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Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social · Jul 1

After experimenting with Urban Müller’s minimal programming language, “Brainfuck”, we created our own version, “bff” – a soup of thousands of randomly interacting 64-byte tapes initially filled with random noise.

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 4d

Blaise talks about getting in "swing" with a rowing crew, the boat finding a soul.
This is what it feels like to swing with a gym full of contra dancers. youtu.be/KevQxr-saFw...

Contra Dance with Perpetual e-Motion

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 4d

Blaise talks about getting in "swing" with a rowing crew, the boat finding a soul.
This is what it feels like to swing with a gym full of contra dancers. youtu.be/KevQxr-saFw...

Contra Dance with Perpetual e-Motion

youtu.be

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 22d

This talk is absolutely tremendous. AI, cellular automata, how to define intelligence, how life emerges from building blocks, symbiogenesis… Incredible. overcast.fm/+AAhjRoBRgM0

Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence? — Long Now

overcast.fm

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 4d

Listening to this at 0.8x.
All you need is... parallelism.

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

Server Charms are tiny, portable microcontroller setups made with recycled vape batteries. They create their own Wi-Fi network, inviting curious people to connect with their devices where a captive portal opens, leading to small webpages.

codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...

"To serve is to offer something, a name, a website, a document, an idea –something to be shared, something that connects us.

But who serves whom? Serving can be a painful experience. It is a relation that carries histories of gendered violence, histories of slavery, serfdom and oppression as we are taught by archives of resistance, black feminists and anti-colonial scholars.

This violence extends to the materialities of the earth which is made to
serve as resource, ready to be extracted for the minerals that make up the very chip that carries these thoughts as binary strings of information.

Serving does not have to manifest as violence if we insist otherwise. Serving can become an act of empowerment when we build infrastructures that serve the needs of local and remote communities evolving around situated knowledge of those around us – while keeping in mind privilege often determines who has access to a community and its resources.

The complexities of the internet with its corporate and state entanglements, its huge data centers, relentless data crawlers and transatlantic fibre cables can feel inevitable. To delink from time to time means to shift our focus back to the local networks and groups that we are already part of. We know that the internet is much more than its corporate occupants, it is about forming connections and sharing resources.

Independent, selfmade networks remind us of the physical connections that are the base of all kinds of signal transmissions. Intimate networks that make us share and mitigate our vulnerabilities through trust and kinship. In the smallest scope, networks such as this ones."

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 6d

Distracted from the grift, lost playing in video feedback for the rest of their days.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 10d

Or just be on us-east-2 j/k

Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 10d

To put it more bluntly: newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/when-every...

When everybody's down, nobody is

you want a take about the AWS outage? fine, here's a take

newsletter.goodtechthings.com

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 14d

That reminds me... searching img_0174 (any number) for a slice of default file name uploads.

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 14d

Wanna feel weird about the world? Look at YouTube shorts in a private window.

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 21d

Heh "long egg" got a reliability score of ★

Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 21d

I heard some Swedes borrow the Finnish "hän" (gender neutral) which is fun.
And Finns use "se" (it) for people in spoken language, which takes some getting used to.

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 21d

How does EU naming regulation work? There isn't one word for "sausage" to ban on vegan products, does the regulation go into detail for every language? Are both vege "nakki" and "makkara" banned? Seems like big waste of time for everyone involved. Language is a living thing. (Sips oat latte.)

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 21d

The print worked out well and it makes a nice body mod. The impression lasts about 15 minutes.

Sierpinski curve with rounded edges pressed into inner forearm to temporarily emboss the skin.

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 22d

That name is familiar... Photosynth TED demo was 18 years ago! youtu.be/M-8k8GEGZPM...

Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo

youtu.be

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 23d

2025-10-10
Yhteiskerhotila Talas
Talas Community Center
#Helsinki #Kalasatama

Wooden construction for a large community center. Modern methods with old-school log cabin elements.

Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 25d

Flashback to infinite pizza and Looney Tunes at Mr Gatti's.

Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 25d

Playing with Unit again, I really want to grok it. Balancing low and high level coding in a visual canvas.
(FYI unit.software doesn't want to scroll on Firefox mobile.)

unit.software

Unit Programming System Homepage

unit.software

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 26d

machine:
I have no thumbs but I must "like"

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 26d

#Moonhance app prototype as a Meemoo graph. (Including moon.val.run to proxy the current NASA moon render.)

Meemoo.org data flow graph to screen a high res render of the moon onto a camera phone photo with a small blurry moon.

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 26d

That video is 10 years old with no 👍... I guess like the robot hands.

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 28d

💥 did a small drawing explaining the JS execution model including the event loop. I hope it’s helpful to folks. Debugging is always easier when the underlying implementations are understood.

Drawing explaining the JS execution model and event loop

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 29d

i keep coming back to it, and now it's feeling like a higher dimensional

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 29d

State of the collaborative Truchet tiling. #mmott (automerge and val town)

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 29d

I got my first PHP job by showing code that I'd written to make a Livejournal tag cloud. The template language wasn't PHP but I could explain it. So thanks Brad.

Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 29d

Headstone text: "maybe the least bad social media CEO"

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Oct 4

Brad maybe?

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