I am getting *very* close to getting this thing working! There were some optical bits missing, which, miraculously I was able to purchase, and I just won my fight with a very seized up fan motor.
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
Trees are freaks of nature. They grow a hundred feet tall by eating sunlight and air and we’re all just here pretending this is normal.
"Behold, the
We probably need to respond the way the 1.0-ers did, avoiding proprietary gear and building sustainably on commodity tech. The '90s backronym for this approach, conjuring a cozy place to spend the VR winter, was CAVE ("CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment"--recursive, which was the style at the time)
imo VR 2.0 seems to be on the same trajectory as 1.0...~20% of people hate stereoscopy (faking 3D by showing each eye a different image; your eyes focus "wrong" for the depth of the illusory object)...so unless headsets that allow natural stereopsis get much cheaper, VR can't be a mass market medium
Making an ActionScript 3.0 game for the @Newgrounds Flash Forward jam?
Well, I have some good news for you! We finally launched a modern Newgrounds.io library for AS3!
Read all about it at psychogoldfish.newgrounds.com/news/post/16...
I suspect we'll discover that it's actually about fifty separate mechanisms running at the same time, interacting in a gloriously complex dance. LLMs have worked out how to be one or two of those.
instantly assumed this was a kaiju situation
Second-best ever personal experience watching a Toronto movie theatre in a Toronto movie theatre. Permanent first place has to be the rapturous applause when we collectively realize Mark Strong is going to walk into the Scotiabank in Kick-Ass (2010), while we are watching Kick-Ass at the Scotiabank
What's remarkable now that I think about it is, the pattern holds regardless of whether they're siblings from the same litter or met as adult cats. How do they coordinate this, Rock Paper Scissors?
immediate install
always funny seeing this one come up in the wild... i made this in the bathroom of my job in 2018. however it took me another 10 months to quit that job because it is hard to take your own advice
www.wired.com/story/say-go... right into my veins, congratulations great work @janeruffino.bsky.social!!
i actually remember them trucking an apple II and physical logo turtle robot into my kindergarten class; i remember programming logo in grade 4; by junior high that had degraded into learning how to use excel
imo "computer literacy" was once an unencumbered concept
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/b...
this ursula k leguin quote doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be reposted, like tom holland umbrella; reposted all the time, made new
"I am almost no man!"
When Thesis Met Antithesis
afaik until the present decade "hallucination" was a useful term of art--a novel output that wasn't part of the training corpus, not inherently good or bad, but needing external evaluation. It's become pretty meaningless now though
This is so logically pleasing and yet absurdly like a science fiction story
Reporter: Do aliens exist?
Obama: *chuckles* Technically no, a time ghoul is from Earth. Just not today’s Earth
in the original planet of the apes movie from 1968 they go into deep hibernation until the year 3978. if they made the movie today they would be in deep hibernation until 4036. pretty wild
The setup for Leonard Richardson's _Constellation Games_ is, an alien drone delivers an ansible (hypothetical instantaneous communication over any distance) to the Moon, where it begins broadcasting the protocol that Earth computers can use to join the galactic internet
The real trick to motion design is just having a bunch of nulls. Unnamed and only half in use.
Let me get this straight, you can't run Windows 10 anymore but Windows 11 won't work on computers past a certain age because of all the a.i stuff. So you have to upgrade to a new computer in order to run Windows 11 but because of the a.i. they are no longer selling RAM or hard drives to end users.
Very Stephen King villain name though
four stick figures on sleds, one is sliding face first, face down, marked "skeleton", diagonally opposite to it is one sliding feet first, face up, marked "luge". The other two combinations are drawn and labeled with question marks
given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports
Job announcement: The College of Fine Arts and the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University seek a collaborative and strategic leader to serve as the next Head of School.
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