Bradley Gawthrop
@talldarknweirdo.bsky.social
Durham NC. I Hack the Planet for a living, designing open source scientific instruments. The rest the time I'm an arts and crafts weird. Obsessions include Scale modeling, Printmaking, Stained Glass, Handweaving, Sculpting, that sort of thing...
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⚠️ FACT CHECKING : A licence with a non-commercial aspect cannot be considered as open source. Prusa is NOT open-sourcing the Core One. Prusa is misleading us once again.
- OSI rule #1: opensource.org/osd
- OSHWA rule #5: oshwa.org/resources/op...
- Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_so...
- OSI rule #1: opensource.org/osd
- OSHWA rule #5: oshwa.org/resources/op...
- Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_so...
December 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
⚠️ FACT CHECKING : A licence with a non-commercial aspect cannot be considered as open source. Prusa is NOT open-sourcing the Core One. Prusa is misleading us once again.
- OSI rule #1: opensource.org/osd
- OSHWA rule #5: oshwa.org/resources/op...
- Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_so...
- OSI rule #1: opensource.org/osd
- OSHWA rule #5: oshwa.org/resources/op...
- Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_so...
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This is not an open source licence. oshwa.org/resources/op...
December 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This is not an open source licence. oshwa.org/resources/op...
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I mean...Yes?
After briefing on strikes off Venezuela, Sen. Sheehy says “if we're going to question the legal process and the procedural process to target bad guys that this administration is using, then all of you better start cracking open every single Obama kinetic strike”
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I mean...Yes?
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My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it.
The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it.
The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
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one of the funnier aspects to the AI backlash is the fact that they're negatively polarizing much of the tech enthusiast demographic against them by making hobbyist PC building functionally unaffordable
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
one of the funnier aspects to the AI backlash is the fact that they're negatively polarizing much of the tech enthusiast demographic against them by making hobbyist PC building functionally unaffordable
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
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this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this is quite the detail
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[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
Today I am thankful that I've gotten to a life where the crazy ideas which delight me are being indulged, rather than repressed. For example, if I want to make a 12 foot long 1/30th scale Saturn V...well I have a large format printer. Nobody can stop me - and nobody would try.
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Today I am thankful that I've gotten to a life where the crazy ideas which delight me are being indulged, rather than repressed. For example, if I want to make a 12 foot long 1/30th scale Saturn V...well I have a large format printer. Nobody can stop me - and nobody would try.
if only somebody had warned of this danger when the apparatus was being constructed.
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
How U.S. Universities Used Counterterror Fusion Centers to Surveil Student Protests for Palestine
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
interc.pt
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
if only somebody had warned of this danger when the apparatus was being constructed.
Which also means that Heritage doesn't find that level of ignorance disqualifying in a leader.
Calling this a "gaffe" is the #BrokenTimes' way to dismiss and forgive the right-wing defense of a white supremacist. Credulity in the excuse of racism is racism.
In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Which also means that Heritage doesn't find that level of ignorance disqualifying in a leader.
thankfully, this has always stopped guys like this in the past.
They have no f-ing idea how big and how complex Nigeria is. No f-ing idea what they’d be getting into.
Tommy Tuberville says he supports Trump invading Nigeria
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
thankfully, this has always stopped guys like this in the past.
Another one for the "technology isn't political" contingent.
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Another one for the "technology isn't political" contingent.
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I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.
Saying that someone doesn’t deserve to be a senator isn’t canceling them, that is the public opinion candidates are subject to in a democracy.
October 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.
hey here's another in a long line of opportunities to SHUT THE FUCK UP and not talk to the cops. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday, people. INTERNALIZE IT.
FBI Thugs Are Knocking On Protestors' Doors For Trump
crooksandliars.com
FBI Thugs Are Knocking On Protestors' Doors For Trump | Crooks and Liars
twp.ai
October 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
hey here's another in a long line of opportunities to SHUT THE FUCK UP and not talk to the cops. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday, people. INTERNALIZE IT.
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He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.
The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.
The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.
October 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
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How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
kitchen table issues.
Meanwhile, Lauren Boebert is asking the *really* tough questions...
"At a congressional hearing on UAPs on 13 November 2024, Boebert asked if there was evidence aliens had ever erected a secret underwater base on earth."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"At a congressional hearing on UAPs on 13 November 2024, Boebert asked if there was evidence aliens had ever erected a secret underwater base on earth."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Lauren Boebert vows to pursue ‘truth about UFOs’ as she bids for re-election
Colorado Republican congresswoman kicks off fourth term run with email to potential donors: ‘They tell us we’re crazy’
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
kitchen table issues.
Remember when institutions were going to save us?
September 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Remember when institutions were going to save us?
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PSA: A "Major Terrorist Organization" (MTO) is not a thing. The Immigration and Nationality Act *delegates* power to the State Department to designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
September 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
PSA: A "Major Terrorist Organization" (MTO) is not a thing. The Immigration and Nationality Act *delegates* power to the State Department to designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!