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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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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 08/10/2026

it's good to see this laid out clearly, but i'm once again going to point to Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"

The present discussion is a contribution to the understanding of what programming is. It suggests that programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

video games is everyone collectively trying to carry the piano while simultaneously tuning it, constructing it and composing on it according to our specialisms

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off

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increpare @increpare.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sometimes SVGPathEditor is just what you need ^^ yqnn.github.io/svg-path-edi...

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m on a quiz show that only tapes 46 days a year and even I think this schedule is a little light.

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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 16/09/2026

@kayin.moe taught me to draw bikes today. i did great

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Squirrelly Sam @thurstonsam.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Perhaps it is not the act of going to Wendy's, but the perennial cycle of struggle and sustenance which drives man to madness.

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 10/09/2026

This is why I push so harshly against calling games slop or whatever outside of the AI context because I think people adopt terms like that so readily and let it completely poison their ability to engage with anything. You're not a secondary or a larper or whatever if you try getting into something.

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K'eeg @armormodekeeg.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026

I say this as a joke but honestly if, when playing a video game, you can lose and: - not get frustrated or annoyed - think about what happened and examine the elements in play - reconsider your choices regularly then you'll be well on your way to overcoming a lot of difficult gaming challenges

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George Wanfried @gwanfried.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've identified the mysterious light that flashed in my peripheral vision occasionally. It was the morning sun reflecting off of my headphones and onto a desk on my right. Obvious in side-sight.

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Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Pause screen now changes based on your Penguin Type. This is to let people know that Penguins have differences to them.

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chess!! Hhalloween october @videochess.world · 11/08/2026

hey, here's a fun lil proof of concept i threw together a couple months ago and never posted about. made with godot (.net) and libsm64-godot. #chess_arts

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StephOfAnime @stephofanime.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

✨CALLING ALL NINTENDO FANS✨ I'm running a Nintendo-themed Family Feud-like segment for charity w/ @colosseumlive.bsky.social this weekend & could use help filling out the survey! If you have a few minutes, it would mean a lot! forms.gle/DrGf7kbXwzxX... RTs appreciated!🤗

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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

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Black Myron @blackmyron.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I still think about the Soviet false alarm incident in Sep 26, 1983, where we were one ordinary person's decision away from a nuclear war, only averted because he (correctly) determined his equipment was hallucinating, and having computer systems now that are described in the same fashion.

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game:

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/08/2025

"The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.” ~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)

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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

convincing people that computers are smart was a huge mistake. computers are exactly as stupid now as they were in 1975, they're just much faster at stupid.

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George Wanfried @gwanfried.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

time for, metaphorically speaking, the teacher to wheel out the TV/VCR and put on the tape of Bill Nye The Science Guy?

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Daily bunny no.3378 offers a free ride

A bunny in a red and gold mech suit lifts up a baby bird on one of the robot's claws, helping it return to a nest in the branch of a tree.

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Sparkling Star Punch! @sparklingstarpunch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You know in hindsight NFTs feel quaint for being "bad art tied to the worst future where you're constantly being spied upon because everything is tracking you online" because AI is all that but a thousand times worse. It's like Dragon Quest when you defeat the final boss and he turns into a dragon

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George Wanfried @gwanfried.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I appreciate the little author profile for "Karl and Fred". It's a nice touch.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 08/07/2026

It wasn’t just geeky stuff like movies/comics, 20th century brick-n-mortar stores used to employ all kinds of weirdos who knew everything about something and LOVED to help. Radio Shack had circuitry weirdos! Sears had vacuum cleaner weirdos! Shirt weirdos! Garden weirdos! Hat weirdos!

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

game devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/07/2026

Today’s free newsletter has a very simple message: The AI industry can not (and will not) be bailed out - AI is not too big to fail, OpenAI is not AIG, this is not 2008, and all of this is nothing like the Dot Com Bubble. And when it fails, we must let AI burn. www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/

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typing pumpkin 🎃 @typingloudly.zip · 04/07/2026

old enough to remember when internet was good for you

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Background paintings from Samurai Jack (2001–2004), created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Cartoon Network Studios Pieces by Scott Wills, Jenny Gase-Baker and Nadia Vurbenova-Mouri

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This is what I mean when I say we need to imagine technology without the profit motive.

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George Wanfried @gwanfried.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"the tension was as thick as an elephant in the room"

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George Wanfried @gwanfried.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Yeah, that's a tricky one, I think the original idiom is a lot more about "the tension being so palpable that it physically exists" moreso than it having a measurable quality. I'd probably try to make an even more exaggerated simile, e.g. "The tension was so thick you could swim through it".

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Tremor Ferrum (Support Small Artists!) @tremor-ferrum.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Pushing out this warning in the stead of a friend who fell for this scam If ANYONE on discord says they want you to join a "watch party" with them, and they send out a download link for a "movie sharing website", DO NOT CLICK IT 99% of movie nights can be and are hosted in VC/VRC WITHOUT downloads

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Jank @jank.cool · 26/06/2026

Quake is 30. Here are 100+ new levels. www.jank.cool/quake-is-30-...

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Quake is 30 and the mappers have gone mad

Mapmaker, mapmaker make me a map

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Suraj has a point.

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George Wanfried @gwanfried.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Probably the episode title I'm proudest of putting to good use was a Patrick's Parabox episode, that I got the chance to title "Metempsychosis"; hopefully I get to dig for an even more intriguing word to use in the future.

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