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Daniel
@dadadan.bsky.social
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(He/Him) Support 🏳️‍⚧️ PhD student at Tallinn University trying to make sense of sound in the built enviroment. Radio Drama and Audio enthusiast. Hidden Baker. Did radio but no podcasts (yet). Used to do, and sometimes still do, Animation and Weird films
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emilyherring.bsky.social
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
black and white photo of to cats wearing small round sunglasses in the window of a "lunetterie"
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
dadadan.bsky.social
I just learned about A La Ronde, a fascinating building in Devon, UK and its architects. Jane and Mary Parminter who were in many ways, trailblazers. I admit I am a sucker for Byzantine architecture so I am biased but I do find this building charming.
A La Ronde, a 16-sided, stone-clad cottage-orné in Devon, United Kingdom, as it looks today. With rhomboid windows at the first fround and more traditional window panes for the second floor.
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
dadadan.bsky.social
This is an amazing thread that sent me to a weird path, thinking this is another instance of abusing the commons by current business practice. The other example that came to mind, immediately, was the rent a scooter model where you just abandon the scooter anywhere in the public space...
sonjadrimmer.bsky.social Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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fayer.dev
In other things, Arco is currently 40% off!

We have a demo that's the start of the game, so you can try it and if you like it, get it and continue where you left off!

Get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/2366970/...
Arco keyart with a 40% off banner
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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traindetective.bsky.social
We are ONE WEEK from launch on Steam and Nintendo Switch 😮

Soon, the full story behind our command-select adventure game will be revealed. It's the perfect game for your holiday break 📖

Still time to add us to your wishlist pre-launch ⬇️
store.steampowered.com/app/2689930/...
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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fayer.dev
As we are wrapping up #PancitoMerge to release, I got a couple asks about doing bundles and it made me be aware of that whole area… I don't really see it as a bad thing to have many so, if your game is similar to us and you want to bundle, please reach out!

#GameDev #IndieGameDev
PancitoMerge key art (cute dog on a window above the game logo) next to a black square with with text reading "please bundle with us" and "insert your game here".
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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siobhanfgm.bsky.social
Nuevo episodio. Sobre la Cometierra y su capacidad de hacer una crítica a la crisis de los desaparecidos. Luego hablo del mito del cuerpo unisexuado y la importancia de abandonarlo. open.spotify.com/episode/2uOq...
La Cometierra y el Mito del Cuerpo Unisexual.
open.spotify.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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julieofthespirits.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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manjusrii.bsky.social
The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken.

“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier
One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
dadadan.bsky.social
It is my position that many issues around NLP interfaces were thoroughly understood between the arrival of ELIZA and the mid 90s and we would all benefit of reading more the old papers.
moh-kohn.bsky.social Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.bsky.social · 13d
I've been trying to express exactly this discomfort with modern interface design and especially LLM design and this lady nailed it back in *1993*

("A Small Matter of Programming", Bonnie A. Nardi)
What interests me about these scenarios is not that they make fantastic, unrealistic promises (though I think they do), or that the instructions given by the user are couched in simple English (Tesler at least concedes that more structured languages may be needed), or that they embody such a grand vision (though the vision has much appeal). Rather, it is interesting that it is the programmer who is to control all of the computational magic. As Tesler says, programmers will endow computer-agents with their basic capabilities, even meeting such exciting challenges as pro gramming the computer to know what users will think before they think it! By comparison, notice the relationship of the end user to the computer; the end user is engaged in the most humdrum activities: making queries regarding a phone conversation, asking the computer to set up an appointment, requesting articles from the library (Tesler, 1991). Now contrast this vision of the computer-agent with what Alan Kay (in the same issue of Scientific American) envisions for educational software: children writing simulations of complex natural phenomena such as bi ological and physical systems to better understand how they function. Kay's colleagues have created a simulation construction kit for children so that they can build their own simulations. The construction kit lets children write simple scripts that model animal behavior. Using the kit they can change parameters to see how changing conditions affect the animal. This use of computers is an instance of what Tesler called the "personal implement": the children are doing nothing more or less than programming. With the kit, the children have tools that give them tremen dous scope for intellectual exploration and personal empowerment.
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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jrlrc.bsky.social
Me hubiera gustado compartir aquí “Un argumento lógico sobre el aborto”, mi análisis sobre el problema y a favor de la legalización, publicado en el CIDE. Pero desapareció de toda página del Centro después de que el obradorismo impuso a José Antonio Romero Tellaeche como director.
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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sky.skymarchini.net
they wouldn't have moved this much to southcom if they didn't expect to use it.
Post Conversation Ian Ellis @ianellisjones Many moving pieces in SOUTHCOM as the Ford Carrier Strike Group steams toward the Caribbean & POTUS considers striking land targets in Venezuela. Visualizing U.S. force posture, w/ illustrative Tomahawk Land Attack Missile & Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile strike packages: Map of the U.S. Southern Command region covering Central and South America with the Caribbean Sea highlighted showing icons for the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group positioned near the Caribbean Sea naval assets including ships submarines and aircraft carriers Marine Corps elements Air Force components with strike package illustrations for Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles and other potential targets in Venezuela detailed lists of assets such as expeditionary packages and additional forces with Greek letters. 7:48 PM · Nov 9, 2025 · 332.1K Views https://x.com/ianellisjones/status/1987683648665997619
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
dadadan.bsky.social
Repost with an iconic fictional band (if you feel like it)
The band DCMC from the game Mother 3, a pixel art of a cute band with a bass player, a sax player, a guitarist and the keyboard player on the row with the drummer behind, totally rocking the stage.
November 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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patrickmccray.bsky.social
My new book will be out in early December 2025 via
@mitpress.bsky.social

Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...

#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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molleindustria.org
The Authoritarian Stack: a concise interactive feature on the takeover of democratic institutions by tech oligarchs.

The U.S. may already be cooked, but the rest of the world still has time to shift toward sovereign platforms.

www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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brittashoot.com
Search request support for archive, vinyl, history, radio, physical media posse:

See this 1971 KGIL earthquake reporting record? Seeking similar albums & striking out using words like live news broadcast, disasters, emergencies, etc. What terms would you search for? (Or do you have album recs?!)
A vinyl album cover in yellow with black images and words that read “ February 9, 1971. The San Fernando Valley‘s longest day. As reported by KGIL radio.” The image of the valley and freeway is interrupted by large jagged rifts to convey the San Fernando earthquake damage.
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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mantarayo.bsky.social
Buena noticia es que saldrá nuestro artículo de divulgación publicado en Ecofronteras:
"Ts’ono’ot, mensajero de agua y vida"
Al menos el resumen estará disponible en Maayat’aan (maya) y Bats’i k’op (tsotsil).
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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ernestolpv.bsky.social
Entendemos que la crisis de inseguridad te hace pensar que el Estado necesita más poderes para resolverla. Esa es precisamente la trampa. Más que poderes necesita controles para entonces profesionalizarse. Ya no caigas en la trampa del populismo punitivo.
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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agawande.bsky.social
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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handle.invalid
I was one of the four people who got canned.

In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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vortexegg.com
Something crazy about the US and international copyright enforcement regime is that they consistently criminalize digital archiving when it is done for pro-social reasons, but consistently protect the reuse of archived materials by other parties when it is for commercial reasons
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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tante.cc
"This is not some grand heel turn, or some brainwashing that DHH suffered. This is straight up a midlife crisis turned fash speedrun."

Jordan Petridis: DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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lexmcmenamin.com
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.

can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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cjsprigman.bsky.social
... that people will delegate moral decisions to AI in order to offload responsibility. Obviously, neither finding is particularly good news ... 2/
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM