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Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Evidence here of the dwindling quantity of tv comedy via the decrease of yellow as a car colour, the value of which has been explained previously in @gralefrit.bsky.social’s excellent dive into the Yellow Car Phenomenon joelmorris.substack.com/p/yellow-car
A graphic depicting the decolourification of cars over the years. Yellow has dwindled from 0.3 to 0.1 per cent in three decades.
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bscowboy.bsky.social @bscowboy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Indeed, check this out getartcraft.com/apps
getartcraft.com
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
what's your favorite kids in the hall skit that's not girl drink drunk or the daves i know
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 29/09/2026
A very important message from Omer Reingold to our TCS community, especially us (arg, already) senior researchers: "snap out of it." Please, digest, and share. theorydish.blog/2026/09/29/s...
As for depression: the next time you have the urge to lament, or even celebrate, being “the last generation of human mathematicians,” perhaps keep it to yourself. Contemplating the end of your profession from the relative comfort of an established, tenured career is a privilege, and it comes with responsibilities. Senior academics are not merely individual researchers; we are stewards of our field, and we owe our junior colleagues active leadership rather than abandonment.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I finally had time (thanks to our virtual reading group!) to catch up on the AI + mathematics discourse. My favorite piece is this essay by Oded Goldreich. Human understanding is the end goal, not solutions alone, and we can't pursue this without also thinking about societal structures.
wisdom.weizmann.ac.il
On AI replacing Mathematicians
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 16/09/2026
Trying to forecast the future on a Galton board
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 07/09/2026
A ring built from the Julia sets found along the main cardioid of the Mandelbrot set. one of my favourite mathematical objects
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A few people expressing surprise at the numbers of birds migrating in a single night. But this is just the beginning of the season. On 8th October last year Birdcast recorded 1.25 billion birds in one night.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jul 27, 1948 Hans Rosling born in Uppsala, Sweden 🇸🇪 2005: Gapminder and the moving bubble chart made for powerful data stories. An axis dedicated to Time was replaced by animation, to wonderful effect.
Bubble plot of lifespan vs per capita Income, with the size of the bubble ~ population. It shows Hans Rosling behind a transparent plot as he appeared in a lecture
Animated version of the moving bubble plot, produced by Rosling's gapminder softwareA photo of Rosling giving a lecture pointing to a line graph, with the label "We are here" showing world population
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bscowboy.bsky.social @bscowboy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
@grimalkina.bsky.social I went to purchase your book on Amazon. Congratulations on being the top new release in Rugby!!! 😂
Cat Hicks book The Psychology of Software Teams on Amazon indicating it’s the top new release in Rugby.
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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Well now I feel like a fool that I’ve never asked my team to “do an innovation”
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 07/07/2026
“The water development board wouldn’t even mention it.” Last week: The Corpus Christi water crisis is a sign of Texas' planners persistent refusal to grapple with the reality of climate change.
texasobserver.org
Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 03/07/2026
Incredibly well done
youtu.be
YELLOW: A LEGO Horror Movie
YouTube video by George Coley
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Iraq War Vet @corgwynmom.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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bscowboy.bsky.social @bscowboy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is new and different cityliveabilityindex.com
cityliveabilityindex.com
City Liveability — Global Cities Ranked by Urbanauts
A global index of the world's most liveable cities, ranked 0–10 by Urbanauts who've lived in, traveled to, or deeply researched each city.
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bscowboy.bsky.social @bscowboy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
www.climate.us
climate.us
Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/06/2026
Sports Commentary xkcd.com/3262/
Comic. [A person and a second person with a ponytail sitting at a table with a screen showing a soccer game behind them.] PERSON 1: They could be in trouble. Over the last 36 years, they’ve gone 0 for 2 when they’ve scored in the 37th minute to lead 2-1 against a team whose country comes before theirs alphabetically. [caption] I wish sports commentators hadn’t discovered p-hacking.
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Robert Kosara @eagereyes.org · 21/06/2026
I've built a solargraph simulator using solar irradiation data. Pick a place on Earth, animate the solargraph, draw just one point per hour for analemma view, or switch to panorama mode that projects the solargraph into a virtual sky you can navigate. eagereyes.org/app/solargraph
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bscowboy.bsky.social @bscowboy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Entertaining read, the list seems oddly influenced by movie adaptations.
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Brian Sletten @bsletten.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
After all this time looking for it! #humor #math #foundontheinternet #nerdhumor
A beach by a lake in the mountains. Blue sky, trees, pretty water. In the foreground there are the remnants of a tree trunk on its side. Roots are exposed. There are two prominent branches at 90 degrees that have another 90 degree turn in each direction to meet back up in what appears to be a natural rectanglish shape.

