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created June 22, 2023

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Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

well yeah, I'd do it myself but I'm lazy mostly

3/9/2025, 12:18:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've got however much data you need

3/9/2025, 12:17:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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seems apple is taking naming cues from react native

email with the header
2/9/2025, 11:35:51 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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there's exactly one inviter — whose relation to the bsky team I'm still curious about — who I'd guess is (totally inadvertently) at the root of about 90% of what makes the culture here annoying, but nuking their invite tree would take out like a million users at this point, myself included

2/9/2025, 8:55:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue)

how did the "politician speaks with half a dozen people of varying relevance to the topic grimacing behind them" thing even start

2/9/2025, 8:46:47 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

NJB got run off this website for saying this but I think we're going to come to agree with him more than we'd like in time

2/9/2025, 1:57:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

yeah the problem is that that only applies to content that bluesky moderation sees though, all content not identifying as bluesky content, you're on your own there is automated tooling from, like, cloudflare I think? that ought to be enough? odd that no one has really tried yet afaik

1/9/2025, 9:40:04 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Eliason (@holz-bau.bsky.social) reposted

nifty little 14-plex shows how single stair begets a variety of housing sizes and types even in small buildings 1-4 bedroom homes flats & maisonettes private outdoor space not too shabby www.archdaily.com/1032902/walf...

1/9/2025, 9:12:50 PM | 26 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

disco elysium text box RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] — Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about communism. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about communism, the alpha and omega of communism questions, and that question is: 1. (Whisper.) Is trans progressive? 2. Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.
1/9/2025, 8:55:41 PM | 60 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

it's made much worse, I think, by the non-existence of the NDP 1993-1997 would make for a good point of comparison as to whether this is standard or if it's purely a product of the modern media environment

1/9/2025, 8:48:05 PM | 14 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

yeah, "special constables", though according to google they have the same powers as regular cops

29/8/2025, 1:31:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

waterloo does, never seen them around unless called though

29/8/2025, 1:28:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

although "absurd opex" is not all that absurd in a US context given the even more absurd capex explosion

28/8/2025, 7:06:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

the issue with buses over light rail in high income countries is that the margin in ridership between "need dedicated bus infra" and "absurd opex/literally can't get enough drivers" is not all that large

28/8/2025, 7:04:33 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

gpt-3.5 with a couple of basic MCP servers & trained on whatever agentic browsing data current models are using would've met just about everyone's standard for "AGI" that existed right up until models could actually do those things

28/8/2025, 12:00:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

well yeah we obviously have AGI by the standard of any previous generation, it's just interesting that we continue to decide otherwise & that we're able to combine the entire denial process into the time between BERT and xxxB MoE models

27/8/2025, 10:51:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

what does any of this have to do with my post

27/8/2025, 10:41:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

I mean yeah "if you dumb down the thinking machine enough you can stuff it in a pocket supercomputer & it'll finish your sentences for you" is only as unremarkable as it is because it was achieved so incrementally, allowing us enough time to move the goalposts on intelligence each step of the way

27/8/2025, 10:24:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nathan Lauster (@lausterna.bsky.social) reposted

Three towers of Sen̓áḵw (phase 1) rising above Kits 6 Reserve as reclaimed by the Squamish Nation near downtown Vancouver. senakw.com/place Here emerging from trees on the Parkview Tower lot at the foot of the Burrard Bridge nearby (also formerly part of Kits 6). 1/

View of three towers of Sen̓áḵw (Phase One) from the treed lot in front of Parkview Towers, also on former Kits 6 Reserve land.
25/8/2025, 11:46:16 PM | 229 38 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

they're certain the next election is theirs to lose, like this one was if not for trump they're not even necessarily wrong, but they've got plenty of time to drive poilievre's approval down further into the gutter

27/8/2025, 3:37:25 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

I think this is basically what they're going for

27/8/2025, 2:43:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

weak fingers gang

27/8/2025, 2:33:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

you see the boots here are actually delicious

27/8/2025, 1:50:36 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

took me a month+ fwiw, so probably not a huge help unfortunately but it's something requires you to first apply for the disability tax credit, which annoyingly your physician can't bill the government for, unlike provincial paperwork, so it's out of pocket gets you up to $200 a month though

27/8/2025, 1:03:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

ODSP I assume? the system sucks ass, maddening to hear. any chance you're able to apply for the federal CDCP and get the dental work done through that?

