Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 05/10/2026The convex hull of soccerchess consists of Mo Salah, Michael Olise, Stefan De Vrij, Antonee Robinson, Marten de Roon, and Magnus Carlsen 010
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyMelissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Please share! Participants wanted for an online survey investigating player attitudes towards hybrid boardgames. Scan the QR code/go to go.unimelb.edu.au/t44h to complete the survey & enter the prize draw. Questions? Email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au University of Melbourne Ethics ID No.: 35781 01018
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 30/09/2026Wordle 1,928 5/6* yesterday, 29 Sep The bot guesses SCRAG on third try, skill 99. I guess SCRAG (still possible solution) on fourth try, skill zero. 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 000
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 28/09/2026Did we ever really know ... things ... before Google's AI summaries? NRL Grand Final will kick off at 1:30am and "Sydney Roosters has won 37 games" 000
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 28/09/2026Pet hate: variable-width digits in accounting software and tabular data in general. How did ANZ Bank approve this website redesign? 000
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 27/09/2026Any other Saints wake up completely gutted for Freo? They could taste their first premiership. Listened to the ABC Q4 call this morning and it brought back so much 2009 hurt 110
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyMark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 411471806
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026Q: China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world-- TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also 69340251030
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 17/09/2026Celebrity framing is the dumbest thing to happen to public discourse. (1) Ed Sheeran is the performer, not the story. A billionaire is protecting Israel from legitimate criticism. (2) Sydney Sweeney is the performer, not the story. An exploitative gambling industry would like to immiserate men. 000
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 15/09/2026What are AI shortcuts doing for the Herald Sun's brand? Hamilton Place is my local; it looks nothing like this vacuous slop. Clearly this article is targeted at people like me, but it is actively repellent. Who is it appealing to? 000
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 13/09/2026If we detected an asteroid with 10% extinction in a decade, we'd be sending Bruce Willis and his crew to smash it to pieces, no expense spared. 000
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 11/09/2026Inspired by this, I asked my chatbot to predict my voting patterns, generation, and star sign. It correctly inferred that I favour evidential basis. It then proudly announced that made me either Virgo, Capricorn, or Aquarius! 100
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026But *because* antitrust worked, we forgot how corrosive monopolies were. When the neoliberal economists of the Reagan/Thatcher era told us that we were missing out on the "efficiencies" of vast corporations, we blundered into their trap, letting them define the debate. 112639
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away 723886720
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyHudl Statsbomb @statsbomb.com · 08/09/2026Our most recent free data release: five complete women's leagues covering 2023-2024 🇺🇸 NWSL 🏴 WSL 🇮🇹 Serie A 🇪🇸 Liga F 🇩🇪 Frauen-Bundesliga 771 matches. 2.6million rows of event data. The largest women's football dataset publicly available 🔽 www.hudl.com/blog/statsbo... 065
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 07/09/2026Love this article about 99-year-old Joan Birman publishing a major maths proof with her teenage protégé, beating AI to the punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...nytimes.comThe 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (Gift Article)Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn. 010
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 31/08/2026When the next anarchist painstakingly creates a demolition video of an American landmark, by this standard it's just banter 000
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 28/08/2026"In Honour of our Greatest President, I am naming next month Septrumper" 000
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 26/08/2026One day, AI will be able to fake the sincerity and warmth of Dolly Parton writing a letter to Eminem. I don't want that day. 010
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 25/08/2026Dunno why this isn't the lead sports story right now: in the Backgammon World Team Championships in London overnight, our combined Australia / New Zealand team defeated Japan including individual wins over the world's two best players, Michy & Mochy 010
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 22/08/2026I was wrong. Twitter does still have a purpose: easy identification of the worst men in the country 010
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 20/08/2026What if we had an AFL-style final eight, plus wildcard play-in. Now let's double that mother 000
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Been working on an applied probability project, transforming a continuous function on the reals to probability of discrete state. And the function that solves all the desiderata is the Gibbs-Boltzmann distribution. I hate physics. It should be less useful. 2324
