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Seamus Blackley

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Them: You're the father of the xbox! Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent. theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · Apr 30

I’m in England, in a field of Barley. Today, I’m going to collect wild yeast under that tree back there, and I’m going to show how to feed and grow it until it’s ready to bake with. We are going to start at the very beginning, and end at the end.

(this is an experiment in thread transfer)

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 1h

Love the omax - so quiet.

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David Brooks @dgbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

Gap of Dunloe, near Killarney National Park, Ireland
#RockInTuesday
#EastCoastKin

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 21h

Oh damn.

Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 21h

When I write it in English I’m thinking of the glyphs.

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3qu...

The Obsolete Man (BEST)

YouTube video by MIndMattersMost

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 1d

God damn. And Pauli.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 2d

Do the homework. It’s a bummer maybe at first but then look hey you actually know something and can use it.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 2d

Do the homework. It’s a bummer maybe at first but then look hey you actually know something and can use it.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 3d

Love this.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 5d

The irony.

☆「ＹＡＳＥ」IdolismJ ☆ @idolismj.yase.world · 5d

I think @pizzadinosaur.fineti.me had the best read on this during this week's @fineti.me when he said Xbox has "Dreamcast'd themselves"

Meaning; it doesn't matter what they do anymore. Even if their next move is somehow awesome, they are being crushed by years of bad decisions and failures

Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 6d

I don't think Xbox reverses this fwiw.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 5d

The irony.

☆「ＹＡＳＥ」IdolismJ ☆ @idolismj.yase.world · 5d

Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 6d

I don't think Xbox reverses this fwiw.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 5d

There it is. You’re late.

Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 5d

The exception, etc.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 6d

Here's what everyone is saying about Sora. Of note: several OpenAI employees have posted about their concerns with the product www.platformer.news/sora-2-react...

It makes OpenAI employees nervous. One of the more surprising reactions to the launch came from OpenAI's own employees, several of whom arched an eyebrow about the company's latest product. "AI-based feeds are scary," posted John Hallman, who works on pretraining at the company. "I won't deny that I felt some concern when I first learned we were releasing Sora 2. That said, I think the team did the absolute best job they possible could in designing a positive experience." (Here's a funny response to that one.)

"I share a similar mix of worry and excitement," responded Boaz Barak, a member of OpenAI's technical staff. "Sora 2 is technically amazing but it’s premature to congratulate ourselves on avoiding the pitfalls of other social media apps and deepfakes."

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 5d

This is a gateway drug to “why do cars have 4,6 or 8 cylinders?”

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 6d

@eve6.bsky.social hey! Do you have contact info for Greg W? I’m feeling nostalgic. ❤️❤️❤️

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · Mar 2

I've been beaten into a state of not caring how corny I sound. Kindness is love and love is the only thing that matters. Be kind to people. Also listen to CDs

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 7d

May she journey forever amongst the imperishable stars.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 7d

May she journey forever amongst the imperishable stars.

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 7d

I've released my circa 1990 macross.asm assembly code add on that allows for structured assembly code to be written. Still have to add some documentation for exten.asm as well, but you can get what it does from the example (which is from Metropolis) - github.com/zaphodgjd/ma...

GitHub - zaphodgjd/macross

Contribute to zaphodgjd/macross development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 7d

Mark this day. ❤️

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 8d

Aww man, Smoot died.

One of my dad's small points of pride that he handed a very special bottle of photoresist under the table as "test sample" to a pair of researchers who were never gonna order industrial quantities, but was enough to make COBE's detectors. news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/29/n...?

Nobelist George Smoot, whose satellite experiments validated the Big Bang theory, dies at 80 - Berkeley News

Smoot, a physicist at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab, shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting minute temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background, a prediction of the Big Bang ...

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 8d

Indeed. 🧐

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laura vilas @lauravilas.bsky.social · 8d

Diego Rivera. Dos mujeres, 1914

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 8d

Jesus Randall.

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