Adi Robertson

If you’re taking pictures of today’s apocalyptic fire-tinted sky on the US East Coast, you might notice the colors are far more normal than the ones your eyes see. Ian Bogost wrote a deep dive on what that means back in 2020:

I am incredibly susceptible to agonizing over critiques of my creative work. Congrats to Zach Gage (designer of Spelltower and Really Bad Chess) for hitting on a pretty clever way to get the relevant criticism with a layer of distance... and still luxuriate in fully human praise.

I got a request for a more readable PDF version of The Electric Sea, a Sudowrite-generated story about hacking, artistic sellouts, and a floating domed city run by an AI. (Fair warning, it’s not great!) So for anybody else who’d rather not navigate 12 Tumblr posts, I’m posting the manuscript here too, minus the prompts and notes in those posts. I also had Sudowrite suggest a nom de plume for itself — say hello to Elodie Paradox, the pulp sci-fi answer to Aidan Marchine.

Apple’s WWDC State of the Union is giving us more details about how developers can work with visionOS. That includes confirmation that Unity apps are supposed to run easily on the Vision Pro — including alongside other, non-Unity apps.

I’m still waiting for the Verge ground team’s impressions of the new Apple Vision Pro and visionOS — but seriously, I’m glad those name rumors were wrong.

EU specialists are touring San Francisco performing “stress tests” of enforcement for the upcoming Digital Services Act, and Twitter is on the roster:

SB 244 passed 38-0, and now it’s heading for the California State Assembly. If it passes there and it’s signed into law, it would expand access to replacement parts and service information. That would put California in the company of Minnesota, Colorado, and New York, all of which have recently signed right to repair rules — although New York’s was significantly compromised.