# big walk (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover big walk. Page: Feed: --- ## [Your Move, Xbox: Sony Announces PlayStation 6 Controllers Will Electrocute You](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/your-move-xbox-sony-announces-playstation-6-controllers-will-electrocute-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=your-move-xbox-sony-announces-playstation-6-controllers-will-electrocute-you) _2026-08-21 · Mark Roebuck · Palette Swap_ Sony's new PlayStation 6 controllers are set to electrocute players, leaving Xbox with some serious competition in this race to the bottom. The post Your Move, Xbox: Sony Announces PlayStation 6 Controllers Will Electrocute You appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Doom Successfully Ported to Grandpa’s Pacemaker, Announces Remorseful Grandson at Funeral](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/doom-successfully-ported-to-grandpas-pacemaker-announces-remorseful-grandson-at-funeral/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=doom-successfully-ported-to-grandpas-pacemaker-announces-remorseful-grandson-at-funeral) _2026-08-19 · John Danek · Palette Swap_ One coder has created the most impressive port of Doom so far, though it may have come at a steep cost. The post Doom Successfully Ported to Grandpa’s Pacemaker, Announces Remorseful Grandson at Funeral appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Embrace Struggle](https://paletteswap.site/true-colors/embrace-struggle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=embrace-struggle) _2026-08-19 · Parker Johnson · Palette Swap_ Get used to losing. It's what makes victory feel so good. The post Embrace Struggle appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [One Thing I Like About The End of Oak Street](https://spectrecollie.com/2026/08/18/one-thing-i-like-about-the-end-of-oak-street/) _2026-08-18 · Chuck · Spectre Collie_ The movie about dinosaurs in the suburbs is a period piece set during a time when I probably would've enjoyed this movie. ## [LFG Con, or, You’re Not Gonna Need a Bigger Convention](https://spectrecollie.com/2026/08/17/lfg-con-or-youre-not-gonna-need-a-bigger-convention/) _2026-08-18 · Chuck · Spectre Collie_ Thoughts after a weekend at LFG Con, a new board game convention in the LA area ## [Three Cheers for Frank Beard](https://spencertweedy.com/wire/2026/08/18/frank-beard/) _2026-08-18 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ You can watch all of ZZ Top at Rockpalast 1980 on YouTube. ## [Nintendo Virtual Game Card Friend Had Borrowed Now All Scratched Up](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/nintendo-virtual-game-card-friend-had-borrowed-now-all-scratched-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nintendo-virtual-game-card-friend-had-borrowed-now-all-scratched-up) _2026-08-18 · Garrison DeSieno · Palette Swap_ A local slob somehow found a way to ruin his friend's digital game. The post Nintendo Virtual Game Card Friend Had Borrowed Now All Scratched Up appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [You're still allowed to use computers like it's 2007](https://spencertweedy.substack.com/p/youre-still-allowed-to-use-computers?r=62534&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true) _2026-08-17 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Just sent out a new newsletter . ## [A Crime of Excelgligence (2013)](https://financialpost.com/news/economy/reinhart-rogoff-austerity-study) _2026-08-16 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Graduate student Thomas Herndon found a basic spreadsheet error in Harvard economists’ 2010 paper that had been used to justify budget austerity. ## [Wood and Aluminum](https://spencertweedy.com/wire/2026/08/16/shaw-and-walker/) _2026-08-16 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Casey and I saw one of these Shaw-Walker wood-and-aluminum chairs at an antique mall and I liked it. ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/lZGuJuo0ZSG8) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [Basil Rhossili Bay with His Pint of Guinness](https://sarahevanswelshartist.com/products/chico-original-painting-copy) _2026-08-16 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Weird coincidence: Sarah Evans painting a dog named Basil , who looks like our dog, Basil, drinking a Guinness at a beer garden. ## [RSS"R"Us](https://spencertweedy.com/wire/2026/08/16/rss/) _2026-08-16 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ I’m using RSS again, reading websites I like with NetNewsWire (free and open source). Turns out most things I want to read on the internet still publish RSS and the apps for reading it, like NetNewsWire, are better than ever. No pop-ups… No annoying shit… No algorithm… No