Steve Schirra

Steve Schirra

@schirra.bsky.social

UX Research @YouTube / HCI / Games / Politics + Law / Books / Birds. Opinions my own. @MIT alum. Previously @twitch, @yahoo, @zynga.

628 Followers 485 Following 316 Posts Joined May 2023
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Nintendo has jumped 18% this week as a surprise Pokémon hit drove hope it could boost Switch 2 sales "Pokémon Pokopia" is only available on the Switch 2, with Nintendo's share price rally this week built on hopes this might drive sales of the flagship console.

Crazy how actually making video games can make your video-game company financials look good.

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This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.

Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

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Phoebe Reads a Mystery, The Curious History of Your Home are my go-tos

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donald trump post on truth social:

If the Protoss have put out any photon cannons in our base, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY! If for any reason photon cannons were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the Military consequences to the Protoss will be at a level never seen before. If, on the other hand, they remove what may have been placed, it will be a giant step in the right direction! Additionally, we are using the same Terran capabilities deployed against the Zerg to permanently eliminate any drones or probes attempting to place photon cannons in our base. They will be dealt with quickly and violently. BEWARE! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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4 days ago

This morning: “We’re gonna blow the hell outta these people.”

Tonight: “Please be careful.”

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4 days ago

Omg

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6 days ago

Many people are saying

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1 week ago

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

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Sam Altman’s face on a billboard. “OpenAI will you let the government use your tools for mass surveillance?” “OpenAI: Will you stand up for Americans?”

Today in San Francisco AI signage: finally something that’s pro-human

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world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

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i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services

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Columbia President with NEW details:

5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant.

They said they were police looking for a missing kid.
Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid."

A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss.

They ignored him & took the student.

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It’s heartening to see a company demonstrate principles — and stick by them in the face of threats.

www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

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You know who else liked to give really long speeches

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police are investigating after officers were pelted with snowballs while responding to a massive snowball fight at Washington Square Park in Manhattan.

A video of the fracas shows two uniformed officers pacing a walkway in the park Monday as snowballs fly at them from all directions, hitting the officers and covering them in snow.

The officers, growing visibly frustrated, shoved at least two people to the ground as snowballs continued to whizz by. At one point, a person runs up behind an officer and mushes some snow onto his head. One of the officers can be seen rubbing his eye toward the end of the video.

In a statement Tuesday, the New York Police Department said multiple uniformed officers were struck in the face with snowballs and were “removed by EMS in stable condition” to a nearby hospital, but did not disclose additional information on their injuries.

Jessica Tisch, the city’s police commissioner, called the behavior “disgraceful” and “criminal” and said the department is investigating. Police have released images of two people the department is searching for in connection with the incident, asking for the public’s help to identify them.

NYPD officers also had their shoelaces tied together, their pants pulled down revealing boxers with hearts on them, and one was seriously injured when he attempted to run through a tunnel which a vicious criminal appeared to have painted on a wall

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A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.

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Picture of myspace Tom with the writing it didn’t have to be this way over it

in a world of bad outcomes we collectively chose and funded some of the worst

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I love the hater pope

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Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism

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Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM.
BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

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I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

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3 weeks ago

But actually

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Unfortunately PMs already truly believe they can do this without UX :)

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A Tufted Titmouse in a beech tree waiting for a peanut to be offered.

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The famously pro-Irish early USA.

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US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

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1 month ago

NEW: House votes to overturn President Trump's tariffs on Canada after six Republicans side with nearly all Democrats to rebuke one pillar of the president's trade agenda

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1 month ago
elodieunderglass

I can confirm that most birds have a detectable amount of wiring behind the eyes - blinking lights and buttons and sliders and frizzy things that spark and chirp and beep. They also have a lot of soul that can communicate with ours because the programming is fairly compatible. Vultures are clever and curious, swans are clear and lawful, chickens have a lot of personality, caged parrots are dissociated and disinherited and frankly worrying, falconry-trained birds of prey are tremendously businesslike.

And owls are absolutely lovely beasts with their own irreplaceable validity. but they are basically stuffed with polyester fiberfill. They have one button, like a child’s toy dinosaur that opens and closes its mouth when you press the back of its head. And it isn’t even a sophisticated electronic button it’s just a lever that rocks back and forth to make the claws open and close. I think they may have actually evolved independently from sponges. Their skulls simply exist to create holes that funnel sound and light, and as a place to hang a giant hinged beak. An owl is just an empty tube like a windchime that the wind whistles through, and you can drop meat down it. They use the meat to generate feathers, and then emit the bones in pressed little packages like those machines that flatten a penny and stamp it with the logo of a theme park. I think that’s the gist of it - most birds are electronics of varying levels of sophistication, but owls are just a system of levers and pulleys. No elevator music in those skulls, just the wind echoing through empty caverns of slightly irritating design. Absolutely fantastic.

finally found this tumblr post expounding on how stupid owls are piraticoctopus.tumblr.com/post/6741867...

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