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“Dear friend, from my project I write to you in your project.” (apologies to Yiyun Li)

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20.02.2026 01:08 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

19.11.2025 17:16 👍 1067 🔁 409 💬 30 📌 7

9:00 Buttplugs mentioned - @buttplug.io

18.11.2025 22:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI Wearables Are Coming: Rings, Earrings, Glasses
AI Wearables Are Coming: Rings, Earrings, Glasses YouTube video by More or Less Podcast

“We get into AI wearables: rings, necklaces, even earrings”
youtu.be/pA20Sk63yYE

18.11.2025 22:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A screenshot from The Witcher 4 demo: a black horse stands in a wooded area while Ciri, a woman in a black cloak, stands in the foreground

A screenshot from The Witcher 4 demo: a black horse stands in a wooded area while Ciri, a woman in a black cloak, stands in the foreground

I am going to do right by The Witcher 4's horse
aftermath.site/witcher-4-kelpie

03.06.2025 14:55 👍 96 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 10

Chief Meteorologist @mattdevittweather.bsky.social of WINK News reviews "Weather the Storm," a life-saving #VR simulation we developed and tested at the @ugavr.bsky.social, in collab with @noaa.gov, Clemson University, the National Hurricane Center, Georgia Sea Grant, and South Carolina Sea Grant.

25.03.2025 19:57 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The Quest 3 is the cheapest high-quality headset ever. Are we finally there?

Avi Bar-Zeev: It's an impressive device, but I have philosophical issues with it. Meta can afford to sell it cheap because it's subsidized by ad revenue. Even if they're not running ads on the headset yet, the money keeping that division alive comes from ad dollars. I don't think we had to rush into making the cheapest possible headset. The market isn't ready for it.

The Quest 3 is the cheapest high-quality headset ever. Are we finally there? Avi Bar-Zeev: It's an impressive device, but I have philosophical issues with it. Meta can afford to sell it cheap because it's subsidized by ad revenue. Even if they're not running ads on the headset yet, the money keeping that division alive comes from ad dollars. I don't think we had to rush into making the cheapest possible headset. The market isn't ready for it.

Turning back to VR for a moment, I appreciate this smart framing of Meta’s headsets—that even if you don’t see ads when you turn them on they should still be considered ad-driven devices, since that’s ultimately what’s paying for all of it (Ali Bar-Zeev interviewed by Gabriele Romagnoli)

17.04.2025 01:56 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump brain drain starts global tug-of-war for the best science minds Some of America’s brightest are increasingly uncomfortable in a country where ideology threatens to constrain science

Cute, but unless these other countries are willing to spend as much as the US on science, the brain drain will be to other professions (some completely unrelated to science).

26.04.2025 08:15 👍 166 🔁 42 💬 9 📌 3

If I could name one consistent feature of people who end up having miserly, paranoid, counterproductive politics, it would be this—the attitude that care should flow TOWARD you but not FROM you.

25.04.2025 19:48 👍 644 🔁 137 💬 10 📌 10
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It's not a marathon or a sprint. It's strength training. A motivational pep talk for these unprecedented times.

by popular demand, I've unlocked this paid subscriber post so it's free for everyone ~
"Marathon" isn't a good metaphor, because marathons are a slog to be endured, and also, marathons end, whereas this is... interminable. But what if, hear me out,...
www.shesabeast.co/its-not-a-ma...

23.04.2025 17:33 👍 218 🔁 61 💬 6 📌 8

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

24.04.2025 00:56 👍 976 🔁 424 💬 16 📌 52

The most important thing for you to know as a software engineer is that if you destroy the computer with a hammer it cannot hurt you anymore

23.04.2025 16:16 👍 802 🔁 198 💬 25 📌 9

One of the things I think about often is a post I read probably twenty years ago from a math professor who was out walking on his beach with this dog, throwing a ball and watching the dog run out and catch it before it landed.

23.04.2025 13:51 👍 451 🔁 92 💬 11 📌 16

Here's the article about burrowing owls I was interviewed for. I think it came out really well. 🪶https://www.kpbs.org/news/environment/2025/04/11/imperial-county-is-a-refuge-for-californias-vanishing-burrowing-owls-but-do-they-need-more-protection

23.04.2025 12:54 👍 164 🔁 39 💬 6 📌 3

I cannot emphasize enough how much I miss street dining and am furious so many outdoor spaces that reduced the risk of Covid-19 were taken away for PARKING SPACES

21.04.2025 14:54 👍 1068 🔁 199 💬 20 📌 3
A green stag stands atop a hill, his antlers fill the top of the page and are filled with plants and birds.  In the hill he stands on, a doe leaps over her fawn.  Below them two foxes chase a rabbit who waits at the opening of a warren.

A green stag stands atop a hill, his antlers fill the top of the page and are filled with plants and birds. In the hill he stands on, a doe leaps over her fawn. Below them two foxes chase a rabbit who waits at the opening of a warren.

the hart of the forest #art

21.04.2025 16:36 👍 13959 🔁 1925 💬 175 📌 36

I saw advice to buy extra cans of food when you’re at the grocery store to donate to the food bank.

I want to politely nudge you to give the money directly to food banks (or to mutual aid groups if you know of any).

