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Patrick Hogenboom boosted:

This rules so hard ❤️
https://www.status.news/p/the-onion-ben-collins-interview

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business?

The Onion's process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday.

The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times.

That's why I don't touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they're already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that's working.

You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step.

If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it's that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don't actually want that

@joshsutphin Thanks so much for pointing this out! Subscribed :D

@sinbad @runevision @sinbad @runevision Unity's imposters in Time Ghost are amazing. Until you get too close, but they weren't authored for that. https://youtu.be/bKsL8yyHixs

Patrick Hogenboom boosted:

down with Whatever https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

@benthroop I know what you mean, and that's why I love Rider's continuous local versioning. You can always walk back every step of your disasterous integration.

Patrick Hogenboom boosted:

"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by @eevee:

"But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost."

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

@sinbad @runevision Totally agree! My genius girlfriend arranged our New Zealand trip like this : Fly from Amsterdam to Tokyo, 48h layover, fly to NZ. On the way back : fly to Shanghai, 48h layover, fly to Amsterdam. 3 vacations for the price of one :D

Patrick Hogenboom boosted:

I know I'm a grumpy old man but I get so annoyed at how the tech bros have turned everything good about the Internet on its head.
1. Endless free source of information -> mostly disinformation, automated en masse.
2. A place to connect with others -> a place to get enraged by or abused by others

All because the bad versions line their already stuffed pockets more. Any of them could choose to do better and never run out of money. But they don't, because they're awful people

Patrick Hogenboom boosted:

Well played.

Hirohito @

¥ @RealHirohito We have completed our very successful attack on Hawaii. All planes are now outside of America air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Pearl Harbor. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great Japanese Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter 12:00 P. M. - 07 Dec 41 - Twitter for Android 1M Retweets 2M Likes

@lostdisplay @aras @fork_dev Same here, I'm checking out SourceGit now and it works great

Patrick Hogenboom boosted:

Tom Cardy-Business Man, animated by "Some Eejit" (that's their username) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsIBPTTqreM

@rygorous Sweeet! The only thing that can improve a Tom Cardy song is top notch animation

@logicalerror saying a good farewell is the best you can do in such times

Patrick Hogenboom boosted:

Related, Why I Refuse to Use AI
https://benui.ca/why-i-refuse-ai/

@ben Brilliantly sussinct summary, thank you

@sinbad so you still have hideous skin but it's not a disease, got it

Patrick Hogenboom boosted:

This is pretty awesome: Free music to use for whatever. From Moby. https://mobygratis.com

Patrick Hogenboom boosted:

I plugged this in for a soak test a week ago and forgot about it, so I guess it's soaked.

The UI is randomly generated, and I love what it came up with here.

@grapefrukt Google search is dead, try Kagi instead. €5/month and you are the customer again instead of the product.

@benthroop There's several particle systems with 100k particles each, so gpu particles is a must. But more importantly, vfx graph allowed me to structure/grow the project intuitively instead of having to fit it into shuriken's UI. It's such a beast, that adding notes and grouping becomes very valuable. Also, each effect's vfx graph can call into hlsl, which allows us to have several abstraction layers, to control the forest fire on a high abstraction level (location, speed, type, intensity...).

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