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Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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lukeplunkett.com
my wife: dabbing the sweat off my feverish brow with a damp cloth, looking anxiously over at the doctor

me: when the bubble bursts microsoft should sell xbox to sega, who can then release the next xbox as a rebadged dreamcast 2
December 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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noelreports.com
Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to cut the presentation short. Their rushed attempt to lift the prop only made things worse.
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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aubade.itch.io
the infamous Daikatana ad, changed to read "John Romero's about to wish you well."
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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jparish.bsky.social
All of this suddenly makes so much more sense to me
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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frankcifaldi.bsky.social
Y'all, I know two hours is a big time commitment, but this panel I arranged and hosted last month is one of the most important things I've ever done for video game history. The launch of the NES is a crazier story than most people realize, and my guests were extremely generous with their memories.
November 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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lostturntable.bsky.social
Before you get too happy about the election, remember to also be really happy that Dick Cheney is still fucking dead.
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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ironspike.bsky.social
Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger
URSUAL K LE GUN
October 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode
October 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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wes.readonlymemo.com
Until this week, it's been impossible to play the games of the 1993 Pioneer LaserActive without one of the vanishingly rare, disintegrating consoles.

Here's the story of the guy who's been trying to fix that for years -- and all the hardware and software he had to build to make it possible.
"This is the first:" The 16 year odyssey of "time, money, wrong turns and frustration" it took to finally emulate the Pioneer LaserActive
In April 2009, a Sega fan decided to look into emulating the Mega LD, a quirky and little-known hybrid of Genesis and LaserDisc. This week he finished the job.
www.readonlymemo.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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ass.golf
I really wish people would stop using LLMs “as a goof” or “ironically.” Yes we know computer do silly things. Can we please not consume a gallon of fresh water and a household family’s worth of electricity for something that stopped being a novelty in 2022
December 31, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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@patrickklepek.bsky.social Planet Money did an episode on title fraud if you want to hear about what happens when it goes through www.npr.org/2024/11/22/1...
Title insurance, title pirates, and a house built on someone else's land. : Planet Money
A couple years ago, Gina Leto, a real estate developer, bought a property with her business partner. The process went like it usually did: Lots of paperwork; a virtual closing. Pretty cut-and-dry. Gin...
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August 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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josephfasano.bsky.social
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work. —Joseph Fasano
August 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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davekarpf.bsky.social
I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.
July 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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remapradio.bsky.social
Apple is delisting Wheels of Aureila from the App Store for no reason. Why? Because as a company, they do not respect video games. They're simply a tool.
July 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
ianstalk.bsky.social
@plante.bsky.social These last couple of Post Games episodes have been straight-up bangers. Keep up the awesome work!
July 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
ianstalk.bsky.social
@jessethorn.bsky.social thanks for finally getting me off my butt to give some money to Al Otro Lado.
July 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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tommchenry.bsky.social
one of my favorite sketchbook comics, anime press conference
PANEL 1: A close-up drawing of Goku from Dragon Ball. PANEL 2: A mayor is reading prepared remarks from a lectern to the press. MAYOR: "Goku is the Mickey Mouse of fighting" PANEL 3: MAYOR: "Luffy is Goku but with long arms and--" REPORTER 1: "BOO!" MAYOR: "Let me finish--long arms and flip-flops." PANEL 4: REPORTER 2: "Mr. Mayor, are you speaking in terms of official policy recommendations or as a private citizen?" The mayor dabs away sweat. MAYOR: "Please, Tom, there'll be time for questions at the end." PANEL 5: REPORTER 3: "These are serious allegations--" MAYOR: "Every Gundam is worse than Voltron--" REPORTER 4: "Man, fuck this!" PANEL 6: MAYOR (visibly sweating): "Please, I have to get through this: Every Gundam is worse than Volton because his hands are lion mouths." REPORTER 1: "BOOOOOOOOO" PANEL 7: Security hoists up a reporter to eject him. SECURITY 1: "You're done, Fake News" REPORTER 1: "This is a democracy!" PANEL 8: The mayor continues. MAYOR: "Pokemon was a dry run for QAnon." REPORTER 1: "The people have a right to a free press!" PANEL 9: MAYOR: "Naruto is the Donald Duck of fighting." PANEL 10: Another reporter stands up and interrupts the mayor. REPORTER 5: "How many more--" MAYOR: "Boruto--" REPORTER 5: "How many more of these--" MAYOR (insistent): "BORUTO is Naruto with worser hair." PANEL 11: REPORTER 6: "How many more of these unfounded allegations are you going to--" MAYOR: "Questions at the end, Laura!" PANEL 12: MAYOR: "Evangelion is suicidal ideation Tenchi Muyo."
July 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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characterdesign.bsky.social
Animation by Ruf ( @ruu_fuu )

