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Thomas Dickerson

@elfprince13.mumak.app

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Director of Geospatial AI @nbcuniversal.com, Brown CS PhD & SMCVT Math/Physics/CS alum, admin @cemetech.net, AFOL, SFF nerd & open-theist Bluesky open-source contributor Decentralizing systems (human & digital) Opinions are my own 📍Vermont

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · Jan 20

Sadly my Shannara product idea has expired, but it's not too late to support Lego Bill & Ted.

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · Nov 13

Meanwhile, if you enjoy Bill & Ted (or are a Doctor Who fan who wants the next best time traveling phone-booth to a TARDIS), please help me turn @alexwinter.com into a Lego minifigure! We only 10K votes, and it's free/easy to make an account.

bit.ly/lego-ideas-bill-and-ted

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 33m

A big chunk of American libertarians taking their cues from the “selfishness is a virtue” crowd has definitely not been good for the vibe of the movement though

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 36m

There’s nothing anti-libertarian about being socially conscious, as long as the “we” in “we should provide” isn’t people doing redistribution at gunpoint

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 3h

Full album here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCx21H

Heatray

Explore this photo album by Thomas Dickerson on Flickr!

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 6h

1yo realized she was dancing alone in front of the tv and grabbed 4yo’s hand to drag him on to the “dance floor”

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 7h

Friends from another pond call for aid

My old Lego frog mech the Mud Puppy alongside Heatray

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 7h

Apropos of nothing in particular I think we are going to call this frog mech Heatray

Intimidating space marine style mech with a big shield and some kind of blaster. The pilot is a green frog

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 9h

Booo

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 9h

If she’s telling everyone publicly it can only be one of those 😛

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 9h

and they all say Bluesky doesn’t know how to post about sports lol

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 15h

my entire feed is baseball did i get transported to the baseball dimension

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 15h

DAAA YANKEEEEES LOOOOOOOSE

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 13h

I have a theory that when designing a social simulation / generator, it can be useful to keep in mind a story you’d like your system to be able to organically generate. not every system should generate the same story but I have a short list of high-salience interesting stories I reach for. (1/2)

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 9h

😛

a man in a blue shirt and tie is talking to a woman and says yes that was very transparent

Alt: Beau Bridges as General Landry on Stargate says yes that was very transparent

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 18h

Heard from my extremely offline wife today that a farm worker from our county got called to an immigration hearing and apparently a Very Large Contingent of people went with him as an escort to make sure he came back out

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 22h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 18h

Every time @kermmartian.z80.me has ever convinced me to take the bus in NYC it has gone comically awry.

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 18h

They should do a Tron spinoff with Beau Bridge’s as Flynn’s computer illiterate brother who somehow gets sucked into the whole mess

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 20h

Oh nice, it's out already 👀 Quite a lot of haters in the feed here 😛 but it seems the people who liked the older movies say it's not bad at all…

(I don't really remember the original, but I'm a huge fan of Legacy)

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 18h

The original and Legacy are both delightful

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 23h

standards folks!

if you are in to this sort of thing, we now have an IETF mailing list to discuss AT protocol bits.

mailman3.ietf.org/mailman3/lis...

if you want to jump in, I recommend setting up an overall IETF datatracker account and reviewing IETF IP policies ("note well") first

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 20h

it's a nonstick / easy clean convection oven. if you had a teflon rack and drip tray in your regular oven you could put bacon or whatever in there too

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 20h

And community notes on posts, lists, and labelers

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 20h

You have collected way too many types of guys

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 20h

Leftover Chinese food in air fryer 🤤

Leftover roast veggies from bottom of chicken pan in air fryer 🤤

Leftover cider donuts in air fryer 🤤

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 20h

Already using @ripperoni.com’s @following-classic.ripperoni.com 👀

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 23h

so did I understand correctly from your earlier post you have to statically allocate the GPU memory + CPU memory?

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 23h

return to postscript fractals, idle microprocessors make the devil's work.

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 5d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 23h

this is possibly the first good thing I've heard about the Atlanta airport