There are probably many reasons to hate Dean Kamen, but I'm going to go with the fact that so many people now think the verb is spelled 'segway'.

After I graduated uni, for many years I had stress dreams involving school, often about failing out and missing tests.

Was VERY glad when after ~10 years my stress dreams moved onto a different subject matter*. Cannot imagine being graded now.

[*] it's Dec 24 and I haven't bought any gifts

One of the hardest + most important things to learn as a creative. Stop waiting to make your “opus” — keep going, get better

screengrab from the BBC TV programme Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy depicting a man fed up with watches walking into the sea, reportedly a cameo by Douglas Adams

In good company.

A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

Love it being unseasonably warm 71 F outside thus 85 F in my apartment because I can't open a window because my apt building required us to remove all our screens from our windows so our windows could be washed over the next two days and I hate bug intrusions more than it being 85 F.

The new logo for Infowars has been revealed.

The Onion has successfully landed a deal to take over Alex Jones' site after 17 months of legal issues.

Tim Heidecker will serve as the site's creative director.

Let's blame Marilyn Manson!

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

full scene, no idea where sourced from, wilhelm scream exactly as predicted. bsky.app/profile/sean...

I don't follow the argument about his 25,000% higher number which is 48 dB being explained by the noise floor of his recording equipment. I'd have thought a noise floor sets a minimum level that equipment detects, thereby *raising* the lowest measurement and decreasing the ratio, not increasing it.

screenshot of hosts file with resetera redirected to localhost

me: ok, let me unblock r*setera to read thread on Folding Ideas Beast Games video. surely it's not as bad as I remember it being, with people making arguments already addressed in the video (shown), & slews of ppl making same wrong observation, unaware it's been made repeatedly already (not shown).

not to be confused with adawgg956. IYKYK.

This was a story from decades before--I don't remember if this was like a VERY early game, or like Black & White or something. But I'd already had a negative impression of him after seeing him give a GDC talk in the 90s, so reading that he was proud of intentionally deceiving journalists, I'm out.

Also, there was an article in an online magazine a decade or so ago which told a story about Peter bringing in a bunch of journalists and just flat out lying to them about whatever game it was and I forget the details but I don't remember the article's spin but to me it was gross and evil.

screenshot of Dan Olson / Foldable Human's link to his video "Why was I invited to Beast Studios", with part of the link highlighted which reads "O DWAGG".

O DAWGG, so close!

@foldablehuman.bsky.social

Youtube duet: Miles Davis improvising on LCD Soundsystem YouTube video by Alessandro Grespan

Somehow I missed this incredible video until now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=huEt...

Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

There’s Trump-style corruption, which is all bullshit, bluster, bags of cash, and him daring you to stop him. And then there’s corruption of the John Roberts kind. It’s just as deliberate and destructive, but quieter, more genteel, like a cancer that grows in your bones rather than on your face.

me trying to imagine why hikers would stop to tell each other how good your boxers were but preferring to remain ignorant about what you actually meant.

That pitch does not make me curious in the slightest. I'm not sure he understands how curiosity works, in fact.

yeah, the downside of (b) being that it means they didn't play on ALL THE OTHER songs, making me tend to assume the musicianship on the rest of album is less good / more generic (I don't actually remember since it's been 25+ years, but probably?).

I love the 'safe again', implying that presumably America wasn't safe under previous administration/director. I'm sure that makes career FBI agents (is there any other kind?) feel great.

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

Here's a calendar of all the Issue/PR submissions that I could tell were pretty certainly written by AI.

I was originally intending to delete AI submissions, but keeping them around lets me see just how bad it is.

AI-written Issues constitute 70% of the most recently closed Issues. (Most of the not-closed ones were probably found by AI, but I can't tell that a human didn't write the report.)

1. Fix does not address the reported bug "Neither num_vertices nor comp_num_verts is validated against the actual bounds of the font data buffer before use." 2. PR description generated by AI in contravention of AI policy 3. PR content probably generated by AI in contravention of AI policy 4. PR closed and user banned.

Gonna need github to let us report users for violating repo policies so we can share blocks amongst like minded repos instead of having to individually block every single AI shit.

It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal.

I saw a thread somewhere blaming MBAs and I dunno, that seems plausible to me. Or maybe it's just non-MBA management if getting an MBA is actually meaningful (I have no idea).