Amos Manneschmidt

I have updated my Blender extension, Holey Tools. It's complicated now but it can handle some amazingly difficult cases much better now. Fairing holes turns out to be tricky to get right. extensions.blender.org/add-ons/hole... #blender

I’m tempted to get some life-sized cardboard cutouts of Nathan Fielder wearing headphones and just leave him places barely peaking around the corner.

Ewww Google updated the Maps app voice to be more human-like / switched to Gemini and now it’s all auditory uncanny valley. In the limited context where I’ll allow computers to talk to me, I want my robots to sound somewhat like robots and not whatever this is. I’m reminded of this meme:

Insanely cool display. youtu.be/npmmEEqhVgU

awoke this morning with a Vision

Coming soon to my free Blender Extension, Holey Tools: the ability to fair holes and resize simple blind holes in some situations that change the mesh topology. #b3d #blender

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

At my local makerspace!

Reminder that there is no scientific definition for "ultra-processed food", and no theory for the mechanism by which it is supposedly uniquely harmful.

The 25th was not created to react to the death of millions but to prevent it.

Dear Chief Justice Roberts, is threatening the death of a civilization within the scope of the President's Article II absolute immunity? Or just his presumptive immunity? Asking for a nation. #lawsky

Trump must be removed from office via the 25th. A serious threat to use nuclear weapons (implied) is insanity and practically it would very likely result in nukes being used here too. Nuclear war cannot be won.

Because I like data, here's what you actually get when you normalize "help with mortgage" vs. other common "help with" searches. TL/DR, *proportionally*, it's unusually low now.

I like the sparkle in her eyes as she steals

Excited to finally announce we are collaborating with scientists to create a 3D bioprinted liver with an award from ARPA-H n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9970

For those who want to test their perception of colour, I made a little game called "What's My JND" www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

2026 basically

I largely support the Thingiverse purchase by MyMiniFactory. It needs new life and I think AI generated models are a scourge, currently. I could see a day where AI could ethically and efficiently produce a quality model but for now the ethics and quality of the process and results are awful.

All cozy by the fireplace for the winter ice storm of 2026.

On one hand I appreciate that they’re at least sharing the step files…but that’s only slightly better than sharing just an stl of the printer pieces. It’s not really the “source” if it’s not native to the design tool it was made in. I have mixed feelings about a new license. xkcd.com/927/

I wish BambuStudio, PrusaSlicer, OrcaSlicer, and Cura could all agree to work towards using standards compliant 3mf as much as possible instead of creating proprietary data structures inside 3mf. The current software interoperability is really poor. Too many flavors of 3mf exist.

remember how burn is useful for 2d masks? it works just as great for 3d masks

I have been waiting for this for 4 years. It makes it possible to do all kinds of neat simulation stuff that otherwise isn’t possible without grids. #b3d #geometrynodes code.blender.org/2025/10/volu...

Hot take: the last 24 seconds of Monster Mash aren’t good. The song is otherwise an iconic masterpiece.

I think something can be called "shipped" when it's first in possession by the carrier and not when you've just printed the shipping label.

Why doesn't Wago make a 4 position 221 series lever nut?

My soul yearns to board the high-speed spite train

Andor is easily the best Star Wars ever made and there aren’t lightsabers in it. Instead we just have believable dialogue and a coherent story with character development. Action wise season 1 felt a slow burn getting started but season 2 was continuous and had plenty of tension in every scene.

Unfortunately relevant again in light of the PBS defunding.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

An incredible out of context quote from “Careless People” was, “…I’m informed that Big Bird can’t take the stage after dark, and that Big Bird and his team are not prepared to do any more accommodating for Mark Zuckerberg.” Love the image of Big Bird and his muppet posse being like “Nah, Mark.”

Is there a simple way to make a list that just excludes certain accounts you follow? Some accounts I follow mostly post about The Daily Horrors and I’d like to banish that stuff to its own tab by default.

PrusaSlicer 2.9.1 alpha is here, and sequential printing just got way more exciting with our new collision detection & arrangement. We’ve also added multi-material interlocking—shoutout to the devs of Ultimaker Cura & OrcaSlicer. Try it out! ⤵️ github.com/prusa3d/Prus...

Too many physical products market themselves as having AI in them. AI is not a well defined term but my sense is that the general public sentiment is negative towards “AI” so it’s strange to use it for marketing. It’s also like saying, “this widget has ✨inefficient black-box-algorithms✨ included!”

The genie is out of the bottle but I think I generally agree with this. The damage LLMs have caused and continue to inflict to the information space outweighs their value in net. It’s difficult to find quality information about any niche topic amidst the query-bespoke sea of AI chum.

I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel for the first time and now I really want to recreate the pastries. The packaging is also a required part of the experience.

couldn’t be me, nope 🙃

Black Friday nah, I'll take Hack Friday! Join the Friday call to show what you are working on tonight at 9pm EST. Sign up here: forms.gle/9xVqYwxvSkHv...

I’m mildly shocked that a giant international company like Coca-Cola would think it’s okay to release this. Only mildly shocked because Pepsi had the guts to release the even more tone deaf “Jump In” ad in 2017. youtu.be/IQWUKWM2JrQ?...

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