Gonna try to diversify my social media usage a bit. You can find me at mastodon.gamedev.place/@reedbeta and
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3D rendering at Adobe. Formerly at 343i, Sucker Punch, & NVIDIA. Math & coding blog writer, sometime musician, sci-fi & physics nerd, cat dad, coffeeholic.
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Thread. It actually moved the market. Wild. Wonder how much of that is human intervention vs. automatically responding to any bad press.
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Did Twitter Blue tweet just cost Eli Lilly $LLY billions?
Yes.
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6. The political media has substituted polling analysis, which is something only people managing campaigns really need, for substantive analysis of the positions of the candidates, something that voters need.
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The victory for abortion rights in the referendums across the country is the clearest evidence that the reactionary vision that animates the Right does not have majority support. Conservatives understand they are pursuing a minoritarian project. They will escalate. #Midterms 1/
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Voters supported abortion rights in all five states with abortion-related ballot measures.
When abortion was directly on the ballot, voters wanted to protect and save their right to abortion.
More on that… 
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love is real
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How it started how it's going twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/…
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Having a lie-in
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It's impossible to not read through this without your jaw on the floor a few times.
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Marty Stratton, @idSoftware Studio Director, lied about @DOOM Eternal's OST events in a Reddit post that used disinformation to blame me entirely for its failure
Later, he offered me a six-figure sum to never speak about it
The truth is more important.
link.medium.com/USjGbPeBOub
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Voters supported abortion rights in all five states with abortion-related ballot measures.
When abortion was directly on the ballot, voters wanted to protect and save their right to abortion.
More on that… 🧵
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I've collected some info about graphics format casting:
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JUST IN: California becomes the second state in U.S. history to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitution, joining Vermont.
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look we're not going to know all the results tonight but what's really clear is that this is a historical overperformance of the fundamentals by Democrats, driven by a dramatic rejection of MAGA politics
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Yearly reminder that git-fork.com is the best Git client I could find & worth your money.
Yearly reminder that "Everything" voidtools.com is the perfect local search tool, will speed up your daily routine, worth donating to. I bound it to a global shortcut.
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There are a lot of interesting things going on in this thread, but one thing I would like to highlight is that this is a story about how engineers refused to build a privacy-invasive product for advertisers AND IT DID NOT GET BUILT.
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With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.
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Let's look at what we're seeing w/ one day left. In the following battleground states, turnout among young Democrats is far higher than this time in 2018:
⬆️ Georgia (+23,707)
⬆️ Ohio (+4,653)
⬆️ Michigan (+31,445)
⬆️ Pennsylvania (+55,471)
Young Democrats ARE turning out.
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Housing first doesn’t work*
*Except in all those places where housing first has totally worked.
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“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” scoop.me/housing-first-
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Voter turnout on Tuesday is going to make a huge difference in the election outcomes, all over the country. Vote, and make sure your family and friends vote.
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Weird Al movie binary review: 1
Roku streaming service review: 0
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Everything that ever made Twitter good came from the people that used it, even all the features you think about when you think about Twitter. This hellsite used to be a source of surprise and joy. slate.com/technology/202
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Link rundown once again:
Patreon! patreon.com/user?u=5610560
Indiegogo! It runs through Nov 27. igg.me/at/farmtotaber
Free email updates! forms.gle/nrj6yg7ZWnMH41
Free episodes start coming out in January.
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When someone has definitely fucked up signedness
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This literally just happened when I opened this thread. Not a joke.
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Reading through the GitHub CoPilot litigation submitted; although it was pulled off quickly — it's a solid piece of work!
My assessment is that the defendants, GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI are in a very bad position...
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The people of Brazil have voted for democracy, workers’ rights and environmental sanity. I congratulate on his hard fought victory and look forward to a strong and prosperous relationship between the United States and Brazil.
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Looks like the Golden Temple in Ghost of Tsushima
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Incredible explosion of gold from a 1,400-year-old Ginkgo tree.
Photo by Han Fei
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I'm maintaining a Mastodon handle list below. If you are thinking of switching, please retweet and add your handle below and I'll add it to the list. sakibsaikia.github.io/social/2022/10
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So we pull over and find a good place to sit and snap out our phones. If you are ever wandering down the road and you see kids of color interfacing with police I hope you would do the same.
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This meme brought to you by me watching Ghostbusters on the plane
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Lazy Sunday
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So, Seattle folks. Proposition 1A and 1B, what do we think?
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