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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 01/10/2026

This one goes out to every single Princess Donut fan 💅✨ @mattdinniman.bsky.social shares his top 5 Wikipedia articles to inspire your next rabbit hole.

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

NEW: Epic Games has delayed its upcoming (not yet announced) Star Wars + Marvel shooter as it pivots to complete AI game development. "No more hand-written code," a director told staff. All art "generated with full AI workflows." Full scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Epic Games Delays Disney Project, Asks Developers to Use More AI

The company told the team behind the upcoming shooter that it will now be an ‘AI first’ production

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Chris Koerner @clkoerner.com · 12/10/2026

What happens once all the code is written for you? What happens in 10 years when new devs come along and old folks retire? It's not just institutional knowledge disappearing, but all deep knowledge of programming.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

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Sloane @sloanesloane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to the last 1.5 years well, yknow, just organizing with my coworkers to unionize the most celebrated & beloved TTRPG and TCGs of all time 🥰✊ this took buckets of blood, sweat & tears but we DID IT!!! If you want to support us, sign that petition and BOOST!

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Triforce Medley (Orchestral Version) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kbT...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

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Chris Koerner @clkoerner.com · 17/09/2026

They need to use this song in the Dungeon Crawler Carl TV series. It would be a lovely discordant needle drop during an action scene (also just a good song). www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzXn...

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Sylvan Esso - Sledge (Official Video)

YouTube video by SylvanEssoVEVO

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Online enthusiast perception of certain games tends to not correlate strongly to sales potential or performance. It's just part of that huge gap where the 15-20% or so of the gaming audience that is the most engaged and invested is massively overrepresented in online conversation. Is what it is.

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Chris Koerner @clkoerner.com · 10/09/2026

My day job lets me publish great stories about how humans are creating and documenting their cultural heritage. Not to just preserve but to celebrate, share, and educate others. I love photo contests and the latest Wiki Loves Bangla is no exception. diff.wikimedia.org/2026/09/09/c...

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Colours of Celebration: The Winners of Wiki Loves Bangla 2026

Wiki Loves Bangla 2026 celebrates Bengal’s festivals through ten winning photographs of culture and tradition.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Metroid Ravenous announced out Jan 28th

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time remake out Nov 5th

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 31/08/2026

On Tim Cook's last day as Apple CEO, a reminder of how he destroyed his own legacy, which at one point was a striking contrast to Jobs' unwillingness to let Apple engage with any social issues. Now, all of that good work, and good will... squandered. www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/h...

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How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can someone like Te Papa please release some moa art into the public domain so the media can use it instead of Colossal’s awful (probably-AI-generated) reconstructions?

Colossal moa art where the legs seem to be grafted on from a different, larger species of moa.

Small moa skeleton showing the right leg to neck proportions. It’s not hard, there’s no shortage of reference material on the internet.

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PlayStation @playstation.com · 27/08/2026

Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look is now playing on @netflix.com Available to pre-order at PlayStation Store: play.st/GTAVIPS5

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 25/08/2026

In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s family is asking for donations to her Imagination Library, which has distributed over 330 million books to kids. [imaginationlibrary.com]

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Home

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Chris Koerner @clkoerner.com · 20/08/2026

"The footage also shows that the investigator told the victim that “we’ve had deputies misuse databases, we’ve told them over and over again ‘that’s not what it’s for. You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database. That’s not what it’s for.’” JFC. www.404media.co/i-saw-a-shin...

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'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman

Body camera footage shows police surveillance abuse is common: "We’ve told them over and over again: 'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database.'"

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Chris Koerner @clkoerner.com · 19/08/2026

@davemark.com It looks like something funky is up with loopinsight.com Even this snapshot from last year looks weird. See the link about casinos. web.archive.org/web/20250719...

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Jim Dalrymple: I am retiring

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Panic @panic.com · 12/08/2026

Earlier this year, we set up a special room in our office where people could sneak preview Big Walk with their friends. Almost 1,000 people came by. We wanted the experience to be special. In my last video, I showed you the room's intro. Now, here's the big finale. It was pure joy — like Big Walk.

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Chris Koerner @clkoerner.com · 05/08/2026

My two daughters, wife, and I played Big Walk together tonight. We found the Kongs and the first key. It was fun and unique. Our house is small so we each had to go to separate rooms so we didn’t hear each other. 🤣

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I needed a little extra time with Halo: Campaign Evolved, a game that's very hard to divorce from what it represents about Xbox and the modern games industry. It made me wistful for the heyday of the ambitious single-player shooter: www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

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Halo: Campaign Evolved review – they don’t make ‘em like this any more

PC, Xbox, PlayStation 5; Halo Studios/Xbox Game StudiosHalo’s modernised introduction to all that was great about the 00s’ first-person shooter is also a welcome return trip for those of us who were t...

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Chris Koerner @clkoerner.com · 22/07/2026

Every year we get the opportunity to celebrate the folks behind the projects. Highllght of my year, hands down. Please join me in celebrating the 2026 Wikimedians of the Year! diff.wikimedia.org/2026/07/22/m...

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Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2026!

This year, once again, we celebrate the people behind the projects!

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Chris Koerner @clkoerner.com · 22/07/2026

In my entire life I have never heard something so bold and clear from a politician as this. youtu.be/8ZuV5L0QL04?...

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Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It’s almost like they time these releases to sales of the Switch 1 version for maximum Fuck You points.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 15/07/2026

100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online. “Let’s discuss topics without feeling the need to win a non-existent argument. Hot takes? No. Engage with nuance. Show the grace you would extend offline to those you meet on these virtual streets.” [misterjt.com]

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I Hate The Way We Talk Online

Jason Toney on algorithm-speak, main character energy, and why a simple question about music charts revealed how badly we've forgotten how to talk to each other online."

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

had not seen the video dave is riffing on here, and it’s insane??? totally unprepared for even the most basic questions

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Playdate @play.date · 09/07/2026

small handheld. big ben.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Microsoft is laying off 4800 employees today -Double Fine and Compulsion Games are going independent -Microsoft selling Ninja Theory and Undead Labs Full memo from Asha: www.theverge.com/news/961546/...

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Even now there's misinformation floating around, so let me make this clear: Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs, or 20% of the organization. 1,600 jobs will be eliminated today, and then another 1,600 (including the studio divestments) in the next 12 months. Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Microsoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Five Studios in Major Overhaul

Compulsion and Double Fine studios will become independent; Undead Labs and Ninja Theory will be sold. Xbox will also look to sell or spin out Arkane Studios.

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Chris Koerner @clkoerner.com · 06/07/2026

Hey look, my boss in the New York Times. Neat. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...

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Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Spending my morning writing a statement for press inquiries about all this when all I want to do is say "consumers haven't had purchasing power in about ten years now because we gave all of our money to like ten weird guys, what did you all expect"

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Apologies, we for got the alt text! Here it is.

This is unfortunate news for those who still prefer buying games on physical media, and is certainly a hit to consumer rights, the resale market, and game creators whose businesses rely on the physical market. But from the perspective of professional preservationists, this doesn't have as much of an impact as you might expect.

The reality is that the vast majority of video games produced over the last two decades were not made for dedicated home video game consoles, let alone pressed to physical media. And even when they were released on physical media, a day-one digital patch was all but guaranteed, meaning that even though a disc is preserving data in an accessible way, it may not represent the game that people actually played. Museums and archives have been preparing for this future for a while, with the expectation that putting discs on a shelf isn't going to be a long-term solution for preserving new games.

What continues to baffle us is what the industry expects institutions like ours to do about it. If platform owners are deciding to eliminate physical media and older digital storefronts, then we'd also like to see trade groups like the Entertainment Software Association offer meaningful solutions for archives and museums to legally preserve digital-only content and make it accessible for research. Everyone agrees this is a serious problem, but the ESA has repeatedly opposed the efforts of cultural heritage institutions to reform digital copy protection laws to make it easier to do this work. The industry needs to meaningfully come to the table on this issue, because asking museums to download a copy of Grand Theft Auto VI and hope it'll run in 50 years is not a preservation solution.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/p...

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Important archival work for the historical record.

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Neal Agarwal @neal.fun · 18/06/2026

Made a site that takes objects from wikipedia and turns them into endless I Spy > neal.fun/wiki-spy/

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 18/06/2026

I use BHL a lot in my Wikimedia work; and I've been happy to make some small contributions as a member of the BHL-Wikimedia working group. This is a great write-up of a wonderful project.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Here is me, pleading with museum shops. We do not want yet another bookmark and eraser with your logo for 11 euros. We. Want. Replicas. Of. Your. Nerdy. Stuff.

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Chris Koerner @clkoerner.com · 17/06/2026

LTTP: “I’m a Virgo” is beautiful, thoughtful, and so well put together.

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Chris Koerner @clkoerner.com · 17/06/2026

A religious fervor that believes the company is building god-like “super intelligence” that will dwarf human intelligence — and that only the company’s priesthood can be trusted to define, create, control, and gate access to it — is something else entirely. daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

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‘Anthropic’s Safety Superpower’

Link to: https://stratechery.com/2026/anthropics-safety-superpower/

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Chris Koerner @clkoerner.com · 17/06/2026

The new Google Sheets icon looks more like Microsoft Excel (derogatory)

A screenshot of the new Google Sheets icon. It's a weird rectangle with a blue fade on the left and a green blob on the right. Another darker green rectangle is behind it to the left. On top of the icon is two perpendicular lines intersecting in the bottom right.

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Chris Koerner @clkoerner.com · 09/06/2026

“Between late 2024 and late 2025, the U.S. cut off the cheapest foreign models, made other imports more expensive through duties, and removed the subsidy that had made EVs more accessible for U.S. buyers.” 🤦 restofworld.org/2026/us-ev-s...

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As the world embraces EVs, the U.S. hits the brakes

Canada and the EU opened their doors to Chinese electric cars this year while the U.S. watched from behind a tariff wall.

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Xenoblade Genesis Final Fantasy VII Revelation Dragon Quest Deuteronomy Super Mario Leviticus

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

*beats drum and dead horse* Ok, any Wikipedia editors following me. Angela Liu has now been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Astounding and Ignyte Awards. And yet for some reason, no Wikipedia page yet. Can this get changed? *beats drum and dead horse*

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