Sean Barrett
@nothings.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 ally, BLM, gamedev (Thief, Promesst), Indie Game Jam cofounder, popularized C header-file-only libs w/stb. he/him
Larry, I'm on DuckTales.
https://nothings.org
Larry, I'm on DuckTales.
https://nothings.org
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As I’m sure you already know, the Edmund Fitzgerald met her doom 50 years ago today. In honor of this somber occasion, here’s a very detailed bathymetric map of Lake Superior.
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
As I’m sure you already know, the Edmund Fitzgerald met her doom 50 years ago today. In honor of this somber occasion, here’s a very detailed bathymetric map of Lake Superior.
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no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it!
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
info.kingcounty.gov
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it!
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
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OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
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I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.
Remembering that amazing brief period on Twitter, dunno, maybe 3-6 months after Elon's acquisition, when we spontaneously decided it was coming to an end and everybody started posting their favorite past tweets of all kinds. It was a beautiful wake for a service which still technically hasn't died.
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Remembering that amazing brief period on Twitter, dunno, maybe 3-6 months after Elon's acquisition, when we spontaneously decided it was coming to an end and everybody started posting their favorite past tweets of all kinds. It was a beautiful wake for a service which still technically hasn't died.
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End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to use of AI. The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support
Client Challenge
support.mozilla.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to use of AI. The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support
Every time I watch a video from Threat Interactive, I bounce out when he recommends BC block compression for channels that aren't correlated in an appropriate way that supports it.
Googling, seems to be a lot of controversy with them abusing YT copyright reports and blocking critical comments. So.
Googling, seems to be a lot of controversy with them abusing YT copyright reports and blocking critical comments. So.
November 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Every time I watch a video from Threat Interactive, I bounce out when he recommends BC block compression for channels that aren't correlated in an appropriate way that supports it.
Googling, seems to be a lot of controversy with them abusing YT copyright reports and blocking critical comments. So.
Googling, seems to be a lot of controversy with them abusing YT copyright reports and blocking critical comments. So.
Movie adaptations of books are so fraught: better than book, worse than book, hated or loved by the book's author.
Of course Charlie Kaufman put all others to shame in 2002 (particularly the last sentence here):
Of course Charlie Kaufman put all others to shame in 2002 (particularly the last sentence here):
!["[Reading the screenplay] was a complete shock. My first reaction was "Absolutely not!" They had to get my permission and I just said: "No! Are you kidding? This is going to ruin my career!" Very wisely, they didn't really pressure me. They told me that everybody else had agreed and I somehow got emboldened. It was certainly scary to see the movie for the first time. It took a while for me to get over the idea that I had been insane to agree to it, but I love the movie now. What I admire the most is that it's very true to the book's themes of life and obsession, and there are also insights into things which are much more subtle in the book about longing, and about disappointment."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:752y77nxqoruw2serahdltgh/bafkreiblyh6trbsjjgluwcktggqn4fsma4frymf62zgwcovqj4flsh63pq@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Movie adaptations of books are so fraught: better than book, worse than book, hated or loved by the book's author.
Of course Charlie Kaufman put all others to shame in 2002 (particularly the last sentence here):
Of course Charlie Kaufman put all others to shame in 2002 (particularly the last sentence here):
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I think the USAID cuts and anti-vaccine stuff gives Trump a higher body count, but the Bush guys internalized the idea that right wing media could insulate them from normal electoral accountability and the second Trump term is directly downstream from that.
This NYT Obit of VP Cheney mentions something that seems impossible in retrospect: That he and GWB were re-elected *after* it was proved there were no WMDs in Iraq.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I think the USAID cuts and anti-vaccine stuff gives Trump a higher body count, but the Bush guys internalized the idea that right wing media could insulate them from normal electoral accountability and the second Trump term is directly downstream from that.
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One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed
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Was thinking about this when I realized COD is under BDS embargo, Fortnite is about to do a Harry Potter, and Battlefield's ownership is about to be fraught when EA sells
Can't even enjoy as stupid brainrot number-go-up GAAS title without supporting some sort of atrocity these days.
Can't even enjoy as stupid brainrot number-go-up GAAS title without supporting some sort of atrocity these days.
Simply cannot stress enough that you’re gonna have to leave corporate media behind; it is hostile to you, and your lifestyle.
umm this sucks
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Was thinking about this when I realized COD is under BDS embargo, Fortnite is about to do a Harry Potter, and Battlefield's ownership is about to be fraught when EA sells
Can't even enjoy as stupid brainrot number-go-up GAAS title without supporting some sort of atrocity these days.
Can't even enjoy as stupid brainrot number-go-up GAAS title without supporting some sort of atrocity these days.
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Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
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Stuff in space can be big so I want to have big detailed surfaces. I implemented old-school tilemaps (like from 2D consoles and 80s video arcades) in a pixel shader. 64K x 64K texels. Like virtual texture, but tiles all loaded, unmipped page table, shader manually bilinear-filters across tile edges.
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Stuff in space can be big so I want to have big detailed surfaces. I implemented old-school tilemaps (like from 2D consoles and 80s video arcades) in a pixel shader. 64K x 64K texels. Like virtual texture, but tiles all loaded, unmipped page table, shader manually bilinear-filters across tile edges.
Stuff in space can be big so I want to have big detailed surfaces. I implemented old-school tilemaps (like from 2D consoles and 80s video arcades) in a pixel shader. 64K x 64K texels. Like virtual texture, but tiles all loaded, unmipped page table, shader manually bilinear-filters across tile edges.
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Stuff in space can be big so I want to have big detailed surfaces. I implemented old-school tilemaps (like from 2D consoles and 80s video arcades) in a pixel shader. 64K x 64K texels. Like virtual texture, but tiles all loaded, unmipped page table, shader manually bilinear-filters across tile edges.
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it's genuinely remarkable how refusing to cover anything up or explain anything, and just doing it out in the open, completely launders it now. no cover up no crime!
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
it's genuinely remarkable how refusing to cover anything up or explain anything, and just doing it out in the open, completely launders it now. no cover up no crime!
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their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
Two days in a row, somebody has made a pull request to stb libraries which feature brand new libraries in stb style, each with an stb_ prefix.
This has never happened before, so I wonder why it happened twice or if coincidence. I also wonder what they think stb_ means and what my repo is for.
This has never happened before, so I wonder why it happened twice or if coincidence. I also wonder what they think stb_ means and what my repo is for.
November 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Two days in a row, somebody has made a pull request to stb libraries which feature brand new libraries in stb style, each with an stb_ prefix.
This has never happened before, so I wonder why it happened twice or if coincidence. I also wonder what they think stb_ means and what my repo is for.
This has never happened before, so I wonder why it happened twice or if coincidence. I also wonder what they think stb_ means and what my repo is for.
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arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.