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Thomas Dickerson

@elfprince13.mumak.app

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Director of Geospatial AI @nbcuniversal.com, Brown CS PhD & SMCVT Math/Physics/CS alum, admin @cemetech.net, AFOL, SFF nerd & open-theist Bluesky open-source contributor Decentralizing systems (human & digital) Opinions are my own 📍Vermont

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · Jan 20

Sadly my Shannara product idea has expired, but it's not too late to support Lego Bill & Ted.

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · Nov 13

Meanwhile, if you enjoy Bill & Ted (or are a Doctor Who fan who wants the next best time traveling phone-booth to a TARDIS), please help me turn @alexwinter.com into a Lego minifigure! We only 10K votes, and it's free/easy to make an account.

bit.ly/lego-ideas-bill-and-ted

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 3h

Yes that’s the one I saw!

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 3h

Nope not gonna click that link before bed

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 3h

I thought there was another one that actually had blacksky in the url as part of a phrase but Bluesky text search isn’t up to finding it on this vague a recollection

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 3h

I swear I saw Rudy saying there was a handle TLD for non-Black folks who wanted to be on the PDS but I can’t remember now what it was 🤔

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 4h

I regret to inform that I have discovered the platonic ideal of dessert: the croffle

a croffle (croissant dough waffle) topped with Nutella, whipped cream, and bananas

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 5h

I had to double check this wasnt a comment from salty

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 6h

See also:

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · Apr 28

I was getting a bad vibe from the chatbot push and made a Lego character to test them out and it immediately started hitting on me and I was like “I am a regular sized human, not a Lego” and it started fantasizing about my fingers and that was really all the information I needed about that

Justin Ling @justinling.ca · Apr 27

Good god. Meta is using their AI licensing deals with John Cena, Disney, and others to peddle sex chat bots to kids. Burn this company to the fucking ground. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 6h

wait are the top few dozen chatbots on Meta not all still variations of “Step Sister”, “Waifu”, and “Well Known Female Celebrity”

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 6h

Gov. Scott calls on GOP senator to resign over participation in ‘vile’ group chat

Orleans County Senator Samuel Douglass is one of those highlighted by Politico for taking part in the Telegraph group chat.

www.wcax.com

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 8h

That’s what I would do for @xblock.aendra.dev classifier errors

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 8h

My first draft was Ecs: the Econ grad student app, so lol

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 8h

If you’re making Grad Student Lounge: ATproto edition probably not

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 9h

I guess it depends on context? You should probably at least do an “import contacts”

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 9h

🙊

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 9h

what about spam app.bsky.post records

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 9h

that’s uh…that’s what ATProto enables.

Bluesky PBLLC is uniquely positioned among US social media companies in having legal protection to tell their investors to f*** off (it’s right there in the name…) but also their whole thing is building for “the company is the future enemy”

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 9h

Still haven’t fully adjusted to menu positioning + lack of home button on my 17 Pro but just went back to my 2020 SE to migrate another 2FA app account and was like “how did I ever read anything on this tiny baby screen”

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 9h

Not super great

Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 10h

This is horrifying and yet explains so much www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 10h

Turn one of those 40” curved monstrosities into portrait mode

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 10h

There’s a lot going on here

Red: Some of y'all need a king and some hard labor

Green: speech meme image of King George III

Red: Homie looks like he belongs at a pride parade tbh

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 11h

“Nobody wants to be the next Betamax”

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Brown Visual Computing @brownvc.bsky.social · 12h

The BVC Seminar will host Ticha Sethapakdi this Friday at 12pm Eastern! Tune in to Ticha's talk, "Engineering Expressive Technologies" live on the BVC YouTube channel

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 14h

Putting weird ass user agents into log files for people to enjoy

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 14h

a picture of darth vader with the words nooo on it

Alt: Vader nooooooo

media.tenor.com

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 14h

Easily the second or third best flavoring for sweetened dairy fat in all form factors