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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 13h

@postoctobrist.bsky.social found the ideal dress for the trashfuture ballgown party

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 08/10/2026

"maybe add a few little hearts above your letter i's"

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 08/10/2026

Probably the best part of this video is the fact that whichever generative AI service this person is using that company is losing money on all (9?) of his agentic agents.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 08/10/2026

btw, I see the page headers have changed in your doc and it is subtle but I think it makes the page easier to read fwiw

screenshot of two pages side-by-side. one has a dark strip at the top and the other has a lighter strip. both pages use a a blue-ish monochrome design.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 06/10/2026

enjoying seeing the steady updates to your Star Wars toolbox. Seemed like you were playing Outlaws recently? Do you feel like you learned anything about running a smuggler/criminal focused game from playing it? I felt like it taught a bit about how to seed a Star Wars setting sandbox for RPG play.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 05/10/2026

I worked on a bunch of _large_ computational linguistic training dataset projects for machine learning systems for a few years (2005-2007) and it was all funded by DARPA. You didn't need much geopolitical/history knowledge to reverse engineer what they were hoping to do with the output.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 05/10/2026

thompsons were silly expensive to produce/procure and the BEF lost a bunch in france. the sten was much cheaper... the economics of stuff always sticks with me hence I remember this tidbit. :)

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 05/10/2026

My memory, and I can't recall which book source ("Tank Action" I think) was that early war British tank crews were not issued SMGs. Mid-war some had access to thompsons but by late war stens were commonplace (that and captured mp40s because the sten had a discharging flaw.) Can't speak to B.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 02/10/2026

Well and then they shoot themselves in the foot by shipping it, then folks deploy stuff for it, and then in the standards community we hear “ahh, sorry we can’t update that because a major corporation/government is using it and depends on a quirk in the implementation.” lol.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 02/10/2026

But who knows… as Eric notes there’s a bunch of support in browsers for the weirdest legacy stuff.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 02/10/2026

Still, I wouldn’t be surprised if an urgent use case pops up that has been overlooked… that happens too. I’d imagine the remedy would be extending the timeline and working with the implementor(s) to migrate them on to another path rather than keep XSLT on the client side. :-(

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 02/10/2026

See also: meyerweb.com/eric/thought... which goes into more of the process wonkery stuff. I’ll add that removing client-side XSLT support was a common discussion topic even in the 2010s.

meyerweb.com

No, Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLT

The Web Discourse has been spicy of late, and XSLT is to blame. Well, sort of. It’s complicated.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 02/10/2026

When I worked on HTML5 Google and Microsoft staff were both keenly aware of how and where any given bit of the web platform is used, including intranets. (This is not a defense of removing XSLT from client side browser support just a note from the trenches…)

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 02/10/2026

I've been enjoying the recent discussions around a popular misconception about PbTA and I'm wondering if there's one popular misconception about Fate you wish folks would unlearn or challenge their own assumptions about?

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 02/10/2026

the art is so goooooood (that includes all of you wonderful folks in the art credits.)

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 28/09/2026

Does anyone at Apple actually use macOS as their OS? There are painfully obvious UX bugs that happen in the most common apps. Messages: resizing the open chat list is wonky as hell. Sometime the drag widget interaction to collapse the list from Icon+Name+Summary to just Icon does not work at all.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 28/09/2026

If an artist I follow collabs with someone new to me I will listen to their stuff to learn more about them. If someone says “hey listen to this” I will listen… regardless of genre. We are inundated with so much stuff these days though I don’t understand this rolling stone piece at all.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 28/09/2026

Electronic music has so many outlets: - traditional streaming: Apple, Spotify, etc - SoundCloud - bandcamp - discord/whatsapp private community releases - physical media only (vinyl usually but other…) - live show remixes/flips I do not have time to follow other genres of music to this degree.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 28/09/2026

I’m still trying to catch up to new electronic music released two or three weeks ago… there’s so much music now it is unreal.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 28/09/2026

