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Marshall Bowers

@maxdeviant.com
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宝霞龙. 32. Conjurer of code. Devourer of art. Pursuer of æsthetics. Soli Deo gloria. He/him. Engineering at Zed Industries. maxdeviant.com 🎵 Now Playing: "Slow Sour Bleed" by ERRA

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 7h
US governemnt: launches official government chatbot on america.gov Trump: will now have to call his own chatbot a liar because it says the truth
On america.gov, a screenshot of a chat:

Q: Was there any evidence that the election was stolen?

A: No official federal findings supported the claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

• Election infrastructure officials said there was no evidence any voting system deleted, lost, or changed votes, or was compromised. CISA joint statement
• The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security said they found no evidence a foreign government manipulated election results. DOJ–DHS joint statement
• The Intelligence Community reported no indications that any foreign actor altered voter registration, ballot casting, vote tabulation, or reporting. Select Committee report, Appendix 4

Congress certified the Electoral College results on January 7, 2021. Isolated election crimes can occur; they are not the same as evidence that the national result was stolen.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 16h
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 17h
Got some @turtleme.at in my bank.
47 raw sea turtles in an OSRS bank.
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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 29/09/2026
First Balatro win 🃏
Balatro "YOU WIN!" summary screen showing a best hand of 114,532, most played hand of “Pair”, reached Ante 9 and Round 21 (both high scores).

164 cards played, 72 cards discarded, 46 cards purchased, 1 reroll, and 45 new discoveries.

Seed is PMUKPVBZ.
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
either this will be so obvious as to be insulting or it will come as a surprise, but the limiting factor on a bunch of projects for me right now in this bold new agentic area is my personal throughput on editing and rewriting copy with my own moist brainmeats
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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 28/09/2026
Many people are saying this (because it’s true).
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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 28/09/2026
Currently working on a little tool to use with WoW Forever. Right now it supports tracking items across multiple characters, including the ability to search for a particular item. There's a companion addon that I've built to dump the necessary data, which is then read in from the disk.
Screenshot of Foreversight, a dark-themed app that searches inventory across multiple game characters in World of Warcraft: Forever.

The sidebar lists two characters, Pal Egret (level 6 Dwarf Paladin) and Pious Egret (level 6 Human Priest). The main panel shows a search bar and a list of 45 items
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/09/2026
I've published detailed notes and an annotated transcript to accompany the video of the keynote I gave at @wearedevelopers.bsky.social World Congress North America in San Jose on Friday - here's my rundown of everything that's happened with LLMs in 2026 so far simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/...
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2026 in LLMs (so far)
On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological …
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wariziles @riziles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a TUI????
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 28/09/2026
Claude 5.5 Sonnet is live and it’s roughly Opus 5.5 but cheaper www.anthropic.com/claude-sonne...
A benchmark comparison table titled "Claude Sonnet 5.5" comparing four models: Sonnet 5.5, Sonnet 5, Opus 5.5, and GPT-6 Sol.
 * Agentic coding (Terminal-Bench 4.0): Sonnet 5.5: 70.6%; Sonnet 5: 10.3%; Opus 5.5: 66.4%; GPT-6 Sol: N/A.
 * Agentic coding (FrontierCode 1.1 Main): Sonnet 5.5: 46.2% (Max) / 52.1% (Xhigh); Sonnet 5: 42.4%; Opus 5.5: 54.4%; GPT-6 Sol: 49.3%.
 * Agentic coding (CursorBench 4.0): Sonnet 5.5: 55.5%; Sonnet 5: 34.1%; Opus 5.5: 57.8%; GPT-6 Sol: N/A.
 * Knowledge work (GDPval-AA v2.1): Sonnet 5.5: 1844; Sonnet 5: 1449; Opus 5.5: 1846; GPT-6 Sol: 1487.
 * Knowledge work (AA-Briefcase v1.1): Sonnet 5.5: 1811; Sonnet 5: 1359; Opus 5.5: 1822; GPT-6 Sol: 1483.
 * Multidisciplinary reasoning (Humanity's Last Exam with tools): Sonnet 5.5: 64.5%; Sonnet 5: 54.9%; Opus 5.5: 67.7%; GPT-6 Sol: N/A.
 * Computer use (OSWorld 2.1 partial): Sonnet 5.5: 80.1%; Sonnet 5: 57.0%; Opus 5.5: 81.8%; GPT-6 Sol: N/A.
 * Visual chart recognition (Chartography no tools): Sonnet 5.5: 61.6%; Sonnet 5: 15.6%; Opus 5.5: 64.4%; GPT-6 Sol: 53.6%.
Footnotes provide methodology notes regarding evaluation settings, Artificial Analysis pre-release testing details, and recent bug fixes affecting GPT-6 Sol benchmark scores.
A line graph titled "Agentic coding by effort level" on the CursorBench 4.0 benchmark, plotting Score (%) on the linear y-axis (20% to 60%) against Cost per task in USD on a logarithmic x-axis ($0.5 to $10+).
The chart compares four models:
 * Sonnet 5.5 (blue line with labeled effort levels): Starts at "Low" (~$0.50, 36%), moving through "Med" ($0.70, 39%), "High" ($1.70, 48%), "Xhigh" ($3.80, 53%), and "Max" ($9.50, ~55.5%).
 * Opus 5.5 (orange line): Tracks closely above Sonnet 5.5 at higher cost points, spanning from ~$1.20 per task (~44%) up to ~$12.50 per task (~58%).
 * Sonnet 5 (grey line): Shows lower accuracy relative to cost, ranging from ~$0.90 per task (~25%) to ~$8.00 per task (~42%).
 * GPT-5.6 Sol (light green line): Represents the lowest trajectory, ranging from ~$1.40 per task (~24%) to ~$7.00 per task (~34%).
Footnote: "CursorBench 4.0 does not report GPT-6 Sol performance publicly, so we report GPT-5.6 Sol here."
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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 28/09/2026
The barrier to entry for making WoW addons seems so much lower than making RuneLite plugins for OSRS. Being able to just write some Lua and symlink your addon into the `Interface/AddOns` directory is so much more lightweight than setting up a whole Java development environment.
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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 28/09/2026
hi friends I'm very excited to announce Halfspace, my experimental cross-platform IDE for solid modeling with distance fields! This has been in progress since midway through last year, and it's finally "done enough" to make it more public.
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Halfspace
An IDE for solid modelling with distance fields
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
me reading this response to "you can drop one f-bomb into Shakespeare"
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Salieri's Intense Reaction to Mozart
Alt: Salieri's intense reaction to Mozart
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
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Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a bat hangs upside-down from a telephone line at sunset. The bat is in front of a billboard advertising the Florida Mega Jackpot, which is valued at $5,318,008 - represented with a digital ticker. Panel 2: the POV flips to the bat’s upside-down perspective, which makes the digital numbers look like they spell “BOOBIES”. The bat appears delighted.
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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 27/09/2026
I've been playing the WoW Forever beta a bit, but I just can't get into it knowing that it's all going to get reset on launch. But when I'm not playing I just keep wanting to play WoW Forever. Really need the full game to be out already.
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nia (cia asset) @nia.is.fckn.gay · 27/09/2026
dhh please fuck off we don't want your fascist kind in rust either 💞
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plainoldchair @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For code, this policy is already very rapidly approaching a time when it is not only unenforceable by any reasonable measure, but also an absurd thing to expect of people. At a certain point, the tools just become too useful, too actually-good at what they do. That point is already in the past.
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bug spray cody @aevris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
really enjoying this gif. please, join me for a drink
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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 26/09/2026
Had a realization that—aside from Fable—the best Anthropic model I had used was Opus 4.5. And now Opus 5.5 seems to have come up with the same bar, for me. Must be something about the x.5 releases…
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 26/09/2026
I'm off work for the next two weeks. Who knows what sort of shenanigans I'll get up to? 👀 (I am open to any suggestions)
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 26/09/2026
so this video is making the rounds, a very rough copy of WoW for ~2k Opus 5.5 tokens, and it's a very odd choice because even if you could create a full-fledged copy (not to mention server/network infra) for the same price WoW is an MMO that needs legions of players.
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 26/09/2026
"This is AI" is funny, but "this isn't AI, they actually shot this as promotion for the movie" would be even funnier
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
trying to write the word oath and writing oauth out of habit
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There's a new one on tonight. I'm not sure you have time to catch up on the previous 9,400 episodes, so it might be hard to follow.
