Seven
@creativegamingname.bsky.social
I couldn't believe this username was available!
I play video games and I enjoy creating things.
I've been writing a series of helpful short articles about technology.
Medium: https://medium.com/@creativenameofseven
I play video games and I enjoy creating things.
I've been writing a series of helpful short articles about technology.
Medium: https://medium.com/@creativenameofseven
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i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
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I didn't learn in school that a free market economy is about the suppliers installing fascist regimes to force demand and fix prices, but maybe I understood it wrong.
December 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I didn't learn in school that a free market economy is about the suppliers installing fascist regimes to force demand and fix prices, but maybe I understood it wrong.
This isn't how you gain traction in the global market place.
This *IS* how you ensure projects don't receive funding, and social networks dry up.
Can we please break the cycle of gate keeping cool stuff?
Linux has FIGlet. Why would you deny people FIGlet?!
This *IS* how you ensure projects don't receive funding, and social networks dry up.
Can we please break the cycle of gate keeping cool stuff?
Linux has FIGlet. Why would you deny people FIGlet?!
global adoption of linux gets pushed back by 6 years every time a Linux Guy starts talking at me like max headroom
December 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This isn't how you gain traction in the global market place.
This *IS* how you ensure projects don't receive funding, and social networks dry up.
Can we please break the cycle of gate keeping cool stuff?
Linux has FIGlet. Why would you deny people FIGlet?!
This *IS* how you ensure projects don't receive funding, and social networks dry up.
Can we please break the cycle of gate keeping cool stuff?
Linux has FIGlet. Why would you deny people FIGlet?!
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Penny Arcade for December 12th 2014, 11 years ago today! It was very cool to see this comic blown up huge and framed at the Bungie offices during a visit years ago.
#Destiny
www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/1...
#Destiny
www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/1...
Fan Fiction - Penny Arcade
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
www.penny-arcade.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Penny Arcade for December 12th 2014, 11 years ago today! It was very cool to see this comic blown up huge and framed at the Bungie offices during a visit years ago.
#Destiny
www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/1...
#Destiny
www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/1...
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Invoking Jepsen like a mythical creature that eats bad database developers
December 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Invoking Jepsen like a mythical creature that eats bad database developers
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40,000 #Roman - era #coins discovered in #French village. The town was important to the #Celtic #Mediomatrici tribe before it was conquered by Julius Caesar. #Senon #France
Link for more info and one more photo: www.popsci.com/science/roma...
Link for more info and one more photo: www.popsci.com/science/roma...
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
40,000 #Roman - era #coins discovered in #French village. The town was important to the #Celtic #Mediomatrici tribe before it was conquered by Julius Caesar. #Senon #France
Link for more info and one more photo: www.popsci.com/science/roma...
Link for more info and one more photo: www.popsci.com/science/roma...
So cool!
December 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
So cool!
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Reading through this revolutionary war RPG book and I love it. Who wants to be an elf or a gnome when you could be from Ohio!?
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Reading through this revolutionary war RPG book and I love it. Who wants to be an elf or a gnome when you could be from Ohio!?
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Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
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i dont want to programming anymore i want to fire photon torpeods at things and vacation on risa
December 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
i dont want to programming anymore i want to fire photon torpeods at things and vacation on risa
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in 2026 openai began offering payments to use their systems. Over time those payments rose to 1,800/mo in 2028. This was the beginning of the UBI system in the north american microstates.
Today I got a marketing email from Venmo offering me an ENTIRE YEAR FREE of Perplexity Pro whatever which is apparently $20 a month, which seems…quite suspicious for something that’s going to cost them actual money if I use it.
December 4, 2025 at 7:03 AM
in 2026 openai began offering payments to use their systems. Over time those payments rose to 1,800/mo in 2028. This was the beginning of the UBI system in the north american microstates.
