ericdennis

Tech Lead at Blizzard Entertainment. Tweets are my own. Screaming inside my heart.

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

Atmospheric scientist here. Let me tell you what was actually "slashed" today.

Slashed: The Endangerment Finding — a 200-page scientific review upheld by the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and reaffirmed by the National Academies of Sciences in 2025.

Slashed: The legal authority to regulate carbon from cars, power plants, and factories. All of it. Gone in one afternoon.

Now here's what you're "saving":

Yesterday Trump ordered the Pentagon — the largest energy consumer on Earth — to buy coal electricity.

Coal costs $69–$169/MWh.
Wind costs $27–$53/MWh.
Solar costs $38–$78/MWh.

99% of U.S. coal plants cost more to run than replacing them with brand-new solar or wind.

That's your tax dollars buying the most expensive electricity on the market. By executive order. While the Peabody Energy CEO stood in the room.

And the human cost of what you're "saving"?

460,000 American deaths linked to coal pollution in 20 years. Coal PM2.5 is 2.1x deadlier than other air pollution. (Henneman et al., Science, 2023)

All to protect an industry that employs 44,000 people total. Clean energy employs 3.5 million.

[Kylan O'Connor @kylancodes]

Vibe coders be like 👨‍💻

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

A computer scientist’s perspective on vibe coding:

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

The single most important article yet published on Trump's second term, by two scholars who since 2016 have been consistently correct in anticipating Trump's effect on our political system. Everyone should read it.

[ericdennis @ericdennis]

Looking at you @washingtonpost and @latimes

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Do not obey in advance. Lesson 1, first page, of my pamphlet "On Tyranny"

[ericdennis @ericdennis]

I subscribed to WaPo in 2016 because they were willing to report accurately on the 🍊🤡. Today I unsubscribed to @washingtonpost and @latimes because democracy dies when the press self-censors to avoid angering fascists.

[Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford]

Democracy dies in darkness.

[Celestalon @Celestalon]

The Hearthstone team is growing!

We're looking to fill a few design roles, especially with experienced designers. As always, I'm happy to answer any questions, and my DMs are open!

Senior Game Designer (Card Design)
https://t.co/YlYoC8p1DA

Senior Narrative Designer
https://t.co/x0OsDpimfy

[nolen @itseieio]

I made a website. it's called "one million checkboxes dot com". it has one million checkboxes on it.

checking a box checks it for everyone.

that's it. have fun!

[ericdennis @ericdennis]

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” 🎉

[ericdennis @ericdennis]

@RidiculousHat Yes! I binged it this week and loved it. So many great games like this one recently: Outer Wilds, Golden Idol, Obra Dinn, and going back a little, the Witness, Inscryption, Talos Principle. Heaven’s Vault and Sexy Brutale are up next for me.

[The Onion @TheOnion]

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://t.co/Kp8d3b4JZS

[Jon Bruner @JonBruner]

What’s inside Apple’s $129 Thunderbolt cable? We CT scanned one to find out, and compared it to some cheaper cables… 🧵

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The main downside of working in AI is having to constantly fight off assassination attempts from random time travelers

[ericdennis @ericdennis]

So do we dampen the forest floors before or after we rake them? Or do we not need to rake them at all if we dampen them? I want to make sure I understand these obviously very well-thought out and incisive ideas.

[ericdennis @ericdennis]

They know their audience.

[Jeff Kemp @jkempcpa]

This was handed out to people in line for the Trump Rally this morning in Pickens, South Carolina.

[Gabriel Gareso 🇺🇦 @gabriel_gareso]

🔈Sound on!

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
Steve Jobs.

Audio by the genius @ambroseyu !

#itsnevertoolate #intl

[ericdennis @ericdennis]

Diabolical

[MG @_MG_]

Love it

[0xDesigner @0xDesigner]

Probably the best thing you'll see today.

In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world.

The results 🧵

1/22

[A.R. Moxon 🦋 @JuliusGoat]

It wasn’t long before everyone knew that dinosaurs were being released into the city. Nobody debated about that part—not at first.

Everyone agreed; dinosaurs were being released into the city.

It would have been a hard thing to deny. The screams were in everyone’s ears.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

Uvalde: AR-15
Buffalo: AR-15
Boulder: AR-15
Orlando: AR-15
Parkland: AR-15
Las Vegas: AR-15
Aurora, CO: AR-15
Sandy Hook: AR-15
San Bernardino: AR-15
Midland/Odessa: AR-15
Poway synagogue: AR-15
Sutherland Springs: AR-15
Tree of Life Synagogue: AR-15

Colorado Springs: AR-15