27/8/2025, 12:52:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Philip Oldfield (@sustainabletall.bsky.social) reposted

I really like the composition of this Iranian mid-rise housing By Omid Architects

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5/4/2025, 7:30:26 AM | 117 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

also branding needing to care about legibility at favicon scale

26/8/2025, 7:59:55 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

the core premise that he and his life's work should be destroyed?

26/8/2025, 7:05:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

so in what world is the guy in charge of the leading ai lab a "disciple" of possibly the most well known safetyist alive

26/8/2025, 6:59:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

I do not think the ceo of openai is particularly opposed to superintelligence

26/8/2025, 6:52:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

my resumé is in this typeface :whyy:

26/8/2025, 4:19:55 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

out-graced the grace post

two likes on the post, first me, then grace
26/8/2025, 4:17:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

oh yeah that'd actually work pretty well

26/8/2025, 4:16:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

nah material 3/you, fits the corporate quirky vibe

26/8/2025, 4:16:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

good call, it's too woke but also it gives me material vibes for some reason (derogatory)

26/8/2025, 4:13:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue)

goddamnit now my personal branding sans serif is the fascist sans because some doge lackey has good taste in typefaces (neue montreal)

26/8/2025, 4:09:02 AM | 55 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

heartbreaking: the fascists have really good taste in typefaces

26/8/2025, 4:03:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

this is so fucked up they've already taken instrument serif from us

pp neue montreal
26/8/2025, 4:02:38 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

WAIT they're literally using neue montreal for this dumb thing?!

26/8/2025, 4:00:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

fuck yeah 🦅🦅 pp starter pack my goat

26/8/2025, 3:56:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

that was my default sans for so long until I found out about neue montreal

26/8/2025, 3:54:26 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

oh this is dope, I would've loved this during my design systems phase

26/8/2025, 3:44:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

worst person you know etc etc would probably be nice if it was actually good though

It is the policy of my Administration to deliver digital and physical experiences that are both beautiful and efficient, improving the quality of life for our Nation. Towards that end, the National Design Studio will advise agencies on how to reduce duplicative design costs, use standardized design to enhance the public’s trust in high-impact service providers, and dramatically improve the quality of experiences offered to the American public.
26/8/2025, 3:37:39 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

this website feels like something you'd get out of v0

26/8/2025, 3:35:58 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

from here, just the prospect of having a council capable of implementing an agenda is a dream, even if the moral valence of said agenda is dubious

26/8/2025, 1:58:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Attention to this Matter is All You Need

25/8/2025, 6:44:43 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

I don't think geoblocking APIs is something that's likely to happen anytime soon — and if it does, the easier solution would still be a proxy I'm not saying replicating data is useless 100% of the time, but it absolutely is right now

24/8/2025, 3:12:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

you can just access appviews that already exist via a different client, no point in running a new copy

24/8/2025, 2:59:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

okay yeah that part balances it out closer to no value maybe, but every future appview copy is still negative value

24/8/2025, 2:40:35 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

what does running a copy of the bluesky appview have to do with that

24/8/2025, 2:39:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

woke minimalist rebrand 😔

24/8/2025, 2:26:19 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

who said anything about consumer-grade or occasionally? a dozen a6000s colocated is cheaper per token than each in a different machine in a different place, how is this even up for debate

24/8/2025, 12:45:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

> The efficiency in the data center is in squeezing as much performance out of the stack as is practicable so your investment can produce as much value as possible. > We don’t care at all about that at home. why are you restating my reply as if you disagree

24/8/2025, 12:38:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

that stuff seems to have peaked in 2021 actually, getting a rubioesque charisma void to steal their thunder and then flop in the election is a pretty big hindrance

23/8/2025, 11:24:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

I think that podcast is indirectly to blame for about 70% of how bad this website is and 0% directly

23/8/2025, 11:22:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

yeah, this is what got me interested in this topic in the first place!

23/8/2025, 11:19:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

hm I suppose this is tough to quantify, my subjective experience has just been that the us polling industry is much less cutthroat, here there's constantly firms spawning & dying & trying to prove themselves maybe also that there's a much bigger % of the us where an x% swing isn't as important?

23/8/2025, 11:05:05 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

ty 😊

23/8/2025, 8:51:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

ah of course @shreyanjain.net can you log into zeppelin and load your timeline and see if that kills your pds

23/8/2025, 8:47:32 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue)

anybody happen to be running a pds a few versions behind

23/8/2025, 8:46:23 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

good luck & sorry you have to do this

23/8/2025, 8:35:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

even so, it seems like the us polling industry basically stops existing outside of ongoing elections, & the volume of competition is much weaker than in countries a fifth of the size everywhere below the federal level

23/8/2025, 7:48:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

ivr polls (the cold calling type) are the most accurate kind here though, the american polling industry just has a skill issue

23/8/2025, 7:36:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

that part was claude

23/8/2025, 4:38:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

tyty

23/8/2025, 4:34:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

also that running a model in a datacenter somewhere is obviously cheaper and more energy efficient than running that model on your machine

23/8/2025, 4:04:23 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

this one is even better

23/8/2025, 3:31:37 PM | 76 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue)

a black and white comic panel from 1923 titled
23/8/2025, 2:46:35 PM | 9 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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I recently discovered that new england is not the name of a state you guys have too many states

23/8/2025, 2:17:03 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jonas (@merkletr.ee) reposted

did:plc Considered Harmful merkletr.ee/fast

23/8/2025, 2:07:10 PM | 99 34 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

the amount of data is irrelevant unless the network 100xes in size — copying bytes between websocket streams really isn't compute intensive at all

23/8/2025, 2:02:48 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

yeah I'm not bothering to run a relay because it'd be extra work on a project I don't like but it's literally adding 10 lines to a docker compose also whtwnd.com/futur.blue/3...

23/8/2025, 2:02:12 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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that's bizarre, no clue why this would only be happening with zeppelin, will take a look

23/8/2025, 2:00:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

what do you mean?

23/8/2025, 2:00:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

real

19/8/2025, 10:51:56 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

they use bridgy too, neat

19/8/2025, 1:13:39 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@en.ottawa.ca / @fr.ottawa.ca is an awesome use of subdomain handles

19/8/2025, 1:13:09 PM | 55 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

this is really a villain monologue

PPP Canada has played an important role in developing the P3 market in Canada. With the P3 model now widely adopted across the country, PPP Canada has effectively fulfilled its mandate. Canada will continue to be a world leader in P3s and the Government of Canada continues to support the model as an effective way to build more infrastructure across Canada.
19/8/2025, 1:07:19 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

true, of course we're busy squandering that

18/8/2025, 8:32:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

or we could do the infra first and use it to justify making places interesting but that would require a level of buy-in the electorate is incapable of

18/8/2025, 8:25:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

quebec still has two in fact but yeah, grade 13 is older people's favourite "back in my day"

18/8/2025, 7:36:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

wait I went to that lmao I didn't see mounties

18/8/2025, 7:12:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

mississauga mentioned ?!

18/8/2025, 7:11:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/8/2025, 6:16:32 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

jerry morning posts are great because I get to like them then learn what they mean several hours later

18/8/2025, 1:37:44 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"reinforcement yearning from human feedback" is just a relationship

18/8/2025, 11:06:28 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

yeah, by "quickbuild" in this case I mean the low concrete dividers specifically & agree! this mirrors my ped experience so far, where the lows tend to be lower than toronto but the highs are much more thoughtfully executed

18/8/2025, 2:22:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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also it's insane how nice it is to let go of the constant subconscious vigilance from right turns on red

18/8/2025, 1:51:42 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I maintain my opinion that toronto's quickbuild concrete block bike lanes are the best on the continent but maxed out montreal bikeways definitely beat maxed out toronto bikeways

18/8/2025, 1:41:19 AM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

yeah lists are an L, needs to be more friction — I think it'd be much worse if ozone didn't require running a server

18/8/2025, 1:39:22 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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just arriving in Montreal, this thread is very helpful for last minute itinerary planning!

17/8/2025, 9:11:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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thought I'd run out of ideas but recipe.exchange except designed by pentagram

17/8/2025, 7:18:43 PM | 39 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

gotta do something with the leftover 8gb chips from the m3 air

17/8/2025, 1:29:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

seems unlikely at that price point but would be an absolutely goated move

17/8/2025, 1:28:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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for years, the top google result for "ts playground" was not the one most people wanting help with their types were looking for

17/8/2025, 1:00:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture futur (@futur.blue) reply parent

the P stands for "poltergeist" maybe we can solve zoning by covering the city in ghost MTSAs

17/8/2025, 2:38:25 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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grilling

a reddit post on r/grilling titled
17/8/2025, 1:37:15 AM | 558 120 | View on Bluesky | view

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think that would not happen nearly as much if they were just automodded out of existence immediately though

16/8/2025, 9:29:29 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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zeppelin hepa...

16/8/2025, 9:10:52 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view