Michael Mullen
@michaeldmullen.bsky.social
I'm a writer and often build neat digital things. Read crap tons: history, science fiction, all kinds of science. Hopeful. #writersky #gamesky
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If you have any information that you would like the Trump admin to spend time sifting through regarding DEI, you should send it immediately. Any and everything. Y‘know, to be helpful.
Note that anyone can email the snitch line, [email protected]. So if you’ve got any, uh, thoughts or information you’d like to share about this initiative, fire off that email today!
January 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If you have any information that you would like the Trump admin to spend time sifting through regarding DEI, you should send it immediately. Any and everything. Y‘know, to be helpful.
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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
January 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Climbing up to the Ritacuba glacier in Boyaca, Colombia, we saw these colorful little ecosystems? Communities? Of plants. The landscape up there is pretty bleak, but beautiful plants thriving #plantsky
January 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Climbing up to the Ritacuba glacier in Boyaca, Colombia, we saw these colorful little ecosystems? Communities? Of plants. The landscape up there is pretty bleak, but beautiful plants thriving #plantsky
Foggy, rainy morning in Medellín
January 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Foggy, rainy morning in Medellín
This person is the absolute embodiment of the banality of evil
January 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This person is the absolute embodiment of the banality of evil
Some reflections after climbing up to a Colombian glacier at 16000+ feet.
- The last hour of the four+ hour climb was by far the hardest
- I'm 52 and a 77-year-old guy made it up, but a lot of people in their 20s didn't even get close
- The last hour of the four+ hour climb was by far the hardest
- I'm 52 and a 77-year-old guy made it up, but a lot of people in their 20s didn't even get close
December 31, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Some reflections after climbing up to a Colombian glacier at 16000+ feet.
- The last hour of the four+ hour climb was by far the hardest
- I'm 52 and a 77-year-old guy made it up, but a lot of people in their 20s didn't even get close
- The last hour of the four+ hour climb was by far the hardest
- I'm 52 and a 77-year-old guy made it up, but a lot of people in their 20s didn't even get close
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No todo es fiesta en la Nochevieja; también es el momento en el que aparece uno de los seres más sanguinarios y terroríficos del folclore del norte de España.
¿Habéis oído hablar de... la Viejanera?
👇 #Hilo🧵
¿Habéis oído hablar de... la Viejanera?
👇 #Hilo🧵
December 31, 2024 at 6:37 PM
No todo es fiesta en la Nochevieja; también es el momento en el que aparece uno de los seres más sanguinarios y terroríficos del folclore del norte de España.
¿Habéis oído hablar de... la Viejanera?
👇 #Hilo🧵
¿Habéis oído hablar de... la Viejanera?
👇 #Hilo🧵
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2024 brought early signs that generative AI is displacing demand for human creative labour; suspect 2025 will bring considerably more evidence of this.
December 31, 2024 at 12:23 PM
2024 brought early signs that generative AI is displacing demand for human creative labour; suspect 2025 will bring considerably more evidence of this.
Just some beautiful flowers I came across near La Uvita in Boyaca, Colombia! #flowersky
December 29, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Just some beautiful flowers I came across near La Uvita in Boyaca, Colombia! #flowersky
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Folks I created a blocklist for these aggregator accounts for a reason. Please stop also screenshoting them so they don’t infect our timelines.
The blocklist: bsky.app/profile/did:...
The blocklist: bsky.app/profile/did:...
I seen a screen shot going around about Netflix from an account called DiscussingFilm. I could be misremembering but I thought that account occasionally posted completely fictional stories.
December 29, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Folks I created a blocklist for these aggregator accounts for a reason. Please stop also screenshoting them so they don’t infect our timelines.
The blocklist: bsky.app/profile/did:...
The blocklist: bsky.app/profile/did:...
There's a chapter in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle called: No Good News in This Chapter😹
I love the lowkey, slow burn sense of humor of Murakami #writersky
I love the lowkey, slow burn sense of humor of Murakami #writersky
December 28, 2024 at 6:19 PM
There's a chapter in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle called: No Good News in This Chapter😹
I love the lowkey, slow burn sense of humor of Murakami #writersky
I love the lowkey, slow burn sense of humor of Murakami #writersky
Climbed a mountain in Colombia today. To 16,000+ feet. To a glacier. Felt really good.
December 27, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Climbed a mountain in Colombia today. To 16,000+ feet. To a glacier. Felt really good.
OpenAI thinks you humans are really, really stupid
If AGI is simply an AI system that generates $100 billion in profit, it might be farther away than even the critics believed.
Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Very Clear Definition of ‘AGI’
We finally have a real definition of the elusive
gizmodo.com
December 26, 2024 at 9:02 PM
OpenAI thinks you humans are really, really stupid
Tomorrow going to a magical place I've wanted to visit for a long time... El Cocuy in Boyaca, Colombia. Many buses, many arrangements, very excited!
December 25, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Tomorrow going to a magical place I've wanted to visit for a long time... El Cocuy in Boyaca, Colombia. Many buses, many arrangements, very excited!
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Hordes of bots are using AI-images to automate fake #gaming influencers and fake #gamedev / #indiedev accounts. I'm compiling a huge blocklist. Help quell the bots by:
1) Subscribe to the list and click block: bsky.app/profile/did:...
2) Share the list
3) Report bots I missed
4) -or false positives
1) Subscribe to the list and click block: bsky.app/profile/did:...
2) Share the list
3) Report bots I missed
4) -or false positives
December 24, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Hordes of bots are using AI-images to automate fake #gaming influencers and fake #gamedev / #indiedev accounts. I'm compiling a huge blocklist. Help quell the bots by:
1) Subscribe to the list and click block: bsky.app/profile/did:...
2) Share the list
3) Report bots I missed
4) -or false positives
1) Subscribe to the list and click block: bsky.app/profile/did:...
2) Share the list
3) Report bots I missed
4) -or false positives
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Imagine if other artists were given advice like game devs are.
Don't try to paint your dream painting, do a bunch of stencils first!
Don't try to make music that moves people, make a bunch of commercial jingles first!
You'll gain a lot of skills and network with other artists! 💯
#indiegamedev
Don't try to paint your dream painting, do a bunch of stencils first!
Don't try to make music that moves people, make a bunch of commercial jingles first!
You'll gain a lot of skills and network with other artists! 💯
#indiegamedev
December 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Imagine if other artists were given advice like game devs are.
Don't try to paint your dream painting, do a bunch of stencils first!
Don't try to make music that moves people, make a bunch of commercial jingles first!
You'll gain a lot of skills and network with other artists! 💯
#indiegamedev
Don't try to paint your dream painting, do a bunch of stencils first!
Don't try to make music that moves people, make a bunch of commercial jingles first!
You'll gain a lot of skills and network with other artists! 💯
#indiegamedev
Does anyone remember when George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers for SCOTUS and she was such a hack that even the GOP wouldn't have it? Well, at this stage, if Trump nominates a slime mold, it will get in
December 19, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Does anyone remember when George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers for SCOTUS and she was such a hack that even the GOP wouldn't have it? Well, at this stage, if Trump nominates a slime mold, it will get in
Horror movie pitch: a family moves into an old farmhouse in the countryside to get away from the pressures of city life. They gradually realize the WiFi in the house works ok in some rooms but hardly at all in others
December 18, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Horror movie pitch: a family moves into an old farmhouse in the countryside to get away from the pressures of city life. They gradually realize the WiFi in the house works ok in some rooms but hardly at all in others
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The glass amphipod Cystisoma is transparent because in the open ocean there is nowhere to hide, and its round head is completely covered in giant eyes. So when you're swimming far from shore just remember: you can't see them, but they can see you.
📽️ Dr. Alejandro Damian-Serrano 🧪🌊🌿🦑🐙
📽️ Dr. Alejandro Damian-Serrano 🧪🌊🌿🦑🐙
December 17, 2024 at 11:27 PM
The glass amphipod Cystisoma is transparent because in the open ocean there is nowhere to hide, and its round head is completely covered in giant eyes. So when you're swimming far from shore just remember: you can't see them, but they can see you.
📽️ Dr. Alejandro Damian-Serrano 🧪🌊🌿🦑🐙
📽️ Dr. Alejandro Damian-Serrano 🧪🌊🌿🦑🐙
Usually a little tough to get a closeup photo of a chachalaca in Medellin. This one was beautifully perched in an urban garden
December 18, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Usually a little tough to get a closeup photo of a chachalaca in Medellin. This one was beautifully perched in an urban garden
Thinking right now about Shakepeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, two of my favorites of his plays. Anbd this in particular:
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
December 17, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Thinking right now about Shakepeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, two of my favorites of his plays. Anbd this in particular:
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
“All great works and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.” —ALBERT CAMUS #writersky
December 15, 2024 at 7:29 PM
“All great works and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.” —ALBERT CAMUS #writersky