I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.
new version of the advert:
The Adventures of Elliot The Millennium Tales countdown illustration by Yoshio Watanabe.
Catch up with more about the game here:
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Jasmin🌸
new deep sea creature discovered
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“The feature uses a combination of bedtime stories, relaxing sounds, and guided meditations along with scheduling and customization options accessible only to adults.”
Really glad he eventually cleared this up
German court rules that Google is liable for false statements made in Search's AI Overviews
(via The Decoder)
it's a double birthday kind of day
daily draw 188
I’m happy to share a project I’ve been spending a lot of time on recently: an online model viewer for Digimon Story: Time Stranger!
nuffle.me/dsts-viewer/
I’ve got about 90% of digimon rendering correctly, though NPCs still need a lot of work. Site is mobile friendly too!
#digimon
Here's the full article for those interested. Insanely bleak stuff, I don't think I'll ever be able to look at the Pokemon franchise the same way again
dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...
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Nuffle Emberdrake
arugi
Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.
