I forget how much fun it is to mess around in #OpenScad
Fascinated by the early modern period: I'm here if we you want to talk about John Milton, the 17th Century, Baroque Music and Art. The Reformation to The Enlightenment is my JAM.
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I forget how much fun it is to mess around in #OpenScad
"Vicious Compliance" is glorious, sunny protest, and I fully support it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
When your only lens is conspiracy, everything's a conspiracy.
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
I'll be using this to confront my MAGA coworkers about honesty and integrity. I'm sure my points will be well heard, lol.
Gustave Doré, The Council Held by the Rats, ca. 1868.
Chicken Pot Pie with cheddar bay biscuit dumplings. The entire house smells of garlic, rosemary, sage, thyme, lavender and garlic.
The words 'fluent', 'fluid', and 'influence' come from the Latin verb 'fluere', which means "to flow". 'Fluere' and 'to flow' look very similar, so they must be etymologically related, right? No! They're entirely unrelated. 'To flow' is related to 'pluere' (to rain) instead. Here's how we know:
Woops. She/her.
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Harry S Truman was the last president to have a beard. Named it "Jeff Davis." I'm not sure why I looked that up, but it's been in my head all day. www.reddit.com/r/Presidents...
Alien: Earth is joyfully bookish, and I'm here for it. "I thought you'd be excited! All this ground to break. New Lifeforms, with acid for blood. Like an undiscovered country." -Boy Kavalier
The last president with a beard was Harry S Truman.
Me, in the shade
Slice of life: Dad, rocking his Nike slides and hangin with Light The Cat.
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Google stress tested the embedding models and finds that for any given embedding dimension d, there exists a combination of documents that cannot be returned by any query, highlighting a fundamental limitation of the current single-vector embedding paradigm.
Everyone: Making 3D games is hard. Me: Yes.
That's fascinating. I mean, Beowulf's setting alone suggests it was transferred orally into English as it traveled with the Danes(?, not entirely sure of the provenance...) to England. Solid evidence you've got there.
Keep that Gate even harder. Might I suggest a meta-review of Kilgore Trout's character arc across Vonnegut's work?
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Books are transcribed oral tradition. Books are meant to be heard.
Oh, the Dragon's balls were blazing As I stepped into his cave
Ubuntu 22.04 is a dream distro. The only hurdle I've had was getting Arduino IDE sorted with USB, but that's a common (ish) feature with well documented solutions. Also, Steam with Proton has made gamers of wizards.
#Prototyping #Circuit #Boards in the New Tariff Environment & Saving $$ share.google/OMfq6sZKdMlB...
Every year is the "Year of Linux Desktop" (tm). I use Arch, BTW*. *Just kidding: I use Ubuntu 22.04LTS
This is a frightening update from an amazing supplier. #IoT #RISCV #FOSS #ESP32 We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA | olimex share.google/oKFUARfov5Ch...
Physics test: using 4D noise in #blender to simulate water motion. I like it!
#Blender Sunday. It's going to be a virtual hot-tub.
I won't speak to your self-awareness journey, but mine has become a matter of scale and degree. I think we can all be more self-aware, and honest with ourselves when we aren't.
One cannot multitask. One thinks one can multitask, but one is in deep denial of one's half-assed, distracted attention and focus.
1 Linux mention = 1 Like
Oh, look, we're getting below 100 by 8 PM. I'll be in the pool.
Please enjoy this stereogram of my cat. Cross your eyes for a treat!
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'Vibe coding' is just lucky dip coding. True vibe coding is when you sit down to make a feature, it feels like 5 minutes pass and you suddenly have 5 features done and its 4am.
That is beautiful! Nice work, looks like a very well built project, LOVE the case.
My virtual pool will control my real pool through this relay board. Pretty cool, if you ask me. #Esp32 #IOT #Maker #RISC-V
Shocking, I know. You'd think our systemic Puritanism would engender something besides Calvinistic Simony. Alas.
They had the Camera Obscura by then, and Baroque era artists were known to use them. www.hsm.ox.ac.uk/camera-obscura
Cliff dwellings in the Sierra Madre, Chihuahua Mexico. April 2022. #ancient #southwest #mexico #explore #outdoors #hike #mountains
I get a purple masa flour from the local market. So delicious.
Today I learned that #Thingspeak handles #MQTT with #API, and this radically simplifies my automation tech stack. And that sentences like these make me sound like Beaker.
Ok, added persistent wifi creds and fixed a refresh bug that was toggling the relays. She's live on Wlan, hosting this UI in her little heart. #esp32 #iot #automation #RISCV
Beef burgundy over mashed potatoes.
#C++ just hits different on #RiscV
If #IOT is your thing, you can't do much better that the Esp32 C6 EVB from #olimex. This took about 3 hours from unboxing to clicking relays. #RiscV because Acid Burn said so.
That just makes me feel old. My great gran was born in 1892, she just called it "when I was little."
Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.
@titancraft.com has added a robust light-source editor, and I'm just giddy. There's some #Blender level magic to be had. Very, very nice. #3d #modeling #GOAT
I'm just a Cali boy (and was just a boy in school), so I just learned about it from the song. I had no idea that 10 years later I'd be stationed near "Some mill in Wisconsin." Life is weird like that. I love how the swimmers are finishing her voyage. That's extra cool.
I have a secondary connection to The Fitz. I served at USCG Station Duluth in the 80s, and many of the senior enlisted I served under were first responders to the wreck. We talked about it with somber, reverent tones.
