Michael Neth
@infernocloud.bsky.social
Staff software engineer at Engine.com
Ex-Lattice.
Knife and axe throwing, games and game design, tiki.
Ex-Lattice.
Knife and axe throwing, games and game design, tiki.
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ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
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“LLMs aren’t going away” statements are wishes, not predictions, that they’re trying to make happen. Treat them as advocacy for a specific future, not observations of inevitability
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“LLMs aren’t going away” statements are wishes, not predictions, that they’re trying to make happen. Treat them as advocacy for a specific future, not observations of inevitability
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No Kings in Wichita, Kansas was huge again. This is where democracy can really be seen because there are no bots in the real world. Even Fred Armisen was out here!
October 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
No Kings in Wichita, Kansas was huge again. This is where democracy can really be seen because there are no bots in the real world. Even Fred Armisen was out here!
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"SLOPPER" I'm losing my mind
July 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"SLOPPER" I'm losing my mind
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"SCPs that got hoovered up and regurgitated by chatbots end up giving tech executives schizophrenia" is perhaps fittingly a very SCP thing to happen
July 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"SCPs that got hoovered up and regurgitated by chatbots end up giving tech executives schizophrenia" is perhaps fittingly a very SCP thing to happen
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He doesn’t remember nominating Jerome Powell.
July 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
He doesn’t remember nominating Jerome Powell.
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Brought to you by fossil fuel corporations and the people invested in them.
Nasa data reveals dramatic rise in intensity of weather events
Extreme events such as floods and droughts are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting and more severe, study says
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Brought to you by fossil fuel corporations and the people invested in them.
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It is extraordinarily weird watching him conveying a single, cohesive thought for more than five seconds here. It really does show you that, while his heart as always been several shades deeper than vantablack, there's something medically wrong with his brain at this point.
June 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It is extraordinarily weird watching him conveying a single, cohesive thought for more than five seconds here. It really does show you that, while his heart as always been several shades deeper than vantablack, there's something medically wrong with his brain at this point.
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These fascist dipshits keep claiming there is all kinds of violence in Los Angeles right now. At this very moment, even!
Weirdly, every single local channel is running regular programming, instead of this BREAKING NEWS EVENT.
It's like ... it's like the dipshits are lying, or something. Weird.
Weirdly, every single local channel is running regular programming, instead of this BREAKING NEWS EVENT.
It's like ... it's like the dipshits are lying, or something. Weird.
June 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
These fascist dipshits keep claiming there is all kinds of violence in Los Angeles right now. At this very moment, even!
Weirdly, every single local channel is running regular programming, instead of this BREAKING NEWS EVENT.
It's like ... it's like the dipshits are lying, or something. Weird.
Weirdly, every single local channel is running regular programming, instead of this BREAKING NEWS EVENT.
It's like ... it's like the dipshits are lying, or something. Weird.
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⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: Progressive JSON
Progressive JSON — overreacted
Why streaming isn't enough.
overreacted.io
May 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: Progressive JSON
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Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist:
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist:
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
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This week’s newsletter is about how to survive the weight of an entire industry trying to convince you that you're inadequate, when you’re actually amazing and it's they that suck.
buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
How to survive the weight of an entire industry trying to convince you that you're inadequate
Look at all this evidence of humanity! Gimme $2 and become a premium subscriber. This week’s question comes to us from DB: How do I make art without feeling...
buttondown.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This week’s newsletter is about how to survive the weight of an entire industry trying to convince you that you're inadequate, when you’re actually amazing and it's they that suck.
buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
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Just because the pieces stick in Stick and Stack, doesn't mean you can't still do cool tricks!
Wishlist or try the beta now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3655080/...
#indiegame #pixelart #tetris
Wishlist or try the beta now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3655080/...
#indiegame #pixelart #tetris
May 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Just because the pieces stick in Stick and Stack, doesn't mean you can't still do cool tricks!
Wishlist or try the beta now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3655080/...
#indiegame #pixelart #tetris
Wishlist or try the beta now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3655080/...
#indiegame #pixelart #tetris
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
If you have an hour to be convinced: youtu.be/vwh9ETdhrf4?...
April 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If you have an hour to be convinced: youtu.be/vwh9ETdhrf4?...
Yearly reminder that 2008's Speed Racer is one of the all-time greatest films.
a race car with the number 5 on it
Alt: Racing scene from the 2008 film Speed Racer with the Mach V spinning and sliding around a curve.
media.tenor.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Yearly reminder that 2008's Speed Racer is one of the all-time greatest films.
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I've been making a tetris-like game with a sticky twist for the last year, launched the steam page today along with a little gameplay teaser (🔊 on, excellent music by @keestak.bsky.social) #indiegame
Check it out and wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/3655080/...
Reposts greatly appreciated 💟
Check it out and wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/3655080/...
Reposts greatly appreciated 💟
April 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I've been making a tetris-like game with a sticky twist for the last year, launched the steam page today along with a little gameplay teaser (🔊 on, excellent music by @keestak.bsky.social) #indiegame
Check it out and wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/3655080/...
Reposts greatly appreciated 💟
Check it out and wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/3655080/...
Reposts greatly appreciated 💟
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Ugh I’m getting so many of these
April 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Ugh I’m getting so many of these
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Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
April 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes
March 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Cornell University have developed a new thermostable, MULTI-TARGET vaccine platform that offers stronger, longer-lasting protection against SARS-CoV-2 AND influenza while providing broader immunity against VARIOUS flu strains. 🧪🧵⬇️
March 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Cornell University have developed a new thermostable, MULTI-TARGET vaccine platform that offers stronger, longer-lasting protection against SARS-CoV-2 AND influenza while providing broader immunity against VARIOUS flu strains. 🧪🧵⬇️
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the feminine urge to
Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'
Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.
mashable.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
the feminine urge to
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️
March 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️