Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 6h4% wealth tax on the top 0.1% wipes out most of the deficit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amza...youtube.comInequality in America: BillionairesYouTube video by politizane 030
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 7hI figure the first AI to get 100% will be the one that figures it can grab an emulator and the original source code for the arcade game, then bake it all into a godforsaken tesseract of javascript, voila! jonclegg.github.io/pacman-bakeo...jonclegg.github.ioPacBenchPacBench: how well a model and harness can recreate Pac-Man from a single prompt. 000
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 29/09/2026I been hacked. all my dots gone. this just sold please help me openai.com/index/introd...openai.comIntroducing dotsDots by OpenAI are a proactive assistant that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward. 132
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 29/09/2026Should we typeset "Omnishambles" in Times New Roman or Gill Sans. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comNo explosives found in three vans searched near RAF Fairford, say policeHead of counter-terrorism policing defends decision to bail five British men arrested in connection with incident 021
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 29/09/2026The funny part is that the only time it succeded in invading anyone's privacy it was by mistake www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comTrial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrestsFreedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert 000
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 28/09/2026Searched "javascript canvas to minimal app distribution" and got a useful answer ("skip electron, use tauri or mystral") but one follow-up Q later and it's suggeting I feed it the js so it can port it to rust. Of course MMAcevedo turns out to be a hacker news guy. 100
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 27/09/2026What would be the most absurd movie to create a high-art/minimalist/curation-bait poster for? The Emoji Movie? Biodome? Fern Gully? www.reelizer.comreelizer.comMovie Culture, CuratedA curated collection of standout film art, posters, and collectibles, selected since 2011. 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 26/09/2026Every time you see a real headline (left) that glibly anthropomorphises LLMs, substituting it with a salad makes the point clear: it's a form of the exonerative tense. It's the AI version of headlines that announce an "officer-involved shooting." 073
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 25/09/2026Every time I see a photo of Sam Altman it makes me think the Xenomorphs from Aliens were so appalled by Carter Burke's conduct that they put him on trial instead of cocooning him for the facehuggers to impregnate. 011
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 24/09/2026I thought this classic meme needed an extra frame to showcase recent advances in sustainable mass transit 26815
Reposted by Rob BeschizzaBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/09/2026Croatian Tales of Long Ago — a seminal collection of short stories by the acclaimed children’s author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić. The illustrations in this 1922 edition are by Croatian artist Vladimir Kirin publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8286564... 1385
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 24/09/2026Big tech CEOs talking openly about being nationalized is them just wanting to be bought out of the bubble, but it's funny that state socialism is so close to the surface. All Iain M. Banks readers, the AI bros! 26412
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 24/09/2026The danger in setting up an elaborate DRM apparatus for your software is it tends to becomes a revenue center, which means you stop being a software vendor and become a settlement extortion mill www.reddit.com/r/COPYRIGHT/...reddit.comFrom the COPYRIGHT community on RedditExplore this post and more from the COPYRIGHT community 12510
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 24/09/2026I'd hoped there might one day be a ninja movie equivalent to "The Expendables" with Richard Harrison, Sho Kosugi, Michael Dudikoff, Curtis Jackson, Tadashi Yamashita, David Bradley and Franco Nero. Alas! boingboing.net/2026/09/23/a...boingboing.netActor Richard Harrison, who battled Nazis and ninjas, dead at 90Actor and director Richard Harrison, famed for low-budget but eminently memorable military epics, spaghetti westerns and martial arts flicks, is dead at 90. His friend Joan Borsten announced his death... 121
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 23/09/2026The time is nearly perfect for a movie about the famously chaotic and dramatic 1976 production of Star Wars, starring Ewan McGregor as Alec Guinness and Hayden Christiansen as David Prowse. 251265217
Reposted by Rob BeschizzaJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Two great tastes that go well together: Moomin and tower-tunnel. By Paul Antoine Takahashi on instagram. 8628119
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 23/09/2026What single-author or small team games are worth writing about? I’m back on the beat 131
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 23/09/2026Even in the 1990s there was no excuse for this sort of thing. 030
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 22/09/2026Item #: SCP-CC BY-SA 3.0 Object Class: Keter Special Containment Procedures: Continually brandish footgun and shoot own foot boingboing.net/2026/09/22/a...boingboing.netA24 learning that the Creative Commons is a potent SCPA24, the independent studio famed for horror movies with perfect aesthetics, is following up its success with The Backrooms with a feature based on the SCP Foundation, another online mythos… 1406
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 22/09/2026That stories detail the composition of Grand Juries to reassure readers everything was fair and above-board is interesting because the underlying problem is Grand Juries being manipulated by prosecutors ("indict this ham sandwich") not the wrong people being on them abcnews.com/US/criminal-... 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 21/09/2026One assumes that the fungus that most resemble delicious gourmet pies are the least wise to eat. 100
