Mads
@madsjesty.bsky.social
She/her. Arts, crafts, makes computers do Stuff.
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Fun fact: marsupials and monotremes lack a corpus callosum. They split off from eutherians before the corpus callosum evolved.
phys.org/news/2018-09...
phys.org/news/2018-09...
July 20, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Fun fact: marsupials and monotremes lack a corpus callosum. They split off from eutherians before the corpus callosum evolved.
phys.org/news/2018-09...
phys.org/news/2018-09...
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My theory: More than critiques of circular financing, or of dubious product functionality, "stochastic parrots" undermines the foundation that the entire AI boom is built on: The story that the AI industry is building an unfathomably powerful machine god.
October 2, 2026 at 5:05 PM
My theory: More than critiques of circular financing, or of dubious product functionality, "stochastic parrots" undermines the foundation that the entire AI boom is built on: The story that the AI industry is building an unfathomably powerful machine god.
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We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻
September 27, 2026 at 6:37 PM
We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻
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Very happy to have interviewed the great Samy Burch about the really great Coyote vs. Acme for @letterboxd.social — this is the film you should see this week! No substitutes! boxd.it/3kG
Dark Side of the Loon: Coyote vs. Acme’s screenwriter Samy Burch on the journey of the Looney Tunes courtroom thriller • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
As Coyote vs. Acme arrives on the big screen after a long, complicated journey, screenwriter Samy Burch tells Ella Kemp how Wile E. Coyote finally got his day in court—and theaters—with her subversive...
boxd.it
August 24, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Very happy to have interviewed the great Samy Burch about the really great Coyote vs. Acme for @letterboxd.social — this is the film you should see this week! No substitutes! boxd.it/3kG
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"When my boss asks 'any questions?', I'd say, 'N'nya, none, thank you!' because 'n'nya' is Kagoshima dialect for 'no,' but I just realized they didn't know that and for a full year and a half thought I was a 27yo woman who sometimes speaks Cat."
August 21, 2026 at 1:22 AM
"When my boss asks 'any questions?', I'd say, 'N'nya, none, thank you!' because 'n'nya' is Kagoshima dialect for 'no,' but I just realized they didn't know that and for a full year and a half thought I was a 27yo woman who sometimes speaks Cat."
Me putting all the cold items in an ikea bag for the drive back from Costco: y’all take care of each other in there
August 15, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Me putting all the cold items in an ikea bag for the drive back from Costco: y’all take care of each other in there
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Plato: OK class le-
Diogenes: I have a question
Plato: Oh Zeus... What?
Diogenes: WHO LIVES IN A BARREL DOWN BY THE SEA?
Plato: Please don-
Diogenes: DI👏O👏GEN👏ES👏
Plato: ...
Diogenes: WHO SHITS ON THE FLOOR OF THE CLASS TAUGHT BY THEE?
Diogenes: I have a question
Plato: Oh Zeus... What?
Diogenes: WHO LIVES IN A BARREL DOWN BY THE SEA?
Plato: Please don-
Diogenes: DI👏O👏GEN👏ES👏
Plato: ...
Diogenes: WHO SHITS ON THE FLOOR OF THE CLASS TAUGHT BY THEE?
July 27, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Plato: OK class le-
Diogenes: I have a question
Plato: Oh Zeus... What?
Diogenes: WHO LIVES IN A BARREL DOWN BY THE SEA?
Plato: Please don-
Diogenes: DI👏O👏GEN👏ES👏
Plato: ...
Diogenes: WHO SHITS ON THE FLOOR OF THE CLASS TAUGHT BY THEE?
Diogenes: I have a question
Plato: Oh Zeus... What?
Diogenes: WHO LIVES IN A BARREL DOWN BY THE SEA?
Plato: Please don-
Diogenes: DI👏O👏GEN👏ES👏
Plato: ...
Diogenes: WHO SHITS ON THE FLOOR OF THE CLASS TAUGHT BY THEE?
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Were you confused, horrified, or enraged by the premise of One Night Only, a film that sets a playful romcom in a dystopian hellscape?
So was @tobiascarroll.bsky.social! And lucky for us, he's written about why the worldbuilding is, shall we say, SUBPAR.
reactormag.com/movie-review...
