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Arrdem 👻🎃💀

@arrdem.tirefireind.us
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Proprietor tirefireind.us. Puppet master of @joe.tirefireind.us. Building @contactlight.gg. Mostly reformed shitposter. Cat dad of two. If you were looking for someone it was the other guy. Stay frosty. We keep us safe.

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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 16h
i thought my atproto “has a normal opinion about AI” labeler was broken but actually it’s correctly not tagging any users at all
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Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 13h
a purported spiritual predecessor of the United States once executed a king for this exact reason.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 22/02/2026
Literally
@tonyhawktruther

american: i can't afford the doctor

european: Ö you don't hjåve hjëalthcare for frëe? Very fjünny because here in EU we are riding trølley or mjötorbike to djöctor at no cjøst, in fact is considered rüde not to
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 17h
They do tend to come in cat ears
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 17h
new pope’s so good they’re bringing back the filioque in Greece
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 17h
Would still love to find someone for 3d work, slop results are obviously inferior and this isn't the thing I spent my hundred thousand hours on.
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 18h
Anecdotally, trying to find a Real Human Artist on here resulted in ~10 spambot replies ~2 of which I nearly fell for, and 1 conversation with someone I found via some digging that didn't pan out.
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spooky tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
pro tip: Including a sentence in your prompt instructing your coding agent to put on her cat ears before beginning work improves performance on low level or system-y coding tasks by as much as 12%
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 19h
openrouter.ai/deepseek/dee... and the other model pages show you per-vendor rates. It varies. Also depends on usage pattern ofc.
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash - API Pricing & Benchmarks
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, and the first built on the company's Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. $0.015 per million input tokens, $0.677 per mill...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21h
This is huge: a judge ruled a Flock search was 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and unconstitutional. Says the search by a cop, who did it because a passing car had a plate from a different state, violated the driver's rights. Meaning, Flock should require a warrant www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 19h
can a 1.5T parameter frontier model ethically date a 70B parameter locally hosted agent or is the power imbalance inherently unethical?
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 20h
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 20h
Torn between (1) damn this pope's good and (2) good lord the papacy and (3) ironyposting about papal supremacy
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Connections Museum @connections.museum · 22h
We are in the news :) southseattleemerald.org/arts-culture...
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At a Georgetown Museum, Young Volunteers Answer the Call to Preserve Phone History
Preserving old phones takes more than saving the equipment. At a Georgetown museum, younger volunteers are learning skills that could otherwise disappear.
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
Fucks
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
> Light 'o consciousness sure ain't lighting your GPUs
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I just need anthropic to be normal for a second
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026
lgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtm
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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 02/10/2026
oil CRASHED police DESPISED america DEHEGEMONIZED girls EMPLOYED. who’s the most liberal president of our lives NOW, brandon!!
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
Gonna have to invent a way to generate just unbelievable amounts of greebling dynamically
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
There are other big dumb structures (planetary rings) that I do need to show off doing purely for setpiecing reasons that you wouldn't need to make any effort to try and fill out. But the Niven ring is really pathological because there's Too Much Of It, and it's All Just Surface You Can Fly To
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
And the reason you wouldn't bother with it is they're too big to be useful from a narrative perspective. It'd take lifetimes to fully explore one of these! In a game that's supposed to be about exploring space! They're literally too big.
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
I suspect the final game will have small rings and some O'Neil's, but these Big Dumb Structures are mostly a flex in terms of things that the procgen engine I've sketched out can handle easily most games can't/wouldn't bother with.
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
Seems bad. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-return-o...
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The Return of the Cutting-Off Way
Structural changes are driving us towards a more chaotic world, defined by "neither peace nor war, but conflict."
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
here ya go. first two r of 1.95Gm, discontinuous with spokes. needs some refinement like creating a crossbar for the spokes to attach to but pretty simple and just a distinct sweep profile. The problem is making any amount of usable gameplay out of anything like this.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 01/10/2026
People are going to clown on this but we need to remember that planning for local context is important: a city with Los Angeles, California’s semi-arid Mediterranean climate only gets sunshine ~300 days a year; so it’s important to make sure you can never ever find shade in the middle of the day.
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
Off BOX SALES. Not even a subscription!
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
I would love to get a look at the No Man’s Sky books. They probably have a huge install base and so a lot more residual sales than anything I’ve considered but still. All these years later still able to support content work.
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
And for the traditional O'Neil tubes one of the models is a 6-part hull where you have three windows and three strips of land, and modeling that radially is quite tractable I just haven't done it yet. Doing voids ala bracelets with a continuous rim/rope fits that model reasonably.
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
You uh. Having a normal one?
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
I'd have to read the description and stand on my head some. This and my O'Neil tube support is using some math hacks to make huge swept surfaces efficient that don't work so well with discontinuities but you could probably make it work. I've definitely thought about how to work shade squares in.
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
Oh you mean make it not centered on the star? Sure. Engine doesn't care.
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
Yes this is one. Banks' is 3Gm, this is 8Gm sitting inside the first planet's 13.6Gm orbit.
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
Deriving macros and annotations however that let you codegen out lots of stuff from local information are _awesome_ and super worthwhile.
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
$0.02 macros as pure syntax rewrites for local semantic compression (eg. clojure's ->) are good, but they're really a lot more trouble than they're worth in terms of the knock-on consequences of making things harder to statically analyze and worth with via formal tooling in a general way.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/10/2026
Another month, another temperature record. Across the contiguous United States, September 2026 ranks as the warmest September on record, dating back to at least 1895, according to data.
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The U.S. just experienced its warmest and most humid September on record
Across the contiguous United States, September 2026 ranks as the warmest September on record, dating back to at least 1895.
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
R I N G attn @hikikomorphism.bsky.social
A ringworld is visible around the star of my game demo star system
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Gubian @gubian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think the thing that keeps getting me is how low the price to buy out high govt positions? Like, these dude's have effectively infinite money, but the price for the military is $5.9 million? Shits peanuts at scale? Literal rounding error for villains like Musk.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
That’s right
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anti-leaf blower account @eboldy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
let penny dreadful szn commence
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
Zeta e1 is actually a really good study in an O’Neil tube. I do enjoy how randomly crunchy some of this older stuff is. Need to get me a copy of The High Frontier
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
Shoulda gone with “grok said it’s not racist”
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
It’s kinda strange to be addressed by name at work. It’s one thing to be named in person. Everything else has been by handle for so long it’s a bit jarring
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scare-anatar 🎃 @vibecode.rodeo · 02/10/2026
Try meeting strangers from the Internet in the woods and doing hallucinogens in the middle of the night. You certainly will not regret meeting strangers from the Internet in the woods and doing hallucinogens in the middle of the night.
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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 02/10/2026
www.etsy.com/listing/4456... check this shit out
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This Patches & Appliques item by husiiiLLC has 18 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Charlotte, NC. Listed on Sep 15, 2026
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/10/2026
that;s right
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 01/10/2026
i like dags
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 01/10/2026
You may use these only for evil. Them's the rules.
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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 01/10/2026
Trolling the infosec group today
Ron swanson I have a permit meme, with the permit saying "claude said it's ok"Ron swanson I have a permit meme, with the permit saying "grok said it's ok"Ron swanson I have a permit meme, with the permit saying "muse said it's GDPR compliant"
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