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 19/09/2026Fantastic insight here is that each big AI company has internal factions of doomers, accellerationists and psychos and they emerge to interact with current media and political sentiment www.patreon.com/MaxRead/post... 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 17/09/2026Very worthy crowdfunding campaign for SFF and Horror mags www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...kickstarter.comLIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & HorrorWe've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter. 000
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 17/09/2026Waterworld is a fantastic movie. I once made a Waterworld world map. Almost nothing in science fiction is quite this bonkers. 160
Reposted by Rob BeschizzaNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 17/09/2026acting the way cis people do for Harry Potter but about Kevin Costners Waterworld. 234031
Reposted by Rob BeschizzaThe Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026Congress Passes $430,000/Hour Minimum Wage For Billionaires To learn more about America's gaping wealth gap, head to youtube.com/politizane. 161044180
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 16/09/2026That the selling point for this new industry-approved Suno model is "a song in 10 seconds" really drives home that it's 99% consumption, not creation. If it generated Lou Bega remixes until the heat death of the universe we would be on Mambo No. 3.16x10¹¹² variety.com/2026/music/n...variety.comSuno Tries to Break Into Music Mainstream With New Label-Backed Model ‘v6’The AI music company has revealed details about its suite of new models, all built on its licensing deals with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe. 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 16/09/2026A woman enters commands using morse code on a then state-of-the-art coal-fired personal computer. Photo: Soeren Schulz/Shutterstock. 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 16/09/2026The "Dearth Tax" joke in this The Onion video is so good AI refuses to search for it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdZZ...youtube.comCongress Passes $430,000/Hour Minimum Wage For BillionairesYouTube video by The Onion 100
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 16/09/2026I thought it was a tragedy that we have technology that makes such beautiful writing, yet we keep trying to "humanize" it. So I made a handy Dehumanizer service to restore human-generated text to the elegant synthetic mean. dehumanizer.net 010
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 16/09/2026Anatoly Dyatlov, the designers of the RBMK reactor and institutional Soviet secrecy didn't cause the Chernobyl disaster. It was the fault of rogue graphite tips and rebellious void coefficients. 000
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 16/09/2026A literal troubadour, singing of courtly love under aristocratic patronage until corruption and institutional paralysis brings it all crashing suddenly down people.com/sports/ed-sh...people.comEd Sheeran on Why He Performed at Robert Kraft's Surprise Wedding: 'He's Super Sweet'Ed Sheeran shares how he ended up performing at Robert Kraft's surprise wedding 021
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 16/09/2026Something very funny about the entire world suddenly realizing that Ed Sheeran is English, not Irish, because of entirely circumstantial evidence. 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 16/09/2026txt fyi is deluged with AI bots but I could never shut it down so long as people are still posting their earnest and sweet reflections and elegies. 040
Reposted by Rob BeschizzaJettelly @jettelly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Andrei Fomin spent over two years making Effulgence RPG, a 3D RPG where the entire world is drawn using ASCII characters. 👾 www.reddit.com/r/SoloDevelo... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev 13811
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 14/09/2026Better idea: the main constitutional impediment that stop the UK and the City of London simply expelling England is the Laws in Wales Acts of the 16th century. 000
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 14/09/2026Yes! The old cars and uncanny bedsheets! www.patreon.com/MaxRead/post...patreon.com"Obsession" as an AI movie | Read MaxGreetings from Read Max HQ! In today's issue: A quick essay on the movie Obsession and its relationship to AI. If you enjoy it, and other Re 000
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 14/09/2026Google no longer letting publishers block malware and scam ad domains is a very solid "Dead Economy Theory" data point news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4968...news.ycombinator.comWhy is Google still serving dodgy ads? | Hacker News 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 13/09/2026People saying this is ai. It’s probably not ai. The simplest explanation is that “most journalism is now basically blogging” and there no collaboration, no fact-checking, no proofreading, and self-editing is fundamentally impossible. 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 13/09/2026As great as the arcade original was, the original Macintiosh title screen for Gauntlet is a real wonder. 031
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 13/09/2026Obviously omitting a zero baseline is fine, but compare the AP's chart (left) to "the same chart but it actually goes to zero" (right). They chose a baseline above the points they were going to plot! No shame whatsoever. 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 12/09/2026RFK Jr declaring victory over diarrhea lettuce just makes me think that the Cyclosporia Revolutionary Guard Corps is about to announce new tolls on my anus abcnews.com/Health/paras...abcnews.comParasitic outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce is over: CDCA parasitic outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce has been declared over, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday. 030
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 12/09/2026Skyrim was already part of the furniture of western civilization and now this. www.pcworld.com/article/3233...pcworld.comMatt Berry is now a sentient Ikea shelf in SkyrimA new official mod adds the classic Ikea "Kallax" shelf to Skyrim. Fans of the Swedish furniture giant will likely find it a lot of fun. 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 12/09/2026“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. " — Brian Eno www.youtube.com/shorts/vWomh...youtube.comwhy is there always a tiny plastic tripod in the middle of your delivery pizzaYouTube video by pizza steve 131
