it’s the person at the asbestos factory wondering why everyone is getting cancer while everyone else is praising how good of a building material it is.
this analogy is fucking beautiful, we need more writers like auriali
a friend sent me this tweet, and it just shows how tech bros don’t understand art, and more specifically, black mirror.
the “white mirror” already exists, that’s tech companies, they make adverts about how wonderful their new technology is, why you must use it, etc. look at how ads for ai a lot of time try and make it seem like ai can make something “perfect” - like that gemini ad about a little girl writing a fan letter to the olympian they admire - google says "hey, you’re gonna fuck this letter up, let ai fix it”, it creates this sense of inadequacy if you don’t allow ai to rewrite your own words.
my point is that the tech industry is the white mirror, they make us think that they will create a utopia for us if we just let them do what they want. but in reality many of us know that is coming with immense tradeoffs, their idea of utopia doesn’t seem to align with ours more and more.
black mirror is in a lot of ways the antithesis of this “white mirror” - it tries to imagine and explore what our future could be. it’s the person at the asbestos factory wondering why everyone is getting cancer while everyone else is praising how good of a building material it is.
not every black mirror episode is about tech, but most of them are some kind of satire that push things happening in the real world to their logical extreme, especially technological advancements. not every episode works, but when they do, they hit hard. the national anthem haunts me to this day
For the last month my friends and I have been making a game for the Itch.io Mystery Game Jam 2025.
It’s called CARRINGTON, and it involves a clever twist on the theme of “last message.”
It will be a horror-ish/puzzle game that is set in the far future.
CARRINGTON hits Itch.io on May 5, so be sure to check it out if it seems like an interesting concept to you. I’ll be uploading a gameplay trailer on youtube sometime this/next week, which I’ll post a link to here. Lmk if you guys are interested in hearing more about it.
genuinely i have convinced everyone in my computer science class to get a framework laptop
FRAMEWORK MENTIONED
macbook has issue.
if the cost of repairs exceeds $500, should my new laptop be a mac (i have grown quite accustomed to macos) or should i buy a framework laptop
my friends and i are participating in the mystery game jam 2025 if you want to keep an eye out. our game is pretty complex.
i wrote an ideal gas simulator in matter.js and my chem teacher wants to use it as an interactive example
i was trying to make an engine simulator in unity and it just started hard tweaking and then crashed
I saw the Minecraft movie this weekend, it was truly an experience of all time
i clip farmed the whole time, i recorded every steve quote, including such bangers as:
“I…am Steve.”
“Chicken jockey!”
“Water bucket! Release!”
as well as the appearance of a familiar crowned pig.
you should definitely go see it if you liked minecraft as a kid, it’s honestly an awesome movie. I was expecting it to be quite shitty but I was pleasantly surprised.
so he’s a masochist i get it
I'm happy to announce that i have permanently quit using certain conventional languages, including but not limited to go, python, lua, bash, and more. from now on, i'll be writing all of my projects in PHP. SparkShell, along with everything else I've developed, will be rewritten to conform to the new standards. long live PHP!
“right to education” my ass
i just opened 6 back to back rejection letters and have not been accepted to a single university in the US yet.
this might be a sign from the universityverse
this is why I watch the news sometimes, in between the mass shootings and the corrupt government there occasionally comes a gem like this
i watched a news video about a police chase involving a carjacking, and they ask the victim:
interviewer: “what did the suspect say to you?”
victim: “get out of the car…”
real hard hitting journalism. asking all the hard questions