Happy Caturday… 🐱 #caturday #bluesky
My God, that's beautiful.
Assault with a deli weapon.
*Regicide
Good catch!
It seems It SEEMS As if Kennedy would rather increase relative treatment capacity by culling patients, than by maintaining a functional healthcare infrastructure.
Hi internet. I am planning short 3D animation series for near future. What do you think? #Motiongraphics #Motion #Motiondesign #Artwork #Art #Digital #Animation #3D #Design #Cinema4D #Render #3Drender #C4D #C4Dart #digitalart #digitalartworks #redshift #redshift3d #mograph #cgi #unreal #UE5
Love it! Here's a little swinging lantern I knocked out in Blender.
So, what I'm hearing here is that Ferdinand de Saussure prodicted LLM's with Semiotics. Cool, cool, cool
Story pitch: 1667: John Milton, old and blind, publishes Paradise Lost. The printer? Peter Parker. A Spiderverse setup could include: The Civil War The Patricide of Charles All of Cromwell's drama The restoration of Charles II The Great Fire Plague Otto Octavius as a Puritan? I'd read it.
Related: "Culture of Poverty" was a racist dog-whistle back in my university day. It goes back much further than the 90s, however. The Myth of the Culture of Poverty share.google/HnagtyUwR00S...
How dare he! Give Milton a hard time, that is. Thanks for the post!
The U.S. Coast Guard has a long history of maritime rescue. usni.org/magazines/p...
When the Exxon Valdez was grounded on March 24, 1989, over 10 million gallons of crude oil were spilled into the pristine waters of Alaska. Accusations of negligence and a drunk captain swirled. New episode available now. www.shipwrecksandseadogs.com/83 #maritimehistory #history #skystorians
I was in Alaska later that year, working LORAN navigation in the USCG. I remember collecting signal data and message traffic from March '89 for the (far above my pay-grade) investigation. The signal was on-air and in-tolerance. The pulse was strong.
I mean, just LOOK at it. 4 relays, bristling with I/O, works with #ArduinoIDE out of the box.
Sometimes, learning how to build something leads to the right questions, and you end up finding the perfect hardware. This thing is, just, amazing. #IOT #Esp32 #OpenSource #RiscV ESP32-C6-EVB Olimex LTD | Development Boards, Kits, Programmers | DigiKey share.google/2ystatqrcuKC...
Brunch Casserole: Sausage, roasted potatoes, eggs, milk, cheese, chunks of sourdough bread. Served with Black Pepper Bechamel (or, Country Gravy, if we're keeping in real).
This beautiful woodcut historiated initial is by Hans Holbein the Younger, in 1569 Bible commentary by Protestant reformer Wolfgang Musculus. #books #16thcentury #Bible #historiated #earlymodern #woodcut #commentary #initials #Latin #Holbein #Latin #bookauction bit.ly/3HrsJMX
Fust won, got it all. Opened a new print shop. By 1480, William Caxton had taken the tech (conceptually? Physically? Both?) from Bruges to London. There was a press in Mexico by 1539.
Fust/Guttenberg lawsuit had a massive impact. Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz | Digital PUL share.google/7jpKAm4TBzaz...
A census is meant to account for all people. All people. ALL PEOPLE.
Royal Society sets out plan to move journals to full open access in 2026 through Subscribe to Open librarytechnology.org/pr/31594
Honestly, that's an excellent idea.
Despite rumors, our local Marie Callender's does not feature a drive-through. gvwire.com/2025/08/06/v...
That's a "September Me" problem, IMHO.
Handsome beasty
Sacred Datura. Of all the native, drought tolerant species in these parts, this is the most stunning. I've got a good 200 square feet of these forbidden snacks*.out in the field. *Do not ingest Sacred Datura.
I took a shower AND shaved AND I have my work clothes ready 12 hours before work. What is this feeling?
One of these? www.ouest-france.fr/culture/hist...
The roaring Uni appeared.
"The perfect marriage doesn't exist..."
This isn't news or anything, but damn, Geezer Butler tears it up in this. music.youtube.com/watch?v=xpM5...
We're seeing "roof restoration" ads on TV. Remember the last time these were relevant? Right before the 2008 financial crisis. Buckle up.
ESP-Music (1.0.2) by Ertugrul Kara ➡️ https://github.com/ErtugrulKra/ESP-Music Simple music playback library for ESP boards with note duration support. #ArduinoLibraries #ArduinoLibs
Excellent takedown of Nucleus Embryo by Arthur Caplan and James Tabery. The problem with Nucleus isn't eugenics. It is rescued from its own eugenic intentions by the fact that it won't work. It is bogus science.
This President may not be an effective leader. There, I said it.
I shuddered at "Lilu." Also, thanks for the rabbit hole! en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:%D...
What’s up with the “Great Apostasy”? #maklelan2811 youtu.be/QH0zs53dWh8
How the Trump admin blurs reality using kayfabe, controls the narrative, and gaslights away from legitimate allegations of fascism:
Pretty sure he's #Ea-nāṣir in this scenario. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/t...
Is it? I think if we pull that thread hard enough, we'll just wind up with a knot of misogyny and exploitation.
How to tell if your industry has zero legitimacy: Chapter one.
Was it next to the green jello/walnut/cottage cheese/marshmallow salad? Sitting in the sun, perhaps?
I keep the intern on Soviet food rations I found in an abandoned bunker. Huge savings.
