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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Note: If you choose to play, your games will be recorded to help me train the agents to play better and more human-like games. This is non-commercial, purely for research purposes, your data is anonymous, and both the game and the training scripts are open source. github.com/enmaku?tab=r...

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enmaku - Repositories

enmaku has 2 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Hey board game friendos, I made a thing! I'm teaching myself machine learning by training a neural network how to play Welcome to the Dungeon (or rather a legally-distinct clone so I don't get sued). focusdisorder.com/projects/dun...

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Dungeon Runner

Play Welcome to the Dungeon against configurable AI opponents with deterministic browser-only simulation.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Because we grew up in a world where good news happened

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

"Papers please" would actually be a step up from where we're at right now. ICE seems to care neither about documentation nor even the appearance of decency. They're just straight up kidnapping brown people.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Sometimes it's fun to go back to old #astrophotography data with new tricks. There was so much color hiding in Rho Ophiuchi that my previous processing attempts missed. Best picture I've ever taken and it continues to give. 📷🔭

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Astrophotography is really great if you grew up on early computers and miss clicking a button and waiting on an INCREDIBLY long process, often with no progress bar.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

It looks like it's all that's holding that erlenmeyer flask up, so you might have one of these kinds of situations when cleaning up. Careful!

A stack of bowls which has collapsed inside a glass-doored cabinet, and only the closed cabinet door is preventing their further collapse.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Pictured: A permanent ban from all of Reddit. "Harassment" they say. I think the Reddit admins need a fucking dictionary.

It's stochastic terrorism, and the fact that it's not illegal means the laws are broken.

Edit: cool, all the lawyers are compromised and untrustworthy. This treasonous violent madman's reign cannot be settled through the courts. Noted.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Or she's complicit. Maybe. Allegedly. Please don't sue me Oprah.

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I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

To be fair, LLMs could be applied to similarly virtuous uses, they're just tools and most tools are morally neutral. The problem is that a) people aren't using the tools virtuously and b) the tools weren't built virtuously, because c) capitalism ruins everything it touches.

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Alaska Raptor Center @raptororg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

To keep the masses some combination of stupid, scared, and pacified so that those with power and wealth can maintain and grow it without the fear of a peasant uprising

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Hey parents, are you in the market for a school with integrity? Pick the school in your district with the highest number of books in their library that these dickweeds want to ban and send your kids there. Nice of them to give us this resource.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

My dumb ass: Wait, Mark Rothko is in jail? I thought he was dead?...

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I've found exactly one ever, and it was living in this hollow dead tree in Northern Nevada. Only chanced on it because a friend accidentally disturbed its home. It was pure luck, I have no advice to give.

Northern Saw-Whet Owl in a dead hollow tree trunk

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

So small, so quiet, so hidey, so very very nocturnal. I love them so much.

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Here is the satellite pollution from my imaging of the C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) comet, from 7:58 pm to 8:57 pm, one minute shy of one hour. Photo: Barb Barton

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Yeah but you and I both know that when that small county runs short of money they'll choose to fund the police and cut social programs instead. Their bad behavior never hurts them, and in many cases actually rewards them directly. Perverse incentives are perverse.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Bullets don't kill people, blood loss and soft tissue trauma do...

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

No one is immune to being shot in the head. Now I'm not saying anyone should go around shooting their political opponents, but they *are* kinda already shouting at us, and if they've been made immune to every other kind of justice... 🤷

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Hey, that's the guy who played Bojack Horseman in Mr Peanutbutter's Holywoo Heist!

