A walkway across a pond in an urban park. The walkway is metal planks arranged in irregular rectangular shapes zig zagging back and forth and there's no railings or anything
You know my ass be falling in every time
We've all been watching such ropy footage from the old Apollo program for so long, it's hard to grasp the stupefying jump in image quality we can look forward to from future missions to the Moon.
Seems like a lot of work.
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Young ensign Wesley Crusher (the boy) sits at a console on the bridge, but he's turned around like he's having a talk with safe and trustworthy adult who has walked up behind him. He looks sincere and earnest, as if it's a 'very special episode of Star Trek.' He's wearing his blue and blue and gold and red and blue again Wesley sweater, which is not a bad look, tbh. Closed caption reads, "drugs can make you feel good."
US Supreme Court Records and Briefs. Available for free. Digitized from thousands and thousands of Microfiche pages.
archive.org/details/us-s...
My brother gave me his old one. It is awesome. I use it almost every day, sometimes multiple times a day.
Doom mods will never cease to impress and amuse me.
Full Mechwarrior combat, mech-lab and all? Sure, why not!
A hand dropping a ballot in a box; the box is a complicated, many-geared machine. On its faceplate is an 'I voted' sticker that has been modified to read 'I voted?'
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Georgia's voting technology blunder; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/04/18/d...
#Pluralistic
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At $11 per bag they better come with an encore.
One of my favorite bits from the pages of Creative Computing (June 1981) is this article about how Alan Sutcliffe created the computer display for the Nostromo landing sequence in the film Alien.
really happy about this, still need to play this game, BUT 'new intellectual property' is such a fucking cursed award name
Oh my god indeed
Utagawa Hiroshige. Naruto Whirlpool, Awa Province. Japan, 1853.
Her project directly tests what many geneticists + biologists have been observing: LLMs will, with very little promptly, direct users to information about human genetics and evolution that is at best outdated and biased, and at worst actively promotes scientific racism.
Software preservation in action ⤵️
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Music producers 30 years ago:
Chat conversation between 3 people in "The WARM Room". Illudumnati Hive says "after removing beta anomaly, and careful consideration by the system, we choose this". Ricky Nevah GGYU says "Banger choice loom" with a fire emoji. The active users says "Copy. Signal is go!"
The Theme for Ludum Dare 59 is...
Signal
#LDJam
2026 (planned) Data centers vs. megaprojects Inflation-adjusted costs, billions USD SIT- 2025₽ Data center capex =$930B in 6 years $750B- Interstate Highway System ® S620B, 37yr US Railroads $550B, 71yr $500B- F-35 Program $400B, 25yr (to date) $250B - $O Apollo Program $257B, 14yr Marshall Plan $170B, 4yr Manhattan-Project -$36B,Syr- 10 20 International Space Station $150B, 27yr- 30 40 Years from start of program 50 60 70 Sources: Company reports, Epoch AI • FHWA • NASA • CRS • GAO • Brookings Al capex = estimated data-centre share of global reported capex at the big-5 US hyperscalers (Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Oracle; Epoch AI+ Platformonomics). Assuming DC share scales from +55% in 2020 to =80% by 2026. Excludes Chinese hyperscalers. All costs in 2024 dollars.
Absolutely insane numbers on data center buildout. I haven’t vetted these by they’re about right based on memory/back of the envelope.
This striking image, often titled "Levels of Sunset," is a photograph captured by Gabriel Puyana. It features a narrow, vertical slice of a vibrant sunset framed by the silhouettes of two apartment buildings and their repetitive balconies
This striking image, often titled "Levels of Sunset," is a photograph captured by Gabriel Puyana. It features a narrow, vertical slice of a vibrant sunset framed by the silhouettes of two apartment buildings and their repetitive balconies.
I wish I could like this twice for the correct usage of "lookit".
ascii art debug output showing a dungeon divided up into different colored regions
Here's another sample of the territory division algorithm's output - this time on the fungus cave biome. You can see how versatile it is.
#roguelike #gamedev #indiedev #ascii #rpg #dungeon #procgen #pcg #osr
ascii art debug output showing a dungeon divided up into different colored regions.
Dividing the dungeon up into territories (gray is neutral) for different monster factions to inhabit.
#roguelike #gamedev #indiedev #ascii #rpg #dungeon #procgen #pcg #osr
I always suspected I was a filthy casual.
Reading this and it’s accuracy has made me realise - we’ve done it. BlueSky IS Twitter.
Wow, it took some doing but I finally found the setting to switch back to the old system. They did not make it easy.
please add alt text to your images both for accessibility and because this website is only going to load every second image some times
![An Apple II hi-res drawing of a bearded man at a bar holding a drink from the point of view of the bartender. Behind the man is an arcade cabinet for a game called ZAPPO! and a jukebox. On the left are the letters A and B in the Apple II font, and above, the letters are enlarged to show individual pixels.
The command line reads "]HGR" to set the hi-res graphics mode, and "]BLOAD FIRST,A$2000" to load the image file into display RAM.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wtg2yfkhvdhe2b53m3bhgexz/bafkreiddxf3c4smodb47atcfcweknnge72jm63fx23csjb5ztsexzho4bi)
An Apple II hi-res drawing of a bearded man at a bar holding a drink from the point of view of the bartender. Behind the man is an arcade cabinet for a game called ZAPPO! and a jukebox. On the left are the letters A and B in the Apple II font, and above, the letters are enlarged to show individual pixels. The command line reads "]HGR" to set the hi-res graphics mode, and "]BLOAD FIRST,A$2000" to load the image file into display RAM.
A weird sense memory triggered this image in my mind. This is the first thing I drew in a drawing program I wrote for my Apple II Plus back in the day. I think I was brainstorming a zoomed drawing feature on the left. Call MoMA!
