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George Armstrong

@thedataferret.bsky.social
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Data Science, ML, Analytics Engineering and holding people while they cry, because this stuff is HARD.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My heart goes out to the scientists and others at the Ukranian National Academy of Sciences. This is not ok. Putin should not come to the G20 meeting. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
nytimes.com
Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 22/09/2026
Your reminder that polygraphs are complete junk science on par with dowsing rods, and it's utterly insane that any branch of our government uses them in 2026.
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mikey neumann @mikeyface.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From more than 8 years ago, putting my Jarhead piece back out into the world. My most poignant look at war films and what we want out of them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEuh...
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Jarhead: Forgotten Masterpiece - Movies with Mikey
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026
Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026
So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just a reminder that kitchens started out as large rooms for an entire staff of servants to prepare meals, and then the Frankfurt kitchen turned that into a one-woman job, hidden away, so all men had to see was a woman emerging with a cooked meal, and then the open concept floor plan made that ugly.
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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Every game dev has made at least one settings menu full of jokes. It's an important release valve.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The *respectable* way to oppose the actually-existing AI industry is to write white papers that they can comfortably ignore. But vulgar AI opponents keep insisting on attacking the industry at the point where (1) it is most vulnerable and (2) opponents have the most leverage. How very dare they?
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972, the honorific “Ms.” was virtually unheard of. Unmarried women were referred to as “Miss [father’s last name]” and married women as “Mrs. [husband’s last name].” “Ms.” was an assertion of individual identity. Women who used it were widely mocked.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sometimes I think about how Hollywood won’t give Guillermo Del Toro the money to make his At the Mountains of Madness movie
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Nick Land Acknowledgement 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I think, with a fair amount of regularity, that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, while Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Chris Hitchens were all writing screeds one-handed about how Islam was incompatible with civilization, Gould simply got in his car and drove down to NYC and started helping.
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Jacob @tullamore-jew.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Strongly recommend this excellent passage from the intro to The Mismeasure of Man's second edition on the cyclical surge to popularity of interest in race science. I actually forgot what a great writer Gould was
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
Black person plagarizes: they take your job, your money, they sneak into your house and steal your dog White person plagarizes: they’re very sorry, of course they’ve lined up a new job writing for the nation, isn’t it great that we all had a teachable moment together?
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George Armstrong @thedataferret.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The "Jason figured it out" meme from The Good Place, replaced with "Hugh"
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In 1924, the son of the president of the United States, with access to the best medical treatment, got a blister on his foot playing tennis, it got infected, there were no antibiotics, and he died of sepsis.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Don't stay on twitter so long you stop believing in sunscreen" sounds like an idiom people 200 years in the future will be using but won't remember what it means
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George Armstrong @thedataferret.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"The ribs that saved my marriage" was on chalkboard menu at Hello Sailor in Observatory, Cape Town and they were Worthy.
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mikey neumann @mikeyface.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
One more post on here. New Movies with Mikey! And a plea for the future
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George Armstrong @thedataferret.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Never not glad to be a large mammal.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The goal is to satisfy the *emotions* behind every information need without providing real information.
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Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.
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Brosephine Wires, Perennial Soup-Lover @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
There was this great episode of The Good Place where they explained that even buying roses for your mother on Mother’s Day was party to so much stochastic violence that it would exclude you from heaven & it had been so basically since the start of modernity.Pretty heavy hitting for a 30 min comedy.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/06/2026
"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing
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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 08/06/2026
I'm having feelings today while scrolling insta. Firstly, that it's now just a box of monkeys dancing for treats and that's depressing af. And secondly that there are people who are so skilled, and take the time to do intricate, detailed work on truly hideous final pieces.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Mangroves, vital for protecting coastlines and storing carbon, are making an unexpected comeback due to increased legal protections and public awareness of their importance. Since 2010, the rate of mangrove loss has slowed down, with more forests being restored than destroyed.
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Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction
Swampy mangrove forests are staging a surprise comeback - which is good news for coastal communities and the climate.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
1804. Oceans are now Battlefields. In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French. It should be a massacre. Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵
watercolour of a battle between british and french sailing ships.
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George Armstrong @thedataferret.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I 100% thought they'd each won a very fancy iron.
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George Armstrong @thedataferret.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Note, this is absolute AI slop. IF this guy is being earnest, he's credulous to the point of being a danger to himself.
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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Because every craftsman knows that the way to heat water is to run it in a straight pipe from top to bottom at the rim and leave the remaining 10kg of copper for the thieves. 🤦‍♂️ If it ain't obvious - this again is AI generated.
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George Armstrong @thedataferret.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It's the sort of thing that routinely happens on Geography Island
XKCD panel showing the classical geography diagram of a landmass with all possible features: a volcano, mountains, rivers, lagoon, glaciers, a peninsula. In the centre, a tiny dot marked "my house".

 XKCD text "If I could live anywhere, I would choose the example map from geography books that explains what everything is called".
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AW Stiles @awstiles.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Masks are an extremely cheap & relatively efficient way to prevent all kinds of airborne illnesses getting into your own body. They don't harm surrounding people, they are easy to carry, can't be used in any devious way, yet that MD seems bothered by this completely innocuous things. I miss adults.
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Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I left twitter when a woman posted her phd and thousands of men told her to have white babies. that was before they started making porn of any woman who posted a picture of herself
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M Dv-us @drdvus.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
LMAO
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
See: General George H Thomas. Virgininan, but loyal to the Union. Starts the war ambivalent at best on slavery. Former slaveholder himself. By its end, he's vocally antislavery, using his troops to protect ex-slaves and writing dire warnings about how lost cause romanticism will destroy America.
The greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property—justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people—was not exacted from them.
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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/
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Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. In this article, Mario explains what drowning really looks like and how to recognize it when its happening.
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George Armstrong @thedataferret.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The old tweet "me and my friends would've killed ET with hammers I can tell you that much" by @HelloCullen
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Donald Draper looking cool as heck saying "I don't think of you at all"
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