2026-05-04
The visual effects in ‘The Bride!’ that you may not have noticed
Environment builds, plus how that falling down the stairs shot was achieved, and how the re-animation of the Bride was done. The post The visual effects in ‘The Bride!’ that...
True-Spectrum Photography with Structural Color
Although modern cameras can, with skill and good conditions, produce photographs nearly indistinguishable from the original scene, this fidelity relies on the limitations of human vision. According to the trichromatic...
Warcraft 3 Legacy is finally back on Battle.net
And you don't have to install Warcraft 3 Reforged to launch it.
Conflict 2.0: Leaving behind shame/fault, right/wrong
If we could learn how to "conflict" (I'm using this as a verb here, for fun) effectively, like at a person-to-person level, our lives would be so much better, right?...
Consolation for Sorrow from King Arthur’s Court: Merlyn’s Advice on What to Do When the World Gets You Down
"Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust,...
Enneagram Epicycles
The core insights of Enneagram theory appear to me to be useful, but people have laden that core theory with epicycles. They’ve done it in an attempt to explain everything...
Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky
Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada Information security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have co-authored guidance on...
Auto-review of agent actions without synchronous human oversight
This is an unofficial automated linkpost. Last week, we released Auto-review in Codex. Until now, users had two choices: Default mode, which requires frequent human approval, and Full Access mode...
ReactOS Gets Unified Installer Image and a New Storage Stack
Although the ReactOS project is in no rush to dethrone Windows as the desktop operating system of choice, this doesn’t mean that some real changes aren’t happening. Most recently two...
Steam week in review: Another online shooter winds down weeks after launch, as robot cowboys take over
All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending May 3.
ASI motives and the ontonormative goods (re IABIED’s core argument)
In IABIED, the load-bearing argument and, to me, the main contribution of the book, is about ASI motives. There’s more in there, but the thrust of the book is to...
Marvel once caused a problem for Capcom by insisting 'Juggernaut can't jump'
He did walk over a chasm, but was possessed by an Asgardian spirit at the time.
Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs
PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge A Chinese court has ruled that it’s illegal to replace human workers with AI.…
X, the Platform of Free Speech
Gil Durán, posting on Bluesky: It’s official! I’m permanently banned from X for tweeting “TLDR: Fascism.” (appeal denied) “TLDR: Fascism” was Durán’s two-word response to this 1,000-word essay from Palantir...
30 years later, The Craft is still the best witch movie of all time
The Craft remains undefeated. Here's why.
‘2 Letters From Steve’
I don’t want to spoil any of this story from David Gelphman, which he wrote back in 2013, but which I only came across this week had read so long...
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Former Elder Scrolls Online boss was told in 2001 that 'There's already enough MMOs out there, no one is ever gonna play a new one'
An extremely funny thing to say three years before World of Warcraft.
★ Crimes Against Decency Need as Much Cover-Up as Crimes Against the Law
There is no point getting any more outraged or disgusted at Meta for firing the Kenyan contractors who exposed the privacy fiasco of AI Glasses than you already were in...
Hackaday Links: May 3, 2026
Software that collects public data from the Internet and uses it to provide half-assed answers to your questions might seem like a modern craze, but today we bid farewell to...
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