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
which is wholly incompatible with any sense whatsoever of professional responsibilty, but the incentives are all fucked. the boss says speed so you move fast. eventually the workers have to be the ones to stop the line. t'was ever thus but it seems like we have to relearn some lessons the hard way.
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the overwhelming sense I get from institutions in tech right now is that everyone is trying to be so enormously productive via LLMs that they're in a constant state of having overrun all available headlights. it's obvious that people are choosing speed over knowing what their agents are even doing.
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turtle meat @turtleme.at · 25/09/2026
hey, so i made an atproto-based OSRS spinoff game and chatroom called turtleme.at!!! the point is to collect as many burnt turtles as you can, and there’s a leaderboard, minigames, economy, leveling, and more… oh and it supports atproto spaces for clan chat, hang out with friends turtleme.at
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turtleme.at
Fish sea turtles, cook them, burn most of them, and talk about it. A game and a public chat room, kept in your own atproto repository.
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 25/09/2026
i just don't think the slapdash moats and walls put up against AI generated content can hold as it continues to get better
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Eris @isolyth.dev · 25/09/2026
I believe this is the world's first Meta Muse fastfetch.
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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 25/09/2026
Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸
A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Carly Rae Jepsen with 17 plays
#2: Rebecca Black with 14 plays
#3: C418 with 7 plays
#4: South Arcade with 5 plays
#5: Nomé Naku with 4 plays
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026
despite my better judgement I watched the rails guy keynote and now I wish the antimemetics division was real
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 24/09/2026
Opus 5.5 is the most fun I've had with an AI model in a long time (and, yes I un-cancelled my Anthropic sub... well played)
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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 24/09/2026
I know that watching the DHH keynote will deal immense psychic damage to me, so why am I still having to fight the urge to watch it??
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 24/09/2026
"I'll die on this hill" I say, as I point to a lovely hill, with big beautiful trees, birds singing, great view of the city and the sunset. And you'll agree. This is a nice hill to die on.
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molly @mollyfied.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this is still maybe the coolest thing i've ever made. the ending of our group remix of fight club. a rare no-analog wave from me with an insane club rework of where is my mind by @pesst.bsky.social
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Nick Gerace @nickgerace.dev · 23/09/2026
A goal of mine for the remainder of this year is going to be increasing quality, understanding, intention and testing for what LLMs synthesize. That sounds obvious, but it’s too easy to get addicted to speed and prototyping.
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
season's changing
A collection of season-themed knightly helmets.
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 23/09/2026
Me spinning up a quick lil Astra session to resolve some merge conflicts on an old PR
"What is my purpose" meme, Rick saying "You resolve merge conflicts" and the sad little robot saying "oh my god"
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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 23/09/2026
Andrew Card whispering into George W. Bush’s ear: "A second P(doom) has hit the timeline."
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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 23/09/2026
I’ve known this since like 2010 and it’s at least 10% of the reason I get real irritated when I use a Linux or windows device
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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 23/09/2026
And thus begins another week of this song being stuck in my head.
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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 21/09/2026
Arguing about arguments steveklabnik.com/writing/argu...
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Arguing about arguments
Here’s some Rust code: // define a function fn foo (x : i32 , y : i32 ) -> i32 { // body elided } // call it let z = foo ( 5 , 6 ); In programming language jargon, we call x and y parameters and 5 and 6 arguments . Rust does not have many fancy features related to parameters and…
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Leilani Münter @leilanimunter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think New Zealand has the most beautiful money — both aesthetically & because each note honors a native bird: Hoiho/Yellow-eyed Penguin ($5) Whio/Blue Duck ($10) Kārearea/NZ Falcon ($20) Kōkako ($50) & Mohua/Yellowhead ($100). Are there any other beautiful currencies you think can compete with NZ?
Colorful $5 $10 $20 $50 and $100 notes with paintings of birds on them sit on a wooden table.
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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
if you ever struggle with names when worldbuilding just remember there's a whole massive mountain range called The Rockies
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At long last, I have created the double crusted cheesecake from the classic tweet You Must Make the Double Crusted Cheesecake.
Double Crusted Cheesecake Double Crusted Cheesecake slice with a little layer of raspberry jam
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 23/08/2026
An AuDHD woman who forgot to reply to your message ten years ago has spent the subsequent decade deliberating over how to re-instigate contact, sources have claimed.
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AuDHD woman who forgot to text you back a decade ago wondering if it’s too late
An AuDHD woman who forgot to reply to your message ten years ago has spent the subsequent decade deliberating over how to re-instigate contact, sources have claimed.  Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly…
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
concept: codebase RTS game
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maru @koyamori.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Dancing in the wind 🍂 #art
Yellow gingko leaves cascade down from the tree branch. 
Creatures ride upon the dancing leaves, surfing the wind.
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