Nathan Hoobler

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

A beautiful sun halo appeared on my morning walk here in Glastonbury. Photo taken about 45 minutes after sunrise.

It's actually probably a good metaphor for fighting with people on Twitter/Bluesky though

"True Free Market Capitalism has never been tried"

To put it another way, I agree with you that it is not a coherent sales pitch; however, to me the incoherence disarms the sincerity rather than supports it. They are going to need to break one way or the other.

Maybe it's the third? But then throwing your hands up and saying "Well here's hoping we're not committing a crime against humanity! That'll be $200/mo" kind of undercuts the idea that they are taking the moral dilemma seriously.

I kind of disagree; I think it's tautologically true.

It's either
- "We think this is ethically monstrous and don't care"
- "We don't actually think this is a real problem"
- "There's a real ethical hazard here and we don't know how to navigate it"

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested Adam Savage Learns About Gaussian Splats!

youtu.be/H4LW2fMtSN8?...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

I have a theory that this was intentional because they believed the cold would suppress public protests and turnout. The planned for Grandfather Frost, but they thought he would be on their side.

gpu programmers be like:
"give me direct access to the hardware. im not a baby. i need precise control"

and then run away screaming when the horrors that lie beneath are revealed.

programmer: just let me allocate memory
vulkan: *wish granted*
programmer: wait, not like that

Some DOGE refugee in DoE pushing to renew atmospheric nuclear testing because he's all-in on a big parlay bet that the Doomsday Clock hits 250ms from Midnight by September

Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020 https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4k6nqk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

Ok I think I get this. So how big of a spherical shell is the surface that the CMB corresponds to?

This. BTC trades like a dollar value index, not a hedge.

I have a theory that it is at best an indicator of demand of illicit transfers, and tracks volumes of sanctioned trade.

While working on spark.js, I realized that common normal map compression formats weren’t supported in popular frameworks like three.js. I added the necessary support to three.js and wrote an article to shed some light on the topic:

ludicon.com/castano/blog...

#webgpu #webgl #threejs #sparkjs

Yes there are both first and second order examples of why he's wrong. The hand wave around "oh thing do improve with mass adoption" is a weird deflection towards that.

At best he's saying "tech improves over time but disruptive ones are worse" when they are simply different with new pros and cons.

See also housing quality vs affordability. "Americans make houses out of cardboard" -- balloon framing built the American dream!

Also, a lot of survivorship bias at play. The "worst" a straight razor shave can go is way worse than a safety razor! Similarly with old construction *that remains*.

It's flatly wrong, but some of what he's pointing out is it is a process of progressively revealed tendencies. The shave I get with an electric razor is worse than a straight edge, but it turns out I'd rather have a bad cheap shave than a good one I need to sit with a professional for.

This feels like the texturing version of spinning around my model.

Playing with carve groups in @marmoset3d.bsky.social to get grey metalness values through intermediate oxidation.

GitHub - ed3dai/ed3d-plugins Contribute to ed3dai/ed3d-plugins development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just got everything lined up to release `ed3d-plugins`, the Claude Code harness I use in my day-to-day. While they're yelling about gas towns, I present an e-bike, just don't drive it on the sidewalk.

I'm biased, but I think it's good. I've tried a few similar, and I keep going back.

And I think the combination of flat light, quick edits, close crops, background blur, and linear camera paths rob you of any sense of space that the scenes are actually happening in -- which may be a blessing if they can't maintain background consistency between generated sequences.

More: all of the motion seems very linear (even the rotating ones are simple paths) and seems like it has this unnatural "ease in-ease out squish" pacing to them that's like the editing equivalent of putting a heavy compressor on music. Maybe that's just the trailer editing?

YouTube video by Real Pixels when the music is so good you forget to stop filming

I actually just rewatched this wonderful video essay this morning: youtu.be/64Izw09Z8hM?...

I think it would be interesting to contrast some of what Leone did there in terms of pacing, motion, and lighting/lens behavior versus the AI generated stuff to put a finer point on what's missing.

I'm legitimately impressed that it approximates a rack focus in that shot of what I assume is parliament? And I think the wider shots/landscape/scenery shots don't look too bad.

YouTube video by Like Stories of Old Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore

The reliance on close shots with a tight depth of field accentuates the "animated still" feel, although not entirely breaking with modern trends unfortunately (same as the pace of edits). youtu.be/tvwPKBXEOKE?...

I think those slow rotating shots are also weird. Sometimes if feels like there's camera motion for the sake of motion because there's nothing else interesting happening in the frame.

100% the camera motion feels at a fixed/unnatural pace. In itself it wouldn't be bad but it's so universal. Maybe an artifact of the trailer? But I'm not inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt absent evidence to the contrary.

I'm trying to describe exactly what the problem is, but
a) I get the subconscious sense that it is a series of photographs, and
b) there is a distinct "sameness" in the framing of all the shots