My signature is worth negative 2 dollars and 82 cents.
Some of the comments pointed out this is likely because of Amazon shenanigans when you look at items repeatedly without buying, so I decided to check and see what Amazon though I would be willing to pay…
And apparently I value paperbacks ~$9 more than hardcovers ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) and signatures not at all, but I have to be enticed to buy physical media at all so get a ~$5-$7 “discount” over what John Green gets.
The dungeons in Oblivion have to have been procedurally generated, right? Just from a time when that was pretty universally considered "cool" and not like laziness?
And it was considered cool until pretty recently, too- the procedurally generated everything in No Man's Sky was sort of the point.
That being said, don't pay too much attention to things like speed of light or distance or time or temperature when any of these things are provided in numbers as none of the math checks out consistently from one part of the movie to another
I saw Project Hail Mary last week and my first reaction was that it was sort of overhyped, and while it was a very good movie it wasn't the best sci-fi movie ever, which it seemed like people were implying
But it's been growing on me as time goes on, and now I think I agree it's up there
I had so much fun with it, it's like a modern Oblivion with parrying and Elden Ring dungeon design
But like a modern Oblivion, the jank adds character (later in the game there are multiple bits of dialog with voice actor errors/retakes, for instance)
Crimson Desert has dropped to a “mixed” Steam review rating, with most of the complaints revolving around the controls. Now, the PR and marketing director at developer Pearl Abyss has responded. https://bit.ly/4sy0huY
Okay, so I've played a bit of Crimson Desert and you can't remap the controls on PS5 and I've been playing FO76 recently so keep trying to open my map with the touch pad and instead zooming in on my character's goofy ass bargain bin Verso face, lol
If someone had told me the new Super Mario Bros movie had the theme from the Super Mario Bros Super Show as an easter egg I would have tried watching it much sooner
ChatGPT: you’re so right, Leto Atreides II. Merging with a worm would give you unconscionable power that you, alone, could wield — you, alone, could be trusted with. You wouldn’t be committing a genocide. You would be saving humanity
Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then
Between FO76's newest update, which added bigfoot as a post-event boss, and new emoji adding "hairy creature", I'm curious what the source of the current Sasquatch zeitgeist is
Edward Shone, head of communications for Proton AG, told 404 Media in an email: “We want to first clarify that Proton did not provide any information to the FBI, the information was obtained from the Swiss justice department via MLAT." Functionally, though, the material was provided to the FBI.
In Fallout 76 there is a camera "weapon" that normally takes captures functionally identical to photo mode except they added a ridiculous Easter egg if you take a camera photo of the new Bigfoot boss wherein the photo becomes blurry
It feels like it's been ten years since I've heard anything about SXSW, but this year I'm seeing/hearing ads for it all over- they're really trying to make it a thing again, huh?
I had forgotten how The Simpsons put the extra effort in to flip this joke. Rather than just satirizing US nationalist parochialism, Homer is (momentarily) an expert on Iranian politics.
As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but...
The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.
for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter". he's full fash at this point. totally gonna deliver AGI by 2030 though. increasingly disgusting that he named his shitass company after Commander Keen, a joyful little video game from before he became a millionaire and was empowered to become his worst self.
I got sick of trying to open my map in Crimson Desert and accidentally changing the view to the main character's goofy ass budget bin Verso face, so I made this
Perhaps his fear center in the amygdala was activated while his reasoning center in the prefrontal cortex was impaired? Or maybe he just became mean and weird.
June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”
March 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it “impacted by objects”
UPDATE (2026-03-02): This toot has gotten a lot more attention than what I would ever anticipate. Some clarifications are needed. A follow up is here: https://infosec.exchange/@dazo/116158898983233133
PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this:
Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item from themselves as a gift for you. Bam, they have your address.
In particular, attack does not depend on an existing third party seller having poor PII handling hygiene, like the articles have implied.
![Senate Bill No. 944
CHAPTER 114
An act to amend Section 37222 of, to add Sections 37222.10, 37222.11, 37222.12, 37222.13, 37222.14, and 37222.16 to, and to repeal Section
37222.5 of, the Education Code, and to add Section 6723 to the Government Code, relating to Ronald Reagan Day.
[Approved by Governor July 19, 2010. Filed with Secretary of State July 19, 2010.]
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 944, Runner. Special significance days: Ronald Reagan Day.