So was @tobiascarroll.bsky.social! And lucky for us, he's written about why the worldbuilding is, shall we say, SUBPAR.
reactormag.com/movie-review...
Worldbuilding Gone Wrong: One Night Only - Reactor
Can background details swallow up the rest of a film? They sure can.
reactormag.com
August 10, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Were you confused, horrified, or enraged by the premise of One Night Only, a film that sets a playful romcom in a dystopian hellscape?
So was @tobiascarroll.bsky.social! And lucky for us, he's written about why the worldbuilding is, shall we say, SUBPAR.
reactormag.com/movie-review...
So was @tobiascarroll.bsky.social! And lucky for us, he's written about why the worldbuilding is, shall we say, SUBPAR.
reactormag.com/movie-review...
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You can't predict the turns this sentence takes.
Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral.
fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral.
fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
Italy's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | Fortune
Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault
fortune.com
August 10, 2026 at 11:50 PM
You can't predict the turns this sentence takes.
Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral.
fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral.
fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
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Happy 48th anniversary of the day they pulled the plug on Chesterfield Canal and drained all the water out
Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
August 10, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Happy 48th anniversary of the day they pulled the plug on Chesterfield Canal and drained all the water out
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Whilst the late 19th-century-born Liu Kuiling combined western techniques with the traditional ink wash, 20th century master 刘继卣 Liu Jiyou, built on meticulous gongbi techniques, with traditional approaches of capturing feelings and essence. 2/
August 8, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Whilst the late 19th-century-born Liu Kuiling combined western techniques with the traditional ink wash, 20th century master 刘继卣 Liu Jiyou, built on meticulous gongbi techniques, with traditional approaches of capturing feelings and essence. 2/
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This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠
August 7, 2026 at 2:19 AM
This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠
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For YEARS, I been waiting for this to happen every time I watch the news
August 7, 2026 at 4:25 PM
For YEARS, I been waiting for this to happen every time I watch the news
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The closest I got to see a Starfield meme was when a rando posted a short about the devs adding them as a canonical companion in the game. The short then linked to a long video, where they failed to recruit themselves due to already having a companion, without a means to dismiss the current one
Starfield is almost three years old now and in that time I have yet to see a single piece of fanart or meme or anything about the contents of the game itself. The extent to which they spent years on that game only for it to be met with a resounding cultural disinterest is fascinating
August 7, 2026 at 8:47 PM
The closest I got to see a Starfield meme was when a rando posted a short about the devs adding them as a canonical companion in the game. The short then linked to a long video, where they failed to recruit themselves due to already having a companion, without a means to dismiss the current one
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Eveale loves @lammoth.bsky.social !
Go give the brand new album a listen, and maybe pick it up this Bandcamp Friday!
lammothofficial.bandcamp.com/album/onward
A black metal album about Bill the pony from Lord Of the Rings. What's not to love?
#Metalsky #BlackMetal #Lordoftherings
Go give the brand new album a listen, and maybe pick it up this Bandcamp Friday!
lammothofficial.bandcamp.com/album/onward
A black metal album about Bill the pony from Lord Of the Rings. What's not to love?
#Metalsky #BlackMetal #Lordoftherings
Onward, by Lammoth
9 track album
lammothofficial.bandcamp.com
August 7, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Eveale loves @lammoth.bsky.social !
Go give the brand new album a listen, and maybe pick it up this Bandcamp Friday!
lammothofficial.bandcamp.com/album/onward
A black metal album about Bill the pony from Lord Of the Rings. What's not to love?
#Metalsky #BlackMetal #Lordoftherings
Go give the brand new album a listen, and maybe pick it up this Bandcamp Friday!
lammothofficial.bandcamp.com/album/onward
A black metal album about Bill the pony from Lord Of the Rings. What's not to love?
#Metalsky #BlackMetal #Lordoftherings
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the first publicly known stuxnet infection was at a non-governmental iranian company and got publicized bc the IT guy there was pals w/a belarusan cybersecurity guy, who spent an entire wedding reception getting his head around it eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/11/02/t...
The Man Who Found Stuxnet – Sergey Ulasen in the Spotlight
I’m very excited about today’s guest. Very few industry experts know him by name, even though he’s the guy who first discovered the notorious Stuxnet worm in 2010. His name is Sergey Ulasen. First, a ...
eugene.kaspersky.com
August 7, 2026 at 3:42 PM
the first publicly known stuxnet infection was at a non-governmental iranian company and got publicized bc the IT guy there was pals w/a belarusan cybersecurity guy, who spent an entire wedding reception getting his head around it eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/11/02/t...
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The worst is when you reach too far into your junk drawer and accidentally brush up against someone else’s hand in their junk drawer.
There is something kind of unsettling in the fact that according to replies here everyone has the exact same junk drawer.
Like pulling out the drawer just opens a portal to The Universal Junk Drawer and we all just draw directly from that.
Like pulling out the drawer just opens a portal to The Universal Junk Drawer and we all just draw directly from that.
for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include?
a mysterious key that does not unlock any thing
a mysterious key that does not unlock any thing
August 7, 2026 at 4:27 AM
The worst is when you reach too far into your junk drawer and accidentally brush up against someone else’s hand in their junk drawer.
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The Forest of Galtres was established by Norman Kings and spread North from York's walls. It covered 100,000 acres and encompassed 60 villages.
As early as 15th century concerns were expressed about deforestation and by 1629 it had all but disappeared.
The Hall is its legacy.
As early as 15th century concerns were expressed about deforestation and by 1629 it had all but disappeared.
The Hall is its legacy.
August 7, 2026 at 8:10 AM
The Forest of Galtres was established by Norman Kings and spread North from York's walls. It covered 100,000 acres and encompassed 60 villages.
As early as 15th century concerns were expressed about deforestation and by 1629 it had all but disappeared.
The Hall is its legacy.
As early as 15th century concerns were expressed about deforestation and by 1629 it had all but disappeared.
The Hall is its legacy.
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People know that I care about performance, especially since we've almost collectively forgotten how fast our machines actually are (except for a few people that *do* care - you know who you are).
This now sits at 720ms in a master build.
Thread with optimizations:
This now sits at 720ms in a master build.
Thread with optimizations:
Loading all 1.6GB of current assets (textures & meshes) in 570ms on my 10-year old machine (with a 2080 Ti) using IOCP and unbuffered async reads.
Happy for now with this!
Final optimization for deployment: loading from a single compressed archive instead of N files.
Happy for now with this!
Final optimization for deployment: loading from a single compressed archive instead of N files.
August 7, 2026 at 6:15 AM
People know that I care about performance, especially since we've almost collectively forgotten how fast our machines actually are (except for a few people that *do* care - you know who you are).
This now sits at 720ms in a master build.
Thread with optimizations:
This now sits at 720ms in a master build.
Thread with optimizations:
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hey boss. yeah i'm gonna be late again for my job in Myst world, where we live. i forgot which combination of the sixteen valve handwheels in my apartment opens the front door again
August 4, 2026 at 6:59 PM
hey boss. yeah i'm gonna be late again for my job in Myst world, where we live. i forgot which combination of the sixteen valve handwheels in my apartment opens the front door again
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When you get two cats, how do they decide which one will have a tiny chirp like a pixie’s doorbell and which one will wail like the ghost of a jilted bride?
August 4, 2026 at 5:11 PM
When you get two cats, how do they decide which one will have a tiny chirp like a pixie’s doorbell and which one will wail like the ghost of a jilted bride?
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It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/
July 21, 2026 at 5:40 PM
It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/
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Daily bunny no.3399 is a fisher of berries
August 3, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Daily bunny no.3399 is a fisher of berries
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thank you for sharing this, but have you also explored Cameron's World, a digital museum that is basically a love letter to Geocities and that whole era
www.cameronsworld.net
www.cameronsworld.net
Cameron's World
🌍 A web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of GeoCities.
www.cameronsworld.net
August 2, 2026 at 5:18 PM
thank you for sharing this, but have you also explored Cameron's World, a digital museum that is basically a love letter to Geocities and that whole era
www.cameronsworld.net
www.cameronsworld.net