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Rogerio Marques @rogeriomarques.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Had completely forgotten this, but your post made it pop into my mind from nowhere. Watched it to the end and, oh, the internet’s age of innocence... we were happy...

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Ghoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 01/05/2026

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Things you read on a blog might make you angry. They might upset you. Stop visiting that blog. Don't waste your time posting comments. Move on and find a new blog. There are so many fun blogs on the Internet. You'll easily find a better one.
There is always another fun new blog to read online.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Critical humanities discourse on AI will be doomed if it does not come up with better metaphors. Corporate AI is not a «cognitive entity» or some «other intelligence». It's a political project and a system of surveillance, extraction & exploitation 1/

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The «intelligence» that manifests itself in AI, i.e. large-scale data analysis & computational statistics, has nothing to do with how living beings experience the world. If anything, it can be compared to large socio-technical systems of domination such as bureaucracies & corporations 2/

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 14/05/2025

Spoken Mandarin Chinese doesn’t have gendered pronouns. The word tā can mean ‘he’, ‘she’, or ‘it’. However, *written* Chinese does distinguish gender: 他 ‘he’, 她 ‘she’, 它 ‘it’. 1/7

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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

OVERHEARD: “Does Pavlov, when he hears the bell, think about feeding the dogs?”

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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

O El País de domingo perguntou ao Mujica se ele encontrou o sentido da vida. Ele: "Me dediqué a cambiar el mundo y no cambié un carajo, pero estuve entretenido. Y he generado muchos amigos y muchos aliados en esa locura de cambiar el mundo para mejorarlo. Y le di un sentido a mi vida."

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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

“The punch card was invented at the end of the 19th century for the US Census Bureau, from which IBM stole the technology. The card was a people tracker from its inception.” 🧵 1/

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Four images to illustrate some prominent single-gene myths. Top left shows a photograph of a person deftly rolling their tongue into a U-shape. Top right shows a photograph of a person’s ear, highlighting the shape and features of the earlobe and cartilage. Bottom left shows a close-up photograph of a person’s eye, with a vivid blue colouration. Bottom right shows a photograph of a person poised to write with their left hand on the blank white page of a spiral-bound notebook.

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Laélia Véron @laeliaveron.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

En français, certaines variations de prononciation peuvent être sévèrement jugées (prononcer "domPter" est jugé plouc selon certains!) Mais ce n'est pas nouveau. Fil sur cinq querelles de prononciation dans l'histoire du français, grâce au livre "Paris-Babel" de Siouffi (actes Sud) ⬇️

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Typofonderie: fonts & typography @typofonderie.com · 12/04/2025

Just discovered the parallel world of punctuations. 👍 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Perspective changes everything. [Ars Mathermatica]

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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ændra. @aendra.com · 23/01/2025

📌 📰 News feeds • PINNED POST (Expand this thread for feed info)

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

yeah i'm into OPSEC. Only Posting Super Excellent Content

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Shore Patrol @shorepatrol.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Raymond Chandler started writing at 51. Laura Ingalls Wilder started at 70. Frank McCourt was 66 when first published. John LeCarre finished his last spy novel at 85. Age is trap, don't fall for it, the spirit is the engine of the arts.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

them: but how can you be sure it's a midlife crisis me:

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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Could someone out there write a definitive guide on convenient alternatives to using Amazon.com for goods and books and whatnot? Asking for some folks who don’t want to see democracy die in darkness.

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Ok sociology, what do you think are genuine breakthroughs that our field has made. Contributions that might convince skeptical but sympathetic *academics* (not the public) of the value of our field? I'll brainstorm some of mine in the thread - I treat sociology very broadly

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actioncookbook @actioncookbook.com · 13/02/2025

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

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Riley Cran @rileycran.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It's tempting to think that simpler letterforms = more legibility. But in my experience, that's not true. Typefaces are design systems too, and they need a certain level of complexity to work well. Here's why: (thread) 🧵

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Steve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This is cool. What do you picture when you think of the first brain imaging experiment? An fMRI machine? A PET scanner? How about a wooden seesaw with a person lying on it? ...In 1884. 1/7 #NeuroSkyence #PsychSciSky

Drawing of Mosso’s ‘human circulation balance’, used to measure cerebral activity during resting and cognitive states

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amuro ray com saudade da roça @moara.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Quem postou isso na outra rede? rs

A imagem é uma montagem que ilustra os quatro estágios da simulação de acordo com Jean Baudrillard, aplicados ao conceito de "pão na chapa". No primeiro estágio, há uma foto de um pão francês cortado ao meio, tostado com manteiga, servido em um prato branco. Ao lado, um texto explica que, nesse nível, "o sinal (imagem ou representação) é um reflexo da realidade básica".

No segundo estágio, aparece uma embalagem do pão "Artesano Bisnaga na Chapa – Sabor de Padaria!", com uma foto estilizada do pão e um fundo que sugere um ambiente de padaria. O texto ao lado afirma que "o sinal mascara a realidade básica. A imagem se torna uma distorção da realidade", indicando que há uma idealização e uma mediação da experiência original.

No terceiro estágio, a imagem mostra um pacote do biscoito "Pit Stop Pão na Chapa" da Marilan, com imagens do biscoito e de um pão tostado. O texto correspondente diz que "o sinal marca a ausência da realidade básica. A imagem questiona o que é a realidade e se ela sequer existe", sugerindo que o conceito de pão na chapa foi transformado em algo que já não mantém uma relação direta com a experiência original.

No quarto e último estágio, há um trecho da lista de ingredientes de um produto industrializado, citando elementos como “condimento preparado sabor pão com manteiga (soro de leite em pó, sal, farinha de arroz, açúcar, gordura de leite, gelificante cloreto de potássio, antiumectante, dióxido de silício)”. O texto ao lado afirma que "o sinal não tem relação com nenhuma realidade; ele é um simulacro puro". Aqui, a ideia de "pão na chapa" foi completamente dissociada da experiência original, reduzida a uma fórmula química que apenas remete ao conceito sem qualquer ligação concreta com ele. (Descrição feita pelo ChatGPT)

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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 04/02/2025

sharing an old exploration that's been top of mind recently the future is... ✨ a shared artifact between humans and AI ✨ content at different levels of abstraction ✨ multimodal inputs and NL controls

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Émilien Ruiz @mxli1.eurosky.social · 22/12/2024

oh oh ! On apprend sur un autre réseau grâce a Florian Louis que l’on pourra lire @medieviz.bsky.social en janvier !

Couverture de Forger le faux. Les usages de l’écrit au Moyen-Âge par Paul Bertrand dans la collection l’univers historique au Seuil

Si les concepts de fake news et post-vérité semblent définir notre monde contemporain, le Moyen Âge n'était-il pas déjà l'empire du faux ? De la fausse donation de Constantin aux évangiles apocryphes, des fausses reliques aux faux monnayeurs, des milliers de fausses chartes aux comptabilités trafiquées, pourquoi la tromperie semble-t-elle régner à cette époque ?
À y regarder de plus près, le faux vécu et pratiqué au Moyen Âge, loin d'être homogène, n'épouse pas nos tranchantes certitudes contemporaines. Car ces dernières tirent leurs origines d'un long cheminement qui, du XVIle au XIXe siècle, n'a laissé de place que pour le blanc et le noir, le vrai et le faux. Il faut abandonner la notion figée de « faux médiéval », pour porter l'attention sur les « régimes de faux » et de tromperie, de forges et de forgeries. Ces derniers révèlent un rapport au savoir et à l'écrit, ainsi qu'une conception du pouvoir étonnants. Les médiévaux cherchent davantage à forger leur vie et forcer leur destin qu'à falsifier stricto sensu des documents.
En ce début du troisième millénaire, le savoir connaît une révolution comparable, avec l'explosion du numérique qui s'accompagne elle aussi d'une viralité du faux.
S'interroger sur sa constitution est en creux une manière d'éclairer ce qu'est le vrai. Une réflexion nécessaire, impérieuse.
Professeur en histoire médiévale à l'Université catholique de Louvain, Paul Bertrand s'intéresse aux cultures graphiques et textuelles médiévales. Il a notamment publié Les Ecritures ordinaires. Sociologie d'un temps de révolution documentaire entre royaume de France et empire, 1250-1350 (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2015).

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It's @george-lakoff.com's Truth Sandwich. An essential skill for anyone who does any communications. Yet, over and over, people start by privileging their opposition's message or just outright lies. Only way to deal with guys like Elon and Trump.

"Illustration of a sandwich with the title 'George Lakoff's Truth Sandwich.' Below, text explains the concept: 'Always frame the truth first. Indicate the lie and the fact that it's a lie. Return immediately to the truth. The truth must always be repeated more than the lie.'"

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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 01/02/2025

Lachlan Turczan, water & light artist www.lachlanturczan.com

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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 31/01/2025

To celebrate our 100th Episodiversary we put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, including this one about gesture. You can listen to the other 99 here: episodes.fm/1186056137/episode/dGFn…

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Rogerio Marques @rogeriomarques.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Read on your site that you want a lobste.rs invite. I can send it to you but need your email.

lobste.rs

Lobsters

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Neo Kim @systemdesign.one · 23/01/2025

How @bsky.app Social Proof Works. I spent hours studying about it, so you don't have to. Here's a summary of what I learned:

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?

Photograph of a building in Florence. A tall thin stone section rises up, from street level several stories. About the level of the second story, a yellow section sticks out from the outside of it, awkwardly wrapping around the outside of the stone part, supported by elegant sticky-outy triangular struts. The yellow section has several small circular windows, much too small for a human to climb through, barely large enough for a chubby cat.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Bellingcat is currently working with universities to develop open source investigation courses in various fields and creating student-led investigative hubs at those universities, which seems well timed.

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Nadine Antoinette 🖤📚 @lilblackheart.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

give me coffee for the things i can change and the ability to make people spontaneously combust for the things i can’t.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI

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