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Victor Hogemann @victor.hogemann.com · 3h

Esse artigo levanta a bola que a discussão política americano se reduziu a um jogo de pedra-papel-tesoura entre pessoas normais, aura farmers e shit posters.

www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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Digital Foundry @digitalfoundry.bsky.social · 1d

Today on Digital Foundry, we take a retrospective look at the Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX on its 20th anniversary - and how Shader Model 3 support delivered a new generation of gaming experiences: youtu.be/XLFmoAaH5TY #sponsored

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Victor Hogemann @victor.hogemann.com · 1d

Eu acredito que isso sempre foi assim, se eu não me engano eu acho que lá atrás quando eles introduziram aquela interface de metal escovado tinha como ligar e desligar o efeito em alguns aplicativos usando o terminal também.

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Victor Hogemann @victor.hogemann.com · 1d

United States of Mexico. Country name: Mexico
Federative Republic of Brazil. Country name: Brazil

United States of America. But America is the entire continent.

The gringos forgot to pick a name for their country.

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Rich Burlew @rich-burlew.giantitp.com · 1d

New OOTS! #1334, Like Clockwork: www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1...

An excerpt from The Order of the Stick #1334 showing Elan playing his lute.

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Victor Hogemann @victor.hogemann.com · 1d

Building pawns that transform into every piece

Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/g/9I35F0 for your one-stop solution for prototype services and more. Plus, be one of the first 100 to use the code ‘PC...

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Victor Hogemann @victor.hogemann.com · 1d

The Crazy Sh*t Americans Say In My Comment Section

My comments were full of Americans explaining Europe to me.Spoiler: it didn’t go well.Thanks for 1 million, lads! Vlog channel https://youtube.com/EvanEding...

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Victor Hogemann @victor.hogemann.com · 1d

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses the Paramount Skydance merger, how they’ve named Bari Weiss the new Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, and what her editorial history and per...

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Victor Hogemann @victor.hogemann.com · 2d

I bet there’s a substantial amount of people that don’t understand, and can’t accept, that those videos are completely fake.

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Trump Supporters Are Using OpenAI's Sora to Generate AI Videos of Soldiers Assaulting Protesters

It's a fascinating look into the effort to drum up consent for an unprecedented crackdown on American cities.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2d

Another re-made poster.

from 2002, the TiBook 'Sends other UNIX boxes to /dev/null'

Print files of all the remade this and other posters, flyers and stickers at www.danamania.com/print/

A screenshot of Apple's poster and occasional magazine double spread. Titled at the top it "Sends other UNIX boxes to /dev/null" and shows a PowerBook G4 Titanium with a screenshot of a terminal window and powerpoint window in the same UI, with an iTunes dock menu popping out. On the desktop is a firewire drive, iPod, and an optical disk of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

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Victor Hogemann @victor.hogemann.com · 2d

Why can parrots talk? - Grace Smith-Vidaurre and Tim Wright

Explore the specialized anatomy that allows parrots to talk, scream, curse, and recite facts like humans. --Whether they’re belting Beyoncé, head-banging to ...

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Victor Hogemann @victor.hogemann.com · 2d

Cool Pokemon style title generator, if you ever need one!

pokemon-fonts-generator.netlify.app

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Victor Hogemann @victor.hogemann.com · 3d

NASA let me test my weird chain theory in space

The full unedited conversation is over my my Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/stevemouldHere's the chain fountain play list: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

Evidence that AI is accelerating our economy!

The phrase "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" is no longer true, because of the incredible rate at which this nonsense is burning money.

The correction is already upon us, it's just not evenly distributed.

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 4d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Digital Foundry @digitalfoundry.bsky.social · 3d

Today on Digital Foundry, a DF Direct Special talking about the new technologies discussed in the recent Project Amethyst update, along with answers to our questions from Mark Cerny himself. Exciting times ahead! youtu.be/Ru7dK_X5tnc

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.

But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.

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✂️ Alex - Fold Up Toys ✂️ @folduptoys.bsky.social · 18d

they're pink for an amazing reason

a photo of a papercraft depicting a little pink person in a guillotine

a photo of a papercraft depicting a little pink person being crucified

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Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 4d

The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation

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✂️ Alex - Fold Up Toys ✂️ @folduptoys.bsky.social · 3d

they're blue for an amazing reason

a photo of a papercraft depicting a little blue person, in the stocks

a photo of a papercraft depicting a little blue person, being stretched on a rack

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Victor Hogemann @victor.hogemann.com · 3d

Para que você vai revelar a fórmula secreta do Biotonico Fontoura!

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Ricardo Coimbra @coimbraricardo.bsky.social · 4d

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Victor Hogemann @victor.hogemann.com · 3d

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 5d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

Well, good for DC

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DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

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Digital Foundry @digitalfoundry.bsky.social · 5d

Battlefield 6! We've got lots to say about this and we'll need more than one video to do that - but for now, general thoughts about the game and a focus on the PlayStation 5 version, courtesy of Oliver: youtu.be/B8EuSu_n9b4

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