Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

It's not the year of Linux on desktop; it's the year of Linux on a handheld.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/linux-surpasses-the-mac-among-steam-gamers/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

A thought…

Oh, I wrote about the brilliance, the (actually quite intelligible) spirituality, the prophetic social justice, and oh, oh oh the MUSIC of Shuhada' Sadaqat, who recorded and lived most of her life as Sinéad O’Connor.

https://lifeisasacredtext.substack.com/p/never-get-old

Thanks to these figurines we know what people waiting for the bus in 2600 BCE looked like

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.

Watching the scramble to figure out if LK-99 is an Actual Thing™ is fun, but I'm hearing comments like "If it's real it'll mean high-speed trains everywhere!"

My dude, we could ALREADY have high-speed trains everywhere. The resistance in the wires isn't the thing that's blocking it from happening.

when we populate the solar system where people will live:

mercury: punks
venus: nerds
earth: jocks
moon: drama kids
mars: losers
jupiter: goth kids
saturn: anime fans
uranus: stoners
neptune: loners

I took my 8-year-old to the office on Take Your Child to Work Day. As we were walking around, she starting crying & getting very cranky, so I asked her what was wrong. As my coworkers gathered round, she sobbed, “Father, they are stealing your surplus value”

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a basis for government seems like a pretty good option right now.

Yay, the cars now actually use the bridges! Had to more or less merge the dynamic bridge meshes with the static terrain mesh for proper elevation & orientation calculations. Now to add a few visual touches and the bridges are done :)

#indiedev #gamedev

"This barbie hates cops"
Seen in Brooklyn, New York

LLMs are a practical test of what everyone's real opinion of the chinese room is.

Been working on this little car game as a way to learn #godotengine - finally got it steering nicely without rolling over (turns out anti-roll bars exist for a reason) and added handbrake turns.

Aiming for an extremely arcadey driving model. #gamedev #cargame

SOON(tm) #gamedev

A scale car beneath the furnaces at the abandoned Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem, PA. The property is now owned and mostly used by a casino.
Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/bethlehem-steel

"The Tragedy of the Commons" was written by a eugenicist and was effectively debunked as ahistorical fantasy decades ago. More propaganda in the service of privatizing public space and resources. Pass it on. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/

"The Tragedy of the Commons" was written by a eugenicist and was effectively debunked as ahistorical fantasy decades ago. More propaganda in the service of privatizing public space and resources. Pass it on. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/

tired: gandalf
wired: gigandalf

That's me quoting me, but the opening of the Britannica article is similar:

"state monopoly on violence, in political science and sociology, the concept that the state alone has the right to use or authorize the use of physical force. It is widely regarded as a defining characteristic of the modern state."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/state-monopoly-on-violence
@00Aaron