a man in a suit and tie is crossing his fingers in front of a history.com sign Alt: A middle-aged professorial-looking man being interviewed for what appears to be a serious history channel documentary (it’s actually the “aliens” meme guy). He is holding his hands up, slightly far apart, as though showing the size of something, wearing a brown suit and tie, and has an eccentric hairdo that looks like a cross between a lion’s mane and a bird’s nest.

“You see, once the world’s richest man supported universal high income, the rest of the capitalists had no choice — no excuse — but to fall in line.”

please no more stupid wars please

Sunrise view from my deck this morning

Happy Friday! 🌞🌸💕✨

Beautiful colors in the sky at sunset In Minnesota .

Beautiful colors in the sky at sunset in Minnesota
#Sunset

i get it’s hard to sell a fan base on the strategy of “tanking until we score a generational prospect in the draft,” but if that’s the optimal strategy, it is what it is! avoid comfortable lies and seek uncomfortable truths — like how the wizards are probably going to suck for a long time!

the illusion of meaningful games becomes more important than the reality. this way everyone can enjoy a full season of basketball! but because there are 30 nba teams with only 15 players, and individual players have a big impact on team success, the competitive dynamics will always favor tank-offs.

relegation is the obvious solution to nba tanking. but owners are probably unwilling to risk their bottom line here and instead agree to try and solve the problem by yelling at their coaching about the appearance of competitiveness, while letting actual competitiveness take a back seat.

here’s a recipe for lentil soup with a side of constructive (elucidating) disagreement

An AI-generated image of a coiled snake, proffering an apple, with a halo floating behind its head. An old-style caption, in all capital letters and apparently written on papyrus, says: “DON’T TREAD ON ME”.

imagine knowledge without shame ; imagine morality based on reason, instead of blind dogma !

the tension between individual expression and cultural unity is recognized by everyone and resolved by willingness to both express oneself and accept the expression of others others — so the seemingly-conflicting perspectives above can actually both be true

there would still be plenty to talk about in a utopia because everyone would be free to make decisions about their own identity which are both *very important* and *totally insignificant*

( a whole week of watching the results sounds like hell for the candidates, but hog heaven for the media / political junkies, so i’m surprised this idea doesn’t have more support already! )

i like this better than making elections a national holiday because it’s more practical. not only would this policy make voting more accessible, it would allow for interesting election turnout strategy dynamics and shorter lines at the voting booths!

rather than let themselves get stupidly cornered by another trump policy that sounds like common sense (voter id requirements), dems should drive a smart bargain and say if people need id to vote and mail in is less available, they need a week to vote (sunday-saturday, with results tallied daily!).

if trump tries to go through with it the best hope for preserving america’s status as a constitutional democracy is massive voter turnout and a swift revolution. so people have to realize how important it is to turnout and vote, defeatism will be a self-fulfilling prophecy but it doesn’t have to be.

completely agree we can’t afford any voter suppression. imo, trump has clearly telegraphed his goal to tilt the elections in his favor as much as possible and we have no idea how far he will go. so as someone who remembers jan 6 i have no confidence we’ll have fair elections.

colourful inverted sgraffito on black glass, a long ribbon-like sárkány dragon in flight, a Garabonciás wizard in silhouette, with a tall hat and angular cloak, the dragon's body curves in a shallow arc across the frame, patterned with faintly reflective scales, a stratified stormfront, dark background, negative space --ar 9:16 --stylize 300 --v 7

TIL that the Hungarian sárkány dragon is a transformation of a fish, snake or rooster that has lived for seven years #DragonTuesday 🐉✨

`A sárkány dragon,
a garabonciás wizard,
stratified storm front`

#synthart #AIイラスト

this is a psa for everyone to regularly check their installed browser extensions !

hope that makes sense, there’s a lot of pessimism and fear around development right now but i’m actually pretty optimistic about it because it means people will have a lot more time to play games which is good for people who like building games! 😊

i actually think there’s going to be a lot more game developer opportunities in the future and op’s skill set is more useful than ever because most people aren’t even aware of those kinds of details — when anyone can make a game what’s important is knowing what makes a game good!

oh i see, no you totally misunderstand me. for people who actually like game development i think they will be happy about how ai lets them accomplish a lot more. ai isn’t going to replace game developers it’s going to let them focus more on the game design and those little details op described

i like to think it’s encouraging

i think this is true for other software development work too, but maybe one day the bulk of new software development will be game development, that’s a utopia scenario

the world would be a better place if fewer people cared about saving face but social cohesion also depends on this shared concept

a cartoon of spider-man says that 's all folks Alt: a cartoon of the spider-ham character saying “that’s all, folks”

that’s why they call it a gross invasion

because there’s still the zen feedback loop of working on satisfying features but the scope of features a developer can add is broader

that looks incredible! great work and it makes me optimistic for how ai might help game developers!

beautiful photo. i love the smooth gradient as matter appears to dissolve into nothingness, reflecting the hidden unity of our shared material plane. ✈️

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Fields in Spring, 1887.
Oil on canvas.

The image shows a quiet mountain sunrise dominated by sky and color rather than land detail. Along the bottom of the scene, a low mountain ridge stretches from left to right. The ridge is covered with dense evergreen trees that appear as a dark, jagged silhouette. Individual treetops form small pointed shapes, but the forest is mostly seen as one continuous dark band. The land is still in shadow, with no visible detail on the slopes. Above the ridge, the sky is layered with horizontal bands of color. Closest to the horizon, the clouds glow in deep red and burnt orange tones. These colors soften into lighter orange and muted gold as they extend upward. The light looks diffused, filtered through thin, smoky clouds that spread across the sky in long, streaked layers. Higher up, the warm colors fade into pale peach and then into cooler gray-blue. The clouds become thinner and more scattered, with faint wisps catching just a hint of gold while the upper sky remains subdued and calm. The sun itself is not visible. Instead, the light comes from below the horizon, illuminating the underside of the clouds while the mountains remain dark. There is no movement—no birds, no wind in the trees, and no human structures. The overall feeling is still and early, as if the day is just beginning above while the landscape below is still holding onto night.

Happy #MountainMonday Sunrise from Montana

#Unedited #imageandverse

Sky holds the morning
Days warmth stretching
Red, orange and gold bleeds
The smoky shadows still hold night
Color moves before warmth
And the mountains slowly return