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A sampler by Louisa Burnham, Boddington, #Northamptonshire. 1840 https://www.sheffieldauctiongallery.com/auction/lot/lot-12…

Clowney to dispute arrest in S.C. parking dispute https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46315732/cowboys-jadeveon-clowney-arrested-south-carolina-parking-lot-dispute

How often do you stop to consider how much harm has come from the absurd capitalist notion of "everyone must work for living" [does not apply to the rich], and its sister notion "everyone must work full hours"?
How many harmful technologies couldn't be phased out because it meant a lot of people losing their only source of income? How many destructive industries have been proliferating simply because closing them down would mean a lot of people without jobs? How much further are we going to push for the absurd notion of infinite growth?
And of course it only applies to the quasi-privileged groups. Nobody cares when lots of "low-tech" people are laid off and told to find a new job, because techbros need their new "high-tech" (read: more destructive to the planet) ideas to sell.
#AntiCapitalism #ClimateCrisis

Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded (Jeff Wang/@jeffwsurf)
https://x.com/jeffwsurf/status/1946376139959841084

Jeff Wang (@jeffwsurf) on X
To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this

A lot of MAGA anger is performative and dictated to them by their leaders.
Demonstrating that ours isn't is one of the more powerful things we can do right now.
#canceldisney
https://bsky.a…

🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social)
Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

I just finished "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir. I picked it up because I found her non-fantasy novel "All My Rage" extremely compelling, and I enjoyed fantasy a lot as a genre in my youth but as my politics have changed I'm too disappointed to enjoy a lot of fantasy any more but I thought Tahir might not fall into that.
Although I don't think Ember in the Ashes is bad, it's definitely not what I was looking for, and I don't think I'll pursue the sequels, at least not right now.
Overall the writing was weaker in a lot of ways than All My Rage, and in terms of basic fantasy quality, the worldbuilding was noticeably lacking, the romantic subplot felt stilted, and the politics were a bit murky. Compared to what I felt was Tahir's deft, delicate, and very meaningful handling of trauma in All My Rage, trauma in Ember felt overused and thin.
I also recently finished "Black Panther Red Wolf" by Marlon James, which had excellent world building and (to me) a much more nuance in both romance and in handling trauma. The politics felt a bit off for this one too I guess, but for me it was an overall more enjoyable (if much more difficult) read.
#AmReading

A second thought now, newly surfacing in the wake of the Wordpress fiasco and the emerging Ruby gems crisis:
We should pay a lot more attention to the •human system• dependencies we’re introducing when we import a library, not just the code.
2/

Lot of things I see kids do on these TV crime dramas (and it's TV, but much is based on real type events) I just can't imagine, this has to be some outlier shit. It makes me think maybe my friends growing up weren't as bad as they could've been. Because if anyone in our friend group had brought up ANYTHING like the shit some of these kids are doing, anyone I knew would've been like "get the fuck outta here". We didn't tolerate abusive shit. Maybe it was the …

I follow a lot of bands on Tidal I don't like yet because I believe they could release something I would like.
Finding music I like it a big time sink!
#music

Doing a more extensive SI/PI workup on the switch line card in preparation for a) a blog update on the switch project and b) getting all my I's dotted and T's crossed before spending a lot of money stuffing three more boards and ordering the logic board.
Here's the 2.5V rail, putting out a bit over 2A at 2.5V. Ripple is dominated by ~300 kHz switching noise plus some harmonics of the 125 MHz PHY symbol rate (which makes sense this rail is driving the PHY PAM5 transceivers a…

July 18, 2025 -- [There is a lot about sexual assault in tonight's letter.] (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-18-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p22#a250719p22

I have a lot of devices (~15) on my home wifi network. Around me are also 10-15 neighboring wifi networks as well as nearly 30 bluetooth devices of various origins.
I find it incredibly funny that using wireless bluetooth headphones throws me back to the vinyl record days where you hear constant popping, cracking and skipping.
All this fancy technology just to come full circle. 😄
Luckily, my particular pair came with an optional wire. 🎧

I took a look at the Curiosity Channel (which is on my Roku at home).
Wow, it has a lot of content created by musk-fan-boyz, such as paean pieces about the glory of hyperloop.

