Tess Snider

@malkyne.com

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Fairy codemother. Free-range veteran game programmer and underground programming teacher. Co-owner of indie game studio Hidden Achievement.

A picture of a woman from an AI-generated video, saying the word "free." Her facial expression looks slightly unnerving, because her mouth is opened in an unnatural manner, with the corners pulled so far back that you can see her first molar.
From https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3051004/ Diagram illustrating the location of tight junctions at the blood-cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) barrier. There are four choroid plexi in the brain, two in the lateral ventricles, one in the third and one in the fourth ventricle. The choroid plexus is lobulated with a single continuous layer of cells derived from the ependymal lining of the ventricles. These cells possess epithelial cell characteristics with a cuboidal morphology and are referred to as choroidal epithelial cells. Epithelial cells of the choroid plexus are linked by tight junctions, which contain trans-membrane and cytoplasmic proteins linked to an actin cytoskeleton. This forms what is termed the blood-CSF barrier.
Jeff Goldblum in his ill-conceived teleporter, in The Fly (1986).
A Big Mouth Billy Bass. His body is bent so that he is facing the camera -- mouth open, as though to speak.
An indoor pool surrounded by large windows and stone columns. There is a drop-ceiling around the walkway, which slightly overlaps the ceiling over the pool, with purple neon light illuminating the upper ceiling from below. The purple is weirdly dissonant with the all the warm-toned natural stone/marble in the scene.
There has been no meaningful update on the 84-year-old’s condition for weeks.
Bombshell McConnell Video Reveals Huge Emergency Response
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More text on swooshes. One of them says "Homemade with love."
Another paint swoosh behind text.
A paint swoosh behind text.
Carl Sagan sitting down to an apple pie at a restaurant. He is wearing a camel colored jacket and red turtleneck (yikes). This was from an episode of Cosmos, if memory serves me. The text, superimposed over the image is a famous quote from this scene, which reads: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
Small print which reads "Watch images are for illustrative purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the final product. Trump Watches are intended as collectible items for individual enjoyment only and are available at www.GetTrumpWatches.com. While supplies last.
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SEC. 201. Definitions. In this title: (1) COVERED PLATFORM.—The term “covered platform” means a platform that is a website, software, application, or electronic service connected to the internet that meets the following requirements: (A) Is publicly available for use by consumers. (B) Enables the creation of a username or user identifier— (i) that is searchable on the platform by other users through a function made available by the platform; and (ii) that can be followed by or is similarly accessible to other users of the platform. (C) As the primary purpose of the platform, facilitates the sharing and access to user-generated content through text, images, video, audio, or any other interactive medium. (D) Uses a design feature to promote user engagement on the platform. (E) Uses the personal information of the user to advertise, market, or make content recommendations. (2) USER.—The term “user”, with respect to a covered platform, means an individual who registers an account or creates a profile on the covered platform.
Caroline Blakiston as Mon Mothma, in Return of the Jedi.
An image of a feminine figure walking past a building. She has been replaced by a gray and white silhouette.
An overblown wooden corner decoration, with a scrolling design. It is placed at the corner of a gigantic kitchen island, right next to a stool.
The main cast of 1982 TV series "QED."
The chest of a man in a buttoned up yellow jacket. Leather straps cross the front, and a leather belt is worn somewhat high on his body. Oddly, a pair of buttons are placed over the man's pecs.
A beige lumpy thing on a green background. It looks kind of like a rubber ducky from a distance.
A vector illustration of a pink butterfly on a yellow square background, with the word "PLACEHOLDER" emblazoned in all caps over it.
An amethyst geode. It is lumpy, shiny, and purple.
A weird-ass looking product, called SOLAWAVE. It says "Buy 1 Get 1 free" and "Red Light Therapy Mask & Chest Piece." The product appears to consist of a hard face plate, neck wrap, and chest plate. This one is pale pink. The mask has holes for the eyes and mouth, with an odd slit around the nose area. Red light bleeds around the edges in an ominous manner.
A Commodore 64.
A closeup of the crunched armpit of the space marine from Chris' post.
A YouTube thumbnail for a video entitled "How Starfield Lost 97% of its Players."
The screencap reads: Hi Tess, Transition from Owner / Programmer to AI/ML Role at FAANG+ & get a $300k-500k Salary!
The family of Jay-Den Kraag in Star Trek: Academy.
Angelique Pettyjohn in a bouffant wig and silver lamé bra with two wraps joining at the center of an incongruous H-strap. It appears to be an unreliable arrangement, likely to result in wardrobe malfunctions.
Star Trek: The Next Generation. A man wears a red and black uniform tunic, which comes to just above mid-thigh. He is not wearing any visible pants.
From an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation: Deanna Troi and Beverly Crusher are working out. Deanna is wearing a grey, sleeveless skintight bodysuit, with a shiny pink leotard over it that covers only the bottom portion of her torso, with a pair of straps crossing from midline to her shoulders. Dr. Crusher is wearing a forest green skintight bodysuit with 3/4 sleeves. Over that, she wears a shiny puce leotard that, like Deanna's, only covers the lower portion of her troso. Unlike Deanna's, the straps come up from the sides of the leotard, causing her covered boobs to protrude through a roundish window. Neither of these outfits look good.
A Raisan man in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1. He is dressed in a white outfit that is almost indescribable. His top is an X shape, across his chest. The bottom is, um... well, it's like if you were wearing flimsy boxers, and grabbed the sides of them and yanked them up until you had the worst wedgie imaginable.
Sean Connery as Zed in Zardoz, wearing his distinctive red strappy thing.
A shot from Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered. It is from the corner of one of the Fighters Guilds. Various garments that had once been on a table are now strewn around on the floor for no apparent reason. A hammer that had once been in a weapon rack in the corner now lies on the floor. Its companion, a large sward now teeters precariously against the table. The only items remaining on the table are a book, a candle, a quill, an overturned inkwell, and an upside-down potion.
A bag of Knekkebrød (Norwegian crispbread) on an orange background. This particular bag is Norwegian Baked Knekkebrød from Brooklyn, NY. (https://www.norwegianbaked.com)
Gizmodo headline: An experiment put LLMs in Charge of Radio Stations. You’ll Never Guess How It Went
Small posable wooden human mannequin of the sort used by artists.
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A shot of the Kraken in Clash of the Titans 1981. There is little color-grading going on here, so the sky and water are both blue -- about as bright as you're going to get in a film of that budget in that era.
A shot of the Kraken in Clash of the Titans (201). The shot is heavily desaturated, in moody reddish-sepia tones.
A closely guarded plan to cool Earth is revealed A geoengineering company would use tiny specks of silica to block sun rays — and make billions of dollars.
[AP, Cairo, Egypt, 31 Aug 1995 CAIRO, Egypt (AP)] Six people drowned Monday while trying to rescue a chicken that had fallen into a well in southern Egypt. An 18-year-old farmer was the first to descend into the 60-foot well. He drowned, apparently after an undercurrent in the water pulled him down, police said. His sister and two brothers, none of whom could swim well, went in one by one to help him, but also drowned. Two elderly farmers then came to help, but they apparently were pulled by the same undercurrent. The bodies of the six were later pulled out of the well in the village of Nazlat Imara, 240 miles south of Cairo. The chicken was also pulled out. It survived.
A shot of Burgess Meredith as Henry Bemis in the Twilight Zone S1:8 episode "Time Enough at Last" (1959). In the sot, he is sitting on concrete steps, with very thick glasses on. He is cheerfully reading a book with a marbled cover. Stacks of books and fallen lumber are on the steps behind him.
Common Sweetener May Harm Critical Brain Barrier, Risking Stroke
A 40-year-old blood pressure drug reveals unexpected effects on memory
A CDC map of cumulative Hantavirus cases in the United States, by state, from 1993 to 2023. From the map, one can ascertain that the virus is much more common in the west, and particularly the southwest. New Mexico (129), Colorado (121), and Arizona (92) have the highest counts.
Headline: A deadly bacterium is creeping up the US east coast. How worried should we be?
I picture of a hand squishing a textured pink Nee Doh blob.
A screenshot of some text. It reads: "It is in the small hours where you are. Your device reported your timezone before the page finished loading. A website knowing your local time can infer when you sleep, when you work, and when you browse because you cannot sleep. Nothing about this was requested. The information arrived on its own." The text "can infer when you sleep" is highlighted.
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Kenneth Branaugh and Emma Thompson, close enough to kiss, in "Dead Again" (1991).
A snippet from the abstract of the paper linked earlier in the thread. The highlighted text reads: We evaluate 9 LMs and find that none fully resolve any task, with the best model passing 95% of tests on only 3% of tasks.
A famous still from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978). Donald Sutherland, in a tan trenchcoat, off-center to the right, looks at the camera, with his eyes bugged large, and his mouth open to howl. His head is tilted back slightly, contributing to the eerieness of the pose. He is pointing straight at the camera.
A shot from the extremely awkward strudel scene in Inglorious Basterds. Hans Landa is smiling, and holding his hand up. The caption reads "Wait for the cream."
Bluesky's trending list, which is currently: 1. Mifepristone Case 2. Epstein Accountability 3. Game Development 4. Trump 5. PWHL The poster has highlighted #3.
An image of fresh homemade ceviche de chochos in a black bowl. The dish is garnished with plantain chips and maiz tostado (corn nuts).
For most individuals (~80%) PE are transient, (Linscott & van Os, 2013; McGrath et al., 2015). For the remaining (~20%) PE may recur. Individuals who experience multi-modal PE are more likely to experience recurring PE (McGrath et al., 2015).
The Koala Pad, an early drawing tablet. It is a small drawing tablet, by modern standards. The plastic bezel is off-white, and the drawing surface is black, with a portrait aspect ratio. There are two black buttons at the top, and a black cable.