tom - november edition
@tomhunt.bsky.social
i make computers do things. worked on some menus for a couple of video games you might have heard of. made a couple of 3d puzzle things for touchy devices. made some candy last week. i think we should improve society somewhat.
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
watching godot tutorials and hearing speakers at conferences talk about godot, i get the impression that part of being a godot person is having your own unique pronunciation of the word "godot".
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
watching godot tutorials and hearing speakers at conferences talk about godot, i get the impression that part of being a godot person is having your own unique pronunciation of the word "godot".
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Making a game is essentially reinforcement training and when you reward a player by reacting to their behaviour you teach them to do that thing more often. What do you WANT the player to do more often? What should they see as exciting ground for experimentation and what is background noise
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Making a game is essentially reinforcement training and when you reward a player by reacting to their behaviour you teach them to do that thing more often. What do you WANT the player to do more often? What should they see as exciting ground for experimentation and what is background noise
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Can they make ai consumers next. so it’s just ai selling to ai. and we can all just go to the beach
September 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Can they make ai consumers next. so it’s just ai selling to ai. and we can all just go to the beach
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That Invincible fraction of our power meme, but it's a half century old Unix prompt on a computer with lower specs than a literal toaster nowadays
May 19, 2024 at 4:42 PM
That Invincible fraction of our power meme, but it's a half century old Unix prompt on a computer with lower specs than a literal toaster nowadays
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Modern tech is inhospitable to the kind of stubborn bullshit-despising hackers that for generations used that laziness and spite to get shit done.
May 19, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Modern tech is inhospitable to the kind of stubborn bullshit-despising hackers that for generations used that laziness and spite to get shit done.
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The hackers of yesteryear accomplished actual magic, true sci-fi shit, by refusing to do the same task manually more than once.
This stubborn laziness is why Grace Hopper made the goddamn compiler for fuck's sake.
This stubborn laziness is why Grace Hopper made the goddamn compiler for fuck's sake.
May 19, 2024 at 4:26 PM
The hackers of yesteryear accomplished actual magic, true sci-fi shit, by refusing to do the same task manually more than once.
This stubborn laziness is why Grace Hopper made the goddamn compiler for fuck's sake.
This stubborn laziness is why Grace Hopper made the goddamn compiler for fuck's sake.
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So: if you know sed and awk and grep, this problem has the same simple solution it did for like half a century: one or two lines of shell script.
The only way you would think chatgpt is the solution is if you *do not* know basic fucking programming.
The only way you would think chatgpt is the solution is if you *do not* know basic fucking programming.
May 19, 2024 at 4:24 PM
So: if you know sed and awk and grep, this problem has the same simple solution it did for like half a century: one or two lines of shell script.
The only way you would think chatgpt is the solution is if you *do not* know basic fucking programming.
The only way you would think chatgpt is the solution is if you *do not* know basic fucking programming.
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For a solid half century, if you told a programmer that you were going to manually sit there and type out a whole bunch of meaningless shit and not try to automate it, they'd fucking shiv you.
May 19, 2024 at 4:22 PM
For a solid half century, if you told a programmer that you were going to manually sit there and type out a whole bunch of meaningless shit and not try to automate it, they'd fucking shiv you.
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The owner of this business is a old, wonderful friend & a former employer of mine, so please, I need all of my Pacific Northwest followers keeping an eye out for this stuff, especially if you run in nerd circles, so that his dream business, built via decades of grinding, can keep running.
KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
GAME OVER: $25k+ of tech stolen from Kent arcade
Tens of thousands of dollars worth of vintage video game equipment was stolen from a Kent arcade this week.
www.kiro7.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The owner of this business is a old, wonderful friend & a former employer of mine, so please, I need all of my Pacific Northwest followers keeping an eye out for this stuff, especially if you run in nerd circles, so that his dream business, built via decades of grinding, can keep running.
pronouncing the zz in puzzle like the zz in pizza
November 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
pronouncing the zz in puzzle like the zz in pizza
Naaber the Fairy
November 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Naaber the Fairy
this is usually the part where the adults in the room put their foot down and try to talk you down from wanting a pony.
Problem: AI needs massive amounts of power to thrive. Nuclear makes lots of power. Nuclear takes a long long time to do safely.
Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.
Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
this is usually the part where the adults in the room put their foot down and try to talk you down from wanting a pony.
"if it's ok with you, i'm gonna tag along."
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November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"if it's ok with you, i'm gonna tag along."
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do people still even have landlines? or are we doing these over the cell network? bbs over voip is cheating.
The Internet is dead. Time to bring back the BBS.
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
do people still even have landlines? or are we doing these over the cell network? bbs over voip is cheating.
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you know you elected a good mayor when the NYT does this in a headline
Katie Wilson, Seattle’s next mayor, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
Seattle Elects a Left-Wing Mayor With a Light Résumé but Mamdani Appeal
Katie Wilson, who narrowly defeated the incumbent, Bruce Harrell, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
nyti.ms
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
you know you elected a good mayor when the NYT does this in a headline
if we manage to pull through All Of This and there are still video games on the other end of the tunnel, i look forward to playing the hot new wave of nihilistically unsubtle political satire narrative games.
It’s crazy being a narrative designer who wrote fake emails and seeing this many real emails from rich evil people with brainworms and going “sheesh even when I had to be extremely on the nose to clarify objectives and shit I was still leagues more subtle and human-sounding than THIS”
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
if we manage to pull through All Of This and there are still video games on the other end of the tunnel, i look forward to playing the hot new wave of nihilistically unsubtle political satire narrative games.
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(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school
December 26, 2024 at 8:45 PM
(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school
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WHYYYYY do all the wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet also have to be the most colossal morons of all time
Why was that allowed to happen
Why was that allowed to happen
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
WHYYYYY do all the wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet also have to be the most colossal morons of all time
Why was that allowed to happen
Why was that allowed to happen
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At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
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It’s very enervating to watch intelligent and educated people play dumb about this amidst the ascendance of a far-right reactionary movement driven by antisocial Silicon Valley psychos and Miami crypto scammers who all treat women as status symbols on the same level as NFTs and Labubus.
he’s a provider of access to money, connections and beautiful women and girls — everything that these people need to affirm their own status. being rich and powerful is a grift which requires other to bolster & buy in. That’s the service Epstein provided.
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
It’s very enervating to watch intelligent and educated people play dumb about this amidst the ascendance of a far-right reactionary movement driven by antisocial Silicon Valley psychos and Miami crypto scammers who all treat women as status symbols on the same level as NFTs and Labubus.
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the cool thing is either the ai bubble bursts and there are no jobs or the ai bubble doesnt burst and is real and there are no jobs
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
the cool thing is either the ai bubble bursts and there are no jobs or the ai bubble doesnt burst and is real and there are no jobs
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a lot of people regretting the 'this shoulda been an email' advice rn lol
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
a lot of people regretting the 'this shoulda been an email' advice rn lol
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congratulations to everyone who did not email regularly with jeffrey epstein
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
congratulations to everyone who did not email regularly with jeffrey epstein
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed