B. Shimoda -> GenCon

Stream will be delayed by a couple hours today, as I have to work late.

What Pete and so many others want to gloss over here is that I don't fucking want to "come together" with people who worry about shit like that.

I don't want you in our tent. We don't NEED you in our tent.

Go live your sad little pathetically obsessed lives elsewhere.

This might be the best thread in the history of wildlife

The stupid, it burns.

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Too many deferred activities (laundry, vacuuming, sleep, etc) that I need to catch up on so no stream today. :(
I'll be back Thursday, but until then, I recommend you check out www.twitch.tv/rgilpt for all your KSP needs.

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

Two sisters in DCF custody since mother was detained by ICE in May in Worcester are missing, officials say - The Boston Globe The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has released a missing poster of both sisters to help in the search.

Do you remember the horrific abduction in Worcester, MA where protestors clashed with ICE as they ripped a woman away from her family? The horror continues.

The woman’s 13 and 17 year old daughters were placed in foster care. They are now both missing. 1/
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/m...

The artistic freedom of game developers is fundamental to games as a cultural medium. Any restrictions improsed by payment service providers or games platforms must not exceed the legal limits. In Germany, thanks in part to the USK, clear, binding and established rules apply that must be adhered to. Furthermore, creative forms of expressions or certain themes in games, such as diversity, must not be targeted by individual interests or campaigns from particularly vocal groups, as is currently observed on Steam or itch.io. The terms and conditions of global payment service providers such as Visa, Mastercard, or Paypal must not conflict with European values such as freedom of expression or artistic freedom. We therefore call on the companies involved to design their rules and offerings in a manner that ensures complicance with applicable laws and prevents overblocking. Signed, Felix Falk, Managing Director of GAME

GAME, the German game industry trade association, released this *damn* good statement on the unjust NSFW game takedowns

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

An eloquent image:

Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.

I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

NASA Releases Workforce Resignation Numbers NASA’s Deferred Resignation Program

FML
nasawatch.com/personnel-ne...

The FBI took her $40,000 without explaining why. She fought back—and lost. There is little accountability in civil forfeiture, which allows law enforcement to seize assets without charging the owner with a crime.

A hill I will keep dying on: If the government cannot articulate why it is taking your life savings, then it...shouldn't be doing that. It's legalized larceny, and it needs to end. reason.com/2025/07/28/t...

Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems

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Sunday Starfield Surprise! Many thanks to InvokerGray for gifting me the game.
Now let's check out Starfield, sight unseen. #FirstPlaythrough #NoSpoilers
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He was so good at so many things, and he will be missed.

Tbh, I'm not sure how. My phone doesn't have access to my images folder when it's locked so it refuses to save screenshots until the lock screen is gone.

For the children

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Happy birthday to Rosalind Franklin, the true discoverer of DNA's double helix.
#WomenInSTEM

Throwing little green people into space. Time to learn from explosions with a Realistic Progression campaign in the one and only KSP! Today's goal: Send a dog into orbit and return it safely to Earth
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How long can I play a Realistic Progression campaign in the one and only KSP when I'm sleep deprived? Let's find out! Today's goal: Redesign lunar orbiter with a longer-lasting engine.
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My wife in her Red Sox jersey is nodding emphatically.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

late start as I do chores around the house

Throwing little green people into space. Time to learn from explosions with a Realistic Progression campaign in the one and only KSP! Today's goal: We have a launcher for the lunar orbiter, now we need to perfect the payload.
twitch.tv/bshimoda

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

Just spitballing here but I think air conditioning is a much better use of energy than sophisticated predictive text models that lie to you and produce slop “art”

Is your family member or client at Alligator Alcatraz? We obtained a list The Trump and DeSantis administrations have refused to release a roster of detainees, none of whom seem to appear in ICE’s online database.

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Is your client or family member missing? Click here to see the list and find out if they’re being held at Alligator Alcatraz.

¿Su cliente o familiar está desaparecido? Haga clic aquí para ver la lista y saber si está detenido en Alligator Alcatraz.
👉🏾 www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

This is why I always told students
"It doesn't matter how good the science in your head is, if you can't communicate it to other people, it's wasted."

It definitely isn't, but it's still really good. The graphics are a bit dated now but at the time they were groundbreaking. The acting is top-notch, the writing is great (if trope-y), and the designs are so very cool.

It's no wonder they don't understand Superman, Star Trek, and Star Wars (and Starship Troopers, and Judge Dredd, and Fight Club, and...) when they don't even understand the BIBLE they claim to follow. 🤭