Meatba'al

@vance.bsky.social

Writer/Irish-born American dumbass. Working (very slowly) on a reference book about the 3DO. Voted funniest man on the northbound Metro Blue Line.

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · 2d ago

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

I've cut up the first pepper and am drying the seeds for propagation. I tasted a tiny bit of the flesh and hoo boy, there's a lot of heat in this habanero. My lips are tingling ten minutes later.

BildBild

I love that some dipshit's oversized SUV is blocking my photo of some other dipshit's jacked up truck with a disabled placard. Car culture makes America butt fucking ugly.

Bild

I've known how to automatically imbed header links in a text document for a decade or so, and for finding shit there's ctrl-f. Sure, you want a system that a dumb baby could use, but that's three result of perfecting existing systems, not using a failure-prone, planet-killing crap machine.

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is the future of scientific papers. Instead of a PDF, the paper is an AI agent that you can talk to, ask questions, run analyses. No more digging through supplements - just ask the paper directly: "what p-value cutoff was used in Fig 3B? Re-run at 0.01." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My coworkers were talking about the 80% humidity and one of them joked "It's climate change" and they all had a good laugh and you know what, I stand by my stance where I'm just going to watch his this world just rattles to an end because whatever. You can't win against cumulative stupid.

The Saturn really needed a thick damn manual because it had a lot of power, but was the biggest nightmare to program for. It didn't have the bare metal speed of the PS1 or the elegant architecture of the 3DO, and had the worst aspects of both.

SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!@segasaturnshiro.bsky.social · last wk.

Developer, @pvthinge.bsky.social (creator of the action-platformer, Scarf of Embers on Steam), has been fast at work on a 3D Saturn software development tool built on top of Johannes Fetz' Jo Engine, to make the Saturn development process both fun and easy! www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/09/11/f...

Being a developer for the 3DO was generally said to be affordable, with some sources claiming the dev kit was free (I don't think it was, hard to confirm. At best I think they gave kits away to developers they really wanted.)