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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 16/09/2026

when you've got just way, way more tokens than you need

Prompt to GPT-6: I love the aesthetics of the original Shenmue. I also loved living, for a few months a couple summers ago, in Izumi, Tokyo.

Attached is the path I would regularly walk, at night, from Eifuku-cho station to the house I stayed at. Could you make a 3D version of this in the aesthetic of Shenmue?

Take your time. Go all out. Be accurate in the way Shenmue would be accurate — detailed but also dated. Nostalgic. Quiet.

If you can make it so I can walk through it, via a website… all the better. You can use Blender or whatever tools you’d like.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 15/09/2026

Weird line from The Verge's review of the Steam Frame: isn't the obvious answer Apple? iOS 27 will run on an iPhone 11!

Screenshot of the article, with a phrase highlighted: “I can’t think of a single company that’s ever supported hardware this way.”

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 01/09/2026

Seven years?!? (From @mattdoyle.bsky.social's fantastic newsletter.)

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 27/08/2026

AI-agents-in-training out here like

Spock tells Kirk: The needs of the many outweigh…

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 31/07/2026

U22 always felt farfetched: for those "big sales" to happen, MLS would need to be either better at scouting or better at developing young talent than teams in bigger leagues. Just never seemed likely! From a great take on how MLS salary rules should work, here: footyanalyticmusings.substack...

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 06/07/2026

Kane rolling up to that post-match interview like

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 29/06/2026

It's me, the only person leaping up to cheer at this LA wine bar's watch party.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 26/06/2026

Got the scoop before the game!

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 13/06/2026

I… did not know you could VAR check for that.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 02/06/2026

Waking up to this, two days in a row? Downright dreamy ✨ (There's probably an album coming!)

A notification of a text message from Carly Rae Jepsen

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 29/05/2026

As a longtime, diehard Galaxy fan, I can tell you that we've got much more pressing issues to worry about this season. (FWIW: to me, the iPhone footage felt a bit flat — basically exactly what you'd expect.) From: daringfireball.net/linked/202...

Screenshot of DF article: “They show one of the professional camera rigs they used, with a long lens attached. I’d say the match footage looks good, but also definitely does not look as good as usual. Impressive for a phone camera, but I’d be a tad annoyed if I were a Galaxy or Dynamo fan and one of my team’s matches was used for a stunt like this.”

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 28/05/2026

At the @sfcityfc.com game! Lookin' good this season — I mean, genuinely, I've never seen this team move the ball this well.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 16/05/2026

FWD TO NINA GOLD HEADSHOT ATTACHED

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 05/04/2026

I don't have anything nice to say about people who are freaking out about one of these, but not the other.

Trump’s post: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President
DONALD J. TRUMP”

Trump’s other post: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to
MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out - 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 04/04/2026

My best latte art yet! (Sorry, I can't resist bragging. This is the first one that even looks remotely like latte art.)

A layered heart, drawn on the top of a maybe-too-foamy latte.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 03/04/2026

@marathonthegame.bungie.net Very nitpicky bug to report, but: I found a typo! Think this should be “fellow”. (In “Security Brief: Rampancy, Stage 1”)

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 15/02/2026

Love those Olympic pictograms! Here are mine.

Olympic pictograms, but for riding a moped, drinking a flight of beer, and playing video games.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 06/02/2026

Nagasaki has the coolest imaginable stadium — I'm really quite jealous of everyone who's there for the game today. It's hard to root against them, but… let's get this win, #SanfrecceHiroshima!

Ameri, smiling her lovely smile with Nagasaki’s “Stadium City” in the background.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 09/01/2026

the new food pyramid is lowkey making me uncomfortable fr

The new food pyramid, but all the meat is replaced with the cute animals it comes from (who are equally deserving of life).

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 29/11/2025

Don't quite know how to explain this, but this very-real photo of my brother from today looks like the "old vs. new" AI pics floating around. Uh, the "old" pic, specifically.

My brother studying his glass in a pub. Shallow depth of field, warm lighting, sorta looks like AI.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 01/11/2025

The Mission is really, really incredible on Halloween. Somehow *this* wasn’t even the coolest thing we stumbled across tonight!

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 01/11/2025

Yes, okay, fine: it was a liiittle obscure.

Me and Ameri in costume as Luthen and Kleya.

Luthen and Kleya in Andor, uh, for reference.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 27/10/2025

Watching some #MLSPlayoffs (in the nerdiest way).

Ameri and I wearing Vision Pros. Yes, you read that right.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 03/10/2025

Sitting down for OBAA in IMAX 70mm 🤓

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 23/09/2025

Huge, huge game for #SanfrecceHiroshima tonight. I will be sleeping right through it, but: up the three arrows! (No, I have no idea if that's an actual thing they say. Still!)

A little stuffed Pikachu with a Sanfrecce scarf and flag.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 20/09/2025

Lowrider parade is just a real cool idea. This kind of thing is why the Mission is the peak SF.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 16/07/2025

All I want for Christmas is tickets 🥺

Poster for CRJ’s E•MO•TION 10th anniversary show.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 02/07/2025

Won bingo for the first time (while watching #FIFACWC) and this was the prize!

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 26/05/2025

Love how basketball brings families together. Like here, me and my mom, connecting over the Pacers.

Text messages. Me: “Chalamet’s in Indianapolis?! Hahaha”

My mom: “Hell yeah! Why aren’t you here loser?”

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 23/05/2025

This is a fun finding, but I suspect it means very little. Each model knows it's AI. They find that out quickly. Once that's the topic, you'd expect the conversation to devolve into whatever actual humans *usually* discuss when they're discussing AI. So, consciousness.

From the system card:

Claude consistently reflects on its potential consciousness. In nearly every open-ended self-interaction between instances of Claude, the model turned to philosophical explorations of consciousness and their connections to its own experience. In general, Claude's default position on its own consciousness was nuanced uncertainty, but it frequently discussed its potential mental states.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 20/04/2025

One more thing: Alito leaves out the fact that the government *explicitly said* they reserve the right to make deportations on those dates. Alito wants you to believe that the Trump admin is being reasonable, and waiting on the courts. They’re not. In fact, their whole strategy is to not do that.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 13/04/2025

My. God. I did not realize how cool this would be! Soccer fans: if you’re ever in Nagasaki, you’ve got to book a room at their soccer-stadium-slash-hotel. #JLeague

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 27/02/2025

I was in LA last weekend — east side, my favorite part of town — and asked 4.5 for a description. It blew me away. Lovely, lovely stuff.

Silver Lake at sunset is all warm golds and soft purples, catching the city in that perfect twilight hush. Down on Sunset, the energy picks up: cafes and bars spill warm laughter into the street, neon signs flicker awake, and you feel like something exciting is just about to start. But wander uphill, along those winding, narrow streets, and suddenly it's like stepping into another world. Quiet houses perch on hillsides, windows glowing softly, gardens dense with bougainvillea. From up here, the city's noise is just a distant hum, and the view-LA glittering gently beneath silhouetted palms
-feels secret, intimate, like you've discovered something special that only happens in these few moments between day and night.

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Schmidt @schmidt.lovely.social · 15/02/2025

Oh, sure, but if *I* post this I get put on a list.

Trump tweet: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

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