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David Thompson

@flockofbirbs.bsky.social
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CTO @ Spritely Institute building distributed social tech spritely.institute Worcester, MA area - he/him Blog: dthompson.us I'm on the fediverse at toot.cat/@dthompson

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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We're entering spooky season, and here's a neat Halloween-haunted-house-themed game made with Spritely's Hoot Scheme->WASM toolkit by bonthron ! community.spritely.institute/t/hoot-haunt...
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Hoot haunted house
eva: a haunted house built with hoot There were rumours of course. Eva’s death had been unnatural and, it was said, the coffin had been buried empty. Then strange things began to happen at the ma...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We gave a really well received talk at QCon London: “Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet”, and it's now uploaded publicly! Give it a watch! www.infoq.com/presentation...
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Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet
Christine Lemmer-Webber and David Thompson explain how Spritely's architecture solves core decentralization challenges. They share insights on capability-based access control with Goblins, actor-model...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Spritely office hours today Wednesday, September 30th at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic... Drop by! Say hello! Ask us questions! Tell us what you're building! These are always fun and the conversations are always great! Hope to see you there!
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Next office hours on 9/30
Hey everyone, Our next office hours will be held on Wednesday, September 30th at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC). This is our recurring monthly meeting where we chat about all things Spritely! The agenda is set ...
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tim Heidecker introducing his short-lived children’s characters the “Doodle Dots” in On CinemaTim Heidecker introducing his short-lived children’s characters the “Doodle Dots” in On Cinema
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Rail Passengers Association @railpassengers.org · 28/09/2026
Our VP of Government Affairs + Policy, Sean Jeans-Gail, was on hand yesterday as Amtrak held its Airo celebration in the PNW. The public revenue service launch is this coming Wednesday. 1/3
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Introducing The Tim Heidecker Podcast. Premiering October 1.
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dressmaker is $13.49 on Steam (10% off launch discount) buff.ly/VZ3x3ds
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David Thompson @flockofbirbs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The greatest intro to Computer Science of all time.
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Evangelion Screenshots @ngescreenshot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good morning Providence & Amtrak NextGen Acela!! ⚓️🚅
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You gotta hand it to em “WPD lets public safety chairwoman off on obvious DUI the same week the council votes against a police oversight board” would be a really good way to satirize a corrupt municipality
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David Thompson @flockofbirbs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just finished reading A Trade of Blood by @robertjbennett.bsky.social. Another fascinating mystery in a finely crafted fantasy world, this time featuring commentary on agriculture (beef production in particular) which really resonated with me. I rate this one 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄 and a 💀.
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On Cinema at the Cinema @oncinema.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The On Cinema Podcast Episode 1 ‘Ghostbusters’
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Betsy Cazden @betsy-cazden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm looking for Providence-Worcester too, especially every time I drive up 146 and see the overpasses labeled "Providence-Worcester RR." Like, OK, but where's my train service? (For that matter, where's hourly bus service?)
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Amtrak will start running the new Airo trainsets on Amtrak Cascades on September 30, according to a WSDOT presentation happening right now at the Puget Sound Regional Council.
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Mega64 @mega64official.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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On Cinema Per Hour @ocatcperhour.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On Cinema at the Cinema S05E04
On Cinema at the Cinema S05E04
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“Spooky” Tom Guycott @thomasguycott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Happy birthday to a real champ.
A cartoon Sega Dreamcast with googly eyes sits on a table and is talking with its lid as a mouth:

“OH NO! MY CMOS BATTERY DIED! I CAN'T PLAY VIDEO GAMES ANYMORE!”

“HA HA! JUST KIDDING! YO, WHAT TIME IS IT?”
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David Thompson @flockofbirbs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Everyone's favorite obscure game jam, the Lisp Game Jam, is happening again on October 30th! Pick your favorite Lisp, grab a pile of parentheses, and make a little game in 10 days! itch.io/jam/autumn-l...
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Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2026
A game jam from 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-16 hosted by technomancy & David Thompson. Lisp Game Jam is a recurring game jam taking place for a full 10 days. After the jam has finished, 7 days are given to ...
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The holes on the Ocarina have never looked this good before
The holes on the Ocarina have never looked this good before
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David Thompson @flockofbirbs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"the computer is thinking!" no it's not
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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I've started saving "found photos" of humans with video games as they appear on eBay because, idk, someone's got to
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Funny that leftists claim to hate elderly politicians but they don't have that same energy when the old guy is relatively good and the younger guy fucking sucks so bad.
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david celis @davidcel.is · 31/08/2026
the tech industry fervor over Omarchy is so fucking confusing to me that i'm honestly starting to wonder if it's just money laundering. over TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS for a fascist's dotfiles and bash scripts is patently insane
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David Thompson @flockofbirbs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"responsible LLM usage" is the "clean coal" of the tech world
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David Thompson @flockofbirbs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"responsible LLM usage" is the "clean coal" of the tech world
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The biggest reason given for not adopting ActivityPub in the ATproto paper was that replies could be missing on threads on AP. The ATmosphere now has just a few "full participant" nodes (and it's still a bit unclear how much bsky's infra is leaned on), and seems to already be hitting this challenge
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HEALTH @health.band · 15/08/2026
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On Cinema Frames @ocatcframes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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David Thompson @flockofbirbs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Anti ad blocker takes are so weird. They're saying you shouldn't have agency over your own computer.
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On Cinema at the Cinema @oncinema.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker @officehourslive.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Enjoy Shannon Lay's delightful rendition of the Slayer classic "South of Heaven" from the latest episode of Office Hours Live. Join us at patreon.com/officehourslive and enjoy an full extra hour of the show every week.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
They turned the friggin' frogs gay. Buy one now at store.theonion.com.
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On Cinema at the Cinema @oncinema.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
There but for the grace of god go I.
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
debuting as part of @aftermath.site's hater week, here's my list of (so far) over 50 video game studios that are rejecting generative AI, each with their rationale for doing so
D-CELL Games
Games: Unbeatable

Steam page

“Even if I’m just looking at this in the cold mercenary MBA freak way—the ‘I want to generate income as much as possible’ way—you can’t make a thing people want to buy if the thing you want to buy is the same thing everyone else has. And that’s what you fucking get with AI models. It’s definitionally part of how they work. 

So all using [AI] will do is make you compete worse. You have to do laps on a hamster wheel to arrive at the opposite conclusion. Because the only way to actually make money on this shit besides a pump-and-dump is to be the guy selling the shovels. And even the shovels are starting to rust.

Even the stuff that sounds good or looks good for a given value of ‘good’ (i.e. it convincingly looks at a glance like it wasn’t generated with a machine, it’s ‘professional’) is only capable of spitting out inputs that existed before. You can feel it in the ‘choices’ it makes, because it doesn’t make choices; it chooses a value with a weight given by a model patched from every work at once on fast forward. The nutritional value of AI work is approximately identical to watching a 2000s horror movie trailer compilation at 4X speed while second-screening Maury transcriptions. It might be fun to look at, but it will kill you on the inside."
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encrypted . whispers @encryptedwhispers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hey, it's been a bit! I'll be playing at a show in Cambridge August 7th, at Zuzu! Come see me and a bunch of other talented folks at a *FULLY IMPROVISED* show! NO RECIPE! I will be doing a set on my eurorack synth, for the first time! #encryptedwhispers #boston #cambridge #livemusic #synthsky
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No Recipe
Live Coding and electronic music show where anything goes, except for 1 rule: NO RECIPES ALLOWED. Improvised compositions only. Lineup: Electric Flesh, ludens, bryce.avx, other marys, encrypted.whispe...
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David Thompson @flockofbirbs.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Embracing the future — Introducing GCD 009: Allowing LLM-assisted and LLM-generated contributions for GNU Guix codeberg.org/guix/guix-co...
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009-genai2.md: Add initial draft.
* 009-genai2.md: New file.
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On Cinema Per Hour @ocatcperhour.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Mister America
Mister America
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
MASSACHUSETTS: Here's an important update on where things stand with social media / age verification legislation here in the state. We made A TON of noise, and the legislature felt the backlash. The Senate bill is much less bad than the House bill. But we have to keep pushing. Here's why:
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UPDATED LETTER: Massachusetts lawmakers must assure constituents and human rights organizations that new social media bill does not require invasive online ID checks
UPDATE, July 2026: Our growing coalition of LGBTQ+, civil liberties, racial justice and human rights groups continues to oppose any legislation that requires online age checks or undermines the abilit...
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Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com · 27/07/2026
Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%
Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.
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On Cinema Per Hour @ocatcperhour.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
On Cinema at the Cinema S03E09
On Cinema at the Cinema S03E09
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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 22/07/2026
📃🐝✨ Excited to share a preprint about BeeKEM, a decentralized / local-first variant of MLS's TreeKEM (group E2EE) that we designed at @inkandswitch.com. Huge thanks to our coauthors for the writeup and empirical analysis — even we were pleasantly surprised by the performance results 📊
eprint.iacr.org
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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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On Cinema Per Hour @ocatcperhour.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
On Cinema at the Cinema S13E07
On Cinema at the Cinema S13E07
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 15/07/2026
it's funny how for decades the RIAA would carbomb teenagers for downloading one (1) song yet now these dudes are just allowed to do this shit like it's nothing
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I think you should leave turbo team @itysl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
my condolences. TWO THREE FOUR
new joe
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Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026
@bmann.ca @cwebber @dholms.at at #dwebcamp talking about #activitypub and #atproto
Boris Christine and Daniel
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DWeb @getdweb.net · 09/07/2026
🏮 Tonight we hosted the Demo Night Market! 🏮 Many makers demoed their decentralised tech stack tools. Every project displayed was not about potential, remote, and abstract futures, but rather about the distributed tech we need HERE and NOW.
Weird object with lights on a table.A person showing how the project “Nom” works.People checking out a chemical and technical device.Tommi and Evan making an hashtag with their fingers.
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Matthias Kirschner @kirschner.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026
Great presentations during demo night at #dwebcamp. Here @cwebber during a entertaining performance.
person with magic stick behind computer screenscomputer display with https://spritely.institute URL on itvirtual room with "donate" on computer screen
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