two animal headed marionettes appear in an window of an apartment building. a kaiju shadow is cast against it. the text reads THE LAST FIFTEEN MINUTES - a marionette musical by shing yin khor and jay ackley
dang, this poster for my film slaps
Mankind has still not evolved past the basal instincts of social cohesion and anyone arguing it has has a reason to argue otherwise
We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.
The graves of multiple children have been defaced.
One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.
Karoline Leavitt @PressSec Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness
we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help
Everything about our Iran War being conducted by a party that can only lie, complain and punish feels like an overly elaborate exploration of @veryimportant.lawyer's theory that Everyone Is 12 Now.
"Sergeant, what inspires you?"
Walking Tank from @westfaliaminis.bsky.social for @trenchcrusade.bsky.social
Never start a project hungry.
#miniaturepainting #trenchcrusade #beans #nerdlings #minipainting
First draft is for telling yourself the story, revisions are for telling your readers the story.
You have to finish projects. Yes, you (all humans reading this).
You can stave off completion with the goal of perfection forever and learn essentially nothing in the process.
Everytime I see shit like this is a fundamental failure to understand the role and purpose of what an "NPC" plays in game design. The role of an npc is to deliver tone, information, character. Things AI are incapable of doing because it requires intent.
Nothing grates me more than when AI game dudes are like "Don't you wish you could ask an NPC aNyThInG?" Absolutely fucking not. If you don't understand that every piece of writing is made with intention, character, and meaningful choice... you probaby shouldn't be directing a fucking video game.
Imagine if this guy showed up at your front door and said, “I’m here to collect all of your personal information and while I’m doing that I’m going to clear up some misconceptions about the Nazis.”
I always think of how this “prepare to be offended” only works in one damn direction
Starweb.
John Swartzwelder had the best answer to this question.
I think about this all the time
Naming my security company after the giant evil eye that, crucially, was too distracted to see the actual threat sneaking in
Wait for it to focus...
Sound up...
Earthset, recorded by Reid Wiseman during the Artemis II lunar flyby.
The initial imperfect composition, and the phone hunting for focus makes this so much more human and familiar.
A celestial scene witnessed by only 28 of us in history...more
5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.
Every generation of arms merchants has its own version of this claim: someone else will do the bad thing, so it's not bad when we do it. "Theatrical debates" is meant to contrast thinking about the appropriate use of violence as mere performance art, whereas killing people is sober realism.
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Palantir is doing cutting edge science on whether its possible for an entire company to have cocaine psychosis
Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.
Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.
my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
A street lamp on a tree-lined street at dusk. A thin crescent moon and bright, star-like Venus in the sky. Photo: Bill Dunford
Lamplight
if you are a writer and are considering using a title that follows the format '[a/an/x] [word] of [word] and [word]' I am pleading with you to reconsider
it tells the reader almost nothing, it doesn't sell any vibe, and it was already overused ten years ago
please please please pick something else
the quality of each star trek show is directly proportional to how often you see the characters engaging in hobbies
The New Yorker, "Wondering why people are pining for old technologies - CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What's behind our longing for inconvenience?"
Inconvenience? I just had to dig seven pages deep to find the unsubscribe for one of the four TV subscriptions I need, I'm measured & optimized against in my supermarket, lamps, music, games, and travel. Every service I love gets enshittified to buy billionaires yachts worth 100 times my house.
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
The Olympics ended sex testing because it was scientifically flawed and discriminatory.
Understand more about their decision to reintroduce it 👇
it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.
