Hands-on reviews of the new Commodore 64 Ultimate are starting to come in, and I'm suddenly feeling VERY good about my preorder. It consolidates every great homebrew hardware improvement for the C64 into one machine. Even the packaging is well done, a faithful update to the original.

Tom

Commodore 64 Ultimate Review: 21st Century Computing from a 1982 perspective: Updated

I hope I look this good in 30 years time.

I knew scammers were ripping off @npub1f6wk...7940's delightful edge-piece jigsaw puzzles with cheap low-quality bootlegs, but I just saw a new low on TikTok: I got an ad using *her stolen video* to advertise their knockoff. When you click the "Shop Now" link, it goes to their store with the near-identical fake minus the Yetch branding.

"We are so hungry for conflict that we turn something as boring as Wikipedia into a part of the culture war." If you saw that clip of Jimmy Wales walking out of an interview, or just care at all about Wikipedia, @npub10r0g...ecmc provides some useful context.

for a time, calculators in the shape of floppy disks were a popular promotional item

I have a folder in my feedreader for infrequently-updated feeds. Occasionally, one wakes up from a long nap and surprises me. Today, I saw Johanna Beyenbach posted to her Blogspot for the first time since September 2013. Yet another reason why I love RSS.

cellar door

My son just did a Silksong deathless 100% run in Steel Soul mode with no quit-outs (i.e. quitting when you're about to die to restore from a savepoint) in a little over 12 hours. I've never played the game, apparently this is pretty hard to do?

A followup to my post two weeks ago, I found the couple at the center of the Will Smith AI crowd video. I wanted to know what it was like to find yourselves in the middle of a hypermodern problem: being confused for AI slop.

Waxy.org

Interviewing the couple in the Will Smith AI crowd video: "The sign was real. The emotions were real too" - Waxy.org

I tracked down the couple at the center of the viral Will Smith AI concert video. What does it feel like for millions of people to think you'r...

After 22 years, Typepad is shutting down with one month's notice. Go back up your old blogs, old-school blogger friends. https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html

I'm amazed I've never seen this before: a photo licensing company shaking down someone for hosting an image used in an Open Graph tag.

Alistair Shepherd

I displayed an open graph image and had to pay how much?! - Alistair Shepherd

A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image used on my twitter archive. I gave in and paid it, but what does that mean for open ...

My secret hobby is feeding story ideas to the 404 Media crew via Signal group chat. This was one of them!

404 Media

Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?

Domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR and the U.S. government are being quietly eaten by AI slop.