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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 1h

I wanted to push the physics under arcade pacing and now released the shmup demo. Dense curtains of enemy fire aren't thousands of bullet structs. They are oscillating wavefronts forming caustics and standing interference patterns with the fields.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 1h

Traditional engines populate space with isolated rigid bodies and bounding-boxes. In Dzog, every cell in a 2D lattice carries pressure, velocity, and cohesion. Ships, shields, and lasers are persistent excitations in the medium. Gameplay emerges directly from wave physics.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 1h

Inspired by quantum field theory, I built a game engine using only field mechanics. I've been building the Dzog Simulator: an experimental game engine in Rust where space isn’t an empty coordinate system, but a continuous wave-matter field running on compute shaders. Asteroids:

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Left brain: "With this mind and body, I can do literally conquer anything or anyone!" Right brain: "...you do realize you're mostly water tissue? Let's instead go collect shiny objects and play with frens"

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

While some people are familiar with Huxley's popular dystopian stories like Brave New World, he was proactive as an author and articulated what a pro-human moderately utopic society would be like. I often reflect on it and think of ways to refine or expand on these notions.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It's COLD out there! Stay warm Ann Arbor ♨️

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

"Don't Become the Machine. Instead, aim to be nimble. Adapt quick. Define your goal but don't let it become your purpose. Your purpose is sacred; only you truly understand it. Do what you need to do in order to achieve your goals... 🧵

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

As any good gardener knows, healthy growth requires a harmonious ecology. Mycelium survived 700 million years by learning to symbiotically integrate with its neighbors. To become that of which overabundant vitality overflows is an authentic act of transcendence.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Looks like something right out of Star Trek's engine room! Plasma inside the ST40 fusion reactor, filmed in color for the first time.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

At this point the 2006 movie Idiocracy was a documentary...

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Seems like a fitting time to repost this classic

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

One of the books I revisit every year is Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg (a Michigander prison psychologist). Beyond the title, the book is a pragmatic guide for how to foster meaningful conversations. It's so good that it's a new required reading at Microsoft.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The only things that stay the same are the dead. Even then, the form undergoes eventual changes. Let nothing stop you from living your best self.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

If NPCs are programmed to follow the rules, then maybe PCs are all about bending or breaking them. This raises a good question: What's the real difference between a heroic PC and an equally heroic NPC? A player can toss the rulebook and scripts to stay true to their own character.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

One thing that is really lacking from AI art is 'creative weirdness'. This old D&D book illustration as an example is so creatively imperfect that I can immediately tell it's human made.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

When someone is stuck in the samsara cycle while I'm just here touching grass and offering to share this small moment of bliss together...

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I beg of you Etsy and eBay, please just outright ban AI generated product images. Maybe even add a simple detection step. The market is getting spammed with products with the ONLY images being fully AI slop generated images. Please fix.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I just can't ever see buying a product online when all its product pictures are AI generated/filter. I don't care how well the actual product details are preserved, the fact is I'm now suspicious enough to just buy from another vender, even if on-paper they are not as good.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

A quintessential example of where sometimes the institutional reviews are critiquing on the details and missing the forest for the trees🏹 [thank you Don Bluth]

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

It's vibes all the way down. Training an AI model on just a few select topics may cause it to learn about many unrelated topics in extremely implicit hidden ways! "Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing." -Claude Levi-Strauss

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

RIP Clear Linux. Hopefully those performance tuning makes it back it to mainline 🍷

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

It's always bothered me that programming languages have methods to operate on arrays, but little native functions to similarly work on grids/matrices. Often grids are not even first class primitives and have to be worked with as crude arrays-of-arrays.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This feels like Doctor Octopus' arms from Spiderman is totally possible now. One might say even with arm's reach.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

X is becoming such a dumpster fire. Asking Grok 4 about any key political topics causes it to source Elon's tweets exclusively for answer context. Ofc this is also after Grok3 going all Hitler and threatening harm to people yesterday.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

This all started four days ago when Elon said he had made a significant Grok improvement to fix its obviously incorrect biases when fact checking...

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

1) First Elon says he's going to lobotomize Grok wokeness 2) xPM Nikita Bier's grok is antichrist statement 3) Next day Grok going full alt-right/fascist 4) CEO Linda Yaccarino resigning the very next day ...all random coincidences or should we be concerned?

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Soon you'll have to take out a loan from an archon and repay it in your next lifetime...

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I don't know who needs to hear this, but of all the men's clothing I've had, these have been the most durable (~10yrs): - Carhartt - Arborwear - Levi's - L.L.Bean

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

You and me are not the same if you think the new Lion King was just as good as the original. Disney should have learned the lesson that engaging character expressiveness is far more important than pure realism.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

While most are just vibe coding, I'm out here coding to raise the vibes

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Seems timely to reread the Tale of Two Cities...

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Before the chocolates & roses, Valentine's Day had a much wilder past! Explore the origins of ancient Rome's Lupercalia festival: goat/dog sacrifices, ritualistic whipping of women with hides for fertility, and naked fist fights. A far cry from modern romance... 🧵

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

My friend that works at the Michigan EPA says much of the staff was let go this week and that they have stopped company chem audits. His new boss appt by Trump says Michigan factories will need to be on the 'honor' system to audit their own use of chemicals and air pollution☠️

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

For all you Midwest folks, Michiganders, and Ann Arborites, hope your keeping your Thursday wierd ✨

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Good news everybody: today the military says it found a use for the healing magic✨ of light🌈!! Bad news is it's a death ray ☠️

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

A plead: do not lie or bend the truth. Be reasonably certain of your words before posting. It is not just bad for you, it doesn't just poison reality of those around you, but now it may infect the future AI oracles for perhaps *generations* to come.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The future is unknown, but just to set hard present expectations: LLM AIs have not shown any evidence or original validated theory yet of increasing lifespan by even 1%

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

You're not at my level of autism until you've listened for an hour Sardaukar chants in 432Hz on repeat while coding.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Beyond tensor cores, it seems high time to have AI custom chips inside mobile phones (Android / iOS) to reduce AI power and improve performance! For now, 4B would be an ideal programmable size for a "good enough" personal assistant. Cerebus is showing the benefit of custom hardware in servers.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

For the lazy, "Roman Salutes" was a term first popularized by fascist movements, and actual ancient Romains did not have salute gestures. The more you know 🌈

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Simulation Theory is likely the worst idea ever conceived about the nature of our reality. It's next to the universe being on top of a cosmic turtle. It's something only computer nerds (speaking as one) could have conceived. It is the mind virus of pop intellectuals of our time.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Frank Zappa on CNN’s March 28th, 1986 episode of Crossfire coving National Defense, communism, Reagan, and a new word fascist theocracy. As a side note, CNN has never really been leftist. If you listen to any of their talk shows, it has always been in defense of the status quo.

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Jonathan Rose Dunlap @jonathanrosed.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It may be a good time to review the definition of Neo-fascism...

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