We can usually stretch a dollar farther than a dollar’s worth of canned goods

19.04.2025 02:32 👍 1965 🔁 605 💬 17 📌 44
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We spent some quality time with a color changing squid today #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #squid #colorchanging #chromatophores #cephalopod #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation #ccf #kbcf

13.04.2025 16:22 👍 12418 🔁 1317 💬 256 📌 86
1939359 - Update default emoji font on Linux to prefer Noto Color Emoji [was: 🐦‍⬛ (🐦‍⬛) is rendered as a red bird followed by a black box, rather than a black bird] RESOLVED (jfkthame) in Core - Layout: Text and Fonts. Last updated 2025-01-07.

firefox switched their default emoji font on linux from twemoji to noto, and I can't find anyone on the internet talking about it???

I had to git blame to even find the change: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

18.03.2025 13:46 👍 175 🔁 18 💬 14 📌 3
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Mark Cerny: FSR 4 for PS5 Pro is the "next evolution of PSSR" Last week, AMD released its new wave of graphics hardware, developed around the new RDNA 4 architecture. Machine learni…

Mark Cerny answered a range of our questions on Sony's Amethyst collaboration with AMD - but the key headline is this: FSR 4 will be 're-implemented' for PlayStation 5 Pro as the next evolution of PSSR, coming to games in 2026: www.eurogamer.net/digitalfound...

10.03.2025 16:04 👍 189 🔁 22 💬 5 📌 9
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GitHub - jlaumon/Bedrock: Minimal C++20 STL replacement library. Simpler, smaller, and in many cases faster. Minimal C++20 STL replacement library. Simpler, smaller, and in many cases faster. - jlaumon/Bedrock

I have just made the repo of my C++ STL replacement lib public on github. It's called Bedrock.

It's got the usual things, Vector, String, Atomic etc. but also a very good HashMap and few interesting allocators (details on blog: danglingpointers.com/post/bedrock...)

github.com/jlaumon/Bedr...

30.12.2024 13:08 👍 114 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 1
Mucronella flava is a tiny icicle-like fungus. We're looking at the flat surface of a cut-down tree, and covering that dark, wet woody surface is a ton of little yellow teeth hanging downwards. These little yellow teeth are the mushroom itself!

Mucronella flava is a tiny icicle-like fungus. We're looking at the flat surface of a cut-down tree, and covering that dark, wet woody surface is a ton of little yellow teeth hanging downwards. These little yellow teeth are the mushroom itself!

Like tiny yellow icicles, Mucronela flava is a fun little fungus to find. From afar, it just looks like some small yellow crust fungus, but upon close inspection, you'll notice that it's actually a very toothy mushroom! 🦷💛 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🍄 📷 🍄‍🟫

09.03.2025 14:22 👍 185 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 1
screenshot of a conversation on reddit where someone says a band logo reminds them of an olympic dressage jump and I explain there's no such thing, full convo here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/comments/1j6bl5f/what_does_this_mean/mgndptd/

screenshot of a conversation on reddit where someone says a band logo reminds them of an olympic dressage jump and I explain there's no such thing, full convo here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/comments/1j6bl5f/what_does_this_mean/mgndptd/

sometimes I have fun conversations on random subreddits that no one sees 😇

10.03.2025 09:01 👍 42 🔁 3 💬 6 📌 0
Glowing blue cosmic cloud looking sort of like a dolphin.

Glowing blue cosmic cloud looking sort of like a dolphin.

Scary, unsettling times on this world. Meanwhile, 5,000 light years away, this beautiful giant cloud, the Dolphin Nebula, glows, blown by hot winds from a massive star. About 60 light years across, it covers an area about the size of a full moon in our skies. 🧪

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20030...

02.03.2025 16:11 👍 1762 🔁 192 💬 23 📌 8
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Just showing some progress with re-building the player physics to be a bit less clunky, as well as major improvements to jump-through platforms and ledge grabbing, including grabbing onto moving platforms.
look at her go!
#gamedev #gamemaker #furrygame #indiegame

23.02.2025 03:15 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Gemini: autocomplete suggestions include "how to turn off", "how to disable", and "how to remove".

Copilot: autocomplete suggestions include "how to disable", "how to delete", "how to uninstall", "how to turn off", and "how to remove."

Gemini: autocomplete suggestions include "how to turn off", "how to disable", and "how to remove". Copilot: autocomplete suggestions include "how to disable", "how to delete", "how to uninstall", "how to turn off", and "how to remove."

I'm putting together a slide illustrating how generative AI is being forced on people even though they don't want it, and this is sort of funny.

Here's are Google's autocomplete suggestions for "google gemini how to", and Bing's autocomplete suggestions for for "microsoft copilot how to".

02.03.2025 18:41 👍 1195 🔁 366 💬 29 📌 14
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A Scam Built Atop an Accounting Gimmick Wrapped in Bullshit: Why Visiting Fort Knox Is Not About Selling Gold but is About Buying Bitcoin Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Twenty Two Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Par...

It took me longer than I hoped to finish but I'm really happy about the outcome: My big picture piece about Musk and Trump visiting Fort Knox. The headline tells you what you need to know but its also a very accurate summary of every step of my argument

www.crisesnotes.com/a-scam-built...

26.02.2025 20:58 👍 688 🔁 303 💬 35 📌 56
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I always really liked this restroom in Selaco.

I'm a sucker for multiple mirror recursions and I'm glad I found an excuse to put one in Chapter 1 lol

04.02.2025 02:11 👍 83 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

🥺🙏❤️

26.02.2025 06:42 👍 32 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

HRT attack gun

23.02.2025 08:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0