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 14/08/2026Christoph ("Football Hackers") Biermann's latest book has been translated into English. I love the title: "Die Tabelle Lügt Immer" / The Ladder Always Lies. Unfortunately it's been retitled as the bland "Game Theory: How Luck and Analytics Shape Football" www.readings.com.au/product/9781... 000
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyData Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Claude confidently handed her a beautifully formatted spreadsheet. The numbers? Mostly invented. Eva Sibinga takes a critical look at LLMs through the lens of data visualization this week in Nightingale. buff.ly/yDY0otT 092
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 05/08/2026Immediately driving to SA to discover how they breed contiguous sheep 020
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 03/08/2026In December, I'm presenting a new Accelerator course on Using Data and AI in Sport www.apogeesports.com.au/using-ai-in-... Many of my Bluesky posts are critical of the quality and externalities of AI. In the course, I'll talk about how to use it wisely amid the industry hypeapogeesports.com.auUsing AI in Sport Accelerator — APOGEE SPORTS 000
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 31/07/2026Don't go back to the bad place. Top of my feed: this risible AI story with 100s of slopbot replies & a million views. All maximising their bluecheck engagement metrics without a human in sight. Maybe this is the new Turing Test, like whether I should walk to the nearby mechanic to get my car fixed? 010
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 22/07/2026Proposed $40b, 185ha data centre to use six times Top End's annual electricity consumptionabc.net.auRural suburb flagged as home for proposed $40b 'hyperscale' data centreA proposed massive new data centre would require more than six times the total demand of the Darwin and Katherine electricity grids to operate and be powered by gas piped direct from the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin. 03930
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 22/07/2026There's not a line that goes here that rhymes with anything ( … anything … anything ) 000
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyThe Onion @theonion.com · 20/07/2026Nation Wakes Up From Strange Dream Where They Were Watching Soccer theonion.com/nation-wakes-up-from-s… 295672805
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyDaryl @daryldao.com · 18/07/2026As someone who saw KeepUp when it happened, the intention of the entire project seemed to be good cause it also gave a lot of Aussie writers a platform to write. But the execution and the target was wrong cause they failed to use it to promote the A-League, both mens and womens. 152
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyJohn Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 09/07/2026If we're going to ruin soccer in two different ways let's at least be efficient about it 1584
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyAsher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Sarah Mansfield MP has made a little book about The Very Hungry Data Centre 9751289
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/07/2026Uefa says Fifa ‘crossed line’ over Balogun – World Cup 2026 livetheguardian.comWorld Cup 2026: England set up Norway quarter-final after Mexico thriller; Uefa says Fifa ‘crossed line’ over Balogun – liveJoin our writers to reflect on England’s thrilling last-16 win over Mexico and look forward to an Iberian derby in Dallas 2720052
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyTony Corke @matterofstats.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The latest MoS sims estimate about a 1-in-50 chance that the Flag is won by a team finishing 9th or 10th 021
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 30/06/2026World Cup _AR rankings: 1. PAR 2. MAR 3. VAR Order subject to change 000
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyJohn Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 26/06/2026Futi’s goal sequence stories show the last 20 actions leading up to the goal. My favorites are the ones where that includes two goals 0384
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyJames Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped 612769636
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 24/06/2026This is a nasty drought on its way to eastern Australia, and I don't hear it in the thirsty data centre debate www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/w... 000
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 21/06/2026Anyone remember Twitter's heydey, when comments were sparkling repartee not blueticksludge? Some awesome stuff here 110
Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 13/06/2026Melbourne lad makes billionaire friends, commits to class warfare on their behalf. This story is incredible. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus... 010
Reposted by Darren O'ShaughnessyDoug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot 11797532445
Reposted by Darren O'Shaughnessyraycorrigan.bsky.social @raycorrigan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026"when you prompt an AI to generate words or pixels, you are conveying some intent about the feeling you want the people who experience the model's output to experience. The problem is that the AI doesn't have any intent of its own" @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/06/02/m...pluralistic.netPluralistic: The tedious power of storytelling (02 Jun 2026) must-we-pretend – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 0103