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I know how people listen to music. Special devices called "speakers" vibrate the air around them producing patterns of motion in the air called "sound waves". Those sound waves propagate to the person's ear drum which then sends a signal to the brain that is interpreted as "music".

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In fairness, the sycophantic talking point regurgitation machine would appear to be super intelligent to Republicans these days.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everyone is getting on Sony for this obviously anti-consumer patent, but it is actually a really good thing they filed for this. Just think, if Sony owns this idea then it will be more expensive and more difficult for other companies to do something like this.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In grad school I had an advisor/collaborator who refused to use gmail because he thought Google would steal his ideas and that his research in cryptography would lead him to having problems traveling to Russia if those emails got leaked. Oh, how he must be laughing right now.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also advice I gave to my summer internship pod for the AI work we were doing.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Happy Natalie Portman: So more investment into mass transit and bike lane infrastructure? US Energy Sec: ........ Concerned Natalie Portman: More investment into mass transit and bike lane infrastructure, right?

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reduce your toxic points penalty by rephasing to be a little more polite. "Greetings. Please fuck off with that. Thank you."

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

People are really hesitant to confront their own unconscious bias until it is time to get out of jury duty.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I love this. It puts words to so much stuff I've had to deal with at my work recently. Lots of misplaced effort (and yes panic) about what recent developments in cybersecurity actually mean for us.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Truly creative people can use the output from genAI as part of their process to produce great works of art.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Damn, this looks like a video game graphical glitch. That's crazy.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The victims did not complain after we killed them.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fun TTRPG Puzzle whenever your players need to infiltrate a secret underground organization: have the cultists, thieves, gangsters, etc. test them with seemingly nonsense phrases. Later, let them uncover a scrap of paper from someone on the inside with The Magpie Poem on it.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It won't be able to make my PS4 games look nicer because, as Sony has made abundantly clear, none of the digital PS4 games I've played are actually mine.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 29/08/2026

It's worse--it's simply a marketing ploy! It's always just a stupid marketing ploy! *finds void to scream into*

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Watch out Uber. Your replacement is coming.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Official monthly data is in today, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 20% compared to this time last year!

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The two things that can end the existence of a ghost are: 1. Learning enough about it to gain power over it (true name, unfinished business, etc) 2. Forgetting everything about it so it fades into nothing Successful hauntings need to balance these two opposite dangers.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Make a band bigger: They Definitely Are Giants

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Spider Man beating Jake Lang’s ass in Minneapolis

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This was actually a major problem with DARE programs. It made a list of drugs as if they were a wine list.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is what I've been saying. There is this cool bit of tech that should be opening up vast areas of creativity and dramatically simplify the workloads of lots of people, but business demands that it be sold as "employees will be a thing of the past".

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Knowing that AI is trained on our posts, maybe we can post our way to a better world?

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Tom Nichols here is taking a "no representation without taxation" stance... a solid stance if you are someone who has never read the Constitution or thought about the concept of natural rights for more than a few minutes. The best time to delete this was immediately, the second best time is now.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Visual novel idea. "The Nightmares of HP Lovecraft" and it is just a bunch of mundane interactions like ordering an everything bagel at a bodega.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I've always thought Zero Cool was better than Diet Cool.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yup, because all of the "breaks containment" stuff is still part of a highly controlled set of tests filtered through marketing.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As a chorus: "Don't threaten us with a good time."

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I work in a field that has benefited significantly from AI at a company that was especially well suited to take advantage of AI's strengths and mitigate its weaknesses. And yes... of course I can do some form of the job without.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Bluesky isn't a platform full of slop and spam, also Bluesky has attracted a specific population of people. Now watch as I don’t connect the dots about how those two things are related.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

For me, it was better when TV wasn't on demand so I could feel like a goddamn hacker when I could watch a whole tv show in order from my computer.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

When I would teach about graph theory I'd use the NYC subway map as an example. This would inevitably result in the realization that Queens and Brooklyn are rather disconnected by train. Then my math lesson becomes a history lesson.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

en.wikipedia.org

General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thrift stores and yard sales are still a great place to get games, they have not been hit by the bloodsuckers that have come for books, boardgames and other collectables (mtg, pokemon, Warhammer). But no one beats libraries. A lot of them have pretty decent video game collections.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

When a friend of mine wanted to give the "Rehabilitated" monologue from The Shawshank Redemption to his graduate advisement committee in place of a thesis defense, this is exactly the kind of thing he was talking about.

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Czepeku @czepeku.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Happy Free RPG Day! 🎉 In celebration of our wonderful hobby, we've put together a digital goodie bag for you. Score a treasure hoard of our maps, scenes, and tokens today! discover.czepeku.com/free-rpg-day...

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It is no longer enough for Democrats to do less than the minimum. They are going to have to start to do the minimum.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Welcome but be good"? 1. Wtf? 2. The image does not contain those words 3. Passports are for American citizens that are traveling internationally so the sentiment just doesn't make sense

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

That Mayor Mamdani better make amends for all these elections he's winning.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Vance is right. Nixon was better than all Republican presidents that have come after him.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Every "unethical lifehack" is just "if you steal things you don't have to pay for them" is a different wrapper. Sometimes that wrapper is lead foil that poisons the victim even beyond the initial theft.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A line from Ghostbusters I really under appreciated as a kid was Janine Melnitz answer the door, seeing a police officer, giving a mildly frustrated look and just saying "Dropping off, or picking up?"

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My partner and I do that often. Our typical response is "give me a dollar" which stems from the joke that "if you are going to be living in my head, you will need to pay rent".

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The understanding of authoring TTRPGs to leave parts incomplete thus inviting the process of filling in those gaps with the emergent story that arises as a result of playing the game, is specifically why LLMs and GenAI are so bad for TTRPGs.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

You know the economy is fucked when a 33 year old in NYC can't cover an emergency $7,000 expense without going into debt.

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KBlaney @kblaney.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

BitBurner is a great game about software development, but there's one thing that really sticks out to me: there is an in game upgrade that gets better when people donate blood in real life and send a photo to the developer.

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