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It would be great if there'd be an app that would generate all capsule images of Steam, Itch.io, EGS, GOG, Microsoft Store, Game Jolt, Google Play, App Store and Unity Asset Store in a single click... 👀
(subtle foreshadowing, announcement soon)
(subtle foreshadowing, announcement soon)
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
It would be great if there'd be an app that would generate all capsule images of Steam, Itch.io, EGS, GOG, Microsoft Store, Game Jolt, Google Play, App Store and Unity Asset Store in a single click... 👀
(subtle foreshadowing, announcement soon)
(subtle foreshadowing, announcement soon)
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hey tell me what you want me to talk about on stream today over on my reddit community (which i am trying to make fun and non-toxic)
www.reddit.com/r/michaelbur...
www.reddit.com/r/michaelbur...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
hey tell me what you want me to talk about on stream today over on my reddit community (which i am trying to make fun and non-toxic)
www.reddit.com/r/michaelbur...
www.reddit.com/r/michaelbur...
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The one upside of generative AI is that it made me value human-made art more. Art that didn't really impress me before feels way more meaningful now. Thanks slop, you made me appreciate human creativity more than ever.
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The one upside of generative AI is that it made me value human-made art more. Art that didn't really impress me before feels way more meaningful now. Thanks slop, you made me appreciate human creativity more than ever.
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as a parent you actually rarely accidently shrink the kids
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
as a parent you actually rarely accidently shrink the kids
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Tag yourself, I’m the two bathtubs in the laundry room
Oh shit waddup
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Posting from the living room bathtub in my new AI designed house
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Posting from the living room bathtub in my new AI designed house
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Compression matters a lot when it comes to graphs
#atproto
Has anybody tried loading the Atmosphere into column stores like DuckDB or Clickhouse? Esp social graphs or backlinks?
Column stores have an advantage with compression on the primary sort keys, and I'm curious how it compares against special-built indexes like Jaz's roaring bitmaps
Has anybody tried loading the Atmosphere into column stores like DuckDB or Clickhouse? Esp social graphs or backlinks?
Column stores have an advantage with compression on the primary sort keys, and I'm curious how it compares against special-built indexes like Jaz's roaring bitmaps
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Compression matters a lot when it comes to graphs
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“Enter Sandman” is certainly the most intense song ever written about taking a nap
December 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“Enter Sandman” is certainly the most intense song ever written about taking a nap
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Alright last month of the year, let’s finish on a high note
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Alright last month of the year, let’s finish on a high note
I feel very keen on typing a lot today.
I don't suppose anyone wants anything explained? I could go look and summarize it...
I don't suppose anyone wants anything explained? I could go look and summarize it...
December 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I feel very keen on typing a lot today.
I don't suppose anyone wants anything explained? I could go look and summarize it...
I don't suppose anyone wants anything explained? I could go look and summarize it...
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Fun fact, no one actually knows how brains work, that’s why it’s an active subject of research.
OG “AI” was created as a tool for this research—modeling various brain functionality in hopes to learn something. (These models aren’t facsimiles of biology, they are mathematical abstractions.)
OG “AI” was created as a tool for this research—modeling various brain functionality in hopes to learn something. (These models aren’t facsimiles of biology, they are mathematical abstractions.)
Notice how tech talks about brains, they treat soft, vague, high level concepts as formal definitions. "Optimized for natural selection we have innate drives for power seeking..." They never explain how any of that happens/works! Then, if their program "fits" the definition, they claim they did it!
November 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Fun fact, no one actually knows how brains work, that’s why it’s an active subject of research.
OG “AI” was created as a tool for this research—modeling various brain functionality in hopes to learn something. (These models aren’t facsimiles of biology, they are mathematical abstractions.)
OG “AI” was created as a tool for this research—modeling various brain functionality in hopes to learn something. (These models aren’t facsimiles of biology, they are mathematical abstractions.)
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This week's comic: Pie Nuts foxtrot.com/2025/11/30/p...
Pie Nuts
FoxTrot by Bill Amend | November 30, 2025
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November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This week's comic: Pie Nuts foxtrot.com/2025/11/30/p...