There’s way too much music released each week for me to have heard of or know what Choosin’ Texas is. This isn’t a flex, it is an acknowledgment that there are entirely genres of music I know diddly about because the genres I’m into have an overwhelming amount of music in them already.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 25/09/2026

The ice coffee discourse is really making me re-reflect on @dansinker.com's dansinker.com/posts/2026-0... I think that "everyone/everything social media as a product" has run its course. It is not functioning or working well for anyone anymore.

dansinker.com

What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 24/09/2026

rip brigitte (aka eatonweb)

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 24/09/2026

I just want you to know that I made some baller pan fried gnocchi with caramelized shallots (thanks to @isachandra.bsky.social’s homemade gnocchi recipe)

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 23/09/2026

It has been interesting as a parent to see the shift in secondary education to embracing “test retakes.” The policies differ (unlimited retakes within a grading period to only if the grade was a C or lower and can only improve one letter grade) but the intention is always on the learning mastery.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 22/09/2026

Before you come into my mentions telling me kids need to be safer on their streets… 1. The infrastructure is actively hostile towards them. 2. The burden of safety should be on the person in the multi-ton vehicle not the kid without any protection at all.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 22/09/2026

Your local city officials need to try walking around the schools in their district at arrival and dismissal time. Have them explain to you why the behaviors people driving cars around kids walking, cycling, and scooting are ok. Every time I do this I see adults making the most batshit decisions.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 22/09/2026

Maciej also went super transphobic on Twitter, got called out for it, and threw a temper tantrum.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 22/09/2026

Happy to DM more about "why" but tl;dr it involves people harrasing me and my teenage child athlete online and I appreciate the friction as it adds a barrier to entry to do the same here.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 22/09/2026

I have this setting on because I don't want people embedding my post outside of this website and I don't want them crawled. (Yes, I appreciate that there are bad internet citizens like discord that circumvent this stuff but I don't think we should reward that behavior.)

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 21/09/2026

I wonder if there's related thing here to this study I just read: www.nber.org/papers/w35620 tl;dr summary of research: hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

hechingerreport.org

Students didn't get answers from Khanmigo. They didn't want its questions, either

A large study of Khan Academy’s math program found no extra benefits from AI

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 21/09/2026

@lastweektonight.com just wanted to say i'm going to miss this show when the Paramount merger is complete.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 21/09/2026

I hope we can stay in touch no matter what path lays before you.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 20/09/2026

Platoon Forward has some similar goals as your system (it is designed around World War II skirmish adventure games) -- the one area that it touches on a bit more than yours is the social dynamics between members of the platoon.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 20/09/2026

I'm really enjoying all of the examples you've been adding that help you understand how the game is a toolkit. (Also starship combat has been nortiously underserved in the sci-fi skirmish adventure game segment so seeing these is most welcome!) Have you ever read Platoon Forward from Joseph Legan?

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 20/09/2026

grew up saying y’all and I still think we need to defund the police

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 19/09/2026

Just in case you think you are alone I’ve been unable to speak directly to a Schiff staffer the entire time he’s been a senator. Stark contrast to Padilla whom I can almost always speak with a staffer in my local office as necessary.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 19/09/2026

Text me your number and I will call you with an “emergency”

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 19/09/2026

The “criminal fonts” are definitely setting the tone and I’m with Clark, I’d play it. (I think my Olivia obsessed kiddos who also like roleplaying would play it too.)

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 19/09/2026

My kids have Quests of Yore :) I thought it was a good product.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 18/09/2026

I like that there are multiple RPG authors in my timeline like "actually, yeah... that should be a real thing." I read the article and thought "I would play this."

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 17/09/2026

(Insert rant about how the community building was always going to need to be part of the product management and that punting on it so early would make it bad investment.)

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 17/09/2026

I genuinely believe Bluesky was hoping to be acquired before this point so they didn’t have to think about any of (*waves hands*) this.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 16/09/2026

Gyruss was always my go to.

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Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 15/09/2026

read that as "gassy" and as i get older that tracks.

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