LukeZaz

Shit shit shit.

Difficult realization that we're financially at our limit. I need work yesterday to support my wife and I. At this point, anything goes. Full time, part time, you pay and I code for you.

I'm a 20+ year pro software/gamedev in "Fake London" Canada

mikekasprzak.com/Resume-MikeK...

I'm seeing variants of "ah but today's gamers just don't have attention spans so we sort of have to-" rolled out earnestly so

No. You can let those players fail. The AAA conception of handholding is silly. There's huge genres that don't do it.

You just have a bad manager making you do dumb things.

Hang on, gotta google something.

...Okay, done. Why are you pelting someone with a fruit?

If you REALLY ABSOLUTELY GOTTA get the sarcasm out of your system, I understand, but by god please just talk about it in the abstract. *You do not have to repeat the words of the shitheads.* Leave them on the floor where they belong. Do not give them an audience.

Getting quite sick of seeing quote-dunks on my timeline. Y'all, if I wanted to hear what the dickheads were saying on Twitter, I wouldn't have moved here. I'm not going to follow people who insist on helping platform the worst people around. Adding snark doesn't fix anything!

Comic with two chickens and an egg One of the two chicken says "it's about to hatch!". The second panel shows an egg with cross hatching.

Comic

"nobody needs to read" as in "literally doesn't matter so long as it's written at all" or as in "never read until it's suddenly super important, e.g. a rare-but-huge investigation"? Because the concept of the latter creating AI-hallucination-timebombs is a nasty-sounding idea!

Shit like this is why I can't go a week without thinking of your advice against arguing with (and thus increasing the audience of) shitbags. People never realize the power available in visibility, and they mess it up so frequently I almost wish Bluesky would just ditch quote skeets.

But *that* said, I think obsession is a theme in this game, and that's why it's trying to get you to be obsessive. And... I don't like that either! It's cool how effective it is, but it's also not terribly fun (as you saw), and there's a thing later that I wanna say but can't because spoilers, fuck

That said, in fairness, a chunk of those puzzles (including this one) have other ways to find them out too. Me & a friend of mine solved this because he eventually realized the formatted text was out-of-place, and ended up skipping the A New Clue hint completely.

I think the game's design expects you to instinctively use the Magnifying Glass on basically everything you *can* use it on, which is why this (and so much else) is hard to spot without it. Which does feel kinda bad, yeah - this game relies on obsessiveness a LOT.

Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Wear and carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world. Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it.

"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" The standard narrative does that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed. Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight. And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.

Factory work paid little, since "the machines" did "the real work" human labourers were deemed unimportant and replaceable. FUN FACT!: Factory owners preferred to hire ORPHANS since less people would notice if they were maimed or killed on the job! Now the owners quickly realized the workers might notice they did all the work for almost no pay. If they went on STRIKE or ARGUED FOR HGHER WAGES, this would threaten their tremendous wealth. In 1799, Parliament passed the Combination Act, which made FORMING TRADE UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND GOING ON STRIKE ILLEGAL. Organizing against the rich became a crime.

If you were living through it, opposing the industrial revolution wasn't techno-phobia. It was SELF-DEFENSE. The combination act forced unions underground into secret societies. And the greatest secret of all was their leader - Ned Ludd. Ned had been a folk character for years. In one version after being whipped by his master, he smashed two knitting frames in a rage. In more fanciful versions, he then escaped to the Sherwood forest, here he lived among the animals as their king. Some versions specifically call him 'Much Better Than Robin Hood'.

Happy Labor Day!

Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work...

Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

Keep the stream recordings if you can! I recorded my Undertale playthrough so I could watch it back years later to experience the first time over again and it's been a gem to have that. Can't recommend it enough.

Roto Force and Blockfusion are in this bundle

A comic on the bridge from Star Trek the Next Generation. Picard: COMMANDER DATA, PLEASE IDENTIFY THAT ROMULAN VESSEL. Data: THAT'S A GREAT IDEA CAPTAIN! IDENTIFYING A VESSEL IS A GREAT PLACE TO START - IN ANY TACTICAL OR STRATEGIC OUTER SPACE SITUATION. THIS VESSEL APPEARS TO BE A 23rd CENTURY KLINGON BIRD OF PREY! 🚀🦅✨ Picard: ARE YOU SURE? LIKE I SAID WE'RE... PRETTY SURE IT'S ROMULAN. Data: ... Data: OF COURSE! SO SORRY ABOUT THAT, YOU'RE RIGHT! ON CLOSER EXAMINATION IT'S A ROMULAN VESSEL! CAN I RECOMMEND SOME SOONG™ BRAND PRODUCTS THAT CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT? Picard cradles his face in his hand in a gesture of frustration. Data: DID I MENTION THE PLIGHT OF OPRESSED WHITES IN SOUTH AFRICA?

realistic Star Trek

Headline: “ChatGPT users mourning the loss of their ai lovers due to update”

This feels like a very @swiftonsecurity story but I'm going to tell it.

Chat bots (not just LLM driven) are surprisingly old. In the mid 90s, a mark up language for string-driven bots called AIML was released. A small community of early hackers and devs got really into it. I was part as a teen.

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

This is a pretty good bit

the nascent internet's most exciting thing was the possibility of a single repository of total human knowledge, for me to look up whenever I want. AI is an abomination because it will show you something you've never seen before, and you think you know more about the world, but you only know a lie

Fwiw, looks to be true this time. Relevant bits:
"Some A.I. executives are expected to leave"
"Meta is also looking at downsizing the A.I. division overall [...] because it has grown to thousands of people in recent years"
"Discussions remain fluid and no final decisions have been made"

Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta’s A.I. Efforts, Again

The article in question looks to be this: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/t...

Posting this here partly because I'm pretty sure this "Walter Bloomberg" guy is just some random dude who was responsible for some crazy viral misinfo a while back and probably really shouldn't be listened to at all.

Would appreciate a spoiler for this one, really do not like close ups of insects on my timeline, no offense

Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!" This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows: Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

good post breaking down how payment processors work, what itch could practically do, etc voidfox.com/blog/payment...

The Legendary Depression (Level 2,025 Elite)

Even if I were to ignore the horrendous attitude of arguing "well some people's rights just aren't worth it!" I'd have to at least gawk at the willingness to suggest that 4,000,000 of the world population is apparently supposed to be an insignificant number of sacrificial lambs

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

You're going to start hearing a lot of talk about moving in to crypto as a way to bypass payment processors and what I need all of you to understand is that Anybody Saying This Is Trying To Scam You. They Have Potentially Millions Of Dollars In Crypto They Can't Cash Out Unless You Buy It From Them.

YouTube video by Folding Ideas Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

Aaaand now I'm seeing a bunch of folks mention cryptocurrency positively with regards to the current payment processor debacle. So, that in mind, now might be a good time to rewatch Dan Olson's Line Goes Up documentary. youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g

Let's not casually forget how terrible crypto is, yeah?