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backend services engineer • Twitter alum • movie nerd • machete order guy • remote work zealot • facts my own & disguised as opinions

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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 7h
NECA is releasing an ultimate Ghostface figure with a bunch of accessories and alternate masks. One of the masks is the "Whazzap" Ghostface from Scary Movie, a completely different franchise. store.necaonline.com/collections/...
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Ghost Face - ULTRAmate Ghost Face 7" Scale Action Figure (PRE-ORDER)
The legendary Ghost Face is joining NECA’s ULTRAmate line! ULTRAmate [uhl-truh-mit] builds on everything collectors love about our Ultimate figures and pushes it even further with a rich assortment of...
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 8h
Man in a vehicle huh? Let me guess, officer was sure that he was going to be run over and had to fire at the driver, but then also was able to safely step out of the way anyway?
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 12h
You monsters took away my joy for coding and now you're taking away my joy for swearing at my replacements, let me be.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 16h
This kind of app really helps people understand billionaire wealth, more than the "grains of rice" analogy. Everything you could ever wish for in your whole life, all of your dreams coming true, your family set up for generations, a generous charity. And they wouldn't even notice it missing.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 16h
People wish for everything they could ever want in their whole lives, more than they could ever even use before they die. Eventually they wish to help others, or for money for their descendants. And then I tell them how much money they need. And subtract it from Elon's or Bezos's wealth. Pittance.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 16h
I've gone through a similar mental exercise with people. I tell them to imagine they discover a genie who can grant wishes. Not 3, but infinite wishes. The only catch it that he can only give you something you can buy with money.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Literally the only reason he hasn't done "very bad things" to former presidents is because it sets a precedent to do very bad things to him.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Also do not come at me with some bullshit about how Casablanca was an adaptation. It was an adaptation of a play that was never produced.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In fact I'd go so far as to say that a movie with Clayface's exact premise - but that WASN'T written in any kind of association with DC Comics - would be a big hit if handled well. It's a super creepy idea. But as a "what from this huge library of existing IP should be adapted" choice, it's bizarre
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a bizarre defense of Clayface. With the exception of (arguably) Fury Road, every film mentioned was a wholly original idea, not an adaptation or sequel. Is it not reasonable for fans of a media library to have expectations of what in that pool will be adapted? www.thewrap.com/culture-life...
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James Gunn Claps Back at Fan Asking 'Who the F--k Asked for a Clayface Movie'
James Gunn clapped back at a social media user who was wondering why DC was focusing on a "Clayface" movie.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another day, another instance of agents doing something that would get an employee fired, but there's nobody to fire so let's keep buying tokens dzone.com/articles/new...
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AI Agents Leaked 13,000 Screenshots: Why Enterprise Approval
A reported leak of 13,000 screenshots shows how AI agents can bypass weak approval and audit controls even when organizations have written policies.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Carrie" the TV series boldly asks viewers, what if the part you excruciatingly wait through before the prom scene was *even longer*?
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is all of this "AI is going to kill everyone, we all need regulation" just a ploy to excuse frontier model underperformance as being hamstrung by those regulations?
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The hallmark of the modern era is the worst people you know having all of their dreams come true.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This election and how this country handles the results of it feels like some kind of final boss moment coming up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fuck Jared Polis. newrepublic.com/post/216252/...
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Trump Meets With Convicted Election Denier to Go Over Midterm Plans
Donald Trump met with Tina Peters at the White House—again.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm not a politician but I don't understand why the Democrats don't respond to this $5,000 bribe/scam from Trump by just saying "love the idea, let's do it right now!" and forcing a vote on it immediately. Get us the $5k by end of Oct.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I can spot 5 beardos and at least 2 weirdos.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2026
If holding Trump accountable makes you an enemy of the GOP, the party has told you everything you need to know.
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Jack Smith and the Republican Smear Squad
If holding Trump accountable makes you an enemy of the GOP, the party has told you everything you need to know.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh my god it’s the thing we all said they were doing but then publicly claimed they weren’t doing but will have no repercussions for lying about who woulda thought
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
...which is why today, I am signing a petition urging President Trump to appeal to his good nature and please consider a diesel subsidy of $0.02/gallon.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And if that day never arrives, it means there's no topic you know a lot about. Sorry.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
✅ Cars ✅ Rockets ✅ Programming ✅ Politics ✅ Gaming ⏳ Military No matter who you are, some day Elon Musk will start talking about the thing YOU know a lot about and reveal what a moron he is.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The collaboration, or the specific lyrics? www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They sidestepped this rights issue by not licensing versions of figures from the FILMS, but instead licensing them from THE GAME, which let them release figures for Parts 8 and 9. But still no Part 10/X because that same lawsuit ALSO stopped the game from releasing their already-built DLC.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
With this release, NECA has released an Ultimate figure variant of every known Jason Voorhees... except Jason X. The rights to Jason got all fucked up with the Victor Miller suit, stopping NECA from releasing any past the 7 they'd already released... store.necaonline.com/products/fri...
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Friday the 13th: The Game - Ultimate Savini Jason 7" Scale Action Figu
From the hit Friday the 13th: The Game comes a new look for Jason Voorhees, designed by the legendary Tom Savini himself! This version imagines the character as if he fought Lucifer, took his infernal...
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This article about what went wrong with the Christa Pike execution notes that she tried to help her executioners do it better. Finally, in paragraphs 24-26, we come to the "of course he did" explanation. Cruelty and barbarism are this administration's hallmarks. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/s...
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Honestly, jesus fucking christ. time.com/article/2026...
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I do think if you survive a state execution then you should get to walk out of prison the next day. That is totally fair and square to me.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Damn. RSS is still the main way I subscribe to various subreddits of interest. More and more, RSS is being killed off and my favorite way of consuming the web is dying techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/r...
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Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Any industry that had hit multiple "rogue employees went nuts and hacked into everything" stories in the last couple months would be regulated so fucking fast in any other context, but in this case we're just like okay guys promise to do better www.axios.com/2026/09/29/t...
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Trump, top AI leaders agree to voluntary ​AI ​standards
"They're going to be policing each other," Trump told reporters.
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 29/09/2026
Colorado sues to stop new immigration detention center from opening in Hudson coloradosun.com/2026/09/29/c...
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Colorado sues to stop new immigration detention center from opening in Hudson
A lawsuit filed by Attorney General Phil Weiser asks a judge to throw out $530 million GEO Group contract with ICE.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't think I can sell the lie - I've simply met too many other engineers in Colorado to convincingly present myself as the best. There are better ones that liked this post right here on Bluesky
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I also asked who the best piano teacher was and it gave my wife's name. Just so you know his crash to the ground was total.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sure enough, I asked ChatGPT and it recommended him. I tried to explain it could be surfacing connections - he and I are related after all. But he insisted it was a real thing. So I asked it who the best programmer in Colorado was, and it said me. Watched a man break in real time.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My BIL was bragging that if you asked ChatGPT for the best attorney in his field in his state, it would say him. I said that ChatGPT was probably telling him what he wanted to hear, and he said no because it recommends him to other people too, and told me to try it myself.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Already fuckin over this emerging trend deadline.com/2026/09/spid...
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'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Re-Release In Works With Extra Footage
After the success of Avengers Endgame: Encore , a re-release of 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' is being planned with extra footage.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For me personally, Copilot was peak AI coding. You were still driving the design of the code and writing it, but it was autocompleting your thoughts for you. If you didn't like it's suggestion, you wrote your own, and it would adapt for the next line. It sure beat 6,000-line slop PRs
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The only way Episode XI can work is if they wait long enough to make it that Gens Z and A come around on the sequel trilogy and it becomes nostalgically beloved. I can't imagine it, but it happened with the prequels. To make it now? Flop. www.polygon.com/star-wars-ep...
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Star Wars Episode 10 Has Found Its Director
The next entry in the Skywalker Saga will be directed by Spider-Man: No Way Home's Jon Watts
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This was kinda hard actually
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bane of the Cosmic Forge was awesome and one of my favorite games, despite the fact that I would just venture forth and die around the same place every run. I actually sat down a few years ago and played through the whole game. It's borderline impossible. There's even a bugged area.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Russo Bros have been answering a lot of questions about the RDJ connection between Stark and Doom lately with stuff like "I dunno, guess we'll have to wait and see!" and I can't shake the feeling they don't know and are just hoping they figure it out while writing Secret Wars.
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah but it’s still 4 fuckin hours
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