Fan fiction is a brilliant (and terrible) primordial soup.

Damn. You just reminded me that Lucky 13 in SF never advertised but always had pliny on tap. rip legend.

i feel seen, tbh

Thank you. We need more attention brought towards judicial grammar. Punctuation matters!!

♫ Mother. Tell your children not to pet my cats. Tell your children not to touch their poops. Let me clean, let me scoop, mother. ♫

(Seriously tho, I love this picture with my entire heart. Haven't seen it in years. It's sooooo good.)

A Time-Traveling Love Story to Make Kafka and Lynch Proud

ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN is one of my favorite games in years. I'm glad it got a proper write up in the New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

This is essentially the origin story of 40% of supervillians. Stay safe, my brother.

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight A vibe coding thought exercise on what it might look like for LLMs to scour human historical data at scale and in retrospect.

Andrej Karpathy, one of the technical founders of OpenAI and the progenitor of "vibe coding", low-key mentions that his weapon of choice is Anthropic's Claude 4.5 Opus.

(No judgement, just an interesting observation.)

karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/

I'm shy of a decade in the business. I see what you see.

And worse, everyone I know whose been doing this as long as you have says the same thing.

The common refrain is "I'm working twice as hard to accomplish half as much."

Thank you for talking to the researchers about this. It's good to have evidence-based confirmation that "the algorithm" is broken. Unfortunately, this feels a little bit like climate change. The scientists identify a better path, but the monied-class wants to stay the course.

It's a fine article in the abstract, but I'm immensely disappointed they didn't mention your degenerate Magic the Gathering standard brews. DO NOT RECOMMEND!

When I was a kid, I loved taking things apart to understand how they worked. My parents (bless them) encouraged me by picking up old electronics at flea markets to encourage my curiosity.

This explainer scratches that itchy part of my brain!
robrobinette.com/How_Amps_Wor...

I'm ethnically Jewish and I support Kat.
Palestinians deserve human rights.

Overheard in the East Wing of the White House:
"This leopard definitely won't eat my face!"

100% couldn't agree more

This is a canonically true statement.

Ghost of Corporate Synergy. Alamo Drafthouse, which is owned by Sony, is hosting a film series “inspired by” Ghost of Yōtei, a PlayStation video game made by Sucker Punch Productions, which is a Sony-owned studio. There’s even a...

I'm not mad about this.

I remember when antitrust law prevented studios from owning theaters. It was a good idea at the time, but... times have changed.

Theaters are no longer the way most people watch movies.

I love movie theaters and I'm fine with corporate largess keeping the experience alive.

Woof. It's bound to happen in real life, but yeah... the idea is heavy. :)

I was the localization producer at Sega of America. My primary job was managing the creation of all the English language assets from the original Japanese. I also supported Sonic Team with little things, like feedback on a couple game mechanics and talking with American game journalists.

My good dude. In the year 2025, you're going to have to be a liiiiitle more specific than that! :)

I have a theory...

Congrats on the milestone! I'll celebrate with you, in spirit, from up the coast. Have a phenomenal time!!

You're a wretched, horrible monstrosity. Don't ever change!

My dear compatriot, this is an exquisite take! 👩‍🍳😽

Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 Netflix is trying to grow ad revenue quickly.

The enshittification will continue as long as shareholder value improves.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

To be clear, I don't believe that generative AI is good or bad. It's akin to a power tool, like a chainsaw or a forklift. Someone smarter than me pointed out that while you *could* take a forklift to the gym, that kinda defeats the point. That feels super analogous to many arguments about the tech.

Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting” Carmack: “Power tools” like AI are “central to all the progress in computers.”…

As someone who learned about computers when assembly code was highly relevant in every aspect of programming, I find myself agreeing with John Carmack and Tim Sweeney.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/j...

Yes and yes!

Keep fighting the good fight, my man.

I've been inside the belly of the beast, so I understand why people are skeptical.

I also fully comprehend the limits of capitalism. It's not an omnipotent force.

Sometimes, maybe most times, people are simply doing their best according to their principles.

Bravo, my friend! I'm super hyped!!