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Thinking about this for some reason
If youāve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, youāve seen the former are more likely to die.
OutRun GB is OUT NOW for your Game Boy Color.š“ - All the tracks, all the music, all the wind in your hair! (link in reply) #pixelart #indiedev #gameboy #retrogaming
Next edition of Phil's Newsletter is out tomorrow. This issue will have a ton of fun & interesting projects I've seen around the web lately. Last week we got +6 towards my goal of 100 by the end of September. We're at 76 right now. I host the site myself. Sign up: extrafuture.com/newsletter/
When I was an Amazon driver, holidays werenāt really holidays. Nobody gets paid holidays. If the holiday falls on a day that youāre regularly scheduled, you have to make up that day to get your regular weekly hours. Would it kill the company to give everyone real paid holidays? Happy Labor Day.
Police shouldnāt get āopen-bookā access to your phone. In a major boost for digital privacy, Michigan now demands tailored warrants. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Anyone had luck using HDMI to VGA dongle configuring a PC to output 480i-ish 15khz line rate?
Donald Trump Sir please prove the haters and losers wrong and walk briskly up a steep hill #TrumpWalkUpAHill
A bullshit urban legend would have you believe that Golden Axeās voice samples come from death row inmates. In reality, two come from Conan the Barbarian and two from Rambo: First Blood. I want to find the rest! www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/golden-...
I don't know what the tariffs are going to do to small businesses with US customers. As an Australian with a little Etsy store, I'm currently blocked from posting with Australia Post to the US. Fed Ex is quoting about $150 to send a small parcel. #booksky
BTW, here's a great blog post from @bhencke.bsky.social about lead-free solder/flux safety (ft. @zachfredin.bsky.social ): www.bhencke.com/blog/2019/3/... And a super internet-nostalgia-heavy music video that also features Tay Zonday šø youtu.be/PQHPYelqr0E
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
same same same
New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
This isnāt the point of this post but I will say weāre running critically low on āI know a guyā guys which is making it really hard to get a good deal on a trustworthy handyman or car mechanic these days, which your parents had in spades.
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities ā including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez ā to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
You can tell I'm Old Internet because I'm still unreasonably pissed off that my Wordpress blog adds a slash to the end of 'pretty' URLs. THAT'S A DIRECTORY, BRO, NOT A FILE.
I keep saying this, but... ...punishing the homeless is how big-city and blue state liberals do fascism.
I do not see how a paid product endorsement would sound any different than this.
shaka, when the walls fell
I updated my website to include free downloadable versions of the reverb-ified 30-second drum beats I released in 2021. You can use 'em for stuff, just tell people where you got 'em. extrafuture.com/work/magneti...
Oh the TRUTH about Ms. Gaynor comes out. I'm like poor lady, she didn't ask to get caught up in being one of Trump's Kennedy nominees with her emblematic disco song. No she's MAGA! Boooooooo Gloria Gaynor! š š š
An absolute all-time banger to re-start the work day after proper coffee intake www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ_k...
brb crumbling to dust
Obviously to him the problem all along was that Marc wasn't the plantation owner yet
Holy shit, found a blog post about the Web 2.0 conference in 2004 and Marc Andreessen apparently said this on a panel: "There are APIs and they let you do certain things, but it's all very carefully controlled and sort of a plantation owner/ sharecropper kind of relationship" BIG YIKES
not the first or third time I've heard this recently
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or canāt afford. Itās about priorities.
Running Sky Follower Bridge for the first time in awhile. Hi old friends
I feel like if you accidentally overdo it, the edible high lasts longer too, where are the flower high mellows out after 10-15 mins.
Letās start with the fact that dude is doing Digital Blackface and calling it his āsidekickā
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
Visa is the latest to come crawling back to San Francisco after their āMove it to Texasā gambit fizzled out. This year has had quite a few of them
Mac OS X Tiger, still the best looking macOS tbh.
Quite the metaphor for, ya know, everything www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Hereās how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
I remember the demo disc I got with Windows 95 very well
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
SiĆ¢n Phillips is so fucking amazing in I, Claudius. Absolute tour de force.
Someone tell DOGE a way that the gov't could have been more efficient, by not building a stunt concentration camp...
Maybe they'll eventually regain their nerve, but for the moment, JB Pritzker appears to have single-handedly spooked the Trump administration into backing down with one 12-minute speech.
FYI, per SCAN wastewater San Francisco is in a large and rising Covid surge (highest in California), and now LA County and Riverside are entering the chat. IMO it takes a lot to move the indicators like this for LA, so be *extra* careful now friends and fam.
why are we debating people's right to exist? there should be no debate and we should not give those who don't believe in trans rights a safe space to spew their ignorance
oh god
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenariosāthe government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communitiesāliterally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
Apple Music launched their tool that transfers your music and playlists from Spotify. Itās super easy. Cancel Spotify.
Not an exaggeration. If anything, this understates how unhinged the video is. It is, quite literally, five white guys talking about how to free the states from the burdens of the 14th Amendment so churches can effectively be given ownership over "gangbangers in Baltimore."
We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most. Learn more:
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the 7th episode of Dirty Pair, "ęćććć¹ć¦å½č³ćć¾ćééæč”!!" or "Love Is Everything, Betting Their Lives on Elopement", one of the most overtly trans-positive episodes of anime of its era. This was the future they predicted for us in 1985. We can still get there.
FINAL COUNT IS 92,221 DOGS
News from Canada: The Toronto Blue Jays have broken their single-game dollar hot-dog sales record.
One of those dozen phrases you only hear from Republicans and Democratic Strategists
lordy will smith is trying to rap again
Landed in San Jose, California, United States. Apx. flt. time 2 h 47 min.
Yeah dude
We still need to talk about Raygun becoming the official merch supplier of the worldās biggest computer vision library OpenCV sometimeā¦
*fourth base
As we say in the Midwest: darn wind. #raygun #OrgyDome Article: www.newsbreak.com/share/419741...
Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.
āAt this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.ā - Valerie Zink
brazil is on the way of implementing a similar age-verification system to the uk that is """for the children""" and if that ends up happening i'll have to shut down deck.blue i'm operating under brazilian laws and i don't want to build a verification system that will do more harm than anything else
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Wrote about AI, and the way we talk about it all having the quality of a ghost story. open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
I know this is not a unique observation but public health was basically created to deal with the Spanish flu, and then a century later COVID hit and killed twice as many people and our response was to destroy public health
PSA: Strange Days is on Hulu/Disney+ right now in the US
If we could have just directed the current US president toward trying to grift @cabel.panic.com individually, heād still be trying and weād all be better off
The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
Follow up: the Amiga version of Rogue, which also has graphics, is literally on the Switch eShop! It's $8!
People are asking for traditional roguelike recommendations? I'm always last to know.... Rogue. Play Rogue! Rogue Clone IV's free and available for lots of things, on Linux you can literally compile Rogue itself for your machine, and the Atari ST version has actual graphics.
You fell into my David trap
God forbid Americans see democracies (Brazil, S. Koreaā¦) holding presidents accountable for illegal activities. They might get ideas.
apart from electing a black president nothing has driven more Americans irrevocably insane than the requirement that they participate in the collective good
JD Vance Asks National Guard Member If He Can Touch Gun https://theonion.com/jd-vance-asks-national-guard-member-if-he-can-touch-gun/
Submitted for your approval, or not, Phil's Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 4. Let's talk indieweb infrastructure and non-profit work for awhile. I released some music and some videos, too. extrafuture.com/2025/08/25/p...
stan culture scared them all away, nobody needs the SWAT team coming to their house because they were too real in a review
Japan Post announced that beginning this Wed, Aug 27, they will temporarily refuse all commercial packages destined to the United States. This falls in line with similar moves by the UK, Australia, etc. Only packages marked as "gift" with a value under $100 will be accepted. 1/2
xAI is now officially a public detriment corporation
the thing I love about Zohranās campaign is that instead of āthis place fucking sucks and I alone can fix itā his message is ābeing a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, letās make it even better togetherā show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
If you want to read the personal newsletter of a 42-year-old web developer / podcast host / video editor who still eats instant ramen multiple times per week there's a new ish coming out tomorrow morning. It would be cool to hit 100 subscribers. We're sitting on 66. extrafuture.com/newsletter/
I asked, you answered, I did it anyway. My first issue of Sunday Scaries: 'We all have to start somewhere.' buttondown.com/daviddemchuk...
Parker was shot in the head back in June. She spent weeks in the hospital with a broken skull and a blood clot in her brain. Now sheās back in Los Angeles protesting Trumpās illegal immigration policies not far from where she was shot. Why? Because people shouldnāt be taken.
The US Presidentās declaration that he alone can dictate how Americansā votes are counted is a direct and obvious violation of our Constitution. He has zero power to restrict our votes. It is past time for this lawless rampage to end. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Guys like Newsom need to be beat over the head with this chart. It doesnāt matter how many strategists tell him to go fishing for āeconomic liberal + social conservativeā (top left circle of the chart) voters. There are no fish in that lake.
Guess we'll just have to wait and see
we know we know
well shit
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Hypothetically. If fucking a pig meant that there would definitely be 2026 elections and the Dems would sweep Congress in a landslide , would you fuck a pig ? Or, Is is that thought so abhorrent, you couldnāt bring yourself to do it. Even at the expense of staying the minority?
we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage
Theyāre mobilizing National Guard troops in 19 red states to send into blue cities. Theyāre preparing for an occupation. www.foxnews.com/politics/nat...
You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
very strange to hear people demanding that we all capitulate in advance on trans rights, to concede that it doesn't matter whether our nominee or party abandons trans rights, right now, complaining about purity tests. you are the ones demanding purity and refusing to argue the issue on the merits.
Ingraham: Their take is of course she was going to say this because she wants a pardon, she wanted better digs, and she got transferred, and you say? *Camera cuts out*
Someone should compile a list of every time he said THIS version isn't great, but the NEXT one will be amazing. Because he does it every time, so he can continue to get money from investors.
This Intel thing is so f*ing weird. Somebody please wake me up
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