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David Mason

@dpmason.bsky.social
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Memphis-based Using this to learn and share stuff about procedural graphics and audio. Instagram: dp.mason GitHub: dp-mason ArtStation: dpmason

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 17/09/2026
The Trump admin has decimated American science budgets, taking away life saving opportunities, and the potential for groundbreaking discoveries. This is how you destroy American innovation. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows
An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I mean if it's really this close and we are still over a month away, who knows?
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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨 IMMIGRANT PANTRY EMERGENCY FUNDING UPDATE 🚨 We are stretched to the snapping point. After last week’s storms left more than 100,000 people across the Memphis area without power, we went into crisis mode. Our own requests for food assistance increased, while we also began 1/ #momsky#sheshed
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
emulsion?
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Do not take Andor's name in vain
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Have you ever wanted to make a classic WinAmp skin? It can be pretty labor intensive. I wanted to make one a few months ago and I got carried away making a new format for winamp skins that streamlines the design process. Check it out! www.bamp.skin github.com/dp-mason/bamp
screenshot of the webapp that I made for the conversion tool www.bamp.skinanother screenshot of the skin converter webapp on www.bamp.skinscreenshot of blender project where i am creating a winamp skin and a winamp player with the skin loaded into it stacked on top
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What do you call people who starve kids and their parents in a nation in perpetual food surplus? Evil. Evil will do.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
MEMPHIS’ @repcohen — who voted not to cut funding to Israel — says he left the progressive caucus over 🇮🇱, calls the progressive caucus “the socialist caucus”, and claims (without evidence) “antisemitism” was involved Criticism of 🇮🇱 is not antisemitism www.cnn.com/2026/07/18/p...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
BREAKING NYT: The Trump admin just issued subpoenas to several journalists for The New York Times, after the outlet reported on security concerns involving Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One. The subpoenas seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury on Wednesday.
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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.
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Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midterms
The dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms.
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
gotta say, that was a cool one.
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
badass
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
full description: github.com/Shtrompel/BG...
github.com
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I fucking love vcv rack wtf
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
whoa, this speaks to me. thank you.
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
love this
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A few years ago, when the push to make Juneteenth a federal holiday had really started to hit the news, I asked my dad what he knew about the holiday, as a white Texan man born in 1942. He said he was aware of it as “the one day a year Black people were allowed in all the parks”
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Looking for an external GPU to use with Blender, the 3D modeling software. Really funny AI generated article: thehandymanhaven.com/best-egpu-fo...
thehandymanhaven.com
Best Egpu For Blender [Updated On: June 2026]
Sometimes, holding a piece of tech in your hand reveals more than a thousand specs. I’ve tested a range of eGPUs for Blender, and the weight and solid build
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New: a software update to Amazon delivery vans is automatically turning off the vans' AC after 10 minutes or even 30 seconds in certain cases. Just as summer arrives and temperatures are getting dangerously hot www.404media.co/software-upd...
404media.co
Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat
A new software update is turning off the AC in Amazon delivery vans after 10 minutes or 30 seconds under certain conditions.
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
💙💙💙💙
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
AI data centers consumed ~1 trillion liters/264 billion gallons of water in 2025. This is comparable to the annual water usage of 1.8 million Americans. AI data centers are currently consuming the same rate of water as the entirety of the world's bottled water industry. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
yahoo.com
AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S.
Americans across multiple states are being urged to conserve water as drought conditions intensify, reservoirs shrink, and utilities issue increasingly urgent warnings. At the same time, a different k...
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-pr...
en.wikipedia.org
Zero-product property - Wikipedia
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
this is actually the "science is a liar sometimes" bit www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFPt...
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Science is a LIAR sometimes. (Stupid Science Bitch)
YouTube video by john candy
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Local fox nashville running a poll about @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn and the @TNGOP stripping representation from Memphis: fox17.com/question/pol...
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
why dont all libraries install adblocking filters on their internet traffic? genuine question. is that considered censorship or something? it would improve access to information.
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
thats how bluesky cropped it, prob for a standard preview aspect ratio. full image frames everyone properly in the article
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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/04/2026
The state’s legislation could provide a blueprint for others considering moratoriums, amid growing pushback across the country to the rapid rollout of infrastructure underpinning the build-out of AI. ft.trib.al/bb7koE6
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 10/04/2026
"Student whose eye intersected in space-time with a projectile misplaces his eye"
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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Endorsement Alert!‼️ #sheshed
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
😭
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Yeah just said that in other post. Worth trying before taking the long route. You could also throw a "weld" modifier at it to see if you can solve it by joining together all the "near miss" vertices
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Josh gambrell has a bunch of good videos about shader errors, but tbh I'm not sure how much the shader error will matter if you're just 3d printing. It could indicate nasty geometry, but if whatever you're using to print it can turn it into a path for the printer then you're good
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Just looked at it again, I meant to say the "solver" it would be in the little Boolean modifier menu. (Fast, exact, and maybe one other)
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Try the other Boolean difference modes if you haven't already, sometimes those shader errors just go away
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Whoa sick, yeah by fake do you just mean it's a projection onto a 2d surface? I assume that could be basically free??
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parseword @parseword.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Rishi Mody ' ® @rishimody
we're about to speedrun this realization across every institution in society aren't we

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staysaasy@staysaasy • Mar 15
I'm on week five of trying to vibe code a replacement for some dumb saas that we use and it's so incredibly frustrating that I'm slowly realizing it's actually a quite complex and thoughtful piece of software.
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I'm so fucking tired man... I'm so fucking tired
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...
the-reframe.com
Fix Your Hearts or Die
It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I'm crying
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Yeah the more I read it the more obviously ai it is. People say I'm crazy when I point this stuff out, but the cadence is always the same. That "Remember" at the end is a rhythm that just reeks of LLM
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Idk if my LLM detector is overactive but this reads kinda like a bot
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Ugh, just 30 years in prison. They totally teased us 🙄😮‍💨
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I feel like "flappy bird" was the first rage-slop game, but that's just my instinct. This is my first time seeing the term too.
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Blender @blender.org · 17/02/2026
Who knew that Blender could help us study the stars? 🌌 In this new User Story, Ph.D student @jamshidi3d.bsky.social explains how he used Geometry Nodes for his research in cosmology. www.blender.org/user-stories... #b3d #geonodes #cosmology #research #userstory
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Cosmology with Geometry Nodes — Blender
Learn about the real-life scientific applications of GeoNodes in Cosmology research.
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
They gotta leave this guy alone jfc
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Minnesota's top investigative agency says federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
cbsnews.com
FBI formally refuses to share evidence in Alex Pretti killing, Minnesota investigators say
Minnesota's top investigative agency said Monday the federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I've been thinking a lot lately about how communities in the Antebellum North organized to protect Black Americans from kidnapping enslavers, and also how witnessing (and resisting) such kidnappings slowly radicalized a critical mass of white Northerners against slavery www.salon.com/2017/08/05/w...
salon.com
"We waked up stark mad Abolitionists" - Salon.com
Inside the New England big money, made off of slavery, that also funded the fight to keep slavery out of Kansas
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