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We should try and get another dancing mania going

🐏 Ponpon Mania: How WebGL and GSAP Bring a Comic Sheep’s Dream to Life
https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/10/07/ponpon-mania-how-webgl-and-gsap-bring-a-comic-sheeps-dream-to-life/

Ponpon Mania: How WebGL and GSAP Bring a Comic Sheep’s Dream to Life | Codrops
This article takes you behind the scenes of Ponpon Mania, exploring how illustration, animation, WebGL, and GSAP came together to create an interactive comic experience.

Even though I've played it a bunch, I always forget I have Sonic Mania on Switch. Time to give it yet another go

AI and the railway mania
Michael Roberts.
"A widely cited study from MIT found that so far, 95 per cent of generative AI projects produce no return in productivity growth or profits. To justify the required investment, annual data-centre revenues would need to rise from $20bn today to about $2trn.  Existing revenues will fall short by $800bn.."

AI and the railway mania
The AI bubble continues. The Magnificent Seven of tech media continue to drive the US stock market, along with the AI companies. The ten largest US companies by stock market value, holdin…

A look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks three years after its release: AI mania revived Big Tech, making an already concentrated S&P 500 even more top heavy (Bloomberg)

"...one notable policy initiative from the world body was not discussed by world leaders when it should have been. UN secretary-general António Guterres has put together a high-level group of specialists to propose new indicators for human and planetary prosperity that go ‘Beyond GDP’."
A #Nature journal editorial:
End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity

End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity
The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can now help to devise better indicators.

Well said... "The most important thing about AI isn't its technical capabilities or limitations. The most important thing is the investor story and the ensuing mania that has teed up an economical catastrophe that will harm hundreds of millions or even billions of people. AI isn't going to wake up, become superintelligent and turn you into paperclips – but rich people with AI investor psychosis are almost certainly going to make you much, much poorer."

2025-26 Fantasy Football Week 4 Rankings https://profootballmania.com/2025/09/23/2025-26-fantasy-football-week-4-rankings/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Suicidal Tendencies:
🎵 Suicyco Mania
#SuicidalTendencies
https://open.spotify.com/track/1JlG660BJv3OKqMqcrpM3F

While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/11/21/boom-bubble-bust…

We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same.
The AI revolution is three years old Nov. 30. In just 36 months AI has gone from great-new-toy, to global phenomenon, to where we are today - debating whether we are in one of the biggest technology bubbles or booms in modern times. To us there is no debate. There is too much spending, too much leverage, too many crazy deals, and too much competition from China for us not to see big bumps ahead.

I'm seeing a weird trend here
- Company finds out about Rust
- Company goes crazy, replaces core functions with rust implementations
- Core implementations fail due to bad coding resulting outage
Why all this rust mania?

On Saturday, I've visited the #Domaszków-#Tarchalice Polder, and was positively surprised. I kinda expected a wet grassy area, but instead I've found a dense #forest, which apparently hasn't been destroyed by Polish Forestry Service mania of wood harvesting.
Nearest train stop: #Orzeszków. Best reached with transfers in Leszno and Głogów. You can also go straight from Wrocław, but that's boooring.
#hiking