gameboat: a blog

by and large this op-ed from the NYT a few days ago is pretty good, but there's a couple real groaner paragraphs in the middle (citations mine): [...]

just witnessed someone on a lime glider1 cuss out someone on a lime scooter for going the wrong way down a bike lane. they did this while running a red turn arrow and cutting through a line of people in a crosswalk, naturally. the electric motorcycles that

let me get this out of the way first: I think "age verification" is a stupid idea. it has been cheated for centuries, it will continue to always be cheated, and it is a hideous attempt to wallpaper over a culture of parenting and structural business incen…

the apple watch has four features. your watch patches itself in the middle of the night after an idle period, so it’s pretty sure you’re not using it (this is good.) if you have an iPhone with alarms set on it, the alarms only go off on your phone if the…

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/27/how-to-ruin-all-of-package-management.html in general I agree with Andrew's argument here -- the commodification of influence/centrality/importance metrics is going to utterly destroy their value. however, I'm less sold on the

deeply embarrassing. sorry to be a bernie bro here, but brief recap: kamala harris became the VP nominee in 2020 in exchange for jim clyburn endorsing joe biden so he could win south carolina convincingly and kill bernie sanders's campaign after biden bar…

(if you haven't seen it, count yourself lucky.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/17/llm-poisoning-grooming-chatbots-russia (or https://archive.ph/seDGw if you don't have a washington post subscription) some ones to grow on we have been hearing in pop culture for the past fifteen (twent…

so today on the internet there's a lot of hay being made out of another in a long line of AI faux pas by Google, where Google demonstrates the power of artificial intelligence to automatically generate factually incorrect marketing copy on your electronic…

there's a story at the top of Reuters's web site right now that I think demonstrates a really vivid microcosm of the fucking miserable incentive structure on the contemporary internet for actually teaching people anything true, revelatory, or useful about…