Selfish Bunn

Self Care and Self Preserve | Life loving Individual

Apolitical atheist, techno-pacifist.

Science | Space | Robots | Anime | AI

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

The obsession of religious people with validating their beliefs through reinterpretation is frustrating. Their books are often filled with contradictions to science, yet if even one thing sounds similar, they use it as validation.

[Blender 🔶 @Blender]

What’s new in Blender 5.2 LTS Beta? These features are worth trying first:

🔸 Cycles texture cache - Cut memory use and startup time on texture-heavy scenes.
🔸 Hair/Cloth dynamics - Node-based physics simulations powered by Geometry Nodes entered the chat.
🔸 Online Asset Library - Host libraries remotely, browse them inside Blender, and download assets on demand.
🔸 Loop Tools - Circle, space, and flatten from the beloved add-on, now built into Blender.
🔸 Rendering – new Thin Wall mode in Principled BSDF is here to render leaves, paper and other meshes with minimal thicknesses in a more photoreal way.
🔸 Geometry Nodes - New Bevel node, Geometry bundles, lists, a new Sample Sound node to pull frequency data from audio, Empty objects now support Geometry Nodes and so much more.
🔸 Grease Pencil - A brand new Fill tool and updated brush library.

📖 Check the full menu in the release notes: https://t.co/oMboW65Lhf

Support future Blender development: https://t.co/FXPZoCvaPt 🧡

#b3d

[Cartesian Caramel @Cartesian_C]

The Mesh Bevel node has been added to Blender 5.2 #b3d #geometrynodes

[Pavlo Molchanov @PavloMolchanov]

What if you could take three completely different model families… and distill them into one tiny model? 🤯

📜 Paper: https://t.co/K2iKD4xFvp

MOPD (Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation) has become a standard procedure in post-training. We already distill multiple specialized variants of the same model into a single set of weights.
But what if we could go further - and distill models from entirely different families? Turns out, it is possible.

Today we’re releasing a paper on cross-tokenizer distillation - our first steps in this exciting direction. 📄

We distilled Qwen3-4B, Phi-4-Mini, and Llama-3B into Llama-3.2-1B.
MMLU jumped from 32.05 → 46.32 when using multiple teachers. 📈

The team is now working on Nemo-RL integration so the community can try this method in their own settings. Plus, we are scaling experiments up. 🚀

[👋 Jan @jandotai]

Jan now connects to any Anthropic-compatible endpoint, from LiteLLM to Bedrock proxies to self-hosted Claude gateways. Update your Jan to v0.8.1. https://t.co/8d8Grp4lVE

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

This hurts to watch, it's such a beautiful rocket. The only good takeaway is that it's a learning experience.

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Blue Origin's New Glenn just blew up at LC-36 while attempting to Static Fire ahead of NG-4.

https://t.co/tANS0dWyIH

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

@kmh @Flight2Starship @Starship_20 So

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

new gmail logo looks better

[Amaan @amaan8429]

billion dollar companies keep hiring designers to ruin their logos.

What is the reason for this ?

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

Movement shooters are my bread and butter.

[MayorReynoldsTV @MayorReynoldsTV]

I had the chance to test @PlayEmpulse, the next game from the @Splitgate team and can confirm that it is very Titanfall inspired. I will have a video up shortly sharing what I played and know about the game.

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

We pretend we like art based on "objective beauty," but it’s mostly just a placebo effect. Strip away the context, the clout, and the perceived effort, and half of art appreciation is just social theater.

[𒐪 @SHL0MS]

i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI

please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

I don't care who wrote it, if I like it, I like it.

[David Pfau @pfau]

I just wrote a novel that is word-for-word identical to Don Quixote. Please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Cervantes novel.

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

Looks like a promising game

[1047 Games @1047Games]

We wanted to share EMPULSE on our own terms, but leaks happen. We knew the risk and took it anyway, because getting real feedback early matters more to us than a perfect reveal.

We're a team that loves movement shooters, and we’re putting that passion into EMPULSE, a brand new 6v6 movement shooter. Our goal from day one is to build EMPULSE with our community, and incorporate your feedback as we go.

We’ll have more to share on EMPULSE soon. In the meantime, come along for the journey, and help us build the best game possible.

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

Ever heard of Occam’s razor? The simplest explanation is usually reality. It takes zero assumptions to believe a software update glitched, because software breaks every day. It takes massive mental gymnastics to believe it’s a coordinated political plot.

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

Tech platforms have glitches literally every day, but when one happens near an election, suddenly it's a massive plot. You guys really have no concept of coincidence.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

How convenient for this "technical issue" to happen right before LA's election

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

It is wild how people will act like mindless zombies instead of understanding that claims actually require proof. If your only 'evidence' is assuming that easily verifiable facts are part of a hijacked matrix, your claim goes straight in the trash.

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

@windshieldsvr @rahimfaid1 @packers_owner_j @gomiam @TechTranslate_G This is getting annoying at this point. It's like he is purposely ignoring important parts of the argument.

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

@windshieldsvr @rahimfaid1 @packers_owner_j @gomiam @TechTranslate_G Bro, I told him at least 10 times that planes don't need to nose down to accommodate curvature, but every time it goes over his head.

[Cartesian Caramel @Cartesian_C]

Tearing the fabric of space #b3d #geoemtrynodes (Blender 5.2 cloth sim)

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

@Not_yourpilot @rahimfaid1 @windshieldsvr @TechTranslate_G What he's basically doing is showing a microscopic image of a basketball and asking why I can't see the curve.

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

@rahimfaid1 @gomiam @packers_owner_j @windshieldsvr @TechTranslate_G I'll do you one better: I made this 3D scene in Blender to show you how reality works.

[Selfish Bunn @SelfishPriority]

@rahimfaid1 @gomiam @packers_owner_j @windshieldsvr @TechTranslate_G