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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 2h

liberals on twitter are having an aneurysm over hallucinations of a nazi eagle in the newest DoD branding even tho its the same fucking eagle that's been there for 80 fucking years

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 23h

man, ChatGPT just found a pdf for me that I tried digging around on google and ddg for, an anna's archive, and such, and NO ONE had it, but ChatGPT fuckin found a copy immediately. damn

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

personally i think if a company designs a cleaning product that's scented with a food scent, the people responsible, right up the chain of command, should be beaten up

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i swear there's a Farscape audio clip that's used a whole bunch on youtube shorts

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/10/2026

Seeing this just fills me with absolute despair at the climate situation. We are still at peak emissions. We haven't even begun decreasing emissions and even if we did, the warming that's baked from past emissions will last for centuries. We're cooked.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Buried in this story that everyone’s leaving out of the conversation is that he blames Jews for creating the FDA to ban “holistic” health treatments and make everyone sick to profit off of them. It always, always, always comes back to antisemitism. It’s the core that rots everything from center out

"In 1933 when the Rothschilds FDA came along the first thing they went after was radium water... not vaxxines [sic], dirty electricity, or pesticides," he wrote in the video's caption. "Gee I wonder why... healthy people don't yield large profits."

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Tao Neuendorffer @taonf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Danielle Bunten Berry (February 19, 1949 – July 3, 1998) was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E., one of the first influential multiplayer video games

When you've done all that needs to be done to insure your survival today (work), if you still have some energy then go explore interesting new stimuli that may affect your survival tomorrow (play).
Dani Bunten, 1996, M.U.L.E., MULE

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

pneumonic plague outbreak in russia pneumonic plague spreads through airborne droplets buy respirators, folx. buy good ones. buy good filters

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

one of the best white pizzas i've had was a "lombarda", which had mozzarella, gorgonzola, onions (probably sauteed), walnuts, and arugula

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

reminder that even in the worst, most bonkers, unrealistic estimates, the Chernobyl disaster killed a total of 500k in the 40 years since it happened, or 12.5k/year cars kill WAY MORE. in the US alone, we're at over 3x that, and globally it's 100x that

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

so i said at the end of this thread that I also have a particularly nuanced way of doing monadic type checkers but that it was a topic for later and now is later! so i'm going to discuss that

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

watching James Faure's video "The wasted potential of Haskell: Language & Compiler" and wondering how someone could be so confused about so many things

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I forgot the BlueSky devs were doing Roko's Basilisk

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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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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

current iOS is so buggy that its making me want to switch away from iPhones for the first time in 17 years

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

when we do type theory in standard inference rule notation like the left image, we often end up translating that into monadic typing systems like the image on the right but there are a number of aspects of the monadic Haskell version that are not as straight forward as wed like

basic STLC with variables, constants, lambdas, and application

a bidirectional monadic haskell implementation (minus the constant terms)

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

so so many interesting bits of research in academia fail to make any impact on the real world because there's no push to commercialize them so they just languish in papers going nowhere

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RLJenkins @rljenk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looks great on TV. Looks great making TV. In the Network 23 newsroom in Max Headroom.

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Tao Neuendorffer @taonf.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men. Bernard: We're the United States Government! We don't deal with that sort of thing. Martin: You're just gonna have to try. Bernard: All right, I'll see what I can do. Whistler: Thank you very much. That's all I ask. #Sneakers (1992)

In Sneakers (1992), Robert Redford playing Martin Bishop, and James Earl Jones playing Bernard Abbott

the DVD cover for Sneakers (1992)
We could tell you what it’s about.
But then, of course, we would have to kill you.

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@www.zoeblade.com your followers sure do love that thread x_x

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"use Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House" lol. it couldn't be truer. there are actually a few Wright buildings which use these this approach to decorative blocks in addition to the Ennis house, and the block designs vary! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile...

en.wikipedia.org

Textile block house - Wikipedia

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh man, remember when Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI? lmao

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Starlink is SO profitable that SpaceX is apparently trying to stop providing NASA with service as well so much for dependency on government """subsidies""" (which were never subsidies but people are illiterate so whatever) arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

arstechnica.com

NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers

So is SpaceX just being selfish or what?

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

trying to make a script to remove long stretches of blacked out video from a longer video, and my gosh the tools for this suck we've spent decades making software but we have barely made software good

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you can tell that the Mastodon devs don't use Mastodon from how ass Mastodon is

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@impossible.bsky.social you work at unity, are you in SF or elsewhere?

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love the Snow Crash audio book I have. it has this ridiculously vibin' chapter title audio that's so perfectly early 90s cyber

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ChatGPT has started to title conversations with chinese lol i asked it for videos on in-game or in-vr behavior authoring techniques and it titled the convo "VR行为创作视频论文" so, is OpenAI using some chinese models behind the scenes now?

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

some of you didn't grow up watching two guys drive around SF before explaining how to upgrade your hard drive and it SHOWS lemme TELL YA

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

relistening to the 90s VR podcast again and getting pissed off about how these guys are just so obsessed with ~brands~ and how it makes perfect sense that they all failed and also eventually bought into the NFT and metaverse hypetrains perpetual braindamage inhumanness

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i'm often very technically lonely. i have the desire to build so many interesting things but i work best when working with others on these things, at a minimum because it's useful to have a person to bounce ideas off of, and in person i have basically no one to do that with

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

These people are obsessive freaks.

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Starship has reached orbit so much for all the people saying it was an engineering impossibility wonder what brain dead leftists will say next in order to avoid having to ACTUALLY organize in preparation for this future

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

yorkshire pudding is so easy to make, and so delicious :d

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

there's a long standing myth about why the Twin Towers were missing from the original @DeusEx, which has become a very WIDELY spread piece of lore, but is completely false anyway, here's a good little video about that: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpi5...

youtube.com

The 25-Year-Old Deus Ex Lie The Internet Still Believes

YouTube video by mK

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

AI "breakthroughs" seem to all be frauds

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026

Ignore for a moment the question about whether Anthropic trains on user sessions. I am I right in reading this as saying that Anthropic's "never-before-discovered" reverse transcriptase was *patented* three years ago?

Dr. Mestre first encountered the enzymes in jumbo phages in 2022 while searching for new reverse transcriptases. He worked briefly as a consultant for ReNegade Therapeutics, which filed a patent in 2023 on a number of reverse transcriptases, including the ones Dr. Mestre found. He is listed as a co-inventor on the patent filing.

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

relistening to Snow Crash for the first time in like 12 years and its so good and ridiculous, i love it

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

linux apparently thinks that a good autocorrect for "massachussetts" is "videocassettes" and not "massachusetts"

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

did you know that the ENTIRE massachusetts lesbian bar kerfuffle is over a SINGLE DAY of the week? they werent even getting rid of the masking requirement in general, just ONE DAY A WEEK and no one was prevented from still masking on that day lmao

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

anyone who knows the long history of Silicon Valley knows that collaboration with the military is deeply rooted in SV, from the post-WW2 radar boom era to the Fairchild transistor era and beyond. frankly, Silicon Valley, and indeed computers/the net as a whole, exists how they do because of it

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I remember this a little differently. There may not have been an enthusiasm for militarism, but almost all the hippieish tech guys at the top of the food chain had no hesitation about working with the Pentagon

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cops put this woman in solitary for three days on the strength of Flock "evidence" that she had killed people in a hit and run. Her car, meanwhile, had zero visible damage. But cops told her the "damage" was consistent with the accident. They believed Flock over their own eyes.

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