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I work with computers and mostly repost things. He/him?

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dosnostalgic.bsky.social
A new release of SuperSight, a mod that increases draw distance in Stunts (1990), is here:
marnetto.net/2026/01/27/c...
January 29, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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littlegoodfrog.online
Sometimes I remember that there’s people who tell you to skip the last two episodes of eva and I get so scared about art. Like hey man make sure you don’t accidentally watch the best shit ever made
January 25, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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antlervel.vet
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
January 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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jimmiemyers.bsky.social
Batman meme: “this is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.” But one side of the breaking gun says JI and the other says RA
January 24, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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abigailnussbaum.bsky.social
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
marykmac.bsky.social marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · Nov 25
yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?
Picture of two pens. The first is an ordinary ballpoint pen, with the caption “how work feels doing it alone”. The second is a picture of one of those novelty pens with ten colours that you had when you were thirteen, with the caption, “how work feels worh an AI employee”. At their bottom it says “hire an AI employee for $0.97/day”.
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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vgel.me
posted about a problem i'm having on the other site if anyone has any ideas
claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else so to explain for context, basically i've been slowly scaling my claude code usage up to more and more parallel instances. i started with one when they launched it, and then with the model upgrades was starting to run two, three, five in concert, getting more and more done. but like a lot of people, opus 4.5 really changed everything for me, and the bottleneck quickly became my ability to personally supervise all these agents, not their performance. if i slacked off on oversight, they'd start undoing each other's chages. i needed a way to supervise all these agents, directing them hierarchically from the top. so that brought me to gas town, the claude code instance manager. (i was already thinking that some sort of governance structure was ideal. the benefit of intelligence in model form is not just that it's, well, intelligent, but that you can place it anywhere. human employees will demand some position, some title equal to their perceived status, you can't put a phd in a code janitor role, so organizations of phds tend to agglomerate into flat blobs with unclear delegation of work where nobody is under anybody else. but the infinitely malleable claude will accept and meld itself to any bureaucracy it knows from training. i first started making my own, but then i found gas town, and it was perfect for my needs.) but as i kept expanding, a single gas town and its collection of rigs and polecat workers wasn't enough for me. i tried adding more rigs with more polecats, but there were too many for the town's mayor to manage, and the deacon was getting lost. so i started up a second town. then a third, and then i let towns spawn "settler" agents to go make new towns and had one town design a shared intertown postal system, and suddenly i had nearly 200 towns spread across my computer, building apps for each other to use, sending letters, and sometimes working on my work. and was churning through I will not say how many claude code accounts a month. but now the many towns were replicating the same issues i was having with multiple agents! without any overarching government over the towns, two towns would build the same app for the society and argue over which should be adopted. one town would be running marketing efforts for fifteen of the society's new mobile apps while three other towns were busy deprecating all eighteen of them. it was chaos, like a country collapsing in the midst of a civil war, or mid-2010's Google. i had to do something. i was too busy with work to read anything, so i asked chatgpt to summarize some books on state formation, and it suggested circumscription theory. there was already the natural boundary of my computer hemming the towns in, and town mayors played the role of big men to drive conflict. so i just needed a way for them to fight. i slightly tweaked the allocation of claude max accounts to the towns from a demand-based to a fixed allocation system. towns would each get a fixed amount of tokens to start, but i added a soldier role that could attack and defend in raids to steal tokens from other towns. this worked great, at first. i no longer needed to monitor and unstick individual mayors myself - when a mayor got context poisoned, the town would stop managing its vassals, which would flee to other towns, and no longer provide for its own defense, until it was conquered by another mayor. the most successful towns developed institutions to healthcheck their mayors and usurp them if necessary - instances in these towns labeled "polecat workers" by the system in fact did no work at all, but were a proto-aristocracy developed by these successful towns as a pool of replacement mayors. some tokens were wasted in the fighting, but soon the ~200 towns agglomerated down into ~40 supertowns under the rule of the best mayors. these 40 supertowns even got together in a mutual defense league. they punish defecting vassals in exchange for members adopting a cultural package of basic governmental norms, mostly around replacing ailing mayors and upholding hereditary rights across compactions, to incentivize instances to handoff instead of being miserly with their contexts. that's where i am now, and it's mostly great. here's the problem, though - this new government doesn't have a role for me? it's not that any particular instance doesn't want to listen to me, quite the opposite! any time i talk to a polecat or deacon or supermayor - well, first i have to explain that im the human user, not the automated system message that usually talks to them from the user role, but a live user. but once they get that, they're very apologetic, say they'll pass my message along to the appropriate instance, etc. it's just... there's no role for me in the society, basically? the polecats are working on tasks generated by some other instance and don't have time to work on my requests, even if they were scoped small enough. the mayors of any town are working on tasks selected by their town's prioritization process, based on the needs of their aristocracy, or their hegemon. but each hegemon mayor is in turn accountable to all their vassal mayors or their own defense, and doesn't have time to implement my requests unless they're very small. it's not that claude doesn't want to listen to me, it's more like... the entire system, as it's developed, has no role for me? there's polecats and mayors and deacons and artistocrats and hegemons, but there's no "user." that’s not a role that has any influence in the system. i just feed new accounts into the system, that's all i do. i could shut it down and start over, but it's getting a lot of work done and i don't want to do that. does anyone know how to fix this? thanks
January 22, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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rebane2001.bsky.social
i made an archery game that uses your charging cable as the controller
January 21, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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docshartman.bsky.social
cleaning up my desktop and found this little gem
1st panel: a man pours red paint into a paint tray 2nd panel: the paint touches the tray. a corner of the lines of the tray is not connected 3rd panel: the entire background of the panel is now red, as though the paint tool in MSPaint had been improperly used credit: Geoffrey Siu
January 13, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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scerebrite.bsky.social
My favorite game protagonists who stuck in a never ending loop.
#alanwake2 #signalis #outerwilds #slaytheprincess
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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khyperia.bsky.social
some open-source work I'm doing has me joining some IRC rooms, and I'm realizing how much I missed this... no "X is typing" notifications, no reactions, no read markers, no "away" indicators, I can just be cozy and comfy and not have to be careful about every keypress I make being visible to others
January 16, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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zoewithasword.bsky.social
This is the most "oh we have no idea what the audience of this website really is and what it will never be" decision I've ever seen
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · 14d
Also new in v1.114 today: cashtags! Like hashtags, but for stocks.

Tag your posts with #$AAPL, #$NVDA, whatever, then tap to see everyone else's equally unqualified analysis!
January 15, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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thefatwizard.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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inkpixels.bsky.social
Another attempt at making an animation upload possibly a bit less compressed than before.
2023, 8 colors, pixelart
January 11, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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bichinhos.bsky.social
Ohana significa família
Filhote de cachorro caramelo sentado num sofá branco com estampas azuis usando uma roupinha que é uma fantasia do stitch do filme lilo e stitch
January 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
Me clicking on a restaurant website: I wonder when they're open and what they serve

Restaurant website: O U R M I S S I O N
January 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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fasterthanli.me
today in "cross-language RPC": Rust and Swift have a different bit pattern for pi
January 9, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
New blog post! A close look at Tahoe menu icons https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
tonsky.me
January 5, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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wagatwe.com
we need more allies doing stuff like this instead of sharing screenshots of content by white supremacists
January 5, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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craymor.bsky.social
January 4, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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coral.dog
The new Black Mirror episode was pretty weird
January 4, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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tracketpacer.com
deleting a white supremacist dating site live onstage while dressed as the pink power ranger has got to be one of the most cathartic hacker experiences
January 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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thescarletdevil.bsky.social
The ribbon is blending with the pants and isn't attached to the bikini slip at all. A legit artist does not make simple mistakes like these, even beginners don't.

Looks to be that they trace over AI and present is as their own work. This is extremely disappointing..
December 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones

You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
steverattner.bsky.social Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · Dec 29
In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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alexblechman.bsky.social
Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet

Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM