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John Oliver discusses the United States Agency for International Development, why the Trump Administration has gutted it, who is being impacted, and how the Cha Cha Slide can help us get to the bottom of this.

This update, among other things, adds support for VK_EXT_descriptor_heap, which should bring significant performance boost to Nvidia cards, once it's properly implemented.

This game seems quite interesting with a unique art style. It's an FPS game, but everything is hand drawn in the 1930s rubber hose style. For example, the characters aren't 3d, but instead they are hand drawn 2d sprites.

In this video, the devs talk about the art style, game world, story and combat.

MOUSE: P.I. For Hire launches across PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 on March 19, 2026.

• https://www.mousethegame.com/
• https://store.steampowered.com/app/2416450/MOUSE_PI_For_Hire/

You can play FBC: Firebreak for free this weekend, starting at 18:00 UTC time. That's about three hours from now. There will also be a Double XP Weekend at the same time.

All Remedy games on Steam are also now discounted by 60% to 90%. That includes all the other Remedy games except Alan Wake 2, which continues to be Epic Store exclusive.

https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/RemedyEntertainment

A new PC port of Super Mario 64, with native Linux version. It comes as an AppImage, and requires a ROM file of the original game.

Seems to work well. FPS is locked to 30 by default, but you can change that from the settings. It even supports ultrawide resolutions, with the possibility to change HUD aspect ratio to 16:9.

It also supports HD texture packs, such as this one: https://github.com/GhostlyDark/SM64-Reloaded-GS. Just decompress it in to the mods folder, and toggle between original and alternative textures with the Tab key.

Fallout Shelter (working title) is a new reality competition series based on the hit Amazon drama and computer game of the same name. The dwellers (contestants) live together in a top-secret vault, where they will compete in a series of games that tests the seven core attributes from the Fallout world. Strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility and luck (S.P.E.C.I.A.L).

The series will not only test dwellers’ core attributes, but also their loyalty and alliances. It’s a game of power dynamics, popularity and social strategy which will ultimately result in a huge cash prize, but do you have what it takes to be the most S.P.E.C.I.A.L?.

I am sort of speechless, but for all the wrong reasons.

Former Trump administration official and wife of top Trump aide Stephen Miller, Katie Miller, posted Saturday on X (formerly Twitter) an image of Greenland covered in the U.S. flag with the text “SOON”.

A journey through 1980s sci-fi films, exploring the impact and relevance they had and still hold today, as told by the artist that made them.

This was quite enjoyable to watch. Plenty of interesting behind the scenes things about the making of the movies. There were also a few interesting movies that I have never even heard before.

There are 5 episodes, about 50 minutes each:

• The Pioneers
• Futuristic Effects
• Dystopia
• Welcome To The Machine
• Space-Time

A journey through 1980s sci-fi films, exploring the impact and relevance they had and still hold today, as told by the artist that made them.

There are 5 episodes, about 50 minutes each:

• The Pioneers
• Futuristic Effects
• Dystopia
• Welcome To The Machine
• Space-Time

Cory "Pluralistic" Doctorow, the coiner of the term "enshittification", wrote an article about the uselessness of the finance sector. He refers to an article by John Lanchester.

Lanchester starts by stating that while we think of the role of the finance sector as "capital allocation" – that is, using investors' money to fund new businesses and expansions for existing business – that hasn't been important to finance for quite some time. Today, only 3% of bank activity consists of "lending to firms and individuals engaged in the production of goods and services."

The other 97% of finance is gambling.

And here are a couple quotes from the Lanchester's article, For Every Winner a Loser. He used selling mangoes as an example in his article.

In his indispensable guide to the current condition of the financial industry, Other People’s Money, published in 2015, John Kay talks about the state of the UK banking sector, whose assets then were about £7 trillion, four times the aggregate income of everyone in the country. But the assets of British banks ‘mostly consist of claims on other banks. Their liabilities are mainly obligations to other financial institutions. Lending to firms and individuals engaged in the production of goods and services – which most people would imagine was the principal business of a bank – amounts to about 3 per cent of that total.’

The total value of all the economic activity in the world is estimated at $105 trillion. That’s the mangoes. The value of the financial derivatives which arise from this activity – that’s the subsequent trading – is $667 trillion. That makes it the biggest business in the world. And in terms of the things it produces, that business is useless. It does nothing and adds no value. It is just one speculator betting against another and for every winner, on every single transaction, there is an exactly equivalent loser.

It being Christmas, here's Charles Dickens' classic, Christmas Carol, as ballet. Provided by ARTE.

A Christmas classic revisited in dance form at the Finnish National Opera: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It's the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a grumpy, miserly old man who, on Christmas Eve, is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. A magical tale popular with all ages, adapted into a ballet by an all-British artistic team including composer Sally Beamish and choreographer David Bintley.