#animationtidbits #sakuga #animation #2danimation
June 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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aegies.bsky.social
every time i see someone on social media wistfully approve of some event from the french revolution that seems romantic and cool but actually resulted in a lot of horrifying public murders and then the rise of EMPEROR NAPOLEON i get a slight case of hives.
June 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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midimyers.com
i talked to @writnelson.bsky.social at gdc about sustainability and he had some cool shit to say about it imo www.polygon.com/features/602...
When making lots of small games is more sustainable than making one big one
Strange Scaffold is a sustainability success story
www.polygon.com
June 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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edzitron.com
Left this comment about the current fears that people have over AI and what gives me hope on the Better Offline Reddit and wanted to share. I’m sure I missed something but whatever
Hello! I’m so sorry to hear you’re feeling like this, and want to say that I along with thousands of different other people on here hear you and sympathize. The current state of affairs everywhere is one so oppressive and heavy, like ambient heat, constantly radiating some sort of toxicity, smugness, aggression or derision. The pride that some of these people have in harming others or seeing others put under the boot is disgraceful - some people seem to truly want artificial intelligence to replace people, or believe it‘s so inevitable that they just want to get it over with. This is part of why you feel bad - because there are many people in the media who want to tell you how bad things are for many different reasons. The point is, nothing is fucking inevitable. Nothing you are feeling is illogical or intellectually ridiculous. You are feeling reasonable things because of the constant radiation of doom emanating from fucking everything. Let’s talk about AI job loss, and a little about my monologue I did, where I don’t think I clearly stated that while there are jobs being lost to AI, and jobs will on some level be lost to AI, the dramatic nature of this job loss is not imminent nor is it inevitable. Generative AI does not do the things that actually replace a person. It can do things that a person does in an extremely shitty way that demands that the person looking at it actually knows what “good” or “right” is, because generative AI does not know a single thing. While there are some bosses that will see this and fire some people, they will quickly realise that this doesn’t actually work, because what they’re actually doing is outsourcing risk and anxiety. A machine that sometimes gets something right cannot replace a human being in a way that is sustainable or satisfying, and in most cases just flat out can’t fucking do it. You have AI fantasists vigorously grunting at the idea that they’re able to replace 20 coders at once with the power of a generative codi… And the reason is because a bizarre tax code law kicked in in 2022 that stopped them being able to deduct 100% of all R&D expenses immediately, literally just as they way overhired during 2021, the year when everybody was stupid and everything grew in the most insane way! We are seeing cutbacks from the most egregious overhiring of all time, except they have no idea how far to cut back because they never really understood who they hired in the beginning. They also are aware that AI is not giving them the growth they need. This is a tech industry problem but will eventually become an economy-wide problem when the mag7 gets shat on. Things aren’t going to be fun. 10-20% though? I sure hope not. And I don’t think that’s coming from generative Ai, nor do I see or hear any truly promising thing. This “artificial jagged intelligence” thing is really dire, like someone farted. Nobody likes it, it’s bad. Mass-automation is not what I fear, nor should you either. On Slop I think it’s alarming how many people fall for slop, but the reality is that there is something off with AI art that makes even the most normal normie uncomfortable, and I’ve seen it for myself with the normal people I know who do not drink directly from the firehose of the internet and tech news. People do not like AI. They find it nasty and revolting. It feels off. Everybody feels it. I do not believe LLMs ever go away, and I think that the existence of ChatGPT has unleashed a kind of sludge across the internet, as have meme generators and any kind of easy-to-copy image format. It sucks. It sucks that our information systems are now clogged with this bullshit, and in many ways that’s google’s fault - they don’t give a fuck and are emptying a septic tank into their own kitchen. What a bunch of fucking freaks! Anyway, they’re going to get broken up, on some level, because of my other theory: Nobody Likes The Tech Industry But Everybody Loves Tech We love our phones and our computers. We love going online and talking to people. That’s why so many people do it. It fucking sucks right now because the bastards are very much in control, but something is changing. The average person is beginning to really dislike these freaks, they know something is wrong, and they are absolutely pissed off - and they want to know exactly who fucked up the thing they loved. You know that attachment that an uncomfortably large amount of people have to Marvel Movies and Star Wars? I believe far, far more people truly yearn for a smartphone that just does the fucking things they want. Everybody knows how much this sucks, and I believe there is growing apolitical pressure to suppress these fuckers. AI right now is the shiny political object, but when this turd begins to circle the drain, the economy is going to have some real fucking problems that can’t be propped up by spending $40bn a quarter on fucking GPUs. This entire movement is hysterical, and even if it continues far longer than I anticipate, it remains hysterical - the tech industry is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on GPUs to put in data centers only to turn them on and make - and this isn’t profit! - at best $13 billion dollars in a god damn YEAR. Once this shit falls apart, people are going to be looking for someone to blame, and we have an entire industry piloted by the most charmless, unsympathetic, dull, annoying and actively annoying buffoons to ever grace this Earth. Steve Jobs was a piece of shit but at least he was entertaining and seemed to want to rule the world by selling it what he believed was a perfect device (I’m not saying he succeeded). Big tech’s CEOs feel like the bad guy in a kids movie, lacking any real definition or purpose other than the fact that they will defend Their Decisions At All Times, even i…
June 9, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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@edzitron.com This reeks of desperation.
www.thenationalnews.com/future/techn...
OpenAI and UAE in talks for free ChatGPT Plus for all | The National
No agreement yet from negotiations linked to Stargate UAE plan
www.thenationalnews.com
May 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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adamh.ivgorchestra.com
YIKES @soundcloud.dev no thank you
SoundCloud will use your content to train AI
May 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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“Friend of Garak” Sticker
Silkscreen printed for exceptionally vibrant color. Waterproof, UV-resistant, dishwasher safe. 3 7/8″ x 3 1/8″ (9.8 x 7.9 cm)
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April 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM