nina splendorr ✨🏳️⚧️
@splendorr.bsky.social
i like book & song & game & dance. under duress to write code. co-creator of Spellcorked for the Playdate:]
trans rights, duh
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trans rights, duh
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underappreciated how many people *lost the ability to read* things of any length after the 2016 election. Including me! It took a couple years for me to stop feeling like my brain was tearing itself apart in anything approaching silence
… and not because anything “got better”
… and not because anything “got better”
i got tired of "how to read more" advice from people who are book critics and don't own tvs and live in monasteries with no wifi, so here is some advice from someone with a terminal case of internet brain www.shesabeast.co/how-to-read-...
how to read more
from someone who actually struggles
www.shesabeast.co
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
underappreciated how many people *lost the ability to read* things of any length after the 2016 election. Including me! It took a couple years for me to stop feeling like my brain was tearing itself apart in anything approaching silence
… and not because anything “got better”
… and not because anything “got better”
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Wow! I've never seen it explained this well
December 17, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Wow! I've never seen it explained this well
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New episode! We talk with the amazing Roland Betancourt about art, the allure of Byzantium, and the pull of teaching stuff where you live — so DISNEY
Listen here or on your favorite podcast app…
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Listen here or on your favorite podcast app…
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Disney and Byzantium with Roland Betancourt
Podcast Episode · American Medieval · 11/26/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New episode! We talk with the amazing Roland Betancourt about art, the allure of Byzantium, and the pull of teaching stuff where you live — so DISNEY
Listen here or on your favorite podcast app…
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Listen here or on your favorite podcast app…
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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"If you are earning $80,000 with $79,000 in fixed costs, you are not stable. You are super-cooled water. One shock—a transmission failure, a broken arm—and you freeze instantly."
We love an economist who arrives at leftist theory from first principles
We love an economist who arrives at leftist theory from first principles
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"If you are earning $80,000 with $79,000 in fixed costs, you are not stable. You are super-cooled water. One shock—a transmission failure, a broken arm—and you freeze instantly."
We love an economist who arrives at leftist theory from first principles
We love an economist who arrives at leftist theory from first principles
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Ten years apart
Always shocks myself
Always shocks myself
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Ten years apart
Always shocks myself
Always shocks myself
studies are showing that building and running llm data factories causes more pollution and harm than burning them down once
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
studies are showing that building and running llm data factories causes more pollution and harm than burning them down once
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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I don't think we should drain the planet's drinkable water and build data centers that poison poor communities so people who are too lazy to put work into their lives can make shitty images or pretend they're talking to a real person
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I don't think we should drain the planet's drinkable water and build data centers that poison poor communities so people who are too lazy to put work into their lives can make shitty images or pretend they're talking to a real person
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Literally all of society hates this abominable scam homunculus and the weird little death cult bubble of vampiric losers who spewed it forth upon the world. Take a break from bragging about how gullible you are and give yourself a swirlie and stuff yourself in a locker and sort yourself out.
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Literally all of society hates this abominable scam homunculus and the weird little death cult bubble of vampiric losers who spewed it forth upon the world. Take a break from bragging about how gullible you are and give yourself a swirlie and stuff yourself in a locker and sort yourself out.
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Okay I’m conscious, now what? Stay like this? For hours? Good grief
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Okay I’m conscious, now what? Stay like this? For hours? Good grief
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That is the main objection to LLMs. It is the technological extension of James' theory on assholes: A technology of little use, that few people actually want, being pushed on them by people who get mad when you complain about it.
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
That is the main objection to LLMs. It is the technological extension of James' theory on assholes: A technology of little use, that few people actually want, being pushed on them by people who get mad when you complain about it.
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this is what it's like, yeah.
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
this is what it's like, yeah.
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Can we cotton other foods? Why just candy
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Can we cotton other foods? Why just candy
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More musings from the Deity series I’ve been noodling on. A WIP from a collection of cultist designs, a group of servants that worship the serpent themed Deity. I’m currently exploring their motifs, outfits, equipment and eventually their locations of worship.
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
More musings from the Deity series I’ve been noodling on. A WIP from a collection of cultist designs, a group of servants that worship the serpent themed Deity. I’m currently exploring their motifs, outfits, equipment and eventually their locations of worship.
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Now I heard there was a tiny box
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Now I heard there was a tiny box
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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if you’d like for anything designed for you before the year ends, you should reach out right away!
hello #portfolioday!
i'm wendy. i'm a graphic designer from new york, and i dabble in typography + type design, logo design, and branding.
linktr.ee/wendymurphyo...
IG: @wendyleftmealone
i'm wendy. i'm a graphic designer from new york, and i dabble in typography + type design, logo design, and branding.
linktr.ee/wendymurphyo...
IG: @wendyleftmealone
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
if you’d like for anything designed for you before the year ends, you should reach out right away!
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I think Demonschool is a good video game but I think Brandon’s approach to how staff worked together and were credited REALLY deserves a lot of attention. Video game crediting is a stupid black box and transparency will help average people understand these roles.
demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I think Demonschool is a good video game but I think Brandon’s approach to how staff worked together and were credited REALLY deserves a lot of attention. Video game crediting is a stupid black box and transparency will help average people understand these roles.
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the ai push (like with twitter's changes since 2022) is a genuine effort to make online space unusuable, and make it impossible to access reliable information or organize efficiently.
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
the ai push (like with twitter's changes since 2022) is a genuine effort to make online space unusuable, and make it impossible to access reliable information or organize efficiently.
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Every great product, once it's established itself as a primary operator in its market, is deliberately made worse and worse by its provider in pursuit of greater profit and exploitation of the consumer. I don't know how we can observe this process & still believe in the rationality of capitalism.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Every great product, once it's established itself as a primary operator in its market, is deliberately made worse and worse by its provider in pursuit of greater profit and exploitation of the consumer. I don't know how we can observe this process & still believe in the rationality of capitalism.
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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if you want to read a book, and can't afford it, requesting it at a public library is both free to you and benefits the author.
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
if you want to read a book, and can't afford it, requesting it at a public library is both free to you and benefits the author.