dick-enlargement ads… Dip in as much or as little as you want. Some good ideas stick around. You can subscribe to my blog via… ## [Academic Researchers Build a Little Dongle That Can Hack 737s](https://www.wired.com/story/this-coin-sized-device-can-hack-a-boeing-737/) _2026-08-16 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ You can’t see my face but I’m doing this right now: 😬 They told Boeing about it. ## [Strive Always In All Ways At All Times Always For Intensity](https://spencertweedy.com/wire/2026/08/16/octavia-butler/) _2026-08-16 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Octavia Butler’s notes to self . ## [Eigendrum](https://eigendrum.com/) _2026-08-16 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Basel Ashraf made a web app where you can draw a drum and hear how it would sound. A drumhead clamped at its rim cannot vibrate in just any shape. It can only vibrate in a specific, discrete set of standing waves, each with its own frequency, and both the shapes and the frequencies are decided entirely by the outline. Don’t worry, “there is deliberately no Delaunay triangulation here.” ## [Big Walk](https://bigwalk.game/) _2026-08-16 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ I haven’t played any video games in a long time, but Big Walk looks really sweet. ## [Arno Beck](https://unsung.aresluna.org/arno-becks-art/) _2026-08-16 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ I love this art by Arno Beck . ## [What If We’re All Covered In Slime?](https://craigmod.com/essays/robot_blood/) _2026-08-14 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Craig Mod describes using AI to piece together the history of his biological family, file his taxes, a whole bunch of stuff. It makes me happy that he has to hold himself back from vibe-coding too much, because I do too. He “lets himself” do it after a healthy diet of reading and writing (also fun, but in a different way, and more sustaining). He writes about recent incidents where LLM agents in… ## [When Google Translate Came Alive](https://research.google/blog/zero-shot-translation-with-googles-multilingual-neural-machine-translation-system/) _2026-08-14 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Google, in 2016: Within a single group, we see a sentence with the same meaning but from three different languages. This means the network must be encoding something about the semantics of the sentence rather than simply memorizing phrase-to-phrase translations. We interpret this as a sign of existence of an interlingua in the network. Exsqueeze me? But, Gedalyah Reback explains that Google’s… ## [Wavedashing Listed on Résumé](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/wavedashing-listed-on-resume/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wavedashing-listed-on-resume) _2026-08-13 · Peter Casciato · Palette Swap_ A man looking to bolster his resume added an eye-catching skill to the document over the weekend. The post Wavedashing Listed on Résumé appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Hire AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/w4fspdd9pmto) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Browse public gigs, message candidates, and run video interviews — free to start. ## [Hour Announces New Album Ghost Bridge](https://stereogum.com/2508030/hour-announce-new-album-ghost-bridge-hear-the-title-track/music) _2026-08-12 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ I’m excited to hear it. ## [Happy Birthday, Mom](https://spencertweedy.com/wire/2026/08/12/hbd-mom/) _2026-08-12 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ It’s Susie Tweedy’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Mom! I love you! ## [730turk: them vs me](https://youtu.be/y7L1r5onoAQ?si=X0ofKgreMAhrwpow) _2026-08-12 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Do you think 730turk would be mad at me if I called this song SpongeBob-core? I ain’t the best at this shit / n\*\*\*a I’m doing what I can ## [Adventurer Irishes Up Mana Potion](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/adventurer-irishes-up-mana-potion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adventurer-irishes-up-mana-potion) _2026-08-12 · Peter Casciato · Palette Swap_ A local barbarian adventurer has discovered that adding liquor to his mana potions adds to the array of positive effects it bestows. His party remains skeptical. The post Adventurer Irishes Up Mana Potion appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Big Walk, or, I Command You To Relax](https://spectrecollie.com/2026/08/11/big-walk-or-i-command-you-to-relax/) _2026-08-11 · Chuck · Spectre Collie_ First impressions of the game Big Walk, which is often wonderful, often frustrating, and dead set on slowing down and going the long way ## [Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: I Take The Big Walk](https://spectrecollie.com/2026/08/11/tuesday-tune-two-fer-i-take-the-big-walk/) _2026-08-11 · Chuck · Spectre Collie_ Two tunes for the new video game program all the cool people are into now ## [The Big Step Back](https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/fogbound/) _2026-08-11 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Robin Sloan : Yet we should never forget that the product of work isn’t only the work — it’s also the worker. Doing the work changes you; the up-close expe­ri­ence trans­forms your capa­bil­i­ties and even your desires. Insights and ideas emerge from that interface, and I believe the agent mae­stros lose a lot — too much — when they take their big step back. … I don’t merely want things done; I… ## [Stowaway Lets You Ride Along with Any Plane or Satellite Above](https://stowaway.live/) _2026-08-11 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ This is so, so cool. Also: kinda similar, but trains . ## [Parametron](https://ethw.org/Milestones:Parametron,_1954) _2026-08-11 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Japan has been good at computers for a long time. In 1954, Eiichi Goto invented the parametron, a logic device leveraging nonlinear parametric oscillation with two ferrite cores \[and\] in 1957, Goto led the development of the PC-1, a pioneering fully programmable stored-program computer powered by 4,200 parametrons. … Unlike the complex, maintenance-intensive vacuum tube computers of the era… ## [ICE Is Buying $20 Million-worth of Electric Shock Gloves](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/ice-electric-shock-gloves) _2026-08-11 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Fuck this. ## [Web Coding With AI, Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XhQOH4n9gXLj) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control, open source. ## [Gary, Save Me](https://spencertweedy.com/wire/2026/08/11/gary-save-me/) _2026-08-11 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Casey and I got caught in a tornado warning on our way home from Michigan today. In regular heavy rain we’d keep driving, but after a “Watch,” a “Warning,” and finally an “IMMINENT THREAT” alert screeched out of our phones, we stopped. We pulled off in Gary and drove for the sturdiest building we could see, a combination Department of Motor Vehicles and Child Services. The glass doors were locked… ## [AI Alignment Is a Red Herring](https://interconnected.org/home/2026/08/08/alignment) _2026-08-11 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ “The best way to prevent a rogue AGI from processing the Earth into maximum paperclips is to unleash a second AGI that will work to stop it,” Matt Webb says . Sounds scary to me, but I’m ultimately convinced that having a lot of somewhat-powerful super-machines around, in contest and sometimes in cooperation, is a lot better than having just one uncontestedly super-powerful machine around. Much… ## [Explanation of Video Game Tattoo Enters Third Minute](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/gaming/explanation-of-video-game-tattoo-enters-third-minute/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=explanation-of-video-game-tattoo-enters-third-minute) _2026-08-11 · Brian Rubinow · Palette Swap_ A partygoer quickly regretted asking a local man about his full sleeve tattoo. The post Explanation of Video Game Tattoo Enters Third Minute appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Alternate History Hub Video Explores Timeline Where She Never Left](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/alternate-history-hub-video-explores-timeline-where-she-never-left/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alternate-history-hub-video-explores-timeline-where-she-never-left) _2026-08-10 · Peter Casciato · Palette Swap_ YouTube channel AlternateHistoryHub imagines how life might have unfolded had he not turned his college romance into ancient history. The post Alternate History Hub Video Explores Timeline Where She Never Left appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [One Thing I Like About Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma](https://spectrecollie.com/2026/08/09/one-thing-i-like-about-teenage-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma/) _2026-08-09 · Chuck · Spectre Collie_ Jane Schoenbrun's slasher has so much about it that I love, even if it is a little too meta, like New Nightmare from horror master Wes Craven ## [The Roottrees are Dead, or, 5 Easy Pieces](https://spectrecollie.com/2026/08/08/the-roottrees-are-dead-or-5-easy-pieces/) _2026-08-09 · Chuck · Spectre Collie_ The engaging deduction game is a