bripod
@bripod.bsky.social
Software engineer, avid board/video gamer, space & science enthusiast. He/him
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The tech bro billionaires not only want us to be forced to use their slop, but be forced to pay a monthly fee to do so for every product they sell.
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The tech bro billionaires not only want us to be forced to use their slop, but be forced to pay a monthly fee to do so for every product they sell.
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the single defining “new technology” of the 21st century is in fact nothing more than the subscription, an early modern innovation
November 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
the single defining “new technology” of the 21st century is in fact nothing more than the subscription, an early modern innovation
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“it’s just a tool” becomes unconvincing when entrepreneurship means leveraging power to make it impossible for people to avoid your product, and creating problems for whomever doesn’t use it
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“it’s just a tool” becomes unconvincing when entrepreneurship means leveraging power to make it impossible for people to avoid your product, and creating problems for whomever doesn’t use it
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it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
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Among the reasons I see AI as a bubble is the GOP's ideological hostility to rational electricity policy.
As a matter of physics, economics, and politics, you can't sustain a data center boom while going backwards on solar & wind. The Earth-killing energy sources they love are just too expensive.
As a matter of physics, economics, and politics, you can't sustain a data center boom while going backwards on solar & wind. The Earth-killing energy sources they love are just too expensive.
‘The New Price of Eggs.’ The Political Shocks of Data Centers and Electric Bills
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Among the reasons I see AI as a bubble is the GOP's ideological hostility to rational electricity policy.
As a matter of physics, economics, and politics, you can't sustain a data center boom while going backwards on solar & wind. The Earth-killing energy sources they love are just too expensive.
As a matter of physics, economics, and politics, you can't sustain a data center boom while going backwards on solar & wind. The Earth-killing energy sources they love are just too expensive.
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Japanese pattern book, early 19th c, cataloguing stencil patterns that could be printed onto fabric for a kimono
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Japanese pattern book, early 19th c, cataloguing stencil patterns that could be printed onto fabric for a kimono
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Strong floor, no ceiling — I like it!
November 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Strong floor, no ceiling — I like it!
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Strong floor, no ceiling — I like it!
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Strong floor, no ceiling — I like it!
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Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.
MAGA legal world, man…
Gorsuch and Grassley should be so proud.
Gorsuch and Grassley should be so proud.
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.
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This article from September contained an important quote.
I trust this over Prasad, Hoeg, and Makary any day of the week.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
I trust this over Prasad, Hoeg, and Makary any day of the week.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This article from September contained an important quote.
I trust this over Prasad, Hoeg, and Makary any day of the week.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
I trust this over Prasad, Hoeg, and Makary any day of the week.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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GEORGIA: Rodney Taylor, a double amputee barber here his whole life was 2 days away from getting new legs when Trump’s ICE goons grabbed him. He has been held almost a year, facing deportation to Liberia.
What are we doing?
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
What are we doing?
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
GEORGIA: Rodney Taylor, a double amputee barber here his whole life was 2 days away from getting new legs when Trump’s ICE goons grabbed him. He has been held almost a year, facing deportation to Liberia.
What are we doing?
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
What are we doing?
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The centrists’ new idea is summoning the imagery of a parking lot to win elections
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The centrists’ new idea is summoning the imagery of a parking lot to win elections
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Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September?
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September?
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
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I’m driving through rural Texas, prime insane right wing billboard territory and I just saw a billboard that said “no healthcare for the peasants but a ballroom for the king”
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I’m driving through rural Texas, prime insane right wing billboard territory and I just saw a billboard that said “no healthcare for the peasants but a ballroom for the king”
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
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Exactly 80 years ago this precise moment (8:40am Hamburg time, Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth needs to lawyer up immediately.
The Peleus War Crimes Trial
After sinking the Greek steamer Peleus in 1944, the captain ordered his crew to attack the survivors, three sailors survived and faced their attackers in a war crime trial.
www.usni.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Exactly 80 years ago this precise moment (8:40am Hamburg time, Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth needs to lawyer up immediately.
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Note that they were removed bc of complaints from CA MLIS—an org that represents real estate agents who were mad that climate risk scores reduced housing prices, on which they make commission
Unfortunately removing the risk scores does not remove the risk
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Note that they were removed bc of complaints from CA MLIS—an org that represents real estate agents who were mad that climate risk scores reduced housing prices, on which they make commission
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“Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad. The people who tolerate, promote and permit the pro-Hitler camp to thrive within their political movements or their social media platforms are also bad.”
Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad. The people who tolerate, promote and permit the pro-Hitler camp to thrive within their political movements or their social media platforms are also bad.”
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He’s letting white collar criminals walk free:
More than 1,000 people submitted statements attesting to their losses…‘hardworking, everyday people,’ including small business owners, farmers, veterans, teachers and nurses.
“I lost my whole life savings,” one wrote, “I am living from check to check.”
More than 1,000 people submitted statements attesting to their losses…‘hardworking, everyday people,’ including small business owners, farmers, veterans, teachers and nurses.
“I lost my whole life savings,” one wrote, “I am living from check to check.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
He’s letting white collar criminals walk free:
More than 1,000 people submitted statements attesting to their losses…‘hardworking, everyday people,’ including small business owners, farmers, veterans, teachers and nurses.
“I lost my whole life savings,” one wrote, “I am living from check to check.”
More than 1,000 people submitted statements attesting to their losses…‘hardworking, everyday people,’ including small business owners, farmers, veterans, teachers and nurses.
“I lost my whole life savings,” one wrote, “I am living from check to check.”
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@jemsmith.bsky.social and I made a 2D physics-based game in 4 days with sounds and music by Jaybooty Sutherland!
This is Fallbearers.
Here's a little clip of the other jammers playtesting it:
#gamedev #gamejam #indiegames
This is Fallbearers.
Here's a little clip of the other jammers playtesting it:
#gamedev #gamejam #indiegames
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
@jemsmith.bsky.social and I made a 2D physics-based game in 4 days with sounds and music by Jaybooty Sutherland!
This is Fallbearers.
Here's a little clip of the other jammers playtesting it:
#gamedev #gamejam #indiegames
This is Fallbearers.
Here's a little clip of the other jammers playtesting it:
#gamedev #gamejam #indiegames
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It’s never occurred to me to wonder what Edward Gorey animating the Ministry of Silly Walks would look like & now I don’t have to
@jemsmith.bsky.social and I made a 2D physics-based game in 4 days with sounds and music by Jaybooty Sutherland!
This is Fallbearers.
Here's a little clip of the other jammers playtesting it:
#gamedev #gamejam #indiegames
This is Fallbearers.
Here's a little clip of the other jammers playtesting it:
#gamedev #gamejam #indiegames
November 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM
It’s never occurred to me to wonder what Edward Gorey animating the Ministry of Silly Walks would look like & now I don’t have to
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a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
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This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs
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Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
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600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me: