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Overview of the Week

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Signed contract with the AP to work on election results from now until election day, which is nice, because I have no money.

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Unity game editor showing 3D playing card game board with red cards and yellow-highlighted text overlays, inspector panel displaying card prefab properties and physics settings.
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Unity game engine displaying a yellow card with 'FAST COMPANY' header and blocked content message during development.
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Unity game engine editor showing red 3D card models with physics errors and missing script references in the console.
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3D-rendered spread of website screenshots including Bolts magazine on election data, satellite imagery for natural disasters, and Spectral.js documentation, with a brightness control overlay.
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3D virtual environment with dozens of web pages and documents scattered across a flat surface extending to the horizon at sunset
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Scattered documents including a Supabase Production Checklist covering security and RLS, an academic paper on epistemology and coloniality, and a website blocked error page.
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Chat exchange where person shares they're new to newsroom work at AP since July but have been developing in Drupal since 2018, and EJ Fox responds graciously to their compliment about their career history.
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Adobe After Effects compositing a forest scene with a vintage CRT television displaying green-tinted video, surrounded by jungle foliage.
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Adobe After Effects compositing a 3D tracker camera with forest and vintage TV imagery for visual effects work.
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Adobe After Effects compositor tracking a 3D camera movement through a forest scene with a retro monitor display.
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Unity 3D scene editor showing a rendered workspace with scattered papers and documents, Inspector panel displaying camera and rendering settings on right.
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Unity game scene editor displaying randomly spawned playing cards scattered across a gray plane with physics simulation.
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Unity game engine scene showing procedurally spawned playing cards scattered across a 3D environment with physics simulation.
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Article text describing Dayes Coffee Roasters' renovation in Middletown and its ownership by World Fortunes Inc., founded by Tang and Guan in 2015.
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Minecraft nighttime gameplay showing player with gun facing hostile mobs near torches, with streamer visible in corner cam.
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Unity editor displaying a 3D scene with scattered books and cards floating at various angles, including a prominent blue book in the foreground.
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Unity game engine editor displaying 3D scene of scattered black and white tablet devices on a white surface with code inspector panel visible.
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Unity editor showing tutorial cards about building game layering systems and progressive learning with Duolingo, displayed at angles in 3D space.
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Scattered web page printouts and browser tabs rendered in 3D, showing typography references, code editors, and various website layouts piled chaotically.
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Three webpage printouts displayed upright: Qualia Computing's \"Aligning DMT Entities, Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis,\" LessWrong's \"The Waluigi Effect (mega-post),\" and \"Anomalous tokens reveal the original identities of instruct models.\"
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Blog posts about quantum computing concepts including DMT entities alignment, Waluigi Effect, and LLM prompt injection with illustrated diagrams and memes.
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Multiple overlapping web pages from Van Neistat's site showing membership tiers, code editor, and NiemanLab articles arranged in 3D space.
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Browser windows showing a StreetsBlog NYC article about Bronx highway construction and a GitHub repository for WALDO object detection software.
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Printed webpage from Reactionary about Falun Gong building a propaganda machine, with photos of three people and article text about origins and beliefs.
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