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• Post #4454724

  thinking about streaming No Man's Sky for a while tomorrow, for the game's 10th anniversary. just aimless mucking about probably. according to my logs i have not streamed on twitch in almost 4 years... is there a cooler way to do this now?

• Post #4385978

  https://www.right2compute.com this website will be displayed alongside the photo of Musk sieg heiling at the inauguration in some future museum's exhibit on the 2020s

• Post #4118699

  Look folks the genie is out of the bottle. The genie went from $20/mo to $200/mo. The genie is spending $8 for every dollar it makes. The genie is reactivating every coal power plant it can. The genie needs 60% of your town's water. The genie is hiding $1.65 trillion in debt. But it's out of the bottle! The genie is out of the bottle folks.

• Post #4087821

  another one for the surprisingly large and growing "this isn't true, you're saying it to make yourself sound more impressive than you are, but if it *were* true you'd be a truly abominably evil human being, so you essentially already are evil in addition to being a pathetic grifter" tech guy post archive

• Post #4045068

  starcraft mod where the terrans are hyperscalers trying to build data centers everywhere, the protoss are capturing those data centers and turning them into bitcoin mines, and the zerg destroy and strip the copper from them to build low-wattage mesh networks (feel free to shuffle those role mappings around if they offend your starcraft sensibilities)

• Post #4005276

  Great Moments in Text Parser Pedantry

• Post #3993603

  reading about the party the mullvad ceo donated to

• Post #3948381

  "Jurassic Park Computers in Excruciating Detail" from Fabien Sanglard, of Doom/Quake/etc source code breakdown fame: https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html

• Post #3753129

  particular spot in the middle of your town/city in google street view that's all blurred out, can't make anything of it. you go there IRL and you can't seem to look directly at or walk towards it, like a perfectly curved shape that deflects anything that approaches it.

• Post #3752071

  2028: LLM image generators are nearly totally socially stigmatized since crashing the global economy, but for some reason restaurant owners continue to use it for gross illustrations instead of just taking middling photos of the actual food they make like they did for decades before. this aesthetic spirals off into its own distinct form: increasingly nauseating charbroiled grease fractals bearing little resemblance to anything a human would consider eating.

• Post #3743411

  https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-over-alleged-trade-secret-theft of possible interest to bubble watchers, maybe what precipitates OpenAI's downfall is that multiple 900lb gorillas get pissed enough at them and have strong enough legal cases that they all just start suing and the skeletons we all know are there come out in discovery. and maybe Guadagnino's "Artificial" film comes out in the middle of that and craters their public image even further.

• Post #3694281

  last para is a banger: "Indeed, everything about this vision of abundance—from its garbled reading of American history and its paean to industrialists to its pitch to the ultra-rich—is about re-entrenching elite control over politics. All that stands in the way of abundance, apparently, is the people." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/abundance-movement-yimbyism-big-tech/

• Post #3661866

  THE TENDENCY OF THE RATE OF PROFIT... TO BALL

• Post #3661484

  game historians now consider the true genesis of the genre to be the overlooked 2028 release "Sillyman and the Infinite Humiliations"

• Post #3612732

  And on the pedestal these words appear: "This author has chosen to make their posts visible only to people who are signed in." Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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• Post #3536011

  alt history where instead of the spiderweb being the central metaphor we chose the rhizome, abbreviated to "the 'zome". eg "find me on the zome at jplebreton dot com", zome browser, zomerings

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• Post #3505387

  same, bruv

• Post #3431339

  OpenAI employee Tarun Gogineni aka "roon" just openly worshipping death and human enslavement to the god-computer he believes he's creating. your IPO just got pushed back bro! it's all falling apart! your nihilism was pointless and evil and you'll be hated for the rest of your days!

• Post #2856925

  o for a world where "I don't believe causality-influencing rituals work but if i did i'd do one for you, best of luck" would be received with the same warmth as "i'll pray for you"

• Post #2856924

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116620394648207824 i don't actually believe people do things like this "without thinking" though. this man was thinking exactly the thoughts that Elon Tesla wanted him to think. they spend a lot of money to get people to believe those things.

• Post #2856923

  "does not appear to live long enough or travel far enough to experience saudade" - interstellar zoologist's logbook entry for a particular creature

• Post #2856922

  thinking about all the knowledge and intuition and coordination a human being demonstrates, without ever having been taught any of it explicitly, when they open a bottle of vitamins and shake exactly one tablet out onto their palm

• Post #2856921

  red dots on the airplane wing diagram tearfully expressing concern at how scary and disruptive it would be to reinforce other parts of the plane

• Post #2485904

  "Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea": https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea strong expert analysis, ideal for countering the hype bro fantasists

• Post #1902260

  every tech worker out there whose "i donate to democrats" CEO is taking off his mask today to muhaha and show his true class solidarity: the thing that would ruin his life the most is for you to help unionize your workplace. do it for the very real benefits to you and your comrades, or do it out of spite, or any combination of either. but it's time, now (overdue, in fact!). tech must become the next major labor battleground. & for those who've already be...

• Post #1880308

  so much free speech absolutism boils down to "it's more important that i appear smart than for vulnerable people to feel safe."

• Post #1875775

  the apparently earnestly offered "robophobia" is cosmic punishment to everyone who thought "clanker" would be a cool biting way to criticize LLM bubble products. imo focus on the human dipshits pushing them. there's no such thing as a slur for an inanimate object but acting like there is buys into some degree of validating anthropomorphization.

• Post #1860161

  Interesting IRL politics experience yesterday: two guys at a table labeled Save Public Transit. There's a ballot measure in November that's critical to BART's survival, and it needs signatures to even get on the ballot - we happily signed that. But then these guys immediately put another few petitions in front of us, summarized as "eliminating corruption", and funded by local neolib villains Michael Moritz and crypto spy cam guy Chris Larsen. We declined...