Case Study: Ready Player Me
RPM (Ready Player Me) used to be a character creation, or avatar creation, studio. You'd select properties (boy or girl, hair style, clothes, etc) of your character, click a button and download a reusable 3d asset.
Artificial Intelligence
News Production Studio: Updates
I can so far create something like the following. Added multiple avatars, and camera transitions.
The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
Government surveillance centers are monitoring viral anti-Flock Instagram posts, warning local police about upcoming DeFlock events including one scheduled to start next week, and have told cops to “increase patrols around ALPR [automatic license plate readers]” as backlash to Flock grows, according to government intelligence bulletins obtained using public records requests. The documents also warn about devices “that could be used to identify the locations of Flock cameras.”
Zuckerbeg’s Meta in $1.4 trillion addiction showdown: Why is the giant in court again?
The social media behemoth that controls Instagram and Facebook is accused of breaking child protection laws and harming underage users’ mental health
staging.pudeyev.com has been released
I'm still working on a few things but all the pieces have fitted nicely, the site is fast, no glaring errors. and it's looking pretty good. The automation machinery is also working well.
A public announcement: that you can reach me does not mean that I can reach you
One of the reasons I've developed my own email system (annesque.com, under active development) is because email communication turns out to be a hard topic to tackle. But freedom of speech is also a very hard topic to handle, and perhaps the two go hand in hand.
Post-mortem on yesterday's downtime
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As a technologist, I thought I'd need to write things twice but it's actually three
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Why I don't like PHP syntax
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Autonomous AI agent attacks major model hub
The unprecedented breach saw an intruder LLM execute “thousands of individual actions” across multiple sandboxes, Hugging Face has reported
Irowor Trading Feature: histogram view of a stock price action over 1-mo, 3-mo, 6-mo, and 1-yr windows
The following is a new description of a feature of the Irowor Trading platform. Please refer to the project site for more info.
Note: to follow the accuracy of plot data, the time the screenshots were taken is July 2026.
Annesque Email: New Feature: Bounce Unwanted Emails
I have wanted this functionality personally for a long time, and today is the day I finally have it! It has been a looong and windy road to get this far, and the journey is far from over. The fight contra spam continues.
