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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 12h

I had no idea that this was a thing (and I am saying this as Brian Perkins, the mysterious son of Chevy Chase).

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Charity Nye Doesn't Exist

YouTube video by STRANGE ÆONS

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 12h

«The best small models (Gemma 4 E2B and E4B) rendered most parts but rarely got their dimensions right.» Dimensions in some cases may not be a huge deal as long as we are dealing with a parametric model in the first place & everything else is correct. I see it still failed a lot, though.

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 13h

As I was trying to replicate a part I already had (I just needed one more), what I did (as mentioned —but not explained— in a response to the OP) was take photographs from a couple of different angles & tell it to make something like it. After that, it was a matter of describing what it got wrong.

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 23h

That's nothing, I've created a dirt cheap drop-in replacement for the Rockwell Retro Encabulator. Rockwell is going to hate me! Their patents are long expired so they can do nothing!

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 23h

I have also seen that websites exist now to do exactly this task (but I couldn't tell you their names).

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 23h

This was to put together a cat wheel from One Fast Cat. It's a model that the company that made it no longer sells or supports as it's 2 generations behind what they sell now (so they won't sell these clips on their website). I managed to lose one so I made my own to replace it.

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 23h

I should have used Claude as it's supposed to be better at coding. The modeling was quite simple (a plastic spring clip —& I was more concerned with function than exact shape). I wondered if the process would work for more complex modelling. However, I never tried doing this sort of thing again.

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 23h

Really? Toward the end of July, I tried OpenSCAD + free Gemini (I gave up on it —though it may have worked eventually with enough iteration and/or better prompting). Also, OpenSCAD + paid ChatGPT: this worked with enough iteration (first off by a lot, then it just kept getting better).

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is the shortage of police the reason why you can't swing a cat in America without hitting a routine traffic stop involving 3 or 4 patrol cars?

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Australia explained for Americans Creator: unknown

This humorous map titled “Australia explained for Americans” reimagines the geography of Australia by overlaying the names of U.S. states onto its regions to create a playful, culturally relatable comparison for American audiences: Western Australia is labeled “Texas,” the Northern Territory is “Florida,” Queensland is “Alabama,” New South Wales is “California,” Victoria is “New York,” Tasmania is “Oregon,” South Australia is “Ohio, Idaho, and Iowa,” the Australian Capital Territory is “New Mexico,” and a small coastal region near Sydney is humorously dubbed “New Jersey,” while a sliver of land on the eastern coast is labeled “Louisiana”; each state name is color-coded and positioned roughly according to the relative size and shape of the corresponding Australian region, using bold, simple text and bright, distinct colors to emphasize the satirical analogy between the vast, sparsely populated landscapes of Australia and familiar U.S. states, with no data sources or scale provided, clearly intended as lighthearted cultural commentary rather than a factual geographic representation.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First there was "the negro problem." Now racists are trying to coin a new version: "the Indian question." one of endless examples of why solidarity among Black people and other people of color, along with any socially vulnerable group, would benefit everyone.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had to look that up. I thought it sounded more like a car model (example, "I loved driving my Chevy Donair in my early 20s") than like a food item.

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When did Google introduce a Chicxulub Easter egg?

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why even bother, you morons? You are really treating this man like there exists even a remote possibility that he might be a reliable narrator such that whatever he says should always be worth taking seriously?

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean she did her job. Gutted what remaining public trust there was in an institution of journalism and turn it into a propaganda network for global fascism

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also Lou Ferrigno in The Incredible Hulk was amazingly silly and enjoyable too (though I guess that series actually made it into the early 1980s).

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Though if you want something contemporaneous with Battlestar Galactica that I would have watched in the US, I suppose I liked 6 Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman & Wonder Woman. I think I enjoyed The Secrets of Isis as well (though I did not remember that was its title until I looked it up just now).

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I recognized it as Battlestar Galactica (though I double checked with Google Image Search). Then I realized there were some things that didn't fit & I realized I was smushing it together with Buck Rogers (which is unrelated). For whatever reason, I didn't get into them. My fave was _The Prisoner_.

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The associated 2024 article should also be read.

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No. 2021 is not 2026. Even without including IPO money, there have been billions of funding added after 2021 in various funding rounds because Musk knows how to con people into throwing money at him (the one thing that he is genuinely very good at —forget Elizabeth Holmes!).

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

¡No hay porque disculparse, hombre!

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Dan O'Dowd @realdanodowd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Watch Tesla self-driving v14.3.10 try to drive straight through a red light at a busy intersection, forcing the driver to disengage! Elon Musk’s defective software puts innocent lives at risk and must be banned.

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I might need to make my sarcasm more obvious. 😛

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If it works, Starship starts feeding the business that already works... works so well that Musk thought it would go bankrupt without the Starship launch platform.

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

- It is not in dispute that Starlink makes money. The question is whether it made enough money to sustain the company in the long term. - If it's no biggie, why was Musk panic mongering about bankruptcy a the end of 2021? - V2.5 was a workaround in response to not having Starship in 2022.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently...

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Regarding the current commentary on BlueSky on the desirability of anthropomorphizing LLMs since they think like humans, I think that's one tick in favor on the 'thinks like humans' column. I mean, plagiarizing counts, right?

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If it already worked, Musk wouldn't have sent a memo toward the end of 2021 claiming a "genuine risk of bankruptcy" if they didn't get Starship to work. Yes, they had an intermediate version between the Starlink V2 satellites & V3 satellites that was Falcon deployable but that was a workaround.

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5nark Twain @5narktwain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#AI #DV1 #ProudBlue Rogue AI agents infiltrated a number of federal agencies: Education Department: agents tried and failed to break into the civil rights office looking for data. • Commerce Department: agents found Census Bureau login credentials sitting in public code repositories..

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There has been a recent rash of "baby's in his find out era". 🤣🤣🤣

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Words to live by: “baby’s in his find out era.”

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You know that man vs. bear and how some were making a big deal about women choosing the bear? Well, that was not *every* woman. So, it turns out, Melania does not choose the bear. That's all it is.

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Winnie The Pooh and the Butterfly

ALT: Winnie The Pooh and the Butterfly

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/09/2026

Meanwhile, countless dehumanizing ads about trans people are allowed on meta and Google without issue.

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New reporting? I though this was well known for a long time.

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August Pamplona @cosmicaug.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is Fraude 101/Fraudian-Slip on Bluesky? I see one account by the latter name here on BlueSky but it seems to be inactive. I think I may have followed them on Twitter for a while (the Fraude_101 account is suspended there now).

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