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Shaun Lambert

@alexanderlambrt.bsky.social
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modernity values life over living, and we are all the poorer for it // whomever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 5h
TV *eats plot*. It just absolutely devours it. The sheer amount of story you need to fill even six hours is absurd. It doesn't feel like it as a viewer (if they've done it right) but once you've seen it through the other side of the process...oh boy.
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P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 6h
many years ago i was in a Q&A with Holly Black and asked her about a scene in one of her books where ~2/3rds of the named character very suddenly die in a botched assassination-turned-massacre. most of the time, this makes me check out. but this one kept me very engaged. "how did you do that?"
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 6h
four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better
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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 6h
Australia's alliance with this country is a stain and a disgrace.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 5h
in 2020 my lab quit Microsoft Word and began writing in R Markdown, an open-source document-publishing system that facilitates a clear, permanent link between statements in text (scientific prose) and the code producing analyses and visualizations supporting those statements (scientific analyses)
a preprint generated with R Markdown with the following text

Ecological momentary assessment reveals causal effects
of music enrichment on infant mood
Eun Cho1,∧,∗
, Lidya Yurdum1,2,∧,∗
, Ekanem Ebinne1
, Courtney B. Hilton3
, Estelle Lai3
, Mila Bertolo1,4,5
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Pip Brown3
, Brooke Milosh6
, Haran Sened7
, Diana I. Tamir7
, and Samuel A. Mehr1,3,∗
1Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
2Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1018WT, Netherlands.
3School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.
4Centre for Research in Brain, Language and Music, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 2A8, Canada.
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Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 1A1, Canada.
6Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA.
7Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
∧These authors contributed equally.
*Corresponding authors. E-mails: eun.cho@yale.edu, lidya.yurdum@yale.edu, sam@auckland.ac.nz
Music appears universally in human infancy with self-evident effects: as many parents know intuitively,
infants love to be sung to. The long-term effects of parental singing remain unclear, however. In an offsetdesign exploratory 10-week randomized trial conducted in 2023 (N = 110 families of infants, Mage =
3.67 months, 53% female, 73% White), the study manipulated the frequency of infant-directed singing
via a music enrichment intervention. Results, measured by smartphone-based ecological momentary
assessment (EMA), show that infant-directed singing causes general post-intervention improvements
to infant mood, but not to caregiver mood. The findings show the feasibility of longitudinal EMA
(retention: 92%; EMA response rate: 74%) of infants and the potential of longer-term and higherintensity music enrichment interventions to improve health in infancy.
Keywords: music, infancy, parenting, infant-directed song, ecological moment…the journal article version of the previous image
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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 12h
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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If I'm being fair, I think the "who's our Polanski?" (or, somewhat more reasonably "who's our Mamdani?", and inexplicably never "who's our Swarbrick?") is mostly based on a misunderstanding of the ON surge, i.e. that the voters who have abandoned Lib/Nat were ever gettable for the Greens
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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 12h
ridiculous. literally trying to be the fun police
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 19h
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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 12h
got the same 😭
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 09/10/2026
Because he's one of the only people standing next to a Republican going, "this person is a piece of shit, I don't respect him, neither should you, he's fucking evil and he needs to go, and I don't care if it makes me sound rude saying it" LIKE EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD BE DOING??? MAYBE???
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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 12h
sadly, he won't I don't think. their type don't
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 14h
AI is a fucking pied piper, and everyone else is a rat
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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 13h
used to love the american bot back on twitter for this, not this level of detail but consistently incongruent
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male to fujoshi transsexual @foxglove.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm so tired, man. We need to take the vast amount of American pop culture out back like a terminally-ill dog.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shang aesthetics are so criminally underrated tho. China before it became “China”
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
alt text?
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026
More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN
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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You n'wah!
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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
it's the headphone jacks, surely too many devices to keep charged, too easy to lose bt earphones
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the Curb @thecurbau.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm so curious about this film, Zero A.D.: The Birth of Christ. Ben Mendelsohn. Sam Worthington. Gael Garcia Bernal. Jim Caviezel. Directed by the Sound of Freedom guy. How much are they paying those first three actors to be in this? youtu.be/lRF1Etsd4wo?...
youtu.be
Zero A.D.: The Birth Of Christ | Official Trailer | In Theaters Dec 11 | Jim Caviezel | Angel
YouTube video by Angel
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it’s ben @yotsuben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
you know, the voice actor for Biddy Blas has gotta be having the time of their life lmao
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 09/10/2026
Photo of the article being written
A black and white photo of a dog, in profile. It is sat upright in a chair at a desk, with a typewriter in front of it and a giant pile of papers behind the typewriter. The dog's paws are on the typewriter keys, giving the impression that it is writing.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hegseth and Marles standing side by side smiling broadly.
