Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore

Devoted Husband & Father | CIO | Hobby Game Dev | StartingStrength NLP1 | Learning Woodworking | Good at home improvement | Space Nerd | Kindness, Not Hate

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Election maps need to be 3D in order to show population density for true accuracy.

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@Mike_BisonTX A remastered in the vein of the Windwaker remastered would be amazing

[StrengthEwa @StrengthEwa]

We’re not talking enough about steroids and what they actually cost I’m referring to a 26-year-old female competitor who just died. Steroids have been in this industry forever, even bikini girls run them, as we’ve seen again and again. That part isn’t new. What’s is and become the new normal, is the total abandonment of any restraint and limits.
Years ago people at least cycled. They understood that blasting the body 365 days a year destroys it. I’m not calling cycling healthy. I’m saying they still had some awareness that there are long-term consequences. That awareness is gone.
We live in the era of permanent narcissism. Everyone has to stay shredded, stage-lean, and camera-ready year-round for Instagram and TikTok. Constant low body fat, constant “bravo,” constant validation. No one is thinking about what their organs, hormones, or joints will look like in 15 years. Many of them won’t even make it that far.
And the audience is guilty too. You’re not impressed by a natural lifter pulling 150 kg. You need 250 kg. You need the freaky look. You reward the most unnatural physiques with attention, money, and status.
How impressive is any of it when it has nothing to do with health or sustainable training?
The recognition is real. So is the body count.
And sorry ladies (and men too) to bring it up to you but even your favorite blogger; 50 years old and shredded as hell most likely is on testosterone…

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

It’s our 57th birthday, and we only have one wish: that every child gets the chance to learn, grow, and thrive. Help make it come true and join our growing community of Sesame Heroes today: https://t.co/gV4eqFegCB

[Bleeding Heartland @LauraRBelin]

Iowa Republicans changed state law in 2021 to require all absentee ballots to arrive by 8 pm on election day. For decades, late-arriving ballots could be counted if postmarked before the election.

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

For 57 years, Sesame Street has welcomed all children to learn, play, and laugh with their favorite furry friends.

The neighborhood you love, bringing sunny days your way, now and always. Happy #SesameStreetDay!

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@revelfemme Four years to find out that he’s misogynistic fuckhead? What did they talk about for four years?
If this is real and not fiction, she needs to move back near her family tomorrow.

[.NET @dotnet]

🚀 Announcing .NET 11!

This release brings C# 15 union types, faster developer tools, hundreds of performance improvements, and new capabilities for web, mobile, desktop, and AI apps.

See what’s new and get started: https://t.co/GEpvJqG3Vd

[Blender 🔶 @Blender]

The Blender Foundation and the online community proudly present Blender 5.3 🎉

This release wraps up 2026 with new features and improvements across the board. Highlights include:

🔸 Native support for 3D Gaussian splats.
🔸 A new DLSS denoiser in the Viewport on NVIDIA GPUs.
🔸 Asset libraries can now be shared as extensions, and the Extensions platform accepts asset libraries containing public domain (CC0) assets.
🔸 A new optional Projects system makes Blender aware of context beyond the open .blend file, with project-wide features to match.
🔸 Dispersion and roughness anisotropy for glass and transmissive materials in Cycles.
🔸 New Material Lighting nodes and panoramic camera support in EEVEE.
🔸 A stack of effects for the Compositor, similar to Geometry Nodes modifiers.
🔸 Grease Pencil adds selection tools to Draw Mode, a new Carver tool that cuts shapes with proper boolean subtraction, and multi-fill for the Fill tool.
🔸 Animation & Rigging adds operators to copy and paste world-space animation and to convert rotation modes, along with friendlier playback.
🔸 A full ripple editing framework and a rewritten Blade tool in the Video Sequence Editor.

And more!

Explore the release notes for the full picture: https://t.co/LwTsIlV5Gj

#b3d #devfund

[Tommy Santos @tommysantos14]

When Trump leaves office:

The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department.

The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center.

The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico.

The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom.

Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired.

The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president.

Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference.

The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies.

The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists.

Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it.

The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters.

U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators.

And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

He lost the popular vote twice and underperformed Romney's vote percentage in both 2016 and 2020. Had the media done actual, hard hitting coverage of him the first time and Comey didn't decide to play God, he probably loses that race and is written off as a political footnote.

