This makes me feel gruntled.

@pftompkins.bsky.social

She knows how to pick them.

It's been 10 years since he said they'd have people on Mars within 10 years.

I love living in land of pho and kebabs.

How good to finish that game and not have to wait for the sequel!

The AI Industry’s Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.

The first statement in this article, "AI is improving exponentially," is extremely contentious. If anything, the big companies are spending more and more for increasingly marginal gains in performance of LLMs.
www.wired.com/story/the-ai...

Damn. Well, keep us updated.

Did they say why turned down?

This rules. I was considering creating the map for my next TTRPG as though a child NPC from the game had drawn it - this is perfect for that.

I like that they still used the normal headline as a subheading.

Love the implication they would all lose touch with friends and family over the summer holidays and not just, y'know, use a different app or text.

Or you're based in Germany. Unfortunately, it might be a cursed new YouTube feature.

Did you have a VPN set to Germany?

I've heard there are lots of functional substitutes.

It's not really him.

Huh. So dictionary can be wrong, okay.

Hugely deserved! My game of the year.

Yeah, I can imagine Americans using Man-OO-ka to help them get into an exaggerated Aussie accent. ManOOooOoka.

There's a story that the Queen visited and pronounced it wrong and then everyone copied her, but that's almost certainly apocryphal.

MAH-na-ka

Similar experience. Very satisfying when it clicked.

You were right about it being unpopular.

I often hear folks, who otherwise agree that Google monopoly = bad, saying that you shouldn't take away their default search engine deals because it would devastate Firefox and Mozilla. What are your thoughts on that?

Post it note that says RIP BOZO

This one's for the Aussies in the back.

Go Godot, go!

Although mixed-gender shooting was already on the Olympic program, the International Shooting Union, at a meeting in April of 1992, and therefore ahead of the Games, elected to bar women from shooting against men in future events.

It looks like the decision was made prior to her win. Still messed up, of course.

Imagine having such confidence in your perceptions that you believe that finally acknowledging something is happening must mean it has just started happening.

As of 30 June 2025, the median house price in Australia stands at $905,076, according to Cotality data.

Those are rookie housing crisis numbers.