Nick DeReus
@fancyeveryday.bsky.social
Multi-disciplinarian |
Art, Gaming, Logic, and Science |
Currently screaming into the void |
Studying data science at Iowa State |
Art, Gaming, Logic, and Science |
Currently screaming into the void |
Studying data science at Iowa State |
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Recent emmy-winning Andor writer Dan Gilroy just penned a column about the current Trumpian assault on free speech:
deadline.com/2025/09/ando...
deadline.com/2025/09/ando...
‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy On Disney Suspending Jimmy Kimmel & Hollywood Facing “Venomous Evil”: “This Isn’t A Skirmish. It’s A Siege” – Guest Column
'Andor' Writer Dan Gilroy On Trump's Jimmy Kimmel Pressure Campaign: "Artists Are Censored First Because They Fear Us Most" -- Guest Column
deadline.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Recent emmy-winning Andor writer Dan Gilroy just penned a column about the current Trumpian assault on free speech:
deadline.com/2025/09/ando...
deadline.com/2025/09/ando...
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it's absolutely critical to understand in this moment that people aren't largely reacting to who Charlie Kirk was as a person, but who they knew him as because of what tiny pieces of him got clipped out and stuck in their newsfeeds.
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
September 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
it's absolutely critical to understand in this moment that people aren't largely reacting to who Charlie Kirk was as a person, but who they knew him as because of what tiny pieces of him got clipped out and stuck in their newsfeeds.
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IDK, seems bad. www.apolloacademy.com/the-quality-...
The Quality of CPI Data Continues to Deteriorate - Apollo Academy
To calculate CPI inflation, BLS teams collect approximately 90,000 price quotes every month covering 200 different item categories, and there...
www.apolloacademy.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
IDK, seems bad. www.apolloacademy.com/the-quality-...
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Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
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A TV series adaptation of the Wolfenstein video games is in development at Amazon MGM Studios, from Fallout and Westworld producers. Patrick Somerville (Station Eleven) will be the creator and showrunner.
The official logline simply states: “The story of killing Nazis is evergreen.” 🤣
The official logline simply states: “The story of killing Nazis is evergreen.” 🤣
‘Wolfenstein’ TV Series in Development at Amazon From ‘Fallout’ Producer Kilter Films, Patrick Somerville (EXCLUSIVE)
A TV series adaptation of the "Wolfenstein" video games is in development at Amazon MGM Studios, Variety has learned exclusively.
variety.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A TV series adaptation of the Wolfenstein video games is in development at Amazon MGM Studios, from Fallout and Westworld producers. Patrick Somerville (Station Eleven) will be the creator and showrunner.
The official logline simply states: “The story of killing Nazis is evergreen.” 🤣
The official logline simply states: “The story of killing Nazis is evergreen.” 🤣
I wonder what's going to happen first:
1. People claiming their LLM chat is sentient and alive drive me insane
2. Google successfully creates an AGI
1. People claiming their LLM chat is sentient and alive drive me insane
2. Google successfully creates an AGI
July 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I wonder what's going to happen first:
1. People claiming their LLM chat is sentient and alive drive me insane
2. Google successfully creates an AGI
1. People claiming their LLM chat is sentient and alive drive me insane
2. Google successfully creates an AGI
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1/🧵The cost of gutting NOAA’s weather research labs
If Congress approves the current NOAA budget request, here’s what America stands to lose in weather & climate forecasting. (Spoiler: It’s a lot.)
#NOAA #ClimateScience #WeatherResearch #ClimateChange
If Congress approves the current NOAA budget request, here’s what America stands to lose in weather & climate forecasting. (Spoiler: It’s a lot.)
#NOAA #ClimateScience #WeatherResearch #ClimateChange
June 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
1/🧵The cost of gutting NOAA’s weather research labs
If Congress approves the current NOAA budget request, here’s what America stands to lose in weather & climate forecasting. (Spoiler: It’s a lot.)
#NOAA #ClimateScience #WeatherResearch #ClimateChange
If Congress approves the current NOAA budget request, here’s what America stands to lose in weather & climate forecasting. (Spoiler: It’s a lot.)
#NOAA #ClimateScience #WeatherResearch #ClimateChange
Building my first database and API for a friend's game project, anyone have any tips for using mySQL and the python and Java connectors for it?
June 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Building my first database and API for a friend's game project, anyone have any tips for using mySQL and the python and Java connectors for it?
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It's so incredible to still see the left accused of moral relativism when every conservative column is just 'yes all of our leaders are bad but the people calling them bad sometimes exaggerate.'
June 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It's so incredible to still see the left accused of moral relativism when every conservative column is just 'yes all of our leaders are bad but the people calling them bad sometimes exaggerate.'
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There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group:
“amazing job”
“Excellent”
“👊🇺🇸💥”
“amazing job”
“Excellent”
“👊🇺🇸💥”
March 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group:
“amazing job”
“Excellent”
“👊🇺🇸💥”
“amazing job”
“Excellent”
“👊🇺🇸💥”
Before people get too excited by Biden using autopen to sign pardons:
March 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Before people get too excited by Biden using autopen to sign pardons:
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I recommend that nobody visit the US unless you *absolutely have to* for the foreseeable future.
ICE Detains UK Tourist in Backpacking Trip Turned ‘Nightmare’
It’s the second recent case of a tourist being detained indefinitely by ICE.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I recommend that nobody visit the US unless you *absolutely have to* for the foreseeable future.
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This is what we mean when we say the regime is censuring science.
“CDC staff should not be co-authors on manuscripts/abstracts with WHO staff,” nor publish papers on work "funded by WHO.”
www.huffingtonpost.c...
