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Friday, 29 May 2026
quote [ The entire planet may be experiencing its own lost decades now – young and old are suffering. But, as the Japanese experience shows us, embracing our inner child isn’t necessarily a denial of reality. ]
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Tuesday, 26 May 2026
quote [ Perceptual uniqueness is the real metric, and it’s darn tough. ]
Intelligent musings on procedural generation vom 2016 Tumblr via Rock Paper Shotgun's Jank's Sunday Papers. It's Dwarf Fortress' devlog all over again.
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Friday, 22 May 2026
quote [ “I told him, ‘You’ve got to lose those end notes. No one’s going to bother,’” she recalls with deep amusement now. “That was my contribution to 20th-century American literature: I tried to talk David out of the thing that really made Infinite Jest stand out.” ]
Interesting interview about family, heritage, literature with David Foster Wallace's sister.
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quote [ “It’s alienation on top of alienation. What value am I actually making by throwing this garbage into the world?” said Robin. ]
Modern times gloom in a series of interviews. The Mastodon thread I found this on has more examples like the marketing math behind a Rwuandan clip sharing op.
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Friday, 15 May 2026
quote [ reviews can mean a lot to smaller developers, so I'm gonna put out a little call to action. ]
This is the good type of snowball schema where people recommend each other games and support smaller devs.
Note that this links to a Bluesky aggregation tool – you might want to check on the original feed which has a little more recommendations. Also, I didn't know you can follow people's reviews on Steam, some people do this very diligently.
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Thursday, 14 May 2026
quote [ one-sided connections, where individuals keep tabs on the lives and movements of people – like celebrities – who do not know us and feel no pressure to reciprocate. In a parasocial world, people dedicate their attention and emotions to tracking the dramas of individuals who exist at a distance. Parasocial relationships can be emotionally intense, but they do not produce the kinds of social fabric that anchor us when we are struggling. ]
Everybody's lurkin' at me / I don't hear a word they're sayin'
Also: internet responses and internet loneliness and lurking. Thumb via New Old Stock
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Wednesday, 6 May 2026
quote [ It may be the case that the real way to shape the future […] [is] just to give people things they actually want. ]
The Verge articles are perceptive, even the editor-in-chief holds a toned-down opinion of this. A good moment to reference Audrey Watters again (via).
The AI stuff that concerns me are exhausting security incidents, leaving people to debate if that might indeed be disruptive.
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Thursday, 30 April 2026
quote [ —most of which involve murder. ]
Stumbled upon this via Jenn Frank links and thought you'd like it.
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Tuesday, 28 April 2026
quote [ When we turn to AI to reflect or represent core elements of the human experience, it degrades what is conveyed in photographs, which is essentially human and truthful.”
But while the risk of misinformation is real, it’s not new. Indeed, photography itself is not without ethical issues. ] Found this an interesting review of analyzing image prompts with an ad/art point of view. The "everybody smiles" thing is a recurring creep-out for me.
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Sunday, 26 April 2026
quote [ Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas ]
They word this carefully. The graph is from a 2024 Icelandic council (vedur.is has more detailed info on this, too) linked in a Guardian comment: extreme weather might be very cold in Northern Europe.
The other day I read that current trouble with presenting mid- to long-term political plans is that people already evade looking in the future, rather consuming retro nostalgy.
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This article looking back at 90s Japan predates the one I read the other day by 4 years which was also before politicans helpfully posted war bombings intercut with Disney clips.