Xaekai

The Radiant Feather, operator of and related services. Autodidact with expertise in bees, brewing, cuisine, equines, and tech.

[Xaekai @Xaekai]

It's come to my attention that all existing copies of DYE - Fantasy available online are in 720p. I happen to have a rip of the original 1080p release, so here it is.

For all you whose childhood was ruined by this freaky music video, time for some nostalgia.

[˚⋆Violet💜Force⋆˚ @violetforce_01]

In the name of Kung-Fu she will punish you!

#Leafan #Palworld #fanart #sailormoon #smallartist

[Xaekai @Xaekai]

@yunayuispink You should do the low cortisol dance meme with her.

[Para @Para919]

500 years ago today, Beretta was founded.

[Andre Williams @andrewilliamsus]

Now this is Black excellence

She’s not twerking

She’s wearing her natural hair

She’s actually doing something that is talented and that she can learn from

[Expose H1B Fraud @JobsNowPaper]

This proves that a lot of people would rather fight and argue on X than actually submit a public comment where it can make a difference.

Total Comments: 10,648
Comments opposing regulation: 9,145
Comments supporting regulation: 1,192

Wow. I honestly can’t believe this. We will lose on this regulation too.

Comment here ;
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[torture enthusiast @rex_felium]

just saw a really awesome postcard

[✧Katoda✧ @katoda_art]

done commission☆︎
#pony #digitalartㅤㅤㅤㅤ

[Xaekai @Xaekai]

@bloostarproto @kvxart pls rember happy day

[N-o-N @Courgette_zone]

Draco Marefoid

[✧ 𝗦 𝗣 𝗔 𝗜 𝗖 𝗬 ✧ @Spaicy_Project]

Best art advice you'll ever get

[Xaekai @Xaekai]

@BuyDirectUSA Hey @grok I'm in the market for a new set of tableware. Fact check this story. Is Liberty Tabletop a good vendor to look at? How does the quality compare to Acopa?

[The Buy American Movement - BuyDirectUSA ❤️🇺🇸 @BuyDirectUSA]

In 2005, Oneida shut the flatware factory in Sherrill, New York.

A town that had made silverware for MORE THAN 100 YEARS was supposed to be finished.

Two men refused to let that happen.

Their names are Matt Roberts and Greg Owens.

Roberts had managed that factory. Owens was another former Oneida manufacturing manager. When the company ended U.S. production, they bought the plant and the equipment and reopened it the NEXT DAY as Sherrill Manufacturing.

They did not have a giant rescue fund.
They did not have a Hollywood ending waiting.
They had a building, some machines, and a workforce that knew how to make forks, knives, and spoons.

At first they kept making product for Oneida.

Then Oneida pulled the remaining American work and sent it overseas.

That should have been the end.

It wasn’t.

They took government flatware contracts to keep the lights on. In 2010 they filed Chapter 11. They sold unused equipment. They sold space they could no longer fill. They leased back only the part of the factory they could still run.

They came out of bankruptcy in 2013.

Then they did the thing that saved the company.

They built their own brand: Liberty Tabletop.

They sold 18/10 stainless flatware straight to customers who wanted tableware MADE IN THE UNITED STATES.

Not through a department store that could drop them overnight.
Direct.

Today Liberty Tabletop is the only company still manufacturing stainless steel flatware in America.

Same town.
Same trade.
U.S. steel.
About 70 jobs.

They did not bring back 2,000 workers. Nobody did.

What they saved was the last line.

If you want American-made forks and spoons, this is the factory that still makes them.

Support Liberty Tabletop.
THIS is what keeping manufacturing in America actually looks like. 🇺🇸

[TONY @TonyMichaelX]

“Huge migrant caravan headed towards the US southern border.”

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

Yes, I am bigoted against incompatible immigrants.

If your culture compels you to haggle at Costco, throw trash in our rivers, or refuse to shake the hand of a guy who fixes septic tanks, I am bigoted against you.

[Xaekai @Xaekai]

@KrisVectors can't* throw all that out the window*

Your response to this melanin enriched agitator was painful to read.

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

Experience gives perspective. Programming is not dead, and never will be.

It's late September 2026. Sometime in September 1976, just after I entered college, I wrote and ran my first serious program. I have now been a programmer for literally 50 years.

And man, I have seen it *all*. Punched cards to glass ttys on minicomputers to workstations to the earliest micros. I've written business software, communication programs, development tools, games, language implementations, kernel device drivers, graphics libraries, a few critical pieces of infrastructure, and all manner of odd programs for which there is no taxonomy. Coded in a score of languages some of which are now forgotten. I've run over 70 open-source projects and contributed to at least as many more.

Along the way I noticed a few things, and wrote about them, and that made me famous. But I'm not here to write about that today. I'm here to write about what it means to be a programmer and a technologist with the Singularity upon us.

I have lost count of the number of times I have been told "programming is over". You kids may think this is a new claim that came into the world with LLMs. Hah! There's been that kind of talk at every step function in the quality of our programming tools. I first heard it when compilers were replacing hand-hacked assembler in the early 1980s, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if somebody said it earlier when in-memory code replaced plugboards.

One constant amidst all this change is that the intentions in a user's head do not magically turn into executable instructions that a computer can run. Another constant is the mindset of the people who specialize in bridging the gap between wish and algorithm. A programmer is a programmer is a programmer - the tools are secondary.

"But it's different this time!" some people will say, "AIs are superhuman now!" So? What did you think the optimization stage of a compiler was, chopped liver? We've been relying on tools that exceeded human capabilities all along - we built them precisely because our meatbrains could not otherwise keep up with the demands of the job.

It's been a hell of a ride, that 50 years. I've succeeded and failed and succeeded again. Done a lot of work I'm proud of. Built at least a few things that look like they're going to last. None of that goes away because, hypothetically, an AI might have made me faster.

The work is never done, even if the tools can talk to us now. Because intentions still have to be communicated; people who specialize in that and develop right mindset to do it still have a major advantage over people who don't.

If you're feeling depressed because you spent years or decades developing hand-coding skills that are obsolete now? Buck up. You still have the most important asset - a mind that knows how to think that way.

I'm facing the winds of the Singularity with a smile. Because 50 years and I'm still standing - still shipping code that people can use, still learning, still refusing to be paralyzed by the pace of change.

The best therapy for your uncertainty? Get to work on something.

[Xaekai @Xaekai]

@lordvictor People think EBT is a welfare subsidy, but it's not. EBT is a farmer subsidy.

That's why no one in the gov cares, it does it's job.

Mountains of chips and soda? Boxed cereal? Thats taters, grains, and corn, the exact thing targeted. It's on target with superb accuracy.

[Xaekai @Xaekai]

@nodedotshane @kanavtwt Mullvad is a great VPN, but not in this context. It's bad for torrents. You need one that lets you forward at least one port.

[Eights 🐾🤍 @88probs]

By popular demand, I present to you.. my magnum opus.