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MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · Oct 11

a cartoon grasshopper with a very angry look on its face

Alt: Zorak from Space Ghost: Coast to Coast glancing around the room

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24m

Remake FIGHT CLUB, but instead of Ed Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter it’s Tim Robinson, Conor O’Malley and Patti Harrison

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MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 9h

no kings? no! paychecks!

MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 10h

at first glance I thought this was a tour announcement for an indie folk band

MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 10h

exciting new frontiers in teledildonics necessitating ungodly sums of money for investments in data centers. wave of the future, dude

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MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 10h

sam altman turns back to the crowd and gives a wry smile.."oh, there's one more thing". the crowd goes silent. "yes... you will be able to fuck the chatbot"

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MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 10h

"Johnny Mnemonic"... "Freejack"... "Lawnmower Man"? I'd throw "Virtuosity" in there too.

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MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 12h

does anyone have strong opinions on railway vs render vs... other things? I've used Vercel but would prefer to have app + db in the same service.

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MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 1d

is this some SovCit bullshit or what

a license plate saying "malachi republic, private tribal conveyance"

MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 1d

or, for chairs and any other furniture, you can break out the big guns: "Human Dimension & Interior Space" www.abebooks.com/978082307271...

Human Dimension & Interior Space: A Source Book of Design Reference Standards - Panero, Julius; Zelnik, Martin: 9780823072712 - AbeBooks

The study of human body measurements on a comparative basis is known as anthropometrics. Its applicability to the design process is seen in the physical fit, or interface, between the human body and t...

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MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 1d

The Stick Chair Book (which is completely free to download!) provides a lot of those guidelines: lostartpress.com/products/the...

The Stick Chair Book by Christopher Schwarz

“The Stick Chair Book” explores the craft of these “hedge carpenters” or dabblers who built chairs for the everyday home. The chairs they built weren’t designed to impress the neighbors – they were de...

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MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 1d

I'm kind of making this up as I go rather than use a template/plan as I've done in the past (though I'm using a lot of guidance for overall constraints). we'll see what happens!

the board from the previous post cut into a roughly D shaped chairseat

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andybchen.bsky.social @andybchen.bsky.social · 1d

embarrassing

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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should be scared by this blatant attack on someone
standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 1d

atproto is a system for composable primitives... bluesky is one piece of that... sort of a web Voltron, if you will

MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 1d

the fact that you can easily add a bluesky feed for your @leaflet.pub subscriptions (bsky.app/profile/leaf.... is pretty neat

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MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 1d

President Grandpa

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on LA: "They already lost 25k houses to fire because they wouldn't let the water come in from the Pacific Northwest. They didn't do it and we had 25k homes where they had no water in the sprinklers, they had no water in the fire hydrants. We broke in and had the water come down."

MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 1d

luckily optimum nutrition gold standard is on the "okay" list, because I've been taking that since 9th grade. if the lead is gonna make me stupid I reckon I'm already there

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

A number of popular protein supplements contain levels of lead that could pose health concerns, according to a new report that tested samples of 23 powders and shakes.

Report Finds Lead in Naked Protein Powders and Other Popular Brands

Experts said the levels were not high enough to cause immediate harm, but raised the risk of long-term health effects.

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MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 1d

"computers make too many mistakes to trust them to write code for me. I'm fine having them drive my car though"

MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 1d

this is such a wild comment. HN brain is real

comment from hacker News: This is very similar to Tesla's FSD adoption in my mind.
For some (me), it's amazing because I use the technology often despite its inaccuracies. Put another way, it's valuable enough to mitigate its flaws.

For many others, it's on a spectrum between "use it sometimes but disengage any time it does something I wouldn't do" and "never use it" depending on how much control they want over their car.

In my case, I'm totally fine handing driving off to AI (more like ML + computer vision) most times but am not okay handing off my brain to AI (LLMs) because it makes too many mistakes and the work I'd need to do to spot-check them is about the same as I'd need to put in to do the thing myself.

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MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 1d

How is Ramona going to tell who's homeless or not if we just give everyone a house

MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 1d

*R.E.M. voice*

a man sitting at a table by himself in a bar, raising his drink

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 2d

Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.

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MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 2d

every night Mike Johnson returns home to his windowless faraday cage, terrified that news of the outside world could somehow reach him

MSNEIL @ne8il.bsky.social · 2d

what subscription tier are you using?

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 2d

The only answer is Ronnie James Dio

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 2d

it’s crazy to think that TRON is still named after Bruce Boxleitner’s character in the first movie, who has not appeared since, rather than Jeff Bridges’ character, who has been in all three. The franchise ought to be called KEVIN

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