I was hesitant whether I want to post a photo for #WorldPhotographyDay here on this account - But then I remembered That I could also just simply post it on my Blog!
An insane decision if I would just target for reach - but I do this for my fun, not for the reach. So I just posted it on my #blog

World Photography Day!
I just noticed that it is World Photography Day. The website says "Share your best photos on social media using hashtag #WorldPhotographyDay". Phew, my BEST photos? I wasn't sure whether I wan to use one of my PristineWinter collection photos as they usually get a lot of attention. But was one of

@… But doesn’t The AI run in The Cloud, which is why “a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time,” unless “we put them in space”?

@… But doesn’t The AI run in The Cloud, which is why “a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time,” unless “we put them in space”?

Today I’m a very proud and happy open standards maintainer: OpenAPI 3.2 is now available! The release notes are a good place to find out what’s new (it’s a lot!) https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/releases
Huge thanks to our contributor community, you are amazing!!

The #CPB cuts are likely to be the first obvious impacts to rural communities - the Medicaid, etc cuts will probably take longer to impact the rural areas. It's a painful way for voters to discover how much the Federal budget provided critical services to them, and that perhaps they are not as self-sufficient as they thought.
This is just the first in a chain of unpleasant hits to rural life,…

The #CPB cuts are likely to be the first obvious impacts to rural communities - the Medicaid, etc cuts will probably take longer to impact the rural areas. It's a painful way for voters to discover how much the Federal budget provided critical services to them, and that perhaps they are not as self-sufficient as they thought.
This is just the first in a chain of unpleasant hits to rural life,…

Dan Quinn on Brian Robinson trade situation: 'A lot of moving parts this time of year' https://www.nfl.com/news/dan-quinn-on-brian-robinson-trade-situation-a-lot-of-moving-parts-this-time-of-year

I saw that I have just passed a million total #OpenStreetMap map changes according to HDYC! 🎉🗺️
While this might seem a lot, this is still less than some of my OSM friends that have over 2 or 3 million changes.

#NANOG staff are collecting stories about first meeting experiences. I'm not sure they'll use mine so I'll share it here in case anyone finds it amusing.
In earlier days there was a lot of good discussion on the list, but I felt it could be very intimidating. People could be merciless in critiquing what you said or proposed. Some came off very aggressive and not-to-be-messed-w…

David Gerard on the "AI doomers"/"rationalists" and their beliefs.
In the end they are a bunch of eugenicist, racist losers afraid of death.
(Original title: AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God)
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/17/ai-

AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God
I get a lot of requests for a piece on the AI 2027 paper. That’s the one that draws a lot of lines going up on a graph to show we’re getting a genuine artificial general intelligence by 2027! Then …

There are some cats you can't get so close to so I took out a lens which is about as big as I can hold hold to get this cutie
#photo #photography #cats

Okay, I think I'm done with the `dice-roller` code for the time being. It now supports two different "methods" for weighting dice, and I even documented all of the methods. Lot of fun to write, and it should make it into the `pathfinder2e-tui` program over the next week.
Also, very certain this is technically a dice rolling language at this point.

"We are visiting London and in need of a dog sitter for several evenings next week to stay in our hotel room
We have a small italian greyhound (7 kg), very well behaved. But we prefer not"
A lot to unpack there, and an interesting assignment, but I'm not available.

Post Edited: Duston and St James tramways https://edintone.com/duston-tramway/ Old maps reveal a lot about our town. The landscape of St James and Duston has changed unr

Duston and St James tramways - Miscellanea Edintone
Old maps reveal a lot about our town. The landscape of St James and Duston has changed unrecognisably in the last 100 years. Examining an OS map surveyed in

President Coups-a-lot
bot by @…
This is satire, not sedition: don't send me to a camp, please.
#satire #potus45

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
LYE: I joined up to see some action.
PAR: More fool you.
LYE: You've been on campaigns, Par.
PAR: I have.
LYE: Done a lot of killing.
PAR: Enough. More. [Bercol and Rontane make their way around the corridor.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/6

Today we visited the wreck "Lina" at 27m to 40m, very impressive. Diving through the cargo hold was also a lot of fun. https://www.scubacenter.de/en/our-destination/wreck-lina/

Finally took the time VACUUM FULL all my #PostgreSQL #databases and empty a runaway table. Dropped from ~90% diskusage to ~25% and a hell of a lot less CPU

I’m so tired of this big lot in the Mission sitting fenced and vacant in the midst of a housing crisis. For a while I thought vacancy tax, now I’m thinking eminent domain. Reportedly owned by an old lady in the Sunset who refuses to do anything with it.

Car Dealer Simulator (PC) Go find those wrecks and revive em for your used car lot and MAKE BANK.
I got this with Bus Flipper and while it has some issues, boy am I glad I sprung for that bundle. The (very basic) story is you've arrived in your friend's(?, I think, not really established) town where he owns a dilapidated used car dealership. He wants you to run it for him. Go take the truck with the car trailer and get to work.
So, this is another 1st effort from a dev, …

Microsoft plans to raise Xbox Series X price by $50 to $649.99 and Series S by $20 to $399.99 starting Oct. 3, citing "changes in the macroeconomic environment" (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gamin…

Why Xbox consoles just got a lot more expensive (again) in the US
Gamers are paying the price as tariffs hit Xbox consoles.

Michael Sweater is at it again:
https://sweater.substack.com/p/new-comics-and-some-news
I find it hard to believe he has less than 250 subscribers (hint, hint). FWIW, there are another 3 (better drawn) pages to this story covering his angsty meta-narrative about soci…

Putin throws 'a lot of b*llshit', Trump says as he 'looks strongly' at sanctions bill: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/putin-throws-a-lot-of.html

Have been #sailing for the first time this year. 2 hours with mild winds on our sailing clubs lake. Was fun :)
Unfortunately our own #boat is still a mess. Lot's oft work to do before we can put it on the water.

If you have a lot of time (and I do mean a LOT!), Federico Viticci’s deep dive into #iOS26 / #iPadOS26 is well worth the read! I spent much of last night and some time early this morning working my way through it, trying different things out, and generally *learning* so much about this new o/s from

Reducing False Positives with Active Behavioral Analysis for Cloud Security
Dikshant, Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12584 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12…

Reducing False Positives with Active Behavioral Analysis for Cloud Security
Rule-based cloud security posture management (CSPM) solutions are known to produce a lot of false positives based on the limited contextual understanding and dependence on static heuristics testing. This paper introduces a validation-driven methodology that integrates active behavioral testing in cloud security posture management solution(s) to evaluate the exploitability of policy violations in real time. The proposed system employs lightweight and automated probes, built from open-source tool…

NFL Week 3 Preview, Stats, Storylines for Seven-Game FOX Slate https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/week-3-nfl-preview-stats-storylines-seven-fox-sports-games

Ice Cube Sounds Off About the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/ice-cube-sounds-off-on-las-vegas-raiders-pete-carroll

Steelers backup QB shares his true feelings on Aaron Rodgers: 'He gets misinterpreted a lot'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

The excellent @… (https://erinkissane.com) has written a lot about the idea of “governance” in tech: the human networks and processes that surround the things that we build. Erin has proposed — and I agree, though I long failed to see it! — that governance is the gaping hole in the way we build OSS, shared infra, and the whole technology commons.
3/

Moments ago, ice agents came out of the broadview detention facility to escort a silver SUV out of the lot.
One of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh to the ground.
https://bsky.app/profile/mulchy.bsky.social/post/3lz6s5hpavc2l…

De Sail-in van Sail Amsterdam 2025, de leukste chaos van Nederland. Nooit zoveel historische schepen en scheepjes bijeen gezien.

Uneven Lives 👁️
不工整人生 👁️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ERA 100, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Somebody ate a bee this morning.
Mr. Boots fed her a Benedryl right away, & she’s looking a lot better than she did a few hrs ago, but she’s still swollen, & I think it still hurts a bit. *sigh*
#DogsOfMastodon #SpicyFly

Quote post work-in-progress thread.
Boost count Quote count.
#PhanpySocialDev

Today I went to the Midlands biophysics meeting, at Nottingham U, not far from where we now live. There were a lot of papers about single molecules, mostly optical tweezers. Several of the young people had never even heard of patch clamp! No idea that the 1991 Nobel prize was for single channels.
This was the first time I'd been to a meeting in person since 2017, and progress has been quite slow, and not very quantitative.

Software Engineer Will Larson unpacks a lot in this July 2025 post. Key takeaway use cases of agentic AI include:
1. Using an LLM to evaluate a context window and get a result.
2. Using an LLM to suggest tools relevant to the context window, then enrich it with the tool’s response.
3. Managing flow control for tool usage.
4. Doing anything software can do to build better context windows to pass on to LLMs.
"What can agents actually do?"

I started reading White Years by Hari Kunzru and 39 pages in I have to say:while I like a lot about it the objectification of women is cringe. For the narrator/protagonist they only exist as girlfriends, groupies , chicks or nice ass. This better is a build up to something.

#DH2025 Listening to Victoria and Thea on 'Building a FAIR data future at the Journal of Open Humanities' - I'm hoping you'll see a lot more British Library data papers over time, as along with datasheets for datasets it's a big part of making our open collections findable and usable

Nobody asked, ofc, but here’s what I think. Everybody says #Epstein was a smart guy, so there is no list. Not on paper, and if there was a digital one it’s gone. There are, however, records. Of a lot of stuff. It was reported today that 1000 FBI agents in New York were pulled off their regular duties, working 24/7 for most of March, scouring whatever documents there are specifically for references …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Faith No More:
🎵 We Care A Lot
#FaithNoMore
https://sirch.bandcamp.com/track/we-care-a-lot-faith-no-more-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2z1uVu3OwTmPlfqt5TWk5k

Back in 2018-19, the movie #Burning was a critical hit — for some reason. It was a #Korean psychological thriller #movie that reached breakthrough status in the west, and that implies it was better than most Korea…

#NowPlaying this really wild album I only saw because KEXP said they were playing it.. a lot of what they mention I dislike, but I always try all of it, because well, sometimes, there's gems..
Land of Echo is producer Rob Mac collaborators, lots of female vocals, etc- it's a mix of funk, disco, soul, dance- I dig it. Catchy, chill, spacey, weird.
LP 'Almost Music':

Honestly, I don't think he'll make it through the year. Like, he's just pissing off a lot of people who are unstable and making sure a lot of other people have nothing left to lose. I just don't see how this could possibly work out well for him.

When an LLM outputs, “I panicked”, it does not mean it panicked. It means that based on the preceding sentences, “I panicked” was a likely thing to come next.
It means it’s read a lot of fiction, in which drama is necessary.
It didn’t “panic”. It didn’t *anything*. It wrote a likely sequence of words based on a human request, which it then converted into code that matched those words somewhat. And a human, for some reason, allowed that code to be evaluated without oversight.

Sustainable AI Training via Hardware-Software Co-Design on NVIDIA, AMD, and Emerging GPU Architectures
Yashasvi Makin, Rahul Maliakkal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13163 https://

Sustainable AI Training via Hardware-Software Co-Design on NVIDIA, AMD, and Emerging GPU Architectures
In particular, large-scale deep learning and artificial intelligence model training uses a lot of computational power and energy, so it poses serious sustainability issues. The fast rise in model complexity has resulted in exponential increases in energy consumption, increasing the demand for techniques maximizing computational efficiency and lowering environmental impact. This work explores environmentally driven performance optimization methods especially intended for advanced GPU architectur…

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If you post about the books you read, follow me!
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Democratizing News Recommenders: Modeling Multiple Perspectives for News Candidate Generation with VQ-VAE
Hardy, Sebastian Pad\'o, Amelie W\"uhrl, Tanise Ceron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13978

Democratizing News Recommenders: Modeling Multiple Perspectives for News Candidate Generation with VQ-VAE
Current News Recommender Systems based on past clicks are designed for engagement, but come at the cost of limiting diversity in the suggested content. While diversity-aware algorithms exist, they suffer from two major limitations. First, they fail to account for normative diversity, which requires fair access to a broad range of perspectives. Second, they typically apply diversity late in the system's pipeline, after a lot of content has already been filtered out. Both limitations confine thei…

NPR has this article about questions to ask your kids camp. They include climate change. So you have to ask him what they do when your kids get tick bites and if you have to ask them that you probably have to ask him a lot of other things. This probably a meta question about things to ask that you don't think about.
Top questions to ask your kids' camp about fire, heat and floods

Some really small and delicate blue flowers I found this monday in Monkey Run which is a natural area owned by Cornell upstream of the campus
#photo #photography #flowers

This one is around the corner from my office. I never suspected what it might look like on the inside.
https://www.instagram.com/zillowgonewild/p/DMMMikYumtR/

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Alison feels the cold though. Imagine going into a club in that lot!
#totp

Day 18 of the road trip saw us heading out of Perth for a trip around South West WA. Mandurah is a lot bigger than I imagined ( 100,000 people ), Bunbury is also large and has some great public art. #RoadTrip

Google unveils the $999 Pixel 10 Pro and $1,199 10 Pro XL, with 6.3" and 6.8" OLED displays, Tensor G5 chips, Zoned UFS storage, available on August 28 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/google-pixel-10-pro-xl-seri…

Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL are all about upgrades you can’t see, still starting at $999 [Hands-on]
Google Pixel 10 Pro series doesn't have much in the way of visual updates, but it packs a lot of upgrades under the hood for the same price.

Not a lot of artists are live as good as Prince was in his days....
#prince

Cheaty McCheats-a-lot
bot by @…
No laws were broken in the making of this bot: let's leave the extrajudicial killing out of it.
#satire #potus45

I unsubscribed and boycotted Disney Plus when they joined the #BDS list but glad to see a lot more people joining the movement today.

D12 - Warlord
ZUKAN: [Shakes head] As long as the installation is right.
AVON: Well, the only problem now is: where do we find enough raw material to keep this lot running? [He is moving about, looking at various circuit boards and so forth.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/103 B7B3

I’d venture that the situation depicted in the classic and obligatory xkcd on the topic (https://xkcd.com/2347/) is rooted in the failure to distinguish (1) and (2).
So is a lot of OSS burnout: somebody shares something cool in the spirit of (1), maybe even tries to be a good individual steward of it, and next thing you know people are beating down their door with demands and complaints as if they are (2).
6/

Mass killings
Was looking through Wikipedia's list of mass killings in America (#guns #GunViolence #Shooting

For the past three weeks, I’ve been attending protests at the Broadview ICE facility.
There’s been a vigil there for almost two decades at this point, but they started ramping up after three protesters were arrested four weeks ago.
Three weeks ago, we went, and it was very peaceful.
We ended up actually getting a car to turn around.
Last week, when we went, ICE assaulted a lot of us.
We went early because they changed their deportation time to around 6 a.m.

I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE.
An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.

It's #GrindayFriday, and this week is local Phoenix, Arizona grind/powerviolence duo LAW ABIDING CITIZEN and their 2024 EP 'For the Culture' via No Time Records. The separate tracks of the EP have all been merged into one here-- just over 10 minutes total. Great riffs, brutality, insanity, a few samples that actually still crack me up (Carrey and Farley). A lot to dig on this one.

Post Edited: Duston and St James tramways https://edintone.com/duston-tramway/ The landscape of St James and Duston has changed unrecognisably in the last 100 years.

Duston and St James tramways - Miscellanea Edintone
Old maps reveal a lot about our town. The landscape of St James and Duston has changed unrecognisably in the last 100 years. Examining an OS map surveyed in

Ice Cube Sounds Off About the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/ice-cube-sounds-off-on-las-vegas-raiders-pete-carroll

I think there are a lot of people I could like if they had no power over me or others.

2025 Cowboys training camp gets underway with ‘Super Bowl expectations’ https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2025-cowboys-training-camp-gets-underway-with-super-bowl-expectations

The International Mountain Biking Association helped build this trail in Shindagin Hollow State forest to train our local club how to build and maintain trails
#photo #photography #forest

Our Congress is too cowardly to cancel Trumps contract.
But El Cheeto's show is loosing money, at lot more than a measly $40million/year. And viewers and voters are tuning away in droves.
The 2026 mid term elections are only a bit more than a year away. I am surprised that the obvious sole issues of importance are not being raised by aspiring candidates:
- No funding, i.e. zero dollars, zero - appropriated. Better a non functioning government than one that is activel…

After doing some digging on the CMPTR 25-pin interface, I think I'm gonna change the design of the CMPTR adapter. The IBM Luma pin and HSync pins kinda scream CGA (e.g. IBM 5151) so I'm gonna rip out two of the BNC connectors and run RGB CSync on one side via 2x2 connectors. Beside those will be a DB9 connector running RGB, IBM Luma, H/VSync which makes a lot more sense.
#electronics

Which Raiders Player Is Rising in Fantasy Football Drafts? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-fantasy-football-jakobi-meyers-pete-carroll-geno-smith

Renner's NFL Draft preseason QB rankings: Where Cade Klubnik and Drew Allar land, plus a surprise at No. 3

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/…

“From beginning to end,
this process is highly irregular.”
–former DOJ inspector general
Michael Bromwich,
on the bogus criminal referral of
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
by the Federal Housing Finance Authority’s inspector general
https://talki…

Nearly All The Trump II Depredations Run Through DOJ
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

NFL Week 3 Preview, Stats, Storylines for Seven-Game FOX Slate https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/week-3-nfl-preview-stats-storylines-seven-fox-sports-games

Just finished Transiruby, along with a 9k-line journal file for it. I almost got 100, but not quite; I don't have time to go back to it before the semester starts though.
If you like exploration games, it's an excellent one, with great level design & tons of secrets. It actually makes you do significant secret-finding and map-reading in order to beat the game, not just for extras or a special ending, which is something that a lot of metroidvania games since Super Metroid don't do. My one complaint is that the map system isn't perfect, and finding obscure secrets to progress is fine when the map hints at them but much less fun when it hints incorrectly (I looked one progress item up in a speedrun video because of this).
Decently cool movement mechanics, although the combat does take a back seat and almost all of the bosses are easy (I beat the final two bosses in the third and second tries respectively). I don't think that's any better or worse than a game like Nine Sols where the final boss took me hundreds of tries though; just a different flavor. The world-building isn't as rich as the more epic metroidvanias like Hollow Knight or Lone Fungus (or again, Nine Sols) but again I'm fine with that. It's just a more casual game that has really excellent level design & exploration poetics.
#AmPlaying

Humanoid Robot Games highlighted robotics advancements but also limitations, with robots tripping over each other; one robot ran faster than many amateur humans (Yan Zhuang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/world/asia/china-humanoid-robot-games.…

At China’s Humanoid Robot Games, Athletes Fell Down a Lot
The Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing — featuring running, kickboxing and soccer — highlighted advancements in robotics. Limitations, too.

The Process Is Working: Raiders Quietly Trending in Right Direction https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tom-brady-washington-commanders-pete-carroll-geno-smith

White Liatris (aka Blazing Star) at the Prairie Garden by the Vet School
#photo #photography #bloomscrolling

Colston Loveland injury update: Rookie TE progressing in recovery, expects to 'do a lot more' in training camp

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

Raiders’ ‘Biggest Problem’ Should Be Major Cause for Concern https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-problem-bleacher-report/?adt_ei=[email]

👾 Reverse-engineering Roadsearch Plus, or, roadgeeking with an 8-bit CPU
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/08/make-your-apple-ii-or-commodore-64.html
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Reverse-engineering Roadsearch Plus, or, roadgeeking with an 8-bit CPU
Sorry, Doc Brown: we still needed roads in 1985. That meant paper atlases and misfolded roadmaps and a lot of stereotypical male anxiety a...

Jets CB Michael Carter II 'in a lot better place' after adverse 2024, eager to play for Aaron Glenn https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-cb-michael-carter-ii-in-a-lot-better-place-after-adverse-2024-eager-to-play-for-aaron-…

And a 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 of that 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑠 because I had so much fun on Monday, don't worry because people on Bluesky are pestering me to post for #ForestFriday and I'll have more from #MonkeyRun as well as forest runners

Jaguars' Trevor Lawrence details Travis Hunter's toughest assignment in first season: 'It's a lot on a rookie'

https://www.cbssports.com…

Graney: We’ll learn a lot more about Raiders come Monday night https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-well-learn-a-lot-more-about-raiders-come-monday-night-3444689/