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Arkady Hutton
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Science Fiction/Fantasy fan, programmer, Aussie. He/Him.
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samthielman.com
I just thought everyone should see this
Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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therealmrsweary.bsky.social
I am in awe. The folks at ReBoot ReWind have done something astonishing. A remarkable feat of engineering, ingenuity and love. Check it out and give them some ReBooty love in return.

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WE SAVED REBOOT
YouTube video by ReBoot ReWind
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December 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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eryk.bsky.social
It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
www.nature.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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orisghost.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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dogfromsinope.bsky.social
ladies and gentlemen, here is the cause of the breakdown in the relationship between one of history's top classical composers and one of history's most important philosophers:
November 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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joshtaylor.bsky.social
One month out from the under-16s ban and almost all of the users caught up in the Discord data breach caused by age assurance appeals were based in Australia, OAIC has finally confirmed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Discord age-assurance data breach includes 68,000 Australian users Almost all of the users of video game chat platform Discord who were caught up in October’s data breach are located in Australia, making up 68,122 of the disclosed 70,000 users, Guardian Australia has confirmed. Discord informed in October that a third-party customer service provider that the company was using for age verification had been compromised, with approximately 70,000 users affected, and usernames, email, billing information, IP addresses, and a small number of government ID images. Discord began using facial age assurance to check the age for users in the UK and Australia earlier this year. The company said facial images and ID images “are deleted directly after” ages are confirmed, but Discord’s website noted that if verification fails, users can contact the trust and safety team for a manual review. Ahead of the introduction of age assurance measures on social media in Australia as part of the under-16s social media ban, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner confirmed 68,122 Australians were affected by the breach. Discord had previously refused to break down the number of Australians caught up in the breach, when asked by Guardian Australia.
November 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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ellisonhyde.bsky.social
I am woefully bug ignorant and today I saw a woolly bear caterpillar like ive seen a thousand times and realized I knew nothing about it. Looked it up on Wikipedia and oh my god did everyone else know this??
The Isabella tiger moth can be found in many cold and temperate regions. The banded woolly bear larva emerges from the egg in the fall and overwinters in its caterpillar form, by allowing most of its mass to freeze solid. First its heart stops beating, then its gut freezes, then its blood, followed by the rest of the body. It survives being frozen by producing a cryoprotectant in its tissues. 5] This freezing occurs outside of body cells, but not within. In the spring, it thaws.
October 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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merrittk.com
this is super cool, @zophar.bsky.social talking to the guy who made the emulator most of us used in the dark ages, the iconic ZSNES www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG-o...
How ZSNES Changed SNES Emulation Forever | Interview with the Creator
YouTube video by Zophar
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October 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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grumble.social
still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too.

can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator
a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower
more like no thoughts to declare
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October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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lukeplunkett.com
kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
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When a parrot wanted to connect with a distant friend, a touchscreen showed a selection of other birds available online. The parrots learned to activate the screen, designed specially for them, by touching it gently with their tongues rather than pecking aggressively with their beaks. "We had 26 birds involved," said Hirskyj-Douglas. "They would use the system up to three hours a day, with each call lasting up to five minutes." The interactions ranged from preening and playing with toys to loud vocal exchanges. "When we went through the data, we found that most of these parrots had favourite friends," said Hirskyj-Douglas.
September 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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lifeisterrible.bsky.social
new baby hippo in kanas named mars!!!!
August 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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leena.reuben.games
taking my 17yo into the voting booth with me to teach him how to vote because he’ll be voting in the next one

if he sasses me at any point between now and then i’m gonna vote below the line
May 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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brutumfulmen.bsky.social
All of these spoke to me, deeply.
A series of Tumblr posts: The old magic persists thanks to its unfathomable power." No, the old magic persists because the new magic can't run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don't want or need onto my orb. Look, if the new magic didn't have a personality construct that kept trying to tell me which spells to use, maybe I wouldn't still be using the old magic. Yes it had a deep blood cost, but at least it was a one time sacrifice and not this monthly bloodletting nonsense new age magic has The old magic is robust enough to survive a decade of use and it's compatible with every wand, staff, scroll, and charm in our collection. The new magic stops working after three days and every spell uses proprietary runes. Our preferences, as an archiving institution, should be pretty clear. You try to get guidance for the new magic and the king's sorcerers maybe will answer you in a few days with an unhelpful suggestion to buy the newest orb. You need guidance for the old magic and a dozen retired middle-aged wizards will pop up to explain it to you rune by rune if necessary.
April 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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cameowood.com
ネコ飛出し注意 (neko tobidashi chūi) Means “watch for cats darting out” and I love this sign.
A yellow street sign in Japanese with three black flying through the sky. Below is text that says ネコ飛出し注意 (neko tobidashi chūi) Means “watch for cats darting out”
April 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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lenoret.bsky.social
So Kate Lyons and @nickevershed.bsky.social seem to have cracked the mystery of the exporting penguins and the non-existent Norfolk Island exports

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Not that Norfolk! Mislabelled shipments led to Trump tariffs on uninhabited islands and remote outposts with no US trade
Exclusive: Aquarium systems, Timberland boots and recycling plant parts were mislabelled as coming from remote Norfolk Island or Heard and McDonald islands
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Amazingly talented fediverse astrophotographers: gorgeous, perfectly exposed and processed telescope images

Me, a professional astronomer: accidentally points a 4 meter telescope at Saturn for a series of 5 minute exposures
A really messy black and white image with an extremely bright, overexposed thing in the centre and bright vertical smudges bleeding up and down because all the pixels have filled with electrons and spilled over. This is a tiny part of a Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Megacam full camera field.
March 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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squigglyrick.bsky.social
Bureau of Meteorology is failing to maintain its weather observing system despite hundreds of millions in extra funding explicitly for that purpose, diverting those funds to cover cost blowouts elsewhere. Now it's $152 million in the hole as systems fail. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...
Exclusive: BoM diverted hundreds of millions to cover cost blowouts
Tanya Plibersek has sought an ‘urgent briefing’ on the management of the Bureau of Meteorology after it was revealed it was using hundreds of millions of dollars in maintenance funds to cover cost ove...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
January 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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artologica.net
Okay well, here's a picture of Moo Deng eating ramen ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
Computer art of pygmy hippo eating noodles with a background of waves
January 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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naterogers.bsky.social
In one of the strangest chapters of my life, I spent several months in the trenches of Big Headlight, looking to understand just how and why headlights became brighter than the sun. Answers, graphs, penis sketches—it's all here, on the brand new Ringer site:
www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...
Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars
The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industr...
www.theringer.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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siouxsiew.bsky.social
It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.
December 4, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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kikidoodle.bsky.social
It's after Halloween but whatever!
Watercolor sphynx witch and friend!
Original sold years ago.... I really want to do more traditional paintings again!
#art
A watercolor in purples and yellows featuring an illustrative sphynx cat in a witch hat holding a gnarly broom. It looks at a witch hat wearing rat leaning over a spell book. Very shape-y
November 20, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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debbiemoon.bsky.social
Oh.

Wow.
The thing about the Kobayashi Maru
“The thing about the Kobayashi Maru,” said Jim, “is you have to remember it’s a simulation.”
medium.com
November 17, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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maxkreminski.bsky.social
closely related to a key insight in one of my fav underdiscussed books, "Collaborative Circles": members of historically notable collaborative circles have tended to form especially high-trust pairs & work within these pairs to develop ideas before presenting them to the wider group
Screenshot of a quote from page 23 of Michael P. Farrell's "Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work": Most episodes of creative work occur within these pairs. Although the dynamics leading up to the pairing may include the whole group, it is the paired members who are likely to make the discoveries or to develop the style or the theory that defines the group culture. The moments of discov­ery, the "collaborative moments," take place when a pair of friends are so open and trusting with one another that they can share their wildest, most tentatively held ideas. In these moments, new ideas seem to emerge from the dialogue without "belonging" to either of the pair, and afterward they may not be able to say who had the ideas first. As they share their ideas, experiences, and ways of thinking, the partners become like two linked computers, sharing one another's hard drive mem­ories and software programs. I refer to this type of dyadic exchange as "instrumental intimacy." While engaged in this type of exchange, members are vulnerable to one another. When they open up and exchange wild ideas that go far beyond accepted approaches in their field, they not only risk appear­ing sloppy, foolish, or even mad; they risk having someone steal their most original ideas. Before two members are able to establish this kind of exchange, they usually must test one another's responses in less intimate exchanges and negotiate a high degree of trust. In an escalating set of exchanges, the collaborative pair develop a set of norms that facilitates trust, openness, and exchange.
November 18, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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katriaraden.bsky.social
throwback to this lil legend 🌿
Digital illustration of a Bulbasaur with flowers coming out of his bulb by Katria Raden
October 18, 2024 at 11:53 AM