BlogFlockDan Thurot | Space-Biff! | 24th November 2025 | U
After the first day of SDHistCon, where I played three games about opium peddling, I figured the second would be easier on my stomach. I could not have been more wrong.
It has no name. Its designer doesn’t want…
Dynomight | 27th November 2025 | U
That your dog, while she appears to love you only because she’s been adapted by evolution to appear to love you, really does love you.
That if you’re a life form and you cook up a baby and copy your genes to them,…
A.M. Hickman | Hickman’s Hinterlands | 27th November 2025 | U
There’s a type of laughter so delirious and so extreme it seems to be the audiological equivalent of a witch’s spell. It’s a man’s laughter — a lazy man’s laughter —…
Davidson Heath | Reason | 1st December 2025 | U
A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer charged with quality control and a British lady insisting she can taste whether milk or tea was poured first.
PsyPost: Scientists observe “striking” link between social AI chatbots and psychological distress. “Individuals who interact with social chatbots tend to be younger and experience higher levels of psychological distress than those who do not use such technology. The findings suggest that while these artificial intelligence tools are often designed…
New-to-me: One Million Screenshots. From the front page: “We rendered over 1 million of the web’s top homepages. This is the result. Zoom, pan and click to explore – like Google Maps.”
The post One Million Screenshots first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.Press Gazette: News publishers file criminal complaint against Mark Zuckerberg over scam ads. “A group of news publishers have filed a police complaint against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over scam Facebook ads which steal the identities of journalists. Such promotions have been widespread on the Meta platform and include…
Tom’s Hardware: DOOM gets ported to board design app, transforming walls into PCB traces, iconic demons into 64-pin packages, and ammo into 3-pin parts — fully playable KiCAD editor port runs at up to 25 FPS on modern systems. “Developer Michael Ayles has unleashed a version of DOOM that…
Search Engine Roundtable: OpenAI Scales Up Crawling & Bots For The Holidays. “OpenAI is reportedly scaling up its crawling infrastructure for the holiday shopping season. The folks at Merj noticed OpenAI adding a lot of new IP ranges for its bots and crawlers.”
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