Allen Tan

meanwhile, over at nyt:
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2024-08-28 13:47:18

“All public transit is free with a can-do attitude” why does hellgate rule so much https://hellgatenyc.com/jfk-airtrain-omny-rollout-free/

2024-08-19 23:01:34

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@npub1q5n…vwcn Podcasts and Music seem to work all right on Android, but not Maps? Oddly reversed priority here.

2024-08-16 15:11:15

alert alert
medieval manuscript workshop simulator game
MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT WORKSHOP SIMULATOR GAME
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119540/Scriptorium_Master_of_Manuscripts/

2024-08-16 14:46:16

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@npub1n2v…hh39 gah, absolutely crushed for you. always loved hearing about furiosa shenanigans. <3

2024-08-10 18:24:56

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wait “94% to 98% of the amount of water diverted monthly was delivered to the old hotel property for ‘undisclosed purposes,’ and that ‘for months BlueTriton has indicated it has bottled none of the water taken’”
?!

2024-08-10 17:51:46

Huh! Turns out it really was mountain spring water. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-07/arrowhead-bottled-water-permit

2024-08-09 19:06:04

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a matter of INCHES, y’all

2024-08-09 19:05:41

it’s very windy in brooklyn and a tree almost fell on me just now

2024-08-07 18:29:32

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(via the inimitable Hellgate: https://hellgatenyc.com/morning-spew-severe-drone-warning-in-effect/ )

2024-08-07 18:28:39

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also:
“While spreading the news about the flood, the drones also called attention to the fact that the City government continues to butcher machine-generated Spanish. As the Gothamist/WNYC reporter Josefa Velásquez noted: ‘As a Spanish speaker, I can confidently say that this is incomprehensible. The city couldn’t find a single person who spoke Spanish to deliver this alert?’”

2024-08-07 18:27:07

stupidest cyberpunk timeline
https://6-28.mastodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/922/147/175/392/403/original/b84d006859223391.png

2024-08-06 17:32:43

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@npub1eaa…u6mp the segmented display?????

2024-08-06 15:34:17

I think I have a legitimate case for buying one as a work expense https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-1320

2024-08-06 14:49:50

“One of the reasons Sawyer set out to do this was making sure that if he passes away, the people responsible for his estate and works will have an easy way to access his writings.”

2024-07-31 18:29:57

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“it’s decisions about games being made by people who don’t really think that some games are better and some games are worse, that some games are fun and some are not, but who just think that games are a handle that can be cranked to generate either youth engagement or money.”
“So you end up with this gorgeous little Parisian Roblox world but there’s nothing to do there unless you want to visit an online museum and look at a photo of Michael Phelps.”

2024-07-31 18:28:37

“The leaderboard for Golden Discus, which is basically frisbee golf, has the people with the highest number of throws at the top rather than the lowest, so the people who have taken sixteen thousand attempts to get their discus in the basket are declared the winners.” https://buttondown.email/holly/archive/summer-and-games-and-advice/

2024-07-23 01:22:34

watching cnn try to explain brat just feels demeaning to everyone.

2024-07-04 23:37:59

excuse me? https://variety.com/video/andor-f-bomb-fiona-shaw-maarva-funeral/

2024-06-27 01:27:23

Got caught out in that thunderhailstorm and I feel like I saw the face of God

2024-06-23 02:09:50

Very strange that there’s no episode of Delicious in Dungeon where they get scurvy

2024-06-20 17:24:23

“Not much is being recycled at all, nor is pyrolysis capable of curbing the plastic crisis.” https://www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis

2024-06-18 21:30:42

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and i’m not even talking about anything gemini-inflected!!

2024-06-18 21:29:58

looking at the google search results for “is chomsky dead” is a real case study in how weird our search algos have become

2024-06-18 21:23:02

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@npub17jq…rcm2 very funny how it felt like a checklist of features, like yep we got first-person pov, scanning, lock-on, morph ball, and…metroids

2024-06-18 20:05:15

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@npub17jq…rcm2 that combo would be too powerful, as someone who had to stop playing builders 2 because I was staying up past midnight

2024-06-18 15:25:07

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wow nintendo really looked at BG3’s crate stacking and said, bet

2024-06-18 15:21:15

there’s gonna be a zelda game where YOU PLAY AS ZELDA

2024-06-14 16:25:33

me: what a wild week of legal news for the country, I wonder what the daily is going to say about it
the daily:
https://6-28.mastodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/615/904/303/214/836/original/68b3074abdb6ab58.png

2024-06-12 20:27:36

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folks I’m a fast reader but even I can’t read all that text in 2 min!!!

2024-06-12 20:26:51

I know that it probably works for their target demo but every Axios story has a “Go Deeper” 🤢 time estimate of 1 or 2 min and it cracks me up every time

2024-06-11 20:46:19

Never forget what Hochul’s cowardice took away from us:
- Subway repairs and accessibility upgrades
- Faster buses
- Lower mortality rates due to less smog
- And most importantly, skateboarding couriers

2024-06-11 01:18:05

I’m not a puzzle game person but somehow Guru Logic Champ fits my brain perfectly

2024-06-08 15:48:14

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is this my generation’s 50s-small-town recreation as retirement home

2024-06-08 15:46:25

wait what the fuck https://youtu.be/bdFVIU6mHlk

2024-06-05 20:56:08

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the way you can record all your songs on a vhs that you can decorate! (and exports as a mp3)
the gachapon modifier pieces!

