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in 2000, there were 470 billionaires. in 2010, the number had more than doubled, to 1000 billionaires total. together, they controlled around $3.6 trillion in capital. for power and wealth like this, politics is less than pocket change: www.webworm.co/elections/

Why yes that *is* @nomansbsky.bsky.social running in VR on an MacBook M4 Max through a project where I reverse engineered the Meta Quest headset protocols... Months of work to get this far. Running in Wine for VR support, so around 35-40fps vs 70fps for desktop wine (high), 100fps native (ultra)

Bevy 0.20 is out now! It features Solari and DLSS improvements, better BSN syntax, BSN "ready" events, WESL is now Bevy's shader language, more UI widgets (color picker, scrollable list views, dropdowns), Sprite Materials, Extended 2D materials, Pan Orbit Camera, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-...

Almost certainly used for smoking drugs

Get off the bench doofus!

If the lived experience of being a woman were fictional, it would certainly be a horror story. Unsurprisingly, the genre has a long history of pulling from the lives of women. New post is up about banal horrorsᵀ of being a woman and what it means that I wake up and choose this for myself every day.

do I hate Harold Bloom? yes. do I think he's an awful snob, and that King has some unacknowledged literary merit? absolutely. does he have a point? yeah, man. he has a point.

Yes, as Annie says: “How We Do Anything Is How We Do Everything”

Reverse engineered the Creality Raptor Pro scanner because I wanted marker less laser scanning. Got it done right when they decided to release a firmware and app update to enable it with a new mode. Turns out my version works 100x better. I've reversed the update so I'll get even better scan.

They live in a country where school shootings is now an industry. Shooting. Kids. Has. Been. Industrialised.

Think like a programmer—move like a programmer. The new Humble Bundle from No Starch press features 18 titles. Pay what you want and support EFF at the same time! www.humblebundle.com/books/think...

Reverse engineered the Reality Otter scanner (and Raptor Pro). Not bad for something I've had to learn on the fly. stream from USB -> depth matcher on GPU to get clean depths, then rectify + add colour in to a 0.2mm voxel sized TSDF.. I didn't expect a very good capture but this looks damned good!

Today’s the anniversary of the World losing a REAL animal lover.

It still blows my mind that these exist. Like... Hey how about a shark, But with a swordface, And teeth lining the edge instead of a sharp edge You know, like a chainsaw

And not race around the lounge freaking out while puking

Wondering how MachineGames’ incredible free episode Dawn of the Machine was made to celebrate 30 years of Quake? Check out this behind-the-scenes look from Lead Level Designer Andrew Yoder: beth.games/3SzYxVm

I watched my cat hide from another loud explosion today. She doesn’t understand geopolitics. She doesn’t understand russian propaganda. She just knows that something terrifying keeps happening outside. That part breaks me.

Fuck the USA.

again: they mean it

Yep…

3 weeks of hacking and reverse engineering and wiresharking has finally netted me complete access to the Meta Quest Air-Link and USB link. No more ALVR. And! I’ve proved a MacBook can run VR pretty damned well since it has hardware HEVC and H264 encoding. I’ll release sometime after cleanup

'Look at me, I'm a human. I pay taxes, I have depression, I'm behind on chores'

This thing is fucking hideous. Not cybertruck level but I certainly wouldn’t call it a Ferrari. Bet you have to flip it over to plug in the charger cable.

Cat on the farm

LOL. Meta engineers made a typo in the Meta Quest headset libs. MetadataHandahakeCapabilities... I now have I think 90% of this reverse engineered now. Got the headset doing auth and pair over USB, and streaming the pose etc, accepting streamed video.

My orange muppet over the years. Dude never leaves my side (or front).

Almost thought someone had hacked my iCloud and stolen a photo of me.

Can’t reply to this person so hopefully they see this. An absolutely fascinating read about leaded gasoline is this: www.mentalfloss.com/science/envi...

Solar eclipse coming up so here’s one of my favourite maps

L.O.L. I could have done this myself but setting an LLM on to it means I can continue doing my own work while this guy does hip thrusts at disassembly.

This is not true. I never mention my cats in conversations.

Side effects of being medicated for ADHD is that some of my hobbies no longer hold any interest for me. So I now have a stack of very cool RC buggies I don’t drive anymore. And I barely game now. Just highly focused on my actual work instead.

Nephew Whacking The Hell Out Of Tree Trunk With Stick

In the early 90s, Taito worked several times with illustrator and background artist Tomoaki Okada / 岡田有章 from the design studio Mecaman (known for their work on Gundam, Nausicäa, Speed Racer, etc.). _Rayforce / Galactic Attack _Gun Force (Master System version) _Darius Force (SFC) _Cyber Sterra 1/3

It’s one of those things from Half-Life dressed up for a Shrek movie

Fucking aye. I’ve spent the last couple years redecorating my house away from boomer grey and pastel snot green.

No I didn't just do a CAT scan at 1.30am why do you ask? Reverse engineered the majority of reality scan app and the entire USB protocol plus the depth GPU kernels.. Fuck all is hidden if you try hard enough, and an LLM alongside is a massive boost 6 months of work in a week.

View from my room at The Four Seasons in Shenzhen. The room is crazy big too.

I suppose I shouldn’t iron my shirts while unclothed.