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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
cmconseils ("Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

"I want to go home" by Luca Ponsato

#Art #Painting

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
cmconseils ("Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

Ode to Sleep, Tokuhiro Kawai, oil tempera and gold leaf on panel, 2025

#Art #Painting

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Finally got it working! (Both the leaderboard and the video demo)

#gamedev

Attachments:

• video: A countdown appears and a car is navigated around a track for 3 laps, clearing checkpoints along the way. At the end of a third lap the text "You Win!!!" pops up with the subtitle "Your time is 19.494 seconds!". There is a "Play Again" button below this text and a leaderboard below that. The top entry of the leaderboard is an editable name, indicating that the user reaches a high score and can edit their name. A user enters the name "brib" and clicks "Play Again", repeating the core gameplay mechanic of a car racing around a track. At the end of that race the "You Win!!!" screen pops up, showing a time of 24.300 seconds and a 4th place score in the leaderboard

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

In my humble opinion, many instances of ‘writer’s block’ are in fact ADHD or autistic burnout. Writing as a job is more forgiving of neurodivergence than most, so many writers are basically subsisting on caffeine and anxiety until they hit a brick wall and their executive function collapses

Which would mean that reading up on neurodivergent burnout is more likely to help get over a writer’s block than the fluff you find in books or blogs on creativity

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Is there a video editing equivalent to Git so I don't fill my folder with "racing game demo v3/v4/v5"?

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Trying to decide if 25fps or 60fps looks jankier for the demo

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
KatyElphinstone@mas.to ("K. J. Elphinstone") wrote:

"Why do you need a label?"

⬇️⬇️⬇️

#Neurodivergent #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ADHD

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
devopscats@toot.cat wrote:

Who would have though the same people who bulldoze olive tree fields on one side of the world would have no qualms about feeding books into the chipper on the other side of the world...

AI vendors destroying rare books to feed the chatbot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC3SwofuMt0

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
sifr@anticapitalist.party ("dust") wrote:

this is gross gross gross gross gross
https://isbndb.com/blog/print-books-sourcing-ai-training/

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I almost forgot! I want to do a screen recording of my game progress!

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I realise when I get salty about the news that is probably because I need to find more things irl to enjoy/look forward to.

Arranging house moves isn't enjoyable and between that and doomscrolling that was most of my day yesterday. Today I figured I'd at least post my EMFCamp takeaways on my blog

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/23/ai-vendors-are-destroying-rare-books-to-feed-the-chatbot/

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

#Embroidery progress. I did a fair bit of this at 2AM last night to deal with my being upset at the state of the world. I can't control the world but I can at least add more teal to the platypus

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

blogged: Businessing 101

https://dbushell.com/2026/07/24/businessing/

some insight into why I'm moving from freelance to a limited company

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
emily_s@mastodon.me.uk ("Emily_S") wrote:

If you saw a talk on sunday afternoon and enjoyed it, its worth trying to track down the speaker and pass on your gratitude, they may not have had many people say it in the field.

#EMFCamp

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
LarsHenriksen@mastodon.nu (":mastodon: Lars Henriksen ☕") wrote:

Teachers should not become 'reverse centaurs'.

The education sector must resist ai-capitalism.

"History tells us that when automation is driven by labor, it’s deployed to improve quality, as workers find ways to use new tools to make better things. By contrast, when automation is driven by capital, it is deployed to increase throughput; that is, to make more things (which are often inferior)."

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs-alt-view/

#education
#skolechat

Great post by @pluralistic

#skolechat

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz ("Colin the Mathmo") wrote:

"I'm just sayin', everyone that confuses correlation with causation eventually ends up dead" -- Seen in multiple places on t'interwebs

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

New episode of Ours is the Theory, #HouseOfTheDragon podcast is out.
https://oursisthetheory.uk/media/20260723-hotd-s03e05.mp3

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ainmosni@ainmosni.eu ("Daniël Franke :panheart:") wrote:

This is beyond cartoonishly evil:

1. AI companies buy rare books from bookstores, because they're free from slop.
2. Books get fed to the slopmachine, destroying the books in the process.
3. AI companies don't publish digital books, potentially removing the book from society forever.
4. Society gets more information that's only accessible via the slop extruding device.

