Happy 79th birthday to Star Trek actor Iggy Pop.

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.

249 years later, we have this idiot.

Firefox’s New Boss Has a Very Old-School Plan: 'Build a Better Browser' I spoke with Firefox's head, Ajit Varma, about why the company is returning to fundamentals after years of decline.

To win back users, the new Firefox head's plan is deceptively simple: "Build better features, build a better browser, and then people will use it."

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Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Look to the heavens, keys! #gamedev

Ivy: Edge Of The Ocean - Official Music Video YouTube video by IVY: Official

🎵🎵 Hey, listen! 🎵🎵

There's a particular Y2K indie pop aesthetic that most people don't remember. It sat right between late-90s Luscious Jackson/Air/Portishead and mid-2000s Iron and Wine/Wilco/Yo La Tengo and I wish there was more of it.

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These days people are always like "We need a liberal/progressive vision of masculinity to sell to young men". No we don't. The idea that there's some core set of attributes that all men should have by virtue of being men is fundamentally conservative. More gender will not defeat gender policing.

a cartoon character with futurama written on the top ALT: a cartoon character with futurama written on the top

I'm making a video game, you'll see. You'll allll see.

a match made in video games media heaven!

hey, it’s the 30th anniversary of MST3K the Movie absolutely not coming to a theater near me

if you wouldn't risk anything to support trans people then you're not supporting trans people.

The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission has failed, but to keep it alive a little longer.

This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission has failed, but to keep it alive a little longer. n.pr/41HfdLS

On the bride of the Romulan Warbird Khazara, the Romulans (including an incognito Counselor Troi) are all looking at their fearless leader "Weird Al" Yankovic who is wearing some sort of military leader uniform with hat. He is in the middle of dictating and gesturing wildly with his hands. His pants are also around his knees, revealing boxer shorts with red hearts.

Day 17 of inserting "Weird Al" Yankovic into a Star Trek screenshot

#WeirdTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #WeirdAlYankovic

It's on track to make a billion dollars, it can handle it.

If nothing else, I hope this week's Pete Hegseth news has given more people cause to consider how much of an edgelord hack Quentin Tarantino is.

"Furious anger?" Is that like angry fury? Amazing awe? Really bad awfulness?

I almost certainly watched one or more episodes of Nick Knacks while working on this, so this was lovely to see. Thanks for playing!

Same, re: Lifto.

The two professional photography instructors who trained Artemis II astronauts to take pictures of the moon and Earth during their historic lunar flyby said they were as impressed as the public by the stunning celestial imagery caught on camera. reut.rs/4csHPNC

Okay, but let's not pretend that's not going to be way more costly in time and money for developers to both do and comply with.

This is a problem for long-running narratives. The point of a line like that is to highlight how unusual and unique the time in which the story takes place is... which tracks until you start telling stories set in *other* equally unusual and unique times.

Servers often contain proprietary/licensed software. Ensuring back-ends can eventually be given away is a huuuge demand.

If that's the demand, fair enough, but folks need to stop pretending it's simple, or the only reason it doesn't happen for dead games with no market value is corporate greed.

I'd watch a gonzo Subspace Emissary adaptation, but they'd never do that.

Jokes aside, I think Smash as an IP is ironically too tied up with Sakurai/Bandai Namco for Nintendo proper to want to use it. If they do a big crossover film, it probably won't be called "The Super Smash Bros. Movie"

Nextday for midds numbers

All good reasons, but it also *is* the lack of Macs in the world. Apple commands mindshare, but macOS is only on 10-15% of PCs.

And Apple's adversarial, predatory relationship with developers creates a negative feedback loop. Why jump though *all* those hoops for a mostly disinterested 15%?

Sadly that's almost certainly because we in the indie space are not as good at economics so we don't know it's not worth it.

It's the same reason I stuck with Ouya development for so long. 😄

I like the SFA one. The collar tapers up the neck which feels futuristic. The monster maroon variant works for me for lore reasons, but I hated the puffy turtleneck and chunky belt, so.

A good reverse of this is Odo's collar, added when the actor asked for one (to match his mirror universe outfit).

If you're a software engineer, you live in/near NYC, and you're into games, this might be the job for you. Great chance to work with @orta.io and build cool stuff.

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I re-listened to the much-maligned Bowie and Jagger version of "Dancing In The Street" and I have to say that it actually does not hold up at all everyone was right it remains cringe.

even the most tenacious autocrats have a difficult time denying a landslide result against them

Welcome back to the Artemis II crew :) Such a huge relief watching them arrive safely!

was once New Amsterdam.