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worked on some video games and some other things. taking some time off at the moment.

a three panel comic first panel: Hey guys! Guess who just got... second panel: 🎶 yellled 🎶 third panel: 🎶aaat 🎶
undertaker meme caption PNWers telling east coasters fun stories about wildfire smoke <behind it is> AUGUST
a thin slip of paper that reads: GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR WORD PROCESSOR
the cover of the july 2026 edition of Communications of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery, an academic organization for computer science)
cave johnson meme with a speech bubble implying him saying the quoted post
two successive notification emails from The Seattle Times. the first, at 8:15am, is titled "Judges appoint a new U.S. attorney in Seattle". the second, at 9:34am, is titled "Trump immediately fires newly appointed U.S. attorney"
"Development was hindered in the mid-19th century by a backlash against large vehicles, yet progress continued on some internal combustion engines. The engine evolved as engineers created two- and four-cycle combustion engines and began using gasoline. The first modern car—a practical, marketable automobile for everyday use—and the first car in series production appeared in 1886, when Carl Benz developed a gasoline-powered automobile and made several identical copies.[9][10] In 1890, Gottlieb Daimler, inventor of the high-speed liquid petroleum-fueled engine, and Wilhelm Maybach formed Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft. In 1926, the company merged with Benz & Cie. (founded by Carl Benz in 1883) to form Daimler-Benz, known for its Mercedes-Benz automobile brand." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile
According to Pamela Druckerman of The New York Times, an element of neo-Sovietism is that "the government manages civil society, political life and the media".[3] According to Matthew Kaminski of The Wall Street Journal, it includes efforts by Vladimir Putin to express the glory of the Soviet Union in order to generate support for a "revived Great Russian power in the future" by bringing back memories of various Russian accomplishments that legitimatized Soviet dominance, including the Soviet victory against Nazi Germany. Kaminski continues on by saying that neo-Sovietism "offers up Russian jingoism stripped bare of Marxist internationalist pretenses" and uses it to scare Russia's neighbours and to generate Russian patriotism and anti-Americanism.[4]
communism /kŏm′yə-nĭz″əm/ noun A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members. A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people. The Marxist-Leninist doctrine advocating revolution to overthrow the capitalist system and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat that will eventually evolve into a perfectly egalitarian and communal society. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik "in which all goods are equally shared by the people" is crossed out while the rest of the second definition is circled with an arrow pointing to it labeled "MAGA"
"...Bank has started throttling internal AI usage after a wave of tokenmaxxing caused firms to overspend on non-productive work. Now AI companies..."
“There are concerns that the high memory prices will bring AI solutions that need less memory, and that the data center build-out may not all get built in the end,” said Louis Navellier of Navellier & Associates. “And that token pricing of AI software will push users to lower-cost versions, especially Chinese offerings, and is bringing increased caution regarding the enthusiasm for all things AI.”
still from the movie Downfall, of Adolf Hitler saying "If Steiner attacks, everything will be all right."
cover art for Ultima VII The Complete Edition
"Many top earners promoting the foreign influence theory are either directly or indirectly invested in artificial intelligence. One prominent advocate is Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary, who is an investor in a giant data center in Utah called Stratos. It was going to be roughly twice the size of Manhattan and was being pushed through the permitting process, until local opposition began to build."
504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.
Old Man Yells At Cloud dot jpeg but the background is replaced with the new Halo ad with a green circle drawn on it by OOP in place of the cloud in the original picture
Steve Fisk's ARP 2600 (without keyboard), from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP_2600
"It’s fortunate that LLMs are not conscious, or else the actions of the big AI firms would be even more scandalous than they already are. So why are Anthropic’s employees suggesting that Claude might be conscious? Perhaps it’s just another form of hype; perhaps they have fallen prey to the same spell that they have been casting on their customers. But when they publish a document about Claude’s moral education and have their in-house philosopher do a press tour, we should understand them as asking the rest of us to indulge them in their fantasies. We don’t have to play along. In writing this essay, I have spent more time indulging them than they deserve, in the hopes that it will keep you from spending your time indulging them. If you want to think about LLMs, there are scores of other questions more worthy of your contemplation; you can safely ignore the question of their being conscious." from https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/
a graph showing the price of piss skyrocketing in 2026 to over $9000/ton
two loaves of bauerenbrot all shaped and risen and ready to go i the oven
a big ball of bauernbrot dough in a very large metal bowl just before i cover it with a towel and let it rise for a couple of hours
"In short, "scrobble" is just the word that Last.fm uses to describe how it automatically tracks what music you listen to, and when. The act of tracking your music with Last.fm is called "scrobbling," and apps that connect to Last.fm are sometimes called "scrobblers." When you listen to a song, Last.fm scrobbles the song by recording the song's title, its artist, its genre, and when you listened to it. All this information gets saved to your account, and Last.fm uses it to both generate lists of your favorite songs (both recently and of all-time) and recommend you new ones." from https://www.businessinsider.com/reference/what-is-last-fm-scrobbling
a "beefy" seitan sandwich topped with a bit if german cheezy sauce to make a maximally nihilistic vegan arby's sandwich. my kitchen is a bit messy but its fine im not running a restaurant or anything.
