events cause a lot of GC allocations.

Make a snapshot, go through some stuff that I think may have a leak, make another snapshot and compare. For smaller leak may have to do this multiple times, but don't see what other options we have.

AI photo/video analysis on iOS is arguably one of the most useful features they've added. So many times I wanted to find a video of the new kitchen or some document, or even to check to see if I have a book on my bookshelf. It's nuts how well it works. It annotates which part of a long video has it.

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.

There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

4 Panel Comic Panel 1: Purple Guy is reaching down out of shot. He is massively straining to pick something up Panel 2: Purple Guy, coming up empty handed, sweating and mad, says “SHIT. This thing is like Thor’s Hammer!” A tiny child enters the panel. The child is very small and weak. Panel 3: Child bends down out of shot Panel 4: Child reappears holding a very small pencil. Purple Guy is livid.

AI Slop Merchants, the purple guy is you

Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy - Reactor Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover… Novelette | 7,540 words They were still three hours out when Perihelion...

If you missed it, there's a new Murderbot short story at: reactormag.com/rapport-mart...

Numbers are LTR anyway so the chart you showed look more natural to than if inverted.

Most software makes a mess when trying to do RTL layout, so people end up accepting this. Also it may look weird to flip the whole thing depending on the bigger context. This is readable and doesn't have any serious issues, so maybe it's best not to do more changes.

Yes, technically you would want to flip the whole thing so that the checkmarks are on the right (which is kinda bothering me), BUT I've seen worse in some official documents, so this isn't that bad.

To me it looks fine.

sphere #illustration #scifi

copyright rules, ai drools, and plagiarism is for suckers who have no soul Have you ever had a conversation with someone over a topic you know a great deal about, but the person you’re talking to definitely…

New article! NEW ARTICLE!!!

Let's talk about the ways that plagiarists and AI are trying to automate sociopathy and why copyright might actually be a powerful tool to fuck with 'em.

And, how do we make a world where even copyright is no longer necessary?

docseuss.medium.com/copyright-ru...

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YouTube video by Folding Ideas Mantracks: a True Story of Fake Fossils

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Mantracks: A True Story of Fake Fossils

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WindHawk is also a good tool to bring back some of the old taskbar features: windhawk.net

Affordance - Wikipedia

One thing that is not talked about enough is Affordance. Level/interaction design in games usually is pretty inconsistent and it adds to the confusion

Hate the material on the XB1 Series controllers. I have Elite2 myself and it's pretty nice to the touch.

I had to snip out my favourite moment from #TheGameAwards. @laratlarian.bsky.social's words echo the heart of every developer. The industry needs to listen.

We just want to make cool stuff for people.

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When you pose the question to a language model, what you are really asking is, “Given the statistical distribution of words in the vast public corpus of text, what are the words most likely to follow the sequence ‘what country is to the south of Rwanda?’” Even if the system responds with the word “Burundi,” this is a different sort of assertion with a different relationship to reality than the human’s answer, and to say the AI “knows” or “believes” Burundi to be south of Rwanda is a category mistake that will lead to errors and confusion.

This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.)

www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

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