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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"--fahrlässig-befugnisse-überschreiten" oh no, oh fuck, am I being detained? oh god where did I leave my papers

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

E exerts a strong pull but A wins my heart nonetheless. Beautiful stuff!

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh sure that colors it but these noisy exits specifically seem to me almost entirely because they are currently shedding the researchers that fit your description very well.

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm begging people to look up how a human actually works rather than taking it from literary fiction. It's a sack of meat where a million random types of juices interact and react themselves into something loosely approximating a machine (and badly at that)

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's so crazy that tricking a somewhat innocent guard into letting you through is now an actual occupation. Like we glitched into some parallel dimension or something

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I've been reading _Foundryside_ by @robertjbennett.bsky.social and in it there's a sentient key that opens doors by jailbreaking the magic (sentient Haiku level) locks and it's hilarious. He's just like you! lmao

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

You know, I always thought people name-dropped in order to make themselves appear important. This instance however merely manages to erase all doubt about whether you really are such a petty little bitch.

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

There were some issues around 1930 which lead to renegotiations of the foreign loans but pretty much each renegotiation resulted in some hefty concessions in favour of Germany. There were surely causes for their election but just as importantly there were lucky opportunities for them to exploit, too

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

German Politicians (inevitably then amplified by Newspapers) will to this day repeat it every time the debt brake comes up for debate. I even heard it from my History teacher in school here in Germany.

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hitler drew this direct link in his inaugural speech. As such it is about as credible as saying trump got elected because there was an invasion of illegals at the southern border. I’m mystified how this keeps being repeated. I suspect it was a convenient lie which the Germans kept alive post-war.

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

oh that’s the bare-assed goku run kaomoji. Just came out

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My airways were built for sitting placidly under a tree eating grapes in a soft breeze! Delicate breathers with pinhole nostrils deserve rights too. We can’t help it that we stem from a line of supple ethereal elves with respiratory systems adapted to loving sincerely and listening attentively

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

And for anyone looking for inspiration, this is the build that sent me down this road of using aluminum profiles for a case. This one looks better and is much easier to replicate. He used those miniature Makerbeam profiles instead of full-size like me

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

ngggh I *really* feel like showing what I was aiming at now lmao. I never finished the build (this was during my pre-adderal prescription days) and never showed anyone lmao. I’ll feel better getting these renders out

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Jensen “Baby Foot” Huang understands one can never have enough Pumice stones.

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

(ngl I’m quite proud of this one and will *not* miss a chance to show it off lmao)

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I *think* i get it because I tried to solve a similar problem years ago and hit upon the same solution. Basically it solves three design problems in one fell-swoop. Visual Texture + Air Flow + Dust Filter. I just did it with gyroid infill instead of that fancy foam structure.

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Good thing he has no clue this was just the first round. I can do this all day buddy! If the damn sheep-strength shaver wasn’t so loud he wouldn’t even have noticed. I don’t knick! I caress with that thing. But the wriggling… the goddamn wriggling man… that’s where he gets you!

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

World-class wriggler right here. Wriggles like you wouldn’t believe. This boy can wriggle with the best of ’em. No one does it like him. And he’s got the haircut to prove it. Makes it look like I went to town chomping his fur off one bite at a time.

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Kafka was gay as hell, right? We all agree on that? The Trial? Your boss found out but he can’t fire you for that but now the office *is talking*. Metamorphosis? Your family found your gay porn stash. The Castle? You’ve heard about gay hot spots in town but people refuse to tell you where they are.

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

omg fuckin sold! I’ve thought for so long this would be so good to have

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

macOS offers the creaky old AppleScript backdoor (which can be even called using JS nowadays I think?). The wezterm Lua api looks a lot more useful though. Looks like it has way more granular control github.com/ghostty-org/...

github.com

ghostty/macos/Ghostty.sdef at main · ghostty-org/ghostty

👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. - ghostty-org/ghostty

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Don’t know if it qualifies as a framework but it sure is some form of library for interactivity. Its originator even wrote a whole manifesto which explains his approach: grugbrain.dev

grugbrain.dev

The Grug Brained Developer

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I think htmx could fit the bill.

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My therapist said It’s fine, I have some auditory cognitive style or something. Engaging with LLMs to think out loud is almost a substitute. Writing on paper is a close second. But nothing beats muttering to myself like a lunatic lmao

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

No, and it holds me back. I used to think out loud a lot when solving difficult problems when designing (architecture school) or doing homework. I don’t live alone anymore and don’t want to look like a lunatic, but now i get stuck a lot. I’m trying to use writing instead but it’s not the same.

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I believe this calls for some light condemnation

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cones @coneshotline.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

except zoe ball (pbuh)

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The Kubrick shot of the kid riding his tricycle down the data center aisles like it’s the shining lmao wtf!

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

although i only base this hunch on that single out of context quote! that's really as deep as my research went lol, so i'm not really as confident about my conclusions as it sounds. i'm not used to writing tweet length

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

that novel reads like a clear cut cautionary tale *to me* but williams apparently disagrees. i can't but conclude that he straightforwardly made the character live out the choices he considers to be right, but can't help feel guilty about. you just don't include this much misery otherwise imo

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

and it is for sure. but since the book spans his WHOLE life (+aftermath) it left me curious why it was so important to williams to show us what these specific life choices add up to if pursued to the fullest i got that hero quote from this review: anodysseyofthoughts.wordpress.com/2018/07/30/s...

anodysseyofthoughts.wordpress.com

‘Stoner’, By: John Williams; A review

A review of the ‘greatest novel you’ve never read.’

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

first half: fervently disagree (respectfully) second half: hell yeah that's more like it

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

that book's a doozy for sure lol

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

best punch in the gut i've ever had. love that book

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

hey, so cool that you're getting into generative art. the tool that really made that art explode onto the scene was Processing and then continued with p5.js. so if you want to get deeper into that you can google some works and see what you like and what's possible. keep on growing and exploring

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I found Dostoevsky bewildering for similar reasons until i looked into it and found that there was some popular rationalist utilitarian intellectuals who specifically got on his nerves and whom he was expressly trying to piss off.

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

man that style is so good. i want to find the people responsible now. maybe there are books about them. i've only just started but i found this article about a different tape producer that also had some nice design maybe you'll get a kick out of it: www.ddr-museum.de/en/blog/2016...

ddr-museum.de

»Original Wolfen« magnetic tape and film production in the GDR | Blog

The GDR company »ORWO« was known for its technical products. In this blog post, you can find out how the company came into being and developed over the years.

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

one last hail-mary: mingling, as in intermingling or commingling. thats as close as i'll get i think

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

you're right, the relevant meaning is a lot more abstract than i can grasp. curious what other alternatives you find, this is fun!

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

the normal german meaning of the word Verkehr is almost identical to the english "traffic", both for vehicles (rush-hour traffic) and exchange of goods (i.e. trafficking). the word "Verkehr" itself just means the transfer of something so exchange or trafficking could do i think?

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I am nothing but a mouth, but I don't see what's so special about the tokens [82, 47100]

the word 'scream' but it's color coded as the two tokens into which the gpt-4 tokenizer decomposes it. namely one token for the letter s (token id 82) and the word 'cream' (token id 47100).

so, not only does an LLM see the word scream as two sterile numbers but the whole apparatus which imbues this combination with meaning for it will only ever let it understand it to the extent of:

"i've heard beings do this in distressing situations. what are distressing situations? well i've heard beings feel distressed when...? what is 'feeling'? well i've heard that... what do i mean by 'heard'? well when a dataset and a training framework love each other a lot... what is 'love'? well, matrix multiplication and activation functions when combined with a turing machine can give rise to...'

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

haha no way but he was definitely floating home on that feeling, though. the kind of thing you keep going back to if you feel down which picks you right back up. a strapping young man doesn't just walk that kind of compliment off, that one sticks lol

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

i realized at some point that i had Don Draper from Mad Men like that for the longest time but can't even remember why or when it started

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

lmao guys always have some main guy they base their style on and i bet you just gave him a big one. like he's currently furiously googling "hasan piker hairstyle" "hasan piker looks"

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

right! him periodically granting and later withholding his attention *has* to be intentional right? it's not *just* her finding the way through his armor, it was also about some weird status thing. like her also climbing out from under him

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Berger Smith @holbidope.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

i suppose that's the point, it's worth it to her because that's how much she loves him.

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