There’s two things everybody knows about War Thunder: the first is that it’s a game about military vehicles, and the other is that War Thunder players love to leak state secrets. But why does that keep happening? What is it about War Thunder that inspires players to betray the trust of their country? Well, it’s a surprisingly complex web! Let’s get down deep into the context, and see if we can figure it out together.

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Shadow loves Latinas, Sonic. Everyone knows that. But is Rouge the Bat… Latinas? Let’s answer a question together that nobody in their right mind has ever asked, as we overanalyze the circumstances surrounding various anthropomorphic animals at the expense of our collective sanities.

A great intro to what optics are. Effectively, optics are a categorical logic for data projections, which is something I’ve been looking into for some time now. Originally learned about them through CyberCat.

via: https://github.com/well-typed/optics via: https://github.com/jeltsch

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) is a free online registry and repository for source codes of interest to astronomers and astrophysicists, including solar system astronomers, and lists codes that have been used in research that has appeared in, or been submitted to, peer-reviewed publications. The ASCL is indexed by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and Web of Science and is citable by using the unique ascl ID assigned to each code.

Gacha games are famous for their raunchy character designs and objectification. But can you fight fire with fire? Can you teach gamers to respect women, by wrapping a positive message in lewd imagery? Goddess of Victory: Nikke is a game that attempts to find out. We’ll see just how Nikke teaches gamers to respect women, while also taking a look at the limits of Nikke as a teaching tool, in this relatively short video about the objectification of women in the gacha game space.

[…] it’s okay to enjoy your media, even if that media can have problematic aspects to it. This is the world in which we live, and we can either participate it or be alienated from it.

fanservice sucks bc it’s never you that’s being serviced it’s always some other really annoying fan

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Let’s explore the most unusual lexical syntax of popular programming languages.

Very neat programming linguistics article.

Interesting principle:

Normally when code is simpler for a computer to decode, it’s more difficult for a human to understand, and FORTH is proof of that.

Cosmopolitan Libc has the fastest most efficient mutexes for contended workloads.

How, exactly, can category theory help modeling in public health? I wrote a paper about this with two people who helped run Canada’s COVID modeling, together with a software engineer and a mathematician at the Topos Institute.

Use the right tool for the job.