Tootfinder

I made a game called Fediquest but
There was some design flaws in it that I mistakenly introduced in the beginning and that became very annoying later
I confess, I used Claude to slopify it
and, maybe most importantly,
so I have revised my set of rules and will just restart from scratch...

Being old, I joined U3A (my dad was a member when it was called University of the 3rd Age). I came across a course that's designed to teach you about #AI. But it's more like a Musk promotion exercise. I find that worrying. Uncritical education is worse than useless www.silveraiproject.com
For example the course has a lot of made-up baloney about longevity -miseducation about quackery

Like…if we are concerned about humanity, if we believe that lives matter, then this war is an absolute horror, just a terrible mistake in every moral and ethical sense, period.
But if we are only concerned about the battle of nation-states in some cold-blooded realpolitik frame of mind…then this is •still• a terrible mistake, one of the greatest unforced errors of statecraft in modern history.

I never like seeing bug zappers and Spartan Mosquito Pro Techs for sale, but at least they are on the bottom shelf where scams belong. #mosquitoes

This is OK but not a mention of why it's a GREEN party.
Not a mention of ecological overshoot, nor even of the climate crisis.
I find it depressing this repeated missed opportunity.
I predict a Green wave in the local elections. Anyone who thinks our byelection win was an outlier is mistaken | Zack Polanski | The Guardian

I thought I was familiar with a lot of codecs, but Captain Crunch and DVI are names I've never heard. #avpreservation

Phil Salvador (@philsalv.bsky.social)
Some real banger multimedia coverage in this issue of CD-ROM Professional

I bet it's really difficult to get a profile pic like that when you lack a spine. Probably a whole elaborate system behind him holding his head upright.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jl6bnuiemddpm3orm2kcedxh/post/3miw3zs3dak2f

Rep. Johnny Olszewski (@repjohnnyo.bsky.social)
Congress should pass a War Powers Resolution, and if there’s any indication President Trump will follow through on this threat, the cabinet must invoke the 25th Amendment.

One fascinating film trivia I learned recently is that Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze’s marriage from 1999 to 2003 partially inspired Coppola’s 2003 film Lost In Translation and Jonze’s 2013 film Her.
Coincidentally, both films star Scarlett Johansson as the main female protagonist, both films were nominated for the Oscar Best Picture, and both films won the Oscar Best Original Screenplay for Coppola and Jonze.

Because @…’s Flipboard site won’t scroll for me (?!?), here’s the paragraph with the punch:
❝It’s worth noting that over the decades, Pixar has explored topics such as, but [not*] limited to: becoming a widower, suddenly becoming a single or adoptive parent, environmental collapse, existential dread, motherhood, and job burnout. The first Incredibles has a subplot where Elastigirl thinks Mr. Incredible is having an affair, Toy Story 3 has the toys accept death by furnace, and Elemental is about interracial relationships. The last two movies Docter directed were Soul, which is about a Black man finding joy in his life again, and Inside Out—maybe the most therapy-ass movie (and series) in the studio’s entire 40-year tenure—is about messy preteen emotions that lead to its main character running away from home.❞
* The word “not” is missing in the original, surely an editorial mistake?
https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/i09-ifm0rl1hz/-/a-M010weUPTnu1lZIfiOE3oQ:a:1876139665-/0