“CDC staff should not be co-authors on manuscripts/abstracts with WHO staff,” nor publish papers on work "funded by WHO.”
www.huffingtonpost.c...
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
March 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This is what we mean when we say the regime is censuring science.
“CDC staff should not be co-authors on manuscripts/abstracts with WHO staff,” nor publish papers on work "funded by WHO.”
www.huffingtonpost.c...
“CDC staff should not be co-authors on manuscripts/abstracts with WHO staff,” nor publish papers on work "funded by WHO.”
www.huffingtonpost.c...
It truly is a guided age ladies and gents. The middle class is on life support here.
https://www.marketplace.org/2025/02/24/higher-income-americans-drive-bigger-share-of-consumer-spending/
https://www.marketplace.org/2025/02/24/higher-income-americans-drive-bigger-share-of-consumer-spending/
Top 10% of U.S. earners drive nearly half of all consumer spending - Marketplace
While inflation and a softening labor market have forced lower-income Americans to focus on necessities, high earners are still splurging.
www.marketplace.org
February 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
It truly is a guided age ladies and gents. The middle class is on life support here.
https://www.marketplace.org/2025/02/24/higher-income-americans-drive-bigger-share-of-consumer-spending/
https://www.marketplace.org/2025/02/24/higher-income-americans-drive-bigger-share-of-consumer-spending/
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I have been getting a surprising number of questions about CIA's low-confidence announcement that they believe SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab.
A few comments in 🧵, but to summarize:
1️⃣ No new intelligence
2️⃣ No new report
3️⃣ No evidence exist to support SARS-CoV-2 came from lab
4️⃣ Usual nonsense
More 👇
A few comments in 🧵, but to summarize:
1️⃣ No new intelligence
2️⃣ No new report
3️⃣ No evidence exist to support SARS-CoV-2 came from lab
4️⃣ Usual nonsense
More 👇
February 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I have been getting a surprising number of questions about CIA's low-confidence announcement that they believe SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab.
A few comments in 🧵, but to summarize:
1️⃣ No new intelligence
2️⃣ No new report
3️⃣ No evidence exist to support SARS-CoV-2 came from lab
4️⃣ Usual nonsense
More 👇
A few comments in 🧵, but to summarize:
1️⃣ No new intelligence
2️⃣ No new report
3️⃣ No evidence exist to support SARS-CoV-2 came from lab
4️⃣ Usual nonsense
More 👇
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not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes
February 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes
Trying to decide if it's worth it to try and transfer my content from threads and xitter over here, or just kinda start new.
Maybe keep my Threads seperate for now since it supports a particular kind of content?
Maybe keep my Threads seperate for now since it supports a particular kind of content?
February 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Trying to decide if it's worth it to try and transfer my content from threads and xitter over here, or just kinda start new.
Maybe keep my Threads seperate for now since it supports a particular kind of content?
Maybe keep my Threads seperate for now since it supports a particular kind of content?
Mm my source on regolith albedo vs incidence angle uses degrees for their polynomial estimate instead of radians and trig like everything else in my model.
Do I leave as-is or do I refactor the equation to fit?
Do I leave as-is or do I refactor the equation to fit?
February 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Mm my source on regolith albedo vs incidence angle uses degrees for their polynomial estimate instead of radians and trig like everything else in my model.
Do I leave as-is or do I refactor the equation to fit?
Do I leave as-is or do I refactor the equation to fit?
Noone could predict a Minecraft mod ported to an Arma 3 looking engine would shift online gaming forever. Or Flappy bird, or Vampire survivors.
The forces behind the indy gaming market are incomprehensible.
The forces behind the indy gaming market are incomprehensible.
Disco Elysium blowing up the way it did should be evidence that there’s no predicting the games market. Imagine trying to tell a money guy that game of the year was gonna be an Estonian visual novel by communists where you can pet the mailbox and say “I want to make fuck with you”
February 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Noone could predict a Minecraft mod ported to an Arma 3 looking engine would shift online gaming forever. Or Flappy bird, or Vampire survivors.
The forces behind the indy gaming market are incomprehensible.
The forces behind the indy gaming market are incomprehensible.
I took the dive into #Lemmy yesterday.
The way it implements cross-server federation makes it feel like surfing Reddit but for Reddits.
Where Reddit acts as a forum for forums, Lemmy feels like a forum for the forums of forums.
The way it implements cross-server federation makes it feel like surfing Reddit but for Reddits.
Where Reddit acts as a forum for forums, Lemmy feels like a forum for the forums of forums.
February 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I took the dive into #Lemmy yesterday.
The way it implements cross-server federation makes it feel like surfing Reddit but for Reddits.
Where Reddit acts as a forum for forums, Lemmy feels like a forum for the forums of forums.
The way it implements cross-server federation makes it feel like surfing Reddit but for Reddits.
Where Reddit acts as a forum for forums, Lemmy feels like a forum for the forums of forums.
I... May have committed to producing a physically accurate simulation of conditions on the lunar surface for the sake of an argument
February 5, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I... May have committed to producing a physically accurate simulation of conditions on the lunar surface for the sake of an argument
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I wonder if this means new models will soon be less resource-hungry (in terms of power, water, etc.)
China’s DeepSeek AI is hitting Nvidia where it hurts
China’s DeepSeek AI is hitting Nvidia where it hurts
The cheaply-developed AI has shaken up Silicon Valley.
buff.ly
January 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I wonder if this means new models will soon be less resource-hungry (in terms of power, water, etc.)
Thinking about doing some sort of analysis on housing costs, maybe throw my hat in at trying to use machine learning techniques to predict a crash
January 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Thinking about doing some sort of analysis on housing costs, maybe throw my hat in at trying to use machine learning techniques to predict a crash