The Stochastic Game

“Phantom Obligation” is a nicely written and beautifully designed article that, basically, asks: “why do RSS readers look like email clients?”. It’s as much an eye-opening question as it is an interesting answer.

“Progress” in consumer tech is when my phone becomes utterly unusable under even the lightest rain. That’s what we get for letting a Californian company set tech trends.

My 6-year-old iPad Pro became unusable for drawing (it was adding random lines all the time) so I got a new one and ho ho ho the volume buttons have moved and are flipped. I keep getting confused.

The US are trying to destabilize Canada and of course the weak link is Alberta, as evidenced by the tens of thousands of morons signing separatist petitions, and Danielle Smith’s misguided opinions. I hope the other Albertans can fix this! 🇨🇦🙏🏽

Oh wow, I had totally missed the “designated initializers” of C++20… Imagine that, a good new C++ language feature! 😅 I may start using this pretty often!

Something for my neighbours here in BC: “A Pattison Company’s Possible Deal with ICE Brings Boycott Threats”

“This boycott is gaining traction […] But it also highlights a problem: in many communities, Pattison or Loblaws holds an effective monopoly on our food supply.”

The Federal Conservatives are trying to follow Trump’s playbook to get into power, using social media and influencers, while shunning actual journalists. I really hope that this shit is quickly shut down by Canadians of all sides.

Every “genAI is great for coding, actually!” article I’ve seen is like “and so I spend my day talking to a chatbot, writing requirements in an MD doc, fixing build errors, and asking for unit tests”. Is that supposed to be “great”?! Are these people COMPLETELY DRUNK?! WTF!!

Influencer and its sequel Influencers was a quite entertaining one-two-punch of social media satire and crazy murders in gorgeous locations. CW is a fun character and Cassandra Naud plays her wonderfully. I didn’t expect much and now I want to see more identity theft and stabbings!

The weird thing about the Star Trek Motion Picture is seeing Star Trek for the first time with good VFX, sets, and costumes. Took a few scenes to get used to it 😅 The great thing however is how it shows the scale of the Enterprise and its crew. It’s a big ship!