Arkady Hutton
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Arkady Hutton
@socialbuttercup.bsky.social
Science Fiction/Fantasy fan, programmer, Aussie. He/Him.
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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I am in awe. The folks at ReBoot ReWind have done something astonishing. A remarkable feat of engineering, ingenuity and love. Check it out and give them some ReBooty love in return.

youtu.be/L00jx-GH2w8?...
WE SAVED REBOOT
YouTube video by ReBoot ReWind
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December 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
www.nature.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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traffic
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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ladies and gentlemen, here is the cause of the breakdown in the relationship between one of history's top classical composers and one of history's most important philosophers:
November 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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One month out from the under-16s ban and almost all of the users caught up in the Discord data breach caused by age assurance appeals were based in Australia, OAIC has finally confirmed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
November 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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I am woefully bug ignorant and today I saw a woolly bear caterpillar like ive seen a thousand times and realized I knew nothing about it. Looked it up on Wikipedia and oh my god did everyone else know this??
October 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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this is super cool, @zophar.bsky.social talking to the guy who made the emulator most of us used in the dark ages, the iconic ZSNES www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG-o...
How ZSNES Changed SNES Emulation Forever | Interview with the Creator
YouTube video by Zophar
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too.

can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator
a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower
more like no thoughts to declare
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October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
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September 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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new baby hippo in kanas named mars!!!!
August 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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taking my 17yo into the voting booth with me to teach him how to vote because he’ll be voting in the next one

if he sasses me at any point between now and then i’m gonna vote below the line
May 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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All of these spoke to me, deeply.
April 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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ネコ飛出し注意 (neko tobidashi chūi) Means “watch for cats darting out” and I love this sign.
April 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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So Kate Lyons and @nickevershed.bsky.social seem to have cracked the mystery of the exporting penguins and the non-existent Norfolk Island exports

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Not that Norfolk! Mislabelled shipments led to Trump tariffs on uninhabited islands and remote outposts with no US trade
Exclusive: Aquarium systems, Timberland boots and recycling plant parts were mislabelled as coming from remote Norfolk Island or Heard and McDonald islands
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Amazingly talented fediverse astrophotographers: gorgeous, perfectly exposed and processed telescope images

Me, a professional astronomer: accidentally points a 4 meter telescope at Saturn for a series of 5 minute exposures
March 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Bureau of Meteorology is failing to maintain its weather observing system despite hundreds of millions in extra funding explicitly for that purpose, diverting those funds to cover cost blowouts elsewhere. Now it's $152 million in the hole as systems fail. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...
Exclusive: BoM diverted hundreds of millions to cover cost blowouts
Tanya Plibersek has sought an ‘urgent briefing’ on the management of the Bureau of Meteorology after it was revealed it was using hundreds of millions of dollars in maintenance funds to cover cost ove...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
January 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Okay well, here's a picture of Moo Deng eating ramen ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
January 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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In one of the strangest chapters of my life, I spent several months in the trenches of Big Headlight, looking to understand just how and why headlights became brighter than the sun. Answers, graphs, penis sketches—it's all here, on the brand new Ringer site:
www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...
Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars
The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industr...
www.theringer.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.
December 4, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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It's after Halloween but whatever!
Watercolor sphynx witch and friend!
Original sold years ago.... I really want to do more traditional paintings again!
#art
November 20, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Oh.

Wow.
The thing about the Kobayashi Maru
“The thing about the Kobayashi Maru,” said Jim, “is you have to remember it’s a simulation.”
medium.com
November 17, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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closely related to a key insight in one of my fav underdiscussed books, "Collaborative Circles": members of historically notable collaborative circles have tended to form especially high-trust pairs & work within these pairs to develop ideas before presenting them to the wider group
November 18, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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throwback to this lil legend 🌿
October 18, 2024 at 11:53 AM