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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 1h

I am sick and tired of seeing this shit. DOGE was not a "missed opportunity," it was an intentional effort by billionaire oligarchs to destroy the federal government's capacity to do good things for the American people.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

Iran sometimes does public executions but I can't find evidence they've ever televised one. It seems like North Korea, China, and Saudi Arabia have also never televised or livestreamed any executions. Looks like the U.S. will be in a club of one if Pete Hegseth goes through with this.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 15h

BTW The "joke" here is that the last one is fascist.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 16h

Artificial Artificial General Super Xtreme Uber

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 16h

I saw an explainer about why so many botched executions, and while watching it I thought "you know what probably would be painless and hard to botch, putting a gun to somebody's head... and I bet there'd be plenty of volunteers" and then I put it out of my mind as ludicrous in this day and age.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

Again, the last public execution in the U.S. was in 1936. It's hard to wrap your head around what we're currently accelerating toward.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 20h

Having recently investigated this in case I needed to fly with my expired non-realID drivers license, $45 gets the person at the TSA checkpoint to look you up in some unknown federal databses(s) & they may or may not let you through based on those results ($45 regardless). Very much NOT anonymous.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There will be an actual post about this at the appropriate time, save your retweets for then!

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

2024: "This study doesn't include the newest models so its conclusions aren't valid." 2025: "This study doesn't include the newest models so its conclusions aren't valid." 2026: "This study doesn't include the newest models so its conclusions aren't valid."

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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's even more notable given newsroom discussions re use of "lie." The command from many on highs is that you cannot determine intent, so you cannot say he is lying, just that it is false. Interestingly, many of the same newsrooms can now determine whether he intends to "joke" or be serious.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I haven't done any for... 3 years? 5 years? 7 years? It's deeply overdue and I promise I'm getting to it. (Fabian stepped up and did a couple releases in the interim, but that's how long since *I* did one.)

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

20th anniversay of stb_image is next month

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

100% While I was posting that screenshot I was thinking "actually, this doesn't really look all that complicated really".

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You're talking to a man whose first shipped game started like this:

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

AFAIK all meaningfully useful local models were still trained unethically.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

for more details on this: bsky.app/profile/alan...

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

or at least this article is! heh.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New York is HIS town, though.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whoa. This is incredible. If you support the arts and artists getting paid for their work, it feels really fucked up to see how happy lots of people right on this here woke app gleefully ignore shit like this in the name of being too lazy to learn to code or help do your spreadsheet homework

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

dfan once pointed out that one of my song sketches did this absolutely absurd chord progression that made no sense (I think there was a tritone chord change), but that by the power of repetition, you start being comfortable with it and expecting it after a few repeats.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Eddie Robson is at Fantasycon @eddierobson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain.'” Yes. Because the usual thing is to PAY YOUR ESSENTIAL SUPPLIERS, NOT STEAL FROM THEM.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You can't spell "SCOTUS" without "post-hoc rationalization"

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYED... Adele - Rolling in the Deep www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLl4... Eagles - Hotel California www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxQX... Eagles - Take It to the Limit

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No, that's not a meaningful benefit, not anymore than the droves of code being generated by AI is a tangible benefit to me and my life in any way.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't remember being scared by any media, but I can remember being scared of the basement in my house. I honestly believed there was some kind of risk of monsters lurking in the dark somehow, despite all the evidence to the contrary from past experience. The world as concieved by children is wild.

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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“How does this keep happening” easily 20% of any given population believe those ai videos of dogs dressing themselves in little suits are real and they all vote

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Anyway the idea of a soldier killing an armed civilian on US soil by shooting them in the back is the type of incident that would’ve launched an entire paramilitary movement on the right just as recently as two years ago.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I just want to live in the world we lived in 4 years ago before AI, which was fine, and boosters are like "you'll miss out on all the great stuff AI will bring us", and I don't see any evidence of that but okay. It feels like somebody in this story is John Galt but I'm not sure if it's us or them.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How 90% of my interactions with Google Search's AI go when I drill down:

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In 36 years, Spacewar! will be 100.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh wait, I see, it's just 90-degree rotated from the screen. So the idea is that there's some "texture" data and every screen pixel gets a specific UV offset to fetch from (a table or unrolled code or whatever), and then "scroll" through the texture.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

what's a UV table in this context? obviously it's some kind of lookup table, but I can't figure out how they correspond.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This one has got to be only me, but just in case: Somehow I missed that the interpretation (offered by members of the Eagles) of Hotel California as being about Los Angeles, So. Cal., and the associated lifestyles--that interpretation sets up the title as just an overt declaration of the metaphor.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 04/10/2026

We just want healthcare

New York Times for today
Superpowers race to put nuclear reactor on the moon

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Remembering the weird rhythmic recitation of how to spell Mississippi incorrectly I somehow learned in my youth: M-i-s-s I-s-s-s I-p-p-p I and wondering where the hell that came from. Found a few identical misspellings and mentions of this cadence on google but no specific origin.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pretty sure I saw Ladyhawke in theaters (and not Blade Runner), so I guess it was my first, but he didn't actually stick in my head from it, Blade Runner is definitely what I remember him from first.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A lot of white-painted data centers I guess.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"How could somebody MIS-file something? What could be easier, it's all alphabetical. You just PUT IT IN... THE RIGHT FILE. According to alphabetical order! You know, _A_, _B_, the bees! Not the bees! _C_, _D_, _E_, _F_, _G_" "Peter..." "_H_ _I_... My I's! Not my I's!"

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Don't believe everything Big Stock Photography tells you. The ACTUAL reason is because they believed the camera would suck their souls out through their mouths, and then their souls, freed from captivity, would become ivory tower academics, leaving their unsouled bodies good only for manual labor.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't remember exactly what I said, but I imagine it's largely the same opinion, but I certainly over-indexed on state being explicit, if I were making a big IMGUI system now I'd probably be more willing to have some implicit state tracked behind the scenes.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was beating the ethics drum for a while but I've given up. It's clear most programmers (at least) don't care about ethics. bsky.app/profile/noth...

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

(Also IMO one of my all time best guitar solos FWIW.)

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looks like they beat me to it by a year, in the following low-budget 4-track composition it appears around 2:05, the quiet moment before the ending. nothings.org/music/misc/b...

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Like, if you typo or misspell when querying a chatbot, it usually correctly infers your meaning, even though the tokens are probably a lot "futher apart" than the typo is. Presumably a combo of having seen a lot of typos and treating them as synonyms, + being able to infer from context what's meant.

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