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The Nickel City Comic Con site didn’t give ticket prices at the door. It also didn’t mention it was cash-only. Total fluke I had cash on me.
Overall, meh. But I did buy this nifty print:
https://www.sixthstationstudio.com/work/introduction
Missed Danny …

"Introduction" — Sixth Station Studio

Gaming: Apple kauft erstmals Spielestudio, plant eigene Daddel-App
Apple hat sich erstmals einen kleineren Spielehersteller einverleibt. Einem Bericht zufolge ist es RAC7, bekannt vom Titel "Sneaky Sasquatch".

This makes me a bit nervous as I really love this game. However some speculation I’ve seen is the Sasquatch could become a much-needed mascot for Apple Arcade.
https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-acquires-indie-video-game-studio-rac7/

(1/4) Banaanisekoituksia vaikkapa aamu- tai välipalaksi. :)
Sisältö: Banaania, pähkinöitä, siemeniä, marjoja, hedelmiä, jauheita, suklaata, merisuolaa, mausteita ja ties mitä muuta vaihtelevia määriä.
#ruoka #kasvisruoka

How popular media gets love wrong
Had some thoughts in response to a post about loneliness on here. As the author emphasized, reassurances from people who got lucky are not terribly comforting to those who didn't, especially when the person who was lucky had structural factors in their favor that made their chances of success much higher than those is their audience. So: these are just my thoughts, and may not have any bearing on your life. I share them because my experience challenged a lot of the things I was taught to believe about love, and I think my current beliefs are both truer and would benefit others seeing companionship.
We're taught in many modern societies from an absurdly young age that love is not something under our control, and that dating should be a process of trying to kindle love with different people until we meet "the one" with whom it takes off. In the slightly-less-fairytale corners of modern popular media, we might fund an admission that it's possible to influence love, feeding & tending the fire in better or worse ways. But it's still modeled as an uncontrollable force of nature, to be occasionally influenced but never tamed. I'll call this the "fire" model of love.
We're also taught (and non-boys are taught more stringently) a second contradictory model of love: that in a relationship, we need to both do things and be things in order to make our partner love us, and that if we don't, our partner's love for us will wither, and (especially if you're not a boy) it will be our fault. I'll call this the "appeal" model of love.
Now obviously both of these cannot be totally true at once, and plenty of popular media centers this contradiction, but there are really very few competing models on offer.
In my experience, however, it's possible to have "pre-meditated" love. In other words, to decide you want to love someone (or at least, try loving them), commit to that idea, and then actually wind up in love with them (and them with you, although obviously this second part is not directly under your control). I'll call this the "engineered" model of love.
Now, I don't think that the "fire" and "appeal" models of love are totally wrong, but I do feel their shortcomings often suggest poor & self-destructive relationship strategies. I do think the "fire" model is a decent model for *infatuation*, which is something a lot of popular media blur into love, and which drives many (but not all) of the feelings we normally associate with love (even as those feelings have other possible drivers too). I definitely experienced strong infatuation early on in my engineered relationship (ugh that sounds terrible but I'll stick with it; I promise no deception was involved). I continue to experience mild infatuation years later that waxes and wanes. It's not a stable foundation for a relationship but it can be a useful component of one (this at least popular media depicts often).
I'll continue these thoughts in a reply, by it might take a bit to get to it.
#relationships

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung has The View in his sights - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/07/24/reichsminister-fur-volksaufklarung-has-the-view-in-his-sights/

GGTalker: Talking Head Systhesis with Generalizable Gaussian Priors and Identity-Specific Adaptation
Wentao Hu, Shunkai Li, Ziqiao Peng, Haoxian Zhang, Fan Shi, Xiaoqiang Liu, Pengfei Wan, Di Zhang, Hui Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21513

GGTalker: Talking Head Systhesis with Generalizable Gaussian Priors and Identity-Specific Adaptation
Creating high-quality, generalizable speech-driven 3D talking heads remains a persistent challenge. Previous methods achieve satisfactory results for fixed viewpoints and small-scale audio variations, but they struggle with large head rotations and out-of-distribution (OOD) audio. Moreover, they are constrained by the need for time-consuming, identity-specific training. We believe the core issue lies in the lack of sufficient 3D priors, which limits the extrapolation capabilities of synthesized…

Huoltoasema pilasi pohjavettä Helsingissä #Helsinki

Huoltoasema pilasi pohjavettä Helsingissä
Teboilin omankin selvityksen mukaan Linnavuorentiellä Vartioharjussa sijaitseva huoltoasema on vuosia pilannut toiminnallaan maaperää ja pohjavettä.

Suojeltujen metsien määrä kasvaa tilastoissa, vaikka käytännössä mikään ei muutu #luonto

Suojeltujen metsien määrä kasvaa tilastoissa, vaikka käytännössä mikään ei muutu
Metsähallitus listasi yli miljoonan hehtaarin edestä valtion mailla sijaitsevaa metsää, jonka voisi ottaa tavanomaista luonnonsuojelua kevyemmän ”monimuotoisuutta tukevan hoidon” piiriin.