Minus Mission for the Apple ][
Lawyers pressed him on whether he had any concern for the welfare of customers as he earned a salary of $1.3 million a year and the company, in which he was the largest shareholder, sold $440 million in virtual coins in just under a decade. One lawyer, Kaleigh Boyd, asked Singer: “You didn’t reach out to these individuals who were spending tens of thousands of dollars on your application to see whether or not they were struggling?”
a bunch of libs crudely disguised as indians destroying east india company property in boston harbor on december 16, 1773
Bandai Pippin console and its wireless controller
holding a slice of vegan elvis banoffee pie with a bite taken out of it. basically like a peanut butter banana and bacon sandwich but its a pie in a rectangular dish instead of a sandwich. banoffee pie recipe from No-Bake Vegan Desserts by Christina Leopold vegan bacon recipe from Fake Meat by Isa Chandra Moskowitz ganache recipe from Sweet+Salty by Lagusta Yearwood
“It works,” cofounder and United Nations political economy of open source software researcher Mike Nolan told 404. He argued that if it were “just satire,” it would largely be “dismissed by open source tech workers who felt that they were too special and too unique and too intelligent to ever be the ones on the bad side of the layoffs or the economics of the situation.”
Wondermark Sea Lions comic - https://wondermark.com/c/1062/
a screenshot of the Windows Home Server Console, copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Home_Server
P A R E N T A L A D V I S O R Y EXPLICIT CONTENT
Mark Harmon on NCIS holding up the plug he pulled to turn off a bunch of computers that appeared to have been severely hacked, exhibiting erratic behavior with no apparent root cause other than "the visual basic has been ddos'd"
Political graft functions when the public officer is directed to purchase goods or services from a specific private interest at a cost far above regular market rates. The private interest then siphons some of the gratuitous profits to government officials who are able to ensure that future government spending continues in the same fashion so that this lucrative relationship continues. A member of a government may misappropriate directly from government funds, but they may also make decisions benefiting their own private economic interests by using inside knowledge of upcoming government decisions to their benefit, in a manner similar to insider trading.
Graft, as understood in American English, is a form of political corruption defined as the unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain. Political graft occurs when funds intended for public projects are intentionally misdirected in order to maximize the benefits to private interests. When taken on a macro level, graft is a core component of what is known as the grift economy or grift society, although it is possible for the two to be mutually exclusive.[1][2][3]
"A Ponzi scheme (/ˈpɒnzi/, Italian: [ˈpontsi]) is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors.[1] Named after Italian"
a ring-formed loaf of french bread that resembles a very large bagel
rolling out dough for a roll
undertaker meme showing man in front laughing, caption ,"IRAN WAR OVER SOON (PRBLY?)" behind him is The Undertaker, emerging from the smoke staring menacingly at the back of the man's head, caption "GEN AI IS STILL FUCKED"
a vintage cereal box from the 1980s Ralston Nintendo Cereal System (left side of box) Super Mario Bros Action Series (artist rendition of a screenshot of Super Mario Bros) (right side of box) Zelda Adventure Series (artist rendition of a screenshot of The Legend of Zelda) Two different and natural flavors Fruity Berry Instantly WIN a complete nintendo entertainment system power set FREE ACTION POSTER
HWÆT?
Old Marty in Back to the Future Part 2 holding up a fax that reads "YOU'RE FIRED" in front of a modestly sized flatscreen tv that reads "YOU'RE FIRED"
"You are a great process, indivisibly present in every part of a part of a part that calls itself I." from the game Everything (https://store.steampowered.com/app/582270/Everything/)
a livestreamed view from Orion spacecraft showing a crescent Earth, screenshotted a little before 4/10/2026 12:40pm PDT
Bowling Green is a small historic public park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, at the southern end of Broadway. Built in the 18th century next to the site of the original Dutch fort of New Amsterdam, it served as a public gathering place and under the British was designated as a park in 1733. It is the oldest public park in New York City and is surrounded by its original 18th-century cast iron fence. The park included an actual bowling green and a monumental equestrian statue of King George III prior to the American Revolutionary War. Pulled down in 1776, the 4000-pound statue is said to have been melted for ammunition to fight the British.
Wow that's messed up.
a hardcover book title Game AI Pro² Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals Edited by Steve Rabin CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group An A K Peters Book The cover artwork is courtesy of Sony Computer Entertainment America and Naughty Dog from the award-winning game The Last of Us. Three chapters covering techniques from this game appear in this book.
For Sale, A likely, healthy, young NEGRO WENCH, Between fifteen and sixteen Years old : She has been used to the Farming Busi- ness. Sold for want of Employ. - Enquire at No. 81, William-street. New-York, March 39, 1789.
[crying]
a guy with a chinbeard, a big noise a glasses with a smug quizzical expression on his face handing you a medal that reads "fell for it again award"
What are war crimes? They are violations of the rules of warfare as set out in various treaties, notably the Geneva Conventions, a series of agreements concluded between 1864 and 1949. War crimes include torture, rape, using starvation as a weapon, shooting combatants who have surrendered, deploying banned weapons such as chemical and biological arms, and deliberately attacking civilians.
a screenshot from NASA's Artemis II live feed showing the Orion spacecraft on the left and the Sun off to the right, and solid black deep space behind them. there is brilliantly-colored lens flare covering a significant portion of the image from the light of the sun directly hitting the window of the spacecraft and the lens of the camera.
xkcd "Dependencies"
The Map screen from Skyrim with a dialog box saying "Fast travel to Waffle House? Yes No Place Marker"
"AI without context is just speed. Faster output of a generic outcome. Tools that know nothing about design history, player behavior, or innovation. Without context, AI is a race to the arithmetic middle where everyone’s games look the same. That’s not a competitive advantage. That's noise, at scale."
a misshapen chocolate truffle that partially melted as i was dipping the ganache center into the coating chocolate, because i apparently still have a few things to learn about dipping chocolate truffles. nevertheless, it still made almost entirely of chocolate, and a little bit of weed-infused coconut oil.
John Gabriel's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Dickwad
cover of the book Signs, Signals, and Noise by J. R. Pierce