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qntm @qntm.org · 02/11/2025

I love their films but A24 is simply an impractically small paper size

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I don't think anyone thinks they should, but if you're waiting for someone else to do it, you're gonna be waiting a long long time

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Oh is every textbook suddenly available as an audiobook? What's that? It takes a huge amount of labor and effort at great cost to create one when a piece of software can do an adequate job of reading a pdf to you? You're a disgrace to your profession. You're disgusting and I'm done with you.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

That has nothing to do with this conversation. Do try to stay on topic.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I never said any of that? They're tools. I don't like how they were made and they have flaws like all tools, but they're tools and we have them now and we'd be fools not to use them for the things they actually do well where there are no ethical concerns.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Wow, a 24 year old degree achieved before any of these technologies exist. I guess you showed me, the guy who got their degree after the invention of smartphones and still works in the industry.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Now I know you don't know what you're talking about. Language is literally the only thing LLMs do well. 99% of the idiocy I see is people trying to make a language model do math or use logic when all it actually knows is language.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

They *can* help lock in the information, if that's one of the ways you learn. If not, doing that work by hand is unnecessary, and if that task is made difficult by a disability, then what? Just lay down and die? No education for those who need special tools or methods? You're an extremist.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I'm just a software developer, what do I know about the direction the software development industry is moving in? Clearly the college professors who haven't engaged with new technology in a decade are the experts here. 🙄

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

And yet, here I am, the partner of a dyslexic person who is having their textbooks read to them by AI, hearing that she's cheating and should be thrown out of school.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

It's also not like every AI tool is clearly labeled. A bunch of students got wrongfully flagged when grammarly quietly switched from traditional grammar checking to AI-based systems, and no one running a document they wrote through a grammar checker is cheating.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I'm not a fan of the current landscape either. I especially don't like how the tools were built. But a blanket ban is just taking tools away from students, some of which might actually help them learn. And don't get me started on the subset of those tools that disproportionately help the disabled.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

That's a terrible take. There are so many ways to use AI that aren't cheating and so many tools are quietly becoming AI on the backend. Most grammar checking tools, for example, have gone AI now, and AI can also generate flash cards from your notes to help you study. It's not 100% plagiarism.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

They're bullshit snake oil services that don't actually work as advertised and false positives from these tools ruin innocent people without cause. If they worked but were built in unethical ways we'd have a conversation here, but they straight up do not work.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Of course he doesn't care. Black triangle.

Chart showing identification badges used during the holocaust. Black triangles denote "asocials" which includes various itinerant ethnic groups, the mentally ill, addicts, the homeless, and the mentally disabled.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I've always known that there was a spectrum of good, bad, and neutral people but for a long time I was pretty sure the good outnumbered the bad and it made me pretty lax. Now I think the numbers are basically even, and I see evil working hard. It's nice to see good working hard too. Thank you.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

For the record, I'm not a fan either, but it's because dislikes will steer the site in a direction I don't like, not because I think that it will destroy the site entirely or that the people making decisions don't know what they're doing But that's a harder sell than "dislikes bad, admins stoopid"

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Every social media site that isn't Twitter or BSky has a way to indicate displeasure. Facebook has it, reddit has it, YouTube has it, they're everywhere. You can dislike the change and there are valid reasons to do so, but let's not pretend it's unheard of and will destroy any site it touches.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Yeah, emission nebulae are some of my favorite things to shoot. They're usually bright targets, often colorful, and there are some huge ones nearby that mean you don't need a ton of magnification. M42 is about 12 light years across and fairly close. ~100mm lens is all you need.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

When I go to dark sites, I shoot with various DSLRs mounted to a basic tracking rig. Neither option is terribly expensive, both come with study time attached, and the bulk of the actual work is in processing. Don't do astro if you hate post-processing, it's 99% of the gig.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This was mostly taken with a Dwarf II smart telescope, which some might consider cheating, but if you're under heavy light pollution, automation will be a huge help. You just need so much data to cut through that background, anything that saves time/steps is huge.

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The clouds are mostly hydrogen, though they do contain some helium, oxygen, nitrogen, as well as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and a bunch of other stuff. The core has young hot stars that emit a ton of UV which ionizes the gas, causing it to glow

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

3 more nights worth of data added, and you can really start to see the clouds now! #Astrophotography is definitely a hobby for patient people. Super grainy, I didn't have the SNR to actually stretch it this far but I really wanted to see the clouds. 🔭📷

M42, the Orion Nebula, now showing massive clouds of interstellar dust not visible in previous images

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David Perry @focusdisorder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Apparently #owloween is a thing, so here are some shots of the time a friend leaned against a dead tree and a Northern Saw-Whet Owl angrily informed us that this log was occupied.

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