Nick Funk 🇨🇦
Nick Funk 🇨🇦
@nickfunk.com
Founder of @tightropesoftware.com Former lead maintainer of coralproject.net. Previously, Senior Engineer @vox.com. Previously, redgiant.com. Canadian 🇨🇦
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In case you were wondering how he bankrupted all those casinos…
AI bros getting everything they deserve and more 🤣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kWk...
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It's June 1st, which means Pride month begins today. It's my 7th Pride as myself, and I find myself realizing something this year. Everything beautiful survived something to get here. I muse about Pride, picking up birding, and what we have been through. Happy Pride.
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I think that’s a wrap (pun intended) they did it… these are solid state batteries manufactured at scale ProLogium in Taiwan has done what no one else could do Solid state is here!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQFV...
Been using WaterFox browser for a while now. Seems legit, open source, includes ad blocking, is not owned by some megacorp. Forked from Firefox and maintained by cool people. www.waterfox.com
here's the source code for folks who want to dive in and see if it's worth supporting/using: github.com/BrowserWorks...
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ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.
Good explainer for anyone catching up on the full details of this leak of Alberta's electoral list to the separatists... It's bad folks... it's really bad... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yX5...
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Woah… 7% of the workforce… www.geekwire.com/2026/microso...
explained the whole bubble in 5 min, well done www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Lq...
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Rosa Parks gets the boot from Alberta’s education system.
There is a long philosophical tradition of civil disobedience from many different sources including Thoreau, Ghandi & Peter Singer. Alberta UCP Bill 25 will make it unlawful to teach about social change through the disobedience of laws. #abpoli #cdnpoli
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In case you missed it, Utrecht, Netherlands has begun building the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge.
As usual, Tanya is crafting away in the basement making something awesome 🤩 She made a clay “painting” for the upcoming release of #TheLongDark Ep. 5 that she’s been working on over the last year So proud of you @manta-rain.bsky.social and congrats to everyone at @hinterland.bsky.social 🎉
Really wanted to make something to celebrate TLD Wintermute Episode 5, so here are Astrid and Mackenzie in my first attempt to "paint" using polymer clay! I very much hope players enjoy the episode, and am so thankful I got to play a part in its completion ❄️❄️❄️ @thelongdark.bsky.social
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Huge result here and the CA jury still deliberating. The idea that social platforms are defective products is going to pick up a lot of steam: www.theverge.com/policy/89991...
Gifting this out so everyone can hear about how bad DLSS 5 is 🫠 www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
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Subnautica devs v. Krafton ruling is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Start at the top of page 32 and read until the end of that section on page 37. Krafton CEO was warned by their legal personnel to not follow ChatGPT into what is likely Some Of The Dumbest Legal Shit Ever, CEO believed the plagiarism bot.
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Trump is looking for help with the Strait of Hormuz. He’s not having much luck. www.vox.com/the-logoff-n...
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“The challenge for us is to do it not after the carnage and the mass murder, but instead of the carnage and the mass murder” — Carl Sagan Credit: @carlsagandotcom.bsky.social
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Anyway all of this is endemic of the mode through which we monetize video game development. It's shifted to offloading risk from the wealthy publisher that can afford it (tencent) to the poorer developer that cannot (wildlight) we don't have to make games like that aftermath.site/indie-game-p...
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Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.
Trump: "If we didn't do what we're doing right now, you would've had a nuclear war and they would've taken out many countries. Because you know what? They're sick people. They're mentally ill sick people. They're angry. They're crazy. They're sick. Thank you very much. Thank you very much everybody"
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They literally spent the past 4-plus years blasting Biden over the withdrawal from Afghanistan and how "rushed" it was.
Q: Commercial air travel is severely restricted in the Middle East. Thousands of Americans are stranded. Why wasn't there an evacuation plan? TRUMP: Because it happened all very quickly
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1. The Supreme Court just handed down its 5th anti-trans decision in less than a year. It could lead to forced outing of trans youth across the country, with 40 cases pending that it may impact. It also forces CA teachers to misgender some trans students. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Watched this tonight, it’s old, but new for me Hope someone else can enjoy it as well youtu.be/g02Ss3xgABc
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The West can recognize it was a mistake for Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons because it left the door open to the invasion from Russia, but will not accept that countries like Iran and North Korea desire them to stop Western meddling and attacks.
Ok its a funny meme that if Iran really did have nuclear weapons, they wouldnt be getting bombed right now by the worlds most fearsome air power. Their political and military leadership would not be killed, nor their misslie bases & air defences destroyed, nor their cities bombed.
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Given how problematic Boy Scouts was when I was a kid, I’m not all that surprised they’re capitulating It’s sad though, my Dad was a troop leader and actively fought against bigoted ideas like this within our community Scouts returning to its hyper Christian roots… so disappointing 😔
1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender. The policy is the latest cruel capitulation. www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...
Given that “AI” is backed by the richest people in the world… I think they can handle “solidly negative” and anyone arguing otherwise is should reevaluate why they they’re shilling so hard for billionaires who couldn’t care less about them In short: critique “AI” hard… they deserve it
I've learned A LOT from @abeba.bsky.social and others working in this space, and I think there is positive value in critical work --- even when solidly negative on "AI", there are positive messages in there about the shape of scholarship that respects people looks like. >>
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This is it, right here, right now. The whole game. All his voter suppression, gerrymandering, and other election cheating has led to this. If Trump takes over elections, it’s game over for democracy in the United States. If the people aren’t willing to shut down the country over this, it’s over.
Donald Trump’s plan to steal the 2026 midterm elections is already underway.
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This is not a good day for anyone to lecture me on how he can’t do this.
This is it, right here, right now. The whole game. All his voter suppression, gerrymandering, and other election cheating has led to this. If Trump takes over elections, it’s game over for democracy in the United States. If the people aren’t willing to shut down the country over this, it’s over.
In case any of you wondering if it’s safe to have a robot vacuum in 2026 www.popsci.com/technology/r...
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