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Published: November 4, 2025 04:43

Two separate people sent me this exact same image less than 30 seconds apart. I imagine them separated by thousands of miles yet moving in complete muscle-synchronized lockstep as they type an identical query into Google Image Search [contains quote post…

Published: November 4, 2025 03:52

When suddenly need Super Mario Brothers finished in under four minutes and 55 seconds and it is an EMERGENCY and you don't know what you're going to do but then you look behind you and it turns out Niftski was standing there the whole time [contains quote…

Published: November 3, 2025 20:44

What do you think are the chances of me managing to reverse the copyright claim on this old video I'm super super proud of and apparently inspired a feature in Super Meat Boy, which later Nintendo copyright claimed because it showed a romhack and Nintendo…

Published: November 3, 2025 20:06

Apparently soon Google is running a dubious "AI-powered" upscale operation on YouTube's entire history, so I figure this might be a good time to dump recs for all my favorite Ancient YouTube videos before Google potentially fucks them up

Published: November 3, 2025 20:05

What I'm listening to today: "Junior Kickstart", The Go! Team This is my favorite video on YouTube. The Go Team in their Gleeful Copyright Infringement Era does a lovesong to 70s funk with a music video that's a love letter to 70s film. An iconic New York…

Published: November 3, 2025 18:55

"The government said Monday that state agencies will have to recode their eligibility systems to adjust… and it is unclear how quickly state systems will be able to do so. It warned that in some states, these system changes 'will take anywhere from a few…

Published: November 3, 2025 16:34

*Soulja boy is up to some nonsense with emulation-based video game hardware* Me: Haha Soulja Boy, what a lovable scamp *Palmer Luckey is up to some nonsense with emulation-based video game hardware* Me: I'm so depressed I want to stop making video games

Published: November 3, 2025 16:24

There was a period (the 90s) using a computer meant constantly debugging little surprises because the software wasn't very good. And there's a period (now) using a computer means similar constant little surprises/hurdles because the software updates…

Published: November 3, 2025 03:43

Saw lots of people jawdropped at Bari Weiss being put in charge of CBS news given her lack of experience at journalism. But propaganda… if the point of CBS news is to create propaganda, then Bari Weiss is just the pick. [contains quote post or other…

Published: November 2, 2025 20:00

What I'm listening to today: "volca drum & Kaoss Pad & NTS-1", Takeo Watanabe Improvised alien skittering out behind a shed somewhere, while neighborhood birds try to outyell the performance. Notice the effects/echo unit on the left being played like an…

Published: November 2, 2025 19:11

God I fuckin hate the thing where if you're replying to someone and your reply is two posts long instead of one, Bluesky posts the second reply (but only the second) to the public timeline "Hey how about exposing 7,000 people to one side of a telephone…

Published: November 2, 2025 17:22

Sometimes I complain about generative AI and people are like "well if machine learning is so bad then why didn't anyone object to [horrible thing from 2014 that I, mcc, personally complained a lot about at the time]"

Published: November 1, 2025 22:53

Basically, there are three "Bluesky"s, none of which resemble each other: The Bluesky that Bluesky claimed, at the beginning, they were trying to build; the Bluesky that Bluesky *actually* is trying to build; and the website that actually cohered into…

Published: November 1, 2025 19:03

What I'm listening to today: "Gar Tīgh Bārad", Avin Ahmadi Iranian traditional guitar piece originally by Siamak Aghaei. Slow and soft, or not exactly slow, just unhurried, performed with expert control and incredible, overwhelming emotion. Music starts…

Published: October 31, 2025 19:03

What I'm listening to today: "jazz jungle mix at Japanese rice field", Takuya Nakamura The composer of Virtua Fighter and Lumines goes out in an actual rice field with a Pioneer deck and trumpet and spins D&B with occasional trumpet solos. Unbelievably…

Published: October 30, 2025 21:54

[2015] DUDES: We made a website where you can look up a charity and see what % of donations it spends on admin overhead ME: Hey that rules DUDES: It's called effective altruism [2025] ME: Holy fuck. What the fuck are you guys doing. Why are you doing…

Published: October 30, 2025 20:03

Moon is a really, really great, unique game. If you've ever enjoyed speedrunning I think you'll like Moon. Especially jawdropping every time while playing it you remember it was first released in 1997. I haven't played Stray Children. I bet I'm going to…

Published: October 30, 2025 19:56

Just got an email from Vogmask.com . They're now running an out-of-business sale and citing the increased overhead of tariffs as the breaking-point factor in halting their business. Trump just takes and takes and takes.

Published: October 30, 2025 19:02

What I'm listening to today: "I have found her...", Some1 1998 lo-fi-hip-hop tracker tune so laid back it's practically an OSHA hazard. Eleven minutes but really uses the entire runtime, you just kinda let it run in the background and it surprises you…

Published: October 30, 2025 18:27

Danger has a thread here. I'm trying to understand what just happened with Affinity, an alternative Adobe-like suite that's like a worse Pixelmator. It got bought by Canva, a crappy subscription AI tool, so when they started teasing some big change…

Published: October 30, 2025 15:12

World where curses are real so if you go down to the drugstore there's a witch on staff who once a year will cast a mild curse on you so that your body builds up its natural defenses against stronger curses

Published: October 29, 2025 23:08

This is particularly baffling because one of the primary reasons to be using Sony's Crunchyroll instead of "general" video streaming sites is that Crunchyroll *does* have the better, properly typeset subtitles. If Crunchyroll stops providing those, what is…

Published: October 29, 2025 22:47

Source: https://9to5google.com/2025/10/29/youtube-adds-ai-upscaled-super-resolution-for-low-quality-videos/ *End users* can opt out, and will be able to check in the player whether they are watching a real or upscaled video. But I am very curious, if you…

Published: October 29, 2025 17:08

You somehow manipulated yourself into a place where Doug Ford is coming off as the better, more level-headed person. Congratulations https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-us-ambassador-apology-ad-9.6958531

Published: October 29, 2025 01:22

When you're negotiating with the teacher's union and you do something that gets *condemned by Amnesty International*. Is that good https://amnesty.ca/press-releases/alberta-notwithstanding-clause-bill-2/

Published: October 28, 2025 22:04

So today I learned that "carbohydrate" and "hydrocarbon" are totally different words and that a "carbohydrate" is not a "hydrocarbon" because "carbohydrates" contain oxygen and "hydrocarbons"can contain only hydrogen and carbon. Why is the terminology like…

Published: October 28, 2025 20:09

What I'm listening to today: "Continuum 1" Nala Sinephro Mind-expanding jazz with a simmering intensity, semi-non-repeating bubbly drums and floaty beep noises. Chill but pressured, a dream coming over your consciousness like a cloud covering the…

Published: October 28, 2025 17:56

I have this Lenovo tablet that shuts off when it hits 20% battery life. If 20% is the point where it no longer functions, shouldn't the 20% point be 0%? I think it would be easier for a computer to remember to subract 0.2 and multiply by 1.25 than me, a…

Published: October 28, 2025 16:29

Here is a thread about a weird element of NYC's mayoral ballot. TLDR it's better to vote on the Working Families line, voting for Zohran under both parties is okay (it counts as a Democratic vote rather than an overvote). [contains quote post or other…

Published: October 28, 2025 03:39

If I watch the Fionna and Cake series after having only sporadically watched Adventure Time (although i watched the original pilot like 9 times, I did not have an easy way of watching TV by the time the show aired) will I still be able to enjoy it

Published: October 27, 2025 22:23

I don't know if literally anyone can use this information but Grace Mandarin Chinese is such a useful channel if you are learning Mandarin. Every time I get stuck on a pronunciation problem I find she's got a 5 minute video precisely explaining what to do…

Published: October 27, 2025 21:40

这周我在玩电子游戏《空洞骑士:丝之歌》。游戏讲述了一个小虫子的故事。她被一个蜘蛛教会绑架,她必须打败它们。我喜欢这款游戏,因为它很难。 电子游戏在中国很受欢迎,可是《丝之歌》在中国却不受欢迎,因为它的翻译质量很差。 #练习

Published: October 27, 2025 19:00

What I'm listening to today: "idontloveyouanymore", puhf Breakcore/jungle for waking up. Punk was the music of youth because guitars were cheap. Now DAWs are cheap and gen Z is turning out incredibly satisfying breakcore in enormous quantities …

Published: October 27, 2025 18:31

It doesn't matter how many fucking times you disable the AI, they will simply add new AI settings and turn them on by default. The only solution is to completely boycott any company which has any AI product anywhere in their portfolio. Yes, that's…

Published: October 27, 2025 03:24

So the following are feminist science fiction movies I have seen: Possession (1981) Possessor (2021) Resurrection (2022) Conclusion: if I watched "Reanimator" (1985) it would somehow turn out to be feminist

Published: October 26, 2025 19:00

What I'm listening to today: "CSIRAC" / "Delete", Ninajirachi Choppy noise experiment ➜ hyper hyper pop ninajirachi.bandcamp.com/track/csirac ninajirachi.bandcamp.com/track/delete Ninajirachi is an Australian EDM producer. You can tell her music is…

Published: October 26, 2025 16:23

Thinking about how news sources moving to articles written partially or completely by "AI", would have been a lot harder if news sources hadn't first fired their copy editors, meaning that even the human-written articles sometimes look like they could be…

Published: October 26, 2025 15:55

A thing I love is when a corporation issues a statement denying an allegation and then in the next sentence explaining what they are actually doing, which turns out to be exactly the same as what was alleged

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