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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 13/10/2026

🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Shocking isn't it? Massive price hikes that many assume are a bubble puts ankers on spending. I too am keeping my GPU limping along until the prices drop because what was a debatable proposition (at best) at 1.2K is complete insanity at 1.8K

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ik snap ook niet waarom kinderen een laptop nodig hebben?

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Cesar Vialpando @vintagerancher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Too true! It had soo much promise too, sigh.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is all very awkward... because what is "out of bounds"? Things that are OK in the USA can be very different from things that are OK in other countries.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the kind of misinformed trash talk that brings all your other posts into question. Every rocket prior to SpaceX had this ending (well, worse really since they didn't even control where they hit). Chinese rockets do it with extremely toxic fuels over populated areas too.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I, for one, fully assume they have a few orbiting up there treaties be damned. It's a "they can so they probably have" situation.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's a loop basically, the "agent" program takes a prompt like "solve this problem" and asks the llm how to do it, then does what it asks, gives it the output, asks what next, does it, around and around until the problem is solved. The only human interaction was the first step defining the problem.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And let's not forget the things that could never be but I somehow can't get out of my head anyway.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's always amusing when people assume the thing they are most interested in must be common knowledge because they know it. Sadly, no, many of us don't pay the slightest attention to the that thing, just as they don't pay attention to our things either.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Money. The point is always about someone getting more money (and by proxy power).

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You can replace "drawing" with just about anything and the answer will still be yes.

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DocAtCDI @docatcdi.com · 19/09/2026

Are you ready? Are you SURE? Okay... remember you said so. The meaning of life is math: M is the 13th letter of the alphabet. A is the 1st letter of the alphabet. T is the 20th letter of the alphabet. H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. 13+1+20+8=42

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

De QR concept is echt waardeloos. Aan de deur bellen zou niet veel verkopen maar toch leren kinderen iets daarmee.

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DocAtCDI @docatcdi.com · 13/09/2026

Astronaut 1: Hey, I can't find any milk for my coffee. Astronaut 2: In space, no one can. Here, use cream.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Took me a moment, then... arrrrrrrgggghhh!

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

They do? I thought right politics were the ones who were obnoxious and scathing. US politics is really weird to view from outside.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I prefer my naan not to stick if given the choice...

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yeah, might be true indeed. Personally I'm on the fence about AI. It lets me get a lot done very quickly but also does it's absolute best to derail me and add insane complexity where a trivial solution would suffice. I think it's probably a net positive and I love it's rubber-duck impression. Hmm.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

True, but I assume _eventually_ those costs will be passed on to the consuming companies so then it will be a direct local cost. My quandary is whether that will ultimately be cheaper. Right now AI companies are bleeding money internally trying to find a route to profitability, but long term?

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The question is... is the AI actually cheaper than the human by the time hardware maintenance and true runtime costs (electricity, cooling, facilities, etc) are factored in?

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Same with software - different acronyms same implausible skill set requirements. I can only assume most applicants don't have anywhere near the full set, are super human, or maybe I'm just a degenerate human 🤷

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Depends on what I'm looking at. Some of my favourite vids are a coding guy who just puts plain green title text in his thumbs. No bullshit. I'm, unfortunately, far more likely to overlook entertainment focused content with a bad or AI thumbnail. There's too much choice and no other distinguisher 🤷

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The modern lightweight steel building vs the old solid concrete affair. Kinda sums up old space vs new space.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

one of the first things we noticed when prototyping Budget Cuts, was that violence in VR feels *weirdly* real, and it's the reason why we decided on only having robot enemies

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Violence in VR might actually negatively affect people the way the media liked to claim early violent videogames did. Sadly they've cried wolf so hard no one will listen again. I guess we'll just have to see what an entire generation trained to feel nothing whilst killing moms in supermarkets does 😬

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ah yes, more of the state sponsored propaganda Americans swear they don't have.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Imagine being murdered in a murder murder, caw what a way to go

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That's the most bland advice I've seen in a while. I was hoping there was something more effective.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The weirdest thing is that the police seemed to be protecting the twats on the truck instead of arresting them for hate speech

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In Frankrijk kan je vanaf €10/m2 al een stuk bouwgrond kopen. In Nederland? Net iets duurder... 😒

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Verschikkelijk laag - zoiets is nooit een vergissing het is puur onmenselijk gedrag.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Only brainwashed Americans could believe that "personalised pricing" would ever be in the consumers best interest. The *only* reason companies would pursue it would be to increase profits.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The idea that we have a privacy right to not be recorded has long stopped having any meaning. Between doorbell cameras, dashcams, smartphone cameras, drone cameras, and cctv cameras there's precious few times one isn't being recorded. It's hard to imagine glasses cameras make it meaningfully worse.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Every industry has it's one core tool that holds it back, for me it's Solidworks. For my colleagues it's Excel (& all the custom apps built on top). There's always something that causes Windows lock-in. Starting from scratch one could probably use Linux and never fall into the trap. Too late for me😢

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Raph Levien @raphlinus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I just posted a blog post on my hyperbezier curve: linebender.org/blog/hyperbe... I've actually been working on this for years, and only recently figured out a solution to the parameter mapping problem. I think this curve is potentially better than cubic Béziers for 2D vector graphic design.

A plot of two roughly S-shaped curves. In gray is a cubic Bézier, and the Bézier control points are shown. In blue is an example of the hyperbezier, with roughly similar shape but much smoother curvature variation. There is also a "curvature comb" in green.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I wonder if they ever got paid? Certainly seems like they deserve some compensation, sadly the person who made the original choice probably experienced zero consequences whatsoever and bumbled along in life thinking they were great.

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

ALL I ask is that people who reject Universal Basic Income out of hand because “People need to work” interrogate WHY they believe this instead of assuming it as a starting point.

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Bare bones just enough" is a fantastic selling point to everyone who doesn't need luxury but just wants simple, functional, and hopefully reliable. More like this please!

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🌍 Duncan Kimpton 🛠️ @dgkimpton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Delivered directly to your mouth (head turning at moment of delivery is contraindicated).

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