Michael K

@nifta@icosahedron.website
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I've been in the video games industry for going on 30 years (mostly) as a thoroughly average programmer. For the past 12+ years I’ve focused on pretty much every aspect of Augmented Reality. I've been very lucky.

Loves: #RetroGames, current games, #TheMuppets, classic simpsons quotes, #MST3k & #RiffTrax, #FilmNoir, #Philosophy, #TheKLF, #Pinball, #TwinPeaks and generally trying to pretend I understand things. #ActuallyAutistic

#Demoscene id: spacey-nz

Occasional Bloghttps://ziggurat.co.nz
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grossinger's indoor pool, liberty, new york, 1976

I've seen a few people post on Mastodon about how they would love a model railway, but can't, cos of space limitations. What if I was to tell you that you can enjoy model railways, even if you live in a tiny apartment.

This is a thread about standards and community.

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wtf, the ministry of health cut the flutracking survey to save an entire $57K?!
WTF is up with this stupid arse NZ government..
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/582136/plan-to-ditch-flu-tracking-tool-will-leave-big-data-gap-epidemiologist-says
Plan to ditch flu tracking tool will leave big data gap, epidemiologist says

The Ministry of Health is not renewing its contract for the FluTracking tool, which surveys about 40,000 people year-round, in a bid to cut costs.

RNZ
As protests surge nationwide, AI surveillance tools, biometric identification, and mask bans are creating new barriers for disabled people seeking to safely exercise their First Amendment right to peacefully assemble, argues Tech Policy Press Fellow Ariana Aboulafia. https://www.techpolicy.press/surveillance-tech-heightens-chilling-effects-for-disabled-protestors/
Surveillance Tech Heightens Chilling Effects for Disabled Protestors | TechPolicy.Press

AI surveillance, mask bans, and biometrics threaten disabled people’s ability to exercise their right to assemble peaceably, argues Ariana Aboulafia.

Tech Policy Press

Google advises some employees on visas, including H-1B visas, not to travel outside the US due to processing delays, following new social media screening rules (Business Insider)

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-tells-visa-holders-stamp-leave-us-return-delays-2025-12
http://www.techmeme.com/251220/p13#a251220p13

Google warns some visa employees not to leave the US due to 'significant' return delays of up to a year

The US State Department said it was "prioritizing thoroughly vetting" each visa case, which could cause delays.

Business Insider
kentucky fried chicken sign, marietta, georgia, 1992

RE: https://mastodon.online/@electrek/115751865309327929

What an odd (and bad, in my rather uninformed opinion) decision by the Delaware Supreme Court.

Please, people. Stop buying #Tesla. This company is not only broken, it’s literally financing Elon’s evil deeds. The man has starved 600,000 people through DOGE’s destruction of USAID. He’s a white supremacist. He’s a Hitler sympathizer. He’s polluting the sky with junk satellites. He’s poisoning poor people with his data center emissions. What more does he have to do for you to stop sending him your money?

#FuckTesla

My FIL has been down in Ottawa on medical, back today. While he was away Leah and a niece have been painting the in-laws’ cabin while our niece’s partner and I put down new flooring. It’s been a struggle as we’ve had one generator issue after another. But they now seem to be sorted. Lots of cutting and the mitre saw was up at my cabin as it can handle the electrical load. So I walked back and forth the 100m or so all night. The wind was bitter but the Arqsarniit danced all night. #CabinLife
#AmazingWorld
In Alaska, nature sculpted this lone tree into a frozen wave at sunrise.
Relentless wind, drifting snow, and rime ice stacked layer by layer until the branches looked like feathers made of frost.
That soft golden glow is the sun catching every icy strand, turning the whole scene into a winter sculpture for a few brief moments.
Bent by the storm, but still standing. Still reaching.