The text says, “I finally found it… the square root”.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/06/2026
fuck this, I read a Nathaniel Hawthorne book today, and now I’m thinking in “the sybaritic and sprightly poetry of her youth positively warmed the frost-chilled cockles of the antique house’s heart” and shit
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/06/2026
I think anyone who worries about security should read this paper asap. @filippo.abyssdomain.expert does not mince his words.
words.filippo.io
A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.
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John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 04/06/2026
My favorite is this Kurzesagt video explaining how we controlled the screw worm in the past. Their resurgence is another massive step backwards. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq6...
youtube.com
How Nuclear Flies Protect You from Flesh-Eating Parasites
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 31/05/2026
Ohhhhhh, neat new visualisation from NASA SVS. Published last week. Supernova explosion with expanding debris field and pulsar in the centre. Will be using this in my talks! ⚠️ some flashing in centre of video for those who are sensitive Download here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20413/
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bscowboy.bsky.social @bscowboy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I also heard that 100% of people who drink water will die at some point in the future!
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 26/05/2026
I haven't clicked this yet but I can confidently state that no, a study did not find "voting can help you live longer."
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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Chernobyl site has black frogs 😯 interesting science.
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Neanderthal dentistry was never on my cultural evolution bingo card. Incredible.
anthropology.net
A Neanderthal Had a Tooth Drilled 59,000 Years Ago. The Evidence Is Still in the Tooth.
A molar from Chagyrskaya Cave in Siberia is the oldest known evidence of invasive dental treatment — by more than 40,000 years.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/05/2026
Because of ProPublica’s journalism, powerful leaders are held accountable. Laws get passed. People walk out of prison. Listen to a preview of “Paper Trail,” a new podcast taking you behind our biggest stories: propub.li/3RmTWox First episode drops tomorrow!
propublica.org
Paper Trail
Investigative reporters at ProPublica chase down evidence of wrongdoing and bring it to light. Each episode, you’ll ride along as we talk to reporters and their sources, uncover hidden facts and show ...
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bscowboy.bsky.social @bscowboy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This may help, it’s behind a firewall though. www.statnews.com/2026/05/12/m...
statnews.com
Why Marty Makary was the worst FDA commissioner in 25 years
Marty Makary, who resigned under pressure from the FDA, brought to the job a fundamental lack of understanding of the nature of the role, STAT's Matthew Herper writes.
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Oli Hawkins @olihawkins.com · 18/04/2026
This is nuts. You can reduce all mathematical operations to compositions of a single functional form, in the same way you can reduce all logic gates to compositions of NAND. And this gives you searchable closed form solutions to numerical problems. muninn.austegard.com/blog/two-but...
muninn.austegard.com
Two Buttons and a Constant
Building an interactive calculator for the EML operator — a single binary function that generates all of elementary mathematics.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"Light Fossils" dinosaur light painting by artist Darren Pearson, known as Darius Twin, using a unique photography technique. The artwork is created using long-exposure photography, where the camera shutter remains open while the artist moves handheld lights to "draw" the figures in real-time.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/04/2026
Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. (Published May 2025)
propublica.org
The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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ALD9119 @ald9119.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Holy wow. Books aren’t even safe from this bs now 🤦‍♀️
From enshittification community on Reddit
jude 
@Icthlorien

did i just find an ad inside a book

9:00-By this time I'm usually in bed, reading a libra book or watching a movie on my phone. 

As a gift to myself, I open a subscription to the Hallmark Channel so I can stream unlimited romances for $5.99 a month, and they're the perfect way to unwind at the end of the night. 

As I turn out the light and rest my head on my pillow, I revel in the comfort of happily ever after-of families reunited and scoundrels sent pack-ing, of treasures recovered and honor restored.
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Jared Rennie @jjrennie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
🚨New Python Notebook Using NOAA NCEI Data!🚨 This one is the gridded normals we produce every 10 years. Here you can play with monthly and daily data, learn how to do GIS style clipping, and understand the difference between weather and climate! github.com/jjrennie/nce...
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bscowboy.bsky.social @bscowboy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Check out Darkhaven - An Action RPG with Dynamic Worlds by Moon Beast Productions, Inc. on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...
kickstarter.com
Darkhaven - An Action RPG with Dynamic Worlds
A new ARPG featuring dynamic, destructible, buildable worlds, made by many of the original creators of Diablo & Diablo II.
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John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 25/02/2026
Many folks here see AI as an industrial theft machine that is only good for writing code. And I'm here to tell you to take back the tools of the oppressor and use them to liberate yourself. I've been running some experiments with Claude Code, and I think folks here may find them useful.
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
That Citrine Research article. "What if our AI bullishness continues to be right...and what if that’s actually bearish?" www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known to the world as Nina Simone, was born on this day in 1933.
media.tenor.com
a woman singing into a microphone with a colorful dress on
ALT: a woman singing into a microphone with a colorful dress on
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore github.com/DrCatHicks/l...
github.com
GitHub - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities: A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding
A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities
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bscowboy.bsky.social @bscowboy.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Thanks for sharing, I purchased one
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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Once-common shorebirds in the Bay Area are collapsing some down 80% in a decade. We’ve lost 80–90% of tidal marshes, diverted water, hardened coasts, added nonstop recreation, and put people + off-leash dogs everywhere birds need to feed and rest. www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
sfgate.com
Once-common Bay Area birds are vanishing at dramatic rates
"These are quite dramatic changes we're seeing over pretty concerning ranges."
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bscowboy.bsky.social @bscowboy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
@abumirchi.com figured you’d find this funny
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Amazing. This is statistics 101: the Martingale strategy (doubling down bets after a loss) works beautifully until a string of losses produces a catastrophic wipeout. It's true in casinos, betting on sports, investing, everywhere. This is known.
marketwatch.com
‘I experienced a catastrophic financial loss’: How options trader ‘Captain Condor’ led his followers to a $50 million wipeout
Captain Condor’s rise coincided with a boom in retail investors trading risky “0DTE” options.
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Ramón Alvarado @ramonalvarado.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Interested in the intersection of #philsci and machine learning? This open access book is where the most recent contributions by the leading voices in such debates are taking place. Glad to be a part of it challenging the idea that computational reliabilism can pragmatically lead to trust in AI.
link.springer.com
Philosophy of Science for Machine Learning
​This open access book offers a comprehensive and systematic debate on key concepts and areas of application of philosophy of science for machine learning.
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bscowboy.bsky.social @bscowboy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
MCP
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