Dave Frampton
@majicdave.bsky.social
I make games, mostly single handedly. Here on bluseky I post gardening pics and random rambles.
Tui open source scripting language: https://github.com/mjdave/tui
Sapiens on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1060230/Sapiens/
Tui open source scripting language: https://github.com/mjdave/tui
Sapiens on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1060230/Sapiens/
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Dave Frampton
@majicdave.bsky.social
· Apr 28
GitHub - mjdave/tui
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Today I am officially announcing and open sourcing tui! Tui is a small, cross platform, open source embeddable scripting language and serialization library for C++ github.com/mjdave/tui
we’re sunspot spotting
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
we’re sunspot spotting
Reposted by Dave Frampton
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
20 minutes of cutting up prunings and now I have a month worth of kindling for winter 😁
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
20 minutes of cutting up prunings and now I have a month worth of kindling for winter 😁
The reality is that IT workers are finding it hard to find jobs, like everyone, because all the money is going elsewhere, maybe to things like building AI data centers, and to trillion dollar cunt taxes, but not wages. The actual utility of AI has very little to do with it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The reality is that IT workers are finding it hard to find jobs, like everyone, because all the money is going elsewhere, maybe to things like building AI data centers, and to trillion dollar cunt taxes, but not wages. The actual utility of AI has very little to do with it.
This happens every day. Headline “AI is a big deal, it is scary and coming for your jobs”. Article content (99% not related to AI) ”AI is a little bit useful sometimes“ www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
‘Hundreds of applicants for every job’: Why not even the tech industry is safe from AI
One contractor has listed his house to stay afloat, while another said he is on a benefit, trying to make ends meet.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This happens every day. Headline “AI is a big deal, it is scary and coming for your jobs”. Article content (99% not related to AI) ”AI is a little bit useful sometimes“ www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
This is the best time in the release cycle to take a break for a few days, when the build is out with testers. So yesterday I played the guitar and sang for a total of about 6 hours 😅
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is the best time in the release cycle to take a break for a few days, when the build is out with testers. So yesterday I played the guitar and sang for a total of about 6 hours 😅
Reposted by Dave Frampton
one thing i feel like you’re seeing across nato countries with this new 5% of gdp defense spending goal is an attempt to pull more civilian agencies under the defense umbrella so it counts toward the goal.
feels like a bad shift to put so much of society effectively on a war footing though.
feels like a bad shift to put so much of society effectively on a war footing though.
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
one thing i feel like you’re seeing across nato countries with this new 5% of gdp defense spending goal is an attempt to pull more civilian agencies under the defense umbrella so it counts toward the goal.
feels like a bad shift to put so much of society effectively on a war footing though.
feels like a bad shift to put so much of society effectively on a war footing though.
I just realized I managed to get through the entire spring without using any roundup. Lots of line trimming and hand weeding actually did the trick.
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I just realized I managed to get through the entire spring without using any roundup. Lots of line trimming and hand weeding actually did the trick.
Spent most of yesterday trying to track down a memory corruption crash, then this morning it finally occurred to me to try it on a Mac instead of PC. It instantly crashed in a new place, right where the actual problem was. Cross platform FTW!
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Spent most of yesterday trying to track down a memory corruption crash, then this morning it finally occurred to me to try it on a Mac instead of PC. It instantly crashed in a new place, right where the actual problem was. Cross platform FTW!
The US Sate Department can fuck right off www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/25/t...
Trump govt warns NZ of migration 'risk', asks embassy to collect data
The US State Department has ordered the US embassy in Wellington to begin collecting information on migration data and "migrant-related crimes and human rights abuses".
www.1news.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The US Sate Department can fuck right off www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/25/t...
And I also have to post this cheeky little chives plant. It is growing in the middle of a path, in the way, and I don’t understand how it got there, but it’s my friend now. 🌱
November 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
And I also have to post this cheeky little chives plant. It is growing in the middle of a path, in the way, and I don’t understand how it got there, but it’s my friend now. 🌱
And this year is the first year that my kanuka have flowered, and it’s great! I got this one in the post rolled up in newspaper as a little seedling from a nursery in Northland. 🌱
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
And this year is the first year that my kanuka have flowered, and it’s great! I got this one in the post rolled up in newspaper as a little seedling from a nursery in Northland. 🌱
Here’s the first dahlia of the season just opening up. Last year this one really struggled in the dry and with the rabbits, but after loads of mulch and water, this year it’s doing OK! 🌱
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Here’s the first dahlia of the season just opening up. Last year this one really struggled in the dry and with the rabbits, but after loads of mulch and water, this year it’s doing OK! 🌱
This whole year I have been in grief about the state of the world, what we have lost and will lose. And the year is not even over yet. And next year will almost certainly be worse
November 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This whole year I have been in grief about the state of the world, what we have lost and will lose. And the year is not even over yet. And next year will almost certainly be worse
I’m at that point with the update where everything on my todo list is done, so I guess I have to release it soon! Always feels anticlimactic somehow.
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I’m at that point with the update where everything on my todo list is done, so I guess I have to release it soon! Always feels anticlimactic somehow.
The banana has survived the winter and is growing again. And we have a couple of pups!
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The banana has survived the winter and is growing again. And we have a couple of pups!
Chopper got a question on The Chase!
November 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Chopper got a question on The Chase!
Reposted by Dave Frampton
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
I found a fasciated thistle! Now I’m going to have to let it flower 😅
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I found a fasciated thistle! Now I’m going to have to let it flower 😅
Found some photos from the 2000s and was sad they were in a shoebox, so I stuck them all to my office bathroom wall between the flamingos. Found an old folded up painting too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Found some photos from the 2000s and was sad they were in a shoebox, so I stuck them all to my office bathroom wall between the flamingos. Found an old folded up painting too.
We’re going to get addicted to AI, and then it will be used to control us. Not me, of course, not you either maybe. But society is fucked.
November 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We’re going to get addicted to AI, and then it will be used to control us. Not me, of course, not you either maybe. But society is fucked.
It occurred to me over breakfast that the social consequences of many people believing that LLMs are intelligent might have a lot of similarities with what has happened with many believing in a god, and it ruined my day honestly.
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It occurred to me over breakfast that the social consequences of many people believing that LLMs are intelligent might have a lot of similarities with what has happened with many believing in a god, and it ruined my day honestly.
Reposted by Dave Frampton
Heli vid from last night of the fire at Mangatepopo in Tongariro National Park.
Devastating in our premier national park.
Please stay away so firefighters can do their jobs...
#RuapehuNZ #CruisingSH4 #Tongariro
Devastating in our premier national park.
Please stay away so firefighters can do their jobs...
#RuapehuNZ #CruisingSH4 #Tongariro
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Heli vid from last night of the fire at Mangatepopo in Tongariro National Park.
Devastating in our premier national park.
Please stay away so firefighters can do their jobs...
#RuapehuNZ #CruisingSH4 #Tongariro
Devastating in our premier national park.
Please stay away so firefighters can do their jobs...
#RuapehuNZ #CruisingSH4 #Tongariro
Smoke from the Tongariro fire is getting blown west over Hawkes Bay
November 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Smoke from the Tongariro fire is getting blown west over Hawkes Bay