Oh hey, @GailSimone 's excellent sword-and-sorcery-and-Red-Sonja-kicking-butt story, Red Sonja: Consumed is under $2 today in Canadian ebook, and it's great. amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B0CMQBFKLR

I don’t care, this was a good movie

Idly realising that Dunk&Egg are probably my favourite pieces of Martin's work. Maybe I should watch the show.

"i want a scifi series that has--" ds9 what you're looking for is ds9 it has everything from trans aliens to lesbian makeouts to james bond larp to the horrors of war to the horrors of racism to the horrors of capitalism to morally dilemmas to a goblin who runs the food court

Actually, this might qualify as universal advice. Ignore Elon Musk, Heed Sappho.

please do not make a 30 hour video game and then make it so that i can only access a “true ending” by playing through it again, especially if the "true ending" is worse.

The #SPFBO contest will open to new entries at 11am GMT on January 3rd. It will remain open to entries for 24 hours. After which 300 novels will be randomly selected to go forward into the contest.

When you're a child, the other children are growing with you. When you're an adult, the people around you are mostly stable and the ways they change are more plot and narrative, not character Moms and dads lose their favorite people and get new ones all the time, continuously

I want the job because I'm hungry and want to eat food this week lol, but something tells me that won't work for a cover letter despite being the primary reason people want a job.

This is a good announcement by @MayorOliviaChow and I would encourage her team to preemptively apply transit signal priority to Line 5/Eglinton as well. Even better would be to give it to all streetcars!

physical fucking art

Everyone who attended the Your Party conference fits into one of these four simple categories:

I have 5 free kindle ebooks of Rivo available to giveaway. If you're interested, please let me know and I'll shoot you a link. No strings attached (other than it's limited to amazon)

Buvette Pacey a cafe and drink spot on the edge of Corktown - downtown east on Berkeley st - is struggling and sending the word out for folks to come by a bit more often if they can, else they’ll have to shut - instagram.com/buvette_paceyt…

SKELETON CREW was nominated for 17 Emmys and I don’t see many fans talking about it. You can’t ask for more from Jon Watts and Chris Ford. It was a fantastic and fresh series with all new memorable characters. They deserve a second season. I wish more support was put behind it.

Let me explain exactly why VLC is free despite 6B downloads, because no one seems to get it. VLC doesn’t make money because making money would destroy the only thing that made it reach 6 billion downloads in the first place. The player grew through a specific distribution loop: tech-savvy users install it once, it works perfectly on every weird video file they throw at it, and they recommend it to everyone forever. IT departments deploy it across entire companies. A Reddit comment from 2009 still drives downloads in 2025 because the answer never changed. That recommendation engine dies the second ads appear. Not slowly. Immediately. The users who drive VLC’s distribution are the exact people who understand what ads mean. Your incentives just switched from “make the best player” to “maximize impressions.” They see it, stop recommending it, and your growth engine shuts off. Run the actual numbers. VLC gets maybe 50 million active users daily across 6 billion total downloads. Typical video player ad rates run $1-3 CPM. Even if you served ads on every playback session, you’re looking at maybe $50-150 million annually at absolute peak optimistic assumptions. Sounds like a lot until you realize what Kempf actually traded it for. VLC reaching 6 billion people made Kempf the person who built the infrastructure everyone depends on. He runs a video consulting business. He built dav1d, an AV1 codec that powers modern streaming. Being “the guy who kept VLC free” opens every door in video technology. Clients pay him to solve problems because he proved he optimizes for quality over quick monetization. “Former ad-supported media player executive” gets you exactly zero of that leverage. The people celebrating Kempf’s ethics are missing the calculation. He didn’t sacrifice millions for principles. He rejected $150M in highly uncertain ad revenue to build permanent positioning worth multiples of that in everything else he touches. VLC free generates more value for Kempf than VLC monetized ever could. The trade was never even close.

<sigh> I’m too online

there's no uncertainty surrounding kino's fate so jot that down