Joel Dinolt
@jdinolt.bsky.social
Husband, dog dad, technical director at Bethesda Game Studios/Microsoft, he/him Opinions expressed are my own.
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Delete Spotify
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Delete Spotify
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Every modern FPS game (COD, Battlefield) is set around this "realistic" plot of: "What if Russia got embroiled in a war with Central-Asian & Middle-Eastern powers and NATO responded?" to set the scene.
Whereas Fallout went with: "What if the world ended because the USA is fucking stupid?"
Whereas Fallout went with: "What if the world ended because the USA is fucking stupid?"
The future is being informed your country is being annexed by someone winning a large Kalshi bet on CNN
CNN is covering the Kalshi prediction markets as though they are news
January 7, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Every modern FPS game (COD, Battlefield) is set around this "realistic" plot of: "What if Russia got embroiled in a war with Central-Asian & Middle-Eastern powers and NATO responded?" to set the scene.
Whereas Fallout went with: "What if the world ended because the USA is fucking stupid?"
Whereas Fallout went with: "What if the world ended because the USA is fucking stupid?"
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I think this is what is really aggrivating about Walz and Frey. If you’re gonna not use *any* state resources to help the situation at all (tbf, they are using lawyers, but the Court decided that could wait a week), at least get your body out there on the line
It’s time to demand our leaders and politicians stop talking about non-violence, and start demonstrating more physical courage by DOING non-violence in the streets.
So far, all the courage has come from ordinary people, and almost none from our leaders and politicians.
January 15, 2026 at 7:17 AM
I think this is what is really aggrivating about Walz and Frey. If you’re gonna not use *any* state resources to help the situation at all (tbf, they are using lawyers, but the Court decided that could wait a week), at least get your body out there on the line
Guys collective retribution is a thing and it’s a thing articulated by the current head of DHS. Calling for “peace” is not being conciliatory it is being strategic.
January 15, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Guys collective retribution is a thing and it’s a thing articulated by the current head of DHS. Calling for “peace” is not being conciliatory it is being strategic.
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Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
Not only that but Space 1999 had a consistent story line that totally made sense.
January 13, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Not only that but Space 1999 had a consistent story line that totally made sense.
Why yes Tim purveyors of CSAM are my political enemies. I would think that’s true for most people.
January 13, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Why yes Tim purveyors of CSAM are my political enemies. I would think that’s true for most people.
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It’s a hell of a start, it could be made into a monster
Have a Cigar - Wish You Were Here
Have a Cigar - Wish You Were Here
January 12, 2026 at 7:00 AM
It’s a hell of a start, it could be made into a monster
Have a Cigar - Wish You Were Here
Have a Cigar - Wish You Were Here
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You know what a market supported by vibes needs? Volatility
January 12, 2026 at 3:41 AM
You know what a market supported by vibes needs? Volatility
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they can't take the sunsets
South Minneapolis, January 2026
South Minneapolis, January 2026
January 12, 2026 at 3:58 AM
they can't take the sunsets
South Minneapolis, January 2026
South Minneapolis, January 2026
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I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount
January 10, 2026 at 4:07 AM
I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount
“Don’t tread on me” has always been macho posturing for “quit telling me I’m an asshole for using slurs and being terrified of the people I’m using slurs at.”
The "Don't Tread On Me" people sure love to be tread on.
You can't even leave your home and cower in terror and think you live in a free society?
You can't even leave your home and cower in terror and think you live in a free society?
January 10, 2026 at 2:41 AM
“Don’t tread on me” has always been macho posturing for “quit telling me I’m an asshole for using slurs and being terrified of the people I’m using slurs at.”
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Democrats stop voting for Trump's nominees challenge (impossible).
April 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Democrats stop voting for Trump's nominees challenge (impossible).
Super sad news. Saw two of the best shows of my life there.
Breaking some news for @coyotemedia.org here.
Incredibly sad about this — some of the best nights of my life have involved this club — but I’m also so honored and grateful to Ramona, Kathleen and Lynn for trusting me with this story.
www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...
