Carney finally acknowledged how unreliable the US has become and walked away from trade talks. I’m sure he fully expected it would end like this, and was just doing his due diligence before while buying time to setup trade with other countries. That’s the part he’s supposedly good at.

Haha so some people are leaving Bluesky and returning to Twitter because they can’t take the AI-shaming? Wait until they hear about the nazi-shaming!

“Ordinary Abundance: Edward Bellamy once imagined that music on demand would be “the limit of human felicity.” A modern apartment is full of things that once drew the same kind of awe.”

A very nicely done website.

This “Golden Axe” animated series trailer came totally out of nowhere, but it definitely brought back fond memories of playing that game over and over as a kid! Love those purple mutant thingies.

Godot adoption is rising, which isn’t surprising if you paid any attention to the industry in the past few years. Interestingly, Unity/UE only decrease a bit. Godot’s rise seems fuelled by people who stop making custom engines, and newcomers to the industry. Expect a generational shift.

“‘I feel dirty:’ EA workers trapped in a maelstrom of cynicism and doubt after Saudi buyout”: EA games will suck more not just because of the new bosses, the imposed giant debt, or the upcoming layoffs, but also because everybody in EA with half a soul will be depressed.

Marco Arment made an app for the procrastinators, ADHD, or forgetful people in your life. I can’t speak to it, but it looks nice, useful, and clean!

“We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility”: genAI is not only built on plagiarism and theft, it is also literally destroying our culture, not just the environment. This shit is evil, I don’t care that it is “useful in some cases” or whatever.

“Tête-à-Tête”: you can include something like this in your Cthulhu By Gaslight game if you want a little levity between eldritch horrors…

You supposedly can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can definitely judge it by reading its first couple pages. “Uncovered” does that using free samples and then lets you reveal the book and save it for purchase later.