Weston Renoud
@theducky.com
he/him/they/them
⛴ hydrographer
💻software engineer (C++/Python)
🗺 planoterrestrialist, and I'm serious about it
🦮 dad - auntie to my friends' kids
🐘 https://mapstodon.space/@wrenoud
⛴ hydrographer
💻software engineer (C++/Python)
🗺 planoterrestrialist, and I'm serious about it
🦮 dad - auntie to my friends' kids
🐘 https://mapstodon.space/@wrenoud
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After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
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I think people should be pretty angry that a handful of men unilaterally decided culture, art and civilization should be fed into a woodchipper so they could attract VC funding.
December 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I think people should be pretty angry that a handful of men unilaterally decided culture, art and civilization should be fed into a woodchipper so they could attract VC funding.
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
"The tally of 2,724 potential noncitizens is about 0.015% of the state's voters."
Anthony Nel, of Texas, became a U.S. citizen as a teen. But a flaw in a Trump administration citizenship tool flagged him as a potential noncitizen, which led to his voter registration being canceled. n.pr/4rP2dPS
Trump's SAVE tool is looking for noncitizen voters. But it's flagging U.S. citizens too
Anthony Nel, of Texas, became a U.S. citizen as a teen. But a flaw in a Trump administration citizenship tool flagged him as a potential noncitizen, which led to his voter registration being canceled.
n.pr
December 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
"The tally of 2,724 potential noncitizens is about 0.015% of the state's voters."
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Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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December 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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This is not some harmless joke. This is the “Hafez gives us wheat” billboards of my early visits to Syria.
When I saw the story in passing I thought it was the same dumb bit as the army parade, the fig leaf of using Flag Day because it happens to also be his birthday. But no, Trump's birthday as such is now an official commemoration for NPS free admission days.
www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...
www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...
December 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This is not some harmless joke. This is the “Hafez gives us wheat” billboards of my early visits to Syria.
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We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025
While the outcome should be clear from the plain text of the Constitution, the central project of this court and Administration, together, is to nullify the reconstruction amendments
The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025
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“In the heat of the moment, you’ve got to make a decision, and sometimes that decision is imperfect,” said Hegseth
theonion.com/pete-hegseth...
theonion.com/pete-hegseth...
Pete Hegseth Invokes ‘Fog Of War’ After Pissing In Break Room Refrigerator
ARLINGTON, VA—Describing the incident as a split-second operational judgment made under rapidly evolving conditions, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth invoked the “fog of war” Thursday to explain why he ...
theonion.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“In the heat of the moment, you’ve got to make a decision, and sometimes that decision is imperfect,” said Hegseth
theonion.com/pete-hegseth...
theonion.com/pete-hegseth...
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Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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“OK, you can gerrymander to cheat in elections, but only if it hurts nonwhite voters.”
- US Supreme Court
- US Supreme Court
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“OK, you can gerrymander to cheat in elections, but only if it hurts nonwhite voters.”
- US Supreme Court
- US Supreme Court
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Trump: "The word 'affordability' is a Democrat scam"
December 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Trump: "The word 'affordability' is a Democrat scam"
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Hi, it's me, friendly big corporation. We actively lobby behind the scenes to keep our taxes low and employee wages lower. But won't you join us in giving tuesday?
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Hi, it's me, friendly big corporation. We actively lobby behind the scenes to keep our taxes low and employee wages lower. But won't you join us in giving tuesday?
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„…we have worked for free to lock ourselves collectively into a paid system when we are all aware of its biases and incompleteness. Institutions have been trapped in the WoS system …“🧪🎓🔓
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.
The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'
www.cnrs.fr
December 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
„…we have worked for free to lock ourselves collectively into a paid system when we are all aware of its biases and incompleteness. Institutions have been trapped in the WoS system …“🧪🎓🔓
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i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
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On December 4, 2007, in the Usenet group “Friends of the Friendless,” someone wrote:
“Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!”
And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.
“Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!”
And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
On December 4, 2007, in the Usenet group “Friends of the Friendless,” someone wrote:
“Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!”
And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.
“Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!”
And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.
Talking with a friend pursuing education in hospice chaplaincy and I was reminded of the time I got to sit in on a Harvad School of Divinity course On Death and Dying. Poking around I stumbled on this recent podcast that is a great listen related to this topic. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Facing death with dignity — Harvard Gazette
In this episode of the "Harvard Thinking" podcast, a chaplain, a bioethicist, and a doctor talk about how to improve end-of-life care.
news.harvard.edu
November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Talking with a friend pursuing education in hospice chaplaincy and I was reminded of the time I got to sit in on a Harvad School of Divinity course On Death and Dying. Poking around I stumbled on this recent podcast that is a great listen related to this topic. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Zork just got open sourced. So, as tradition, I look for curse words in the source code. And this one is pretty clean.
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Zork just got open sourced. So, as tradition, I look for curse words in the source code. And this one is pretty clean.
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Scientists recently combined DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab.
It went sideways real fast.
It went sideways real fast.
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Scientists recently combined DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab.
It went sideways real fast.
It went sideways real fast.
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About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I really admire the creativity in Trump’s “peace plan”: handing Russia land it never conquered, shrinking Ukraine’s army by 50%, ditching Western military aid, long-range weapons and European security guarantees. Peace? It’s Ukraine signing its own surrender while Moscow pops the champagne.
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I really admire the creativity in Trump’s “peace plan”: handing Russia land it never conquered, shrinking Ukraine’s army by 50%, ditching Western military aid, long-range weapons and European security guarantees. Peace? It’s Ukraine signing its own surrender while Moscow pops the champagne.