Incredibly sad about this — some of the best nights of my life have involved this club — but I’m also so honored and grateful to Ramona, Kathleen and Lynn for trusting me with this story.
www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...
Beloved SF Club Bottom of the Hill to Close at the End of 2026
One of the city’s last independent music venues, Bottom of the Hill has survived waves of gentrification, COVID closures, and more throughout its 35 years. Now, owners say it’s last call — on their ow...
www.coyotemedia.org
January 3, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Super sad news. Saw two of the best shows of my life there.
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For everything else about Trump, it's remarkable how similar his natsec process is to George W. Bush.
It's seemingly almost entirely driven by an insular and small group of people with pathological fixations on working informally to steer all American policy toward their decades-long grievances.
It's seemingly almost entirely driven by an insular and small group of people with pathological fixations on working informally to steer all American policy toward their decades-long grievances.
December 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
For everything else about Trump, it's remarkable how similar his natsec process is to George W. Bush.
It's seemingly almost entirely driven by an insular and small group of people with pathological fixations on working informally to steer all American policy toward their decades-long grievances.
It's seemingly almost entirely driven by an insular and small group of people with pathological fixations on working informally to steer all American policy toward their decades-long grievances.
Convincing you to destroy your credibility and wreck your career counts as an own my dude.
December 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Convincing you to destroy your credibility and wreck your career counts as an own my dude.
Also “Vampire Squid” was a terrible turn of phrase.
December 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Also “Vampire Squid” was a terrible turn of phrase.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Joe Rogan is bad for the economy.
My Austin house has apparently last almost half its value since 2022. lol good times.
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Joe Rogan is bad for the economy.
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Ask your friendly academic librarian about all the times we tried to tell you that what we do is important and you should fund it. You get the services you pay for, friends.
Lolololol at every academic who has paid zero attention to their library or constantly-decreasing library funding suddenly being like LIBRARIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING THEMSELVES AND OUTSOURCING NOTHING like we all have teams of programmers and software engineers.
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ask your friendly academic librarian about all the times we tried to tell you that what we do is important and you should fund it. You get the services you pay for, friends.
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If I ever lost that mental model I would not have been able to quickly answer client questions or explain our choices on calls with clients
December 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
If I ever lost that mental model I would not have been able to quickly answer client questions or explain our choices on calls with clients
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Extremist movements are often most dangerous when they're negotiating group boundaries, whether it's the in-group or the out-group
Even Ramaswamy getting queasy with the right-wing obsession with “heritage.”
“.. ‘There is no American who is more American than somebody else. … It is binary. Either you're an American or you're not.’”
www.foxnews.com/media/vivek-...
“.. ‘There is no American who is more American than somebody else. … It is binary. Either you're an American or you're not.’”
www.foxnews.com/media/vivek-...
December 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Extremist movements are often most dangerous when they're negotiating group boundaries, whether it's the in-group or the out-group
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They made one rap song based on the music of Michael McDonald and it was an all-time classic and then they were just like we can’t do it again, he’s too powerful, hip hop cannot handle Takin’ It To The Streets
December 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
They made one rap song based on the music of Michael McDonald and it was an all-time classic and then they were just like we can’t do it again, he’s too powerful, hip hop cannot handle Takin’ It To The Streets
This is going to date me quite a bit but I think one could be forgiven for thinking this is what happens if you feed the collected works of Martin Amis to an LLM and then ask it to read you bed time story in a sultry woman’s voice.
Okay, I think I figured out how to turn the audio sample into a video that can be uploaded to Bluesky. Here are the first 3 minutes.
December 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is going to date me quite a bit but I think one could be forgiven for thinking this is what happens if you feed the collected works of Martin Amis to an LLM and then ask it to read you bed time story in a sultry woman’s voice.
I really hate it when people use the phrase “democratized knowledge“ as a point In favor of AI. We’ve had democratized knowledge for a couple centuries. It’s called public libraries.
December 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I really hate it when people use the phrase “democratized knowledge“ as a point In favor of AI. We’ve had democratized knowledge for a couple centuries. It’s called public libraries.