Good news, bad news: 🎮 I’d hoped my first blog post of the new year would celebrate The Sands of Time's release, but…
https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/latest-news/#winter-days

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116012868176290837

Fun Bill Atkinson anecdote btw https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

I was reading this (
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/epstein-files-noam-chomsky ) and it is a bit unsettling to see friendly chit chat between #Chomsky & #Epstein. There is no indication of sexual activity and it’s likely not what was at stake there. Chomsky is so very old and Epstein invited both him and his spouse to the Island (apparently it didn’t happen in the end).

One has to remember Epstein built relationships as a tentacular branching tree to gain power. He was a manipulative pervert who not only abused teenagers sexually but also coerced each one into bringing more victims and then went on to controlling them through guilt of what he made them do.

Just like with his sexual victims he was also an expert at building a relationship tree connecting from one famous person through another. Sometimes through sex crimes and sometimes as a finance guy. Bernard Madoff comes to the mind when it comes to using famous people to attract more.

When you see the ridiculously low amounts (200k) involved in  Chomsky’s apartment issues and how Epstein — a man worth about 600 Millions at some point — inexplicably had an interest in it, it is clear that the intent of the friendship here was to get one more valuable node in his network.

Chomsky always had quite an aura in the left and getting him as a point of contact was very valuable.

Some would prefer to see a “simple” big conspiracy with every famous person involved in a large club where every single one is a pedophile.

I see Epstein was able to maintain friendship with both Bannon & Chomsky, two persons so radically opposed on nearly everything because they were just more nodes in a power system opening door to more power.

A previously unseen video from 1980 showing the production of Battlezone at Atari's Coin-Op Manufacturing Facility in Sunnyvale. Article: https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/ Video: https://youtu.be/85lRMZeLJl4 #atari #arcade

"EU Plans to Weaken Pesticide Rules ‘Unlawful’, Experts Say"

#EU #EuropeanUnion #Pesticides #Environment

https://www.desmog.com/2026/01/27/eu-plans-to-weaken-pesticide-rules-unlawful-experts-say/

The Apple indie dev community is undergoing an identity crisis. For decades, whatever Apple said was good, was good. People mostly agreed with their ethics, design priorities, way of doing business.

Now that all of that has, well, severely degraded, it leaves us in the dark. The north star is gone.

Some dudes would rather clean up documentation for AI agents than make documentation easier to read for everyone, such as people

At Aldi I'm browsing near a family with small kids and I hear "Katie get off the floor love"

Katie goes "I'm a penguin mum!", flops down on the floor and just kicks herself along the whole length of the aisle making penguin noises.

Katie, I hope one day you'll know the effort your parents made not to laugh out loud.

I think they're kinda proud.

The European Commission continues to push to extend Chat Control 1.0, threatening your fundamental right to privacy. MEPs on the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) need to hear from you directly: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ now allows you to contact them all at once. Speak up today!

Brutal correction on the Guardian’s review of Melania: “The star rating for this film was corrected on 2 February 2026. A formatting issue led an earlier version to be awarded one star, when the reviewer’s intention was zero.”

In 1987, COMPUTE! had an article called "Fractal Mountains for Amiga" that had a program in Amiga Basic for, well, generating fractal mountains.

Over the winter break I kinda fiddled with it a bit and started rewriting it in Go. Anyway, I couldn't sleep tonight and so I actually got it working.

So, I give you: Fractal Mountains for Amiga...in Go! The algorithm isn't 1:1, but it's pretty close.

BEHOLD

#graphics #amiga #proceduralGeneration

I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me

@danielpunkass If the upsides are dependent on immoral actions, do they count?

I could enrich myself by robbing banks or mugging people at gunpoint, but we all agree that’s not an acceptable way to make a livelihood.

Using AI is a selfish act. You want to make your life easier at the expense of everyone who put in the effort before you, and at the expense of the planet.

The European Commission is pushing hard to extend Chat Control 1.0 - allowing mass scanning of private messages without court orders for another two years. Contact your MEPs TODAY via https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ to defend your privacy and digital rights!

Amateur hour is expected with the ‘writing code is outdated’ crowd.

What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are?

Surely the FCC won't rubber-stamp-approve this one??... ONE MILLION STARLINKS FUUUUCCCKKKKKK

https://au.pcmag.com/networking/115649/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

Australia is BURNING

Tuesday’s temperatures reached record-breaking levels in Victoria—49°C—forcing more than 1,000 people to evacuate due to extreme fire danger and leaving thousands of animals without food, water, shelter, or safety. The situation is also dire in New South Wales, with catastrophic temperatures forecast to hit wildlife hard, especially flying foxes whose population is decimated.

You will probably hear nothing about this on the news, but it's happening

#ClimateChange

The amount of books about #Commodore64 on archive.org  is just amazing. Imagining having access to all this with my then 11 year old eyes. Well I didn't understand english at that age but still...

#retrocomputing