I feel like they could’ve changed Link’s outfit and marketed this as MacGyver: Escape from the Sky Islands. I feel like a tweaker, running through the countryside, duct taping things together to find a way across rivers and down ziplines. Not loving it so far; it feels like pre-Industrial Revolution Fortnite mixed with the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater level editor. But I paid $70 for this game so I have to finish it, dammit.
Ohioans will need to submit their photo ID to watch pornography online starting this fall
Moving forward in some ways and going back to the dark ages in others. Good news for VPN companies I guess.
Found this while browsing Ye Olde Blogroll.
The Wild Wild Web: another StumbleUpon clone like Cloudhiker. No account required; just click the button and surf the web like it’s 2009.
No means no, even for Perplexity · Victor Wynne
When a website puts up a robots.txt file, it’s basically putting up a “No Solicitors” sign on their digital front door. It doesn’t matter if you’re selling Girl Scout cookies, collecting for charity, or claim you’re there to help the homeowner. The sign says no, and that should mean no. Period.
I like this analogy. People argue that robots.txt doesn’t necessarily have to be respected. So technically you can ignore it all you want, but it kinda makes you an asshole and a parasite to the open web if you choose to go that route.
I’ve never been on a diet in my entire life — until now. Unless you count when I was a junkie, living on dope and gas station food, but that wasn’t quite as intentional.
For someone who works in an old school, face to face sales job, and as someone who blogs daily, I’m pretty shy. I started working with the public because I thought it would help with social anxiety. And it has in a lot of ways. Getting a bunch of reps in can make you good at pretty much anything. It gets easier, but the critic in my head never leaves. He just gets easier to ignore.
This has been driving me INSANE since switching to iOS 26 beta. In older versions, you would get the notification once and you could disable it. No way to disable it in settings yet.
Hoping this is just a quirk of the beta. Really bad placement if you’re actually using gps.
Is it even a blog post if you haven’t edited it at least six times over multiple days after it’s already been published?
Ohio legal weed sales reach $702.5M in first year
Wild that it’s already been one year! I honestly can’t believe I used to meet some sketchy guy in a parking lot, get in his crusty 4runner and hand him cash for some random strain with a made up name.
We are truly living in the space age now 🥲
Thinking out loud about POSSE vs different platforms for different things.
Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity
I recently gave Perplexity another try, but after hearing the recent news about how they’ve been circumventing no-crawl directives, and now this? I’m good.
Cannabis Is Being Grown Like It’s Bitcoin: That’s A Problem
According to Mills, the sector now burns through 595 petajoules of energy annually, costing roughly $11 billion. That’s on par with all other U.S. crop production combined, and more than the energy consumed by the entire pharmaceutical or beverage industries, and it doubles the amount of greenhouse emissions produced by cryptocurrency mining.
The weed is smoking us, man!
I feel like I’m always yammering about Metroidvanias. I was just scrolling my RSS feed and came across a link to a new (to me) site: MetroidVania.GG
It’s exactly what it sounds like; a curated list of games from the genre across every current gen platform.
Med Student Horrified to Learn How Much His Zoomer Patient Was Actually Vaping
…a “zoomer patient” of his, who was struggling with “fairly serious alcohol dependency/withdrawal and risk of seizures,” had been going through an entire disposable vape cartridge from the brand, Geek Bar, every two days…“That’s like nicotine equivalent of 30ish packs of cigs EVERY DAY.”
Who needs crack when you can just get a Geek Bar? 😬
Reddit considers iris-scanning Orb developed by a Sam Altman startup
In one scenario, there are far more AI “agents” operating on the internet than humans. Humans will have to have some way to differentiate themselves and quickly present credentials for various tasks.
I don’t think the solution is to let bots run wild and leave the burden on humans to prove they’re human. Why not focus on a way to identify AI agents instead?
I’m sure that’s a complicated thing to figure out, but it’s pretty fucking dystopian to force people to hand over biometric data to prove they aren’t a computer.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound since it launched about a week ago. For $25, this is a killer Metroidvania adjacent game. Super fluid and responsive controls. One thing that added to the difficulty on older games in the series was that classic, infuriatingly calculated movement. Every step and every swing of your sword had to be completely intentional or you’d get put in your place before you even have time to blink.
uBlock Origin Lite is officially on the App Store!
I’ve been using uBlock Origin and Firefox everywhere else as long as I can remember. When I switched to iPhone, I had to settle for a paid subscription to Adblock Pro — which works great. But this feels more like home.
BREAKING NEWS when you live in Ohio.
‘Hibernation genes’ help control metabolism and feeding — and could hold untapped benefit for humans
Hibernation offers “a whole bunch of different biometrically important superpowers,” senior study author Christopher Gregg, a human genetics professor at the University of Utah, told Live Science.
Say no more. I’m omw to find a nice cozy cave somewhere 🥱
I like progressive web apps. They feel like this alternate reality between how smartphones evolved, and how they could’ve evolved. Looking at you, Firefox Phone (RIP).