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Provincial social observer. Powered by spiders.

[Aesther @AestherML]

This is a Zebrafish

It has the same amount of Synapses as Qwen 3.8 27B but lacks the ability to one-shot Minecraft in Three.js

Disappointing

[log4j @log4j]

hey babe wake up, the samsung tv has more models running internally than anthropic.

(found on @SauceVir’s 2026 samsung tv)

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

liz warren: we’re gonna stop the mayonnaise company from buying a hot sauce company

elon musk:

[TheHuntForTomClancy @HuntClancy]

@ElenaWicker might be smart to get that pressure double checked by an NCO immediately

[2022 Heisman Winner @vj_v_]

I have yet to see Lebron do this

[EggBlunt 🦃 @SigmaGooner]

Can’t believe this shit

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

significant conservation efforts mean that Boeings have returned to Washington state to spawn new airplanes for the first time in decades

[smit @itsoksmit]

God was the first vibe coder.

“Let there be light.”

No design doc. No tests. No staging environment. Just shipped the universe directly to production.

[Paul S. Conyngham @paul_conyngham]

My dog Rosie was given months to live. Chemo and immunotherapy failed

I used chatgpt + computational genomics to design a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for her tumour. Several of her tumours shrank

Today we launch Gamgee (YC S26): personalised mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs

[John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen]

While Obama, Hillary, and Panetta were at Andrews AFB on September 14, 2012 putting on the dignified transfer show for our brothers…

The Annex team and DS team was still in Germany. We got left there on purpose so we couldn’t be at that ceremony.

When we landed at Ramstein, the USO was waiting on the tarmac. They knew we left everything behind in Benghazi, so they had clothes, shoes, socks, and toiletries set up for us.
The Tripoli Embassy people who had all their luggage and plenty of time to pack went through the line first. As we sat there just watching, they took every last damn thing. Socks, Underwear, Pants, Toothpaste, Toothbrushes, Mouthwash, all of it. Looked like flies hoarding on a fresh pile of shit. They couldn’t get to the stuff fast enough. Nothing left for the guys who still had blood on their boots.

As the whole team from Benghazi just sat there looking at these flies, the @The_USO team came up, talked to us, and asked if we were the guys from Benghazi. They left and came back with a couple hundred bucks each on a card so we could go buy clothes and toiletries the next morning, thank GOD!

We got debriefed again in Germany and asked if we wanted to talk to the FBI. We looked at each other this was a terrorist attack. The military should be handling it, not treating it like some criminal case.

We learned about the ceremony and had to watch that whole thing from Germany. Then once their ceremony was over, they came to us and said, “You can go home now… but you got to find and buy your own plane ticket back.”

We watched the whole “it was a video protest that turned into a riot” lie from Germany as well and knew every word of it was bullshit.
That’s what we were doing while they put on the show.
Never forget.
Never stop telling the truth.
#alwaysmoveforward #benghazi #tig #13hours

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

https://t.co/j58CYkil13
Man attempts to behead another man in the street.

"No evidence of terror at this stage, say police"

If that isn’t terror, what is? How much more terrifying does it need to be to qualify as terror?

[Stoke Space @stoke_space]

Sneak peek inside our Stage 1 tank, putting the finishing touches on our integration campaign.🤩 Next week, this flight article will ship to our test site in Moses Lake, WA for protoqualification testing. Enjoying the views at Kent while it lasts!

[Barrett @SledgeDev]

How it felt to be a software developer before ai.

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

Today I let my family down.

I’ve worked for years, confident that whatever life threw at me I’d be able to tackle.

If my family needs it, I’ll provide.

Today my wife needed a cord. I confidently marched to my stash. 5v, 12, 19v 24v, even the obscure 27v. I have it all

I was not ready for the curve ball life threw at me. 5v 6.5amp. Such high amps, so low volts.

I came up empty. Cord guys I need your help. Was this all for nothing?

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

@Keir_Starmer I don’t think you’re on my side

[Parimal @Fintech03]

In 1966, a B-52 collided with a tanker over Palomares, Spain, dropping 4 hydrogen bombs. 3 were found on land; 1 vanished into the Mediterranean. The US Navy spent months searching with no luck.

​They called in a mathematician named John Craven, who ignored the expert search grids. Instead, he used Bayes' Theorem.

​He asked various salvage experts to bet on different scenarios (e.g., "What is the likelihood the parachute deployed?"). He treated their guesses as Priors. As the submersibles searched areas & found nothing (Evidence), he used the formula to update the probability map.

​The bomb was found exactly where the Bayesian map said it would be, an area the expert searchers had previously dismissed as highly unlikely.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

NASA Artemis passing close to the Moon

[自衛隊医官だった人@ハイライトも見てってよ @AiPinfu2003]

@EdwardBrode ホルムズ海峡が貴方の肛門くらい緩かったらいいのに。
我々はもうガス欠です。

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You’re watching a game that took 2,000 people eight years to build. Some of them are still dealing with what it cost them.

Red Dead Redemption 2 started production in 2010, right after the first game came out. Rockstar merged every studio it owned across five countries into one team. By the end, roughly 2,000 people had touched the project, and the budget landed somewhere between $370 million and $540 million, making it one of the most expensive entertainment products ever created.

The numbers inside the game are hard to process. 300,000 individual animations (every hand movement, every horse gallop, every raindrop reaction). 500,000 lines of voiced dialogue spread across 1,200 actors. Recording those performances took 2,200 days in a motion capture studio, where actors wear sensor suits so their movements translate directly into the game. The main story script was about 2,000 pages. Dan Houser, Rockstar’s co-founder, said if you stacked every script in the game, including random people walking around town, the pile would be eight feet tall. Even background characters you’d never talk to had 80-page scripts each, about the length of a short film screenplay for a character with zero plot importance. The composer wrote 60 hours of original music. Most players hear about a third of it.

The level of detail borders on insane. Horse testicles shrink when the weather gets cold. Your character gains weight if he eats too much, loses stamina if he doesn’t eat enough. Guns degrade without cleaning. Rockstar’s studio co-head Rob Nelson explained the logic: every tiny detail you don’t consciously notice makes you forget you’re inside a game. Stack enough of those moments and you get something no other studio has matched.

That immersion had a price. In October 2018, Dan Houser told New York Magazine the team had been working “100-hour weeks” multiple times that year. He later clarified that was four senior writers over three weeks. But when Kotaku’s Jason Schreier interviewed 77 current and former Rockstar employees, the picture was wider. Nobody hit 100 hours, but many averaged 55 to 60 per week for months at a time. That’s six 10-hour days, often with weekend shifts too. Most were salaried with no overtime pay, their only extra compensation tied to year-end bonuses that depended on how well the game sold.

Multiple developers described depression and anxiety during and after production. One told Kotaku they’d been “pushed further into depression and anxiety than I had ever been.” Others reported breakdowns and heavy drinking. Kotaku noted some of the worst stories couldn’t be published because the people involved would’ve been identifiable.

The game made $725 million in three days, the second-biggest entertainment launch in history. It has now sold over 82 million copies, won more than 175 Game of the Year awards, and is the fourth best-selling video game ever made. Every frame of that clip was paid for, one way or another.

[Duca @big_duca]

“Dude did you vibe code this slop? This feature sucks!”

Been getting this more recently.

And no, I didn't “vibe” it.

Did you ever consider, for one single second…

That I might just be retarded?

And I wrote this organic slop myself?