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🌿 Nicole Lazzaro 🐰 🕹️ @nicolelazzaro.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to demo carrot fresh Follow the White Rabbit puzzles this Friday Oct 10th in Berkeley 4:30PM. Come also to see the amazing Julian Reyes, Evo Heyning, Kevin Ang, plus an important AMA panel with XR and AI leaders on ethics and impact with the incredible Avi Bar-Zeev

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Three tall blue bottles with "Drink Me" labels. A poster for a Steele Diamond Magic act. A box of Koh-i-Noor pencils inside a large streamer trunk with stripped paper on the walls and a Persian Carpet on the floor.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

Let’s talk about ‘whoa.’

First of all, ‘woah’ is not yet considered an established spelling variant of ‘whoa.’

While ‘woah’ has grown in prevalence since the late 20th century, ‘whoa’ is still about 5 times as common as ‘woah.’

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Siciliana Trevino @persistentmesh.bsky.social · 5d

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Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (Official Video)

YouTube video by Depeche Mode

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8d

Winter is approaching and I'm considering purchasing a Lenny Kravitz scarf. The Chicago winter has broken the spirits of many. I want to lug around a big ol blanket and call it clothes. I am prioritizing comfort this year and that means wearing a comforter to work.

a scarf that looks like the pelt of a woolly mammoth draped upon the shoulders of the Are You Gonna Go My Way guy

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ivy @askylitocean.bsky.social · 9d

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Dept of evo ⚗️🔭🔮🪬🧿 @evo.ist · 9d

Join us on October 10th at Berkeley

luma.com/iqo3fqq9?tk=... AR VR XR meetup, demos, talks & more with XR Guild

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Siciliana Trevino @persistentmesh.bsky.social · 13d

Sorry! I just scroll here and occasionally like /reskeet your posts. 😂

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Les Pounder @biglesp.bsky.social · 13d

Raspberry Pi has released the new $200 (£180) Raspberry Pi 500+ which has a full mechanical RGB keyboard, 16GB of RAM and now features the Pi 500's missing NVMe.
I got my hands on a unit and wrote a review over at Tom's Hardware
www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi...
#raspberrypi

Comparison of Raspberry Pi 400, 500+ and 500

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Step Into Vision @stepinto.vision · 20d

We've curated a list of twenty-six features and APIs that every Apple Vision Pro developer should know. See what visionOS 26 can offer your apps.

#visionOS #AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing #SwiftUI #RealityKit

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Twenty-six of my Favorite Features and APIs in visionOS 26

A rapid-fire tour of some of the awesome things developers can use when building with visionOS 26.

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Step Into Vision @stepinto.vision · 21d

Shader Graph Tutorial: Feathered Edges by Le-Roy Karunaratne

Learn how to created feathered edges around a model by using view direction, normals, dot product, and power. This video takes us through each node on the graph and explains what they contribute to the material.

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Shader Graph Tutorial - Feathered Edges

YouTube video by Step Into Vision

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Siciliana Trevino @persistentmesh.bsky.social · 20d

Made my first gear vr music video app in 2016, my podcast is inspired by Start program, 2x Oculus launchpad participant, Horizon beta / creator program and I had zero interest this year, better off just buying stock than those glasses, truly. *not financial advice !

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20d

Painting by Sylvia Ken, Indigenous artist from the Amata community in South Australia, relates to the Seven Sisters creation story #WomensArt

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 21d

Some phrases are so well-known, you don't need to say the whole thing to be understood.

E.g., you can say "birds of a feather" without saying "flock together."

-“When life hands you lemons…”
-“Great minds…”
-“When in Rome…”

Such partial phrases are called 'anapodotons.'

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Reuters @reuters.com · 23d

We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU

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Siciliana Trevino @persistentmesh.bsky.social · 24d

I don’t think we need to know what he was thinking - he’s clearly lost what ever it is. He’s just a fundraising tool at this point

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Siciliana Trevino @persistentmesh.bsky.social · 24d

He’s more groyper than trans tho and it’s just been trans trans trans

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Profolus @profolus.com · 26d

An MIT report revealed that nearly 95% of enterprise generative AI pilot programs have failed to achieve measurable gains in revenue or productivity.

READ MORE: www.profolus.com/topics/mit-r...

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Siciliana Trevino @persistentmesh.bsky.social · 27d

It’s like when they thought people were turning mice trans

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Siciliana Trevino @persistentmesh.bsky.social · 29d

In YouTube comments his cult says it was recently forged, that if it was real dems would have released it during campaign.

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Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · Sep 8

📣 Submissions are NOW OPEN for the 2026 Independent Games Festival! 🎮

Submit your indie game by Oct. 8 to compete for awards in multiple categories. Make history at #GDC2026's premier indie event! #IGF2026 #IndieGames
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Submissions Now Open: Join the 2026 Independent Games Festival

The 28th annual Independent Games Festival is now accepting submissions. Join the celebration of indie game innovation at GDC 2026 and compete for prestigious awards across multiple categories.

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Siciliana Trevino @persistentmesh.bsky.social · Sep 6

Club pedo

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WIRED @wired.com · Sep 5

Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement

Anthropic will pay at least $3000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.

www.wired.com

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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · Sep 4

Some thoughts on what happens next as the CDC chaos intensifies:
open.substack.com/pub/damiani/...

Where Will All the CDC Chaos Take Us? Polycritical Foresight Analysis

An exercise to better understand how the upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might unfold, what it means for vaccines in the U.S., and possible responses.

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Siciliana Trevino @persistentmesh.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Skarredghost @skarredghost.bsky.social · Sep 3

$1750 is a lot of money, especially if no compelling use case is found. 1M units makes sense as a sales target.. but it means we are still talking about a niche device in 2027

Apple ‘Vision Air’ Rumored for 2027,Reportedly 40% Lighter and 50% Cheaper Than Vision Pro
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Apple ‘Vision Air’ Rumored for 2027, Reportedly 40% Lighter and 50% Cheaper Than Vision Pro

Independent supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo released a report claiming that Apple is gearing up to launch a cheaper and lighter version of Vision Pro in 2027, which is expected to be called ‘Vision ...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 3

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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