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If musk gets off on limitless clean energy that’s actually okay.

(I feel the need to point out that it’s been 30 years since people started saying this…)

Oh man though this one is cool - I have a dear dear friend working on this project, and it’s absolutely wild. Nothing they’re doing is new, exactly but modern magnet designs have enabled SPARC to simultaneously hit a bunch of metrics that were previously entirely reliant on purpose-built machines.

Excerpt from them when I asked them about this yesterday:

While no existing tokamak has reached the same parameters that SPARC will simultaneously, there is empirical evidence in part for all of the major parameters it seeks to reach. the purple dot is ARC, the power plant design, and the red X is ITER, the gigantic international tokamak being built which doesn’t take advantage of newer and more powerful magnets (which is what allowed SPARC/ARC to have much smaller volume)

so like yeah, we’ve built a ton of reactors that could do all this individually and then CFS have managed a system that has combined those results into a single machine and that has been the big goal for years (beyond stopping the plasma from fizzling out). There’s still challenges to solve, but this system has cleared all the previous hurdles (barring some of the noncritical ones). It’s so damn cool. It’s not fusion happening now, the headline is sensationalist, but it’s the biggest step forward we’ve had probably since research into plasma fusion started.

In order to save the ecosystem, you must be willing to kill the ecosystem!

… Could some kind person explain, I appear to have come down with a terrible case of “don’t get it”

If we lived in a society that made rational decisions you would be 100% right. Also, everything wouldn’t be all “this is fine” right now, most of the world’s problems would be getting solved and I wouldn’t be screaming and screaming and screaming into the void.

The two are not contradictory positions: the problem with AI is societal - all the jobs being given over to it is a problem that’s only compounded by the larger issue of people fundementally not understanding the sharp limitations of AI, and how it cannot actually be used to replace most jobs.

I can think of four separate friends in the US that had or have this table - I’d never realized it before this post but yeah super common. Maybe it’s a regional thing? Though I saw it growing up in the mid-east too so IDK. Global furniture distribution: how does it work? Seriously, an industry I have no ideas about…

Fedinsfw these days. RIP lemmynsfw, u were a good instance.

Hugo Girlboss?

edit: Wait shit that’s just Coco Chanel

Those creepy floating sperms have been given thicc bodies, damn.

… Hey, well done for self-hosting your kiddie-diddling image generator! FOSS pedophila only, thank you.

(seriously tho, probably the Agentic AIs would do this too I have just never tested it)

AI sure is eager to produce photos of kids being diddled, however…

In November 2025, F1NN5TER revealed he was involved in establishing non-profit private trans healthcare provider Anne Healthcare in the United Kingdom, having provided early financial support during the organisation’s founding in 2024. Anne Healthcare confirmed in a statement published alongside F1NN5TER’s announcement video that his contribution had secured the organisation’s first prescriber, stating that the clinic “would not have happened without the money F1NN5TER contributed.”

Huh. Another dollar for the “sex workers at the front of the fight for civil rights” jar, I guess.

Ben Krasnow of AppliedScience is still going strong and has yet to be revealed as an asshole - same for the WellTheresYourProblem crew, Jenny Nicholson, Hbomberguy, OutOfDarts… Im sure theres more, but there’s a few if folks are looking for recs!

AAVE is not strictly racial - though not extremely common, there are many non-black americans/canadians that are native speakers of the dialect, and it’s extremely common for non-black americans in racially diverse regions to speak it as a 2nd dialect (for example, me).

Also… how do you know they’re white?

Ah, I see they’ve reached the section on Window Functions…

(Not the first by at least a decade, but for sure the first one that was available outside of industry (and actually worked))

Presumably they’re continuing to sell the XL because INDX isn’t available yet (hopefully soon). At the moment it’s still one of only 3 available machines (2.5 really; bambu h2c only kinda counts) with nozzle swapping, and it really is an amazingly good machine. But even once INDX becomes available for the Core One, it’s still going to be more than twice what a U1 costs for a much smaller build area. I’d really like a Core One L with INDX, especially because it has an enclosure + heater and the U1 doesn’t, but that’s going to be almost 4 months of rent for unreleased-but-hopefully-equivalent technology (admittedly with a 30mm larger build area) to the U1, which is only 1 month of rent on proven hardware which I can go and buy right now.

The value for the user they deliver is in the meta-characteristics like their position on opensource (though uh… snapmaker is kinda winning on that point too), their tech support and their community, and unfortunately these days it’s not directly reflected in the hardware. That’s not to say it’s not top notch hardware, but that no longer sets you apart - Bambu alone has demonstrated that (and lets not forget the MK4S had a catch-on-fire problem back in the day, too. Of course, prusa decided not to be utter bastards about it…). You can get equally good machines for at least 1/2 the price, and the differences between hardened ground linear bearings and unhardened el-cheapo linear bearings will never become apparent for 99% of end users.

I really hope that Bambu gets taken down for this (though it’s unlikely they’ll go away entirely), and I’d love an INDX machine… but I can’t justify spending four months rent on something where the cheaper options give identical results. They’re almost a luxury brand - great if you can afford them, but most people absolutely can’t. And honestly at this point they’re just too expensive to be a useful recommendation for people trying to get into the hobby.

Wait what’s closing?

I’ve never thought of Doctor Pepper as a guy either, tbf. Never even considered it as more than a product name.

I mean… I love prusa and their hardware is really really good, but calling them “pricey” is a just a bit of an understatement. You can buy 4 snapmaker U1s for the price of a Prusa XL (or cover my rent for 5 months…), and there’s no appreciable difference in print quality between the machines. The XL uses higher quality components, but not so much that the difference is gonna be relevant to a consumer level (or realistically even to a hobby level) user.