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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 2h

filmmaker specializes in "music from the villains nightclub" and is very good at it

filmmaker.bandcamp.com

Externalism, by Filmmaker

8 track album

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 3h

There's a company out there selling watches that are basically overpriced casios on the basis that they are not smart watches. As in a normal watch. It's an f91w that costs twice as much.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 4h

Steppin out From my favorite spot in wyman park, mainly because it's a nice isolated spot with a big rock to it on, but also because this can happen if you just sit patiently at the right time of day. #photography #wildlife #birds

a heron stalking its way up a rocky stream bed, it's long thin legs each resting on stones as it steps across them, its neck curved into the classic s shape, ready to grab some fish

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 23h

Increasingly there are more things

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bet Clinton didn't fall for that shit (if he did, do NOT tell me)

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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

been thinking about this for years, now articulated:

XKCD formatted meme that shows a large stack of blocks labelled with "all sci-fi and futuristic art direction". in a small corner of the stack is a single, critical, load-bearing block labelled with "a painting done by syd mead sometime in the 1970s"

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The pillars that hold the world aloft are crumbling and no human rule or law will survive the unfolding calamity. This is why we here at Meta are proud to present the Crotch Recorder,

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Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible - and I am not being hyperbolic - pictures of a living mycorrhizal network, the first time we can really see what's going on in the rhizosphere - the thing which underpins all life on this planet. eos.org/articles/fun...

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Fungi Are Holding the Food Web Together. New Research Images This Underground Network. - Eos

By combining computer tomography—the same technology used for medical scans—with a high-powered particle accelerator, researchers have imaged the network of roots, fungal structures, and soil together...

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

more swifts from last week, this one was interesting because they divided in two and got a little confused while converging Lusine - Uncharted lusine.bandcamp.com/track/unchar... #photography #wildlife #birds

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is largely not a result of AI, but other factors that happened to hit around the same time.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

presumably the hardest italo known to man

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DisgustingFilm @disgustingfilm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Orson Welles on Videogames

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you shouldn't take an iced coffee to a job interview because you shouldn't be trying to get a job. you should be digging an enormous pit or a complex system of tunnels

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Simply refuse to believe anyone "is on Threads"

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Of course kima greggs carries a spyderco

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Regret to say you do in fact have to hand it to the british on this one

Can of theakston old peculier beer featuring a large golden seal with a figure on it

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This was genuinely one of the nastiest locations I've ever had a job at lmao

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is especially crazy because Huang at least used to be a genuinely intelligent guy, he was a chip designer. Once you reach a certain level of wealth it just melts your brain apparently.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it's getting to be that time of year #photography

crisp brown leaves rest on a log dotted with baby bracket fungi, all covered in nice dappled sunlight

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Idk if I have vertical video or zoomer attention spans to blame for this but one-word-at-a-time subtitles make me feel like I'm having a stroke

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

First properly cool day of autumn

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I multitasked while I watched dogshit tv, so the time wasn't totally wasted. Problem is I also did this with good tv.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

bsky's compression really stepped on this one

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

swifts at 60fps from friday night 9/18, this was a good one, if I remember correctly the count was around 2600, lots of direction changes, pretty happy with this shot Lusine - Pendulum lusine.bandcamp.com/track/pendulum #photography #wildlife #birds

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Been really dry here lately but it's about to be mushroom time

Weather app showing straight rain the next 5 days

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My point has only ever been "this is possible, I've seen it happen", and so far the *only* argument made against this is "it's not possible because there *may* be hidden problems". Does this not seem mismatched to you?

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

(also, consider yourself lucky if you *have* bought a house, congrats)

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Making some gadget or data collection thing isn't comparable in stakes to buying a house. Getting tired of analogies, but think of it like slapping together a plywood shelf for a weird shaped corner in the basement. It's not supposed to take the place of critical, quality work.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Of course it can. Everything can. "Home automation doohickey" was a single example, I've seen people solve problems I don't know of an existing drop in solution for. In my life it is a *fact* that they are now able to do that. I've tried to find angles where this is a bad development and I can't.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Like, you're all listing very valid problems with working with it professionally. I get that since you're being heavily pressured to use it it's very personal. I don't think it should be used in that context. That said you can't handwave ordinary people being able to just conjure simple stuff.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Some types of projects could have long term problems you wouldn't see at first, sure, but not everything. Would also be true of someone trying to cobble it together the old fashioned way by copying and pasting off the internet, which will take longer and may not work either.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh like, something else you'd be able to check for and observe? Damn that's crazy

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Everyone else here managed to come up with long term problems you might not notice, this is one you would notice immediately.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The scenarios you're imagining are also possible when someone is just throwing something together by copying and pasting, and many of them won't even get functional results and will spend much more time on it when they have no interest in learning the craft.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

From your own description of your experience it doesn't sound like you know that much more than I do, outside your specific field of security. Y'all are picturing commercial products, not something with a single use and immediate output that only gets built once.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And again, this may as well read: "speaking as a plumber, you only *think* your shower works, you aren't actually wet, that's not water" Authority is not enough to override observable phenomena, never has been. It will be easier to fight the harm being done if you're realistic. Best of luck.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People repeatedly building useful tools for themselves is irrelevant because they don't understand exactly how it works? I don't think other uses are comparable, writing prose or asking it a question can't be as easily evaluated as software that either works or doesn't.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For you this is true, and for myself, I don't disagree. For some people, for some tasks, it's simpler to use them than not. I don't think it's helpful to pretend this isn't true. I don't think there's really anything else to be said here.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You're telling me something I've seen with my own eyes more than once is not possible, that something I've seen accomplish things has no utility. I wanted to believe the same things for a long time, but it doesn't survive contact with reality. Hope it works out for you though.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Only if there is a downstream. If it does one function as intended and never needs to be extended/scaled, any incomprehensible or inefficient code isn't a real problem for someone who only values functionality.

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Allen Bryan @limulus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Those are reasons it isn't useful for most of the tasks it's being pushed for, including anything remotely professional, serious, or long term in nature, but not everything is like this. Arguments against using it will be more effective if they're realistic. That's all.

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