Fuck everything about this, this is happening internationally, with millions of books.

https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/
#LLM #AI #slop

:stopslop:

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
oursisthetheory.uk@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 Ours is the Theory") wrote:

House of the Dragon season 3 episode 5 'Unbowed and Unbent'

oursisthetheory.uk/media/20260723-hotd-s03e05.mp3

As the search for Aemond and Vhagar continues, Daemon attempt to control the spiraling situation in King's Landing.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

pros: they've set aside the leaf blower and chainsaw outside my window

cons: they've activated the wood chipper

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon:🇪🇺🇮🇪") wrote:

"Bird Trails" by photographer Edu Aguilera. It is a composite photograph created by merging multiple high-speed photo sequences into one image...

#Photo #Photograper #Art #Photoart

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nall@dook.business ("Nall :therian:") wrote:

it's fursuit friday,
and you can be a fursuit!
if you'd like that. <3

sculpted and stitched,
stuffed and soft,
big wearable plushie~

#tf

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jcrabapple@dmv.community wrote:

🔋 MIT just published the most comprehensive EV emissions study yet, analyzing every US zip code with real driving data.

Battery EVs cut lifetime emissions 40-60% vs gas cars in most locations. Even on the dirtiest grid in the country, they still come out ahead. The study used DOE's GREET lifecycle model, which already includes battery manufacturing. So the "but what about making the batteries?" question is answered: building an EV produces 50-80% more CO2 upfront, but it pays that back over the vehicle's life.

Your driving habits matter as much as where you live. High mileage, city driving, and larger vehicles all boost the EV advantage. Cold weather cuts efficiency on a frigid night but barely dents annual savings.

The "who benefits from the doubt?" question has a paper trail. The API has run anti-EV messaging since 1967. Koch-funded groups planned $10M/year campaigns. AFPM dropped $10M+ on "Don't Ban Our Cars" ads in 2024 swing states.

https://news.mit.edu/2026/us-drivers-electric-vehicles-offer-emissions-benefits-cost-savings-0512

#EVs #Climate #Science

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

i like minimal HTML but I prefer minimal JS more, that said this is pretty small 🤔

https://meiert.com/blog/syntax-highlighting-with-syntaxp/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
OohOkayKay@beige.party ("🇨🇦 Littler-k") wrote:

Silly Poll Time!
It's both
National Peanut Butter & Chocolate Day
AND
National Vanilla Ice Cream Day
July 23rd

But you can only pick ONE.

Please BOOST!
Polls work best when more people see them.

#foodie #food #chocolate #poll #PeanutButter #IceCream #dessert

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

cones & cables

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Consider my petition, lagomorph!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mxchara@seattle.pink ("Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen") wrote:

The commentariat has become infested with people who have no other reason to be in #media or #journalism than social-climbing and seeking the proximity of men of influence (and the occasional woman), giving themselves freely over to corruption and nepotism and swapping bribes.

People like Matt Yglesias and Jesse Singal and the other hyperpolitical journalists are always hoping they might luck into a plum role that really brings in the bucks and the access to power, like being a campaign advisor or a star role on #Substack or something like that.

(cont'd)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mxchara@seattle.pink ("Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen") wrote:

That's what Elon Musk always deserved. He was patently a fraud, transparently a cheat and a fake, a person who was mainly good at nepotism and getting other people to cover for his blunders. But U.S. #media and #journalism and #politics were all hot to pile onto the 100% fake synthetic Elon Musk bandwagon which must surely have been built chiefly at the behest of his mom, Maye Musk, who has always been quietly standing behind her difficult unpredictable son all these years, who connived with Walter Isaacson in writing Musk's official hagiography.

How on Earth could all the journalists and reporters not noticed? There's many answers to that. Journalism has given up the better part of its lifeblood to capitalism, and it's hep to hate journalists again.

(cont'd)