YouTube video player evolution 2005–2025

YouTube video player evolution 2005–2025

The game is great and the character interactions are superb, so of course freaks gotta be weird about it and push people away from experiencing an actually good thing. So lame.

The surprising origin of 4 features that superglue kids — and adults — to screens Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable.

Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable. n.pr/4mH6i6s

Grabbed the frame from the Criterion Channel copy in case it was more clear. Seems to be, but who knows with how social media crunches images

I'm thinking you can also come at it via predisposed dislike for fraught topics (Lolita) & creatives (Chinatown), but that may drift too far from the intent. Hate-watching as a topic is an interesting one though, for sure.

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

User dratsab huffman asks the question: To amuse myself i researched revacholian nationalism as well as measure head's race theories etc etc and focused my character on "traditionalism". Anyway, ive noticed that if i ever click dialogue options that are in tune with my character's political compass, i lose morale. Whats the point of having this as a mechanic if its going to be so detrimental and feels like the character doesnt believe he actually is this or something... is there anyway to overcome that kind of morale loss?

Recalcitrant Jester replies: Being a fascist is a deeply demoralizing experience. You have to not only radically alter your worldview to make reality fit into your unhinged schema, but that worldview is predicated on the notion that the weakest, most unworthy degenerate worms on the planet are somehow overpowering and humiliating you on a moment-by-moment basis. In mechanical terms too, the lowered morale also reduces your volition score—the more you indulge in your delusions, the less you are able to exercise self-control and self-awareness. The point of fascism being mechanically detrimental—the ludonarrative theme—is that fascism is an unequivocally self-destructive ideology, the practice of which only serves to nurture that self-destructive urge and turn it outward. It's not like Dark Side points in KotOR where you can access cool new abilities and get to enjoy being such a nasty lil rascal; you are not supposed to enjoy being a fascist in Disco Elysium. Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike.

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

Linda Yaccarino replies to a Zohran Mamdani tweet to say that taxing rich people's penthouses is "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen"

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

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I got a different answer that was somehow worse

man, this is such a bad asymmetry. eventually Ds are going to get so black-pilled by the double-standard that they give up the standard entirely (cough maine cough). and frankly i'd understand the impulse. media is allowing this to happen - facilitating it, in fact.

“What you got here Sammy is a fairly rare reverse crusades situation…”

a crude cartoon of a wandering computer, telling its (previous) owner 'i have found enlightenment'. its owner is standing on the side of the path that the computer is travelling, crying and begging 'please come home...'

cartoon, australian microcomputer, magazine (1983) archive.org/details/aust...

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and the Lessons of American Myth-Making — Crooked Marquee John Ford’s 1962 Western wasn't merely a team-up of legends; it was a pointed commentary on the stories America tells about itself.

John Ford’s Western, released on this day in 1962, wasn't merely a team-up of legends John Wayne, James Stewart, and Lee Marvin, @willdigravio.bsky.social writes. It was a pointed commentary on the stories America tells about itself:

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

There's a word for this thing where the leader is omnipresent in people's lives. Georgian? 1984ish? Can't remember.

Anyway, always nice to see Silicon Valley will never live down the Torment Nexus tweet.

All they have is the oil, the land above it, the waterway down which it must float, a country full of people who hate the U.S. for all the times we have done exactly what we're doing now, and an opponent who is among the dumbest people ever to walk the earth.

I agree, specifically because nobody will run that message and get it constantly in front of people long enough for it to solidify. Nobody will ever admit wrong.

on a scale of 1 to 100, my support for democracy and protecting everyone's right to vote is 99. but i admit it used to be 100 before reading some of your tweets

I can feel it developing too when something I've liked for a long time gets an adaptation. Particularly if it's popular. But then I step back and go "hold on, this is good actually, share the stories".

A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.

Reminder that in this house we do not trash other genres of books to support the genre we like the most. One, come on, we're grown ups. Two, the bottom line is people reading and loving books. Three, every writer you know has friends working other genres, don't trash their friends, thanks.

Left is NYT with 20 days in a row with 2+ above-the-fold stories about how we got crushed and it was all Biden's fault (withdrawal was necessary & messy)

Right is NYT with its cute both-sides story about Trump claiming victory (despite getting crushed by Iran)

The self and the cyberself in quiet introspection

Trump's carny act isn't working anymore His Folgers Coffee™ Conference showed a candidate in decline.

Nearly two years ago, I wrote about Trump's then obviously advancing cognitive decline.
At the time, I thought that the press would be compelled to report, and voters would recognize, it. I was wrong.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Florida bans sociology from core curriculum at state universities For years, Republican lawmakers and education leaders have argued that sociology — especially high-enrollment introductory courses — has been overtaken by progressive ideology

Where on the Democracy Index does it fall when the government bans entire fields of education?

Click thru to the pdf with a list of all the degrees now eliminates like for example women's studies and exceptional needs early childhood education and journalism and architecture and visual arts and political science and foreign language teacher ed and African & African American studies and

Listen up nerds I get that ai didn't directly cause whatever server issue bluesky is suffering and I don't care. It is way way way funnier to see every pro-ai poster on here flipping out over jokes about ai crashing the site than to be factually correct lol

a casket is has been lowered into a grave, colourful flowers on top. the tombstone is a yellow skateboard that reads 'live to ride' in green, with a white skull and crossbones and 'rip' in red and pink. a fellow skater in a green singlet and light blue shorts with a yellow mohawk and a man in a suit and shades are standing on either side of the skateboard tombstone with their heads bowed. other folks are standing around, grieving. clouds in the sky.

california games II, game over screen, amiga (1992) www.mobygames.com/game/1826/ca...