2024-06-05 20:54:08

i love everything about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVFqxOt0TCI / longer presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elO3HiRM4Ms

2024-05-30 23:25:46

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@npub1eaa…u6mp the bot name needs to be big heds

2024-05-30 21:15:54

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/world/europe/carlo-acutis-saint-catholic.html

2024-05-30 21:15:07

oh?
“which he used to…”
tell me more??
“…to share his faith”
…
https://6-28.mastodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/532/108/297/964/006/original/1ff34030e2036ea5.jpeg

2024-05-30 21:06:00

great day for having all news alerts turned off, highly recommended

2024-05-30 00:49:52

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@npub16vz…4zd3 oh I didn’t realize!!

2024-05-30 00:33:10

sometimes i think about how the ace attorney series have a character named, for copyright reasons, herlock sholmes

2024-05-28 22:04:26

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@npub1z9s…pzd6
https://6-28.mastodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/520/977/536/650/101/original/bef67a76b7dc000d.mp4

2024-05-28 21:35:40

hey uhhh maybe avoid eating steaks for a while https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/health/bird-flu-beef.html

2024-05-28 21:31:33

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@npub1qmc…v6gx I’ve never been so simultaneously creeped out and delighted gah

2024-05-28 21:09:32

@npub1qmc…v6gx I can’t believe I rip-van-winkled for so long on your Kelly Link rec, but OMFG

2024-05-28 15:09:18

TIL that the internet archive has an in-browser cbz viewer??? https://archive.org/details/emigre-magazine-archive-1984-2005/Emigre%2001%20%281984%29/mode/2up

2024-05-24 16:14:23

It’s been a real object lesson this week in “don’t speedrun through the adoption cycle”

2024-05-24 16:01:36

“Anytime you see a pre-set camera angle switching in a video game, you can think of how there was a court case that allowed any company to do this, and a game from a little-known developer ended up being the decisive evidence that made that happen.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/retroxp/p/re-release-this-maboshis-arcade

2024-05-23 19:52:22

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ok things are working now, I guess the re-auth took a min to take, whee

2024-05-23 16:15:06

uhhh I finally got the new sonos app and while I don’t mind the missing features, nothing…works?
as in, it straight-up can’t play music
what a mess

2024-05-22 14:39:25

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@npub1qmc…v6gx oh HECK YEA
and ed is a speaker too?? dream lineup

2024-05-21 22:11:08

for reasons too complicated to explain, facebook mostly shows me tweets I made from 13 years ago and i’m living in a hellscape of my own making

2024-05-21 17:43:08

What are we on, like year 12, of grading Microsoft on potential?

2024-05-20 22:08:26

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@npub17jq…rcm2 did you see the part where you can downsize back to original resolution (but with improved aliasing)? looks so good

2024-05-13 20:04:39

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@npub1xl7…ss7c sorry ethan but i dont make the rules https://bsky.app/profile/ephemeralenigmas.bsky.social/post/3ksf2yd6snc22

2024-05-13 19:49:22

“uncowed” well-played https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-12/raw-milk-enthusiasts-uncowed-by-bird-flu-risk-in-dairy

2024-05-13 19:25:34

‘his phone has been ringing off the hook with “customers asking for H5N1 milk because they want immunity from it.”’ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-12/raw-milk-enthusiasts-uncowed-by-bird-flu-risk-in-dairy

2024-05-08 22:57:47

here’s the thing about assuming stupidity or malice:
https://6-28.mastodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/407/941/077/724/847/original/88d6b7a95841c3aa.mp4

2024-05-08 15:49:54

Animorphs, 1996 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html

2024-04-29 16:54:15

a taxonomy of slack message edits:
- fix typos/grammar
- fix missing link / wrong link / remove tracking params
- modulate tone and confidence
- deciding on a specific way of saying “same”
- changing your mind and making a 180-degree different point

2023-08-22 14:03:13

New nightmare fuel unlocked: a spotted lanternfly popping out of my (actively running) ac unit onto my bed

2023-08-18 21:52:09

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@npub1qmc…v6gx I 100% expect it to be awesome though

2023-08-18 21:50:30

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@npub1qmc…v6gx I’m very excited about everyone involved on the team, but looking askance at the vc moneybags

2023-08-16 15:57:38

highly recommend installing StreetPass https://streetpass.social (I’m a sucker for that name) which lets you know when there’s a mastodon account to follow based on your usual web browsing!

2023-08-12 19:13:41

Very excited to learn at a panel by @npub170a…8ya5 about the Casio Loopy, a 32-bit console that had a built-in thermal printer (before the Game Boy printer) that you could use to print stickers in full color?! http://femicom.org/loopy/
https://6-28.mastodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/110/878/235/811/619/383/original/733b0143e4e04312.jpeg
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2023-08-10 18:13:47

ways you can support people in maui right now:
– maui rapid response (support links in instagram bio): https://www.instagram.com/mauirapidresponse/
– maui strong fund: https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong
– maui food bank: https://mauifoodbank.org
– maui humane society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/