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Fred BOURSIER
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Maker.
You can just tell this bird smokes Pall Malls
October 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The office chairs in the street count is reaching dotcom levels.
October 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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So pleasing. 🪶
October 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I think AR has the possibility to absorb people totally because it’s basically one step closer to having a phone in your face 24/7, a natural state for most people right now.
Companies are doing this because VR has been the biggest tech hardware/feature flop since 3D TVs.

But AR certainly will work! Pinky swear! Totally it will!
It's completely different! It's entirely something else!
"Piloting a podracer at wild speeds through a Holotable that only becomes as large as your arms can stretch is a deeply flawed idea. I can’t see far enough ahead to plan turns, and it's never as thrilling as actually sitting in the cockpit."

That's what I feared from the first look.
October 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Tulips? Who mentioned tulips?
"Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, the value of America’s stock market has risen by $21 trillion. Michael Cembalest of JPMorgan wrote that since that time, AI-related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth and 90% of capital spending growth."

wapo.st/4nupFzr
Column | AI will trigger financial calamity. It’ll also remake world.
Two things can be true at the same time. Bets on AI are going to cause financial calamity. And AI is going to change the world.
wapo.st
October 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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[tv commercial opens]
[a woman comes into a kitchen and puts down her grocery bags]

“as a busy mom, I’m always looking for faster, cheaper ways to launder hundreds of millions of dollars”
Eric Trump: "You're sitting there saying, 'Why can't I send hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin overseas instantly or receive it instantly with virtually no fees?' Bitcoin is the way of the future."
September 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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I don't care about Liquid Glass, but I love this development article about how to recreate it on the web (tl;dr you can't do it cross-browser rn, but the building blocks are there).

kube.io/blog/liquid-...
Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG — kube.io
Explore how to recreate Apple's stunning Liquid Glass effect using CSS, SVG Displacement Maps, and refraction calculations.
kube.io
September 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Remember the time Putin canceled a puppet show that mocked him and then the creator had to flee the country
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
One of the best things I ever got from colorware was a pencil that glows bright orange under a black light. I’ve lost it in my apartment and found it by shining a black light like I was searching for scorpions in the desert.
September 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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I think I need to drive this home more: programming didn't used to be like this—even for complex, networked apps with a large amount of features and complex user interfaces.

And apps didn't have thousands of dependencies like many even simple ones do now.
IMO the reason why people yearn for tools that generate code is that programming is broken—everything now is giant layer cakes of huge, complex and intransparent frameworks designed by and for large teams in giant tech companies.
i'm actually not averse to the idea of computers generating code. after all, that's what all scripting languages etc. do, and all visual programming tools do, and all plain-language programming languages do

i could see there being actually smart tools for this

but this is not where we're at
September 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Much cleaner than I could have hoped.
September 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Saw these two pieces as a kid and they’re still my favorite things at the museum.
August 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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PEOPLE’S GAS & ELECTRIC
sevier.io isaac @sevier.io · Aug 29
"All utilities are necessary for the functioning of our society and the preservation of life. To allow life and death decisions to be made based on profit concerns is a violation of human rights."

Guess who wrote it?
Utilities are a Public Good and Should Be Owned By the Public
Utilities are a Public Good and Should Be Owned By the Public
www.huffpost.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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There are many days where if it weren't for this grade school technology from the early 2000s, I would get zero words written instead of (for example) today's 2,368.
November 15, 2023 at 10:04 PM
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your gym teacher and your english teacher are getting married
August 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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@boursier.bsky.social Tony included also the paper label from one of the balls of yarn, shade 2185, dye lot 46977B. Tony knows that people who would buy a hat like this he happy to know about the dye lot number. Anyway, as someone who owns this hat as well, I knew you could relate to why I needed to
August 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
August 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I still kind of want to make this.

My test tiles weren’t nearly this cute.
Honestly not bad. Great floor for my cathedral dedicated to secular humanism and geological evidence of the true age of the earth and the universe.

I'll put it in Boise.
August 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
August 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Made a lil Assyrian-style rolling seal.
August 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Oh let me read some perfectly plain books about stained glass before bed. I’m sure they won’t have ominous German poetry in them.
August 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
What in the Molotov/Ribbentrop is this
🇺🇦/🇷🇺Putin will agree to a full ceasefire if Ukraine withdraws from eastern Donetsk-WSJ

1)Ukraine withdraws from Donetsk, frontlines freeze

2)Putin and Trump are preparing a final peace plan to discuss with Zelensky

3)Putin proposes a law ensuring no attacks on Ukraine or Europe

#RussiaUkraineWar
August 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
FLW making an art of escaping every single modern architect, but especially Gropius.
August 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Cursed commute excerpt.
July 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM