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Darren O'Shaughnessy

@ranking.software
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Sports analytics & informatics @StKildaFC. Research-driven. Interested in things. Not a real doctor.

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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 05/10/2026
The convex hull of soccerchess consists of Mo Salah, Michael Olise, Stefan De Vrij, Antonee Robinson, Marten de Roon, and Magnus Carlsen
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Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please 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
The stylised image looks like a snakes and ladders board, with the logo of The University of Melbourne at the top left.  The text reads:

Call For Participants
Board Game Research Study
The University of Melbourne Ethics ID Number: 35781

We are conducting a research study that investigates player attitudes towards hybrid board games. We are inviting people who are interested in board games to participate in an online survey.

Who Can Take Part?
·        Board game players comfortable participating in an online survey
·        Be at least 18 years of age

What Will You Do?
·        Take part in an online survey which takes about 20 minutes to complete
·        Optionally, enter a draw to win a digital gift card equivalent to AUD$200.

What’s In It For You?
·        A chance to contribute to research shaping the future of board games
·        A chance to win a digital gift card equivalent to AUD$200.

Where/When?
·        Online, at a time that suits you!

How Do You Sign Up?
·        Scan the QR code or go to https://go.unimelb.edu.au/t44h to complete the survey and enter the prize draw!
·        Any questions? Email us: hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 30/09/2026
Wordle 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. 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle Bot chooses SCRAG and rates its own skill 99Wordle Bot (my skill rating 0): There was only one possible solution left — and this wasn’t it. SCRAG is a valid guess and you have a great vocabulary, but I don’t consider it a likely solution.
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 28/09/2026
Did 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"
Google's summary claims the Grand Final will kick off at 1:30am and that "Sydney Roosters has won 37 games"
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 28/09/2026
Pet hate: variable-width digits in accounting software and tabular data in general. How did ANZ Bank approve this website redesign?
A column of right-aligned currency values with the decimal points and dollar signs misaligned.
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 27/09/2026
Any 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
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: 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.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Q: 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
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 17/09/2026
Celebrity 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.
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 15/09/2026
What 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?
Shopping carpark with a CAFE CULTURE sign on a raised dining platform. AI-generated
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 13/09/2026
If 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.
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 11/09/2026
Inspired 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!
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026
But *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.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 08/09/2026
MAHA Bief™
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Hudl Statsbomb @statsbomb.com · 08/09/2026
Our 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...
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 07/09/2026
Love 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...
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The 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.
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 03/09/2026
*gulp* Read the thread (ideally on his site)
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 31/08/2026
When the next anarchist painstakingly creates a demolition video of an American landmark, by this standard it's just banter
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 28/08/2026
"In Honour of our Greatest President, I am naming next month Septrumper"
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 26/08/2026
One 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.
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 25/08/2026
Dunno 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
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 22/08/2026
I was wrong. Twitter does still have a purpose: easy identification of the worst men in the country
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 20/08/2026
What if we had an AFL-style final eight, plus wildcard play-in. Now let's double that mother
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Been 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.
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 14/08/2026
Christoph ("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...
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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Claude 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
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 05/08/2026
Immediately driving to SA to discover how they breed contiguous sheep
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 03/08/2026
In 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 hype
apogeesports.com.au
Using AI in Sport Accelerator — APOGEE SPORTS
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 31/07/2026
Don'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?
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 22/07/2026
Proposed $40b, 185ha data centre to use six times Top End's annual electricity consumption
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Rural suburb flagged as home for proposed $40b 'hyperscale' data centre
A 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.
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 22/07/2026
There's not a line that goes here that rhymes with anything ( … anything … anything )
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/07/2026
Nation Wakes Up From Strange Dream Where They Were Watching Soccer theonion.com/nation-wakes-up-from-s…
Nation Wakes Up From Strange Dream Where They Were Watching Soccer
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Daryl @daryldao.com · 18/07/2026
As 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.
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 09/07/2026
If we're going to ruin soccer in two different ways let's at least be efficient about it
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Sarah Mansfield MP has made a little book about The Very Hungry Data Centre
The Very Hungry Data Centre
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/07/2026
Uefa says Fifa ‘crossed line’ over Balogun – World Cup 2026 live
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World Cup 2026: England set up Norway quarter-final after Mexico thriller; Uefa says Fifa ‘crossed line’ over Balogun – live
Join our writers to reflect on England’s thrilling last-16 win over Mexico and look forward to an Iberian derby in Dallas
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Tony Corke @matterofstats.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The latest MoS sims estimate about a 1-in-50 chance that the Flag is won by a team finishing 9th or 10th
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 30/06/2026
World Cup _AR rankings: 1. PAR 2. MAR 3. VAR Order subject to change
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
Shawn Smucker
Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 28/06/2026
Algerian Snake Charmer
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 26/06/2026
Futi’s goal sequence stories show the last 20 actions leading up to the goal. My favorites are the ones where that includes two goals
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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 24/06/2026
This 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...
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 21/06/2026
Anyone remember Twitter's heydey, when comments were sparkling repartee not blueticksludge? Some awesome stuff here
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/06/2026
Messi xkcd.com/3260/
Comic. Lionel Messi: World Cup Goals per game. [Graph with x axis as year and y axis as number of goals per game, ranging from 0 to 3. Data points: 2006 (~1/3), 2010 (0), 2014 (~1/2), 2018 (~1/4), 2022 (1), 2026 (3) with parenthetical (so far). Behind the line connecting the points is a grayed out curve showing the trajectory.] [caption] At this rate, by 2040 Messi will be scoring hundreds of goals per game.
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Darren O'Shaughnessy @ranking.software · 13/06/2026
Melbourne lad makes billionaire friends, commits to class warfare on their behalf. This story is incredible. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Just 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
Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player biting an apple. The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.
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raycorrigan.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...
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Pluralistic: The tedious power of storytelling (02 Jun 2026) must-we-pretend – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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