I fell off of TikTok even before the reports everyone has been talking about, the one which claimed to reveal a host of sins baked into the software at a philosophical level. I've also read other smart people talking about how it's not as bad as it sounds. I'd say that's more or less typical of engineers, who are always trying to climb atop one another for a primacy so granular it's not even visible to those outside the cloister. The engineer I trust most works here, and he doesn't trust…
League Race!
The Penny Arcade iRacing league continues to grow. We’ve got just over 120 drivers now and our weekly races have been packed. Each week it’s a different car to race and so far the selections have been really fun. Last week we raced the Mazda MX-5 at Lime Rock which I was actually sort of familiar with. Tonight we’re racing the Legends Ford 34 coupe which was brand new to me. The league has open practices during the week and I’ve attended a couple of those.…
So many of the books that were formative to me I found via Videogames, which I feel like is pretty odd. Shit, maybe all of them - all the ones I still think about are either from a videogame directly, or were just downstream from the books they revealed. Neuromancer I read because I played a game based on it, which is probably the most cyberpunk way of coming at it, short of having it beamed light-wise into the unblinking lens of your cortical bus. I, uh… probably read it too soon, maybe…
Animal Crossing™: New Horizons Pin Set
Kinda speaks for itself, I think. Tell your friends: (CW)TB
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Suboptimism
I need new books. I was reading a book Kate Welch/Rosie Beestinger/Yitzbin Attende handed over at PAX East called Children Of Time, which is fucking rad, and then I read the…
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The Devil’s Letters
Clubhouse Games on the Switch is probably the polar opposite of The Last of Us 2. As in, like, exactly across from it on the diagram. It's clean. It's gentle, and…
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Over the Horizon
The kids are on summer break now which brings and end to about three months of home schooling. I can't even begin to imagine the long term damage my "teaching" has…
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