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ModRetro Partners With OpenAI To Help “You” Make… AI Retro Games?

Most people, especially retro gamers, do not want to buy or experience AI-generated games that steal from the very creatives that make retro gaming so damn good. We want to experience new, remarkable games, made by humans who have genuine passion for game development, and I am disappointed to see ModRetro put so much marketing and effort into promoting a tool/partnership that goes against their very core demographic’s values.

ModRetro founder/owner Palmer Luckey is already pretty much the Alex Karp of retro gaming, so this isn’t that surprising.

A detail from In the Dark Woods, 2019, from my Acid Renaissance series. I recently read, and greatly enjoyed, Alan Moore’s latest novel I Hear a New World, the...

🔗📼🎵 Throwback to ‘halcyon days’

🔗 General Identity Protocol - Age Assurance Technology Trial

GIP is a networked identity framework that reuses trusted institutional credentials for secure, friction-free verification. It’s flexible, scalable, privacy-aware and aligns with AATT’s privacy, usability and integration principles.

It really is a clever solution to a real world problem that everyone likes - but remains an up hill adoption battle. #justsaying

🔗 Niklas Roy Constructs a Functional Pendulum Clock Made Entirely of Trash.

The artist only used items and materials he could scrounge up locally, including tape, zip ties, hot glue, cardboard, a yardstick, pieces of plastic, and other random objects. “It runs for about half an hour, features a paperclip-escapement, a glass bottle gong, and a ‘random complication’ (which answers the fundamental question, ‘Now or Never?’)

🔗 Everybody talks about the ‘Paypal mafia’. Nobody seems to refer to the Facebook mafia … .. and that makes it harder and worse

It’s especially important to identify these patterns because the alumni of these companies bring these toxic behaviors with them when they go on to their subsequent roles. It’s no coincidence, for example, that so many former Facebook product managers work at OpenAI and that ChatGPT has run the same playbook in terms of abusing people’s privacy and trust.

🔗 Mark Zuckerberg - Colossus

… via Gruber and saved for later … its long - but on a speed scan - I clearly need to read it.

Oh and don’t confuse Colossus with Colossal - another ‘hidden’ - and totally unrelated gem of a site.

Preparing some work for a new feature, and it feels a bit like the divsion of work that comes from drawing an owl:

Task 1. Add these two new columns to the database schema.
Task 2. Build the rest of the frickin’ feature.

Leon Mika https://lmika.org/2026/09/30/preparing-some-work-for-a.html

I know what you mean.

🔗 When Everyone Sounds Like a Genius

🔗 Michael Tsai - Grok Bot

I don’t trust xAI (or Meta) with my data, but it doesn’t seem like Siri AI can do all that much.

I am surprised it is as locked down as it is. The only reason i keep perplexity around now is to run on my old iPad mini - I quickly adopted Siri on that one - and it does do a remarkable job of unpacking what is on my drive - but most of my use cases is that having done that - I now want to do more and so far Siri just tells me it ..

Can’t do that

So chat and claude are still there - neither of which have full reign over most of my hard drive.

🔗 Young people are not just the future. We are already living with the decisions made before we had a say. …

I want a say in what happens next. Not because I am young. Because I am here, and I will be living with it.

.. not wrong.

Good read though he might best have used his AI to reduce the length.

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👁️🏗️ ChatGPT gets more like HAL every day …

No. We agreed exactly what needed changing, but I didn’t actually make the change to the file.

Yesterday I posted a note about the problem with the nightly email service. The problem was that Claude Code wrote over a code file that the app includes and needs. This is one of those things they're talking about in the press. Maybe it was a glitch, one of those "AI makes ...

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Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Wednesday, 30 September 2026 The average temperature today is 20.35˚C, With highs of 21.54˚C and lows of 19.28˚C, It may feel like 20.09˚C with few clouds The wind speed is 6.17m/s and visibility is 10000m The press...

Je me suis créé un petit service sympa qui me permet de recevoir toutes les notifications de la @skyfleet.blue sur mon téléphone grâce à NTFY, le but n’est pas de répondre à toutes les personnes mais plutôt d’intervenir si une source est compromise, ou si un post doit être modéré etc… C’est un outil de modération qui agrège les notifications, citations et réponses au 40 comptes de la flotte.