[Unity for Games @unitygames]

Unity 7 is coming 👀

From CoreCLR prep and URP graphics upgrades to MethodReload, here is how the Engine evolves into the next generation.

Which feature are you benchmarking first?

[omaha train guy @JoyceVondr16430]

If you voted for @RobSandIA tag him and tell him you want frequent commuter rail service across Iowa from Omaha & Lincoln, Nebraska to Chicago, Illinois

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@deltaozzi 2 second scene in Flight and dimly lit is only one i can recall in last decade

[⭕ Brock Pierson @brockpierson]

There’s an entire generation of people who have never experienced the emotional roller coaster of burning a CD and having it fail at 98.7%

[Yourfavtallboyy @fermsyishere]

JOE ROGAN: The computing power on your phone today. can you beat your phone at the highest level?

MAGNUS CARLSEN: No. No chance.

JOE ROGAN: That’s crazy. Wasn’t Deep Blue basically a whole stack of computers? And your phone is probably more powerful than that today.

MAGNUS CARLSEN: It’s shocking. I have no chance against my phone.

JOE ROGAN: So how do you even play against computers?

MAGNUS CARLSEN: I rarely play against engines because they just make me feel stupid and useless. I think of them more as a tool.

JOE ROGAN: But have computers actually changed how you understand chess?

MAGNUS CARLSEN: Absolutely. Neural networks have improved our understanding of the game immensely.

JOE ROGAN: What did you learn from them that humans weren’t already doing?

MAGNUS CARLSEN: One big thing was long-term king safety. Humans used to push pawns mainly as an attacking tool. But the engines showed that you could push a pawn and create a weakness 20 or 30 moves later that would make the opponent’s king less safe.

JOE ROGAN: So the computer basically showed you ideas that humans weren’t seeing.

MAGNUS CARLSEN: Exactly. There was a period where you could clearly see which players were using these new neural-network ideas and which weren’t.

JOE ROGAN: And you were one of the guys who figured it out early?

MAGNUS CARLSEN: Yeah. My coach got into it very quickly, and we gained an advantage over almost everybody.

JOE ROGAN: That’s insane. The machines aren’t just better at calculating, they’re actually teaching the best players how to think differently.

MAGNUS CARLSEN: That’s probably the biggest impact they’ve had on chess.

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@JessPected She will commit “suicide” in < 3 years from today. Her family has failed her

The thing that gets me, is this is/has occurred probably 10 million+ times in our history, we only know now with clarity because social media gives these women a voice

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX has officially announced that it is currently targeting November 13th at 5:45 PM ET for Starship's 15th flight.

Flight info:
"This flight is planned to be the first to return both Starship and Super Heavy to the launch site for catch. If successful, this will mark the first full recovery of an orbital launch system and a breakthrough moment in making Starship a reliable, rapidly reusable rocket."

• Flight will last more than 22 hours, completing approximately 14 orbits around Earth.
• Starship will orbit at an altitude of approximately 275 km (171 miles).
• First attempt to recover both Super Heavy and Starship at the launch site during the same mission.
• First return-to-launch-site and catch attempt for a Super Heavy V3 booster.
• Super Heavy will execute launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and return to Starbase for a tower catch.
• Starship will deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites into orbit before attempting its first return to Starbase and tower catch.
• The 26 satellites will provide capacity equivalent to approximately 10 Falcon 9 launches carrying Starlink V2 Mini satellites.
• Satellites will deploy antennas and solar arrays, establish radio and laser communications, and raise their orbits using onboard thrusters.
• Satellites could begin serving customers within weeks of launch following successful on-orbit checkouts.
• Three Starlink V3 satellites will carry cameras to inspect Starship's heatshield and transmit imagery to ground operators.
• Starship's heatshield will feature improved tile retention, additional protection against plasma intrusion, and expanded use of curved tiles to reduce heating between tiles.
• Starship will only attempt its return and catch if critical reentry, landing burn, and tower approach systems are confirmed healthy.
• Multiple predetermined ocean deorbit locations and a passively safe suborbital trajectory provide contingency options.
• A successful mission would mark the first complete recovery of an orbital launch system, a major milestone toward rapid reusability.

More info: https://t.co/PxrUMYLkOv

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

No way

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX revenue this quarter alone will be substantially higher than NASA’s entire annual budget!