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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
jfc, no! also weird to think this is how I find out Piett's first name..
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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
couldn't agree more. disgusting thing, shan't call it sport or entertainment
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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 09/10/2026
Once again I revisit this. Once blood sports are mainstreamed and normalised where do we go? I think we see where.
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NBER @nber.org · 09/10/2026
Norway's controversial 2021–2024 reforms nearly doubled the tax on business wealth. Firms of affected owners did not invest less, and outmigration was limited to the very top, from Marius A. K. Ring www.nber.org/papers/w35854
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 09/10/2026
Sydney trader sacked for working from Singapore without permission wins unfair dismissal case
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Sydney trader sacked for working from Singapore without permission wins unfair dismissal case
Employee had also been in Bali when he told his manager he was working from home, Fair Work Commission hears A Sydney currency trader who was sacked for working from Singapore without approval has won an unfair dismissal case, but failed to be awarded compensation. The Fair Work Commission ruled on Wednesday that Charles Graham had been unfairly dismissed by HIFX Australia, trading as Xe, in December last year. Continue reading...
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 09/10/2026
This story is an absolutely wild ride:
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A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the bizarre tale of Otto Z
The long read: After his mother died, Otto became convinced he’d been wronged by the forensic investigators – and that one of them was a fraud. The truth was even stranger
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 09/10/2026
New run and Gunstar🐟 in Battlestar Galactica : Scattered Hopes. Like FLT, I'll probably play it every 3 months for the next 15 years. Or like This War of Mine, which took me about fifty playthroughs and 11 years to complete.🚀 You should try a run on BSG SH, and there is a demo on Steam. 👇
My new ragtag fleet in Battlestar Galactica : Scattered HopesThe pixal art lab. There is a cat.A space battle again a massive 2003 Cylon ship in Battlestar Galactica : Scattered Hopes. Two big lasers are projected by the fish-life Gunstar.Space battle with impressive, bright nuclear explosion in Battlestar Galactica : Scattered Hopes.
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Public Transport Users Association @ptua.org.au · 08/10/2026
Station car parks are full early in the morning. Expanding them is incredibly expensive and never meets demand. Vastly improving feeder buses, walking and cycling options is a better, more affordable, more scalable way of getting people to the station.
abc.net.au
Melbourne train station carpark overflowing just weeks after opening
This train station in Melbourne's booming outer west has been open for less than a month, but is already experiencing growing pains.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Intermittently I get a fit of the bleak giggles thinking about how much poorer the Iran war has made all of us. Bills and inflation going up on the theory of “drop a few bombs, magic happens, Reza Pahlavi comes back”.
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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
had to stop in awe at the idiocy of calling to deport dual citizens. there would be so many dual UK AU citizens!
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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I really don't understand this project. This is Sydney, where most of the time it's either too sunny to stand in direct sunlight or raining. What on earth is the point of an empty expanse of concrete?
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m not being hyperbolic when I say I’d genuinely rather be dead than raise a child with someone like this.
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/10/2026
Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."
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'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting
Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."
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🐈‍⬛💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 08/10/2026
Andrew Leigh @aleighmp.bsky.social banging on about experimenting with the lives of JobSeekers even though there's so much data already saying that compulsory mutual obligations don't work, cutting people off their payments harms people, and the payment is way too low to start with
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How government can learn what works
OPINION | We will make better choices over time if we are confident enough to test our ideas and curious enough to learn from the results.
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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
fair enough. "prosperity gospel" also captures it to 100%
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026
I was trying to remember the name of the author of a novel I read earlier this year - named An Underachiever's Diary - and instead Google wrote me an AI short story about an underachiever???? what??? why??? aahhhhh!!
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Ryan @ryanmalm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trench run in #picotron w procedurally generated greeble textures and props. #indiedev
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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
as a bloke with little experience of makeup, almost the weirdest element is how strongly she's holding onto her black colour for her eyebrows? they look ok/normal in the photos from decades ago but they multiply this... look here by a lot imo
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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
definitely more social incentives for it, so people becoming conservative more likely to be, so too those inside already. plus the money to buy GLPs, surgeries at least for the women. negative polarisation against body positivity eh!
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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the writing was fine imo, from that quote I find it bizarre that they mention Macs, laptops but exclude desktops. there would still be so many more than Macs even??
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Find a special enemy in your life who hates you as much as Chris Minns hates activists
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a flight to Tel Aviv is a former cryptocurrency speculator who four years ago was living with his parents and calling women “rotten meat” on a now disabled social media account. " And guess where that account was
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