Existing law designates specited days as having special signiticance, and specities how the days of special significance should be observed in public elementary and secondary schools and educational institutions.
This bill would repeal and recast these provisions.
This bill would express findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to Ronald Reagan. This bill would designate February 6 of each year as Ronald Reagan Day, and would encourage public schools and educational institutions to engage in exercises remembering the life of Ronald Reagan, as specified.
Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim various days in honor of
a person, status, or an event.
This bill would require the Governor to annually proclaim February 6 as
Ronald Reagan Day.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) Ronald Wilson Reagan was a man of humble background who worked throughout his life serving freedom and advancing the public good, having been employed as an entertainer, union leader, corporate spokesman, Governor of California, and President of the United States.
(b) Ronald Reagan served with honor and distinction for two terms as
tha 40th Drecidant aftha IInitad Statac af Amerina. the cerand afwhich ha](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/bafkreibbklus6npiozvxyr5afsupe4imdchanct3wvydwu6l2s22lqlsfu "Senate Bill No. 944
CHAPTER 114
An act to amend Section 37222 of, to add Sections 37222.10, 37222.11, 37222.12, 37222.13, 37222.14, and 37222.16 to, and to repeal Section
37222.5 of, the Education Code, and to add Section 6723 to the Government Code, relating to Ronald Reagan Day.
[Approved by Governor July 19, 2010. Filed with Secretary of State July 19, 2010.]
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 944, Runner. Special significance days: Ronald Reagan Day.
Existing law designates specited days as having special signiticance, and specities how the days of special significance should be observed in public elementary and secondary schools and educational institutions.
This bill would repeal and recast these provisions.
This bill would express findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to Ronald Reagan. This bill would designate February 6 of each year as Ronald Reagan Day, and would encourage public schools and educational institutions to engage in exercises remembering the life of Ronald Reagan, as specified.
Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim various days in honor of
a person, status, or an event.
This bill would require the Governor to annually proclaim February 6 as
Ronald Reagan Day.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) Ronald Wilson Reagan was a man of humble background who worked throughout his life serving freedom and advancing the public good, having been employed as an entertainer, union leader, corporate spokesman, Governor of California, and President of the United States.
(b) Ronald Reagan served with honor and distinction for two terms as
tha 40th Drecidant aftha IInitad Statac af Amerina. the cerand afwhich ha")
![from March 28-30th 2026, Palmer Luckey is quoting a WIRED post about a story it ran.
WIRED: "Like Trae said, we spoke to 37 former and current Anduril workers, in addition to investors, experts, and former military officials, for this deeply reported story, which you should read: https://www.wired.com/story/andurils-real-war-is-with-itself "
Luckey: "This 'deeply reported' piece from WIRED is inexcusably bad. First, it is just wrong. Not nitpicky things, fundamentally false jabs and premises. Second, it completely ignores the stakes of supporting active troops to push r/antiwork softboy talking points. Examples below."
John Carmack responds to Lucky: "It would be delightful if you pulled an [Elon Musk], bought WIRED, and changed the editorial tone to Technological Triumphalism. Then maybe do MIT Technology Review."](https://cdn.masto.host/pdxsocial/cache/media_attachments/files/116/355/757/115/545/554/small/ed04ec78cbd94e4c.png "from March 28-30th 2026, Palmer Luckey is quoting a WIRED post about a story it ran.
WIRED: \"Like Trae said, we spoke to 37 former and current Anduril workers, in addition to investors, experts, and former military officials, for this deeply reported story, which you should read: https://www.wired.com/story/andurils-real-war-is-with-itself \"
Luckey: \"This 'deeply reported' piece from WIRED is inexcusably bad. First, it is just wrong. Not nitpicky things, fundamentally false jabs and premises. Second, it completely ignores the stakes of supporting active troops to push r/antiwork softboy talking points. Examples below.\"
John Carmack responds to Lucky: \"It would be delightful if you pulled an [Elon Musk], bought WIRED, and changed the editorial tone to Technological Triumphalism. Then maybe do MIT Technology Review.\"")
![Quote from Washington Times editorial board
"[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:222p42fegwhwfyrc3gqam76j/bafkreib4nkrafaic6rpwa7wyeesnlmjeu23sshxjjpvqtr33wk7ztuxb2y "Quote from Washington Times editorial board
\"[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there.\"")