mash-up of The Return of the Obra Dinn and Ancestry.com ## [Bob Dylan: “Going, Going, Gone”](https://stage.tidal.com/track/14290156/u) _2026-08-08 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Revisiting Planet Waves . ## [Big Walk Criticized by Anti-Woke Gamers for Not Catering to Players With No Friends](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/big-walk-criticized-by-anti-woke-gamers-for-not-catering-to-players-with-no-friends/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=big-walk-criticized-by-anti-woke-gamers-for-not-catering-to-players-with-no-friends) _2026-08-07 · Brad Waters · Palette Swap_ Big Walk is facing criticism online for excluding members of the gaming community who have no one in their lives that consider them a friend. The post Big Walk Criticized by Anti-Woke Gamers for Not Catering to Players With No Friends appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Matchbox Labels at Design Reviewed](https://designreviewed.com/matchbox-labels/?ref=spencertweedy.com) _2026-08-07 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ Via SimpleBits . A selection of 20th-century matchbox labels from a collection of over 5,000 of them. ## [Raphael Switches Preferred Weapon From Sai to Gun](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/raphael-switches-preferred-weapon-from-sai-to-gun/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=raphael-switches-preferred-weapon-from-sai-to-gun) _2026-08-07 · Mark Roebuck · Palette Swap_ The red-clad hero in a half shell Raphael is saying goodbye to his sais in favor of a Smith & Wesson SW1911 E-Series pistol. The post Raphael Switches Preferred Weapon From Sai to Gun appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Factory Fined After Storing Explosive Materials in Barrels Painted Blue](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/factory-fined-after-storing-explosive-materials-in-barrels-painted-blue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=factory-fined-after-storing-explosive-materials-in-barrels-painted-blue) _2026-08-06 · Joe Tilleli · Palette Swap_ A labeling mishap at a distribution center led to an explosive error. The post Factory Fined After Storing Explosive Materials in Barrels Painted Blue appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Micro Center](https://spencertweedy.com/wire/2026/08/05/micro-center/) _2026-08-05 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ I love that, in the year of our lord 2026, Micro Center still attracts freaks of the classical variety to its staff. ## [Finom Babies](https://spencertweedy.com/wire/2026/08/05/finom-babies/) _2026-08-05 · Spencer Tweedy's Blog_ So many adorable babies and their parents showed up to the Finom show at the MCA last night. Our front row was a dancing cherub fest. ## [One Thing I Love About Spider-Man: Brand New Day](https://spectrecollie.com/2026/08/03/one-thing-i-love-about-spider-man-brand-new-day/) _2026-08-04 · Chuck · Spectre Collie_ Much of Brand New Day feels like it was made specifically for lifelong fans of the comics, but it still works for those of us who weren't. (No spoilers but caution advised) ## [Ghostwatch, or, The Pipes, the Pipes are Calling](https://spectrecollie.com/2026/08/01/ghostwatch-or-the-pipes-the-pipes-are-calling/) _2026-08-01 · Chuck · Spectre Collie_ The notorious BBC Halloween stunt about a family finding a strange man in their glory hole ## [Ruining the Mystique of the Coen Brothers](https://spectrecollie.com/2026/07/31/ruining-the-mystique-of-the-coen-brothers/) _2026-08-01 · Chuck · Spectre Collie_ Reconsidering O Brother, Where Art Thou? as an actual adaptation of The Odyssey, instead of just making fun of the audacity of adapting The Odyssey ## [One Thing I Like About The Odyssey](https://spectrecollie.com/2026/07/30/one-thing-i-like-about-the-odyssey/) _2026-07-31 · Chuck · Spectre Collie_ The thing I like most about The Odyssey is what it shows us about interpretation, adaptation, and the whole idea of "a definitive version." (Spoilers) ## [Movies: Arco](https://dustin.works/library/arco/) _2026-07-25 · Dustin Mierau_ Ugo Bienvenu · 2025 ## [“Overpriced” Notebooks, “Hipster GameBoys,” and Your Abrasive Brand Ambassador](https://spectrecollie.com/2026/07/23/overpriced-notebooks-hipster-gameboys-and-your-abrasive-brand-ambassador/) _2026-07-23 · Chuck · Spectre Collie_ A repentent Gen X-er balances his sincere love of small businesses with a need to be cynical and suspicious of everything ## [Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Once Upon a Black Rainbow](https://spectrecollie.com/2026/07/21/tuesday-tune-two-fer-once-upon-a-black-rainbow/) _2026-07-21 · Chuck · Spectre Collie_ Two tunes celebrating St Vincent's fairy tale take on repression and depression