Matt Clawson

Whether you call it “ripping” or “remixing”, the BBS scene had a long tradition of adapting and reusing earlier ANSI art. My latest retrocomputing deep dive: breakintochat.com/blog/2026/10... #textmode #ansiart #pixelart #mastoart #retrocomputing #bbs #history #longreads

nabbing a 48 GB Phantom Menace remux with Atmos just to watch 15 minutes of podracing at a volume level just under what I think my neighbors next door might be able to hear right before midnight. this is the good that Galactic Racer will bring into your home

The Strong's annual fundraiser auction is happening right now, and ends tomorrow! Tons of great packages that were donated specifically to support the museum. Pick up a signed Atari 2600, or even dinner with our CEO! playball2026.ggo.bid/n/package-list

I have been meaning to write about this for a month or so now but it breaks my heart. AI has infected every hobby. Everything is noise. It's hurting existing communities and trudging through the slop is exhausting.

yeah I miss Bioware. I also miss Westwood, I miss Origin, I miss LucasArts, I miss Sierra, I miss Looking Glass, I miss SSI, I miss Interplay, I miss Bullfrog, I miss Sensible, just mergers and buyouts and then stripping the fucking copper from the walls and throwing our history in the garbage.

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This means that the increased price of RAM and consumer electronics was a result of an artificial "supply chain crisis" created by Jensen Huang pushing NVIDIA's customers to take early delivery of GPUs. Jensen Huang is responsible for making life worse for everyone.

You Can See Everything (2026)

but don't you go saying things about what perhaps should happen to those billionaires. that's three strikes

this is the internet i want. it's so fun!! little websites that can change your stuff because you go through a really simple oauth flow, give it permission, and it does something tiny.

okay it's ready!!! go turn your avatar into felt 🧶 button eyes, googly eyes, worried little eyebrows (•᷄- •᷅ ;) keith.is/projects/atp...

The All-New Child.

if i take a walk in my little walkable neighborhood to buy fresh flowers and crunchy nectarines and my serenity is punctured by the sound of your tesla flipping in the air, i will blow up your car with a rocket launcher

Unraid is pretty useful but looking up any information about its integration with Docker is incredibly annoying because they've raised an entire community of people who refer to "Docker images" and "Docker containers" interchangeably as just "dockers" and it drives up absolutely insane.

holy shit the new Plex update is absolute dogwater - it might actually be the thing that gets to to start reconsidering Jellyfin after like 5 years of Plex. I had actually initially resisted Plex as a longtime user of XBMC (and then Kodi), but I was eventually swayed and happy with it for a while.

New Convergence Radar from @dominictarason.com! Normal Golf Game (Luke Muscat and @futurefriendsgames.com), Nivalis Nights (@nivalisgame.com), TOEM 2 (@swmgames.bsky.social) PLUS creator spotlights, Convergence alumni updates and vid recommendations! convergence-radar.beehiiv.com/p/abnormal-g...

a staggering amount of you admitted to me in the past 48 hours that you've never played Rez, so today's 10th anniversary of Infinite is your call to go play one of the indisputable Games of All Time immediately

i’m convinced “slowing it down” is because they’ve made promises of ai that are notably not coming to fruition and they want to pretend that’s because they’re being careful instead of admitting they got WAY over their skis

given the proliferation of jailbreaks and pirate shops, sony has the chance to do the funniest thing ever the night before GTAVI launches

took some time today to practice a new to me technique: creating a round-over with only hand tools. I used a shoulder plane to establish a rabbet (groove at the end of the stock) and then a low angle block plane to do the actual round over. My current bench is less than ideal but I made it work.

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to play a very early #pinball game. Flippers didn't come until later, but pinball's reputation as a game of chance rather than skill persisted long after flippers became ubiquitous.

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to play a very early #pinball game. Flippers didn't come until later, but pinball's reputation as a game of chance rather than skill persisted long after flippers became ubiquitous.

An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' dansinker.com/posts/2026-1...

I wrote a post explaining exactly why the Dreamcast will prompt you for the date/time even with a healthy battery, which has puzzled many of us for years! It's not your battery: the Dreamcast's hidden 30-day clock check dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewto...

I emailed the registrar of voters asking why I was moved to inactive. I am attaching the email exchange to this. I feel like we definitely need an explanation from the secretary of state office for what led to this error. What were they doing trying to do to cause this?

Iowa man kicks off controversy over religious freedom in the small town of Ottumwa by opening a city council meeting with a prayer to Satan, which then kicked off a debate about the proper time in the meeting agenda to undo the “curse @mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...

🆕 📝 New paper officially out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! In 2023, Change.org built an AI-assisted writing tool into their platform. We offer causal evidence that access to the AI tool changed petition text (word count, language)... but may have actually hurt outcomes (signatures, comments).

more business owners need to be like this

Hi folks-- We're starting on our next indexing project, and we're building our volunteer team! If you have some degree of Japanese fluency and want to help index periodicals for VGHF, hit me up here

"Sony Wasn't Quite Allowing It, But We Made It Happen" - Vib-Ribbon Creative Team Reflect On Their Sublime Musical Marvel

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

Every time I see the rabbit from Vib Ribbon I feel a little happier. I never even really played the game when it came out. But how can you not love this little guy.

A terrific contemporary tech dictionary thread.