Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

Oh yeah, so, if you're at VGMCON, I'm performing with @discocactus.bsky.social Saturday at 4:30 on the boss stage! Be there or be square which is not very cactus-like

This is just Street Fighter

Thanks for the kind words!

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

A screengrab of the Artemis II live stream, showing the view from an exterior camera on Integrity, encompassing the capsule, the Moon, and in the very far distance, a crescent-illuminated Earth

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early

astronaut: Office365 in spaceship

nasa employee: what?

astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* Office365 in spaceship

Whoa. "[F]inetuning exclusively on Haruki Murakami's novels unlocks verbatim recall of copyrighted books from over 30 unrelated authors...Our findings offer compelling evidence that model weights store copies of copyrighted works."

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I'm live with @discocactus.bsky.social !! We're taking requests, come hang out~ twitch.tv/discocactusmusic

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Nvidia has confirmed that the new DLSS 5 algorithm is redrawing games based on a 2D image input and motion data. https://bit.ly/4smPOCx

Thank you for including screenshots from a soccer game so we can look at what it does to a digital representation of a real player, definitively showing that DLSS 5 is way worse than the game's lighting system at representing reality. The lighting on his hair, skin tone, lip color: all wrong

look at how the warm glow from the shop landing on the ice machine and other nearby objects (left) gets COMPLETELY obliterated by DLSS here (right). art direction? what's that. we don't want any of that, apparently

Yeah this is another egregious example. DLSS5 literally deleted the shadows cast by objects in the scene! It's removing gross lighting detail while adding fake pseudo-AO and fake dynamic range!

even from a pure technical perspective, it's clearly throwing out a bunch of the actual lighting information in the scene to replace it with essentially a pre-baked yassified valley face. it's the Samsung moon thing but for video game characters' faces

The most helpful any everyday technology has ever been is GMail's "You wrote 'Attached is' but no files are attached." reminder and I don't need any tech to be more intelligent than that.

Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’

“[Amazon] said there had been a ‘trend of incidents’ in recent months, characterised by a ‘high blast radius’ and ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’ among other factors … Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes”

www.ft.com/content/7cab...

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

I've seen your steam backlogs. Many of you should be hosting a Previous Fest.

This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.

Is there an existing license or clause you’re considering? I’d love to have one to use and point people to.

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers.

If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of:

fund.godotengine.org

If there’s one thing I learned from Juicero, it’s that you could absolutely get millions in funding for an AI ice cream scoop startup.

I'm cleaning up my drives and I was looking at file sizes, this was kind of amusing:

1 install of UE4: 41.2 GB
6 versions of Unity: 48.7 GB
22 versions of Godot: 2.4 GB (5 GB with export templates)

Notes on level design workflow for the 3D platformer Big Hops A behind-the-scenes look at some of the tooling, level design methods, and metrics use for this cartoony 3D exploration game I helped make.

new blog post: notes on level design workflows for the 3D platformer Big Hops www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/01/note...