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I’m not sure when it happened but it’s now actually somewhat ok creating web apps in #rust

The revolt of the reader bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/t...

Poland’s oldest operational electric train, nicknamed "Babcia" (meaning “Granny”), is returning to service after refurbishment. She has been transporting passengers in various parts of Poland since 1963.

I've never touched google gemini or whatever, but this was turned on. myactivity.google.com/product/gemini turn that shit off

I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence. Here's what happened. 🧵

"PS5 Will Be My Last Console": After 45K Votes, 86% of DF Viewers Say Sony Should Reconsider Killing Physical Games. (Repost)

Extremely sad to think I'll never release another physical game for PlayStation. Releasing the physical versions of Animal Well was a huge motivator all throughout development. It really kills my desire to develop for the platform. I'm hoping they reverse this decision : (

I do understand the business incentive, but it feels really weird to consider the possibility that in 30 years it'll be impossible to play a video game on an unmodified PS6 console.

In one of the most grim twists I can imagine, a datacenter shutting down due to climate change: www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog....

AKA I continue to be confused to find I'm living in a world with so many people for whom either ethics don't matter OR who find AI's unfair use of copyrighted training data, licensewashing, bias laundering, job displacement, and environmental harm ethical. Regardless of any benefits.

An employment tribunal has ruled against Rockstar Games' request to remove blacklisting claims from the ongoing legal dispute over alleged union busting at the Grand Theft Auto 6 studio. https://bit.ly/4xAtRDc

does nintendo have any comment on how their fun little mobile game is being used to kill people. that seems like something i would like to hear from them about

30 billion street and environmental scans from Pokémon GO players were used to train US military drones www.resetera.com/threads/15...

so codegen LLMs /must/ mostly be trained on code that someone actively decided to share, that its authors wished to contribute to the commons! this industry was just recently fretting over how to support the open source projects it relies on, too. now it exploits them

you'd get this same sort of problem generating art or writing, of course, but a number of programmers do not seem to understand that the thing they do is a creative pursuit, as if the existence of a test suite makes it a hard science

They didn't disclose it because they wanted to get away with it. It's the main splash art for your game! The first impression! And this is what you were okay with? Clothing that makes no sense? A backwards hand? Fucked up cart? If you don't care to make it, why should I care to play it?

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

The Cost of AI alextardif.com/AI.html

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NEW: Xinjiang has the highest detention capacity in the world, according to FT analysis - enough space for almost 1 in 40 people in the region - more than five years after the Chinese govt announced the camps had closed.

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

Spain won’t abandon its commitment to international law despite mounting criticism from the U.S. over its refusal to allow its air bases to be used for the Iran war, Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares told POLITICO. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/spai...

“War is bad. Don’t start one. But we’re already in a class war and we’re losing. Where by “we” I mean most people; the winning side comprises, roughly, the richest 0.1% of the population, who are morphing into a hereditary aristocracy. So, what to do in a war one […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

I analyzed my coding sessions and on the text interactions some words stand out. And well, they also show up on Google Trends as spiking. Oh and so much slop in my Twitter mentions and on GitHub. Thus here are some updated thoughts on all of this. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/4/con...

"It's the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here." matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wr...

Imagine being a coder but thinking there's no artistry to writing code. What an empty existence

“Each light represents a life. Hover to remember them“ bkhmsi.github.io/i-am-not-a-n...

lol an AfD member confessed to setting fire to his own car and forging an alleged threatening letter from Antifa and the party now wants to expel him www.spiegel.de/politik/afd-...

If asked to draw a person's portrait, many people would say “I cannot draw.” Why is observational drawing so hard? In a new paper, @judithfan.bsky.social and I answer: it's the limitations of human vision. Learning to draw is learning skills to overcome them. aaronhertzmann.com/2026/03/23/d... 1/

Holy shit truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

The UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine has concluded the the deportation and forcible transfer of Ukrainian children by Russian authorities, as well as enforced disappearances, amount to crimes against humanity. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

THREAD A long first week of the Iran conflict and a team effort by BBC Verify to supply news outlets. Here's my contribution explained with how-to examples. First, 24 hours' wait, we finally saw the USS Gerald R Ford after it left Crete. My piece with Barbara Metzler: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

living in the 2020’s

experimenting with some unusual tones recently. i LOVE this one!!

I haven’t talked much about what I did in the international Legion of Ukraine, because of survivor’s guilt, because it’s difficult, & my army experience didn’t involve guns or the front line. I used a laptop more than a rifle. But with the legion being formally dissolved, I want to change that.

this is how giraffes work right? @play.date

dark.ronacher.eu/2026/2/6/war...

Lerp is used everywhere in games. It’s simple, but combined with a few small tricks it becomes incredibly powerful. This thread is full of visual examples.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

The Polish government is sending 379 power generators from its strategic reserves to Ukraine, where Russian attacks have left many without heat and power. Meanwhile, the city of Warsaw is providing an additional 90 generators and a public appeal has raised €1.6 million to buy more equipment.

Reminder that copyright only protects the rich. torrentfreak.com/nvidia-conta...

Weekend musings on having and deserving and the role of billionaires in the US right now. There is no point, just contemplation. dark.ronacher.eu/2026/1/11/i-...