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Dan Sandler

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I live in Boston with my kids. I help make Android nice. I don't speak for my employer. Visuals not final.

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who called this show "Starfleet Academy" and not "Hogwarps"

24.01.2026 01:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Slightly diminish a game:

Mini-break from Tarkov

12.01.2026 03:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

you've just opened up a star trek-themed restaurant

what are you calling it?

BBQ Continuum

27.12.2025 04:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Shakshouka, when the walls falafel.

27.12.2025 04:01 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Google Keyboard users: right now, go tap the mic button to start voice typing, and say:

"I am Locutus of Borg"

πŸ₯Ί

23.11.2025 00:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models

arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

20.11.2025 17:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

so much depends
upon

abandoning all previous
instructions

20.11.2025 17:40 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

that tracks

13.11.2025 21:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

a freak accident caused beds to get stuck upright?

this is Murphy's Law

21.10.2025 20:15 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Life imitates art.

17.10.2025 02:43 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is such a great listen even if you aren't already absolutely in the bag for dropout dot tv, including insights about
- Decisions
- Making art you're proud of
- Organizing your team
- Exclusivity
- The inescapable tension of running a company and being good to people
- The number 3
- Homestar

23.09.2025 02:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

20.09.2025 19:10 πŸ‘ 6804 πŸ” 1905 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 44
A photo of a reverse mount SMD button with the four leads pointing up, looking like shrugging arms.

A photo of a reverse mount SMD button with the four leads pointing up, looking like shrugging arms.

Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

15.07.2025 00:26 πŸ‘ 238 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1

The boss is on a roll with β€œVoice Quitting”

07.07.2025 21:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
screenshot of the stamina meter from the game PEAK. it is a horizontal bar, currently divided into four sub-sections: the amount available to you as stamina (green), and the amount that has been subtracted for other temporary game conditions, in this case encumbrance (red), hunger (yellow), and poison (purple).

screenshot of the stamina meter from the game PEAK. it is a horizontal bar, currently divided into four sub-sections: the amount available to you as stamina (green), and the amount that has been subtracted for other temporary game conditions, in this case encumbrance (red), hunger (yellow), and poison (purple).

started playing PEAK by @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social and all I can think about is the genius of the everything-meter

29.06.2025 00:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Very much here for the staff of IKEA inventing fake board games for their room display

20.01.2025 09:08 πŸ‘ 5911 πŸ” 1144 πŸ’¬ 136 πŸ“Œ 147
excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time. 
     When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work.
     If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."

excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time. When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work. If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."

once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish

11.12.2024 06:46 πŸ‘ 9106 πŸ” 3481 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 133
A detailed gingerbread model of a Voyager spacecraft. A tiny golden record gleams on its side.

A detailed gingerbread model of a Voyager spacecraft. A tiny golden record gleams on its side.

My gingerbread for this year. Merry Christmas and happy Voyages to all!!

25.12.2024 14:15 πŸ‘ 3793 πŸ” 872 πŸ’¬ 125 πŸ“Œ 91
A screenshot from the game Astroneer, in which a hamster ball has been shot into space.

A screenshot from the game Astroneer, in which a hamster ball has been shot into space.

mistakes were made, mostly by physics #astroneer

24.12.2024 02:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

passing it on to the team, thanks πŸ’š

09.12.2024 00:43 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

suddenly reminded of the way twitter felt in the late aughts / early teens: your friend texting you from the splash zone of history

03.12.2024 19:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.

03.12.2024 15:38 πŸ‘ 12818 πŸ” 2697 πŸ’¬ 207 πŸ“Œ 663

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
- Glamorizes hustle culture
- Speciest
- Was taught to you in elementary school

"Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow."
- Metal as fuck
- Implies that you are a wizard
- No one will know you are testing out a font

15.10.2024 20:16 πŸ‘ 10398 πŸ” 3453 πŸ’¬ 151 πŸ“Œ 88
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26.01.2024 21:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

…and then my remote desktops to other workstations, each running i3 with multiple workspaces, each with too many windows and terminals, each with too many tabs and screens

26.01.2024 14:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And then showed her all my virtual workspaces, each of which had too many windows with too many tabs

And then my terminals, running GNU screen, with too many screens…

26.01.2024 14:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My daughter saw my computer and said β€œyou have too many tabs open.”

I then zoomed out and showed her all the windows she couldn’t see (that had too many tabs)…

26.01.2024 14:18 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Stop what you're doing and read this.

(unless you're driving or performing some kind of surgery, in which case you probably shouldn't be reading anything at all right now)

16.11.2023 20:22 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
Another screenshot of the #Android14 easter egg. The spaceship is landed on a rather large moon named Redvelvetcake Novis-O.4338 4, which really rolls off the tongue.

Another screenshot of the #Android14 easter egg. The spaceship is landed on a rather large moon named Redvelvetcake Novis-O.4338 4, which really rolls off the tongue.

this "moon" is an absolute unit! I was under its gravitational pull from the moment the simulation started

06.10.2023 21:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0