Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Adam Holisky

@adam.holisky.com

1.1K followers 510 following 3.7K posts

I make 1s and 0s as a technical product manager and software engineer. I used to (and still do!) write words. Once caught a level 21 Pikachu, it was awesome. Minneapolis. Consultant. Ex: Blizzard, Penske, AOL All opinions are mine.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · Mar 16

Hugh the Borg says resistance is not futile.

4 36

Reposted by Adam Holisky

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 9h

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

9 390 1.3K

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 9h

I’ve heard a bit more irrationality around this too, lately. It’s all the fault of one very dumb political party. Fucking embarrassing that it’s even possible this happens, let alone is.

1 1

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 9h

Happy Birthday, Max!

My kiddo turns 7 today. And my god do I feel old. His cousin is seven years older than him (now about to enter high school and is following in his dad and my footsteps), and I vividly remember him holding Max when he was born. So same age as the picture I’ve had up forever. ☠️🪦

1 1 16

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 10h

Just figuring out this game feels like an accomplishment on its own. I’ve missed that in modern games, and for those that do push their players with a steep learning curve, I rarely have had the time and/or patience to dive deep the last few years.

It’s a nice gaming feeling when it all clicks.

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 10h

Really it’s cool how the game fundamentally changes based on just a few initial starting conditions. And the end game goals lead to unique gameplay strata, which all carry surprisingly good stories. That’s a cool balance in any game, but especially a grand strategy focused one.

1 2

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 10h

After really trying to get the more difficult concepts of Stellaris strategy learned, I finally feel like it’s all come together. Did 100 years today of a custom civ called “Empire” that mirrors the one from Foundation. Evil, but it has a bunch of dynamic elements and isn’t straight militaristic.

1 3

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 15h

This frog fights fascists! #nokings

Reposted by Adam Holisky

Snacko Racko @snackoracko.bsky.social · 1d

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

56 2.9K 8.1K

Reposted by Adam Holisky

Craig Morrison @silirrion.bsky.social · 18h

Update time for www.startmakinggames.com

A one stop shop for 100% free curated information that answers the question - 'How do I get started in game design?'

As always please share! As a self run passion project for the last 8 years, your help is the only way the site spreads!

#Gamedev #Indiedev

31 51

Reposted by Adam Holisky

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

32 590 2.1K

Reposted by Adam Holisky

Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d

Janet Mills is 77 and Democrats need to knock it off with the gerontocracy.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, is running for Senate, aiming to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.

Gov. Janet Mills of Maine to Run for Senate, Aiming at Senator Susan Collins

A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself “battle tested” in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.

nyti.ms

60 200 1.3K

Reposted by Adam Holisky

Atanae @atanae.bsky.social · 1d

1 2

Reposted by Adam Holisky

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

96 1.2K 5.8K

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 1d

I’m really just obsessed with these cats being so friendly with such a huge dog.

Maeve’s is a gigantic Irish wolfhound. A true gentle giant. But her *mouth* is large enough to eat a cat in two or three bites. I’d suspect evolution wouldn’t be ok with this, yet here we are.

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 1d

Reposted by Adam Holisky

Jörg Hillebrand @gaghyogi49.bsky.social · 1d

One of the delegates of the Federation Archaeological Council in #StarTrekTNG's "Qpid"⬆️ is wearing Dr. Ira Graves' metallic burial cowl from "The Schizoid Man"⬇️. I really don't want to know how she got it... ;-)

3 2 54

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 1d

Stop what you’re doing and listen to 15 seconds of cat purrs. The sun must be very good today.

3 20

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 2d

*turns off the news*

Not starting my day watching that asshole.

1 28

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 2d

What’s done defined as?

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 2d

I really miss software and games that came with thick, huge manuals. They inspired me as a kid to learn everything in them.

That meant learning BASIC was both a thing I did with the TRS-80 model 100 and wherever I read the book.

Found some pics. NOSTALGIA

2 2 23

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 3d

Clinties?

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 3d

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph...

Galactic Gradients, Postbiological Evolution and the Apparent Failure of SETI

Motivated by recent developments impacting our view of Fermi's paradox (absence of extraterrestrials and their manifestations from our past light cone), we suggest a reassessment of the problem itself...

arxiv.org

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 3d

Yeah. Most of the ones today do it via css modification, but it’s not done with much context.

Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 3d

Generative AI that is good enough to make a page automatically dark if the system says to (via time or otherwise). That’s a good thing for LLMs and isn’t slop generation. As far as I’m aware it doesn’t exist?

All the automatic dark mode stuff doesn’t work well, I’ve found.

2 1

Reposted by Adam Holisky

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 3d

“F**k ICE forever.”

— Chappell Roan at her show in Pasadena

24 310 1.9K