Diane 🥐

“The Trump administration has ordered a halt to new student visa interviews as it considers requiring foreign students to undergo social media vetting as part of their application to study in the United States, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing a diplomatic cable.”

- Reuters news

I feel like there’s like 400 essays in the relationship between “The Myth of Sisyphus” and other absurdist discourse as it relates to generative AI models and the role of artist in society.

I think im thinking of it now bc im practicing and i am sisyphus. Help me.

Its 12:30a and i am dying at Grosse Tete absoluty demolishing me with his namesake big head

The gestrals in Clair Obscur are the greatest things ever

Ursula K. Le Guin’s forward in The Left Hand of Darkness being most upfront about sci-fi being descriptive of now, and pointing out the fallacy that sci-fi is predictive makes so much sense. God I love sci-fi

Not me spending 20 minutes trying to figure out why Catch2 won't work and realizing it's because I was using gcc instead of g++ lol

Big head Gustav in the background is killing me

Cheeeese

I would like to learn Spanish to facilitate cafe transactions

John H Benjamin being canonically responsible for tribbles as an act of spite is so ridiculously hilarious and perfect

I'm writing a markup processor that will help me 1) create a static HTML website for me, ~Diane~ and 2) Write better tutorials for students that include tooltips, asides, etc.

As a traditionally Javascript/Typescript developer, successfully refactoring C++ makes me feel like god

Tbh I think its like tech-romantics want it to emulate real life because games (outside of “it’d be so cool bro”) is the barrier to interact through tech is so low and low risk; you lose nothing by having a bad interaction, really.

Video games allow people to enact their fantasy; socializing lmao

Rapidly consuming this gas station sandwich before work

Wait “heteronormative jank” killed me

What on earth did I just start my morning with @tantacrul.bsky.social

Goob morninb bave

Practicing piano and repeating to myself “one must imagine Sisyphus happy one must imagine Sisyphus happy one must imagine Sisyphus…”

Google search making the “Continue” the CTA color every time I search and me hitting it on autopilot makes me so fucking mad im not downloading that stupid app maybe i should just use duck duck go like all the other hipsters

From everything I have heard (or seen) Teslas are not exactly a favorable car, even irrespective of political affiliation.

Reading pro-Musk published op eds saying he risked Tesla’s stock health is hilarious because it hand-waves the trend of its decline and public sentiment in the face of Musk’s own rapidly deteriorating public image that preceed even the DOGE fiasco

Ok so like why doesn't the US have a cafe culture. Why is every European city compelling me to sit and drink small espressos but every American city hands me two liters of watered down caffeine to lug around and no public bathrooms

A headline from NBC News reads “Trump posts ‘Vladimir, STOP!’ as Putin launched worst attack on Ukraine in months”

What an insane timeline we live in.

“American Becoming: Making a New U.S. Citizen” out of the National Review makes such a commitment to its trite stream of consciousness flow. Short sentences that never go anywhere, like the worst imitation of Hemingway possible. Why do i read these lol

This Oblivion remake is a fucking mic drop

I don’t think the horror story is what this presidency is doing, because he just does what he said he’d do. I think the horror story is the legislative complacency and the example it sets to embolden other attacks on civil rights in other nations

Iroh says its time to stop tinkering

Other things I did today: working on a rougelite kit for my VGD students coming up in July!

#gamedev

Rejecting Javascript and its web framework ecosystem. Rolling my own C++ static site generator to learn new things. Thankfully markup language processors are much less difficult to write than interpreted langauges

Bloody Marys are just an excuse for me to drink copious amounts of the juice left over from pickled peppers and olives