Cliff Harris (Cliffski)

The #1 issue facing mankind is climate change. The #2 issue is that a nuclear superpower that constantly threatens war against random countries is run by a dementia-addled narcissistic moron who is being blackmailed by putin over god-knows-what, and could well start WW3, or accelerate problem #1.

These warnings, coming at a time when the fascist king of the USA is more focused on starting wars to distract from his Epstein links, and is blatantly and deliberating trying to PREVENT anybody fighting climate change, is just horrendous.
The US is the ENEMY of the rest of the world. Fuck them.

The amount of so-called 'investors' who have no idea that it is even possible to buy shares traded on a stock market that is not in your home country always amazes me.
Its especially true of Americans, but I see brits with the same attitude.
Its called 'home-country-bias' and its really bad.

Booked a one day pass for Develop In Brighton this July. I feel like a confused old man at these events nowadays, but I'm going anyway. I may even have a game in Early Access when I go this time. Not that it makes much difference, but I'll feel less out of place maybe :D.

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February has been depressingly wet, but good to see a few days where we generate over 1,000 kwh. March should be better, and hopefully a lot drier! drizzle is very frustrating for solar... #solarfarm

Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.

I cannot stress enough to people outside the US how dangerous coming to this country is right now. There is still time to cancel your GDC trip. Stay safe, and do not come.

Still wondering when non-insane Americans are going to wake up. You are fucking *delusional* if you think there will be mid-term elections that are free and fair.
You live in a fascist dictatorship now. Stop kidding yourselves.
Stop thinking some angry lawn signs will remove your fascist king.

Classic.

Fixed TWO big annoying things today. Firstly fixed a particle-system related bug if running the game at 10x speed (for balancing tests), and secondly worked out where the big memory leak is. Not an elegant fix yet (I scrap and re-init the particle system between battles), but huge progress.

It's now clear Donald Trump is trying to bully the government into letting the US use UK bases like Diego Garcia to pursue unilateral military action.

Keir Starmer needs to stand strong and give Parliament a vote on the use of UK bases by US forces.

So when i use it and I am massively more productive, my actual experience is...wrong????

I will never understand this. I am sure there are a billion articles a day published that I'm not interested in, or disagree with, but who on earth then takes the time to be abusive to the person writing it? Especially as 99% of such content is FREE.

I really do not get it at all. I guess some are just scared it will take their jobs, which is fair enough. But its a huge power-up for solo devs and small teams.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

Ex-South Korean president found guilty of insurrection over martial law order Yoon Suk Yeol, 65, was sentenced to life in prison over his short-lived power grab, which sent the Asian democracy into political turmoil in 2024.

Interesting. www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/s... If only the USA was an actual democracy that took attempted insurrections seriously... The contrast in responses is staggering.
The USA is a fascist kingdom now. Any pretence at being a functioning democracy is a joke.

...and the early web DID suck. Dialup modems were a pain. It did seem to be just cat pictures and star trek debates, and 'pointless' nonsense. For ages. It took AGES to get Google, and Google Earth, and smart-phones, and wikipedia and youtube.
AI will follow a similar path, but faster.

...and its noticeable to me now that people IN THEIR TWENTIES have lived their whole life AFTER the early net days, and thus do not realise this. I was there Gandalf, and it was very similar.
YES, a LOT of people did say they 'didn't need' the internet, and that 'web' businesses were bullshit...

...and a lot of people try to go too fast, and they fail, and they appear to be conmen, or hyper-masters, or bullshitters, or just fraudsters or idiots.
Some are.
But many are just too soon, or too excitable. But the technology advance still happens despite them. The internet turned out to be big...

If you are dismissive of the potential of AI, and you are young, there is a great book called BooHoo, about the huge ridiculous failure of boo.com, a very early dotcom start-up. Reading it, you would assume this internet thingy was doomed as hell.
Huge tech shifts bring about a lot of hype...

I just donated to the support fund for these people. The key sentence:

"Once inside, the six dismantled Israeli weapons, including the same model of quadcopter drones used by the Israeli military to mimic the sounds of women and children crying, to lure Palestinians and kill them. "

Fucking Hell.

People who describe covid as 'flu-with-a-marketing-campaign' should be locked in a room with 100 people who lost wives, husbands, children, parents to covid, so they can have the reality explained to them. Preferably with baseball bats.
Who the hell pays to read this fucking drivel?

awesome

UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks

This is good news, and long overdue. Europe is way too dependent on the USA. We have to now assume they are a rogue state, and potential adversary. Their attitudes to us are clear.
We need a European payments system, and European tech stack ASAP.
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There is no free press in the USA, just corporate mouthpieces of the new reich. Its depressing. But the USA voted for fascism, and got it.

OH LOOK AT MR FANCY PANTS WHO CAN BUY FOOD. ENOUGH WITH YOUR HUMBLEBRAGS KILDUFF-TAYLOR

I feel increasingly de-coupled from so many people I talk to. It feels like unless people can see what is happening with both Climate Change and AI/AGI, I really have no way of communicating with them that does not feel like pointless wittering about the weather.

WTF? Since when is being able to cook a 'privilege' that needs 'calling out'? Social media has destroyed some people's minds.