a tragedy:

the new "conversation awareness" feature on AirPods detects when I am talking to my cat and near-mutes my music.

millennial falcon

what a deal?

what if sisyphus got a coin every time he rolled the boulder up the hill and then he could spend his coins in the shop to level up his pushing ability but each time he leveled up the boulder also got heavier so the challenge remains the same despite feeling like progression has been made. and what if he was able to unlock sisyphus minions that could roll the boulder up the hill while he was away. also every time he starts a new roll an ad plays. and also he can choose to watch an ad every time he drops the boulder to receive 2x coins for that round. and also you can buy fun skins for the boulder through microtransactions

I have the book-buying habits of a much faster reader

In abortion ban states, sterilization spiked after Dobbs and kept climbing

Sterilizations spike with abortion bans and declining access to care and contraception.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/in-abortion-ban-states-sterilization-spiked-after-dobbs-and-kept-climbing/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I was a Bridesman at my friend's wedding recently. Very progressive. 300 years ago we both would have been burned at the stake for this.

you look at Jabba the Hutt and notice Salacious Crumb, the weird little laughing goblin-muppet sitting on his shoulder, and then you look closer and notice a tiny, even weirder guy sitting on Crumb's shoulder, and you imagine it going on like that forever with progressively tinier weirder guys

“Serial incoherence, lack of basic curiosity, pathological dishonesty, a tendency toward sadistic verbal abuses of many different kinds—all these things can also plainly be evaluated through the prism of whether they might impair someone from performing the job of president effectively. Journalists can say what they know to be true about Trump’s qualities on all these fronts.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/185622/finally-top-journo-erupts-media-ignoring-trumps-mental-state

Perfect expression of what newspaper front pages *should* say today--but do not. An extension of my rant and post

Researchers have found an antibody against all known variants of covid, as well as distantly related coronaviruses; and they found that antibody in ONE PERSON.

Despite this research being possible with NIH funding, the researchers have applied for a patent.

https://news.utexas.edu/2024/09/03/newly-discovered-antibody-protects-against-all-covid-19-variants/

So Dorito dye makes mice skin transparent through completely reversible (wash it off) light refraction tricks: https://www.popsci.com/science/dye-mice-transparent/

Which is cool as hell, but not applicable to humans because 1) human skin is thicker and less permeable, and 2) "the toxicology of dye molecules in humans, particularly when applied topically, has not been fully evaluated"; and I really think that second point needs more attention given this is an approved food substance

Remember, kids: *technically* true is the *best* kind of true.
https://jwz.org/b/ykY6

I just finished the game #LunarNightmare which is a sci-fi thriller that has great visuals and vibes but a pretty nonsensical story... sorta like much of the sci-fi from back in the day that clearly inspired it. Judging by the writing, I think something was lost in translation.

Absolutely worth $4 though, and it has gems like this:

"Algorithmic Nightmare Manifests. Dystopian Prophecy Expired:
Neon skies weep binary tears.
Circuit cities crumble to dust,
Humanity's end draws near."

#gaming

klingons gone dishonorable spring break

If you can't think of a word, just say "I forgot the English word for it."

That way people will think you're bilingual instead of an idiot.

1000 richest people are approched. "The end of the world is here. Time to go to your doomsday bunker", they are told. The billionaires nodded. They knew this was coming. They were prepared.

So they gathered their loved ones and locked themselves in luxury bunkers. No contact to outside world.

10 years later they emerge. The world has healed. The air is breathable, people are happy. "What was the catastrophy?" they ask the first person they meet.

She screams: "THEY GOT OUT!!!"

#microfiction

EU newspapers seem to know exactly who Trump is!

#EU #media #newspaper #Trump #politics #political #news #Horror #clown

@cy I haven’t seen enough to tell, it just doesn’t seem that interesting this time, from the little I’ve seen

Which is extra wild because on paper both Star Wars Outlaws and Visions of Mana should both be extremely my shit, and yet, they both look very very boring on twitch streams

A tragedy:

I want to play a video game but no games look particularly good or interesting at the moment.

Yep.

“I’m seeing a revival now,” said Levels, regarding PHP. “People are getting sick of frameworks. All the JavaScript frameworks are so… what do you call it, like [un]wieldy. It takes so much work to just maintain this code, and then it updates to a new version, you need to change everything. PHP just stays the same and works.” https://thenewstack.io/developers-rail-against-javascript-merchants-of-complexity/

If there are going to be climate-justified subsidies for owning electric cars, there should be subsidies for not owning cars at all.

are the gop trying to wipe out all life

Sesame Street released a character several decades ago called Ronald Grump, he was a crooked real estate developer, who took advantage of poor people who lived there, and ya'll he looked like this, and later was played by Joe Pesci. Sesame Street knew.

Can't believe it, there's a guy at the coworking space next to me who calls himself a "programmer" and he's just cutting and pasting whatever crap he gets back from ChatGPT without understanding it, instead of cutting and pasting whatever crap one gets back from Stack Overflow as God intended.

This article comparing echo chambers to AI modal collapse (when AIs train on AI generated garbage and thus generate progressively more hallucinatory garbage) is insightful and interesting https://www.reimaginingliberty.com/silicon-valleys-very-online-ideologues-are-in-model-collapse/

stumbled into this incredible david lynch quote today that I imagine will stay with me for years https://www.gq.com/story/the-happiness-project-style-extension

Martin Shkreli pisses off NFT collective that bought his (not so) unique Wu-Tang album

"Of course I made MP3 copies, they're like hidden in safes all around the world."

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/08/martin-shkreli-pisses-off-nft-collective-that-bought-his-not-so-unique-wu-tang-album/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

spotify playing ska in a new wave playlist?

it's more likely than you think

Furries as a keystone species

@mikemccaffrey
Mark Zusman the owner-editor of the Willamette Week is founding an “investigative journalism" nonprofit. Under Zusman the Willamette Week joined the Portland Business Alliance/Portland Metro Council, endorsed Ted Wheeler for Mayor (twice) and endorsed Rene Gonzalez over Joanne Hardesty. I do not have high hopes for this new project to challenge the powerful in Oregon.

This is what the electoral map would look like if young voters voted at the same rate as 65+ https://www.byteseu.com/366115/ #Map #MapPorn #MapPorn #Maps

the immortal words of juror no. 59 ring true across eternity

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lse7s7ycnkvuhxej6mkx4rid/post/3l2icxwttbu23

@hupfen oh, is that you I’ve seen around xoxo in the green cloak? It looks very nice for when it was colder and rainy but uncomfortable for the brief times it’s been sunny and warm

The fact that Rowling has descended into Trumpy birther-style conspiracy theories about a cisgender athlete whose looks, ability, and makeover choices she disapproves of should serve as a warning: this is the logical endpoint of the gender critical "movement."

It was always this, there's just no longer a pretense of good faith or high-minded feminism. Just rich, bitter old people tearing down strong women who don't look or act feminine enough or in "the right way."

they said it couldn't happen, but land and sea have finally united for playtime

#dogs #dolphins

This is a damn good point.