A dark and killing cloud over Tehran And over a shamed America

The images of the smoke over Tehran are shocking. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-dark-and...

Unity XR Updates - February 2026 Hi everyone, We’re back with another round of XR updates! Since our last check-in, we’ve officially released Unity 6.3, which brings a host of performance improvements, new features, and quality-of-l...

Our XR product team is running a survey right now. We'd love to hear from you if you are a Unity XR developer! discussions.unity.com/t/unity-xr-u...

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

Oh hey I just saw one of these!

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.

Been thinking about this all morning. AI isn't just the sum of all human knowledge -- it's expanding human knowledge. openai.com/index/new-re...

Free tax help from IRS-certified volunteers. | GetYourRefund Maximize your refund by filing with our trusted volunteers. Available to you online or in person!

Shout out to @codeforamerica.org for making www.getyourrefund.org/en.

Free tax filing should be an option for everyone.

I'm out here dying of thirst for artistic iOS games. This looks super cool!

A Giant Billionaire Tick in the Skies Over Davos: 'SUCK' in AR Explaining the augmented reality intervention at WEF by Nancy Baker Cahill & me. (For some reason, media won't touch it.)

Live at the World Economic Forum: SUCK, an AR intervention by @drawing.bsky.social & me.

Read more about it here: www.realitystudies.co/p/wef-davos-...

wow that is a slick site!

Tonight: The Game Awards!

We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games.

Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏

Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

I've given the Roberts court the benefit of the doubt for too long. This is deeply troubling to say the least.

I haven't watched yet, but oh hey bookmark this talk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEKm...

The Road Map talk is a once-a-year glimpse into how Unity leadership thinks about the product, and what's coming up!

🔥Unity just announced XR Hands Package 1.7.0 that enables devs to create custom gestures even easier!

The steps in Unity:
1️⃣ Connect your headset
2️⃣ Record the gesture on your device
3️⃣ Import the recordings into Unity

We made (a lot) of things! Come check out what we did for Android XR on the Galaxy XR Headset!

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50!

#FightFireWithFire

Selfishly, my favorite thing about the rise of AI is that traffic on the Unity forums that I monitor has noticeably declined. I hope you all are getting good answers to your questions out there!

Unity just released a really nice guide for landing your first role as a junior game programmer: cdn.bfldr.com/s5bc9y64/at/...

A commendable effort I definitely thought was worth sharing.

Native desktop screen reader support now available in Unity 6.3! Hi everyone, We’re excited to announce that Unity 6000.3.0a5 brings native screen reader support to Windows and macOS. This extends the platform coverage of Unity’s screen reader support APIs beyond ...

Unity's accessibility team quietly doing great work. Native screen reader support for Windows and Mac just dropped. discussions.unity.com/t/native-des...

It's been a while.

Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.

store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

If you are an OpenXR app developer working in Unity and you want the lowest-level control, this API will save you a lot of time otherwise spent on C# interop.

Unity will also depend on this native API for our own internal products, including future AR Foundation support for spatial entities.

@aras-p.bsky.social gave some great feedback last year that stuck with me:

"today [Unity] APIs are in a weird spot of being neither low level enough to be very flexible and performant, nor high level enough to be expressive and easy to use."

This release is a step toward low-level flexibility.

OpenXR native API | OpenXR Plugin | 1.16.0-pre.1

Announcement! I've been working on Unity support for the new OpenXR Spatial Entities extensions, and today we shipped a public native API in OpenXR Plug-in 1.16.0-pre.1: docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com...

This API is a pure C# port of the OpenXR spec, currently limited to spatial entities.

Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions in birthright citizenship order The decision issues some limits on the power of federal judges to universally block President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, asking lower courts to reconsider their rulings.

This decision sets our country back decades. Donald Trump is intentionally pushing unconstitutional policies and this Supreme Court is giving him the green light to do so. It must be condemned and Congress must act to stop him. www.npr.org/2025/06/27/n...

OpenXR Spatial Entities Extensions Released for Developer Feedback The Khronos® OpenXR™ Working Group has released a groundbreaking set of OpenXR extensions that establish the first open standard for spatial computing, enabling consistent cross-platform support for p...

This week Khronos released the OpenXR Spatial Entities extensions, a new cross-vendor standard for mixed reality app development. www.khronos.org/blog/openxr-...

The implications for AR Foundation are massive, and I'm excited to lead Unity's integration of the new standard.

Montana Students Must Predict Their Future If They Want to Vote, Lawsuit Charges Read more.

BREAKING: A voting rights group is suing Montana over a new voter suppression law targeting college students

Under HB 413, students must say they’ll stay in the state after graduation in order to register to vote.

From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Clothing retailer Frank And Oak announces that they will no longer offer shipping to the USA due to recent tariff announcements.

My favorite Canadian clothing brand has discontinued shipping to the US altogether :/. The tariffs are a real shame.

This is exactly what I want! Except an updated mount for Quest 3

My wish is for a 6DOF arm that can clamp to my desk, allowing me to suspend the headset in the air and move it around without it actually being on my head.

My setup needs some work tbh

Maybe all my mutuals already know of Marc. But in case you don't, you should!