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George Wanfried
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A puzzle and tactics aficionado, interested in how programming, art, expression and the world all interact with one another.

I have a YouTube channel where I commentate over various video games: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChJfRYO1o4YYoqv5m7iIQtQ/
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rbreich.bsky.social
Today I want to share with you a statement by former federal judge Mark L. Wolf explaining why he resigned from the federal bench in early November. I found it sobering and troubling. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/winner-of-this-weeks-joseph-welch
December 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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jentranslations.bsky.social
AI is NOT inevitable. Keep not using it. Uninstall Copilot from your computer. Refuse to use programs bogged down with it. Complain loudly about it when they shove it into the programs you use. We can starve the slop machines.
karoline.bsky.social Karoline @karoline.bsky.social · 5d
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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rusty.todayintabs.com
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
carnage4life.bsky.social Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 7d
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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nightshade.technology
ordered food here. the server did 7 frame-perfect turnarounds in a row and launched themselves through the door speeding past my table at 700km/h but the plate was perfect. 5 star service, would eat here again
TAS restaurant
April 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
gwanfried.bsky.social
Things I'm more amused by than I probably should be, a thread:
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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annesh.no
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
Four articulated buses blocking each other in a roundabout making them stuck.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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kathke.com
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
davelevitan.bsky.social Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 10d
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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thesandwichman.bsky.social
Fun fact: November 28, 2001:

"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
reposting w/ alt text
A screenshot of the image in the quoted post that reads: irritatingly, the list of Al settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2026), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one): • browser.ml.enable • browser.ml.chat.enabled • browser.ml.chat.menu • browser.ml.chat.page • browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge • browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge • browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled • browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled • browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled • browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled • extensions.ml.enabled • browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate in addition to nuking Al, it'll also speed up your browsing
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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remargames.se
Here's a tutorial on how I make my wood textures for Quake!
A series of pictures describing the process of creating textures for the computer game Quake. Each picture is accompanied by white explanatory text.
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16d
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.

TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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zaratustra.bsky.social
pokemon drawn by a person that's never seen them from their bulbapedia descriptions pokemum5.wordpress.com
PokéMum
My mum knows nothing about Pokémon, but loves to draw. These are her renderings of Pokémon based on descriptions from Bulbapedia.
pokemum5.wordpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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kaasiand.cool
strong example of how low-res/low-fidelity graphics allow you to do so much more
mariobrothblog.bsky.social Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 19d
In Super Mario 64, parts of Lethal Lava Land are actually made out of leather, which simply appears to be stone due to the low resolution of the textures.
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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benprunty.bsky.social
Surprise! I just released FTL - Lost Ship EP, a small collection of never before published FTL music, including live tracks, music that was cut from the game, and an expanded piece I made in 2025 based on one of the originals.

benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/ftl-lo...
Album art for FTL - Lost Ship EP - featuring a spaceship, and crew members working at a control panel. The art is made to look like weathered, as though it was lost vinyl album discovered in a vintage store.
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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darktwinge.bsky.social
Well, at least that's one down?

THINGS TO ABOLISH
✔The Penny
❌Daylight Savings Time
❌The Electoral College
❌Lawns
❌Voting Registration
❌The Monarchy
❌Manually Filed Taxes
❌Cash Bail
❌Plurality Voting
❌Cars
❌The Death Penalty
❌The Nickel
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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innes.bsky.social
"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II

www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
10. The baby announcement At the end of a meeting, a colleague asked their boss to stay on the line for a couple of minutes. The colleague then confidentially shared the great news that they were expecting a baby, and they and their boss talked about a few next steps to plan for parental leave. The AI notetaker then sent out notes to everyone who had attended the meeting with the headline, “Colleague Is Having a Baby.” 19. The equipment I recently saw a ~$50,000 piece of industrial equipment damaged and taken out of commission for about a month because Google AI search told a worker that the tightening torque of a screw was 50 ft*lb instead of 50 in*lb. This resulted in them over-tightening the screw by a factor of 12, which unfortunately didn’t strip the threaded hole (which would have been a smaller problem) but instead warped a bearing assembly that required a full rebuild at considerable difficulty and expense. The kicker is that the correct torque value was clearly printed in the service manual that is stored in the machine. 1. The fake initiative Our execs usually send out a hype email right before the annual employee morale survey, emphasizing wins from the past year, basically trying to put people in a positive frame of mind. Last year’s included the announcement of a major new program we knew employees really wanted. But it was a bit surprising, because it fell in an area my team was responsible for, and we were out of the loop, despite advocating strenuously for this over the years. So I went to the exec to a) convey enthusiasm for his newfound dedication to launching this program and b) ask what support he needed from my team/get us involved again. It turned out the program wasn’t launching at all; he had just asked AI to edit the email to make it sound more exciting and appealing, and it had done so by … launching my initiative. 16. The scam We work with a lot of small businesses just starting up, and as a result are asked to recommend professional services often. Knowing this, a client passed on a discreet warning about the bookkeeping firm we’d recommended to them. They had issues with their accounting software, Quickbooks, and called for help. It was right when Google started providing AI summaries for everything, and apparently their account rep pulled the phone number for Quickbooks’ support out of the AI summary, rather than off the website. You can probably guess where this is going. The number wasn’t legit, but instead put him in contact with a scammer who’d managed astroturf their way into the AI summary. The account rep gave the scammer full access to our client’s accounting software before he realized his error. Our client didn’t share a lot of details about the damages — I got the sense that they were saying very little because they were planning legal action — but they wanted to let us know so we wouldn’t recommend them again.
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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standplaatskrk.pl
Commie Warlock (@CommieWarlock) on twitter: "humans really made up paper money and to give it value said it's value was based on a metal which also has a made up value and then convinced everyone again that those made up values are constantly decreasing and that they determine whether or not a child can eat"
November 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Generally speaking I don't want my items to be Futuristic, I want them to work
November 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
gwanfried.bsky.social
A text-search result in iTunes for multiple song titles. The search term "the future is" returns songs with the titles "The Future Is Ominous", "The Future Is Ours" and "The Future is Unclear", in that order.
November 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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johnlearned.bsky.social
Holy shit. @shmuplations.bsky.social translated a massive thread of old tweets from Hideo Yoshizawa that goes deep into the NES Ninja Gaiden's development, including finally confirming the Castlevania influence shmuplations.com/ninjagaiden/
Ninja Gaiden – Developer Commentary (2023) - shmuplations.com
Taken from a string of social media posts shared in 2023, these comments from director Hideo Yoshizawa recount the making of Tecmo's classic side-scrolling action game, Ninja Gaiden.
shmuplations.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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ricdesi.dpad.fm
Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:

• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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foone.bsky.social
for some reason back in 2017, I decided to make a website to make fake video game screenshots. This was a good idea and made a lot of people laugh.

Here's to the Death Generator, eight years and 270ish games later!

deathgenerator.com
A screenshot of a twitter post by @foone on October 26th, 2017. She posts "PQ2 death generator is live! make ol' Jim Walls say whatever you want." with a link to the site, and an included image: It's the death dialogbox from the Sierra adventure game Police Quest 2. It shows Jim Walls, a retired police officer, as a portrait on the left. The titlebar says "Jim shakes his head and says..." and there's "Restore", "Restart", "Quit" buttons. The text has been edited to read: "YOU CAN MAKE ME SAY THINGS ANYTHING YOU WANT i miss sierra games :("
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
gwanfried.bsky.social
stockpiling puns to be selectively deployed at later dates
October 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM