Flip Phillips
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Professor of Motion Picture Science at RIT. Ex Pixar. Visual Effects Society. Sensory neuroscientist. Snare drummer. Protanomalous trichromat. Appalachian. 1st Gen. flipphillips.com
If your drug label doesn’t feature a skeletal beat-down with a bottle of yourself, is it even a valid remedy?
Did you know the 4th, 5th, and 6th derivative of position are called snap, crackle, and pop?
Fourth, fifth, and sixth derivatives of position - Wikipedia
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · yesterdayDid you know baby puffins are calling PUFFLINGS and that's real?
Stolen valor from Mr. Bone Spurs. An insult to every man and woman who has worn the uniform.
Is there a _good_ inmos + transputer documentary / book out there? The stuff I keep finding on YouTube are all AI Ken Burns Effect slideshows of shitty irrelevant illustrations w/ AI voice that can’t read “IEEE” without stuttering. “Occam” -> screenshot of BASIC on an Apple II, ugh
Anyone involved in writing, reviewing, or even citing a research paper needs to read @katarinazimmer.bsky.social's phenomenal investigation piece on review mills, just published in @nature.com #academicsky 🧪 #sts #SciComm
‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars
Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?
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Dorit Reiss@doritreiss.bsky.social · last mo.Cancer grifter and anti-vaccine activist William Makis request to appeal the order finding him in contempt of court (for practicing medicine without a license) rejected, judge found the order reasonable. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Original case analysis: www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...
That’s right - to heck with your fridge running it. This is much more impressive. hackaday.com/2026/07/28/d...
DOOM Using Regular Expressions
Regular expressions (regexes) are an amazingly powerful way to perform operations on collections of e.g. text. Regexss can also be considered to be a programming language, even a Turing complete on…
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I’m so tired and ready to retire. Maybe open a toy store.
Katherine Stiles@katherinestiles.org · 3d ago· #AcademicSky · #AcademicPublishing · #ReviewMills · Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?
Boolean logic can be something you hold. These PCB tiles turn selectors, inputs, constants, routes, and intersections into a physical alphabet. Build one choice by hand, then carry it into truth tables, Logisim, FPGA lookup tables, and spatial computing. https://greenforest.io/physical-mux-tiles/
Build Boolean Logic You Can Hold
Circuit role, orientation, topology, and connector geometry become one palm-scale language of fabricated PCB tiles.
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Hacked firmware for you TI-84 that let’s you use Chat GPT. $250 As a professor, I feel like I could make a lot more money if I moved to the dark side. printerval.com/ti-84-chatgp...
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Friend, who chose The Amulet of Great Wealth: Haven't seen you since The Choosing, how's life? Me, who chose The Amulet of Creativity: I'm great man yeah all good super good
Anyone know about this new release/band 'cows'? This isn't the noise-rock band from the 80s- music.apple.com/us/album/cow...
cows - EP by cows on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 4 Songs
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Catching 74 distracted drivers in six hours is good, but what would be better is redesigning the street so drivers are forced to pay attention.
A N.J. cop disguised himself as a shrub — and helped catch 74 distracted drivers in one day
The Dunellen department said the "shrub" was busy during the six-hour enforcement operation.
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"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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Have you ever wondered how to Prolong the Life of Your Fez?
it turns out the reddit atheist was an important predator in the ecosystem
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
X Money… where X = unknown. Solve for X. X=0?
The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.X Money is launching in the US starting today
Great piece on the largely imaginary shoplifting surge: I do think one thing the piece misses is that a bunch of major police departments started years-long work slowdowns in 2020 where they refused to do their jobs (often falsely claiming their hands were tied by woke prosecutors)
We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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Why would anyone pick anybody other than Matt Berry?
Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w agoYou suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?