That Chip Guy

I want to punish someone—ANYONE—for turning “underrated” into a meaningless word

Is it just my setup, or is the audio ahead of the video for everyone on tonight’s #RaiseUp game on Hulu?

Counting the wilderness period: Best, most consistent part of those 10 years TBH!

So I am not as young as I used to be, and am perhaps more easily confused, but I can’t help noticing that the teams most recent tweets use the hashtag #Canes and not #CanesCulture and I was wondering if someone could could help me out a little bit

4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...

Window Screen

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YouTube video by Vanity Fair ILM's VFX Secrets Behind Star Wars, Transformers & More | Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair asked me to talk about visual effects, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work over the years.

Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX
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this is bad

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Thank you for your service.

Reference acknowledged.

About to be the family that owns TikTok.

✋

DON’T SIGN
THE HC 5

feels like a viable slogan, maybe a sign

For what it’s worth I agree with my friend @snell.zone’s review. It feels more powerful and usable to me, but Apple should have worked harder on the interface. https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/macos-26-tahoe-review-power-under-glass/

The Incomparable: Live stream Listen live!

Live at 4 PM EDT/1 PM PDT at theincomparable.com/live: I guest-host with the regulars as we look back at the last wild three months of KPOP DEMON HUNTERS. Spoiler-free section at the top for the holdouts wondering if it’s worth the hype; we’ll help you decide if it’s not for you or if it’s golden.

I will be wearing my #RaiseUp Pride T-shirt to the Durham Bulls game tonight for no particular reason.

One of the most deranged quotes I have ever seen

We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I’d reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard—until I realized what h…

“The real winners [will] be the same large tech companies that can afford licensing deals and that have the resources to navigate an increasingly complex web of access restrictions. The losers will be […] users, researchers, archivists, and […] creators who benefit from an open, discoverable web.”

Protect Seth Jarvis at all costs

macOS Desiato

Met the redoubtable @mrworkrate.com and would have told him, “I would like to subscribe to your newsletter,” but I didn’t, because I already do. And if you follow the Carolina Hurricanes, you should too. #RaiseUp workrate-hockey.ghost.io

The full review is even dumber than this paragraph makes it seem, because in the next paragraph the reviewer acknowledges that Del Toro's take is more faithful to the novel, but then gripes about how it still clashes with most people's understanding of the characters they got instead from movies.

Also if you loved James Gunn's Superman but want to watch something with your kids and Peacemaker and Creature Commands is a little too adult

check out Justice League Unlimited. It's really good.

What it was, wasn’t football.

Ditto Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea…*most* of the time.

YouTube video by Mark Goodacre How AI is changing my teaching #NTPodShorts #AIandteaching #DukeUniversity #DukeReligiousStudies

How AI is changing my teaching #NTPodShorts www.youtube.com/shorts/Cspt3...

It is worse because stage three was originally pumpkin spice seasoning NOT pumpkin itself. You know, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, and allspice. Then confused people led Starbucks to add actual pumpkin. www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/his...

Nothing like watching Rod Brind’amour being interviewed (by @adamgold.bsky.social) to shame you into better performance at the gym. #RaiseUp #DearGodMyQuads

On the Perennial Embarrassment of Worldcon In the interest of fairness, I will begin with something that we already know: running a convention is hard. This is the one concession I will make: running a Worldcon really is hard. It’s hard in …

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Even with all the problems above, I had a fantastic time at Worldcon 2025 in Seattle. I saw and hugged people I only ever get to chat with online, I met and shared panels with incredibly eloquent and talented artists, I got to talk at great length about my passion for costuming and the effort-to-effect ratio because someone foolishly gave me a microphone five separate times. Even when World-con is bad, it collects my people in one place, and there are things to love. Even people who hate Worldcon have fun at Worldcon. So imagine a world where Worldcon was good. Where we treated it with the respect we pretend to afford it as the site of one of our major awards, honoring the fact that it might be the most important weekend of someone's life to date. Where announcers and organizers understood the power they wield, and pledged to wield it responsibly. Where we held ourselves and our successors to a higher standard.

With respect to my acquaintances who are involved in Worldcon organizing, and my talented friends who have won multiple Hugos, [this piece](miribaker.com/2025/08/22/o...) is spot-on. The distributed culture means no accountability for making the NEXT con less embarrassing.

YouTube video by The Hockey Guy My All-Time Favourite Carolina Hurricanes, 2025 Edition

That moment when @thgyoutube.bsky.social shouts out the best PA in the biz, @wademinter.com (timestamped) youtu.be/WMAHje6gWew?...