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Cake day: June 16th, 2026

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  • I’ve been on Pokopia all summer, really since it came our. Baby has been going through sleep regression this week, so I’ve only been playing this game from the F-droid app store…

    Its called BIM! You’re a silly little prince boy and you have to drop a bomb on the other silly prince boys in the yard. Simple mechanics, alpha stage, not too many powerups. But there’s a barrel that you can wear so that you can get bombed once. I don’t think it was the creators intent, but there’s a short time after you lose your barrel where youre fully immune. It feels exploitive of the rules, but its really fun, because you can infinitely drop exploding bombs, allowing you to blitz your opponent by blasting your way through the board or even hunting them down and blowing them up.

    I hope the creator embraces the exploit and introduces a foil/counter to it. Because its a blast!





  • As someone that has worked in data centers and now is working adjacent to data centers (and I make a higher salary because of data centers), greenhouse emissions isn’t so much the problem.

    The bigger problem is that planned data centers are are demanding more power than exists on the grid. This is setting us back from our plans to greenify the grid, like the article mentioned, it’s causing coal plants to remain open.

    While there will be a need for data centers, and even AI data centers, the reality is that we are in an AI bubble right now. While probably near every data center in existence right now, will probably continue to be operated, many of the data centers being built in the next 5 will not. Understanding where the data center industry will be in 5 years is key to understanding how we should maintain and improve our grid. Right now we are on a path to rolling blackouts, and that will increase emissions too, and generally make life worse for everyone.








  • For something as sensitive as typing in a license plate that can be identified to you, and potentially label you as a domestic terrorist, this article is garbage.

    The lazy reporter did not do any research or reporting on who funds the website.

    Have no fear, I’m pooping at work and have time, as I am more curious than journalist hack Matthew Benton.

    HaveIbeenflocked.com appears to be funded by an organization called:

    https://altnewsfoundation.org/

    They fund quite a few smaller local publications, with a focus on LatinX publications. Notably they do not fund any queer focused publications.

    Their board appears to be 3/4 white. And their directors appears to be 50% white.

    I cannot find where most of their funding comes from, the average, or the median donation size.

    HaveIbeenflocked.com does claim they get their data from public access requests, which I find to be believable. They do not make clear that they dont save who has searched for a license plate number. They also don’t share how they save any search history.

    My assumption is that they are saving every license plate search on their servers unencrpyted. Even if they aren’t malicious actors, they are not protecting your data from malicious actors.

    Tl;Dr: Use this site with caution. Maybe dont use it at all. I don’t think I will.