Steven N Bell

I am a semi-retired electrical worker. That's it.
I look at more stuff than I touch now days (lucky y'all).
We energize stuff.

[Steven N Bell @FlattedDuckFoot]

A copperhead decided the flower bed was a good spot for him.
This guy didn't like to be handled.
Not at all.
He's ready to strike.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Get used to it. Pilgrimages to Moscow and state TV spots. Ukraine is doing well. “The spirit of Anchorage” is no more. And the Russians who never trusted the U.S. to begin with, even under Trump, are looking to stir trouble in the MAGA-verse. A Western intel source told me Malofeev will be involved in this at the financial level. https://t.co/bTyZLFYSUY

[Steven N Bell @FlattedDuckFoot]

@TheChrisHinkle @fred_burton @FXRegan I'd throw MY panties at Tom Jones.
Just sayin.

[Shashank Joshi @shashj]

“Including in Ukraine”

Conspiracy theory masquerading as intelligence.

[Germania Rodriguez Poleo @iamGermania]

This escalated from “I just wanna help people and fellow addicts” quite quickly,… who could have possibly guessed it!

[Christo Grozev @christogrozev]

Incredible. Publishing what appears to be (if you care to read the "evidence") a totally legitimate US program, and even citing the risks of these being used as "Russian information campaigns", Tulsi Gabbard - the gift that kept giving - presents the Kremlin with yet one more information operation.
Read our investigation from 2025 where we presented evidence that the hybrid ops unit of GRU's 29155 came up with the whole "bio-labs" concept - and co-opted Tulsi into it. https://t.co/D8qdE38ahv

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

One last post from Tulsi to help Russia.

Why would the Director of National Intelligence make a post about secret American activities? And she also does it in a dishonest way that is designed to help Russian disinformation.

We know where her loyalties lie

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

Jesus’s strongest rebukes were for those religious leaders who used the words of God to crush and control humanity.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A GUY AT GOOGLE DEEPMIND MADE AN ISOMETRIC PIXEL-ART MAP OF NEW YORK CITY AND PUT IT ON THE OPEN WEB FOR FREE

it's called https://t.co/8fAASvEmXT

you open the tab and the city is just sitting there in classic SimCity 2000 isometric pixel art. you scroll. and it keeps going. and going.

i zoomed in on midtown and i could read the H&M signage in times square. in red. as actual pixel-art letters on the side of a building.

i could see the crystalline spire of the Bank of America Tower poking out of a clump of skyscrapers. individual rooftop HVAC units. tiny green roof gardens. the little driveway loops in front of the hotels.

he estimates the map needs roughly 40,000 tiles. nothing is a placeholder.

the guy who made it is Andy Coenen, a senior staff engineer at Google DeepMind. he is not a pixel artist. by his own admission he is "a former electronic musician."

what he actually did is kind of insane:

> pulled NYC's geometry from the Google Maps 3D tiles API

> fine-tuned an open-source image model (Qwen-Image-Edit) on ~40 hand-paired examples of "satellite tile → pixel art tile"

> spun up 50 parallel instances on rented GPUs and generated tens of thousands of tiles in a few hours

> the fine-tune cost him 12 bucks

his own stated mission for the project, verbatim, is one sentence: "what's possible now that was impossible before?"

apparently the answer is "one engineer can pixel-art most of a metropolis for the price of a sandwich."

and the wildest part to me is he didn't sell it. no signup. no paywall. no NFT. you open the URL and the city is yours to wander.

the post landed at 1,325 points on Hacker News and topped bestofshowhn's 2026 list.

we live in a timeline where a senior engineer at one of the largest AI labs on earth spent his nights pixel-arting Manhattan for fun and then gave it away.

the internet is healing.

[Ryan Mauro @ryanmauro]

🚨EXCLUSIVE:

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE APPEARS ON RUSSIAN STATE MEDIA

Former congresswoman MTG steps up to the plate to help Russia’s influence operations

Here she is being interviewed by Russian government propagandist & State Duma MP Yevgeny Popov for State TV channel Russia 1/Russia 24.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Also, the US acquired the pulse microwave device from the Russians and it works the way the IC expert panel posited such a device would work. https://t.co/pT00N0DKfx

[Steven N Bell @FlattedDuckFoot]

"Expect to see more of this realignment, with Malofeev financing. They’ll position this as the authentic MAGA, even though it only serves a hostile foreign adversary’s interests."

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

The Russians see the defectors from Trump’s movement — Owens, MTG, Massie and Carlson — as a political insurgency worth cultivating because rapprochement with the U.S. has failed and Ukraine is not only surviving but thriving. Even Vance, Russia’s best hope for 2028, is looking a busted flush as Rubio’s popularity rises. Expect to see more of this realignment, with Malofeev financing. They’ll position this as the authentic MAGA, even though it only serves a hostile foreign adversary’s interests.

[Steven N Bell @FlattedDuckFoot]

@WHFBell The ultimate goal is to work from $100 to $400 buy in tournaments, then drive a rental to AZ and see my son. I would love to grab my things in AZ and help him drive me across the country back to Mississippi. He will get his drivers license in August!
https://t.co/BX94xaOd0L

[Steven N Bell @FlattedDuckFoot]

@WHFBell If we cash in anything we go to Vegas.
https://t.co/P3f96pvQTi

[Steven N Bell @FlattedDuckFoot]

@WHFBell The 1st will be cheap n easy. The fund will only need about 400-500 to start.

[Steven N Bell @FlattedDuckFoot]

@Sofia50020Sofia This is utterly brilliant.

[Steven N Bell @FlattedDuckFoot]

@Psidli @MorEdge_Insight The cat is much more interested in FOOD when hungry than you. If there is no FOOD, GTFO.
A Tomcat will tell you the same thing. By acting crazy as hell bouncing all over, scratching shit, knocking shit off table, he's not going to eat you but he wants out!

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Really cool slow-mo clip.

This tiger sees the meat, takes a couple steps, and boom… massive jump to catch it. The way he dangles and twists is wild. His partner just watches from the path.

Definitely one of the better animal videos I’ve seen lately.

[Steven N Bell @FlattedDuckFoot]

@Sofia50020Sofia This particular AI depiction is absolutely no.

[Steven N Bell @FlattedDuckFoot]

Vikings.

[Steven N Bell @FlattedDuckFoot]

@BlueyAnon @davidfrum Oh.
We've all been unwitting at points in our lives, whether we see it or not. Maybe not to exactly this. The subtleties amplify effectiveness.