The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!
Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!
I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
...and now I know about HyperRogue.
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
Maybe they should have stopped calling him Little Father Time.
I posted the third installment of my journal of taking BEAST MODE from manuscript to publication. A process I am making up as I go along.
austingrossman.substack.com/p/publishing...
this feels like a good place to recommend Ennuigi, a free game where you play as a depressed Luigi and wander through a ruined mushroom kingdom landscape smoking and making forlorn observations about his and his brother's lives
The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for.
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The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon
Rooms with no purpose, just a chair and a plant and a couple of shelves.
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
excerpt from popbitch saying that the reason for gta vi's delay is that they haven't figured out how to implement saving games yet
lmao @ this week's popbitch
Origins of Beast Mode, part 2. Pitching it, writing it.
open.substack.com/pub/austingr...
No Kings protest, New London CT seen from passing train.
My view from a train passing through New London, CT. I couldn’t see where the crowd ends.
#nokings
I love the essays, but anyone who predicted Ben Folds vs DiFranco in the final four is either a legit precognitive talent, or just crazy.
Actual flag. The sword depicted is the one owned by historic psychopath Myles Standish.
I grew up in Massachusetts, and I only just learned our state motto is Ense Petit Placidam, Sub Libertate Quietem: "By the Sword We Seek Peace, But Peace Only Under Liberty."
Explains a lot.
I mean Melissa the Times writer.
I also voted Celine, because Melissa the Xness Writer's essay on it is searingly honest and good.
I told Melissa about it 💅
Fantasy
Lisbon, ND
This is such a stupid time to be writing a book
I really wanted to vote for Soul Asylum, just because of the time I saw them play at a Sony party and I didn't know it was them. I turned to the guy next to me and said "Wow, I guess these guys really love Soul Asylum." #thoughtiwascool
@chrislkeller.com's essay on Wilco's "Via Chicago" is, well it's everything an essay about a sad 1990s song should be. Bravo.
#marchxness
marchxness.com#/2ndround-wi...
Done it.
I will finish this manuscript today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQdw...
My favorite of Kay Francis which is saying a lot.
I agree although it would be hard to find a video game this stupid.
Here is my best Habermas story.
I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"
I almost took Bonnie Raitt but I got stuck trying to figure out, how to advocate for a perfect song. I couldn't make any argument it didn't make for itself.
Replaying this now. It holds up shockingly well.
@harvey1966.bsky.social
