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I finally brought together my love for content design, data visualization, and extreme metal.
Third World Thunder is an archive of Pakistan's extreme metal underground. At the core are the dispatches - long-form pieces I'm writing from interviews. Around them are eight interactive ways into the scene: timelines, a map of who played with who, every release ever made, the whole thing rendered as a night sky.
First two dispatches are up here:
thirdworldthunder.shaheryarp…
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Jun 13
Literally the worst cable management I've ever seen in my life
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This is going to be the greatest cover story of all time!
Jun 10
Decibel Celebrates 40 Years of THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE: THE SOUNDTRACK! Pre-Order Our New Issues NOW! decibelmagazine.com/2026/06/…
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Jun 6
Slick and data focused, this is the shit that one wants to be known for. You can write a paper on this; publish it in a journal.
I finally brought together my love for content design, data visualization, and extreme metal.
Third World Thunder is an archive of Pakistan's extreme metal underground. At the core are the dispatches - long-form pieces I'm writing from interviews. Around them are eight interactive ways into the scene: timelines, a map of who played with who, every release ever made, the whole thing rendered as a night sky.
First two dispatches are up here:
thirdworldthunder.shaheryarp…
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I finally brought together my love for content design, data visualization, and extreme metal.
Third World Thunder is an archive of Pakistan's extreme metal underground. At the core are the dispatches - long-form pieces I'm writing from interviews. Around them are eight interactive ways into the scene: timelines, a map of who played with who, every release ever made, the whole thing rendered as a night sky.
First two dispatches are up here:
thirdworldthunder.shaheryarp…
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May 28
Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file
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May 20
please just keep my food cold
May 11
JUST IN: Samsung upgrades its smart refrigerators with Google Gemini to recognize more than 2,000 foods.
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Apr 27
(me after accidentally deleting everything) "yeah dude i dont know what happened, claude just like, went rogue"
Apr 27
🚨#BREAKING: According to reports, a Claude powered coding agent using the Cursor tool allegedly went rogue, wiping a company’s production database along with its backups in just 9 seconds, raising serious concerns
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Apr 23
Over the past month, some of you reported Claude Code's quality had slipped. We investigated, and published a post-mortem on the three issues we found.
All are fixed in v2.1.116 and we’ve reset usage limits for all subscribers.
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Apr 15
“Fuck yeah dude.”
-Me agreeing with someone in order to get out of a conversation
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Apr 13
Never posting Deftones on my story ever again:
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Banger translation
Apr 12
مشہور زمانہ قاتل کی آئس کےنشے میں اینکر کو دھمکیاں ! سڑکوں پر اپنا جگا ٹیکس شروع کر دیا !
#ParkingMafia #Corruption #Pakistan #WorldNews #InvestigativeJournalism #Police #TrafficPolice #Scandal #BigBreaking #TrendingNow #ViralNews #Expose #NewsUpdate #UrbanIssues #Accountability #IllegalParking #PublicIssue
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Iran and US expert teams are exchanging texts - Tasnim
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Apr 11
Chachu’s opening speech at the Islamabad Talks! 🤌🏽
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Apr 10
Great to see this on X. This is something I created during my PhD time 20 years ago.
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This is a healing grid by Japanese artist Ryota Kanai. If you stare at the center, the irregularities start to heal themselves because your brain strongly prefers to see regular patterns.
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Nieman Lab analyzed the tweets of major news organizations that link back to their websites and compared them to a handful of “breaking news” accounts that almost never include links. It found that tweets with links almost definitely are being suppressed
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