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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 19h

The Metaculus Cup is a quarterly competition for predicting future events, like “Who will win the Nobel Peace Prize?” or “Will the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool be repaired?” (It’s not betting, no real money is involved) For the first time, the top two spots this year went to AIs

Graph showing performance of AIs over time, from 0 in 2024 to over 1.0 in 2026, 1.0=best human

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 01/10/2026

The point is, for my little cycling game, I can get nearly EVERY BUILDING IN A CITY All the skyscrapers but most of the houses, shops, industrial buildings, bridges - EVERYTHING I started off by using mapping data, but this is a far richer source

screenshot from cycling game, buildings on both sides of a big road with streetcars

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 01/10/2026

Thing I learned working on my virtual biking game: The USGS does aerial LIDAR scans to get the topography of all major cities in the US. Makes sense. What I didn't understand is this LIDAR data is incredibly rich: it isn't just a top-down view but is oblique enough to reconstruct entire downtowns

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 30/09/2026

Man is sad. Man goes to soctor. Doctor says, “You need to cheer up. You should go see funny bumper sticker.” Man says, “But doctor, I AM funny bumper sticker.”

Figurine of Rorscach from DC comics mounted to someone’s car trunk for some reason

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 30/09/2026

Yeah I’m into Asian fusion cuisine

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 30/09/2026

please help me, my computer is very sick

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 30/09/2026

Every bar should have Mario Kart on the TV and controllers to pass around

An old school bar with a TV showing Mario kart 64. The backs of two people’s heads

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 29/09/2026

Wonder who invented this bizarre conspiracy theory…

At the start of the 119th Congress in 2025, Schmitt hired Nate Hochman as a staffer. Hochman had previously worked for the Ron DeSantis 2024 presidential campaign but was fired after producing a promotional video for DeSantis that feautured fascist imagery, including a sonnenrad, a symbol used by neo-Nazis and white supremacists. [109][110|[1111[1121
[1131 In September 2025, Hochman promoted a speech on social media that Schmitt delivered at the National Conservatism Conference, titled "What is an American?" [114] In the speech Schmitt criticized legal immigration, and said that America was not a
"universal proposition" open to anyone.

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 26/09/2026

There are almost no flags for things other than countries But there is an emoji for the flag of Sark, a UK island with around 500 residents and zero cars

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 26/09/2026

Eye in a speech bubble emoji, created as part of a forgotten anti-bullying campaign

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 26/09/2026

Windows can draw cat variants of many emojis Here’s a cat riding a dinosaur

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 26/09/2026

I also love how republicans think the “pregnant man” emoji is a sign of a world gone mad Fellas, there is a “woman vampire” emoji. A “gender neutral Santa Claus” emoji. A “man in business suit levitating” emoji. Also this one, now available in male, female and nongender variants 👯‍♂️ (zoom below)

Two men in leotards wearing ballet flats and bunny ears, each has a leg up in the air

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 25/09/2026

here's a ride around downtown SF - the hardest area, since essentially every building is a special snowflake so they ALL need custom models - although only about half actually have one so far

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 25/09/2026

Wheeeeeee The biking simulator is early stages but really fun already

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 23/09/2026

Some more shots of the game so far It does have the semi realistic humans I did last week

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 23/09/2026

Bikeable San Francisco 3D model, first render

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 22/09/2026

Here’s a more tree-y scene Renders at 60fps in the browser

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 22/09/2026

A related but different experiment … bike real trails using their actual maps and elevation profiles on your trainer

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 22/09/2026

Since you read this far.. here’s a famous church in Paris, rendered by AI using just three photos from different angles It is fully rotatable, zoomable, shadeable, even 3d printable It is NOT perfectly accurate but it’s a reasonable representation

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 21/09/2026

New toy project I’ve been having Claude crunch on: bike through real cities using data sourced from OpenStreetMap (with heavy interpretation, not meant to be all that accurate - but you can turn and go anywhere)

Cyclist on a street lined with bollards, a woman is jogging by, two other people on the left, awnings, cream brick, trees

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 19/09/2026

The raw data is from MakeHuman, an open source project The renderer includes skin texture, subsurface scattering, moving hair, rigging, working clothes system… all fast enough to run in the browser

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 19/09/2026

Asked the ai to make a realistic human avatar generator for my exercise game… and it did it??? It took about 12 hours of crunching overnight

Man in a blue shirt with black hair in poses like Jog_Fwd_Loop and Punch_Jab

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 18/09/2026

Little known fact but Warren also made the company web page himself in Notepad

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 15/09/2026

Ok I might need THESE glasses. Two polarized filters that are round, you can set your own filter level 0-100.

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 14/09/2026

Kept working on this Made an adventure game where you have to PHYSICALLY pedal or walk between places Crafting and training also require physical effort

DUCHESS MARIGOLD
The Earl of Frostford keeps a blade of living ice called Frostbrand. He'd give it to whoever rids his roads of wolves.

THE ROYAL WORKSHOP
Healing Draught • 1 min
Traveler's Tonic • 2 min
Greater Healing Draught • 45 s

OAKVALE GATE: WHERE TO?
Millbrook • 4 440• ~3 min
Saltmere • 4 471• ~3 min

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 13/09/2026

I’m pretty cool but I’m not cool enough to pull this off

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 13/09/2026

Not certain this one is actually made and isn’t a fake product

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 13/09/2026

I’ve been looking for new glasses that are a little bit fun and out there … so now I’m getting ads everywhere for glasses that are a LOT out there

Frame goes under left side and over right side

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 13/09/2026

Do not, I repeat do not, make up fake things for conservatives to get mad at

The story actually starts in 2017. I thought it'd be funny to advertise that there was a "flag burning" protest at the Gettysburg cemetery.
I thought that people would laugh and move on with their days. Like when people were creating fake Facebook events about Limp Bizkit performing at the local gas station.
Instead, some conservative bloggers found the event, took it seriously, and mobilized about 50-100 losers to "counter protest" the fake event.
One genius shot himself in the leg. 2/7

My friends and I laughed at the second amendment idiot who forgot how to use his gun and moved on with our lives.
Then COVID happened. My job was shut down and I was getting really bored driving Uber and DoorDash. I thought it'd be funny to my fiends if I
"ran back" the Gettysburg prank, made it more outlandish, and we'd laugh over it drinking whiskey on Skype.
That is not what happened.
Maybe I'm really good at tricking rubes. Maybe they're just really dumb. Here were the flyers.
3/7

By the time the Washington Post had reached out to me (via fake identity), I was already pretty committed to the joke. Right-wing militias were starting to mobilize and I thought it was funny that they'd waste their holiday on some nonsense.
I expected maybe 50 people. A few news articles.
Over 500 people showed up to Gettysburg that day.
They harassed waitstaff and normal visitors to the park. That's the part I truly regret (and why I won't do it again).
They brought guns and cute vests.

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 12/09/2026

I kind of love this view The small sign says LOCK 2 32 MILES <- LSAF 6 MILES -> LSAF is Lower St Anthony Falls in downtown Minneapolis, which not passable (the lock there is permanently closed)

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 12/09/2026

On the Minneapolis side, two locks allow boats up and down It doesn’t run very often anymore - since the Port of Minneapolis closed, there’s not really anywhere to go There are a few tour boats and recreational boats a day

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 12/09/2026

You can walk right up to Lock and Dam No. 1, in between Minneapolis and St. Paul - there’s a well maintained visitor path Kind of a fun thing to do within a few minutes of home

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 12/09/2026

Poutine in the US spiked in 2015 with several TV shows featuring it and Red Robin promoting it, and also the first Poutinefest It’s been on a slow decline since

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 12/09/2026

24th and Franklin today We paved lighter-than-air flight and put up a parking lot

Parking, a huge apartment building in the bg

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 11/09/2026

Lmao the Wall Street Journal’s spin is that Trump’s $5000 promise is ACTUALLY a sarcastic way to mock Democrats who try to buy votes

President Trump has a special talent for exposing the cynicism of modern politics, and he knows it. A Trumpian classic is his promise Wednesday night of a $5,000
"dividend" for every U.S. adult citizen if Republicans retain control of Congress in
November.

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 11/09/2026

Just in case you ever have impostor syndrome, remember that in 2011, workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory brought six kilograms of plutonium together to take a picture to show their management. The amount was enough to start a chain nuclear reaction if they had been slightly closer.

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 11/09/2026

“In memory of Alex Pretti & Renee Good”

Steel loon with a light as its head that says in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee good

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 10/09/2026

This is a new one. Post Office truthers

If this was Built in 1892 when Cameras, Painters and writers existed Show me the Construction Photos!! Show me the Newspaper Articles Talking about this! Where are the Painters? A building like this is MASTERFUL!! You telling me Europeans had something like this Built in AMERICA and Ain't nobody took Photos? ••
Boy boy boy, Just wait until the masses finally overstand what's going on.....Babylon is falling and a new day is

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 10/09/2026

Continuing this little experiment, I made a bike themed version This took all of 20 minutes with Claude, which is terrifying It obviously isn’t GREAT graphics, but it’s a lot better than I expected with essentially zero effort

Bike inexplicably blowing a trail of dust, there is no rider. The screen says 26 km/h, 25:54c 6% grade, and has a map of hills. The graphics include a windmill, buildings, a desert with cactuses, and gras with bushes. It is raining(the word RAIN is in the corner)

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 10/09/2026

This kind of smart, walkable mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 09/09/2026

Who’s out there ordering an Apple Duo

Apple PowerBook Duo early 90s portable computer

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 08/09/2026

Dumb idea #723: bike trainer game where you fly an airplane over a city. There are no hand controls, you just pedal faster or slower to make the plane go up or down to go through the rings and score points. It’s just a fixed track, no steering.

Video game with a little plane over a city and a big yellow ring

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 08/09/2026

One of the most significant events leading up to the Civil War was when the Supreme Court ruled against Dinosaur Dred Scott, and he ate them Their remains are now commemorated by nine holes

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 08/09/2026

This shouldn’t be a problem, she can sell to all the Republican bookstores … oh wait

My debut romance novel comes out October 13th and I asked if my local bookstore would be willing to stock it (since the book literally takes place in our town) and this was their response.
It would be one thing if they thought the book wouldn't sell well in their store or just wasn't a compelling story, but to be told that my book won't be stocked because I work in Republican politics and I'm a republican author is so disheartening.
We're very intentional about what we bring onto our shelves, the partnerships we commit to, and the authors and stories we choose to actively support through this space. After spending some time learning more about you, your work, and your broader platform, I don't think this one is the right fit for us, so we're going to pass on carrying Open Seat.
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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 07/09/2026

Apparently it’s become a thing for Sky Glider riders at the Minnesota State Fair to drop undergarments on the roof of a particular building as they pass over

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