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Kit Noussis

@kitnoussis.bsky.social

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Data Analyst, Shanghai I explore how meaning emerges when humans shape the world through language, symbols, and thought—from ancient Chinese characters to data visuals to cognitive models of mind and machine.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 27

Made a lil vid about Marx and the Factory game genre #gaming #addiction
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What would Karl Marx say about Factorio? Robinson Crusoe and Games that feel like work

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · Jun 8

I hope you keep this lil guy around, Wilson-style

a volleyball with a hand print on it

ALT: a volleyball with a hand print on it

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · Jun 8

I was one of the kids who grew up on por-... podcasts, and now I'm a lonely man. Coincidence? #selfhelp #masculinity #addiction

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Do we need a NoFap for podcasts?

Parasocial friendships are not getting the job done anymore.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · Jun 7

there are plenty of italian-descended Danielas who couldn't tell you where Milan is. They don't worry about whether they have a right to it. Why do people raise their standards so much when an adult picks her own name? I say go for it.

Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · Jun 7

Chinese readers when I translate the meaning of my Christian name into Chinese characters: "hmm, a bit macho, a bit too 'red'"

Chinese readers when they see the characters for 'soup nanny': oh that's Tom Cruise! so handsome!

Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 31

I wrote about blaming your parents for your woes and the days of wacky 19th C shrinks:
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#trauma

We Will Soon Speak of Microtraumas

Little cuts will also make the jump from the body to the mind

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 31

I don't know if any western apps do this, but on WeChat short vids there is a heart button (visible to your followers) and a like button (only visible to you). In the early days, we wanted everyone to see our likes. Now we want the option.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 31

I like this Yiddish expression you say after something good so you don't jinx it. It's like when we were kids and we said we wanted to sit in the front seat: "called it, locked it, no black magic"

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 31

"noting that in the 1980s and 90s, computer adoption gave the world all kinds of tools that reshaped the labor market. But labor productivity grew just 2% to 3%."

I'm shocked that the introduction of e-mail and spreadsheets only had a single-digit effect.

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The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine | CNN Business

If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached...

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 31

He also remarked on the logistical feat of designing a study protocol deemed acceptable by its feline participants.

“I really commend this group of scientists for being successful in engaging 30 cats in doing this stuff,” “Most cats want nothing to do with your research.”

They herded cats! NYT

Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 28

I reviewed a self-help book called Tiny Experiments. Thanks for the inspiration @ashleyafrawley.bsky.social @oliverburkeman.com
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The Shifty Promise of Tiny Experiments

Self-help cannot be good philosophy and good business at the same time.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 28

Got this creepy ad from twitch to try and entice me back. It's a totally fabricated conversation where all my friends are wondering where I am during non-descript 'fire' moment.

Twitch themselves should know from my real chat logs that I have no friends there.

Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 27

Made a lil vid about Marx and the Factory game genre #gaming #addiction
youtu.be/u9aSxfsL6SY

What would Karl Marx say about Factorio? Robinson Crusoe and Games that feel like work

YouTube video by Kitticism

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Obsolete Sony @obsoletesony.com · May 27

This much cool should be illegal

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 27

people used to have the TV two inches above the floor, huh?

Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 27

What asymptote are we approaching for verifications and captchas online? Eventually, I think we will spend 50% of our time posting and 50% of our time logging in.

Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 26

Video games are weird. To be in the Steam top 100 is a huge accomplishment, and yet many of those games I've never played and never even heard of. It takes hundreds of thousands of players to make a game a hit, but you can write a best seller book on a few thousand sales.

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Gif Economy Worker @fairbairn.zone · May 24

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 25

wonder if this guy is alive

Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 25

Moby Dick 4: Tokyo Shift

Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 25

Data are not any more objective than words, and data analysts need to stop dining out on the cred of pure mathematics

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Data is not a fish that you cook, and insights are not gems that you mine.

We need more numeracy and literacy to understand when the 'data storytellers' are telling tall tales.

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 23

What is your view on the place of critics with respect to art?

Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 23

People getting murked by early railway accidents (and later getting quasi-hysterical 'railway spine' injuries) are where we get our modern definition of the 'accident' to begin with. There have always been misfortunes and calamities, but after trains we had a new kind that needed a language.

Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · May 22

When a train crashes, there's a process to learn lessons so it doesn't happen again. Cars crash every day and the official response is 🤷
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Man arrested after train and tractor collision in Herefordshire

Two people hospitalised and services halted between Manchester and Cardiff after crash near Leominster

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Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 23

Love how thick and juicy the gem coins are in this game.

Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 23

With your permission, I am emboldened.

I would add that If dog-earing a book, underlining, marginalia help you get more out of a book: do it, don't hesitate.

Kit Noussis @kitnoussis.bsky.social · May 23

First, draw two ovals...