This thread is interesting to me because it's well-reasoned and plausible. But it also strikes me as similar to the moral panics re: video games in the 1990s. It observes phenomena ("they're in spiritual anguish", "they're falling for propaganda", "techniques to motivate...don't work anymore", etc) and decides that there's likely a causal relationship between the ubiquity of access to mass comm and these behavioral and social problems

https://retro.social/@ajroach42/114811505328252889

hat tip: @richpuchalsky

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A thing I'm seeing with increasing frequency from the younger members of our community is this like ...

Let me back up.

I work with some folks in their early twenties, and I am having a hard time relating to some of them. Some of them are having a hard time relating to one another.

And the root of this difficulty is propaganda, I think. All of them are constantly bombarded with video propaganda via social media. A lot of it is anti-community propaganda. Most of the media they consume is just about strengthening their disaffiliation with various outgroups. Even the stuff that's about celebrating people is, at least in passing, also about excluding or dehumanizing people.

And, for each of them, the memberships in these various in and out groups is unique. One of them has fallen in to a real trad Christian, 1950s fetishization, one of them watches a lot of stuff premised on the idea that nuerotypical people are an evolutionary dead end, and nuerodivergent people are the path forward...

It's... The specific content isn't what worries me. Like, both of those things aren't great, but the particular contents of the propaganda is irrelevant to my current point (because content can be addressed and deprogrammed.) Regardless of what flavor of self-isolating purity test content they've fallen in to, there are some common themes:

- policing other people's behaviors and desires
- shame for basically any expression of sexuality
- an outsized importance on excluding people

I'm sure there's other stuff, and I know this isn't unique to folks under 25, but it seems to be especially pervasive with them.

Social battles that I thought were long settled are not only coming back up, but also going the wrong way.

And I have to assume that this is, intentional and coordinated or not, an attempt to break any kind of solidarity that might build between people who are dissimilar.

Does anyone know good resources on game engine data structures/architecture?
I'm playing with making myself a little 3D game engine on top of raylib, but I want to use this for learning more how typical game engines deal with storing and organising their data.
So for examples what are good patterns for storing entity/node trees, components... or patterns/libraries used to serialise and deserialise entities and components to be able to do things like prefabs/actor blueprints/godot scenes.

But also anything interesting about the internals of fully featured 3D engines will be good for me

Random semi-crazy thought that just might work:

Musk/X isn't using the trademarked words "Tweet" or "Retweet" anymore. In fact, after the rename, any references to these words have been completely scrubbed from the site. The trademark is as good as abandoned.

So... could we, collectively, just start using "tweet" and "retweet" as generic words for "microblog post" and "boost", respectively, regardless of platform? Doesn't matter whether they're from the Fediverse, Bluesky, X, Threads, etc., they're all tweets. Lowercase, of course. It fits the way the term has been used in popular culture for years, instead of letting Musk just erase that.

Congratulations to Budapest on a record-breaking Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

200,000 people turned out in defiance of the far-right government's attempt to ban the event, with threats of fines for attendees and imprisonment for organisers.

Freedom prevails when we fight for it.

if you've ever messed up a dimension or a hole position on something you're building, don't be too hard on yourself.

at least you're not the Cisco design engineer who caused an entire product line recall by placing the mode button (which resets the switch if held) directly above an RJ45 port.

Minecraft Clone Manages With Nothing But HTML + CSS

https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/minecraft-clone-manages-with-nothing-but-html-css/