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This is a really key thing that people are just not getting: "VC" is simply *not venture capital* anymore. There is ZERO risk for A16Z and peers. They do not resemble the thing that regulators described when creating the category of venture capital. A cartel of ~4 firms runs the whole industry.

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses.

Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.

"getting left behind" is just late 1900s self-help grifter speak that became digitized in the form of linkedin feeds where the people who think they are too smart to be “marketed to” have become the marketers mouthpiece/parrots

“why is hockey conservative” because most of the time you have to be rich as hell!!!!

two stone tablets with early writing

today in tablets

a collection of sharpie-customized diapers, one that says « this stinks! » and one that has the Doom logo

guess which baby shower diaper i made

Tight keming makes your text look dean and modem

kamala’s making a nintendo game

as long as i’m funny about it,,, it’s Healthy

weird thing has happened where i made a game after a lifetime of avoiding it,,, more soon

i want to support good journalism but the journalism corp did me wrong personally and i am eternally petty about it. sorry

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

zoom zoom kid from the mazda commercials

my brain at 2am before i have to work monday morning

I am reasonably unflappable about the internet but I am currently pretty flapped

One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off in 2025, GDC Study Reveals One-third of U.S. video game industry workers say they were laid off last year, according to GDC.

feel like this is one of the bigger labor stories of Our Current Regrettable Age variety.com/2026/gaming/...

not for loooong,,, here to be annoying remember,,,

finished a creative project for the first time in a while so now I Get To Be Annooying,,,, sorry

this is great news

i watched frankenstein tonight,,, what an unexpected gut punch

prune juice is actually quite wonderful and gets a bad rap

overdosed on computer,,, need leaf

"I do not feel safe in the country": international developers are skipping GDC because of Trump's border chaos:

aftermath.site/i-do-not-feel-...

one time i set up our smart home to turn all the lights red and play the doom theme when i said « hey siri it’s doom time » as a bit but then about a month later after completely forgetting i did that siri glitched and did it without prompting which was one of the scariest moments of my life

the only thing left on facebook that feels like genuine connection is poking

computer hours

i’ve never had a true email lifestyle but maybe that is to come.

did so much computer today, tomorrow more computer

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

eden in a yellow sweater in front of a white wall with a new shaggy haircut and brown aviators

got a haircut

The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose